| Show HER OWN o 0 AY AYA 0 cA A GIRL o JO WHAT ABOUT JERRY But Judy arent aren't you going to marry narry Jerry asked Mr Ir Hathaway In n a surprised voice y I I do not know why when Mr 11 Hathaway asked me that question that the sight of or John Meredith should hould rise up in front of me but butt it t did 5 So plainly in my minds mind's eye was Image planted that I even c faugh caught t myself painfully trying to smile back into those tortured eyes I must must have have been silent longer ian 1 expected for I found myself a again aln listening to Mr Hathaway Who was repeating his question YI I looked around quickly to see If the apparition my brain had called up p was still standing by the man man- tel It was not there and I answered answered answered an an- with perfect honesty r I dont don't know Inow Then such Is the perversity of ones one's brain that the moment I spoke the pleading eyes and sympathetic mouth of Jerry Hathaway arose suddenly before me I drew my hand and and across my forehead and wondered wondered won- won dered Sered If I was going mad I had come nearer loving Jerry Hathaway the night before as we had stood in that scented syringa-scented garden than I had been since I knew him Then I thought if he heh h had d asked me In so many words I Iy mould y- y have given him my promise but ut ut this morning I could not see seemy my myself el married to him at all Ill 11 not worry you any longer Mr Hathaway I said with my eyes on the transmitter I did not want to see either of the men whose pictured faces my mind had haded called ed up Will ill you ou please tell Jerry to call me up at Im I'm going over there here right away Yes rYes Ill I'll tell him but my dear girl irl you must think that over Gerld Ger- Ger ild ld Hathaway is not to be lightly r refused fused by any girl provided his f father ther favors his sons son's choice Remembering that Mr Hathaway Sr r. r had tentatively tried to make me feel eel that his sons son's attentions were purely without Intention I 1 could not notor notor or or the life Ie of me refrain from ask- ask ng Are you rou intimating Mr Ir Hathaway Hathaway Hatha- Hatha way that you approve of me as the wife wife for your son Come over to the office after luncheon and I will wll tell you you you-or or Better etter still Ill I'll meet you and Jerry at t the Beaux Arts tonight for dinner dinner din din- ner ner and well we'll celebrate your betrothal betrothal be- be rothal there Before I could tell him that I was not ot of going with Jerry Terry to the Beaux Arts he had rung off oct o When I got to Mamie's Iamie's and told he the whole story she said I had ip p business to tell Mr Meredith that If would go with him when I had heady already made a date with Jerr Jerry t I I |
