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liantly lighted ship and, then sud-
denly, they stopped.
Carlotta never knew whether
she saw Francine first or whether
Ann did. She only knew that at
the moment she said "damn!"
viciously under her breath, AIMS
fingers clenched suddenly on her
arm, forcing her to stand quite
still.
Carlotta thought that among
other things she wouldn't forget
for some time the way AIMS face
had looked, as she watched Fran
cine going unhurriedly up that
gangplank. Francine looking very
cool and beautiful and Seif-pos-
Sessed and pleased with herself
Exactly" Carlotta had thought
viciously, ''like the cat that has
swallowed the canary!" Francine,
not just down to say good-by to
someone. you knew that immedi-
ately you had looked at he-; you
knew it by the travel coat she was
carrying over her arm. by the little
leather travelling case she was
carrying in her hand, by the
stewards following her with
larger, bulkier cases.
Carlotta had taken q deep
breath and said resolutely: Come
on Ann, we've got to hurry If you
want IN find KIM
AIMS fingers had slipped away
from her arm: for 8 moment
AIMS face had been lifted to hers,
AIMS face, small. white, with
enormous Smoke-gray eyes. :'But
I don't think want to find Kipp,
Carlotta. Not now. I don't think
7 want to see him at ALL" and she
had turned swiftly and made her
way blindly, gropingly back
through the crowded confusion OF
the pier, through all those hand
Notwithstanding people, hurrying
stewards, western Union boys, and
ships news men.
And now it was the next morn
ing and Carlotta was trying to act
as though none Of this had hap
pened at all: or. at least, if it had.
as if it were not of any great i'm
portance. She was trying to be
cheerful and calm and exquisitely
matter-of-fact. She poured herself
a second cup Of coffee and said
casually:
"I've been thinking about 1t
Ann, and after all there's no par
ticular reason why Francine
shouldn't have sailed on that boat.
is there? I mean, she is always
going across and, if she happened
to be going over just at this
time, it would be perfectly natural.
wouldn't it, for them to cross to-
gether?"
eyes" said Ann, ST suppose it
would be-" She lifted her eyes
quietly, those wide, wounded
smoke-gray eyes. But doesn't it
strike you as rather queer that
neither of them happened to men,
ton the fact to me that they were
sailing on the same boat?
eyes, she said, after a
second or two in which Car
EYES," she said, after a second
or two in which Carlotta didn't
say anything because there didn't
seem to be anything to say, lit
does"
Nevertheless, protested Car
lotta slowly, II won't admit chat
think that proves anything nee
essarily. I'd take it easy If I were
you, darling, until I was sure 1t
couldn't be explained some way.
You know how these things
are. -"
Eyes" said Ann in that still,
toneleSS little voice she had been
using ever since last night, II
know exactly how these things
are. Two people meet each other
and fall in love and get married.
For little while, a pathetically
little while, they are happy. Beau
tifully, heartbreakingly happy.
Then things begin to happen. In
our case, Francine Sayre came
back to New York. She and Kipp
had been indulging in a pretty
serious love affair when she went
away and she came back deter
mined to pick it up where she
had dropped it. I told you once,
Carlotta, that she was the sort of
woman who wouldn't hesitate to
cut in on another woman's real
life.. well, she hasn't hesitated to
and Kipp has let her"
Are you sure" inquired Car
lotta quietly, that it's not you
who have let her, ANN"
Now" said Ann, her lip curl
ing slightly, her eyes disdainful,
you sound like Kipp."
ITO Be Continued
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