The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-10-10

Edith Realizes Scott
Is in Love With Kate
'You can't go on driving yourself
forever she scolded. The Office was
cold. Edith went with quick steps
across the room and turned on a
radiator. The heat came on with a
low hiss.
Scott moved doggedly toward a
closet in which he kept his hat and
coat.
You're not going out AGAIN." de.
manded his sister.
II have call to make"
Scot"
II must 60, Edith"
1t was better to let him alone, she
thought. Scott had been like that for
days. He looked at her and didn't
see her; she spoke and he failed to
hear.
Edith, more than anyone, was
aware of her brothers. suffering.
She knew that, as Scott walked
about, as he sat behind the wheel of
his car, as he treated patients at
the hospital, at their homes or in
his office, even as he made valiant
attempt to eat his meals and con-
verse with his family, he carried
with him a heavy and unacceptable
sense of wrong done another.
For moment she watched SCOTS
efforts to get his arms into his coat
sleeves. Then she went swiftly
across the office to help him.
BE back in time for dinner" she
said cheerfully, cor you'll break
your mothers heart. She's giving
you hot gingerbread with egg sauce
for dessert"
When he had gone out, Edith
walked to a window which looked
out upon the street where the Ken
yon house was located. She stood
there until she saw her brother
drive off between double row of
elms which looked, in the fading
daylight, like a company of tall
priests clad in long, close-fitting
cassocks.
did Scott 60 out, Deedy?"
Eyes, Mother"
II hoped you'd induce him to lie
down for a while"
Il tried, darling, but he refused"
Mother and daughter looked APP
prehensively at each other.
"Isn't there anything we can do
for him?" asked Mrs. Kenyon for
lornly.
mo-" said Edith quietly. She was
remembering her one serious love
affair and how completely wrecked,
emotionally, she had been for a
long while after she had broken 1t
off. She recalled how gentle and de.
voted her mother had been, how
Scott had done his masculine best
to lift his sister from the depths yet
nothing either of them had said or
done had mitigated her pain or
fastened her recovery. Time, alone,
had done that. Signing, she slipped
her arm around her mothers slim
waist. "All we can do is watt
On the day of the football game
between Riverdale Academy and
the local high school, Kate awoke
with the feeling that she would like
to go back to sleep at once and thus
avoid the necessity of answering the
letter that offered her an internship
in a hospital fifty miles from Peo-
pies. She had been paid a high
compliment and she must accept
the post or reject it with no further
delay.
The knowledge that, if she left
here, she would disappoint the
Smiths and the few others who be-
ieved in her, had made her hest
tate, but at heart she knew that
Scott Kenyon's attitude was the de-
Gliding factor and he. she told her
self as she rose YEARLY from bed,
had no more actual liking for her
than he had ever had. Oh, he was
courteous in the extreme; he ad-
mitted her presence during rounds,
he gave ear to her comments, he
even asked her questions occasion
ally but there was no personal
warmth in his manner. He was only
doing what he felt he had to under
the circumstances, Kate told her
self. ..rs, sszsyss1-;..s-~--~rs~
ITO Be Continued)