| Show TELEGRAM FICTION FOR LOVE OR MONEY 1 By ROB EDEN CHAPTER TWELVE Everything that Lally did took on ona ona ona a new meaning now for Brenda Lally ally listening for footsteps u upstairs for or the click of ot Vals Val's typewriter The fleet fleeting secret smile that thal came over her face when she heard him walking or heard him working upstairs up up- stairs The flush that spread pread over her cheeks checks when he came in Brenda noticed it and knew that it must have come tave come and gone for a long time and that she should have seen een it long ong ago I All AU for Val ValThe ValThe ValThe The soft oft quietness of ot Lally as she bent ent over some Jome mending for Val The he dinn dinners dinner rs she planned for tor him some spaghetti for tor tonight dear Val was saying that he wanted want want- ed some or Im Tm going to try a coconut coconut co cOa co- co custard pie pic Theres There's a recipe in n the paper and Val was saying that hat his mother used to make coconut coconut cocOanut coco cocOa nut custard pies pies or Do UDo you think If f we rented a 1 typewriter I could type his manuscript Do you think I could do It well enough 1 And when Brenda said she didn't think hink so that it would bo be too hard for or or her a beginner Well Vell Im I'm goIng gong go go- tag Ing ng to learn to type anyway There are are area a lot of things I could do for him if ItI I knew how to type The eagerness with which Lally waited for tor him an eagerness which she tried to hide so elaborately but which she couldn't now that Brenda knew ew Lally's love was so apparent that the older girl wondered how she could have missed seeing it be before be- be fore It was in everything her ster aLster sister sis s- aLs- aLs ter did or said It bloomed around her like a flower lower and she bloomed with it Lally had never been bee lovelier lovelier love love- lier her Brenda thought with her ma ma- like donna-like face so ao soft so ao pretty her great blue eyes ee shining with witha a new happiness And her content when Val was I there That spread around the the room about the flat fiat In the air A happy glorious content that br brought tears to Lo Brenda's eyes Hes He here the c content seem seemed d to say Hes Hos here and Im I'm happy and I love him and I shall walk The Same Brenda said nothing of course She wouldn't have let et Lally know that she had guessed her secret for anything She tried ko o bo be the same as 88 usual to both Lally and Val But she found herself watching Val Vat in much the tho same way she watched Lally to see see to to see If there was any change in him to see if it ithe he returned the love that Lally LaIty gave him She watched him when she ahe knew V it was useless and as u she watched she had to admit what she he had hac known all uIt along that Val was was fond of Lally terribly fond of ot her as her as a brother is s fond of ot a a. slater sister He treated treated treated treat treat- ed her th the same as he always had treated her sometimes tenderly sometimes teasing her always con con- He didn't now that she loved I him Brenda was positive of that He fie hadn't guessed He was unconscious of her love He came and went as he had since they had known him and now it seemed to Brenda as if It they had known him hint all their lives not just two months and that he fitted into their lives in a a. special groove that must have been there in the beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning for tor him Share Secret There were times when Brenda thought she he would go quite mad with tho the knowledge of ot Lally's LaIty's love Jove Twice she went to Dr Pierces Pierce's office office of of- fice Lice to tell him what she he had found out and ask him what she should do only to run away when it t was time to be bo admitted to his private quarters In the end she couldn't bear to share Lally's se secret secret secret se- se cret with anyone LaDy Lally was waiting and therefore she could wait walt too Lally was waitIng waitIng waiting wait- wait Ing patiently although every night when she went to bed she ahe never failed to o say say Another day gone darling Another day Then she would smile miJe Brenda knew what she meant and why the tho smile was there A day gone was a 8 day nearer near near- er to the time when Dr Koenig would arrive Lally didn't need to put her tho thoughts into words Since that night on the porch they had said little about about- Dr Koe Koe- nig Brenda had tried to bring up the subject several times but Lally didn't want to talk about it She had asked her sister too to say nothing about Val Vat to Dr Koenig That t was to be a secret Brenda tried to be the same with Val but she found herself con before him He noticed it Anything the the matter he asked Have I I done anything wrong Nothing Val Evidently he talked about It too for she spoke to Brenda Val wonders if it hes he's done anything wrong dear or if it hes he's said anything you didn't like He cant can't remember remember ber ber- but he says ho might have Youre You're not angry with him Just Tired No IINo no Im I'm tired that's all And Lally do you think he should come here so much 1 Dont Don't you think were we're monopolizing him 1 Perhaps if he didn't come so much if Laity Lally didn't see him so often often- no that wasn't tho the way to do it That was wrong The best thing to todo todo todo do was to let Val Vat come as much as ashe ashe ashe he wanted to to let Lally Laity have all tho the happiness ahe could get to drink k it in while she had it But he wants to come Brenda you act as WI if we lure him in He wont won't stay away Brenda didn't say anything more marc about Vats Val visits to the flat fiat al although although at- at though she ahe thought about them a good deal She was groping around for some plan but ut the tile plan would not come An emergency to face and she was unable to face It itt Lally's Lally happiness was at stake stake that's that's what whal it was Lally's life and happiness The Tho Future Sometimes she was furiously angry angry angry an an- gry at Val Vat for not returning the love that Lally was showering on him 1 the love that he didn't see Then I again she ahe was thankful that he I didn't see seo it and she ahe prayed anc and hoped that he would go on not knowing about it Other times she was trying to see into the future wild because she and all other humans humans humans hu hu- hu- hu mans were so 50 helpless about what wha was going to be She wanted to know what Lally Laity was going to do what Val Vat was going to do in the fu fu- fu ture She wanted to know so that tha she could decide what to do now It was the now the present that was so terrifying Sitting watching looking waitIng waiting waiting wait wait- ing when she should be doing something something some some- thing although she ahe didn't know what that something was WatchIng Watching Watching Watch Watch- ing Lally fall fail deeper and deeper Inlove in inlove love lova with Val Vat waUng for or him to falin fail fal in love with Lally LaUy Waiting to see what Dr Koenig would say about abou Laity Lally walking trying not ot to think that he might say aay Lally Laity would never be able to walk Trying oh God trying not to think of that In the next surge of ot worry sorry tryIng trying try try- ing to think what would happen i if Dr Koenig said It was entirely possible possible pos pos- sible that Lally would walk that tha he would make her walk And i it if Lally did walk Hoping I III 1 mustn't she ahe would catch r hr- self quickly Dr Pierce said I wasn't to hope too hope too much that It was wrong to hope too much But she couldn't help hoping though she ahe did try not to There Ther was Lally Laity walking dancing running running running run run- ning There was Lally LaUy flying Hying up and downstairs as she used to as a achild achild achild child her feet always going too fast stumbling because g she was so ao eager Lally had always been such a quick eager cager child And with Lall Lally walkIng walk walk- ing Irig there was still Val Vat What Wha would happen lappen then Would he ho love Jove her If It Laity Lally walked the tho blow ot of o Vals Val's not loving lo her wouldn't be so hard to take take take- He must love her Brenda said over and over to herself She said it In inthe the same annie passionate way viny Laity had said she ahe must walk Dr Koenig oe lg became an all ail t tant nt person in both the tho girls' girls lives especially Brendaa She thought o of him at times Umes as 3 a bearded ogre talking talk talk- ing ingin int in harsh broken English sh she he thought of ot him as a a. kindly clean clean- shaven haven man with witha a soft low voice She saw him n- n as na a twin to Dr Pierce both of ot them standing side by side aide Dr Koenig talking and Dr Pierce silent but agreeing When he waa was wa wasa a Ii bearded ogre she was afraid of o him but when h was shaven clean and kindly she ahe- was wu satisfied Sh She he was even satisfied when he ho was Dr Pierces Pirco's twin because then ah she ehe could hope more Lally's life her future depended on Dr Koenig Her visions of ot Dr Koenig ha had been of ot the bearded variety when she ahe came into the office late on one afternoon to pick up a 0 che checkMan checkMan check k Man uMan came In to see aee you around noon time Grace Ivar Informed her when when she she entered the reception room Man IUan 1 Brenda asked A Ilm 1 Min Man Yes lYes he seemed d disappointed because because be be- cause you weren't here Face tell fela fella fell fel a mile mUe Wouldn't leave his name but he was s a nice looking chap TaU Tall dark gray tweed suit no hat no-hat hat slight mustache and his hair was the kind kim that doesn't stay atay combed very longI long I could go for tor him myself in a bi big way Tall rail gray tweed suit no ha hat hat slight alight mustache and h his hair hair hair- Brenda shook her head hair I Cant imagine who it could be ba she said as she sha went vent into Ethels Ethel's office But when she ahe was WLL in the office offic waiting walling for Ethel to get through with a a. letter she ahe gave a start TaU Tall dark gray tweed suit suit sult-ot of course It was Val How strange not t to have recognized Graces Grace's description of ot him which was so excellent Hair Hai that wouldn't stay atay combed ver verlong very long 0 Val Vat here at here at the office She hadn't hadn recognized him at first because h wasn't in the tho world with the office He was in that separate world world- with Lally Suddenly she was very curious about his visit Continued Monday for The Tele Tele- gram Copyright Register and Tribune Syndicate |
