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Show AMERICAN FORK. CITIZEN o I 5 HOFFMANN ftYllOl SYNOPSIS UK life, na ft sot PCt "J L"Ai.i litanc. Hal .7 a wealthy b.nk- LwiiK which city tiL; from New Trk-limit. Trk-limit. He UkH ,rM-country auto bm "" ba"'- .anions dt hl T attractive Hrl. rViiII.,agI Giles ittl whom he inatlnc-" inatlnc-" lUrtln Crack. Barry's Zf, him. In Kerrlaan him at once. Hal is IdtaJM off feHn,w' n. Htrut Crack, but Umscy with Kerrliran 2akei HtUs Pr HAJTER HI k Ught looked washed, Qtd the semblance of fna the night, and the V the exhaust seemed key started off, aiming t at some near town. Q to think nothing had U yesterday for. after y the luggage under !i behind, be climbed Urt place. "Not today," bin, "Better try your i tact" ever at Kerrigan, were smiling aa ne ici with a large knife. inrht Hal'i eye; the foor-lnch blade was of natural stag- iperlng. with ring it 1 te, he said. aid Kerrigan, regard- use 'em to cat lunch and each other .hit loall use to when at your collection V ptt in Innocent, gener- llOgiit," he said. He it peeling of the beach tut the wheel where It "Manage thatr ; laid Hal, and took It Itk It. ... .11 . .'hm iia ace, ailments. ftf load, was cranky, pri that It might be a iunt us anvera rear- didn't give him l took at Instead, It Anastasla'a. tran- ite, below the b- window. And when Pi eut of an habitual otor cycle police, he 'a head occasionally ry, her lips mov- B One of comfort bttmacy almost. He w for a hint nf h i talking about, but 1 Vere nnlntolllo-lhln M and labored songs naqoity. jP yesterday's sense me shadow of some- 4 been odd, almost C wrru nan wait- woe again. If n uld ee sister An-I An-I that he ipla. cool round the fiorgotten sadness ry leeun; wouldn't ,-uwiy again C Gorged of his P puit, with Mll- the road f Wevery disarmed. was npoitKu. n. iPn at lunch Ume rr u to do " nlt: turn him !" him blacklisted ,CVU they bother , - . va I OP lAf el. - .. it- u" P"ce ine man nmriii. ,na Jet It might Indolpnt close to Hal' I uout flUUerr hat you'll f break fa t "ii to nave walor others either the ne Pulslphera litli.l - est rlt 1 ere "' or ear Pa ... 11 aln: i: and k llut 1 foment na atood U'rlnn 1-t a n8ht before. tO th K . K.-i. ... urraa- her polite ' Wri0 twlnklfnj rowa-lmplj - -- x. W.HU SlRYlCt cleanly traced, barely curved and prompted him. "Whatr "Maat1 1 yon lrvrmAmuT' he said. "You look as If you couldn't remember whether you'd turned off the gaa at home." She smiled without especial Joy. "The morning's always solemn," she said. ' Everything's so clear. In the morning you know It's silly to be afraid of the dark, but you know that when the dark cornea you'll be afraid again." "Are you afraid of the darkf She shook her head a little. "Not in the morning," she said. "Kerrigan "Ker-rigan wants a paper. If I find a place iien, do you want one?" Not a personal favor. Hal bowed with a smile as po litely reticent as hers. "Love It," he said. She left him, and Hal rummaged in the car for a tire gauge. Then Miller came out, blinking in the sun "Got a tire gauge?" Hal said. "Sure," said Miller. "Throw it on all around and see what we've got, will you?" Mrs. Pulsipher came through the door then, followed by Sister Anastasla and Crack. Miller half turned his grin toward them, and said with an air of sleepy clever ness: "You're drivln'. Why'nt you do itr Hal looked up smartly: at once Millers bleary grin was less cer tain of Itself. Was the man pos sessed of some animal loathsome ness that could affect others? He commanded Miller's flimsy effront ery with bis eyes, conscious that the golf ball In Crack's lazy band had stopped joggling, aa If sharing Its master's curiosity to see what Hal would do. "Check the tires," said Hal quiet ly. As he watched Miller go for the gauge, Hal's hands hung clear of his body, carefully, as If he had been handling sewage. So this day too was started with something wrong, something almost stealthy in it something besides the Infirmities of the car and the beat that grew to a alow embrace of everything la -the axy, ttll landscape. To get to Detroit quick ly, to be quit of Miller and the car that wa the focus for ur gency. The engine was little by little making up its mind to quit, discour aged by the brevity of easier gradl ents and cowed by a team of three busses that charged down a fierce happiness In their flapping tarpau Una from the Alleghany summits. "This la bad enough," said Kerrl gan, "But think of hopping the Atlantic. Listening for the horses to cool off every second for thirty hours would harden all my arteries. give me a million dollars' worth of persecution complex." And over his shoulder he asked Miller, "What's the matter with this studio-number of yours, Robin Hood?" "Little warm," said Miller, like a doped horse-trader. "How far do you reckon it to Detroit?" There waa a sort of lazy triumph In Crack's aaylng, as If he had a map and a speedometer In his lap "Between three and three fifty, 'At'll make It a long trip for today." "We're going to do It," said Hal, "if we have to trade this barge for bicycles." It rained as they dipped down the last rolling land of Pennsylvania to the straight roads of Ohio. For two miles a short passenger train hurried darkly along the straight track that converged upon the straight road. Kerrigan musing on It, Hal glanced at him and at It with a pleasant sense of Intimacy deepening between them. Then the locomotive cried exasperation at the crossing. "Train com In'," Pulsipher mur mured. I Miller chuckled. "I seen that quite a ways back," he said. Then tbey came to Akron, a spread of buildings that grew Irregularly Ir-regularly higher toward a nubbin of the tallest. In -the modern style. Mrs. Pulsipher knew it was Akron by the smell of rubber. The city had lunch places, and that was . Important It waa near three o'clock. Miller frankly distrusted the "Tea Shoppe" that had caught Mrs. Pulsipher's Pul-sipher's bright and hungry eye, and be wouldn't go In. But the lady made It hard for the others Impos slble for John not to follow her. The dog had dragged Barry down the street on a good scent, and Hal and Kerrigan let the others fill one table, avoiding the sollclta tlon of Crack's lazily hopeful look "You and the princess aren't still walking round each oUfer stiff- legged, are you?" said Kerrigan. watching the friendly brown eyes quizzically. "Wbyr "Oh, I haven't got any Kreuger blood lu me," said Kerrigan quickly. I just wondered If wt could begin having a happy time the three ti us or whether I had to be a ref eree. "I think ahe'a a grand girl," said Hal calmly. "You'll forgive my asking ask-ing what Kreuger blood's got to do with It" 'Kreuger made matches once along with a Mr. Toll," said Kerrigan. Kerri-gan. Hal laughed and started to say something, but then Barry came In to them. Her unstudied smile of pleasure at having been waited for barely Included Hal In Its beginning, and the end of It with a leisure) drooping of the eyelids, was. all for Kerrigan. A ad that piqued Ilal smartly, even while he pretended to chuckle to himself. I know a weakness In you. bean- tlful, and I'm still going to use It. But he found himself watching her carefully, alertly, as If he might miss something pleasant "First," said Kerrigan, when they'd sat down, "we ought to be so ciable." Barry glanced up from her menu In Innocent Inquiry. "I thought we were," she said; "aren't we?" "All right, we are," said Kerrigan. "You admit It Then let us bare our hearts to each other. Here's what I thought Just for an awfully good romp. Each of us gives a short biography of him-, or her-, self, you see like the suburban obituaries in the city paper " . "Jolly." said Hal "Well, we don't have to die aft erwards unless we want to," Ker rigan went on. "And it's no fair dying either till each of the others asks one question. We draw lota to see who starts." He broke matches to different lengths, offered them In his flat the "Must You Be So Solemn?" He Said. ends protruding evenly. He said, "Or don't you want to do this?" glancing at Barry. "Mm," said Barry, and held out her hand. "Who goes first long or short?" "Long." There waa a thin air of excitement about it as in a game of Truth or Consequences. Barry studiously kept her eyea on Kerrigan's. Hal rummaged In his mind for the right question to ask her when hla turn came. And the little tenseness stayed about them after Barry had drawn the middle-length match, Hal the short with Kerrigan to begin, "Frankly I don't know why I start ed this," said Kerrigan, his eyes cheerful and warm, "so Til make It dull as possible. I was born In Chi cago, fifty -one years ago, with a caul. My mother wanted me to go Into the church, my stepfather step-father wanted me In a' bank, so I decided to be a cowboy. I entered the University of Chi cago at the age of seventeen and came out of it again at seventeen and a quarter for a Job on the range In Wyoming. I wrote up a barroom shooting and had the misfortune to get It printed In a Cheyenne paper. Since then I've worked on nineteen newspapers, being fired from one and resigning from eighteen In the nick of time. I am on my way to the twentieth, and last, run by an old friend in Southern California. I like horses, shad roe, and derby hats; and I never take old brandy except when I can get It So there.' "Ah, Is that all?" said Barry, her brows raised, her blue eyes tender ly disappointed. "Enough for today," said Kerrl gan. "Now It's" "But I get a question," said Barry, "So you do." "Any question V Kerrigan said, "The more person al, the more flattering," In quiet courtliness. She looked at him, looked down at the knife she fingered In her Arm, dexterous hand, then up again gen tly. "Have you been married?" she said. "Never," said Kerrigan. "I used to keep coming down with love, but there was always something hap pened. She watched him a second longer, the gentleness draining reluctantly from her eyes. Then for the first time since they'd sat down she turned to Hal, Incuriously, and mid, vjtt "- ' r The one Ume ton were flred " Hal began, watching te be aure tt waa an right Kerrigan'! look started start-ed pleased dancing. "Why were youT Hal said. "Well, it'a a long ttory long story," aald Kerrigan. "Then all the better," said Barry, low and comfortable, "Come on- yon started ttala." Well, my friends. It seems I have I half-brother," aald Kerrigan, still tasting the cheerful reminiscence: "older respectable, systematic aa a ball team, ateady, worthy, ambi tions. "I used to displease bin very much In youth," Kerrigan went on. So we didn't get along. He gave up the job of reforming me and went into a bank and did well. Ten yeara passed. J had a Job on a paper in Montana. My half brother's broth-er's bank sent him out to look at some copper mlnea that were In trouble and I was interview. I knew the situation at the mlnea, and I waa pretty sure the situation In my brother's head hadn't changed much In ten years. So Instead of listening to what he thought he ought to think about It and getting ten years' accumulated Y. M. 0. A. on the side, I smacked out a couple of columns of what I thought he ought to think and went off to sit up with a sick friend. "Mjr brother made his tall pretty big when he saw the Interview, but It waa bigger- when he found out who wrote It And before I could get to the office, I was flred. It was a dirty trick on him. But It made a new man of me. That was before I got used to having things make new men of me all the time." Barry watched him for a moment of confidential pleasure, smiling, and then said, "I like that" And Hal suspected that If the tough cheeks hadn't been so thickly peopled peo-pled with the little red veins, Ker rigan might have blushed. "Now It's your turn," he said to her. Her look at Kerrigan was unwor- ried, but faintly reticent And Hal was as Intent for the parting of her full lips as if she were going to tell his fortune. Then In quiet leisure she said: "I'm twenty-three. I was born In Massachusetts, In Deerfleld. Both my parents are dead. I finished high school and was secretary to a country coun-try lawyer for two years. I'd always wanted to go on the stage, so when I when things changed, when my father died, I got a job in stock. I had three years of that round the East without getting to Broadway; and now Tm going to try to get Into pictures." She looked down thoughtfully, thought-fully, perhaps rellevedly, at the knife In her hand to show she had finished. "Thanks for Ustentn'," she added, with a brighter glance at Kerrigan. "You get questions. too." "What do you like best to do?' said Kerrigan at once. "Read," she said. "You've read a lot 7" he said. She smiled easily. "I learned to read when I was six, and I've read ever since. Tve learned darn near everything I know from reading what I like, what I don't like, what I what I want I copied characters charac-ters In books until one day I found I didn't have any idea who I really waa at alL And that frightened me a little." Lunch came then, and she seemed to stop sooner that she had at first Intended. Hal hoped the obituaries would be ended too Including his question to Barry. He couldn't ask her any of the things he found he really wanted to know; and such passable questions as he thought of sounded silly. But when the dishes were settled and the Iced tea and coffee situation straightened out Kerrigan looked at him and said, "Now your question." Barry looked up at Unl with a frank, quiet confidence that gave him unexpected pleasure. "If you when you make good In the movies, and have lots of money,1 he said, "what will you do?" Her eyea were faintly surprised by interest and they stayed on his, appraising the picture he'd provoked for her. "I hadnt thought" she said. "If If I should arrive, , , ," That ptetnre was dubious, but the light lingered gently In her eyes, neither reckless with hope nor In timidated by disappointment If I should arrive and they plugged me and finished me, I'd go to England France, to see it to see if Ifs the place I've thought It might be. rd live there for a while, and then ... I don't know." Her lighted eyes came back slow ly and without bitterness to the fragile, cheap tearoom. Hal won dered If the loneliness In her look was accidental; he felt that If she'd been aware of It she wouldn't have let it appear. "Now it's your turn," she said to him. "I'll tell you," said Hal. "I'm twenty-six. I was born in New York, but If I had It to do over again, I wouldn't be born there ; Td only go there when I felt like It I went to school and coll(T' In New England, and then was sent abroad to decide what I'd do. 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