| Show SERIAL Forever and F Forever rever Bi Bill II Rutherford Sits on the Steps And Thinks s About Another Girl i By Phyllis Moore Gallagher SYNOPSIS Faith Carter lives In an unfashionable unfashionable able part of Washington with her parents her year old sister Penny and her older brother Terry Terry law law student To his family he appears worried and unhappy Faith is In Inlove Inlove inlove love with Tony Marshall but doubts his love for her when she sees him embrace the wealthy debutante Marcia Marcia Mar- Mar cia cla Stockbridge Dr Rutherford Rutherford Ruther Ruther- ford tord moves to the Carter home when his residency at the hospital 1 Is completed com com- Tony takes Faith to a party part at the Stockbridge mansion and Faith unhappy at Tonys Tony's attentions to Marcia asks Bill Rutherford to take her home As she stumbles getting getting getting get get- ting out of or the car Bill catches her Faith Is startled at her emotion CHAPTER SIX After Faith went vent Into the house Bill Rutherford sat at down on the porch step lighted a and smoked thoughtfully Pennys Penny's crowd was making a terrific terrific ter ter- rifle noise noise Feet pounded on stairs Shouts rang The radio shrieked Bill heard nothing He was remembering various things and being remembered they seemed now to have had an important important im important im- im effect on his whole life He remembered a certain person person person per per- son and he remembered that certain person in a certain place on certain nights A tall slim girl with olive skin and dark brown hair A girl who was different from Faith in m appearance different In every way Christine Webb He saw Christine now In a mink coat sitting demurely in the lobby of ot the hotel at New Haven on an October noonday waiting for him Saw her standing among the bareheaded Radcliffe girls in m their heeled flat shoes and poplin poplin pop pop- lin un dresses among them and yet vet completely apart because Christine was so beautiful Saw her eating hot dogs under the stadium stands between the halves of football games and heard again her husky laughter Saw her in m his arms and heard her whispers against his throat He had believed she loved him she was his girl his steady his hiso o o. o and o o. his great big moment But she hadn't loved him It was Tim Keith short and dark- dark haired whom she loved only loved only Tim didn't have any money and Christine wanted money Wanted Want Want- ed Bill Rutherford's money She was marrying him for that and for nothing else Only a week before the wedding he had found out Who Likes Him for Himself Not Himself Not His Hs Money The he engagement of ot Miss Christine Webb daughter of Mr and Mrs Carleton Webb to Doctor Doctor Doc Doe tor tar William Rutherford has been broken by mutual consent He had been hurt but it had left him with more than bitterness and disillusionment and the tears of youth It had left him wary of girls wondering who liked him for himself alone apart from his money Hed He'd met meta a lot of girls since Christine too and always questions crawled through his mind like snakes Would she like him if he had no na money at all all all' Would it be the same same How could he ever be sure sure And then one night two months ago standing on the fire escape at the hospital smoking smoking smoking ing watching the small boats on the Potomac coming to life Inthe in inthe inthe the darkness and the bright flash hash of a train coiling around the bend that led over the bridge Into Virginia he had wondered wondered wondered won won- dered If the right girl would ever come along For Christine hadn't been the right girl Hed He'd known that for a long time now and there were no regrets left leftin leftin leftin in him He had been lucky really really realy real real- ly y finding out about Christine in time It had left him free for forthe forthe forthe the right girl When she came along if she came And then Faith Carter had brought an injured messenger boy into the hospital hospital and and he had known She was the right girl irl The only girl irl for him Faith Faith Carter He Re was wondering now for the first time what Faiths Faith's feelings might be toward him Terry Perry Carter was lying on his bed in the dark staring up unseeingly un- un at the fantastic shadows that the moonlight was etching on the wall He was thinking about a girl A slim blond bland girl He wondered what she was doIng doing doing do do- ing now Sitting on that long bench with the other othet girls the theother theother theother other hostesses hostesses' Or was she dancing with some man she had never seen before Or was she with Joe Spinelli The first time he lie had gone one out to the Starlight Dime-a-Dance Dime Palace on the Rockville pike it had been on a alark lark Some of the fellows at school had originated the idea They had piled into Beef Johnson's Johnsons Johnsons Johnson's Johnsons Johnson's John John- sons son's powerful roadster and they had driven through the night singing college songs and giving college yells Beef Johnson had been out at Starlight once be before be- be fore What dames dames' Beef had told them Oh Boy Boyl Finds Nice Girl As Dance Hostess So they tIey had arrived armed at Starlight Starlight Star Star- light had poured out of Beefs Beef's car Six of them looking very ery much alike Pork pie hats plaid sports jackets crew cuts crepe- crepe soled shoes The manager of the Starlight Joe Spinelli Spinelli-so Spinelli so big bigand bigand bigand and dark and strong that he could throw a fellow the length of the hall and hardly notice it it- it had watched latched them his swarthy face darkening Joe didn't like college boys They didn't spend much they heckled started trouble trou trou- ble bie Beef and the others had bought strings of dance tickets and had chosen the girls they wanted He Terry had had one dollar in m his pocket and he had bought one tick ticket t. t Hed He'd chosen the first girl that bench not liking the idea much not even looking at the girl Hed He'd waited for the scent of cheap perfume to assail his nostrils But there was another kind of fragrance about her Of soap and water and hair dried In the sunshine He had looked at her then She was a small girl in a simple sun sto stopie sim- sim pie little white evening dress dress' Her hair was long and go golden de the color of ripe wheat when the sunset is on it it Her face was lovely with an almost ethereal quality and her eyes were strangely black black as muscatel muses muses- tel grapes and there was shyness shyness shy shy- ness behind their bright gaiety Shyness in her tremulous smUt smile too and in the way her arni arm aria rested on his shoulder Her Hel back beneath his hand was almost rigid She seemed to be on th the defensive as if she were expecting ex peeling the worst from anyone anyon who danced with her She didn't belong in a place like this He knew that He hadn't known what to say so he had not nol spoken at all j The dance was over o almost before before before be be- fore It began He had bought another ticket and that dance was over in a moment too Ive got exactly 80 cents left he lie had said feeling uncomfortable able Shall we dance that out Or shall we have something to eat eat Ice cream cream or or r something something some some- thing She had hed laughed suddenly and then she caught his hand in her small one and led him to a table in a curtained cubicle When en enthey they sat down she had said said said- said end and there was the faintest trace of an accent in her voice They dont don't sell ice cream here W Whis- Whis key Gin Champagne mostly Champagne mostly ginger ale ele But I dont don't t recommend recommend mend any of them them for for you ou ou Then she had said You haven haven't t I been here before have you j No he had said and felt ha his face coloring He didn't like to seem naive and inexperienced to toa toa a e. girl Any girl He had said Continued on the Following Page pae |
