Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-09
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gay porch, overlooking lighted
garden that surrounded a now
empty swimming pool. There
were love-birds in green cages
and solicitous. beaming walters
with heavy bodies and incredi-
bly, light feet. Rosemary had
duck and new strawberries and
marvelled as always at the way
her father could consume guam
titles of rare steak and baked
potato and never add a pound to
his weight.
And I'm like him." she COM
forted herself mentally" won't
have to live on lettuce and bran
biscuits like mother for fear of
collecting chins."
We'll. did you have fun ?"
Mallard asked" suppose Vicki
had lot of gay people around
for you to play with. Your let
tiers were little sketchy. You
write letters like your esteemed
father"
"Oh. everything was very mer-
ry l met a man who wanted TO
marry me. He followed me all
the way to the Tidal Basin to
tell me about It,"
only the Tidal Basin? 1
followed a girl to California
once"
pushed him out there and
ran off and left him. He has tons
of money and a big old house
out by the Falls. Mother was
very much annoyed with me-"
s"What was the matter with
him ?" Mallard- broke a roll in
two. You don't like them thin
and you don't like them fat
is that IL ? Did this lad have a
raspy voice or vanishing chin ?"
"Oh. he had plenty of chin.
And very proper polo legs Oh.
I'm wrong-it's foxes in Virginia.
Tally-ho and tantara. and kidney
pie for breakfast. He has lambs
on all the hillsides and a warm
ing pan that once belonged TO
Thomas Jefferson. But I didn't
want him. Why the special ac-
cent, Sergeant? Did you want
me to come back, dragging a
captive behind me-"
4 AALLARD- looked at her-mith
". the sharp violet sparks of in
terest burning in his eyes. She was
everything he could have asked
-fer-not pretty but fine-fookiug
= tn a clear. aloof. fashion Mouth
a trifle too strong perhaps. chin
too definite. but the delicate
curve of her lips and the elfin
dimple at one corner remedied
that She was golden and her
lashes were long and bright. yet
in spite of this shining perfec-
ton she was, he conceded some
what ruefully. somehow still dim.
Like a lamp that has never been
lighted. like a cool white stalk
of a candle without a flame
Il want you TO have whatever
you want" he said. a shade
briskly. you know that"
I'm relieved. I thought per-
haps you wanted to get rid of
me. There isn't a widow in the
offing, is there? Mother asked
at once If there was a widow"
She spoke with gay young con-
/ fidence. sure of him-Oh, per-
fectly sure And then her heart
missed a beat and she forgot to
breathe -for.an- instant because
he was little slow in answering.
And his answer evaded little.
He said, I'm very disappoint-
ing to Vicki. She hasn't found
a fox-hunting country gentleman
as yet, with enough money to
piedSe HeT, 4 lnIer
don't know that she wants
one, Rosemary said. feeling
somehow a little stiff" It's pa
thetic too, because she's sweet
and when she begins to be tired
of the things she's doing and
the people she plays about with,
she's going to be lonely. Mother
would be rather wonderful. I
think. to a man who loved her"
Il loved her = and she was
wonderful" Mallard said. evenly.
but I was not wonderful - not
for long 1 bored her"
There was something with
drawn in his voice and eyes that
sent Rosemary's mind racing
about like the frightened feet of
flying mice. Somehow he was a
little changed how she could
not tell. Frank enough. casual
enough-but changed.
She said. keeping her tone
light, I'm afraid bored her too.
Have you been having an anus
ing time since I went away"
Again he waited fraction of
a moment before he answered.
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