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MUTT AND JEFF

YOU SEE, BEATRICE, IT'S Ą NEW GAME I MADE UP! I STAND ON THIS CHAIR BY THE DOORWAY, WE TURN OUT THE LIGHT.

AND I KISS YOU-

IS THAT ALL THERE IS TO IT?

OH NO!ILL EXPLAIN THE GAME AS WE GO ALONG! NOW TURN BUT THE LIGHT

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ARY LATHROP came along the beach toward the cove and stop- 1.ped behind a clump of shrubbery. Be yond the shrubbery a man and a girl were sitting on a log near the water's edge. The man had taken the girl in his arms and was kissing her...

Mary caught her breath sharply. The man was Burt, her husband. The woman was Gyshla Seymore, the exciting young divorcee.

Mary's impulse was to break through the shrubbery, screaming, and tear Gyshia Seymore's platinum hair out by the roots. Instead she turned and re- traced her steps along the beach, blind- ly, trying hard to blink the tears from her eyes. After awhile the fit of cry ing passed, but misery dwelt in her heart, misery and bitterness.

She knew now that nothing could change the situation that had develop- ed the first year after their marriage. She had, of course, been a fool to be. Heve that things could be different here at Topper's Camps for Adults and Children. Burt hadn't wanted to come at first; she had prevailed upon him by arguing that a month in the woods was what a growing boy like Bobbie needed.

was tired and heartsick and indiffer- ent in a way that Burt or his friends At hour later wouldn't understand. when Burt came in he found her asleep and woke her rudely, boisterously, rumpling her hair, laughing. She open- -ed her eyes and looked at him without smiling and closed thêm again. Burt stared, and suddenly his face became grave.

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"Say, look, honey, are you sick?. 1 mean, you look like the devil. Should I get a doctor, or something?”

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Mary didn't answer, and after moment Burt rushed from the cabin in search of a doctor.'.

The doctor took Mary's temperature and her pulse and his face wore a trou- bled frown.

"There's nothing organically wrong," he told Burt. He looked at him a "She needs moment, searchingly, cheering. up."

Left alone, Burt; hauled, up a chair. Cheering up. How did you go about cheering up a person when you didn't feel cheerful and there was an irritat ing fear in your heart?..

"Say, look, honey, buck, up.

be sick. Give a fellow you can't smile."

Hope had lived in her heart. Hope

If Mary heard she gave no sign. Burt that Topper's would be different, that stared around the cabin. He saw Bob- here she and Burt would find each bie standing in the doorway, his young

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other again. But Topper's wasn't dif- eyes wide and frightened. ferent. Most of the fifty odd guests Come over here. Your mother's Bick were divorced women who wanted to Look, Mary, here's Bobbie. Say some- shift the responsibility of caring for thing to her, Bobble." their children onto a paid counsellor's Bobbie began to cry. Mary opened shoulders while they sought-new con- her eyes, but she didn't look at Bob- quests. Topper's was the same as bie. She looked at Burt. She didn't Bridle Beach and Ocean Bluffs and smile. She closed her eyes again. No

"We'll Burt took Robbie outside. everywhere else they had gone. place was different, Mary thought mis let her sleep. That's what she needs, erably, where there were people. sleep. Stop crying, kiddo.” Bobbie It wasn't fair, she told herself wret returned to the beach and Burt went to chedly, not when you were in love with the lodge. His face was troubled, the your husband, Men and other women grave. He sat down alone on took advantage of a loyal, loving wife. porch. Gyahia Seymore saw him there. They condemned you if you objected to and tiptoed quietly away.

Toward dark, Burt returned to the am your husband's flirting. You weren't a cabin and knelt down beside the bed.

good sport. You had to smile and pre- tend indifference, and if it broke your heart to do so, that was just too bad.

Of course there was no rule to pre- vent you from carrying on an affair with some other man, but what did the rules say when there was no other man "Yes," he cried eagerly. "For him. who interested you, when you wanted. Your son. You can't. let. the kid your husband and your child and B down!" home?

A faint smile crossed her lips. She The camp with its twenty bungalow closed her eyes again, and she thought: cabins and log lodge was deserted when There is a rule, after all, a rule to Mary approached. She could hear combat the other rules that are de Bobbie's shrill cries coming from the signed to make a woman unhappy."'! beach. But she didn't turn that way. She sighed deeply, contentedly. Pence Instead, she went to her bungalow and crept over her. Peace at last. Com lay down, feeling miserable and un- plate and lasting pence. It was, ahe happy, and alone.

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"Mary, look at me. Mary, for gosh's sake, you can't die! You've got to get better. For Bobbie's sake, Mary, Think of Bobbie!"

"Bobbie?" she said softly, looking at him.

She couldn't smile and act indiffer- tried so very hard and failed. ent any longer. She just couldn't. She (Copyright, 1988, By The Associated had been doing that for six years, Newspapers); laughing and making wise cracks and appearing not to notice whenever Burt was indulging in one of his allegedly harmless flirtations. Everyone thought she was a swell sport. They admired her; but they didn't offer sympathy; they didn't condemn Burt... It wasn't fair. She couldn't go on.

"But what am I going to do?" she thought miserably, “What alternatiye law there 1. What 5 rule (iny offered for people who aren't callous or fast smart, but merely human?”

Mary closed her eyes. Suddenly

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