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AN UNEXPECTED BLESSING
"Max, I've decided to leave you," Pamela said.
"You. You made the odds. I thought if I kept plugging, you'd understand and help, realizing why I was doing Max did not take his eye from the it. But that thought never entered "speedometer needle. It was flickering your pretty little head. You
around the 70 mark. It went up to too concerned about making an 71 then to 72. Ahead, the road lay
were
im-
straight and black beneath the glaring pression on your vacant-faced chums." Arizona sun. Max had always felt Pamela bit her lip.. She was puzzled, that the old bus could do 80; this curiously frustrated, annoying aware as she was the first opportunity he had had that things were not going to find out.
had expected. She looked at her hus- After an interval in which neither band again, started to speak, but he of them spoke, Pamela went on: "A interrupted:
It's first I thought it was going to be fun "Well, it doesn't matter now. being married to an author,
being all over.
At last we understand each able to travel around and live where we other,
Relief, eh!" pleased and have people point us out, Now I know what a fool I was to "Max!" She shouted the word, her They think that an author was any dif- eyes suddenly wide with terror. ferent from an ordinary man."
had come to the
foothills of the
to
"That's the trouble with women," mountains, shot around a curve, and directly in their path stood a huge The Max. said. "They're idealists."
oil truck, its rear end, jacked up. speedometer needle had touched 73,
Pamela's eyes
the dropped Не but slipped back to 72 - again.
at decided he'd been wrong about the car speedometer, The needle rested
would being able to do 80, It
be 80, and suddenly, in a rush of vivid- dangerous to try, even on a road like ness, she was aware of many things: The speed at which they were travel- this.
ing, the fact that Max was unaware "It's man's fault if they are,"
," of that speed, the imminence of death. Pamela said bitterly. "You made She had no further time to think me think our lives were going to be or analyze. Max swore, sounding like
By Barbara Ann Benedict
a
different." She laughed suddenly, and a man who had abruptly been startled Pamela was aware it had a peculiarly hard sound. "Why, into awareness. for the past five years I've been no of the car swerving sharply, of the thing but a widow. You and your screeching of brakes, of a man wildly stories! Ha! Success isn't worth the waving his arms and scrambling for roadside. Then, price at any cost. It was a revela the safety of the tion to find out I didn't count, that beyond the car's hood, was emptiness,
life nothing counted in your
but, space. She had a sense of having whether a character was acting as the road drop from beneath them, of you thought he ought to act: The hurtling downward. There was only time I amounted to anything crash, a continued, series of - crashes was when you wanted to get that grew dimmer and dimmer and feminine reaction to some silly plot finally vanished entirely
"Take me to him. Take me to Max." idea you had.".
"You'd laugh if you knew how right Pamela knew suddenly it was her own she you were," Max said. The speedome voice speaking the words, that ter needle had jumped to 75. The had been speaking them for hours. purple range of mountains they had A white-clad figure standing
materialised into 11. nurse. been aiming at all morning were more her distinct. "Anyhow, it's a swell' drama. She tried to sit up, but the effort was
weeks too much. "Is he is he" tic situation. I decided two
"Fine. You were both lucky. Oh, ago to leave you?”
you "Oh?" She glanced at him, side so very lucky. Yes, of coursO
But first you must ways, trying to conceal her astonish- can see him. ment.
sleep."
above
"Sure," he said. "There's two sides- "No! No! I must see him now. Let to every story. While I was plugging me- A door opened. Two atten- along, trying to lift myself by my dants wheeled in a table. A doctor
came behind, smiling,
and bit the bootstraps
better to? magazines, what were you up. Amusing yourself by playing around with a lot of silly, empty-headed nin- compoops."
The realization that he had noticed, amazed her, yet she managed to get "I thank a sting into her reply. you to be more respectful when speak- ing of my friends."
"Friends! Ha! It's no compliment to you to boast such friends."
"It's no good," the doctor said. "I couldn't do a thing with him until I let him, see his wife. How is she?"
Pamela didn't hear the nurse's reply. She heard only Max, saw only him, the anguish in his eyes as he raised his head to look at her.
---Was
“Darling, you; know now. I- stubborn. I had to tell you that I had decided my vanity wouldn't let me admit that I still love you. And "At least they're sincere. They're the car. I was sure it would do 80. not vain and stubborn and egotistical." Darling, can you will you forgive?" "Moaning that. I'm vain and stub The doctor.smiled at the nurse, the born and egotistical? Well, maybe nurse smiled at the doctor. They tip- you're right. Maybe, that's what kept toed out. Boing experts in the study me going those years when I dis of humanity thoy: understood. Some- covered how the od is were stacked times. accidents were blessings. against mo;!!:
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