Show u SEWING f'V' SLVl-SLv'e- whose lather Richard Jill McFarlane tails In love disappeared In World War with Lieut Spans Gordon She upset when she discovers her brother Rlc has (alien In love with Sandra Calvert of questionable a divorcee character dill i thrown from her horse and hosRichard pitalized During her absence visits her mother Julia He tells her he assumed the name of Captain Mackey and Is stationed at the tame camp as Rlc His father John I who has aided Julia In railing the children denounces Richard Julia It horrified at his callousness and refuses to tell her children the truth At camp Captain Mackey tells Rlc he knew his father France during the first war CHAPTER XIII He had to take care of her Ric decided she mustn’t be hurt again After the war when men had acquired equality again he’d look up Lieutenant Colonel Win Calvert and hand him a good jolt in the jaw In her own room Sandra Calvert shed her girdle with a relieved sigh She’d done a stupid thing letting Ricky see her In a fnorbid mood Men don’t like too much emotion in women not unless it was directed at them And dragging Win in had been the clumsiest move of all She Soon had so little time Ricky would be sent off to officer’s school and she hadn’t money enough to follow him Win would be slow with her alimony of course He was alIt would stop if she ways slow married again of course But she was not dubious of the future She was brushing her hair when the knock sounded on the door Swiftly she shook the bright curls into a cloud around her face picked up a jacket edged with fluffy white fur and opened the door Then she drew back her face stiff with fury “What do you want?” she demanded angrily Captain Roger Mackey quirked an eyebrow and smiled at her without mirth You were Sandy "Very pretty expecting somebody else I infer?” “I was notl Go away before I call the house detective” “I think I won’t go away” he “I came to talk answered coolly to you” “You’re not going to talk to me” Her eyes livid Her face was “Get out of my door or blazed I’ll telephone the office” “I don’t think you’ll do that Stop being dramatic and Sandy let me pass — and shut that door” “I don’t entertain men in my bedroom Rod Mackey” "All right I’ll wait while you put on a coat or something and we’ll talk in the little parlor down the halL” "And be overheard by a lot of soldiers and their dates? No thank you I’m not going to talk to you We haven’t a thing to say to each Get out now will you?” other He cocked his head and looked at ”1 have some things her insolently If you don’t want to say to you other people to hear them I suggest in and close the that you let door” ipe “If you’re seen I might be put out coming of the in here hotel!” Mackey Pays a Social Call ou’ll let McFarlane young alone or he’ll be called into my office fur an interview” he said icily "I see" She waited a little before she spoke "Blackmail! ’’ “No blackmail Just a brief airing of the truth and you wouldn’t know about truth would you Sandy? How old are you now for instance?" "I’m old enough to see through your rotten game! But if you think you’re going to force me to start ” seeing you — "You flatter yourself I my dear was never in your little red book I was Win’s friend I want nothing from you for me for Lucky there’s about nothing you that any self - respecting man would want!” Her features contorted anger hate and fear driving all the surface prettiness out of her face Her skin took on a greenish east her eyes darkened and receded behind a curtain of pure rage "Your insults can’t hurt me” ahe said “I don’t expect anything bettor horn vnu I’m not afraid of But this Interest In your threats saw walked one "I think you’re safe me come down the hall” He In shut the door firmly and ahe backed away from him and put a big chair between them "Sit down After all we’re and relax Sandy old friends” “You were never a friend of mine I came here to get Rod Mackey I hated away from everything that I was unlucky when they sent you to this post I don’t want to be reminded of anything that happened Please go away and in the islands leave me alone” "I’m not going to talk about old times" he said amiably "I m going to talk about now About you "No wonder She flared at him they broke you! You are the most impossible offensive person I ever knew” the flickered again His eyebrow mocking trace of a smile hovered over his dry mouth "You don t do well stuff very that dowager Sandy Stick to the old army game I won’t Swear if you feel like It to give you a mind But I'm going few orders — now!” "I don’t have to take orders from you I’m not in your command take these orders Sandy He was grim 'now"his Calvertl” “I want you eyes were blue Ice that to let boy alone" curled scornfully Her mouth "Did they assign you to be a nurse to that squadron out there?” “Take it easy Sandy You show like your age when you blaze up I’m too that Very unbecoming not getting out till you promise to send that boy about his business him again” to see and not "What is this all about anyway?” I U see she demanded shrilly I like Ricky McFarlane whenever and you won't stop me! the He took a cigarette from elaboratelibit pocket of his blouse in the ly dropped the match looked at her Ievelly through the smokei "I think I can stop you” he said coolly It’s none of your “Try to do it! Get out of here” affair IJoulLfJ d cPoveiii dpccl (i I a muscle of the mind” a young private — just a boy at your It might post is a trifle amazing if you’d explain why be interesting about Richard you're so concerned all of a sudden” McFarlane “There’s no special explanation" He wag watching her sharply her quick shift of attack which had not put him off guard “I happened to know that' boy’s father in Franeer-know his family His father was I owe a debt to that —my friend I can pay it a little by family saving that boy from a woman like She sat down in the big chair with a little pitiful collapsing She looked small and movement she looked naive and undefended helpless "What’s the matter with me Rod?” she asked “Why are you so I’m not bad bitter against me? I’ve had a I've never been bad into a lot of heartbreak crowded when I was I young few years knew his He married Win Calvert way around in that wild set over I I didn’t there in the islands had to grope I made mistakes I did I made Win furious stupid things bad Win was but I wasn’t bad You know that I He was rotten And then after was only foolish and I home us sent got Jpack they I saw a atmosphere sane again into I it had all been how Intolerable saw that I couldn’t take any more and that I needn’t take any more Win and he didn't So I divorced He was care I think he was glad Now I’ve glad lo be rid of me boy and he’s met this McFarlane nice to me I'm not harming him There are women who could harm him but when he’s with me he’s You’re threatenisafe from them ng to call him in and tell him things Can't you see how about me thal would be?” Sandra Receives Threat A Not if I told I can’t Sandy about a certain himT for instance case” he said Mexican divorce — coldly “or about the Martins In hearing be interested 'No about that” “Could I help it if a colonel’s wife so ugly was a horrible old harpy and jealous she made her husband’s She named me in life miserable? out of spite” that divorce purely You needn't begin' crying That won’t work” You’d like 'I'm not going to cry you? You’d like to that wouldn't And you’re lying about break me too my age and you know that when I married Win I was nineteen Calvert” “How long were you married to (fdlou&eS ever the toughest sion of them you” "All privates hate their officers It’s the American in them the fierce individualism in this country that makes men fight for equal- ity or for superiority It keeps them It’s what makes this army trying one that no mob of slaves can lick Ric regimented McFarlane doesn't hate me He’s when I'll the about thinking day be a captain and he'll be a major and I'U have to salute him It’s good for them that feeling” "He hates you” Sandra persisted "He won't believe a word you divi- all Among those after crown you’ll find his middleweight Marcel Cerdan Geor- JakeLaMotta Abrams gje Charley Burley and one or two others — all tough Graziano the toughest of the lot has had his cense revoked In New York but the hsa National Boxing association ruled that he can fight in any place This gives under NBA’s jurisdiction Rocky a lot of territory to swing his lethal fists in Zale had been away from ring aetion so long when he met Graziano that his handicap waa known to say” He lit another cigarette He was he a heavy one Various crowds had He put on his cap Been too smiling now many baseball and it a little his eyelids nar- - ball players from the service show rowed arrogantly form In startling lack of Zale had to gamble on it Sandy? eluding speed and timing He may hate me He may itch to been sway longer than most close to four hit me but he’ll believe me Men years don’t lie to each other him often — knocked So when Graziano not about women Think it over” down early in the fight and then had He closed the door without a him dazed bewildered and badly was his‘ battered sound as he went out reign apparently Sandra Calvert sprang to her over But Zale down the stretch He proved feet her hands tightened into livid proved several things ’’ She choked that he was dead game and could fists "You — you on her take the hardest punch the hardfury He throw Why when there were hundreds hitting Graziano could of posts all over the country had also proved that he had a punch of He proved that he knew Rod Mackey been sent to Ridley his own Field? She had chosen the place how to fight— and what to do in a not storm because It was a small city too well known and the living was She had followed the air Faces cheap Competition corps because for so long her life With more time in which to get had been bound up with it and when ready it stands to reason that Zale Win left she had stayed because should be a better fighter In 1947 she liked being with men with wings (han he was in 946 His wln over She had seen Graziano on their collars gave him greater confiMackey around but had kept out of dence for one thing He is also sure bis way to be in better physical She picked up the telephone gave shape Yet in this present middlea room number stamping her foot Tony is weight outfit no one is safe Her face was set and surrounded impatiently a pretty rough crew by with hard lines around bitter her the best in any other weight division cooed voice mouth But her and he will have to be better than “Ricky did I wake you up? Darlgood to keep his crown ing I’m so sorry! But I have to Is a rough and ready LaMotta Oh see you in the morning Early who won't be any soft customer no much earlier than that By mark LaMotta Is a hardy man to nine at least Ricky you mustn’t hurt and he also can hurt on his It’s so terribly fail me imporown Cerdan made a promising tant — to us!” debut over here and he should be betHill ter on his next visit when he has a Jill came back to Buzzard’s from the hospital wearing a black longer time to become acclimated sling and a pathetic face and lay and to get in better physical condion a couch on the screened porch all tion There Is no Stanley Ketchel' that Harry day indifferent to everything preb or Mickey Walker hangwent ofT around hef ing around the prenilses' but there 1 comnot read she She could more class In this section than the because she couldn't man- ring has known for many years Just plained age a book with one hand how the tangle will be unraveled Is men do it” her another guess LaMotta mast be grandfather told her He went to given a chance and so most Cerdan town and returned with an elaborif he can repeat his opening performate contraption a sort of ance or show Improvement with an elastic band to hold the In addition to the leaders named But when he pages of the book Jersey Jones still insists that his had arranged her favorite maga- man Burley can slash his way zine on it and showed her how to through the entire list Jill smiled at him turn the pages outWith the heavyweight bunch but wanly and pretended to read in such a sad an hour later Julia noted that no side of Joe Louis state it begins to look as if the page had been turned must take over a big part of the show But as good as many of A Discussion his challengers are they will find Zale none too easy to shove around About Tough "Courage is ocL Idp fant you!” No that Bordlne fellow before you married Win? Before you got that Mexican divorce? Were you a child TONY ZALE middleweight ruler bride? I think not" in the best ring fight of Her eyes flashed viciously "You 1046 with a dozen miles to spare His Go ahead and hurricane meeting with Rocky Grazi-ancowardly snoop! peddle your tales if you think it will to be one of those happened do any good There ere few thrillers you won’t see twice in a could tell ebout you too” lifetime things Thefe was no other fight even close that Isn’t whatever "Nothing to this one I can’t recall any other known already" he said coolly "Nothing that could hurt me in the fighter who least now” showed more Intes"You tell Ricky McFarlane a lot tinal fortitude than of tales about me and see what hapsale showed that He won’t believe you He’ll pens September night want to fight you but he can’t bewhen he came out old cause you’re as of a foggy dreamhe twice as is and you’ve land to knock out got bars on your shoulders He’ll hate you He hates Graziano It so hapHe told me he hated you already pens that Zale Is in PATTERNS CIRCLE Jill "It she’d get a letter from that army feller she'd have a different face on her” John I complaind to coffee Julia over his breakfast "But likely where he is he can't even get a chance to sit down much less write” in Jill” Julia "I’m disappointd said ’’Didn’t I givt my children at all John I? 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