The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-17

CHAR INK INVENT ffOOR
1t was thu end of ths week be
fore june get up her courage Il
talk again to Andy. and then she
had to make tie opportunity her
self.
Andy was at his desk in tbs
office off the library Re was sur.
rounded by a collectinn of manu-
scripts, reports and tie like. and
he tried graciously to excuse him.
self from talking TO June.
Il have a lot of thifgs / have
to do before I make my departure.
I want everything to be in shape
for my successor"
You're really not going,
Andy?"
I'm really going" he told her
seriously. Joan, don't iAy the
things you have in your mind to
say. You think you care or me.
Joan. that's all. But you'vs been
raised so differently.
Everything Rosy
Everything has been rosy. You
couldn't be the wife of a poor nan.
Joan, you'd be miserable before
we'd been married even a ew
weeks. You'd want the thing,
couldn't give you and then yoir
father would have to give them o
you. 1t would be right, too, for 20,
to take them. After all. everything
he's got, and everything you
grandmother has belongs to you.
I'D be a fool to tell you yol
couldn't take things when
couldn't supply you with wha
you're accustomed to having. No
Joan, don't you see? We couldn'
be happy no matter how much
love you. Ny love couldn't holt
you against all that"
you love me?" June aske,
breathlessly. you love me, Andy
II you do that's all that matters.
Il don't love you" Andy said
looking her full in the eyes. hat
ing himself for the lie, but sur
in his loyal young heart that h
must do exactly that.
Il don't love you enough :
see you unhappy and complain
ing; don't love you enough I
sacrifice my own career to be
come the son-in-law of a wealth
man. Can't you see. Joan, Nv
got to be something on my owl
account? I've got to succeed"
IF I told you I didn't care 70
these things-if I told you that
know how TO be happy withou
money-if told you / could skim
and save and manage TO get aloni
-"
IT wouldn't believe you, Joan.
Andy said. mo, Joan, there ism
any use trying TO deceive our
selves. We're sensible human be
ings. I'm not the first man VIII
has refused to allow himself I
fall in love with an heiress. Som
poor boobs have done il. The
regretted IL all of their lives"
Leaves Room
~All right. Andy. I'll talk I
you again" June said calml,
Let 1t be your way" And sh
left the room. Her face wa
turned from him or the serious
faced young man could have see
that she smiled.
He might think she'd give hir
up like that, June was thinking
but he was utterly mistaken.
would be a different thing whe
she was free to tell him the res
truth about herself. Andy Nigh
try TO hide his love but he WASH
very good about 1t.
She felt even happier then afts
she had talked TO Joan long di,
lance. Joan. just ready TO 30
her lunch, was a bit annoyed {
the summons TO the telephone.
Tell that young fellow. WHIT
ever he is" the proprietor Of n
Sery-U-Nell said good-naturedl,
that he mustn't spend all h
dough on long distance calls TIE
him 10 buy a house instead"
Joan smiled al the banterin
remark, but she closed the doc
Of the telephone booth tightly |;
that none Of her co-workers migi
overhear even a fragment of COZ
versstion they could interpret
What is 1t now. you old troubl'
maker >" she asked banteringly I
she heard June's excited voice ov'
the wire.
| You're the troublemaker." Jur
. said with as much evaporation 1
| banter. Never. not as long |
! I've lived have / ever got nyse
! IN such a peck Of trouble before
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