The Washington times., 1935-11-06


the edge while I have my cham
pagne!"
"Oh, yeh? You'll swing 'em over
the boat. I took you out for a
row, and you're going to have it.
Look, Mary, I'm going to have to
knock the head off the thing.
Look! I'm going to christen the
boat"
"No-please don't. jamie, the
boats got a name, and-oh,
Jamie! DON'T! You'll lose it all.
You're telling me! Here she
goesl Boat, I christen thee Love
--whee-e. here you are, hold
your mouth open-hold your
mouth open-you're losing it"
Don't"
Hold your head still. The
champagne's running all over"
It was running down her neck,
over her face, into her eyes, her
nose, choking her. She stood up,
struck out with her hands, to pro
tect her face
Hold still-you WILL have us
over"
st won't if you-if you. Let
me alone! Don't you touch mel
Don't you"
"You won't talk that way to me,
you little devil! Bring you out to
show you a good time and give
you the first drink of real liquor
you ever had in your life, and
you"
Don't TOUCH mel"
Don't you tell ME-you lit
tie"
It happened. Just as she knew
1t would. She felt herself tipping,
tipping, tipping suspended in air,
like a girl in a slow moving pic.
ture.
And then they struck the water.
More angry than frightened she
came up gasping and choking, and
swan over to the upturned boat
to which Jamie was already cling
ing.
II hope you're satisfied" he said
bitterly.
you don't seem worried!"
"Oh, no?"
SIT seems to me that if I threw
. girl out in the lake in the mid
die of the night"
you can swim, can't you?"
He sounded as if his teeth were
chattering. Well, it would do him
good-cool him off!
Darn right, I can swim," she
said, kicking off the second per-
fectly good white kid sandal and
remembering that they'd cos t
$3.50 and only been worn once.
We'll, I'm not so hot at it.
Not that you care!"
you might have thought of
that before you turned the boat
over. Jamie, let go of the boat
and I think I can turn l. over"
II will not! I'm going to stay
right here and yell for help. :.
help!"
I'm afraid no one will hear.
They're all dancing. I'm going
to swim in"
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Jamie, you'll be all right. Just
hang on to the boat, and don't
get excited"
HELP! HELP
Well, he couldn't drown hang
ing on to boat!
She struck out for the pier. It
wasn't very far. She'd gone much
farther, dozens and dozens Of
times. =.
If there was just some way Of
getting the dress off . that long
skirt. And the shoulder kept
slipping off, impeding her arm
motions. =.
She hoped she'd make it. It's
its scary, swimming alone in
the dark, in the deep. deep
And Jamie out there holding
on =.
Her breath came painfully, she
began to thresh around. She'd
have to stop that. pull herself
together. float, and rest. You
can't drown if you keep your
head.
At first she was afraid she
imagined it. Then she knew it
was real the put, put, put of
the motorboat. III elp!" she
Shouted-"here I ami
The searchlight from the little
boat found her at last.
It seemed eternity before Joe,
the boatman, got a line to her,
and another eternity before she
was in the boat, with Joe's macki-
nav around her shaking Shoul-
ders.
Canoe tip over, miss?"
mo, the little rowboat. Young
Mr.. Todd, he's holding on to it
out-out there"
Joe permitted himself one long,
drawn-out whistle.
Then he turned the boat around.
Sun shone brightly in her closed
eyes, and she burrowed under
the bedcovers in vain attempt
to find sleep again.
Birds sang in the trees, and
somewhere near by a phonograph
was playing:
''You go home and get your
scanties,
I'll go home and get my panties-
And away we'll go.
oh, we're going to shuttle"
Mary sat up with a jerk.
It must be late! She must have
overslept-dreadfully!
She could hardly get her eyes
open. They felt swollen. Her