| Show One Man Woman By VIDA HURST BEGIN HERE Mar Margie ie Garver Carver an interior decorator deco deco- decorator for the Colton Construction company company company com com- pany shares an apartment with Jean Carpenter and Vera Blakely She falls in m love with Dennis Killian when he is engaged to Zino Zinn Keat ing More than one man has proposed pro proposed proposed posed to Margie but she decides she wants Dennis or no one Her stepmother stepmother step step- mother Edith tells Margie that Zinna has gone to New York to be married I immediately and Margie assumes that the man is Dennis When Dennis Denn s comes to her office the next day da to see her she merely nods to him and goes on Later that day Maury tells her that Zinna has married a young avi avI- ator Margie is upset over her treatment treatment treat treat- ment of Dennis She worries about him finally calling both his home and his office but is unable to reach him CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE TWENTY Every time the telephone ran rang lang Margie Margie Mar Mar- gie prayed that it might be Dennis Gone was her false pride her shame i at having confessed her love loye love Instead In- In n stead her heart was overflowing with self When she tried to cat eat tears splashed down into her plate Yet not even evento evento evento to Jean would she confess what was troubling her When the dishes were washed she said X I 1 have to go to the drugstore e. e If anyone asks for Ill I'll be back in 10 minutes She went to the telephone booth inthe inthe in inthe the drugstore and repeated the number number num num- b ber r of his hotel Mr Killian doesn't answer the opera operator tor reported Can you ou tell me if he has been in his room today pressed Margie Cant say Do you wish to leave your our number Yes Ask him to call caU as soon ashe as ashe he returns No matter how late it was she would answer She slept in m the living room Im expecting a telephone message she explained But Dennis did not call There was however an Interruption tion which sent her pulses racing and the color into her checks cheeks A special delivery letter arrived and was brought up by the elevator boy Those moments between the call from the desk downstairs and the actual arrival of the letter seemed like a week Margie Margie Mar gie paced the floor She pot cot ot herself a drink She out DUt liquid polish on her nails and fresh water in the ice pans of the refrigerator AN APPEAL FROM I JACK At last the knock on the door for fori which she had been waiting She signed for it blindly Then the door I closed and she was left with the letter letter let let- ter in m her hands But it was not from Dennis Fora For Fora a moment her disappointment was so keen the room turned black about her Then with an impatient handshe hand handshe handshe she tore open the envelope to read what Jack Carrol h had d written Dearest Margie Im I'm still hoping you'll change your mind and see this matter as you ou did at first You were so sweet and sensible that day at Intel In- In tel loch en If you jou ou could only realize that marriage is not at all an the romantic romantic romantic roman roman- tic idyll girls are arc apt to imagine it iL It is a plain business proposition A partnership where each must do his rus part Wh Why are arc you afraid You weren't that nf night ht when I came awa away Please think it over very verv carefully darling I dont don't want to beg or try to force you into something you might regret but I do honestly feel that I can make you harpy Wont Won't you give me a chance It was an appealing letter But to Margie it only onh proved that what Maury had said was right So lon long longas g as you weren't tiresome about it a I i man man would submit to any amount of whims and temperament If she hap hM been in love witty with Jack Carrol as sh was with Dennis Denni if it she had hung on his words would he have plead pleaded cd with her like this OUT OF TOWN Certainly not decided Margie feeling almost as disillusioned and woefully wise as Vera What the they really want is the unattainable The girl out of their reach The one they know they cant can't have She wakened the next t morning to the sound of the telephone and ran barefooted to answer it but it was only the laundress who came every two weeks I couldn't ma make c no one hear me she complained I knocked and knocked Now that she was as up she right might aswell as aswell aswell well stay up Jean was already preparing preparing pre pre- paring to take the exercises which nothing could ever make her forego Margie dressed drank her coffee and and I orange juice and left the house but still there had been no word from irom Dennis Had he received her message and refused to telephone Determined to find out she called his hotel a again ain when she che reached the office saying Mr Killian KUlian please Again she waited while hile the telephone tele phone buzzed three times limes Mr Killian doesn't answer Margie called caned the Edison company Can YO vo me where Mr Killion KlI Kil- lion linn is urged Margie Marcie It is is very important She waited with a thumping heart while the unknown voice searched forthe for forthe forthe the Inform Information tion Mr Killian must be out of town He hasn't been in the of office for several sew sev eral oral days DEFEATED EVERYWHERE Balked Baffled Defeated Bump Bump- lug inc her head against a stone wall Was he i so o hurt so crushed with humiliation that he had crept away to die She remembered the way Vera had looked the night she took the overdose o of Her ghastly color and the way her mouth t sagged open God keep him from attempting anything like that she prayed Unable to conceal her fright any lon longer er she went to Maury's office He had been like a father to her forso for forso forso so long She had hod always regarded him as her friend and adviser She closed his door Maury Maur I 1 want to ask you ou some tiling thing He was not surprised The question question ques ques- tion was a familiar one during their of association years What is is a man mali apt to do when he lie demanded has been jilted Margie Maury's contemplative gaze was tender but his hs reply was flippant We That depends on the man dont don't all nIl take a beating beatin the same you ou know and But a man who Is strung high terribly sensitive like Dennis Killam Killain for instance Do you think he hed he'd d be tempted to kill himself JUST WAITING Men have died and worms have eaten them but not for love Maury 1 quoted I 1 think Im I'm safe sale in saying the average man would be far more tempted to get intoxicated than he would to take his life life But not Dennis Dennis she queried doubtfully I dont don't know anything about the young mans man's private habits my dear but I shouldn't worry about him if I were you you I cant can't help it she ghe admitted Ivi Ive I called the Edison company and hi his hotel and they haven't seen anything of him for several days Hell show up again Whether o or not Zinna broke the engagement you may be sure Dennis Killian hasn't crawled into a hole to die But Margies Margie's blue eyes were dark with foreboding Her mouth trembled trembled trembled trem trem- bled so pitt fully that Maury said Pull yourself together Margie Hell He'll let you know when he wants to see you you But he came to see me the day i it happened and I was so smart I wouldn't even talk to him Never mind Hell He'll come back Just Jus wait and be patient So she waited with the taste o of ashes In her mouth and despair hammering ham mering like a funeral dirge in her young heart She kept her appointments appoint appoint- appointments ments at the wholesale house matched samples selected wallpaper wallpaper I and examined materials as if she I were an efficient woman instead of a a frightened girlAnd girl And all that day nothing happened The hours of the night marched past her weary eary eyes like headless ghosts hosts I mocking her Morning found her I feeling reeling actually ill You look as if you hadn't slept at atall atall all Vera said sympathetically I didn't much Margie MarJie Jean said nothing She knew by bj now why Mar Margie ie turned pale every overy time the telephone rang But even Jean was as surprised when that night after dinner she opened the door to Dennis Killian To Be Continued Copyright R Register and Tribune Syndicate I e- e e |
