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THE DAILY SHORT STORY
MEN DO LOVE
Steve Bram, felt good. Ho hnd just made the last payment on his fishing trawler. He had been pay- ing for the trawlor for five years, working hard, sacrificing to meet the notes. Now he owned it. It was all his. He was the youngest trawler in Sailfront. He was only twenty-seven. Steve walked up the crooked, nar- row street to the house where Donna Pearce lived. Two months ago Donna had admitted she loved him. She was the prettiest girl in Sailfront. They were to be married next month.
Steve whistled as he walked. The bulge of the papers that declared him the owner of the trawler felt good in- side his pocket. He wondered how a man could be any happier.
Then, just as Steve got abreast of the gate before the Pearce place, a figure appeared around the next corn- or. Steve stopped dead and stared. There was something familiar about the-careless, swaggering walk of that figure.
"Johnny!" he called..
The boy looked up. His face light ed. "Stevol”
never let them interfere with what he wanted to do.
Before his brother, Steve, sailed away from Bailfront he'd said: "I'll be gone a couple of months, Johnny. Look out for Donna."
And Johnny had promised. He ex- pocted to have fun with Donna, but he didn't expect to fall in love with hor. It surprised him when it hap- pened. He tried to laugh it off, but that didn't help. He loved her, and because he'd never loved before he wanted hor more fiercely than he'd ever wanted anyone or anything
He wasn't sure, but he thought Donna loved him too. He figured the same thing bad happened to her that had happened to him. She hadn't in- tended to fall in love. She had mere ly wanted to have some fun before she married Stove.
Two nights before Steve was due to get back Johnny couldn't stand it any longer. He told Donna he loved her.
"Don't answer," he told her. "Don't know. Steve's my brother. He's the tell me how you feel. I don't want to
best guy who ever lived. I wouldn't Johnny Bram was Steve's. young do him dirt for anything." He paus. brother, Johnny had run away from ed. "To-morrow I'm going away. To home when he was sixteen. He'd Boston for awhile. I just wanted you come back again and gone away and to know how I felt." come back a third time. He'd been
Donna took his arm and looked up
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around the world, worked at every into his face. "I understand, Johnny. thing, tasted of life's bitterness and I'm sorry it happened. Neither of us sweetness. There was a wild, restless expected it. Good-bye, Johnny." She streak in Johnny, but everyone liked kissed him lightly, then turned and him. He'd never done anything wrong, ran back to the house. He just couldn't stay put Life was So Steve came home, and before the a game to him, a very amusing game. trawler was fairly docked he leaped "How long you back for this time, ashore and ran up the narrow street Johnny?"
to Donna's house. There was a curi- ous gleam in his eyes, a gleam that vanished in relief when he saw her on the veranda,
"Maybe a week, Maybe a month, Maybe for good." Johnny grinned, and there was genuine affection in his eyes as he looked at Stove. "It's good to see you again, Steve. You're all I come back for."
Then the door to the Pearce place opened and Donna came down the walk, She wore a light summer dress, and the morning bun made lights in her hair. Johnny Bram looked at her. He heard, dimly, his big brother Steve making the introductions.A
"Donna and I are going to be mar ried next month, Johnny," Stove said, and Steve, noticed that Johnny didn't take his eyes from Donna's face.
"You're here," he said, and laughed. "That makes everything swell!"
Donna looked at him curiously. "What do you mean, Steve?"
And Steve laughed again. “Why,” he said, "I was afraid. I saw the way you looked at Johnny and I was afraid. That's why I went away. To give you a chance. I wanted to be
sure:"
You mean you didn't trust mo?” "That's it," said Johnny easily. "But now everything's swell. Now I know."
Donna flushed and looked at Steve Donna. "I know that If you don't "And I know something, too," said _quickly. ““Next month? Oh, Steve, I trust me now. you never will every didn't know we had decided exactly time you go out in the trawler. when."
couldn't stand that, Steve. I'm glad I Steve felt the bulge of the papers found out.""" inside his packet. He thought of the Bo Donna went to Boston to look. trawler riding easily at anchor down for Johnny Bram.c
at the wharves. A queer feeling took (Copyright, 1989, By The Associated hold of him.
"The fact is," he remarked, "that's what I come up to see you about, honey. I'd like to make one more
trip. Make enough money clear
we could take a good hone
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ding a couple of months??
Why, Steve, you know") wouldn't. If you want to. Steve thought there was allet-in h volco and in her eyes, and thi Johnny's face was alive with orc mont.
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