Show One Man Woman By VIDA HURST BEGIN HERE Margie Garver Carver has thou thought ht many times that she was in lo love But not until she meets Dennis Killian on her 1 vacation trip does docs she know real love Dennis who is engaged to Zinna Keating regards Margie only as a 1 friend Margie promises to marry Jack Carrol an attractive young oun lawyer from Crom New York thinking it will help her forget Dennis She breaks her enga engagement en en- 11 ga ement even before she gets her herring herrin herring rin ring as she feels she would rather have no one if It she cant can't have Dennis Margie is decorating the apartment I Dennis and Zinna will occupy Upon returning home from work one evening evening eve I ning she finds an nn old suitor Vic Vie Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son waiting for her i CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE TY FIVE l Hello Thought Id I'd drop I in to see how youre you're getting etting along Vic Vie sounded as i if he had been away for Cor a 3 month instead of oC 10 days But Margie was delighted to see him That was a good Idea she replied clasping the hand he extended Vcra Vera tells me you went to Interlochen Inter- Inter lochen for the Fourth Vic Vie continued Yes What did you do doZ Canada Fierce time Im I'm just com com- lag inc nR out of the fog Margie shrugged Why Wh do do you do it He cast her a reproachful glance Well wh why not What That difference does it make to any anyone one whether I sink into the cups or not If it doesn't to you why should It to anyone else Margie said coldly Vera Vcra rose laughing Im going to bed bcd and let Jet you fight it out Better stick around Vic Vie advised gloomily You sound too much like a husband husband hus bus band Vera retorted As soon as the door had closed behind behind behind be be- hind her Vic Vie came to Mar Margies Margie's ies ie's chair and seated himself upon the upholstered arm VIC rIC TRIES AGAIN I Wh Why dont don't you just admit youre you're in inlove inlove inlove love with this chap from New York and have it over with But Im I'm not she replied exasperated Why cant can't you be bc yourself and forget about him Im not competing Vie Vic stated If Il I cant can't be bc everything to you I wont won't be bc anything He put his arms about her Oh Margie please You were in love with me when you went away What's happened happened happened hap hap- have I done She made no attempt to free herself herself hersell her her- self sell but her voice was without emo emo- tion You haven't done anything Im I'm just as fond of ot you ou as I ever was Then lets let's get married Vie Vic suggested suggested sug sug- hopefully Ive never asked a girl to marry me before but I want you so much I have to have you It was the old dictatorial Vic Vie speaking speaking speak speak- in ing but Margie smiled and withdrew his arms Its SIts sweet of oC you to ask me Vie Vic I appreciate it very much But I have no more desire to be bc married than you have But Margie His protestations left Jett her unmoved The fingers forcibly held in his were coolly indifferent Theres no use Margie said If you could come back and be satisfied just to be bc my friend GONE FOR GOOD With no hope of your our ever caring for me mc No thanks Vic Vie expostulated Strange as it may seem there may be someone to whom my attentions will mean something Margie roseAll roseAll rose All right if iC that's the thc way ay you feel But she stopped slopped him at the door with a little pleading gesture Oh Vie Vic dear lets let's not quarrel Ill I'll miss you dread dreadfully Cully find lind someone else he re reminded reminded reminded re- re minded her Gone for tor good this time lime Margie stood frowning for lor a moment then with a shrug of ot the shoulders took down the W wall ll bed Tomorrow Dennis and Zinna were to meet her to look for furniture Their appointment was for eleven but when the time came Dennis Dennis Den nis arrived at Margies Margie's office alone He looked embarrassed and unhappy Im awfully sorry Mar Margie Ir he be gan Wh Why Dennis what's the matter You look as If it something terrible had happened Nothing terrible he denied dented But something has hns happened Zinna has changed her mind about the apart apart- men ment About the color scheme you mean inca n About About everything he asserted We drove out there yesterday and when she saw it she said it wasn't at atalL atall tl all the way she had expected it to I be DC ZINNA DICTATES DICTATES- Margie bit her lips she like the paper we had chosen for tor the bedrooms She didn't like ike any of ot it The point of it is she had made up her mind not to like it Dennis saidI saidI saidI said I see Margie commented briefly Well it can be changed I suppose I 1 dont don't know Ill I'll have to ask Maury That wont won't be necessary Dennis said miserably We arent aren't going to take the apartment after all Ill I'll lose my months month's rent of ol course She faced him scornfully So that's it You'll let her dictate to you like that After Alter all he said grimly I cant can't force her to live in an apartment she doesn't want up to you of course You'll tell Maury Yes Im I'm sorry Mar Margie le It certainly certainly certainly isn't your fault Youve You've done your part Ive done just what I am expected expect led ed to do for lor the Colton Construction company Mar Margie ie reminded him Margie waited until the door had closed again then she began to pace the floor bitin biting her lips Ups to keep from crying HUMILIATION She had never been so humiliated in n her life For Zinna to chan change e her mind now after every wish she had her expressed was being painstakingly granted was bad enough but for tor Dennis Den Den- Den I DenInis nh nis to accept it as her privilege was more than Margie could bear It was ridiculous Even if f she hadn't cared anything about him Margie told herself she would have resented seeing another woman using such tactics doing it to show me she can thought hought Margie She made up her mind the day he told her we had met meton meton meton on the thc train going west that she would never live in an apartment I fur furnished But oh heavens you wouldn't think hink hed he'd let her get by with it He ought to take her by the hair and force Corce orce her to live in it She was at the window blindly staring at the walls of the opposite building when the door opened to admit Maury Why Thy Margie he said what in n the worlds the matter Nothing why You look as if it something terrible had lad happened Her own words to Dennis less Jess than halt half an hour ago Well hasn't it If IC you mean about the apartment for or Dennis Killian Killian rio no Maury said kindl kindly We wont won't have any trouble renting enting it to someone else To be continued Copyright ht Register and Tribune |