| Show Trap Ped y Love I n GMT COOT M AA t 0 Ue l r BEGIN HERE nE TODAY Margo Marg Haynes is the uthe new girlIn girl girlIn In th the the- Tucker Advertising Agency when Bob ob Craddock comes to the I I Tucker agency from New York Craddock has thought in the month they have been d dating ting that he had come to know Margo very well welt But when ho he i receives elves a letter Jetter in D. ina lna masculine masculine mas mas- culine handwriting asking him to pass on to Margo a sealed note he be realizes he really reany knows nothing a aall at atall all nil of her her and and that he ho loves her When he gives gives' Margo Margo the note she makes no attempt to explain U the e mysterious circumstance Now Go On With the Story StOrT CHAPTER VO TWO If It If you think we wouldn't get along say so I wont won't be offended Dont Don't worry worry about that It wasn't the first time Jean Lewis who worked also at the TucK Tucker rl Adver Advertising Using agency had made the proposition that she she and Margo share an apartment It isn't that we wouldn't get along Ma Margo go explained carefully as she had explained before Its because well because because I like to live Jive alone But w wo we could get a two room apartment You could have the bed bedroom bedroom bed bed- room and Ill I'll take the pull down bed in the living room That way you'll have you your s privacy and Ill I'll have bavo mine Besides its it's so much cheaper Im I'm breaking myself living along and youre you're probably doing the same too x Margo knew she sh she was The rent for tor her rooms at the Seward was 40 a month her heir p phone one a a. party one-party Il line was va a month extra Forty Forty- four dollars and 50 cents a month to have merely a place Halt Hall her monthly salary The other half had to feed and clothe her Sometimes Some- Some tim times Imes S it reached and sometimes it She shook h her r head h-ead however Id Td rather be alone T f- f Offended Jean went off ff without a 8 word more tossing her herred red head as if she were vere offended Margo watched her hergo hergo hergo go reluctantly She liked Jean and she would have liked her for tor a roommate but she couldn't couldn t have her Couldn't that was alL aIL There was no use even considering the proposition She hoped she sh she hadn't lost ost Jeans Jean's friendship by But she was afraid fraid she had Jean was sensitive sensitive as as was Bob Bob was still hurt about the letter hurt lurt probably b because cause hadn't fold told him it was yas coming oming Jealous too True he had nad last night and they had talked t for r a little ittle while white but his voice over the phone jhone was strained and unnatural The Tho letter he hadn't referred to nd neither had she This morning she had come up In n the same elevator with him and andie ie lie had nodded and they had walked into the office ottice together Not with the he happy freedom between them of f other times though There was th he the letter standing between them she thinking of it it I and wondering wh what t she she sho co could could d say about It he puzzled puzzled- abou It It was was' between them again a plaIn white clean envelope when they hey bumped into e each ch other in inthe inthe inthe the hall coming back from lunch and It lt still was was' between them Bob behind the closed door of his office and Margo at her desk M Margo W U. U x 5 Yi Ie u. u l f O tj fi f.- f. 4 o d i l 5 1 itc I r. r N ff f. f 4 f f 5 f M fH jf gAs g h S' S t iS' iS c M t i 4 d k 4 q r i t 0 i rf f J t U t- t J y J wr l f If IY f YZ Y Z ff f I B f x y y L n i iti ti A tJ j 1 i C fY ff t I Kf N Nci I A t t rr r tH l' l I Is s i 1 As Margo largo w worked rl ed she thought of Bob He loved her She was Intuitive enough to know that knew that until nUl she sho explained it would be there pr pressing them farther farther farther far far- ther and farther apart No Mention of Letter Bob wouldn't speak of It It-he It he wasn't that hat kh kind d. d Something in him ilm would close lose his lip lips until she talked of ot the letter herself And she couldn't talk of ot it And there would be more letters letters wh which ch Bob would get which would come the he same way now that the first had lad come through safely For so soong long ong she had ached for for them lived Jived for them and now no that they were coming she was glad and sorry too Sorry because Bob had to be mixed up in the getting of t them It was d dangerous dangerous' she sh knew that but t what was there to do when she longed to hear when she had to hear icar or go crazy halt with fear and worry For three months she had known nothing but worry and fear lear and it was only in despe desperation that she had d decided Bob was was safe and honest and thoroughly y reliable reliable J Some way though she must tell teU him lim that that-he tha he mustn't give t the e letters to h her r openly penly an anI and l tha hc mustn't us nt ever mention them on the Itie telephone tele- tele phone jhone arid an rid that that he leave l ave them hem In her mail box box- at the apartment apartment apartment apart apart- ment or address them to her at the Seward Some way way but but she couldn't figure out a way which would not hurt him more than he hew w was vas s hurt hurl now Bob Loved LCJ Her Hez He loved her She was Intuitive enough to know that and sh she had known it for more than a week although he had said nothing about it t. t Perhaps he ho didn't realize it yet himself Some men didn't and Bob might be one of them But she w was s sure he loved her and here her she was using hIm because he did love Jove her At first It had seemed the natural natural natu- natu ral al thing thing to do b but brit t now now th t sh she had md done it it she was sorry She had been beeri sorry only since yesterday yester yesterday yest rda r- r da day when he tossed the letter her lap If there were only someone someone someone some some- some some- one else There wasn't There was was nobody but Bob whom she could trust since Rita went away With Rita the let letters ers had been so 80 simple They were sent in inan inan inan an envelope addressed ss d to Rita at athe atthe atthe the he sh she worked and she slipped them to he her w while Ue U they ey were eating lunch sometimes lunch sometimes even when they they- were shopping No one ever saw her do it and Rita did didn't t mind She Sho ho told fargo Margo she he liked th the adventure ture uro of it Two letters Jetters a week then loaded with news 1 D Dismay Then Fe Fear I- I Margo fargo re remembered thc the tho dismay y that came over her when Rita announced announced announced an an- she was going aW away away dis y dis dismay may may- that changed quickly to fear There There frantic plans at first firs about the letters but they all aU ha had been abandoned one by one Far Fa too risky for or Rita to forward th the letters leters by mail That would be a abad as bad as having the letters come dl dl- dl to her at the Seward o oat or at the office A ge general cral delivery address was the same hopeless Mar Margo o had no doubt that for tw two years every letter she had rec received through the mail had been opened and the contents carefully noted Two years it years it would be two full ful years tomorrow Nineteen years year of her life racing by bys s 's so so fast tast that tha the thought of f them made he her head whirl The last two years year seemed a whole lifetime Well the they were a whole whole- lifetime A child sh she had been at 19 a simple pleasure pleasure- loving child as all aU children were with the gigantic too big worries worrie a child has She smiled when she she thought though how vital it was to her that Eri Eric should give her aa a w wrIst watch fo for her birthday How v she she- I lay y awake awak at night how rl gj how v o s she could could coul tell him how v. she c could uld make him know The little subterfuges jh he had used Fools Her He How her heart was was vaS ost broken when the day came came an anthe and the tho package that Eric brought was wasa a great one instead of ot a small Rne Fighting back her tears and trying trying trying try try- ing to smile so that he wouldn wouldn't feel her disappointment Unwrapping Unwrapping Unwrapping Unwrap Unwrap- ping the big package and taking off the lid of DI the box Then finding finding finding find find- ing that Eric was havin having his usua usual joke for the watch was there after aler all an at the very bottom of the sewing sewing sew sew- ing basket the big box bo held Her He delighted laughter Erics Eric's hilarity for for- for he he be loved to fool her That birthday h her r nineteenth nineteenth- tho the last shed she'd had with Eric She Sh like to think ac about t It b bu but t somehow it kept pressing at he her mind After the gift gilt there was dinner dinner dinner din din- ner she dressed in her first black frock purchased for tor th the occasion Ini Im quite sophisticated and terribly terribly ter ter- ter- ter old looking dont don't you think Eric Terribly darling Ill Til do Anxiously for his opinion meant so much to her do Happy Birthday How close crose it all aU was Eric in his tuxedo with a white camelia In his buttonhole She with camelias camellas on her shoulder She r recalled called she had asked him especially to bring her camelias because she thou thought ht they were were so so smart so odd and they went so well with black chiffon Dinner at the Ambassador in the gold room shei nd Eric Dancing between courses cours s Eric danced divinely After the Ule Ambassador a snack of or little HUle thin pancakes and golden maple syrup at it the Tavern Three e cups of ot coffee cof- cof fee with the pancakes because il it I was her birthday and she had the watch and it it- didn't matter whether er or or r not she slept that night At home she had hung up up the black dress In her closet put the camelias camellas carefully in wa water er bc because ause she was was' going to wear them the tho next day the watch atch before she put jt lt under under- her pillow She looked at ather her left wrist The Th watch w wasn't wasn't nt there It was was in the leather box the in-the in the top dr drawer of her bure bureau u in in n- n her dressing closet It wasn't so so vital now that she have a L watch and she h hadn't worn Erics Eric's for tor a along long time Memories To wear it meant to be reminded too much of that birthday The black chiffon dress was In the closet too too as s fresh 88 as she sh he had taken it off that night but dated of course She hadn't worn it since either cither For a a. long time there was no need to wear it and when t there ere was w well she didn't that was all aU she knew she would always keep it Thrilled about wearing black thrilled about camelias thrilled about a platinum watch with a sapphire sapphire sapphire sap sap- in Its winding k key y and a a. bracelet chased of-chased ot chased links Thrilled ruled d about the Ambassador gold room One day a child and the nex next a woman t Bob Craddock passed through the main office e and out but the door to the corridor r of his straight shoulders reminded Margo of Eric Standing together they would be bethe bethe the same height she slie thought Th Their Ir height weight and their shoulders shoulders and and the likeness s stopped for tor Erie Eric was dark and Bob was fair To 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