Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-05-22

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Let me look at you" She faced
him towards the light. "Why,
you look-dreadful! What is it?"
Nothing! lit has been a
trying week" He tried to smile,
but his face felt stiff. 81 wasn't
sure whether you'd want to see
me-" He answered her startled,
inquiring glance by saying: Its
all SO new Pm not used to it
yet. And then, too, those news
paper stories about my mother
"Silly!" Miss Woods slipped a
gloved hand into the crook of his
arm and snugged her SHOULDER in
timately against his. us that all?
Well, Pm glad you're back. I've
a thousand things to talk about.
Come along. We're going home
and we'll have a bite to eat there.
Where's the little blue oil stove"
"It's outside at the curb"
want to ride home with us,
Jacob?" Hazel inquired of the
doorman. "Jerry's fireless cooker
will carry four"
The old fellow grinned and
shook his head. Gotta lock up.
I'll be along later"
think of you driving an &C
tress home in your own carl" the
girl ran on as she and Gerald left
the theatre. Don't you feel rich
and wicked?"
mot as rich as I did before I
paid my garage bill. I'm afraid
I'll have to call this car my blum
derbus.'"
! ~Nonsense- You're going to
make lots of money"
As Gerald helped the speaker
into her seat he could not resist
planting a hasty kiss upon her
cheek. "Oh, careful!" Hazel cast
an apprehensive look over her
} shoulder, but at the same time she
clutched his arm in a way that
thrilled him. After a while she
said: "You didn't write me, once!
I'd like to know how you are go
ing to explain that?"
Gerald answered, i seriously:
"That's what I had in mind back
wonder. Our engagement doesn't
seem real. It's like a dream. l
wondered if you really meant IT.;
if yiu actually cared for me: Then,
too, those wretched newspapers! l
told myself you might change your
i, mind" He heard an incoherent
but eloquent and thoroughly salts
k fying exclamation from the girl a,
his side. She drew closer and the
g sensation of her body actually
a against his rendered him dizzy. 1t
was quite a task to drive; it re-
4 CURED stern determination to keep
both hands on the steering wheel.
Even during these few moments
Gerald had become aware OF some
subtle change in his fame. She
parties, over restaurant tables, on
the street or in public places when
other people were close by, and he
had never actually had her to him
self for more than a moment or
two; but tonipht he was takinp
her home. For supper! He knew
that the only mai she kept "slep.
OUT" and hence for once he could
anticipate a real lovers ~tete-a-tete'
free from interruption. The pros
pect was enough to render him
careless of traffic rules.
1t seemed to him that Hazel
had never appeared SO lovely as
when she snapped on the lights IN
her hall, dropped her light wrap
and turned to him with shining
eyes. Her lips were parted ner
face was eager; she held out her
bare arms. It was a joyous, impul-
sive gesture of surrender; her
look, he attitude, was one OF com
&c. oh,ndon. She melted into
his embrace, warm, fragrant
throbbing; her lips chung to ms
and he could feel her tremble IN
response to his ardor.
After a while the girl with
drew herself, then, flushed and
smiling mistily, she disappeared
into the dining ROOM. Gerald
SLOWLY filled his lungs. He came out
Of his ecstacy when he heard her
in the pantry, and he followed
volunteering to lend her a helping