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MUTT AND JEFF

CIOBRO, KOSM«BURNT IS- COMING FOR DINNER AND. I WANT YOU TO SHOW HER WHAT A GOOD BOY YOU ARE }, DON'T FORGET YOUR MANNERS!

O.K. MOM!

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TECHNIQUE

Dan Whitney knew nothing about without telling her. I'm going to tell female technique. He had never had her." And he did,, standing beneath time to think of modern ways of court a palm tree with the moon gliding up breeze ship; had been too busy struggling out of the ocean and a warm for an education and later. fighting his off the Gulf stream rattling the fronds

and lucrative overhead. way to a 'responsible position with the John Talley Invest-

Charity's heart stopped beating, then ment Bankers. He was, the day he landed in Miami for the first vacation began again in a wild ecstasy of joy. under control. ho had ever known, as innocent as a But she kept herself

She thought: "I' mustn't yield too babe in the woods,

readily. I must act surprised and put Otherwise, he'll lose infer- Charity Temple, watching Curt Put him off. nam thread his way across the floor of est and regret having asked me." And

Beach

"Goodness! club with Dan aloud the Golden

she said: Whitney in tow, suddenly stopped take a girl's breath away, mister. Just With no warning or 'any- talking and stared at Dan and was like that,

You can't expect me

to any conscious for the first time in her sop thing.

That histicated life of a genuine pang. yes without thinking it over. Unexpectedly and quite without rea- sort of thing happens only in books."

"This man is son her heart said:

Dan's lips twisted into a smile and real. He's the first genuine person I've ever known, He's the man I'm his heart was bitter. He understood. She was being kind, letting him down going to marry.”

easy. He was grateful to her, but it He felt

returned

You

to

And Dân, looking down into her eyes, didn't allay his suffering. wished fervently that he had devoted dead inside. He wondered if he would a little less time to securing an educa- ever come to life again,

The next day he tion and making nooney and a little more to studying women and learning Philadelphia without seeing her again. their ways, For Dan found himself He thought the thing over logically speechless and embarrassed, and the and sensibly. This wasn't the end of thought occurred to him that she must the world. think him an awful fool. He was would go on. He could forget. He would sure of only one thing: every instinct, forget. every fiber of his being told him that of him. this girl with the titian hair and blue, slanting eyes had affected him pro- foundly, that he had fallen in love with geances

Things would go on.

He

There was a lifetime ahead

So he tackled his work with a ven- And when he wasn't work-

By Richard Hill Wilkinson

her and would never love anyone else. ing he saw

:

people. He attended theatres and parties and played hand- Charity, looking up, thought: "He ball and squash. He never allowed doesn't see me at all. I've not made himself an idle moment.

Never allow- the least impression. He's not even ed his mind to drift into dangerous interested enough to make casual con- channels. A week passed and he was versation. But I won't give up. I'm sure he was forgetting. It was

now, like a dream. glad now that I've learned all there is being him to know about men. They say I have wasn't thinking of her any more. He'd a wonderful technique. I'll make him say to himself: "I'm thinking of her love me."

Things are the same again I'm So the days passed, and Dan inflicted happy. There's a long life ahead and

it's going to be a good one.” himself upon Charity Temple as much

now.

all- He

as he dared. Only by the greatest self- And then came a day when he for- rastraint did he keep from following got he had theatre tickets for the her: about like a faithful dog.. He evening and he returned alone to his thought: "She isn't the type who apartment. For the first time in would approve of worship. There are nine days he was honest with him-

I self. dozens of man in love with her.

He knew that all the things he mustn't make myself" tiresome or had been doing were forced and false. obnoxious. She might not go out with He knew that he had rather be dead me at all

than to spend another day with a tor- tured heart.

dis-

And Charity began to feel couraged because Dan displayed so A telegram was lying on the floor little interest in her. He gave no in- beneath his door. It read: "Family dication that he wanted to be with her going to Europe. Can you marry me. when there was anything better to do. at once so I won't have to accompany She thought: "He can see that I love them?"

him. He can't help it. And he isn't She was waiting at the airport alone. going to take any chances of being He took her hand and squeezed it and forced into a commitment. I must tucked it under his arm, and they got make other men Interested in me. That into a taxi. A minister married them sort of technique never fails."

in the front room of his home with a.

to

She negotiated to have Den see her wife and housekeeper looking on. They in company with other men, men who went outside and got into the

· Dan said: again.

"Let's had heretofore amused her and now, bewildered, nevertheless, responded Bermuds. I've always wanted to see joyously to her provocative words and Bermuda It will be; grand!!!

"I'll say good-bye to smiles and made fools of themselves. She nodded. Once Dan, watching from a distance, the folks first." saw one of these puppets take Charity. "Of course.

morrow?”: in: arms and kiss her, and it was like kuffe thrust in his heart.

Rast Dari

up North

Are they sailing to-

Starflerlooked at him, then

led,

Europe? Darling, 're not sailing until June.

That

was part of my technique.".

ght, 1989, By The Associated