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Deserved Happiness

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on

Al Cramson knew that there was Celina's, brother had returned from a Phil had come home only one cure for this malady that had year spent on the coast and called at afflicted him: To put Celina Osgood out her apartment.

the of his mind for good, and, most of all, drunk and in an ugly mood... He had

them sitting together to put the leering, brutal face of Phil seen

Too drunk to recognize his Osgood, her husband, out along with it. divan. He wondered now as he had wondered brother-in-law, believing him to be Al, so many times in the past two months he had secured a gun and shot in a

Then he fit of insane fury. why she had married him. remembered the Phil Osgood he had

Al's own name stared back at him Chaotic thoughts known in college; a four letter man, from the page.

Phil had president of his class, voted the man tumbled through his mind. most likely to succeed. Al had envied him then.

Now he knew Osgood's known, had suspected all along. What fools he and Celina had been to believe Pity, He had

him innocent of their love! popularity was a hazard. been too sure of himself, and had gone

Now she needed him more than ever, down hill fast; liquor had lubricated longing to be of help, tore at his heart. the barrier that lay be his toboggan ride.

yet now The tragedy was that he had taken tween them was more insurmountable Celina with him. She had married than ever, for now her duty to Phil him five years ago, carried away by would be a shackling chain. his swaggering confidence. She harn't loved him. Al knew that now. But

honest.

Yet she needed someone. Thank God

happened.

he knew also that she was proud, and he had not gotten away before this

She had made the mistake, of marrying him; she would him no matter what.、

stick by

Al Andrews looked shocked when yelled at him. Minutes later the coupe drew up before the apartment That was why he must shut her out house where Celina and Phil lived. A of his mind. Two months ago he had few people were in the street outside. come across them in a night club. His More crowded the corridors, astonishment at discovery of what had formed officer grabbed Al by the arm happened to Phil was surpassed only as he rushed inside. by Celina's acceptance of it and in-.

A uni-

"The chief difference to it. Gradually: he had "Let go!" he yelled.

And before the startled learned that that acceptance and in- sent me!".

What lay patrolman's eyes, he leaped away and difference was a mask, beyond the mask, what feeling his own took the stairs in bounds.

By Meredith Scholl

appearance might have stirred in her breast he could only guess at. he, had loved her.

Someone was coming out of the the “Al brushed past Once apartment: She knew this. officer on guard and went inside. He And he suspected if he had plighted saw Celina, dry-eyed, dazed, alone on Men were in the room. as had Phil the divan.

bedroom his troth as earnestly

a Beyond, through the open Osgood there might have been

door, he saw something that brought chance.

home the horror of what had hap- Now again he had hope, but the pened. hope died because he remembered her honesty, remembered that she not the type avade an obligation. The He thought made him miserable. loved her. He had always loved her. There would never be another. Reali- zation of what she was suffering be- cause of Osgood seared his soul. Yet he knew, with a devastating hopeles- more unob ness, that she was now tainable than ever..

was "Darling!" he cried.

her hand and held stared at him dully, cleared; a curious into them,

He picked up She it tight.

Slowly her eyes brightness came

"Al! You camé. knew and yet you came?

After

you

'He had He knew what she meant. his name, his reputation to think of. This had not occurred to him before.

"Of course I came. I want to help. Anything, anything at all."

And so Al reached his decision. He would go away, The farther the better. There was no alternative. Comforting was the thought that she

"She shook her head slowly. "There's would admire and respect-him for it. Osgood was a fool. He did not suspect nothing anyone can do now. Not even what lay between his wife and his old I. I thought as long as he had me

He must never there was a chance he might, straigh- · college “classmate.

he's beyond my suspect it. If he did, it would mean ten around. Now.

for help." more suffering, more misery Celina.

Puzzled, Al stared at her. "Who?” What's happened Al Cramson cleared affairs at his he asked gently. office, made arrangements to visit the to Phil?"" Paris representative of the business he had built up from a shoestring,

She looked at him a moment; pre

and started home to his apartment to sently understanding that he didn't "He shot himself — when pack. Outside at the curb Andrews know, was waiting with the car. He bought he found it was Tod and not you he'd an evening paper from his regular murdered... boy and stepped into the automobile. Idly, as Andrews. skilfully threaded the smart coupe through the five- "o'clock traffic, his eyes scanned the -headlines. And suddenly, he became

rigid

Brother of wife mistakenly mur,

AV usband!!! dered, by Jealous

He felt eyes-raced down the page. the blood leaping through his veins.

Al's hands were suddenly cold. Then slowly he draw her toward him. He pressed her head against his shoulder

Find Suthanksgiving, surged galler through his blood Now after all this, he could take care of her, give her the happiness-she, deserved.

(Copyright, 1988, By The Associated Newspapers)