The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-19
CAST OF CHARACTERS

" daughter. She faced a choice
between two nay suitors.
DWIGHT CAMPBELL-am-
bilious lieutenant. He faced a
choice between his wife and
duty.
JACK HANLEY-flying sail
or. He faced a test of a patient
love-
MARVEL HASTINGS-navy
: wife She faced the test of be-
ing a good sailor:
Yesterday: Judy can never quite
forget Dwighti memory Of him
fortunes her. For the first time
in her life she hates the demands
of navy life.
CHAPTER XII
Judy Alcott didn't want to go
to Dwight Campbell'S wedding.
She shrank from the thought of
it equally as much as she had
shrunk from the very idea of act
ing as bridesmaid. But not to APP
pear would be to confirm, undeni-
ably and forever, that what peo-
pie were saying about her was
true.
The bridge party, that after
noon, had been bad enough. May
be the others had tried to be kind.
They had succeeded only in en-
phasizing the fact that they were
thinking of her as the girl Dwight
had Tilted. By their very omis-
sions-by the careful way no one
spoke of the wedding invitations
that everyone had received that
morning-they made the thing
huge and plain and unacceptable.
Judy Alcott, the girl Dwight jilt-
ed. Be kind to Judy. Don't mem
ton the wedding.
She had lived through the
bridge party. Even smiled and
laughed and thanked her hostess
for a good time. She had lived
through the tea that Mrs. Lane,
as the wife of Dwighl's skipper,
could not avoid giving. But every |
time she remembered those tor
tured minutes in Mrs. Lanes liv-
ing room, she clenched her hands.
She and Jack Hanley came in |
late. Purposely. Judy wanted the
room filled with people, with talk i
and laughter, =, so that, no one |
would notice her ESPECIALLY. But |
as it happened, Mrs; Lane was
pouring tea when they arrived, /
and Marvel was sitting in a wing /
chair, Dwight bending over her
solicitously. MIS- Lane had evil
IDENTIFY called some remark to Mar
across the small space between
the table and the chair where
Marvel sat, because there was a
lull in the room-onet of those
waiting bushes. -. 81. ...es....
And as Dwight smiled down at
his fiancee, Jack Hanley and Judy |.
came into the room. \ |
= Marvel balanced her teacup and,
said coolly, Glow are you, Miss
Alcott?" She nodded to Jack,
who was leading Judy toward
their hostess, Then Marvel said,
q really, don't know where we'll
live, Mrs: Lane. Is it usual to take
one of these little houses?"
SO Mrs. Lane had asked Marvel
where they would, lives. That
ordinary question shouldn't have
the power to hurt; But it had.
The shippers wife, had known it
would hurt; Judy Dwight and
Marvel : together. Married. A
house made it SO real, SO finat!~ =.
Dwight took Judy's hand and
pressed it warmly. Haven't seen
you for a long time, judy. How
have you been?" T. e.
tJust fine, she said crisply,
turning to Jack But it had beel,
agony, after that, to see him smil-
ing at Marvel. Whispering to her.
Once he took her arm and brought
her to Captain Lanes side, and
the very expression on his face !
seemed to shout aloud, isn't she 4
wonderful, sir?" -
1--WE must get out of, here as
soon as we deccntly cam" said
judy hurriedly. Jack answered
slowly, We've Just come" He
gave her a sandwich. That's one
of those thin nutbpeads you al,
ways liked. What's your hurry"
"Pm not in a hurry" she said.
''Stand here and take it. Chin
up!" he replied. He knew what
her hurry was, all right. And he
knew, too, that she mustn't be
she mustn't turn tail and
run. .'.'.'
Nothing had changed since then.
She must brazen this out, and the
wedding, too.
On the morning of the day they
were to be married, Judy rose
early and went to the window.
Dwights wedding day. The sky
was deeply blue, already the sun
was warming the dew from the
grass on the lawn. 81 hope he'll
be happy" she said fiercely.
Even if--even if she's the one"
:. 1t was to be high noon we'd
Ding. All through her shower, all
through the hair brushing and the
lace fixing, Judy thought of
dwight. He would be jubilant, to-
day. His big day. She wondered,
with aching heart, what he was
doing this minute. Getting ready :
Tor his wedding. Singing, maybe.
She thought of his pride in Mar
vel; ne thought her beautiful,
miraculous, even witty. He did
not see the hardness under the /
beauty. please be good to himw