Show HER OWN 0 0 cA GIRL of P JUDY'S DILEMMA Judy do you Jou know you rou have completed my cure said John Meredith Never again can I call myself cursed by life Ufe never again can I say that I 1 am not as other men are for tor I find that I can be moved by pure emotion thank emotion thank God for that And you ou do love me Judy do you not The question brought me me back backwith backwith with a thud I stood up and shook my soft feather trimmed evening wrap wran into place You do love me he whispered again I dont don't know II It r. told him hon hon- estly But your soft lips did answer answer my kisses your yielding form did not stiffen In my arms you acted as though you loved my caresses and surely no woman does that unless unless unless un un- un- un less she loves the man who gives them My 1 J. J dear Joan I 1 sa said Id that Is Isan isan isan an exploded notion noton Our mothers were taught that no girl could coul love caresses for tor their own sake as men mendo mendo mendo do but suddenly we have found out that we are human there Is something very sweet In your 1 kisses John Again he pulled me toward him I Judy you do not deny your emotions emotions emotions emo emo- you rou do love me you ou must love me Darling take pity on me I have missed so so much I have I Ineer never neer had any joy or 01 rea real happiness happiness happiness happi happi- ness before in 11 all aU my life I Judy called Joan Toan are you rou read ready T Year ear dear I was Just coming Well then Ill I'll send for John she said as she came through the drawing room door out in the hall haIl John also stepped forward forwar I J Iam Iam Jam am here with Jud Judy Sis he said In n spite of all aU his efforts to keep emotion out of his voice It slightly trembled Joan looked at me rather curi curl but only r remarked marked I 1 never neer saw you OU looking so EO lovely Judy I 1 dont don't think I 1 ever saw you in white before If anyone had asked me I do not think that I would have said that pure white without a vestige of color to relieve it would be the most becoming to you I wo would ld have said so broker broke in John impulsively From the mo mu- moment moment ment my eyes rested on her yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day I khew knew that only the absence of all color that we always associate with angelic purity purify would bring oUt oUther outher her radiant beauty Jack anyone would know you had always lived with books exclaimed exclaimed exclaimed ex ex- ex- ex claimed Joan Of course that poetical language sounds perfectly natural to you but probably any other of Judy's young men would have said Gad Judy you OU are certainly some chicken decked out In ostrich feathers Dont be silly Joan I 1 said for forJohn's forJohn's forJohn's Johns John's face showed his acute mor mor- Copyright 1926 NEA InEA Service Inc Tomorrow Johns John's Night |