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QUICK ROMANCE
Erla knew that the thing to do was to ignor Andy Mcgler as completely as possible without appearing rude, Otherwise, Mac and Colin and Jim Putnam and Winnie Sheriff and all the others would think she was throw- ing herself at his head.
It was, of course, Mae's fault. Mae was not only romantic, she was drama- tic. She was forever trying to match up people. She'd meet a man and think to herself: "He's just perfect for Joan. Somehow I'll have to get them together. Oh, they'll make a perfect match!"
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She hardly gave Andy Megler glance, She, was, of course, polite, but she made it quite plain that her interests were with Colin.
And indeed they were. She made the discovery three days later. Three days that seemed like three years. A lifetime. When Colin Vonne slipped his arm about her and said simply: "I love you, Erla," it seemed that she had known him forever and ever and that this was the natural mination of a long courtship during which each had studied the other and learned the other's ways and found those ways quite in accord with their own.
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Which is what had happened when she saw Andy Megler the day after she landed in Miami. "Ho's wonder- She had never believed in love at ful! He's just the type for Erla first sight, or even in quick romances. Pierce. Oh, Len," she declared, turn- How silly, she had been. Her lips ing to her husband, "we must meet curved into a smile. Mae had always him. Erla's coming down in a fort. hoped that some one of her friends night, you know.”
would do this-would meet a man and "What wouldy you think of the fall in love with him at once, and idea," Len said, "of minding your even marry, him before, a week had own business for a change?" Buti passed. To Mae that was the epitome because he really thought Mae was of romance. cute and was used to doing her bid- ding, he contrived to have them meet Andy Megler. Ten minutes after the meeting Mae was telling him-about Erla.
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"Oh, you must meet her, Andy! Erla's grand! She's just your type!" "I'll be very glad to meet her," said Andy formally and a bit. stiffly.
And to Erla, Mae wrote: "Do hurry and get down, darling. I've the most
Dear, sweet Mac. How wrong she always was about things. About try- ing to negotiate the perfect match. How disappointed she would be- must be now-because Erla had 80 completely ignored Andy Megler. Pur- posely she had avoided being alone with Mae during the last three days. She didn't want to hurt Mae's feel- ings, didn't want to tell her that she thought Andy Megler an insipid prude.
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wonderful man picked out for you! She had to confess that Mae had borne You'll love him. He's exactly your her disappointment bravely. Except for a faintly puzzled expression whenever, she looked at Colin and Erla she seem- ed quite unaffected.
type."
Thanks a million, my sweet," Erla wrote back, "but I really would adore picking out my own husband. Do you mind too "much?"
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So now Erla looked at Colin Vonne But she knew that even bluntness and she knew, She knew that all could never dampen Mae's enthusiasm these years she had been wrong and She knew and belief in her own match-making that she loved this man. qualities. So now, sitting
that it is quite easy to figure things the. on clubhouse porch with Jim and Daisy when you're not in love, but that. Walton she watched Mae coming to things figure themselves when you ward them with two young men in are. Nothing at all matters then. tow, and she was smart enough to "It sounds crazy," she said. "It know that the thing to do was never, sounds mad and impractical and too never pretend any interest whatever romantic to be true, but but it is in Andy, Megler.
true. I do love you." Colin! · Oh, I'm sure I do!".
Andy Megler and Colin Vonne,” Mae said, smiling meaningly at Erla. "Boys, this is Erla. Remember, told you about her."
There was no denying that this Andy Megler, was good-looking, Erla admitted to herself, but as she suspect ed, he was too sure, of hhelf, too aware of the impression he was making, too tolerant of other pe Deliberately she turned upon="""Colin' Yonne and did her best to dazle him. "How nice to meet you both," she said, looking deep into Colin's eyes. "Mae has written me so much about you."
And when Jim untangled his long legs, and suggested that they all go down into the paddock to have a look Str the horses, it was Colin Vonme's arm that. Erla attached herself to
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She waited, expecting him to kiss her, prepared. But he didn't. Not at once, His arm remained about her waist, neither slackening, nor increas- ing ita pressure.. Instead be looked at her, as though trying to read her eyes in the faint light of the moon.
Then suddenly he began to laugh, softly, then more Hotelly,
“So that's it?" he said, “Well, well, well!!..I believe you actually believe I'm Colin Vonne. I'm not. My name's Megler, Andy Meglery
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