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He Didn't Belong
This party, Ned thought, was like becoming a great artist, but nothing every other party. Clark Havener had come of it. He was still a local was monopolising all the attention. hero, the feature of parties, still work- Fair-haired, tall, handsome, Clark sat ing as a clerk in Taylor's hardware at the piano and improvised ditties. He store. Ned was always amused at the sang them in a clear, rich, laughing satisfied look on Clark's face. voice, and the young people of Mason- Graduation came, and Ned graduat- He was ville grouped around him and ap-ed at the head of his class. plauded and asked for more.
immediately employed by one of the
Ned sat in a corner and watched biggest construction firms in the East. and brooded and felt very much alone. He liked his work, he was well in- It had always been like, this. Clark formed, ambitious. He worked hard was the social lion. He was the only and went ahead fast. Within three man with talent in the entire village. years his salary and importance had He stood out. There never was a reached astonishing proportions. His party or a social function of any des- opinion was being quoted in all the cription to which he was not invited. trade magazines.
Not only invited, but expected to be That summer Ned decided to go the sensation of the evening. And he home. He had achieved his goal. never failed.
He was famous. His accomplishments
Presently Ned got up and crossed were recognised and respected. It to the piano. A girl with red hair made him laugh, thinking of Clark and blue eyes smiled at him. This Havener and his small-town worship. was Sandra Young, and Sandra Young Then he thought of Sandra and his was included in all of Ned's thoughts heart quickened its beat. Surely and dreams and plans.
Sandra knew of his success; surely "There's a swell moon," he whisper- she could think of him as nothing but ed to her. "Let's start now and drive a great man. around some before we go home." The town was the same and the
The group at the piano, led by people in it were the same. Just be- Clark, had begun to sing. Sandra fore he reached his mother's house, shook her head, frowning a little. Ned Ned met Wayne Fields. Wayne shook grinned and turned away. He wait- hands warmly. There was to be a
By Meredith Scholl
ed a few minutes, then got his hat party to-night. Ned should come and and slipped out unnoticed.
renew his old acquaintanceships. Ned Driving home through the cool, promised, feeling that warm glow that moonlight-flooded summer night he is the result of deserved recognition. wondered bitterly at the injustice of It wasn't until after he had gone on life. Why couldn't he have been that he remembered Wayne hadn't born with some kind of talent? Why spoken of his success. wasn't there one thing he could do All the old crowd was at the party, that would excite the admiration of older, but otherwise the same. And
Clark Havener was at the young folks of Masonville?
the piano, Ned's mother was waiting up for thumping out ditties, basking in the him, as usual.
admiration of every one present. Then "You're home early, son. Why?
Is Ned saw Sandra and she him, and it Clark Havener again?"
she rushed across to meet him. Ned "There's nothing wrong with Clark, felt again that warm glow. Mother. He's smart, that's all. You "Oh, Ned, how good of you to come can't blame Sandra for her interest." to our anniversary party! How ever Mrs. Sedgewick shook her head did you know? Your mother, of gently. "Clark isn't smart, son. He course. In a minute Clark will finish was born with a little natural talent, that piece he's working on and you but nothing will come of it. He hasn't can go up and congratulate him. Oh, the initiative to develop himself. He's wish you'd been here to our wed- a small-town boy, will always be ding, I'll never forgive you for not satisfied with local glory.”
coming.
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In the months that followed, Ned Sandra ran on, and gradually the had occasion to doubt his mother's coldness that had come to Ned's soul words. · There was talk of Clark's gave way before a new warmth, an trying to get on Major Bowes' pro- amusement, a tolerance. He knew now. gramme, of his attending a dramatic He knew that here he would never be school, of his going to Hollywood. The anything but a hanger-on,
one of talk ran on and on. Clark's popular- Clark Havener's admirers. The most ity grew, and Sandra Young's admir- Important topic of conversation in ation for him grew too. Bitterly, re- Masonville would always be the pos- sentfully Ned watched her. He tried, sibility of Clark's becoming a famous unsuccessfully, to make a hero of artist. It would never be anything himself in her eyes by telling of his but talk. These people would always plans for the future, by boasting of be satisfied, because they were part what a great man he was going to be. of it. They belonged. Ned didn't. But always she only laughed and her He had never belonged. To-morrow eyes drifted to wherever Clark was he was going back where he did be- performing.
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So at last the time came for Ned to go away to the engineering school for which his mother had saved all during the years. The night before his departure he tried to see Sandra. She promised, but forgot her promise and went out with Clark instead.
During the next four years Ned, be- cause of his interest in what he want- ed to do, almost forgot about Mason-· ville. His only connection with it now were thoughts of Sandra.
She was still the goal toward which he was aiming. He always saw her on his infrequent trips home, and she was always nice to him in a patronising sort of way. But now he felt superior. There was still talk of Clark Havener's
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