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Peggy decided that Jim Hibbard was Quite a few. I'm telling you this, be- like something you read about. He cause I can't lie to you. "I've got to be was. good-looking and rich and roman- honest and tell you the truth.” tic. He was tender and thoughtful and・・ "And make a martyr. of yourself. endearing. He danced divinely and You know that lying would do no good, noticed your clothes and remembere because I'd find out. So you seize the to have flowers-sent. He said things chance to make yourself out a hero." to flatter your vanity, little things thac He seized her hand. “Darling, that a girl likes to hear,

isn't so! I love yqui... Dear God, I love you! Oh, don't you see how hard it's going to be for me to prove to you that I mean it?”~

There was only one hitch. It was something Erla Davenport mentione. in a casual round about way.

"Jim's fun. We all thought he was fun."

"Really, darling. Don't tell me. I'm that far down on the list.”

She hesitated, because he seemed so deadly in earnest, and he was so hand- some and had so completely won her heart. But she remembered Erla's warning and her cool confidence.

Erla made a business of counting on her fingers. "Number eight. Yes, "I believe you, Jim. I think you that's right. First, there was Marie, mean all that. You make yourself then Kay, then Janet and then, worse mean it, as you have so many times be- luck, me."

fore. Those other women aren't fools. "How awful! Tell me, darling, 'how They must have thought you believed does one exit-gracefully, I mean, it too. No, Jim, that isn't enough. when, one gets bored ?"

"One doesn't”. Erla said lightly. "He does."

Your record's against you. I don't in- tend to run the risk of suffering what those others suffered.”

Erla's warning had come almost too

He was pleading now, frantic, “Dar- Inte. Just last night Peggy had decid- ling, for God's sake, don't! Can't you ed she loved him. They had talked va- see it was never the same with the guely, of running away together. Than others? Can't you see you're different, goodness he had wanted to wait until that this is the real thing? I love you! to-day to complète their plans.

I'll never stop loving you? How can

She wondered momentarily just how you be so cruel? Do I deserve this much Erla knew. I was à little fri- because of a few harmless affairs with ghtening to think that she and Marie other women? Losing the only girl and Kay and all the others had been who ever meant anything to me? The

By Meredith Scholl

so much aware of this that was happen- one girl in all the world who can make. ing. Fear gave way to resentment be me happy?"

cause they had waited until now, until She stood up, because she could not this crucial moment, to warn her. Wo- bear to hear more, because her heart men are like that. Women who have was breaking. suffered like to see others suffer from "No, Jim!". It's over! Finished! I the same cause..

couldn't be satisfied with a man-with Even so, Peggy decided, the task that your record!”. lay ahead wasn't going to be easy. She She did not know when he turned had allow herself to love Jim Hib- away. She heard the door open and bard quite pletely. It was going to close. She turned then, and tears were bo hard forgetting him. She wondered in her eyes. And her heart was sud- whether she could ever completely put denly empty and it seemed that never him from her mind. These past few again, could she be the same, flever geeks had been so glorious. Men as happy or gay and laughing. romantic as Jim Hibbard were rate in- * Outside, Jim Hibbard sighed heavily. "deed, and a woman needs romance. Then he squared his shoulders

and

She was prepared when he called for stepped briskly, along the street, He her that night. She knew, and not was thinking that to-morrow night he without a little thrill, that her attempts could go to Hal Eston's party after all. to look lovelier and more alluring than Hal was having a cousin of his from ever on this, their last, evening to the west. A beauty, according to all gether, had not been futile.

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A smile played about Jim's lips. The "You're gorgeous! May I kiss you!" prospect pleased him. A new conquest. He was like that. He asked if he A new affair. Girls from the west, he might kiss her, knowing that she was was told, loved romance. Well, he was as eager as he, but knowing too how it just the boy who knew how to be suaved her pride to be asked:

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She smiled, but did not come into his (Copyright, 1989, by arms. “Wouldn't, that be ironic ??!

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Instantly he sensed that something was wrong. He stared at her a long time, searching her mind. She was proud of her ability to remain inscrut able, in command of the situation. Slowly he said: "I don't think I quite understand."

She gestured. “Oh, Jim, what's the use of going ont. We've had fun. Let's part friends. “The

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