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TIVE voung cheers, about 70 be
sent overseas, so 10 spend brief
furIoughs with their families.
BRIAN CHALMERS goes 90 n pa
latfnI home where ne sees his
beautiful wife. GWEN. and his 2
yenr-0Id child, ELAINE GEORGE
W00Ds0N goes to a modest Ht-
Tie home Cor . last brief visit
With his ndoring wife. Flea
NOR and his baby. RUTH. Each
MAJ makes the wiEh that his llt-
tle daughter win have swhnteweF
" takes 90 make her happy
Eighteen years later Ruth, now
cousins. the LAwRENCEs. On
brooklyn. n In looking Tor
work I'm New York. Though Tack
Ing unc money. she refuses mn
Invitation 20 lunch with n wealthy
stranger. Before going home she
guys marcissus bulbs for COUSIN
JESSIE LAWRENCE's birthday.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER III
WHEN Ruth reached home she
" found her cousins. the Law.
renee young people. engaged in one
OF their major battles. Lefty was
trying TO wrest from her brother
q dollar bill which he had found
on their mothers desk. Being large
and welldeveloped for her Is
years. the girl was more than a
match for the slim 16-year-oId
youth who was holding out against
hea.
Help, Ruth" Cecil yelled, Bit
Ing at his sisters exposed arm.
Lefty said, IF she comes near.
I'll slap both your faces. and |
mean 1t. Give me the dollar. Pig
You got the last one we found.
You know how I need stockingsls
With q final twist she pried open
her brothers hand, snatched the
damp. erumpled bill and fed with
Il to her bedroom.
Cecil lay groaning and rubbing
his chest. where his sisters knee
had pressed. Ruth said. IF you
wouldn't smoke so many cigarets,
Cecil, you might beat her now and
then" She had no admiration and
very little liking for tits high
school junior who took his mothers
hardearned money as his just due
and pampered himself extrava.
gantly.
Lefty came back into the room
with her hair smoothed and her
face carefully made up. She had
q round. pretty face with wide.
sky-blue eyes, fringed with dark
lashes. and light brown hair.
Once when Cousin Bessie, Letty's
mother. was bemoaning the fact
that the girl could lot 90 to col
lege. Ruth had said to her, Il don't
think Lefty would like college,
Cousin Bessie. She's not a book.
worm like you at all. I think Lefty
ought to marry young" IL was
true. She was q voluptuous rose
bud that had formed early and
needed to blossom early. Marriage
would be the perfect blossoming.
ETY. sat down and crossed her
pretty legs. "Any luck in town
today, RUTH"
Ruth answered. mo, Lefty" and
wished that she might never hear
that question again. "Can I help
you with dinner?"
IT'S almost ready" Lefty re-
pied. Frightening. She genuinely
loved to plan and cook a meal. ION
account OF its being Mothers birth
day I've cooked a chicken. There's
rice to 60 with II. and head lettuce
salad and homemade rolls. I've
made a cake. too. Cecil" she
exclaimed. turning to her Iolling !
brother. go clean yourself up be !
lore Mother gets home"
Cecil sat mp. yawning. "All right.
n the doorbell rings while I'm !
he said. "it1l be Jack
Willer. Let him in He wants f,
ZONE radio books I've got" (
I'm let him in, OF course" Lefty
aid. She was looking intently At 7
her finger nails. She got up and
vent into the kitchen and put on a I