Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21
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tomorrow to that long table, and the
beans, and cell $780,"
"Don't!"
"We'l forget 1t all"
mo" she said. Well never forget
1t. I don't want to. It makes this
our being together agair-so heavenly!
1t makes just this one Christmas such
a miracle. George, even If you did
have to 90 back on Wednesday and
I had to go back to stock engagements
1t would all be worth while!"
"It would all be worth while" he
agreed, brushing his cheek again
against the top of her soft hair. 1--WE
dreamed thousand times OF this
you, all soft and warm and sweet, in
my arms again. Tam, just our break
fast tomorrow, on q Winter Christmas
morning. eggs and coffee and a fire,
will be enough to make up for it all"
Tamara was silent awhile, her head
safe on his shoulder. her thumb rub
bling against his hand.
"All the days ahead, all the morn
ings and evenings and breakfasts and
suppers?" she murmured dreamily.
"All ours"
cts better" she said, "than being
bride Of Is marrying the handsomest
bachelor in all the British nobility"
Its better than anything ever was
for any one. Better than never hav-
ing been parted, or anxious, or wor-
ried!"
"Oh, it is. And I thought-only
tonight thought that life never would
be anything else but one long heart
break! And we know each other,
George" Tam pursued in a voice of
utter content. there aren't going to
be any surprises or disillusions; We
know each other through and
through and through" Her voice
dropped; she whispered: st love you
so. George" she breathed. And again
their lips were together. From out
side they could hear the steady rush
and back surge Of the sea.
Here's our plan," George presently
said. do you want to hear our plan?"
Have we a plan. darling?" Tam
asked.
We AL q you
and are driving south to San Pedro.
We stop in Los Angeles to buy clothes,
to go on to San Pedro and board a
Swedish boat"
"Oh, no, George!"
yep. We have a four-week trip,
reading and talking and playing crib
bage, and then we land in Stockholm.
We go over to Germany-ever been
to Germany"
you know very well I've never
been to Germany"
We'll, we go to Germany and to
Munich, and there we join"
"Oh, George. not really! Oh,
George, and I've not seen Mary for
a year!"
so then we go to Germany and
have another month with mother and
the kid. They may be coming back
later in the year, but mother said
in her last letter that Mary ought
to finish out some work she's doing.
Well, then we come back here.
have to be in Mexico May 1st, and
It'll be hot! But we can get into
the mountains of and Oh"
I'VE come home on a North Atlantic
liner, and have few days in New
York;"
Yep, or Boston. or Washington.
Then we drive to Mexico"
"Oh, George. George, George. I'm
asleep and dreaming all this!'
| We'll, that's the way feel The
boys have got big will case in Cuer-
navaca-it's in the mountains, and not
far from Mexico City; that's all I
know about it-and they want me to
look it up. So that's our plot for the
new year, my girl"
"Oh. and I can use my SPANISH"
Tam said eagerly.
You bet your life you can. And
now how about turning in? You
must be dead, and feel as if it we're
three years since ate my breakfast
this morning over at San Quentin"
And tomorrow's Christmas"
'Tomorrow's Christmas. Well cable
the Germans"
George" Tamara said thoughtfully,
not stirring from her comfortable posi-
ton in his arms. ct think I'll love
Salamanca. love white clothes and
siestas and shutters and pineapples
and people playing the guitar in the
moonlight"
Love WHAT"
Saskatchewan, was it? Wherever
we're going"
"Cuernavaca, you idiot"
"Cuernavaca?" Tam echoed dream
lily. Its all the same to me-"
THE END.