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YALERIA attended the party. Not py. He did not mention coming home. to have done so, would have been There were also scraps of information an admission of her love for John picked up from the gossips. Sandra, of Steele. Now no one would know save course, heard from John often. His she and John. This gesture would dis mother had letters. The weekly news- on his pel any vestige of doubt, would still paper carried frequent notes the waggling tongues of the gossips. activities.
Standing with her hand resting light. Then there followed weeks in which word was received by any- ly on the arm of Henry Hicks, with no
whom she had been dancing when the one at all. Anxiety was written on the drummer's roll had signalled that an face of John's mother; Sandra was ir- announcement was to be made. She ritable when questioned. She was an- Then kept her head high and a set smile on gry, because of John's neglect. her lips. Yet her heart was pounding Mrs. Steele received a letter from Dr. and there was anguish in her soul. She Lancey, head of the expedition. John couldn't help that.
had contracted a strange fever: The "And I want to take this opportunity worst had passed, but he was sending to announce the engagement of my the boy home. daughter, Sandra, to John Steele." When Valeria heard about it a terror Valeria saw and heard as from a possessed her. She knew Dr. Lancey. great distance. Her hand must have She knew that John had barely escaped tightened on Henry's arm, for he look death, was even now in a bad condi- ed down at her. But he only said: tion. She waited, and the waiting was "Swell looking couple, aren't they?" torture. Then the music started and they were An ambulance drove John up from
John dancing again and Valeria-had control New York. Valeria was with Mrs. of herself.
Steele when he arrived. He looked up
Valeria knew why John was marry at them from the stretcher and smiled. ing Sandra Carstairs. She knew it Neither of the women spoke a word. better than John himself. He had told There was no need. Something had her the last night they were together happened to John Steele beyond. dez- that it was because he had fallen in cription. Robbed of his virility, of his
By Barbara Ann Benedict
love with Sandra. He said he had handsome features, he had become less loved her since they had been children, a man than a withered and near-life- and when she returned from abroad, less' assortment of human materials. where she had been at school; he knew Sandra arrived an hour later,-fresh- that he couldn't love any one else. He and windblown, eager and yet petulant. was sorry, he said.
She stopped at John's-bedside, and the Sorry? That was the one word words died on her lips, the smiled fad- that had given him away. Sorry, for ed. Horror filled her eyes. She tried what? - For being nice to her, Valeria? to speak, to say something, and John He had never committed himself. He smiled at her and reached out. She had no cause to be sorry-unless down flinched; a tremor ran through her body. deep an unspoken love lay in his heart. Specialists came from New York. * So Valeria had known that John The crisis had long since passed. But Steele was marrying Sandra because it would be months before John Steele she could give him his trip to Egypt was near to normal again. Sandra with the Lancey expedition. He had hung on to the word near. To her studied archaeology;, it was his ambi- it held a world of meaning. It was an tion. But a young archaeologist who ultimatum. It meant that John would dvanteä (to get into the field is hampered never be normal again.
by lack of money, John had none, but - Sandra came twice after that. The Sandra was the daughter of the richest second time she walked from the house man, in Woodford, P
without stopping to speak to John's John left for New York to join the mother. Her head was high and there expedition two weeks later. They was a spot of red on either cheek. But were to be married directly after his her eyes held relief, freedom, return in-six months, Valeria was Valeria met her outside. The two scornful. They were so cold-blooded women paused a bare instant and look- about it, so obvious and matter of fact ed into each other's eyes. Then San in their dealings. She almost hated dra passed on, with a little uplift of John Steele, yet she know his ambition her head. And Valeria's lips turned and how strong it was, for he had upward. For the first time in weeks talked to her of his dreams as he had she smiled. Triumph replaced the never talked to anyone else.
fear in her eyes. She went on into the house and her heart was singing.
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She was not present at the sendoff This wasn't necessary. She had made, her gesture by attending the party; she wouldn't have to keep on play- acting.
Two days later she had a note from New York from John. He had look ed for her at the sendoff. He had been disappointed. He had wanted to say goodbye.
Hope burned in her breast; then died. It was too late now – John Steele had. promised himself to another, and noth-
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