The Washington times., 1934-08-01

AL the way downtown every
one talked about the plans that
the bride and groom had made
for their future. I'm going to
have a lending library just as
soon as I can rent a shop Of
some kind and get it fixed up"
Connie said. 81 think that un-
til a woman has children she
ought to have some sort Of
work outside her home"
In the station, dazzlingly
white under it's lights, John
stopped at a flower stand and
bought flowers for Comics
black coat and an armful of
newspapers and magazines for
John.
The tracks cleaned like silver
stretching miles and miles away
toward Omaha. The train came
sliding down the tracks with a
great noise and stopped. There
was a moment of wild confu-
sion while John hunted for his
Pullman tickets and helped
Connie into the train. Then
the conductor called Board
All aboard" and the train
slowly slid into motion again.
They were gone.
"Oh, I do hope everything
will be all right for them out
there" Susan cried. "They
seem so young-John is so
young, going out there among
strangers, in that new town"
Don't you worry about them.
They're both as tough as whit
leather, and they're having the
time Of their lives,'' Aunt Nell
patted her shoulder briskly.
They'll get along like a parade
even if John lost his job and
Connie her book shop, they'd
find something to do. You
never hear of anyone starving
unless it's some old miser
with ten thousand dollars hid
den away in a mattress some
where. Everybody seems to get
along, I notice."
Out in the station yard with
its taxicabs and freight trucks
chu1ning the muddy snow, Mary
proposed that everyone go back
to the Cullens' for the evening.
No one of the family had seen
Susan for a long time and they
had all missed her, she said.
But Susan shook her head
and said she had to go home.
The dinner dishes were still
stacked in the sink and she
ought to go home and wash
them.
"And we want to be alone,
don't we?" she murmured to
Allen when the CullenS had
climbed back into their tour
ing car and disappeared. He
ducked his head and kissed her.
CHAPTER XVIII
II haven't had any dinner"
Allen said. "I think there's a
restaurant a couple of blocks
away"
There was. It was a small
hole-in-the-wall sort of place,
as white and shining as snowy
enamel and polished nickel
could make it.
did you give him back his
ring, Susie?"
"Oh, yes" She had done
that much, at any rate, and
the thought that she had COM
forted her. ''And his watch
bracelet, too."
Tell him everything was
over?"
"He was simply impossible,
Allen" she said, shifting in
her chair. "I spent a whole
hour trying to make him un-
derstand that I'm re ally
through with him-and he sat
eating lunch just as calmly as
if he'd been discussing the
weather."
"You had lunch with him,
SuSan?"
why. yes. I couldn't get out
Of it. You see, I went to the
bank at noon and after we'd
talked for a minute or two he
decided to go out somewhere
to talk over things-But we
didn't get anything settled at
all. No matter what I said it
didn't seem to have much effect
on him" Her voice trailed off.
Allen was staring at her in
blank establishment, just as
John had stared at her that
afternoon.
"You mean you aren't through
with that guy, yet?" he asked
after a long silence.
Susan nodded. That's what
I mean. I'm sorry" she said.
"Allen, you just don't under
stand what Wallace is like! He's
one Of these people who really
won't take NO for an answer
and so I've decided that every
time I see him I'll just have to
go on telling him that I'm
through with him-like letting
the old cat die,' when you're
stopping a swing. You can see
that's the sensible thing to do,
can't you?"
mo" The word came, sudden
and short and heavy. "You
could have said everything you
had to say to that fellow in
ten minutes. You promised me
you would. Instead of that you
had lunch with him and