The times-news., 1938-11-12
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CAST OF CHARACTERS
JUDY ALcOTT - admirars
daughter. She faced choice
between two nay suitors.
DWIGHT CAMPBELL-am-
bitious lieutenant. He faced
choice between his wife and
duty. :,
JACK HANLEY-flying sail
or. He faced a test of patient
love.
MARVEL HASTINGS-nary
wife. She faced the test OF be-
ing a good sailor.
Yesterday: After accusing Judy
of loving Dwight, Marvel prepares
to leave hurriedly for Los Angeles.
She refuses to reason with Judy
about Dwight's sudden call to
duty.
CHAPTER VI
As Judy Alcott walked out OF
the Coronado hotel, with the MEM
ory of Marvel Hastings white
face and narrowed green eyes
throbbing inside her, she thought
slowly, II ought to hate her. But
/ don't. | feel sorry for her. She's
in love with him, and she's 50 un-
sure. :,
But remembering what Marvel
had flung at her, in that cool, ar
rogant voice, she flushed. You're
in love wit hhim." 1t hadn't taken
Marvel long TO see that. Because
she was jealous. Jealous, and I'M
sure.
Judy drove home slowly. Dwight
was out at sea now. She thought
of white wakes, boiling astern. VI
gray ships riding the high seas IN
a proud battle line. She thought
of planes rolling down carriers
deck. A signal, and they were
whirhng alOft. Facing the sky,
sharing in a vast, incomprehensl-
bic Job that no woman could ever
wholly understand. Even their
ships" she said to herself, "are
better friends, more to be trusted,
than their wives Z. :" And 1t
hurt, but it was true.
The ships came back in four
days. Judy stood on the pier,
watching the liberty boats put in
to the water. How many times
she had seen them like this, glid-
ing smoothly into the harbor,
dropping anchor, announcing
proudly that the job was done.
What job? She didn't know. 1t
didn't matter. '-.. -.'.@.
She went back to her car and
sat quietly while streams of en-
listed men poured into the waiting.
town. Up Broadway they went,
staggering a little, tanned and
young and muscular. Sailor boys.
And there were women waiting
for them, too. Wives and sweet
hearts. Judy wondered, suddenly,
If the most blondined, the most
raucous little dance hall girl could
have put on worse, show of tenn
per than the expensive groomed,
superbly finished Marvel Hastings
had done.
She stepped on the starter. 1t
had been a mistake, coming down
here. She ought to wait at home
for Dwight. He'd come. But when
she got home, she found Jack
Hanley.
She had not seen him since that
night aboard the battleship, when
they had quarreled. He had not
telephoned. She had felt humili-
ated because she knew that he
must have heard Dwight was go
ing TO marry a rich girl from the
east; and so he. had known that
Judy had lied to him. But de-
spite her consciousness that their
next meeting would be embarrass-
ing, she had missed him in a curl
ou sfashion. She had come to de-
pend so much on those casual eve
nings when he dropped around
and they danced to the radio or
sat on the porch, idly talking.
So now she was glad to see him,
and yet intermingled with her
gladness was the memory of that
lie. She wondered if he would re-
fer to it. But he did not. He only
said, Hello, Judy" and she said,
"Hello. You look all inn'
He did. He was tired. It was
in the suddenly deep lines of his
face in the eyes that looked worn
and heavy; in the way his long
legs sprawled out.
She said, Flown a good many
weary miles?" and ne grunted.
Then she asked him how the four
days at sea had gone. He said,
"Some little whim of the ad-
miraPs. Working out a pet no.
tiVn, or something. Not regular
maneuvers, but the battleships had
target practice, and we had. scout
ing and meeting the patrol boats
and all that"
Yet the took on his face meant
more than mere routine flights.