The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25

/ Sarah sat erect, her eyes wide, in
credulous.
You do?" she asked uncertainty.
Darling, l certainly do l always
havel l used to be afraid of it-and
when l grew up and realized how it
was simply swallowing all our mon
ey and yelling for more, and-well,
hated it even more!" said Ann with
such convincing simplicity that Sa-
rah could not doubt her.
For a moment they stared at each
other and then they both laughed and
Sarah held out her arms and Ann
went into them, and they hugged
each other, hard.
| Again they had forgotten Tracy
and he seemed quite content that
this should be so. He sat watching
them, amused, curious, yet with
something very like tenderness in
his eyes; a look that managed to be
little puzzled, too.
"I've had an offer of eighty thou
sand for the place." Sarah told Ann
cheerfully. 81 can buy little farm
for Andrew and Martha, it's what
they've always wanted; and l can
take jamie with me, to the apart
ment; it won't be much work for her
to take care of me-and the apart
ment-and of course, you can come
along, too, if you like"
So she hadn't forgotten him, after
all, Tracy told himself, and met her
dark eyes straightly.
well, of course, Pm coming
along" said Ann almost belligerent-
ly and a little too carefully avoiding
Tracy's eyes. "Where else would l
go?'
Tracy said hesitantly, well, l
don't like to intrude, but l have a
suggestion to Offer
Ann looked at him coldly. ooh, are
you still here?" she shifted in over
elaborate surprise.
"Ann! Don't be rude" said Sarah
gently, her eyes sparkling a little.
Rude? After what he's been to
me?" demanded Ann hotly.
And what was he to you?" asked
Sarah with interest.
"Insolent. Contemptuous. Bullying.
And other things" answered Ann
hotly.
Sounds like good material for
usband-making-" began Sarah, but
Ann was on her feet now facing
Tracy and she said coolly, THAT joke
has grown a bit tiresome, Sarah
let's let the man go home and get
some sleep. After all, we can always
take him on again, when we feel like
it."
Tracy stood up, and said politely,
always at your service, Clayton!
It's been most enjoyable evening.
l don't know when I've had a more
Instructive one."
And he went quickly out of the
room.
Ann stared at him for a moment,
wide-eyed, shocked. And then she
looked back at Sarah, and said like
hurt child, "Why-he's gonew
'Well, what did you expect the
man to do-hang around little long
er for you to bang him over the heart
with insults and denunciations L
quite looked for him either to stran-
gle you or turn you across his knee
with a slipper" Sarah told her Wig
orously.
Ann said in a small, bewildered
voice, 81 know-but-Sarah. l was
so sure that all that kept him from
wanting to marry me was - Lissa.
And - it wasn't Lissa at all - it -
wasn't ever Lissa-was it,"
"We-e-ell, yes, l think it was-for
awhile, anyway" said Sarah slowly.
But l think, too, that you frightened
him a little"
"Sarah-what am going to do?"
Ann walled.
You're going back to work in the
morning." said Sarah firmly. "And
you're going to do exactly as you've
been doing, and You are going to be
patient-and-let time adjust mat
ters that cannot be hurried"
Ann managed a dim smile. "It-
doesn't sound very exciting' she ad-
mitted. "But it will probably work
your advice nearly always does!"
She kissed Sarah and said good
night. But Sarah sat on for a long
time in the little sitting room, look
ing into space, and her eyes were
warm and a little smile trembled
about her lips.
The news of Lyn's elopement with
LISA created, of course, a mild SEN
sation among their own friends. |
Lyn's patients were distressed and
fearful; AIMS friends were frankly
curious and almost as frankly re-
lieved. She was a little disconnected
to realize that most of them seemed
to know rather a lot about Lyn's
philandering and to feel that she was
well out of the marriage.
And that was that. For a week or
two, anyway. Lyn took up his duties
at the hospital, and Lissa was enter