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"You wouldn't be the type to marry next day and all the days that fol- a man for his mondy, would you?” lowed, Ray Shelly said.
Astonishingly he discovered she "You've had too much to drink or helped him to forget. Linda. More- you wouldn't talk like that,” · Edé over, she couldn't really know how Mayfair told him. Her fine blue eyes rich he was and she didn't seem to were wide with anger 'and...... indigna-> care. She seemed to like him for tion.
· himself and never told him he drank too much..
Ray folt remorseful. He shook his head, trying to clear-it of its befogged thoughts; trying to segregate from the jumble of sudden flashes that Ede's words had conjured one half-forgot ten, maddeningly elusive picture.
So when they got back to New York, Ray continued to see her. He didn't know he was falling in love, not until the night up in Westchester when he got pretty drunk and, went to sleep with his head in her inp. When he Then, as though some subtle and woke up she was still there, holding mysterious force compelled him to him, smiling down, and then he knew do so, hd looked up and across the that she was the girl he wanted forever. crowded dance floor of the Roumanian and ever." Room and into the eyes of a girl.
The orchestra hads paused. She was So here they were to-night, almost a standing on the edge of the floor with year after the Linda affair, sitting in her partner. She had red hair and the Romanian room and Ray was pret- a carved; sensitive mouth and a finely ty drunk. It was being drunk and chiseled nose. · Her eyes ‹ met: his; being at the same table in the same -"Ray!" ́she' cried. ' "How "ard "you, room that made him say the same darling?" Then the music started and thing to Ede that he had said to Linda. she danced away, looking at him over He regretted it instantly because any- her partner's shoulder, disappearing one could tell by the look in Ede's eyes into the crowd.
that she wasn't the Linda type at all.
Ray's thoughts were at once starti- The music stopped and the dancers ingly clear. Her name was Linda sat down. Directly across the floor Cole. A year ago: he had bat op- Ray could see Lisee her looking posite her at this same table in this at him, šmiling, altered.” He grow sul-
By Meredith Schell
same night club, and she had laughed len and thoughtful, and when Edo when he tried to stand up and couldn't' reached across the table and covered because he'd been tboy drank.
his hand with her own, he lurched to his feet. "Gotta know," ho said. to "Wouldn't be happy if I didn't know." head minutes later. "Come on," he said. He staggered off, returning five Bald. “Gotta know."' know
"Darling, you've had too much drink," she had said,
And Ray looked at her his swaying a little. “Listen, "I'm in love wih you?" that. I'd like to marry you. But well, you know Linda."
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He led her to the room behind the it is, bar where the gambling tables wère. He introduced her to suave Jose Fer- "Of course I know how it dari- dapéz, and then he explained what he ing. She had amiled. htly was up to. He was going to gamble "You're one of the richest me in his entire fortune. He hoped, he said, -New York. You never know whether he'd lost it because then he'd never people like you for yourself or for have any doubts about his wife, and he your money, It rather puts youzon was sure he'd be much happier. 'a spot.”
Ede, horrified, tried to dissuade him," Warmth of feeling had welled up but the wheel was already spinning. inside of him, because she understood. The ball dropped, and save Jose in- "And you want to know if I said formed Ray Shelly that he had just yes I'd marry you- would it be for heen deprived of, 95 percent of his en- you money," She paused, crushed entira fortune. out her cigarette smiled.
"Yes,"
Ray scribbled something on a paper she said." "I've nveer had all the and gave it to Jose and led the way money I want, and I've always wanted outside. Ede was crying. She things You could give them to me. couldn't meet his eyes.. Chokingly I love you, Ray, but I wouldn't love she told him the horrible truth: Now you if you were poor."
that he was poor "oh, please try and Daya later Ray had ceased his understand, Ray, we couldn't be brooding in the stateroom of a Med- happy as poor people." iterranean-bound steamer long enough When she had left 'to take a walle on deck, Fate must back to the gamblingr have walked with him that day, for Jose and retrik when he rounded a corner he ran "Thanks for smack into a girl with ash blond hair Jose nodded. and wide blue: ever. He knocked her headed for the da fist and despite the fact that he quite sober now. W had made" savow to ignore all women hand in his own, on now on, and ever more, he picke he knew exactly:
idn't help noticing). "I still love how
that offer still
Ray went winked at of paper. he said, and ent out and He was took Linda's her partner. was doing.
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