The Washington times., 1937-03-23

Well, she could get Denise to in
vite him. she supposed. She had
usually been able to persuade De-
Mise to do what she wanted. But
on her arrival in England she was
startled by her sisters attitude
to her, having belieVed-because
she wanted tc-that Denise would
long since have recovered from any
resentment of the situation as it
involved Keith. Still, Felicia was
determined to have him join her.
They would face the family, all
at once, get it over with, and sail
home.
Felicia was patient with diff
Guilty through the days before Gil
bert's departure. Better not try
with Denise. while he was in her
presence. Denise would ask his
advice, and he would certainly
refuse to have Keith as a guest.
Denise might not tell him, of
course. There was clearly some
thing strained in her relationship
with him. But it couldn't be
chanced that Denise should tell.
YEARLY the possibilities went
round and round in Felicias head.
She could meet Keith in Lon
don, even if she failed with De.
Mise. But both Keith and her
self knew too many people. The
chances were that they would be
seen. And, for Eustaces sake at
least, she would cause no more
unnecessary scandal. Let Keith
come to Sussex, be chaperoned
by her parents presence. and they
would settle everything quickly
enough.
The most important thing
would be settled, so far as she
was concerned, when she first
watched Keith's face, regarding
hers. So great was her urgency
to have that moment arrive and
then be past that her patience
wore extremely thin in the last
hours of Gilbert's stay.
She and Denise were no more
than turning from the dock-side
when that patience snapped. She
said: Il want Keith to come mere,
Denise. You must help me about
it."
A broken right leg and arm,
lacerations of the head and neck,
and possible internal injuries
(they turned out to be slighN give
a man time off from engagements
to think.
The thoughts of Keith Sheldle,
jr., in the time after his ply
sicians ceased giving him seda-
tives, were curiously regretful:
First, that he had not been suf-
flciently convincing with a girl
named Denise Rendale in an era
that seemed about equidistant
(the distance enormous) in time
and in reality. Second, that if
an encounter on an unfamiliar
road, with a vehicle the driver of
which he'd never, consciously
seen, was to fling him out of his
normal life, he would rather have
been travelling that road for some
more vital reason than to bring
home from an innocent and so
stupldly compromising weekend,
q lady he did not much love. His
thought clarified as the sharp
agonies of pain subsided. But
clearest, from the beginning, was
that knowledge that he d d not
much love Felicia
The transition from the hospital
to his fathers house always re-
manned blur on his mind. There.
after he improved steadily, until
there came an evening when he
felt comfortable, Clear-headed, and
conscience6tricken about not hav.
ing communicated with Felicia,
That was a day or two after
they'd shown him a mirror when
they shaved him-and because he
was masculine, they were much
less reasSuring than with Felicia
"Fraid you've kind of spoiled your
handsome face, Mr.. Sheldie," his
day nurse said.
He had a scar on one cheek
that lifted his mouth in a some
what twisted smile. He had an.
other scar running from the cor