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JEFF, YOU WON ALL MY MONEY FROM ME PLAYING: POKER! I THINK YOU OUGHT TO PLAY ME ASAIN AND GIVE ME A CHANCE TO
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Quiet And Shy
WHEN there are two men and girl That may be all right. I could agree involved there is bound to be with her that Nell was smart. But so trouble. Especially when the girl is was Val Marcus. Besides being smart ng good looking as Simone Mill. Val was good looking and smooth.
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She had reddish hair and greenish In the weak that followed Mary had eyes, and she liked sports. We invit Neil over to Dinner almost every night, ed her to spend a couple of weeks with and seeing him again had its effect on at camp, not knowing, of course, Simone. After all, there was definite- that Val Marcus was going to surprise ly something about Neil that had an us with a visit. We hadn't planned on appeal. You could see that half the Val. In fact, we had hoped that time she was undecided and worried Simone and Neil Spangler, who paint and unhappy. Val could see it, too, ed pictures for a living and owned the and he apparently worked on camp across the cove where he lived promise that the less Simone was ex- with motherly Mrs. Nesbit, his house- posed to Neil the better, his chances keeper, would, find a good deal of in would be. So after dinner he always torest in each other.
suggested a swim, or canoeing in the They did too. Possibly because something; things at which he knew moonlight or climbing a mountain or they were opposites. Neil was quiet he was good. Neil, the dope, never and shy with more dependable qualities made any objections, Half the time, than you could shake a stick at. He though Simone urged him; he didn't liked good music and read a lot, but accompany them. It made me dis-
nover boasted.
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gusted.
Simone, who had been used to the In fact, I was about ready to admit big strong athletic type, liked him that Noil didn't, after all, have the They got along fine. Then Val arriv- stuff I though he had. Then one night ed, and we decided she had been only just before dinner he came by in his. marking time with Nell until some- outboard and asked Val to go fishing. more like herself came along. He knew, he said, where there was a most Val out west the summer bis one they could knuckle onto before before and asked, him to drop in and time to eat.
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see us if he ever came east. He was Val couldn't very well refuse. Simone too handsome for his own good, More, and Mary and I sat on the porch and
By Meredith Scholl
he had that natural, instinctive co-or- watched them put across the lake. Neil dination between brain and muscles headed directly for the opposite shore that makes good athletes.
and when they were about half a mile The first few days Val was with us out he cut his motor. It was a still Simone didn't see Nell. That made me clear evening, so still that you could feel bad, I know Neil and I know hear very small sounds out on the lake. Val. The latter is too loud, too sure You could hear the rattle of things in of himself, too boastful. In the final the boat. You could hear the sound analysis he wouldn't be able to give a of voices. girkad much us Nelli S
Dusk had como
sat very
a quiet wisdom about him, a fund of tone. "Say, women are all alike. Why, knowledge, a deep-rooted determina- in college I had ʼn dozen of 'em chas- tion. That's what you got for forming ing after me. We could hear Neil's an opinion about a man when you voice. It was low and indistinguish- really don't know,able. Then Val again: "The thing to "You dope," I told him the day I do is bo smart. Forget the marriage. walked over and found him sitting on stuff. Make 'em love you That's his front porch brooding, if you love where the percentage in. Now you the girl, why don't you do something take Simone Just then Mary rat- about it? You do love her don't you?" tled a newspaper. I coughed. Simone He smiled, without rancor."Yes," got up and went quickly into the house, he said. "She's the first girl I've ever I saw Neil alone two days later. Val really loved.”
a had gone home, angry, and puzzled. "That's dandy!" I told him sarcas- "Congratulations, Neil. Simone told tically. "So you love the lags and us the good news. Bet you'll be happy you're willing to sit here like a bump together I paused. "Don't mind on log and watch a windbag like Val saying I thought you'd lost your grip. Marcus, walk off with her "
there for awhile."
I had always though that Neil had still. We could to boastful
"There isn't anything I can do
Ho grinned, that slow, shy grin. told me patiently. "She's had a wook "Confidentially, I don't mind telling you to find out what I'm like. It's only fair I thought we never would got a clear, that she has a week to find out what quiet evening." Val's liko, Thon she'll have to make (Copyright, her own decision."
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"Well, I'll bo ́damned!!" I stalked back through the woods. Simone and Val had gone swimming - Mary, my wife, was alone on the porch. That dubber!” I told her. "Sitting thoro ́as calm as you pleago and letting this guy with the movie actor profile, sell hữ girl the iden what a wonder ho is.” I told her what Nell had said,
Maryamiled. Curiously, there is a similarity about Mary and Nell. They “are both quiet and shy, yất thay both sdom to get what they want ↑ It comes touyau whenith all over that if'd hap
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