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A Tremendous Lie

NATURALLY Luke Miller didn't Sue. remained the same.

about Frank. I doubt that too stubborn to yield."

Both were

if he had known that Sue and Frank

I happened to be on the beach the were just over quarreling and break ing off their engagement it would have day Frank tried his hand at surf board riding Now, Frank is abt an expert mattered.

swimmer, nor given to taking chances and being reckless. It flashed across my mind when I saw him skidding along on that surf board back of the speed-bout that he was being fool- hardy. He tried every conceivable trick he could think of, and at last he It kind of sickened us the way he ac- tumbled off. cepted Sue. He acted as though she

Luke gave you the impression of getting what he wanted, and he want ed Sue. He was rugged and tall and amooth-looking. He had a way with

women.

ought to feel lucky for getting so much. No one would have become excited, attention from him. If you stopped but the very moment that Frank took to think about it it wasn't hard to un- his spill the speedboat driver became 'derstand. Sue had just broken off interested in something up ahead. He her engagement with Frank West and didn't see Frank fall, and it dawned on right now she wanted more than any- me with a sense of shock that Frank

good enough swimmer thing an opportunity to show Frank wasn't a and everybody else that it hadn't made reach shore. a bit of difference to her.

to

A lot happened in the next few mo- Luke offered her that opportunity. ments. The thing that had attracted Where the rest of us would have hesi- the driver's attention was the fin of a tated to asks her to go out because we shark. Sharks frequently came in liked her and we liked Frank, Luke had close; two had been reported near by just landed in Miami and was in the within the past fortnight. I jumped dark about it.

up with a yell, conscious that Sue also was on her feat, running toward the I never did know the details of the water, screaming. quarrel between Sue and Frank. That didn't matter. What did matter was I managed to catch her just before that they were both sore as boils at she dived in, and held on. A crowd

By Richard Hill Wilkinson

each other and they were both atub had gathered out of thin air,The speed- born and it looked as though a swell boat had returned and was swerving in romance was going on the rocks for toward Frank. The shark's fin appear- keeps. Luke Miller made it looked above the surface within a few worse. He, was so darned conceited feet of where Frank was struggling. and suro of himself and without

Then I was aware that someone, scruples. You could see he wasn't ca- pable of loving any woman, because who had been standing close to Sue, he loved himself too much.

listening to her screaming at Frank, had plunged through the waves and There was little that I or anyone was heading out. That someone was but it didn't stop me Luke Miller Luke was a powerful

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else could do and the fact in I pro- swimmer; there is no doubt that he

from wishing, bably would have tried something if risked his own life to save Frank's. a curious thing hadn't happened. Luke ·

forgot himself enough to fall for Sue. With the help of the speedboat driver, Frank was hauled overside.

It was hard to believe, but never- Luke clambered in after him and the. theless obvious. I know because I boat headed for shore. They laid happened to be atanding beneath a Frank down on the sand, and Sue palm on the terrace of the Oleander knelt beside him, weeping and saying Hotel the night of the Beach club dance all sorts of crazy things. A few foot and they came out and stood near away Luke Millor stood by and watch- me. I heard what they said, and there ed, and his face was inscrutable. But wasn't any mistaking the sincerity in when Frank finally oponed his eyes Luke's voice.

and Sue bont and kissed him and he

It had mo worried. A man as con- held her close, Luke turned away as coited as Luke would be dangerous in though he couldn't stand any more. love, especially if the girl didn't ro. Suo told me the final scone of this turn that love. And Suo wasn't. Oh, little drama. After she made sure she was nice enough to him, but there Frank was O.K. she went in search of was something about her attitude Lake. She made no bonos about what that told him and me as plain as day she had to say. She told him that If that she couldn't ever think of him the he still wanted her she would marry way he wanted her to. It was some him. She made a swell job of getting thing that defled description. Some-

over the idea that she had always thing dotached, and very much a68d wanted a man as brave and strong and "ciated with Frank West, At least handsome as Luke.ge

that's the way I figured It, sticking to

the opinion despite Sue's emphatic And Luke laughed. He hot only donunciation of poor Frank avery laughod, but he sneered. Did she think chance she got.

Well, the winter wore

one wanted to marry hor? Why,

chango came over. Luko Millor.

he'd been only amusing himself. Sho any different than dozens of was with Suo as much as she would other girla ho know. Good fun and allow, which was often. Ho soomed all that, but forget the marriage stuff. to have lost some of his confidence And Luke went away and left her. and bibcamo lesz a braggadocio. There Sue looked after him, nothing but gra- Was a look of bewilderment in his face, titude and admiration in hor heart bo- coupled with dufiance. Someone. I cause he had told for that tremendous felt should tell him about Frank The logo

way things stood, he was dangerous. (Copyright, 1989, By The Associated

The situation between Frank and: Newspapers)