The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-21

so that whether a child's parents
could pay, or not, the child
could have everything that he
needed to restore him to complete
health.
Lyn would do good job as
Head of Staff. She had to admit
that. He was a skilled surgeon,
a fine physician, he had devoted
years of hard work and study.
Ann nodded then. Every well,
Lyn."
! Lyn's expression was eagerly
expressive of his delight.
Ann was sitting alone in
the morning room when Sarah
came home. Sarah looked regal
and imposing in the severe black
dress that had been made over so
cleverly that no one could have
dreamed it was not straight from
the towns best shop. There was
color in her cheeks and her eyes
were bright and lively as she
saw Ann and said why I
thought you and Lyn were din
ing out somewhere tonight-the
Cosgrove woman, wasn't it,"
I'm never going out with Lyn
again-as long as I liver Ann
burst out, and it wasn't at all
what she had meant to say, but
her disgust and her sick con-
tempt for him had spilled over
into her voice and betrayed her.
Ann told Sarah the whole
story. Sarah listened without
word and when Ann had finish
ed Sarah said quietly, I'm sorry
you had to learn it this way, Ann
the thing I've known about
you from the very first, which
is that you were never for a
moment in love with Lyn! You
were deceiving yourself and it
took something like this to jolt
you out of that deceit. Be CRATE
full to Julie, all the days of your
life, that you learned it now
instead of later!"
II am, of course" said Ann
huskily, and added frankly,
THAT is, I suppose I will be
when the-the-shock wears off"
Sarah peered at her keenly,
shrewd, sharp, loving old eyes
gentle but very penetrating.
what else is on your mind,
my dear?' she asked after, a
moment.
Ann looked up at her, startled,
why, nothing" she began
but Sarah laid a finger on her
lips, silencing hers.
Don't try to lie to me, child, y
said Sarah quietly. ''You and
have been to close for that. We've
always-understood each other
without words, on all the impor-
tant things. You've been going
around in a mental fog for sew
cral days-maybe I could help
pierce the fog?"
| Ann then told Sarah Tracy's
story; his devotion to LISA, and
the reason for it! why he felt,
that if he ever married, it would
"have to be LISA"
Sarah listened quietly, without
interrupting until the story was
finished, and then there was a
little silence, which Sarah broke
by asking quietly, in a tone that
made it statement rather than
a question, you're in love with
Tracy Driscoll, aren't your"
Ann looked up at her, startled
by the abruptness of the words.
And for a moment Ann was still,
while the color flowed over her
face in crimson tide, only to ebb
and leave her desperately white.
Terribly" she confessed and
her face went down against Sar-
abs knee, and the tears came in
spite of her efforts to control
! them.
Sarah stroked her soft hair for
a moment and then she asked
sternly, ''You are terribly in
love with Mr.. Driscoll, and yet
| you were going to marry Lynn"
| Ann said unsteadily, "Lyn-
knew I didn't love him-but-he
didn't m-m-mind. He didn't
know I was in love with T-Tracy,
of course, b-but he said-Td-
learn to love him.
''Then he's not only a fool, he's
a double-starred idiot" snapped
Sarah.
Sarah studied her anxiously,
and then she rose and drew Ann
up with her and said briskly,
go upstairs to bed and to
Sleep"
'I-don't feel as if I'd ever
sleep again." said Ann huskily.
'sNow, don't you 60 dramatic
on me, my good girl" protested
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