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SERIAL STORY-
SILKEN SPINDLES
by Laura Lou Brookman
MEGIN DERE TO-DAY
GALE HENDERSON, pretty and 19, works 10-year-did ilik mill and ber brother, PHIL, support their Invalid father. STEVE MEYERS, who also works in the milli, maka tale to marry him. She pro mers to give him an answer in a few days. Later that evening Gale goes skating on the load la Lhe river, goes through rescued by URIAN WESTMONE,, whose father, now dend, built the mili. Brian sakı Gule to walt while he gels his ear but when he returns she is gone.
Belen has come home after two yeary in 'aria convinced ho can - never be an and rager to go to: work in the mul VICKY TILATCHER, daughter of ROBERT THATCHER, general manager of the mill, achines to captivate Brian.
Brian see Cale in the milt and recognise her. Haxt evening ha aske har if he can walk home with her. Gale refuson bu! Stave aere her talking to Drian. Blevy to Jemloca and he and Gais querra).
Lonely, she goes skaling again. Drin suddenly appears and sayı, "I was hoping to find you here."
CHAPTER XV
Hand in hand, Gale and Brian West- more skated up the river. The click of steel runners on ice was like all- very music, Ahead the mirror smooth surface of the river glistened Atar-lit pathway against abony shadows. Wind brushed against them, cold, invigorating. Gale, matching Jung strokes to those of the young man beside her, was caught by tho spell of the rhythm. She felt excited and warm and very much' alive.
She turned her head and saw that Brian was looking down at her. "Why did you do it?" ho asked.
"Do what?"
"Why did you run away the other. night when you said you'd wait?" changed my mind," Gale told
him.
"And you've run away from me twico since at the mill I thought
I was never going to see you.”
He could not see, in the darkness, how her cheeks had crimsoned. "I couldn't talk to you at the mill," she sald. "I couldn't walk home with you."
"Why not?"
"Because you're Brian Westmore, one of the owners, and I'm-just one of your employes."
"What difference doos that make?" "It makes all the difference in the world."
The click of steel runners was like silvery music. Gale felt
excited, warm and very much alive.
"That's nonsense," he said abruptly. her body swaying to the rhythm of "Nothing but nonsense."
those gliding strokes. She wanted to "Oh, no, inn't. It's the way go on- things are, that's all. You saved my It was Brian who broke the spell. life the other night and I'll never "Cold?" he asked, looking down at forget it. I'll never be able to thank her anxiously. You'
"One way might be not to run overy time you see me coming."
Sho Inughed. She hadn't meant to, but there was something in the| way he said that made it very funny.
"I want to talk to you," Brinn went en. "I want to know lots of things about you-your name, for instance."
"Gale Henderson." "Nice name," he answered. "Gale yes, it suits you. And you're about 19 years old
"No, I'm not cold."
"Son.ething hot would be good for you, though. There's a place a couple of blocks from here where we can
et coffee and sandwiches."
"I'd rather not," Gale told him. "But you'll get chilled. I don't want you to hurry away like you did the other night. I want to talk to you. A cup of coffee"
"I can't go with you," Gale said, "but I'll tell you what you might do. If you'll build a fire we could sit and talk for a little while,"
Twenty-three," she told him. "What?" He appeared startled. "Good! Over there by that bend "As old as that? My, my, how time looks like a good place, don't you doen go on! So you're 23 years old, think?" He swung her toward the And you work in the silk mill and shore. "Careful. Better let me ge you don't like men who come pester- ahead" ing around, asking to walk home with you-"
▼
Once again Brian gathered leaves
and dead branches and presently the knife-like flames were leaping and
He was teasing and she knew it. twisting, sending up an wavering gray Somehow he didn't seem to be Brian ribbon of smoke.
Westmore, owner of the mill, any There was a log for Gale to sit on. lunger. He was just a young man She said, smiling, "This is just like with a pair of dark eyes that laughed the other night-only lots nicer. For ttt you, demanding to be laughed at one thing, I'm not soaking wet and in return-a young man who was an I haven't just been fished out of an uncommonly good skater, whose long, lee bath."
Hare strokes carried Gala on against "Nit-wit that I am" Brian ex- the wind, cheeks glowing, eyes bright, claimed, "I haven't even asked if you hur heart beating that Incessant caught cold."
tattoo.
"I didn't," she told him. "I got "You're an awfully good skater," into dry things and went to bed and he told her.
woke up next morning feeling first "Not as good as you are. I'll bet rate."
"You certainly, look it right now," you can cut spirals and fancy figures."
"I used to be able to when I was he and admiringly. "First ratel"
cho akid," he said. "Tve probably for- She couldn't help noticing gotten how now. Every winter I warmth of his tone. And being 23 always think of this river and the and under the spell of the night, the
bloom fun I used to have here."
on her cheeks brightened "You're really going to stay at and her eyes, when she raised them, | held a starry light. Her voice, home now?”
"Yea. Didn't I tell you that the though, was casual." ether night?"
She said, "Look-that branch has "You said you wanted to get a burned in two" job."
Brian busied himself with the fire. I've got one-in the nili. Oh, it "You're a queer girl," he said, "but, Isn't much of a job, I guess they're like you. Maybe that's why I like afraid to trust me because there's you. You're different from anyone I no much I've got to learn yet. You know—” know I envy you!"
"You envy me?"
Suddenly the words broke off. He He nodded. "Yea, because you know was staring at her. I've seen you' he said with convletion. what it's all about, I wanted to start before,"
in the way any beginner would, but "Somewhere. I don't mean hero the Thatcher didn't seem to like the den. other night, or at the mill. It was He said I should learn the business somewhere else." He paused, frown- and first. He's right, I suppose-but Ing. "I have seen you-haven't it?" I know I'd like the other a lot better. "Maybe." She smiled at him, a
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"I don't think it was here," Brian mnchincs-"
"It's no plenle," Galo assured him.went on slowly. "And I can't remem- "No, I suppose not. But I'd kober the place, but I've certainly seen: to try it just the same. I'd like to you. It couldn't have been-no-" work at Bomething, instead of altting flo sat back, studying her. "Where at a desk and reading papers and try was it?" he demanded.
ing to get through my head what
other people are talking about.”
Gale looked up quickly to sco if
"Professor Felamier's class." "Trofessor Felamier-1"
"Yes. History VI, I believe it was.
he was Joking now. He wasn't ap-Tuesday and Thursday mornings at
parontly.
She said, "Maybe we ought to turn back now."
"If you want to," he agreed.
They swung around in a broad are. The wind was behind them, so that they moved almost affortlessly. Only
10:30. You eat in the second row from the front and I was three neats back, across the aisle."
"You were at State?" - "Yes."
"Why didn't you tell me 7" "Why should I?"
Brian was staring at her. “Listen,
the sound of the runners, the click-I don't get this," he said. "You were ellek of stol on ice, broke the still-at State when I was there and now nesh. Overhead the sky was a span you're here, working in the silk aled tapestry, blue-black woven with mill-"
The girl nodded. “I had to quit,” stors.
Ball. "Two years ago. My Suddenly the majesty of the night she was overwhelming. Galo foit the father worked in the mill and he was could not mucak. She wanted to gilde taken sick. He hasn't been able to on like this. On and on. With the do anything since I thought I was wind whispering over her shoulder, going to be a teacher when I went and bar hands in Brian Westmore's away to school, but there weren't any
jobs so I took what I could get."
Both of them were silent a mo. ment. Then Brlan sald, "We're in the same boat--for different reasons, I thought I could be an artist, but
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have slayed as long as I have." "Yes," Gale said. "You-do.
Brian began tramping out the fire, Their eyes met and held. Brinu "All right," he said, "we'll go. But. Westmore said slowly, "I think you're I want you to promise me something, swell, Gale. I think you're the Promise you'll meet me here to swellest girl I've met in a long timal" morrow night"
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