Evening star., 1936-07-25
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/byPHYlLH MOORE GALL uAGHER {

doing with that voice Of yours? Amer
lean hot-cha-cha?"
She had nodded.
And you got paid for hot-cha-
chaing?"
Another terrified nod.
How much?"
1.-TWO hundred a week, master"
For 5000 week you sell your
voice? For 5000 a week you learn to
rasp and gurgle like steam in q radi-
ator? Bah! Bah! Go awayl Do
not open your mouth even to whisper
for two months! Rest, do you hear?
The complete restl Then come back
and we'll see If that hot-cha-cha is
gone!"
She had left and had lived in
desperate loneliness without even
the sound Of her own voice to en-
courage her. One thing only had
kept up her spir1t-a poignantly
beautiful letter from Lee in Cape
town with the promise that another
would come when one of the ex-
petitions ships returned from the
Antarctic to New Zealand for sup
plies before the Winter ice closed
them in.
The second letter had arrived the
day before she made her Italian
debut. A 20-page letter that told
many things of his voyage and his
new life; the immense glacier
bergs of inconceivably ancient ice,
had os jro1 vraa,,- -tiptad eo fr-
regularly shaped they formed fam
tastic crenelated frozen castles; his
three-hour epic-making flight with
Admiral Benson and Richard, $50
miles farther south than any ex-
ploration in that area previously
made by man.
The letter, in part, had said:
"Near the end Of March next year,
Admiral Benson plans to isolate
himself for eight months In q hut
buried in the Antarctic SHOWS, 129
miles south, because 1t Is essential
TO have an inland base to get i'm
portant meteorological data. No one
can reach him there If he needs
help. No one can aid him until
the bong Winter night ends. It had
been planned that Richard and
60 with him, but unforeseen dim
culties have arisen which make 1t
impossible to equip the base for
more than one man" And then he
had concluded: II love you, Patsy
I shall always love you. Remember
that. Lee"
There had been a short note from
Richard, too, telling Of the expert
ences that had impressed him most
Richard had ended his letter. Re
member that afternoon when you
came to my laboratory, Patsy, and
asked me to marry you? Remem-
Der said, If you feel the same
way when return from the South
Pole nothing on Gods earth could
make me happier?' On an expedt-
ton Like this a man has chance
to come face to face with himself,
to see the truth of things. The
mere hope Of having you for my
wife makes some Of the dangerous
loneliness of these wastes bearable.
I love you. Richard"
And so now, on the 18th OF
April, Patsy was back in New York
after an absence Of little more
than two years. The same Patsy,
only now she had carefully planned
her life once more. She would go
on with her career, marry Richard
when he returned from the Ant
arctic, for there was still Kitty, who
wouldn't divorce Leland there
was her own heart-more afraid Of
love than ever.
All those who had seen her on
awaited her on the pier. She came
down the gangplank more lovely
than ever in a mink cape, violets
near her slender throat, little
Paris brown felt low over one shin
ing blue eye. The family crowded
around her, asking questions that
couldn't be answered in months,
kissing her all at once. suffocating
her with their pride and affection.
Ted announced with grin that
he was going to be married within
q few months to Mary Jane Car
roll, the little girl he had met at
the husking bee. Marcia, who
looked the picture Of health, had
promised DR.. Cole Proctor to marry
him in the Fall. Grandfather.
flushed and beaming, said he
wished he could find q nice, COM
Portable widow who would help to
make his days less lonely at Tree
Tops when his grandchildren left
him. Tippy said he wouldn't marry
Cleopatra herself If she came back
dragging her barge with the whole