The Washington times., 1939-01-30
BY EDMUND LEAMY


bury Dock, was running away
from himself. He didn't know
he was running away from him
self, because if he had known
it, he would not have been run
/ ming away. Terry Marquis was
that blind. Nonetheless he was
running away from himself, a
smashed fortune, and Gloria
! Robbins.
The smashed fortune hadn't
mattered so much. What had mat
tered was Gloria's golden coldneSS
when the blow fell.
For all her background and
bearing, Gloria's little rounded
chin with the dimple in it, was
what sports writer's call glass. VI
She couldn't take it. And the
lit" was Terry without a bankroll
that makes the wheels go round
I'm terribly, terribly sorry
Gloria said. prettily.
There was music at the moment
and the dancers on the floor were
like high-plumed flowers swaying
in synthetic wind. I'm terribly
terribly sorry" Gloria said.
COULDN'T TAKE 1T
That's all right, kid" Terry
said. His voice had a funny
strange ring amid the clink of sill
yer, and the babble of laughter
and the swing of the music in one
of the most favored night spots
in New York.
Scotch and soda, two," Terry
said to the waiter.
Gloria and he had another
drink.
But Africa! OF all places!"
Gloria said.
yep" Terry said and stirred
his glass. He liked the sound Of
the glass against glass. It was
brittle, like life.
Africa of all places. Teddy
Farnsworth told me what car
do out there. I can buy shamba
and grow coffee. and stand on my
own feet. It'll be funny for Terry
Marquis to stand on his own feet.
He didn't look at the girl beside
him. His eyes were on the
dancers. Funny and great
Sorry you won't come along"
Don't be a damned fool" sale
Gloria.
And that is why Terry Marqui!
) was leaning over the rail of {
P. & o liner as it pulled out O.
Tilbury Dock in London, a few
weeks later. early in 1915.
Early in 1916 coffee shambas il
, Africa could be picked up for (
quarter of their value, for thei
: owners were being picked off in ;
war. Terry didn't believe in war
If he had believed in war, he'C
have run up to Canada from New
: York and joined the Royal Arm,
Flying Corps.
He was six feet two, was hand!
with his fists and was 1.-the as 1
= panther. But he didn't believ'
! in war. He believed that growing
coffee on a shamba in Uganda
was the thing he wanted to do
4 And then he met Gladys Starr.
Gladys Starr was also leanini
l over the rail, few feet from
Terry, as the liner pulled out o
the dock. Gladys was little, a.
: trim as gunboat, and the sort O.
= , girl that turns the Terry sort o.
+ man into speechlessness.
!, Neither of them will ever recall
just exactly how they met They
think it was over the unconscious
antics of plump missionary
: woman who was trying to shout
, something in Hindustani to East
> Indian troops on the dock-whc
knew only Gujarati. Anyway they
met. And that was the beginning
of the end.
UNFORTUNATE EPISODE
Neither of them knew it was the
beginning of the end, for Gladys
was running away, too. Gladys
: was running back to Melbourne
where, when man proposed to
girl he meant marriage, and moi
something else.
There were people who NIGH
: have said-and did-cruelly un
kind things about Gladys. There
had been one unfortunate episode
: in her life. They picked on that
made mountains out of it, anc
Gladys had no defense except tt
lun back to Melbourne, after {
pretty tragic time of trying to b'
, a hit on a London stage.
The whole thing was as inevi
table as the tides and the phases
of the moon.
Beautiful" Terry said, with
: out knowing he was speaking.
"Handsome!" Gladys said.
And suddenly they were hand il
: hand looking over the rail. ant
chuckling at the plump missionar.
woman shouting Hindustani II
= men who knew only Gujarati.
From then on they walked il
: the clouds. They went aShorC
+ together at Gibraltar and Maj
seille and Port Said, where the,
:, bought trinketS, and paid bak