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The Little Minx

Miraculously Bella hadn't changed remembered his appearance and went himself at all. The twenty years that had to the washroom, assuring elapsed since Howard had seen her before the mirror that the gray about had been kind. She was exactly as his temples was scarcely noticeable. he remembered her, fresh and young At the flower stand he bought a car- and vital. Her ash blonde hair had nation and inserted it in his button- lost none of its sheen, the deep brown hole.

"Darling!" It was Hester. She of her eyes was as lustrous as ever.

Suddenly Howard became aware of had come up behind him without his his own age, remembering the gray- noticing. He felt a wave of guilt, at attrac- ing about his temples, the lines in the same time noticing how his face, the heaviness about his waist, tive she looked in her fawn coloured "It's good to see you again, Bella. suit. "Is your client staying here? She laugh- It's been a long time. Twenty years. This is a woman's hotel."

ed. There was neither accusation You're more lovely than ever."

nor suspicion in her eyes.

She stared at him a minute curious- She ly. Then: "Sit down, please." sank into a chair, gracefully lovely. "Tell me about everything. The old gang."

He was a little surprised at that. She had never had much interest in the crowd he knew, had felt above them. In the end she had married Harvey Cranston and gone to South America. Cranston had had his money in sheep.

Now he was dead, and Bella was home again. He had read about her coming in the papers, had waited two days, then called. Once he had loved she Bella Davis. He had belleved loved him. When she married Crans- ton and went away he hated her. Or thought he did. During those twenty years he had thought about her

con-

For a moment Howard felt panicky. answer some- but before he could thing happened. A woman paused in her course across the lobby and came up to him quickly.

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"Howard Dane! How are you? Oh, I'm so sorry I missed you the other day."

She was vaguely familiar, past Her once ash blonde middle age. hair had lost its aliveness. Her brown The skillful eyes lacked in luster. application of make-up had only par- lines of her tially obliterated the face.

Howard stared at her, puzzled, faint- ly uneasy.

"You've changed, Howard. You're She laughed. "How unkind older." of me. Time changes us all. Twenty

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stantly, hating her. Then came the years, after all, is a long time." Then announcement of Cranston's

death she stopped. "Howard Dane, I be-

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lieve you don't know who I am. I'm him Bella Davis."

and her return to the states, and the old feeling had surged over

anew:""

to tell.

"Bella Davis!" He stared blankly, The stupidly, a new panic seizing him in

"There isn't much crowd is pretty much the same. Some its slow grip. are married, of course.”

"And you?"

"No." He looked at her steadily,

reaction, but seeking

her face remained impassive. There were so many questions he wanted to ask, so much to talk about. Yet curiously this place, her hotel room, seemed in- adequate.

"Can't we get together soon? I thought perhaps you'd like to drive out to the old mill." He stopped, wishing he hadn't mentioned the mill. They had been there the first time he proposed.

"I'd love to!"

"Oh, splendid! Will Saturday all right?"

be

On the way home he felt an up- lift, a buoyancy. She hadn't seemed was to notice his age. Perhaps it all in his imagination. It would be so easy to recapture once more those dreams he had had of Bella and him-

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"Darling, I'm sorry. Saturday I from out allclient coming in

have of town. I'll have to be with him all evening." Helled glibly, sensing a thrill He hung up and sat for a minute by the telephone, thinking. He had been pretty sure these past two years that he loved Hester Now he knew why he had continuously postponed their marriage. Bella, Al- ways she had been in the back of his mind, the thought that this that had happened would happen.

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He arrived at the hotel early Saturday, amused at his own eager ness, feeling boylsh ngain. The lobby was almost» deserted. *-He sat down, steeling himself to smoking a whole cigarette before going up. Then he

"Leah told me you called. The little minx. At first she wasn't go- It-gaid something ing to mention about making a date with you. Im- agine! You and Leah!"

"Who's Leah?" Howard asked. His throat felt dry..

"Leah? Why, she's my daughter. She nineteen and the dead image of me at that age. But, Howard, we've You must so much to talk about. come to see me.'

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"I will. Yes indeed." At last he had control of himself. I'll bring Hester. This is Hester here. Hester and I are to be married. Soon, Bella, you must come to the wedding. And bring Leah too. I think Leah would enjoy coming. The little minx."

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