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SHORT STORY SECTION
I read the answer in his frown. Ho
glowered a little, taken aback, cauti- ous, Then he moved aside and let me in,
"She's here. I'll call my wife."
So she was married. Yet despke
the staggering impact of the blow.
Os such things often are when they happen.
even this knowledge instant-
ty became of less importance than the over-whelming fact that in a oment I would see her. Perhaps she was unhappy, already regreti- ing her mistake
From another room Judy called out cheerfully in answer to lils sum-
ns: "I'll be right in!"
mons:
I said to the man: "My name in Dick Baxter. I heard from a friend
that you two were getting married. Congratulations.”
He smiled good-naturedly and we
shook hands.
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Bad Influence
In which our engaging young Audrey goes
conventional. And why? On account
menace named Christine
by JOSEPHINE BENTHAM
"I guess you know my name then,"ENE WALTON'S small and bat- tered car had been pulled to the he suggested. "Iferb Clay."
me.
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Audrey
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Nobably didn't know. But he
of a
Gene cast a mental glance over the As fut us past three or four days.
he could see, they had been blame- less. "Yeah?" he said.
"They've been sounding off," Audrey went on wearly. "Well, it seems they want me to be all pals that girl from Chicago. 1 seems with Christine Deacon-you know, they expect me to feature her they want me to take her right into the crowd!"
Gene's vague apprehension had
"Thnt so?" he said,
"Or
faded.
stiffened.
Windsors' Departure
Leave Lisbon On Voyage
To Bahamas
London, Aug. 2.
The Duke and Duchess of Wind- sor, who are on their way to the Bahamas where the Duke has been appointed Governor-General, sailed to-day on the American liner Exen- bur from Lisbon in clear, caurs weather. They dined their suite, accompanied by Capt. and Mrs. Wood, their travelling companions, radioed friends and walked round the deck with three Cairn terriers before retiring early.
The Duke and Duchess boarded Excalibur curly yesterday after an inspection of the 10 cabin suite. The- main cabins for the Duke's entour- age are surrounded by a verandah, offering maximum privacy.
A large crowd gathered to witness the departure of the Windsors who are travelling as Mr. and Mrs. Windsor and not as Capt. and Mrs. Wood as
as previously reported. They are accompanied by Capt, and Mrs. Wood, two maids, the Duke's valet. and a detective.
The Windsors
sors were silent regard-
сп
ing their schedule after arrival in New York and there is no informa- tion available locally regarding the possibility of the British Navy keep-
the Excalibur ing watch over route.
is noteworthy that London sources pointed out that the Duke is subject to seizure by Germany or italy as a war prisoner and sugges
have
been made that the British Flect, despite the American prohibition of convoys far Ainerlcan vessels, might keep watch from a distance. The
date of the Duke's arrival at
tions
Inter Nassau in not known.
lawyers differ con-
"Yes," said Mra, Reynolds. "Well, he said he liked it all right, I hadn't known it, of course, and it curb before the Reynolds' house with and he said Mrs. Deacon ilked it all flourish. Audrey right, but he said this poor kid of final rattling didn't matter much. Because sud-a desly a door opened and there stood Reynolds hind tripped down the stairs his, this Christine-she was having Judy.
und paused before the mirror in the an awful time, And then he came "O" She stopped when she saw hell for a moment, simply from forre right out point-blank and asked me possible, she was loveller of habit. Then she had said goodbye what was the matter with the young
a very bright people in his confounded town." than when I had said goodby to her. to her parents with
"Oh, dear!" said Mrs. Reynolds, At the sight of her face, I knew what forgiving smile.
"Yes. The way his daughter was it was I had been missing for so long.
bein
persecuted and ignored, he said, Mr. Reynolds and Mrs. Reynolds "Judy!" I seized her hand and at
and sime moment I notiera Clay listened. In slience, to the sound of he and Mrs. Deacon were thinking of racing engine moving right back to Chicago. Now watching us with an intent expres-banging door
Audrey course,"
added, sion. She turned away from me Shortly, with a number of loud but whether Deacon knew I had a kid
the ancient
with her hand in every doggone unidentifiable sounds, swiftly, and slied to include him, undele pulled self together and thing that happens in that high tolerantly, "I didn't argue or any
thing. I only told 'em the whole Herb and I just got back from our headed towards the movies.
Mra. Reynolds put in hastily. idea was absolutely out."
"Christine
wouldn't do for old honeymoon yesterday," she cried in And now Mr. Charles Reynolds
sald. "Or an uncertain, false voice. "And ordinarily an amiable man-turned He
Reynolds
irascibly. will know, of course. So will Mrs. Bingo Why She glanced banteringly at on
"I thought you we had been that kid!" he said. dead!"
"You tell me what's the matter with Descon. And they're going to think would shop, Gene that it's very peculiar,"
certainly the wouldn't do for A Short Story Complete in This Issue Walking up the elm-dark street at me
I couldn't tell her that I
Mr. Reynolds stared at her. "What
Cooper! Why You know It was the tone he used when he night after the library had closed...
dead, until Fifth Avenue I had "By the way," the professor said, hiking together along the bluffs by the made a belated discovery that had disclaimed any share in Audrey's do you suppose is wrong with that Bingo "B"Judili burtin is living cui lake on a September afternoon...a changed the whole world.
she'd be in general! Why, you take I couldn't haline
Norma-she'd have a fit if old Bill She has a job good-night kiss. occasionally ours
Mrs. Reynolds thought.
with Hitle, she looked back sing her lips teaching in New York City. 1 had was a strange companionship, free of tell her what was hammering aching heritage. Mrs. Reynolds was, not girl? Could you make anything at pertly well what a bad influence
"No,"
she said anally. "When Newman had anything to do who obviously wasn't half good on the scene at the dinner table.
doesn't want to answer a that giri, because you know how Bili whether from her not long ago in the petty heartachen and costasies to be told. Not thing unreasonably, a little annoyed. Pur- all of anything Audrey said?"
he's been she said she is about to be that go with collegiate love.
he'd start married."
Perhaps this difference betrayed enough but was still her husband, never asked myself if the hovering around and growing were
less than anybody I ever knew. She listening to! Right away Jealous every moment. "Married!-Judy Martin!" I showed ine.
"I didn't know I had to be tactful, just sald if a girl doesn't get by, the thinking maybe good old Medvilie alanın. Probably time might not come when Judy, my surprise and
other girls, would Went I thought you ander-Herb Professor Fulton had understood liko
had some crude idea I could ask doesn't get by--and she, Audrey, wasn't good enough for him or some- might like to go for a ride," I lied. everything all along. Anyway, he man to beg to marry her.......
We had met in a history class, and "Tho ships, you know. Have you my own daughter a simple question couldn't be held personally responsi- thing. But what I feel."heatedly tout against such a seizure when
pretty sophisticated or anything like was eyeing me when I glanced up at
the
of the British Empire seen them since the war began? The and get a simple answer. Ap- ble. But what can a sane person it's not that I mind a person being pageantry him.
our whole
Mrs. Reynolds "It's a curious thing, Baxter," he coloured
admitted, "I'm really-kind limits?" said. "Four years ago, when you und. Strange, perhaps yet more than one up together. The Queen Mary is "Isn't Judith sat across from each other in romance has flowered against the painted gray..."
"The war," she breathed. background of a single song, As for
"Yes," Mrs. Reynolds sald. "I've only had to do Modern English History, I was cer-
can win?" tain that some day you two would us, we had a genuine bond of ca- it terrible! Do you lainis England "It hadn't anything to do with you." of curious."
Ithusiasm
Fulton's for Professor
They had never seen the two largest with Christine Deacon-and whatever thought of everything and. I can't lectures, and our first kiss followed
Christine Deacon!" the matter with her?" warm discussion of the Zulu War. ships in the world died at the open in the world is the matter with her." think of anything that's wrong with We were adolescent Anglophiles, and docks along the Hudson. They did don't know," Mrs. Reynolds
thought of everything. when finally graduation day came, not have a car, and most of their old thoughtfully. "I met the child She_was_mistaken. She had not Turn to Pago 10, First Column
оп the heights
the
and hnd the day I called on Mrs.
Yet, we talked for hours beneath a certain walking was done
¡you know, Herb 110th
Even Street.
Deacon. And she was very attrae Charles gone on de- tree and I gave Judy an ardently.
up as we went out to my tive, I thought." Inscribed copy of A.E. Housman's "A perked
in Pulling mysel
his roadster.
"Well, it's downright mortifying!" bating the problem for for him; Shropshire Lad," poems of England
I felt a little sorry which seemed lo express all the idea- shoes,
posed
to say to Deacon--the next have come to the truth
of Qie matter listic folly, the herole youthfulness of Judy was doing her best to reassure Mr. Reynolds said. "What an 1 sup- years, they would not what we had shared.
Audrey, in the mean- him all the time. She took his arm time I see him?"
"I really don't know, darling." and divided her chatter equally.
feli Judy tremble us I thought
And they brooded again in silence, time, had settled back
"Well" Gene he The Deacons were newcomers to in the car.
nonchalantly.
"When's she getting married?" demanded.
Reverting to the academte manner,
he adjusted his glasses leisurely and rummaged through his desk drawer, Anally pulling oul a typewritten letter with a neat, graceful signature which I recognized at once.
"She didn't say exactly," he an- swered. "Sometime this month- June' is all she saya.”
a
There was a wild pumping in my that heart,
tingling sensation
As charged through my entire body. quickly as possible I got out of the oflee, but not before 1 had copied the return address on Judy's letter.
It was then the fliteenth of June. already, Perhaps she was married But again, perhaps the wedding had no: yet taken place, and there night
still
aga.
1
"It was your quarrel," she remind-Action she can talk more and say talls for about any line
ed him. And I must say you didn't handle it very tactfully, Charles."
relationship. Queen Mary and the Normandie tiedparently I was eded to be sooth. Make out of thatan
ing. His feelings were really hurt Reyn from everything else," Mr. that, but what I feel is-aren't there
above
she assured him.
"What
She
"My Cather and
Then Judy went to her home in Arkansas, while 1 headed cast for
1 sal down beside her in the car. 1 Clay was New York.
That was the way it had been and know I was trembling. it i was four long, hard-working years about to take his place on the other Medville. As a family, Mr. Reynaldı
I knew, vaguely that she was side of her when he paused on the thought, they were a decided agent to Ka
the community, Mrs. Reynolds was "What's new in your g
girls' college probably curb,
Reynolds teaching in
Are mother," she said. "Cigarettes," he mutiered apole planning to introduce Mrs. Deacon to life?" Audrey sighed.
to introduce
Mrs. making more money than I was. But
was planning not until a degree of success came getically, "Can you wait a minute? the bridge club, and Mr. Rey
and I had leisure to look ll be right back." my way. be chance...
Could we wail! As soon as he had Deacon. Audrey alone held plent
the general concord.
WHA If I could find her in tine, talk to around, did I make my discovery. It her. I knew I could make her under swept over me one Spring day on gone I turned and stared down at from
Deacon, And this. he stand. Remembering what had been Fifth Avenue, like a warm intoxicat- Judy's lovely oval face, in darkness would have nothing to do between us. Judy could not this to ing breeze: I wanted to marry Judy beside me, I could smell her hair Christine
thing. prior claim, the right- Martin. She would be the best wife near my check. Her eyes were wide, parents thought, was an astonishing recognize the
"What did Mr. Deacon say, exact. ness of that discovery which, after a man could ever find, the only one her hips halt parted. I grasped one
slender hand-it was cold. four unthinking years, had sent me for me
"Judy, daring!" And because itly?" Mrs. Reynolds asked at Inst.
the silence. "Tell back at last to this midwestern cam.
roo late...Too late..." I could seemed the most important question breaking
100 pus looking for her.
My discovery, of course, was that never forgive myself for the in the world, I asked: "Judy, did you calmly dear."
"Well, as I told you." Mr. Reynolds Judith Marun-idealistic, honest, reoccupied blindness of those four love me-once?"
I felt her draw away a little, but said, "Deacon come to the office to lovely Judy would make the best years, yet even when I stopped my
then, naturally, wife a man could have.
roadster outside the address on 123rd her eyes were honest, tender and discuss some leases and one thing and nsked him how he liked it here in Sho might even understand why Street, I felt a surge of condence they lifted full on mine. "Yes," she another. And had taken me so long to realize this; that I would not be too late.
And that was all that happened, Medville and how it seemed to live in something that I couldn't understand,
The apartment building was a large gravy, one with softly-lighted windows because we heard Clay on the side in small place like this after living pression and the mental confusion of the kind of place escupied by walk then and he was practically in a big place like Chiengo."
myself, now, I blamed it on the de-
a young man fighting for a foothold
whispered,
in New York Dad hope desperately Judy was lucky. She didn't
that a miracle might happen:
From the quiet college town and its campus, alive with memories of friendship that had been rarer, deeper
even than jove, to New York City,
have to
answer "Yes" or "no"-another word
which had given me little for all solved her love problem twice as neatly
had taken away, was a distance of a
thousand miles. Though I had left New York only three days before,
thinking that Judy still taught school
by ROBERT N. COOL
somewhere in the Middle West, I cut students and younger faculty mem- running. It had taken courage to go short
my visit and started back bers from the nearby colleges. It after those cigarettes.
clearer Immediately
The atmosphere become was just after eight o'clock on a It was not easy to picture Judy at Sunday evening. I had paused only after that though my brain raced with an address on West 123rd Street long enough to shower and shave and a hundred mad ideas. Judy relapsed near the Drive. I kept remembering put on fresh clothes before racing out into her artificially-gay, ager tone, her in Professor Fulton's classroom. the Drive. I found the apartment and no one could tell what she was There we had met as Freshmen, when number which had been on Judy's really thinking. We drove down the I traced a mounting Interest in letter to Professor Fulston, Eagerly express highway and saw the shipa. medieval land laws, to its rightful Islammed the knocker. source a neat copper-blond head of hair,
creamy skin,
A young man opened the door. and a pair of friendly blue eyes bright with honest Even in that vanic-stricken moment intelligence, Judy had all the beauty I seized the desperate hope that
We talked about the war, and wo drove up Eighth Avenue and hack oul. to 123rd Street, Clay was a college instructor in Chemistry, I found
He was doing his best to set normally one cigarette after another.
any girl of nineteen has a right to, the five with his blond mustache. but his voice was light and he smoked
something more
on small fellow
slightly-alarmed
integrity of spirit that made her and. friendship scem greater than another couldn't ha woman's deepest affections. I know
2
expression he was madly in love with Judy and
prepared to suspect the worst.
I'm afraid I wasn't very pollte.
this because I had actually fallen in "Jullith Martin," I said hoarsely. and out of love with several girls, "old school friend, Does the live while I worshipped Judy.
here?"
Determined to make our parting as casual as possible, I walked up (Continued In Column Saven).
MA
3
"Oh, sure." Gene said, hastily. "Sure there are."
She looked at him, doubtfully, out did of the corner of her outfully
not really like to discuss a member
cerning whother German submarines might conceivably make out a caso In International Law of halting the Excalibur and demonding that tho
handed over. Duke and Duchess of Windsor bo exact pre- They have found an
on American Federal warship slopped the British steamer Trent during the and took off. Confederate Commissioners Mason and Slidell, who were going to England, but the American Government Jater backed down and surrendered the prisoners, On the other hand, the practice of eizing people aboard neutral ships persisted for several hundred years without an effective protest by neutrals, although representation har
ways been made.
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The Bahamas ore making elaborate preparations to instal the Duke Governor-General when he arrives In the middle of this month.
The social and official title of the American born Duchess, who has nover been granted Royal distinction, will be defined by the Colonial Secretary in London-United Press.
with them to the door of the apart- ment house. Very soon I would meet
Juay at the private school where she taught, and we could see each other alone.
"Well, so long," I said to Clay. "Thanks for the ride, Baxter," he growled. "See you again."
cd
Judy was looking at us. She seem- frozen in the darkness, like a
statuc.
"Goodby, Judy," I said carelessly, turning to go down the walk.
And then something froze in me, too for she answered softly, yet clear enough so that her words were dagger-plain; "Goodby-Fred. Good- by."
I stopped. They had gone on Into the passageway, but I heard Clay exclaiming in an excited tone: "You called him Fred! I thought his name was Dick Baxter."
"Oh, heavens!" she giggled, "What will he think? Do you know, I had completely forgotten who he was]" I didn't have to calch Clay's de lighted chuckle to know his surprised relief, Potential tragedy had been transformed by a mere name into a pleasant, even slightly embarrassing, joke between husband and wife.
And the name,
I knew the instant I heard it that all was over. As I started the car I was remembering something four years gone. Not Judy, but a versa of Housmann's a single quatrain from "A Shropshire Lad," the book:I had given her on graduation day,
It went this way:
The better man she walks with
Though now, 'tis not with Fred: A lan that lives and has his will Is worth a dozen dead
So I no longer existed-could exist for Judy Martin. The sharp finall- ty of that did burt, a lot. But at least I knew now that I bad bben right about one thing: Judy, Martin; would make a wonderful wife,
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