Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-09-03
Do2i1ed cesu,:
BY BARBARA ANN BENEDICT
g Associated Newspapers.
WNU Service.
YOUNG Cedric Van Nuy was


i reading a magazine in the
lounge of his New York club when
the telegram arrived. Immediate
" he was seized with a case Of
nervous excitement. For the tele-
gram was an invitation from that
gorgeous vision of all his dreams,
Brenda Athburton of Partridge,
Mass. Miss Athburton was invit-
ing him to attend a musicale and
weekend party at her home, be-
ginning on Friday, June %.
Cedric remembered suddenly
that today was Friday, June IS.
and that the moment was Has in
the forenoon. His first thought was
that the telegram had been de-
layed and that he would be un-
able to accept the invitation. Then
longing-longing to gaze once more
into the eyes of the beautiful Bren-
da-surged through his blood, and
he acted on impulse. Impulse, il
must be stated, was entirely alien
to young Mr.. Van Nuy. He was
a moderate young man-moderate,
modest and extremely shy, when
you took into consideration the fact
that his father was a multi-mil-
ionaire and no unimportant figure
in the world of finance.
However, today Cedric acted on
sudden impulse. Within the hour
he had telephoned to Roosevelt
field and chartered a plane to fly
him north that afternoon. Next he
had called his apartment and or
dered his man Beeves to pack ev-
erything necessary for a big week
end
The musicale planned by the ell
der Athburton was presented by
the East's finest artists, no less
among them being Rachael Ath-
burton, Brenda's older and unhand-
some sister, proclaimed by the
critics as a talented violinist. En-
raptured, the gathering listened
while Rachael rendered two of the
classics. The applause was thun-
derous and enthusiastic, and when
the affair was ended Cedric
congratulated the vision. of his
dreams on her sisters remarkable
gift. So earnest, in fact, were his
fluctuations that Brenda, for no
reason whatever that she could ex-
plain, knew faint feeling of sus-
picion. The feeling grew as Ced-
ric warmed to his subject, and
without asking herself why, Bren.
da said: 81 thought her rendition
of Mozart's B fiat sonata was ex-
ceptionally fine, didn't your"
Cedric said he not only thought
1t was fine, but that he had never
heard it played with more feelir
or a deeper sense of under stxm
ing.
Whereupon Brenda bestowed up
on our young hero a look of cool
ness, yea, look of utter frigidity
Cedric grieved and brooded. He
might then and there have quilted
the Gene of his misery had it moi
been that, in addition. to his other
qualities, he possessed a streak Of
stubbornness. This, augmented by
his idolatrous love for the vision
of his dreams, made him de
termined to right the wrong.
However, his efforts to see Bren
da alone were fruitless. She was
haughtily Indifferent to his plead
ngs. She was, Cedric thought, q
bit rude and heartless.
By Sunday afternoon Cedric hac
given up hope He reached the
conclusion that Brenda would nev.
er let him attempt an explanation
and that her love for him, unlike
his for her, was not deep-rooted OF
eternal. He planned therefore tc
depart by an early afternoon train
He was in the very act of snap.
ping shut his suitcase when he
espied Brenda, attired in flying
clothes, walking across the lawn
beneath his window, alone. Sight
OF her caused something queer to
happen inside of Cedric.
Acting once more on sudden i'm.
pulse he raced down the stairs
through side door and overlook
the vision of his dreams as she
was about to enter through an.
other door.
Brenda, you've got to listen!
You've simply got tot" Cedric
looked desperate. "That night at
the musicale couldn't hear
been flying all afternoon in an
open plane. It's not unusual-af-
fected me just as your sister start
ed to play, and then went away
l wanted you to think enioyed
it. Beastly nuisance, not hearing
Embarrassing"
He stopped, GREATNESS, anxious
Brenda suddenly smiled, a strange.
warm light came into her ewes
She said:
why, Cedricl You-you want
me to marry you'll declare.
you're such shy boy didn't think
you'd ever have the courage to
propose"
Cedric blinked, gulped, stared.
Puzzlement gave way 10 quick
thinking. She seemed to think he
had proposed Why? Abruptly Il
came. She couldn't hear. She'd
been flying and was affected bv the
same sort of deafness that had af-
fected him. 1t must have been his
EXPRESSION
COnqratulafinC h;roeo1s -.