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C1IAPTR 34
The parlor of the modest
home-stead, dusty from long
neglect, lay before her. It was
empty. But in the gray powder
which passing months and years
had sifted over its neat carpet,
she could make out vague loot
prints. A man’s, footprints. They
led from where she stood, un
certain to a second door at the
opposite end of the room The
kitchen door, she recognized, be
cause the layouts of such houses
were so uncomplex. It, too,
stood a trifle open as if waiting
for her . . . ,
Just beyond it, as she started
forward, a floor board creaked.
“Joe1” She was racing toward
tliat’small, homely sound al
ready. Now she was thrusting
the inner barrier out of her
wav. was plunging headlong in
. ...•■■■■■■■■■Illlllllllllllll
to his mother’s kitchen. “Oh,
Joel!”
He stared at her. “Cammie!
“Beefy brought me,” Cam
heard herself babbling eagerly.
“He—he said that maybe
you’d want to hear something
I have to tell you. Joel—I‘m not
marrying Herbert Powell. And
I never was going to.”
She was not certain what re
action she had expected her
pell-mell announcement to
evoke But certainly it was not
the dull, cold lack of interest
which lay on his strong-boned
face as he looked back at her.
“Oh?” he asked politely Why
not?” . .
“Because—”. Her cheeks
flushed hotly, but she had to
say it. No matter how disinter
estedly he studied the tip of her
nose, she had to say it. “Be
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cause you are the only man
ever could love, Joel, by any
possible stretch of the ^imagina
tion. That’s the reason.”
For one more instant the win
try barrier held there in front
of the unblinking blue eyes. |
Then it cracked, cracked into
a million pieces. A bright mist
burned into its place. Cam neveo
knew whether she moved first,
or whether it was Joel. But his
arms were hard around her,
where a second ago there had
been such distance between
them. , , ,
“Darling!” he whispered,
choclfingly, into the windblown
hair, “Cammie, I love you so!
she breathed, clinging to him.
“I should have known that,”
“My heart kept telling me so.
But everything else fitted to
gether into such horrible tight
and complete picture—such an
ugly picture. When I heard
Maurine talking to you on the
telephone—”
“Maurine? Joel puneu
his rumpled head unwillingl}'.
“But I’ve never said anything to
Maurine, by telephone or not
that could hurt you, Cammie
I’ve never talked to her on the
telephone at all, except to ask
her for a casual date or two.
What did you hear?”
“But—but I heard her end of
it!” protested Cam. “She didn’t
know I was coming into the i
house, and I heard her telling j
you how she despised you for |
intending to get a Dean’s Award
through making love to me. And
later, after I’d corned ed her
when she had to admit to me
that you’d told her—Joel! Why,
she wasn’t talking on the tele
phone at all!”
“Not to me, certainly. But
why —?”
“Because I was wrong about
her not knowing I was on the
steps. She must have watched
me coming up the hill. Of course
she knew!” !
“How the dickens did she j
even know I’d applied for a
Dean’s Award?” Jol demanded.
..ed. “Your father suggested it
weeks ago. But I never really
intended to use the apnlication
he gave me, not until Beefy
beat it into me that you’d .
want—” His shoulders stiffened
slowly. “I think you and I had
better have a little talk w7ith
Maurine”
“The very minute we gex
beck to Cartersville.” |
“We don’t have to wait for
Cartersville,” he cut in. She s
here in Acadia. She’s at the inn
in the village, right this minute,
waiting for me to close up the
house. We came here on the ,
same train.”
“Maurine came all this way
with you? But—but why?
“I didn’t know she was
aboard. Not until after we’d
pulled out of Cartersville. She d
come to Mrs. Funk’s and—well,
I thought I’d persuaded her
there that some ideas she had
were just the result of a lot of
overheated imagination. Any
how, I didn’t see her after Beefy
and I left the rooming house; j
not until the train was under ]
way. And after that—oh, she
seemed so upset at the idea of
mv selling the old place that I
i hadn’t the heart to cold-shoulder
; her. Cam—”
He was biusning. now mw- i
1 self. The recital of what had j
happened on the trip to Acadia,
that interlude between the col
lege station and a flag stop 50
odd miles away might have
ruffled the composure of a man
about town. And Joel Conroy
had never pretended to be a so
phisticate. His chivalry was ha
tive to him, bred in his bone
' “Cam, she—darn it, she asked
me to’marry her. She s;*1(i s.he d
comfort me. She said she didn
expect me to love her right
away and—and well, for just a
little while there, I almost
weakened.” j
i Her eyes were on his. via
you, Joel?”
“By the time we’d gotten oft
the train *nd I’d taken her over
to the inn to wait I’d gotten my
balance back. I told her so. But
she went right on begging me
not to sell the farm. It seemed
almost like a fixation with her,
by then. Say, if Bee.y s out
front with his car,” he said
“what are we waiting for. She s
only five minutes from here.
But before he would let her go,
his mouth came down over hers
and possessed it. His kiss was -
swift, but it was thorough. It
burned white fire along Cam s
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Third Sunday
School League
Being Organized
Wilmington churches have re
quested the formation of a
Third ‘Y’ Sunday School Bas,
ketball league, Adam Smith
secretary said yes er •
age of the ^---ors would_un_
der 17 years, he said and play
would be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
on Saturday afternoon.
All churches that are interest
ed in participating in the
newly formed basketball league
are to meet with Smith at 8 p.m.
Monday, December 22.
The purpose of the league is
to increase the attendance at lo
cal Sundav stl ools, and to give
an outlet for competition
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Bapt., L. F. to ^ab«nacl«
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by., St. Andrews Vyf Pres*
Sunset Park Baptist '0^
churches are invited to rSf*
Pate in this league. ParH«*
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