Evening star., 1938-03-06
Meguziss Ssesios


''Only WHAT"
Sue Elaine interrupted The reporters
mean it's too good yarn to be treated as
publicity stunt"
They nodded gravely and went away. Sue
Elaine felt her throat tighten as she watched
Blake He looked like little boy who has
Just been snubbed by members of the high
school football team. She had tried to keep
frosty little shell around her emotions. Now
the shell was melting.
Lots of people will think it's publicity
stunt" she said.
He frightened. They will, won't they!
And I'll get that animal Maybe tonight.
Look, let's 60 out this evening for dinner and
celebrate the big capture"
1T isn't supposed to be proper to mix busi-
ness and going out together"
You can resign for the evening""
During the afternoon she debated whether
dinner and change into something slinky.
Maybe she should mascara her lashes and ex-
pertinent with that flaming lipstick she had
never dared use.
No, she wouldn't It might make her look
dangerous on the surface but she would still
be tame underneath. 1t wasn't right to at
tract his interest by fraud.
At dinner she realized it didn't matter how
she looked. The chilled fruit cup sent him off
to Alaska hunting the giant Kadiak bear.
Through the main course he was prowling
hungrily along the upper Congo after gorillas.
She could hardly get him back from trapping
snow leopards in Tibet in time for dessert.
He drove home in zigzag course to illus
trate how he trailed okapi across the veldt.
IAN you need" she mmmured, is few
gun bearers. Then you'd have George in no
time"
He parked at the apartment entrance and
glared at her. Cant we forget George mo-
ment? I'd rather talk about us."
"Us? Oh. You mean was along on all those
jungle trips you were taking tonight"
She wanted to jolt him into thinking of her
and not of his musty old expeditions. The jolt
was successful. But she forgot that with Blake
thinking and action were often simultaneous.
He thought of her and grabbed her in the
same second.
She didn't know whether she was being
kissed or killed. 1t didn't hurt 50 it must be
the former She wanted to struggle but
couldn't get much cooperation from herself.
In about a minute she got around to feeling
insulted. Blake released her.
''There!" he gasped.
There, yourself! What am supposed to
do, feel shared and helpless?"
"A little of the helpless feeling would be
all right"
She opened the car door and scrambled
out. This is not, she observed. "open season
for kissing me-"
Listen, Sue Elaine. was going to apply
for a permit long ago. But you always made
me feel like something that had just washed
up on the beach,"
And instead find you're something the
cat dragged in."
His hands tried to choke the steering wheel.
I'm get that cat tonight. Then we'll take up
this subject at greater length
1T will still be tiresome.'
She marched dizzily into the building. She
knew exactly what she must do. Go to the
Office in the morning, thank him pleasantly
for catching George, and then resign. That
would show him he couldn't bully people.
1t would teach him lesson. The only trouble
was that it would teach her lesson too. And
don't need it, she moWned.
But the next morning it wasn't necessary to
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