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Show A Telegram Serial ' , SOLD FOR A SONG -fffl (OonttaiMd Trot Preeetftas Pas) fore. When you lovs someone, does that parson absorb all your thoughts?" He nodded gravely. Its that way sometimes, and sometimes that's the way infatuation works. You might only bs infatuated with him." He was trying to be honest, as he always had been with her, but her confession wounded him more thsn anything also shs bad ever laid to him before. "You've known him such a short tims. you know." . "But that doesn't oeem to matter," mat-ter," she said slowly. "Hs loves me, Kyis. He wrote me today that hs loves me." Her fees when she turned to him was glowing, and her lips trembling. "I should think about It, Andrea. should consider it carefully if I rere you." Kyle looked away Into the trees. Hs hsd been considsring every ord he had uttered to Andrea so larefully for aucb a long time. "I thought it would be easy for ns to see him In town, but every lay Marie haa driven with me. Marie and sometimes Helen, too. "I think I understand." Hs had said thst to her so many times before, be-fore, when the bonds of ths psrk were too much for her, and the routine of her days aeemed unbearable. unbear-able. He did understand; hs thought hs understood Andrea better thsn anyone any-one else because he loved her ao much. In hia way, too, hs wss a prisoner here, because of the love he had for her. Andrea went back to the bouse snd to her room. When she was In It, ahs locked the door, and then went to her closet, whsrs beck of rack of dresses, pinned to ths sleeve cuff of a bathrobe, shs un-fsstened un-fsstened a key. It was ths key to ths middle drawer of her deek, a minuts key, but It always bad been entirely sstisfactory before. In the drawer shs kspt a diary, and a fsw things which only, had moaning to herself. Lately, this past five dsys, she had been keeping Jeffs letters in ths drawer. Billy was ths only one whf know where she kept the key hidden. Jeffs latest letter was on top. ths letter in which hs hsd told her he loved her. She sat down again to read it, and, although shs knew every word, every phrase by heart, shs seemed to be reading it for the first tims. It was only sfter shs finished It and atartsd to put it away la its placs again that shs saw her diary on ths left sids of tbs drawer Instead In-stead of ths right. She always kept it on ths right She must have bees so sager to get to Jeffs last letter thst shs hadn't noticed whea she opened the drawer. Someone had been through her things! Someone had read all of Jeffs letters, and this last oos which was for her eyes alone! She flew to the door, unlocked It. and ran to find Billy. He was In his room beyond hers. Hs hadn't, he ssid, sver touched anything in her drawer, au though hs knew where ths ksy was. She knew him better then that. "It was Marts, then" A whits-hot whits-hot fury cams over ths girl that Maris had read the tenderness in Jeffs letter, thst she had dared to shsrs it t Shs wss shaking when ohs went into her own room sgain, but It wss useless to do anything about the spying. Marie had always apled. There were times when Andrea bad laughed about the surveillance to Kyis. Shs didn't Isugh now, and shs never would again. 1 know bo was waiting for me around the corridor at Mm. Hyde's yestsrdey, but I couldn't get away. I havs to aee him, Kyle. A few minutes would bs enough. If only Helen would go alone with me, I wouldn't care. "I could get away from her and all she could do would bs to tell mother, and scold ms, but Marls, he'd report it to Mrs. Emery., I can't risk it with Maris." "Wait a whils. Marie won't be going every day. In a week or so Mrs. Emery will change her orders. Stil Thinking -I told you he was going away. He's leaving August 10th. Thst gives us just a little over two weeks and I won't see him again for two years! "Kyis, do you think It would do any good to go to Mrs. Emery, for me to go, I mean, and explain? Surely shs would listen this time!" She took both his hands and hsld them tight within hers. "Koyle, do you?" Her fees waa close to his, he eould have kiassd hsr Hps so easily. He didn't Slowly hs drew bis hands from hsr, shaking hia head. "You know as wen as I do that it wouldn't It would only make things worse. They're" he wss about to aay that they were bed enough now, but be checked himself him-self in time. . He bad said nothing to Andrea about Mrs. Emery's plana for a marriage with Harry, partly because be-cause be didn't want to hurt Andrea An-drea any more than abe was hurt and partly because Mrs. Emery had said aothing mors to him about ths marriage. For ths last fivs days he had been waiting ta hear what shs had decided, de-cided, but she apparently was only till thinking about It T, asksd Ricco to help me. 'I begged him to let one lesson go, but hs wouldn't I thought I might see Jeff during the time of the lesson. les-son. As it bappened, we couldn't have managed it anyway, for Marie Ma-rie eat la the studio all ths tims. "If they wouldn't watch me ao much. It's Uks being a prisoner, Kyle, never being abkt ta do anything any-thing you want ta do, never being able to see anyone yoa want to see. "You don't understand becsuse yea can do aa you please. You're free to come and go." |
