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' ELEVENTH INSTALLMENT Tony was standing "Why," he grated, "must you al ways bring Jdne into it, at a time like this? Why can't you let us be us? And if yop. don't care fo.r me, how can you ltiss me," his voice broke, "as you've just been kissing me? How, in all decency and fair ness?" : Ellen answered. And it would have taken a man far cleverer than the badgered, hfcart-hungry boy, to know that she- was answering the first part of his speech—rather than the last! "Because," said Ellen, "I'm a fool! That's why!" Tony wag laughing, and in his laughter was hurt pride and injured dignity and a black and blue soul bruise. "Well," he said, "since you think you're a fool so soon, perhaps I'd better go away from here. I don't doubt that as long as you don't care a hang, Jane would be glad to see me. I've always talked things out with Jane. She understands me!" The old, old come-back. She un derstands me! Ellen, hearing it for the first time, flinched under it, even though she had percipitated it. "If he loved me," she said to herself, "he'couldn't "go. It wouldn c be possible for him to leave me. I was right—if he could go, tonight, to see another woman, why then—" Poor little Ellen. She was right about herself! She was a fool. Be ing one, she said— "l'm sure Jane understands you. By all means go to see her." "I suppose," he said, "that as soon as I'm gone, you'll phone for Alven. I have no doubt that he under stands you as well as Jane under stands me." Ellen was blinking to keep back the tears. "Dick always leaves his receiver off, in the evening," she said. He likes to work at night—he doesn't like interruptions. I couldn't reach him by phone," she finished. "That ought to be a comfort to you!" "So it is," said Tony. He had his hat in his hand. He was fussing with the brim of it. "So it is," said Tony again. He too was bfimclng. Ellen was' Speaking. Out of turn again, but she. couldn't help it. Mother or nio, sh'e couldn't nelp it. "Tony," she said, "believe this. You mustn't think that I phone to men—that- :i! have them come up here, alone with me at night. Dick stayed just' oflce, after a little party. He stayeJ to talk about work. Then he asked hie to marry him—that was the time. But I sent him right home. I^-I ! ve never had any of these sessions, Tony, like last night, and this evening. Except with you. I haven't lived in the city very long. Only three >'• years. I'm—l'm not used to the" racket, I suppose: But I've always ■ wanted to keep myself Tony . . . for—*-" she paused. But up otfer her' white little face a heavy flush came creeping. Tony, fascinated, watched that flush. He saw it cover her chin, redden her very ear lobes. "Keep yourself," he echoed rath er stupidly, "keep yourself—for what, Ellen?" Ellen's whole heart was reaching out, her hands were reaching out. She couldn't help it. This was love. This desire to give and give and give . . . "To keep myself for my husband, Tony," she answered. The boy was laying down his hat. He wasn't blinking, any more, but he moistened his lips with his ton gue, as if they were dry, before he spoke. "You don't want me to leave, do Positive Relief From Itch In 30 Minutes Bissett's S-L solution will quickly relieve the most severe cases of itch and similar skin troubles. S-L is very soothing to the affected parts This solution is also highly recom mended for poison oak, jiggers, sores, insect bits, mange and other skin eruptions. Get a bottle today and you'll be convinced of its won derful healing qualities. For sale at Abernethy's Drug Store, Elkin, N. C. (Adv.) 8 FINE | REPAIRING r Two Expert } Repairmen In Charge C. W. STEELE Jeweler B. Main St. Klkin. N. C. ou?" he said, and he was whisper ng, too. You would feel badly if I vent to Jane, now. Ellen was retreating, somehow, be ore his advance—for Tony was ad .ancing. But she had crossed, for ,he moment at least, her Ruoicon. "Yes, I would mind," she said. Just as much as you'd mind if you xnew that I were going to stay here, with Dick!" '■ she was back against the wall, now. But her eyes were lost in Tony's gaze. They were bluer than ever, Tony's eyes. Perhaps because they were wet. "Darling," said Tony huskily, "you do love me!" Ellen tried to deny it. To say that ?he didn't love him. She tried to, but the words stuck in her throat. With her eyes lost in his gaze, with the lovely color staining her childish throat, she nodded. Mutely, but vehemently. She was held tightly in Tony's arms—so tightly that it hurt, that it left her breathless. Or was it the pounding of her heart that made breathing so difficult? "Darling," Tony was saying, and his voiced seemed to come from ev er so far away, "I love you. You're my wife." Automatically Ellen felt of her wedding ring with the thumb of her left hand. "You're my wife!" Tony was say ing. 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Even though she knows, in aer soul, that no fire can burn at fever heat eternally. "Oh God," she prays, "let it be 'ike this forever." Even though she tnows that even God can not put he stamp of forever on earthly hings! Ellen was asking the same ques tion that every bride asks, was say ng the same prayer. But in her ase, it wasn't a question—and it vasn't a prayer. It" was a cruel iact that she was telling herself, ■>. nd telling God, too. "This won't last," she was saying n her soul. "It can't last. Oh, I won't let it hurt me—it mustn't kill me—when it's all over." Tony was speaking. "I've got to go to the office this morning," he said, "for just a little while. I bet, honey, you're surprised. I bet you didn't hfive any idea I really worked! And then we'll take he car and start off somewhere, for a honeymoon. We'll just go—we'll not plan where. We'll start for the place where the blue begins. We may end up a couple of other places. But it doesn't matter —as long as we're together!" j_,iien gulped down some coffee. "Tony," she said, "I—l hate to chrow cold water on your plans, but r think it might be better if we put uff the honeymoon for a little while . . "But why?" he questioned. "We, of all married folks, need a honeymoon. To get acquainted—" All at once he was out of his chair, was on Ellen's side of the impro vised breakfast table, was on the arm of her chair. "I didn't know," he said, "that be ing married was so-so swell. I didn't know that love could be like chis!" His head ducked down, was snug gled into the curve of Ellen's throat. He was ki&sing the place where a pulse throbbed crazily, ' "Don't Tony," she said almost sh&rply. "Please dont. That's over." Tony's arm tightened. His voice came in a muffled fashion, because his lips were against her throat. "You mean that hissing's over?" he questioned, "the first day after we're married?" Ellen tried to make the tone of her voice seem hard. It was time to make herself clear, at.last. Her whole life might depend upon the stand she took—her every chance at happiness! She should love lightly. "I told you," she said, "night be fore last when we met at the dance, hat marriage to me was just mar riage! That I wasn't in love with you, not in the way you mean." "How," Tony questioned, "how about last night?" "Last night," answered Ellen, "was hysteria. It wasn't love." Slowly Tony was rising from the arm of Ellen's chair. He walked the length of Ellen's prim little room— and stood looking down from her window, to the crowded street be low. "I guess you're right," he said, about there being no honeymoon for us. I guess you're right about the whole thing. Only I'll go a„trifle farther than you've gone. Seems to me we don't belong together, at all, in a married sense, until you feel differently. It wouldn't be right, somehow, to go on living together. Not if you actually—and I believe the thought. has penetrated into my brain, at last—don't love me!" Ellen's hand, flung out, knocked over a coffee cup. She hadn't ex pected Tony to go a step father than she had gone. Tony continued in a dull mono ! tone. "I'll go back to live at the club," he said. "You can stay here —you can have all the money you want, of course—but we won't go hunting for an apartment. You've been right, I suppose, all the time—about not let :ing it get you. Well, it won't get me, either. I'll see you, but it won't bs as if we're man and wife—l guess it's my turn to make terms! I won't try to hold you—you're the one, from now on, who much make the advances. But remember this. I don't want a bought-and-paid-for wife, not now. I don't really want half-portion love, any more. Some things happened to me. I want love to be—" he choked, he turned back again to the window, "as real," he finished, "as it seemed, last night." Ellen put the cup. right side up, on the table. "You're the head of the family," she said siowly. "I suppose it's up to you. Have it your own way. Only I'll take none of your money . ..." Tony reached for his hat, as he had reached the last evening. Only this time he didn't hesitate in the doorway—this time Ellen didn't call him back. "You're stepping out of character," he said shortly. "Well, see you soon," he called, as he clattered down the stairs. He might have been just anybody going out —just anybody at all! Ellen called out the conventional reply. There might have been no sapphire hoop upon her finger. "That will be nice!" she answered. And then she went back into the room and cleared off the table. It wasn't until she made the daybed, until, in a certain pillow, she saw a round dent that might have been made by a head, that she broke down. "Oh, Tony, I love you!" she obbed. "Oh, Tony, I want you! I want to be married to you—l want to be your wife. Come back to me!" But Tony didn't come back. He was on his way to some office where he worked. Ellen expected to feel shy when she met Tony for the first time, af ter he had left her room, but she didn't have the opportunity at once to feel shy. For the first two days of the first week, she stayed at home waiting, expecting him momentarily SALESMAN. (Btlow) "I'm - AUTO RACER. (Belou ) Bill a salesman and a steady Cummings, brilliant win smoker," reports E. W. Hpi-.. ■*.' ?Ml ner of the Indianapolis Davis. "11l say this for ||| § 500-mile Speed Classic, Cam'l's costliertobaccos |||m m* says: "Any time I'm'all —they taste better, and f||> in,' I know that Camels they never get on my will give me a 'lift' in nerves. And when I'm HHgH |ig; energy. I smoke them tired, I enjoy especially steadily,too,hecausel've the way smoking aCamel P found that Camels will like them Camels Jon t upset my nerves." > Thursday, January 17, 1935 to return. Flinching at the sound of every footstep on the stairs— shivering as she lay in bed, wide eyed and sleepless. Not being wise enough to know that Tony was him self waiting wistfully, eagerly for a sign from her. But after the first two days she didn't stay home any more. Pride can be like that. She went out to luncheon with Gay, and talked blandly of the double stand ard. It was after she had been married for two weeks—after she'd lived through two aching weeks of not seeing Tony—that she met Sandy on the avenue one afternoon as she was going home. Sandy's attitude toward her was carefully veiled. Ellen could see that her marriage to a million aire had given her an added im portance in his eyes. "Mind, Mrs. Brander," he asked, "if I walk along with you for a cou ple of blocks?" Ellen laughed. "A cOuple of blocks, at least, Sandy," she said. "For I'm not in a hurry to get anywhere." Sandy's eyebrows were raised. "The poppa got a night out?" he questioned. And added, "So soon?" Ellen tossed her head. CONTINUED NEXT WEEK Grasshoppers can be hatched from unfertilized eggs; these fatherless in sects are always female. The power plants generating elec tricity from the Niagara Palls sec tion furnish light for 500 cities.
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