Show Trapped rapped By y Love Continued from Preceding P Page Pue ee rom ram om him It was like the burst of een grass after the dull snow of ot a aing ang ang ng ing winter The first crocus push- push g g its head up through hard I n ground A man dead for a long me coming to life me It was hope hoped Ind d joy Eric seldom shed tears jut art he had wept when he read reads s letter he ho had wept un- un hamed his strong shoulders sh shak- shak og g with wilh emotion The torture was another matt matter r a patter otter that had bad plagued him for fore e whole seven days It began pith Uh the fact that he could never bave ve Lucy as as s he was and it ended Iii the same lame minor key He could Rot pot ot expect it of Lucy Lucy Lucy-he he wouldn't I Mk isk k it of t her any more than he Mould of ot Margo t He had nothing to offer Lucy now f nothing That was why he ho hadn't Written an an answer to her note al although al al- though hough it hadn't called caned for an an- an iwer And in the same way that iras why he had written Margo to tell cell her that ho he needed to see Lucy For his peace of ot mind for forUs forlis forus Us lis future he to see Lucy i To see her lier would give him the strength to go on to on-to to write Lucy he letter he wanted to write to her would try to tell her how nuch he loved her and how much I n to would always love her and yet tow low hopeless his love was r Mad Margo Margo thought he was mad She I II I three letters telling him low pow mad he was But it was his r confiding to her his plans a o o see ice ee Lucy He Ho should have real- real sed that Margo had bad been through nough n gh and that she couldn't stand ny riy more worry about him Well he ho had put her at her case ease le re had told her he had dropped he e Idea deB of ot coming to the tho city elty She hould have his letter this morning r rather ther Bob Craddock should have and she would get it at noon toen they lunched together Margo e eed ed d not know that he had come He rould only tell her later when he heU hea a rw U safe lafe back In Gavin Perhaps if he managed carefully 8 i e could see her that her that was what he med finned to do See Sec her too with- with it her knowledge It would be fun fUll to tease her later Ia a letter and ask her if she had sliced Shred ed a tall slim sUm fellow lolling out lout the door of ot the tho Seward apart apart- a cuts a fellow with rimmed horn asses and a tweed topcoat She scold him of course b but t it auld be fun just the tho same After was w was s over o and he was safe at Ga- Ga n. n Safe at Gavin he repeated to him 1 If Monday morning after a night le eon on the bus he would be chang chang- gInto overalls and going down the plant with George and Corey id Bill and Joe and they would laughing and asking him what nd rId of at a time he had in Jl Pittsburgh id td he would be telling them lies The restaurant where ho he break break- ted was a big one and he ened en- en Md red It confidently In the tho far cor T was a uniformed policeman catS cat S efa Cl stack tack of ot swim swim- wg lag In syrup but Eric after his rat t glance paid no more snore attention The sight of ot his dark ue clothes and arid the star on his ead chest sent a charge harge of at emo emo- the man though He td d the same feeling later when he heed eased ed cd the street to the Willard tel itel ei and passed a traffic officer Bed waed him 50 so closely they almost Ibb ebbed d shoulders f t No lio Danger See there was no danger He Hed td d Margo had d been kidding tiding them them- lye Ives TWo officers both had r ked eked right at hIm and neither had cognized him In the tho hotel Eric walked through o lobby to the phone phoe booths and andone In one of them Lucy mid be staying with her mother oho aha were in town and ho he dIdn't tow lOW whether Mrs p entice sun led ed at the same place She might iv LVe e moved lIe Re smiled to himself as aa he book It closed was the tho same came place pInce telephone even e was the same aLbe he wasn't fc g going ing to te telephone Phone to g go o out A Across Acron cross the r lt from m the thc apartment nt house i a lIt little lc park ark where he hc could sit st 11 Await 4 wat Valt and watch Man le td Many y ti tim times mss In nd evenings i in n the thc summers he hes Lucy s Ion it had gone vcr over to the thc Park on the benches tc and talk or to l the still lUll 11 iS e waters of at the here e In the pond 7 daytime the children i. i I floated their tiny boats or played with the two swans which swam there Sitting In Park The presence of at a man sitting In inthe inthe the thc park In the daytime would not be unusual Eric knew for besides the nurses and their charges th the benches held a sprinkling of ot men older men who had nothing to do but come como out by day and sit in the sun and at night go back to their homes which were nearby He didn't leave the thc booth immediately imme imme- however r. r He took out his wallet which contained only his his' Gavin union card and Lucys Lucy's letter and the baggage check for his grip se sealed led it in a a big envelope he had ready and wrote a name on it Not John Wallace nor Eric Haynes His money he had already transferred transferred transferred trans trans- to his pockets Without the wallet in his possession possession posses posses- sion slon there was nothing to identify him as John Wallace of Gavin His life liCe as John Wallace was was safe and he didn't wish to jeopardize it It nor I did he wish if it his adventure ended disastrously to have his Gavin friends I implicated The Thc envelope he hc gave to the Willard Willard Wil WU- lard desk clerk to put in the safe until he hc called for it which if It things went as he hc intended would be late in the afternoon It was 10 o'clock when he hc boarded a street car for the Murray park district where Lucy lived To be continued tomorrow Copyright 1935 for The Salt Lake Telegram m i |