Show kathleen norris says school love affairs can bo be dangerous dell bell syndicate service N aj 6 y VA r ifa t 1 nm 1 itz aa 1 1 1 p h matt alan was quite changed when he returned lie ile grip gripped ed m my hands and said to me 1 I could kill hill you now there I 1 hersi s no moment when tc I 1 buu n 1 I kill you but I 1 believe lieve conje come back to me by KATHLEEN NORRIS THIS EIS is the story of an gela who is now 23 and wants to be married this spring to the man who has won her heart and not only her heart but her mind and soul he is nine years older than she an army doctor stationed at one of our midwestern posts it would be a fine marriage for angela for he could give her a great deal in comfort and position that her earlier life has not had but theres a cloud the cloud is an old friend named matt mait who was angelas 1 boy friend when she was in high s school chool when I 1 was 17 and matt two years older I 1 thought there w was as nobody like him her letter says say we wc were really crazy about each ther other matt Is a big powerful fellow who seemed much older than he was and there was not a girl in school who would not have been thrilled to have him in love with her ile ho talked then about getting married but my mother told me that at our ages no altair affair could be serious went to matts cottage matt and his brother had a little two room cottage on the college grounds and when his brother was away I 1 used to go there sometimes we would buy provisions at the cash and carry 1 cook ourselves little dinners and haversat have reat great tun fun I 1 was living part of the I 1 time a at home in hi a town seven miles R away I 1 ity and part 0 of f the time with my aunt in town so that I 1 could manage a good deal of spare time without being questioned eventually on perhaps six or seven occasions I 1 stayed overnight there I 1 was never happy about this I 1 knew it was not right and I 1 was always afraid his brother would return unexpectedly and lose his respect for me that june matt left college in his junior year and went to a lumber mill to make enough money to got get married our correspondence languished matt was sent to central america years went by I 1 got my teachers degree and enjoyed my work and then last year I 1 met jack we have all our plans made for a spring wed ding I 1 love jack romantically idiotically oti cally but I 1 hope se sensibly risibly too I 1 can imagine no I 1 life tat a more gloriously satisfying than that of being my captains wife but the problem Is that matt has returned to town and whether his bis feeling for me died out or not it is at the blazing point now ile he insists that I 1 am promised to him and that we never endel that engagement ga and that I 1 cannot in honor marry jack A violent type this would be merely silly if U it were not that he Is an angry and viol violent ent type his brother told me once that their father killed himself aimse if and matts mother in a jealous rage I 1 sent for mitt matt and we had a te terrible interview he th threatened reat ened to disclose everything to jack who has returned to his post I 1 could tell him truly that jack knew of it and had said that my foolishness a as s P a little girl would not affect hj 10 love ve and respect for me today then ihben matt swore that I 1 would never live tobe to be jacks wife that I 1 had bad given aselt to him and be urged body and soul and that if he could not have me here he be would have me in eternity my father Is dead and I 1 dare not frighten my mother with this but I 1 am jjck with terror for fear car ho he will keep his word what can I 1 do I 1 am going ahead with wed ding plans and bridesmaids dresses but I 1 am in a cold sweat when I 1 woke wake up at night and any little sound makes my heart stop do you think he will dare do it I 1 cannot warn the police because then there would be publicity and if he knew he ha was being watched or was wa warned arned he might grow desperate deepers kte he is quite changed from what he was or not so much changed as worse than he was angrier and harder he gripped my hands and abd said to me 1 I would kill you now theres no moment when I 1 kill you but I 1 believe come back to me and ill wait until im sure sura you are double crossing me the letter ends with a wild appeal shall she run away shall she hide shall she tell jack of her danger what shall she do advised to move my answer went to her by airmail days ago and today she writes me gratefully that she is following my advice and that she hears that matt has left town I 1 advised her to move with her mother to the aunts home where her mother was going to move anyway after the wedding and by all means to notify the police the chances are that matts threats threat s weri were only threats only the a last despairing gesture of a man who sees his girl won by a better man but even so eo it is justas lust as well not to risk anything b the aunts family consists be of two bachelor cons bolls a much harder group 0 jo o scare than are aie two lone women arid more than that the police instantly checked on matt and ter temporarily harily placed a guard inconspicuously inthe in the neighborhood of the apartment house so the probability to ia that angela in a few weeks will feel herself safe in her new home with a husband to protect her but when it has involved cies the exchanging of passionate passionate totes notes signed your adoring hus bus band your crazy little loving wife the buying of groceries and cooking buim in a tiny cabin and especially when the girl has given the man the supreme supreme proof of her love and trust then there them is a bond that jant easily broken we hear bear a good deal in chesik days about the ibe unimportance of a a worn wom ans honor she harm harmany anyone but herself the girls argue and its ita nob odys businow |