| Show am ta he MAY D da alf MY TERY y OCTAVUS ROY COHEN by at roy ch S 1 SYNOPSIS antoinette peyton senior at the southern university of marland resents paterson thaders Th Byern ayers attentions to ivy welch seven toon teen year old coed and there Is a stormy scene ending with bit ter recriminations the tension fenelon being increased by max vernon another student 1 long ang thaders Th ayers friend rl reproaching reproach ivy tor for breaking a date wl with th h him im thayer and vernon th threaten each other CHAPTER 11 II continued billave you a class this hour lorry 71 no where can we talk here Nob odys likely to bother us in a classroom on such a day as tills this lie HB took her chin in his liand hand and turned her hend this way and that regarding her quizzically why tile the misery site she shook her head and seated herself on one otibe benches sit next to trie me larry I 1 want to havo have yu you close when I 1 talk without the necessity of looking straight at you sweet astl suffering tomatoes I 1 never ever lind that one pulled before im ser serious lotis I 1 mean I 1 want to talk seriously oil shuh I 1 tony this Is no day for melancholy forget cruet eating you and lets thresh it out ont tomorrow what say lets grab my and take the he air for nn an hour lord knows no healthy person has the right to stay indoors on this sort of a day slie site pressed ills his hand trying to snap tile me oil out t ut it arent you larry good scout I 1 but its no go were lie s eutz Z I 1 I 1 u u or 11 cc r fire when ready but theres nothing in the world to justify such be seriousness rious ness yes yea there Is plenty convince me if its anything about tills this job offered me here 11 it larry it about you at oil all I 1 I 1 noo no o he glar glanced iced at her out or of th the c corners 0 rne ri of his eyes find and felt a premonition of trouble this the tony lie knew usta ally slie she had a laugh on tier her klipst was ready beatly with quick repartee scell seemed ed to look upon life with a smile hut but now the enmei face was set in lines which bordered on sternness larry received the impression that slie she was older thad himself a tiling thing manifestly absurd there was trouble reflected in those one line eyes tier her first words which came hesitatingly bore out his fear Some things wrong larry awfully wrong ive got to talk it out with you lie ile fell in with tier her mood all right tony rony lets have it you know doggone dog gone well it if theres anything I 1 can do 1 I 1 know why I 1 came to you at any rate its one of the reasons and the other ISe cause slie site hesitated then took the plunge bravely well its fallout about ivy tie llo straightened my sister she nodded and something la in her milliner manner Call callsen Sed 11 look of worry to dawn to in tits his own eyes not even tony rony quite fathomed the depth of erection blitch existed between larry wel welch ch and tits his sister what vital about ivy tony turned in tier her seat until she faced I 1 arry directly 1 1 can talk straight cant ml I 1 you vou know you pan can As a matter of met fact ive never known you to do anything else aie youve louve got me a trine trifle kenred 1 I 1 want to title said simply avys in tron trouble ble yes and no that la is lorry larry she now but she ahe may be unless something la Is done im mixed of up in it too most likely licar hear from froin ivy about it land and I 1 thought id better come to you first VOT for the alie moment ills his thoughts were all of the kid sister whom he adored Wh itts wrong tony she met his eyes levelly how do you like pat IM thayer lie ile hesitated hesitate and shook his head not part tell ili aly he admitted ale he the tha sort of ninn man pic pick f for r ivy Is he noo no o not it 1 were doing un the 1 picking eking wel lIvy alvy Is lu in love with him I 1 with pat flat thayer yes and she eho thinks she to la engaged to him ile he took tonys arm and leaned C lose close Is that what has been wor crying you tony la is that what you canie came here to see me about yes and quite suddenly he threw back bach his hend head and lan langlieb glied llo ile laughed lau glied softly but bul with tremendous relief abosh I 1 what a goose you are arel I 1 avys cyb nob odys fool she can take care are of herself tony bit her lip site she spoke in a hard little voice you refuse to worry about it larry sure I 1 do even my sister has got to cut tier her eyeteeth some time and so the color drained from the girls cheeks im afraid then s bhe he sold in a hard bar little voice that ive got to tell you more than I 1 intended she hesitated but only for a see sec and then without looking at her companion she bhe told of the scene tit in the bower of pat thayer and ivy welch of her intrusion and of the bitterness which had followed larry listened attentively ing comment tie ile was more concerned about tony than about his sister youre worried about ivyl ivy he asked when site she had bad finished yes because keen use flat thayer seem to be the right sort of fellow 7 its because I 1 know tie he tie lie shook ills his head and a slow tot tol ernnt smile played about his lips im afraid youre not fair to Thi thilfer lyer he said we understand j of course that ugly rumors followed him to marlond but nothing was ever s substantiated now new listen tony im going to be honest with you I 1 think thinh youve gone off the deep end were friends and ivy Is my sister you ou forget that shee a kid girl just like any one of a hundred other freshmen coeds perhaps its better that she picked a rutn like pat ri linyer for tier her first love affair I 1 reckon every girl has to go through that once nn an ineat antion for a man older than her tm C dont k know no w anything abo about ut him and how has he been living since he came to she questioned abruptly larry frowned you mean the max vernon thing its common knowledge larry vint thayer has bled bied vernon of every cent he had played cards for big money and mas alai has lost have you watched that kid in the past few months up to last fall you never saw him that he grinning but now hes older and lies hes serious every one knows that hes broke that vernons Ver lookout but youre accepting rumor as fact we dont know that pat has been trimming vernon trimming I 1 stealing his money you buei m of course we dont know it but the whole college Is pretty sure and now hes gone out after ivy lie beems to take a perverse delight in making vernon miserable now that lies hes got his money max mas Is crazy about ivy sure he Is and hes a nice kid but ive got no right to tell my sla sis ter whom she shall run with sties ashes got a good head on her shoulders tony a darned good head im fond of her and I 1 think she likes me cretty well but she stand for it a minute it if I 1 chased after her telling her what she must anti and do now new listen fl lie raced faced tier her once again and took one or of tier her hands in tits his some thins filing has run on with your nanny youve nothing into something terrible and youre nil all wrong I 1 dont hold any brief for thayer but I 1 do say that until we know something we have no right to hutt bull int into n his relations relationships lif ps with any girl on the campus even it if flint girl Is ivy lets forget it tony she rose and walked to the window tier ter figure was outlined in tile the brilliant sunlight and larry welch stared tit at tier her curlon curiously sly here was n girl he know tit at all a girl gripped by a resentment which lie he could not understand tony looked out across the cam pus it was ans hij all so pence peaceful ful and quiet tile the stage was so magnificent ly se set for romance romance aured by grimness and nd yet ohl lurry larry was right not 0 jo o un fill der strind lie he was a generous per son who hat had the faculty of look ing at things through the other fel lows eyes she knew tha he like it was waa equally certai that larry could not be incited to ti fiction action by mere conjecture uie or rumor tony peyton left the window sud denly and returned to larry she stood before him slim and deter mined and something in her man tier ner caused him to rise from till til spat seat ile he waited for her to speak tits his face grave crave and when she did her words startled him larry Ll she said in n voice olce a lit fit tie above a whisper youve often told me that you love me to do you ills ilia face flamed and impulsively his arms went out toward her then dropped again agnin 1 I love loe jou you tony she looked nt at turn hm there was no sign of color in her cheeks 1 I will tell you something I 1 have never said before larry I 1 love you no nol I 1 as he impulsively stepped close to her dont touch me please 1 not now via im not finished but you do love me 71 yes I 1 wonder that you known it I 1 wonder that you seen it in every look and word that has passed between us you have you 1 I have hoped he said humbly hut but when one cares for a girl as aa I 1 do for you dear Is Is it because you do care tony that youve worried about ivy yes and its more than that she made a helpless little gesture you see larry I 1 had hoped to get you to put a stop to the affair without forcing me to say what I 1 have to there Is something I 1 want to tell you dont you tou tell me a thing you dont want tony A wistful little smile played fitfully about her lips tills this time I 1 have to perhaps im glad I 1 guess ive sounded rather ridiculous tand catty I 1 wonder but that youre somewhat disgusted with me ile he laughed lau glied shakily im only thinking of one thing what you lust just told we me im thinking of that too larry I 1 tin vent thought about anything je e for a long time she stopped talking ller her hands were tightly clasped then she stepped very close and looked levelly into ills eyes youve known for a long time that I 1 loved you larry I 1 know ive never neer said it in so sc words worda but youve known it just the sama llvell Y u rr aag er r ig h 1 loving you I 1 would never con consent sin t to marry you ue he shook his fits head slowly ive never dared wonder that far tony ive been too busy woud wondering erIng and wondering about whether you cared 1 I do care you know it now and yet jet saying that I 1 tell you in the same breath that I 1 cant marri marry you now do you wonder why yes lie he answered quietly 1 I do for a long time she did not speak she felt like a woman about to plunge from a great height then she told him with a rush of words which hurt and which required sheer physical courage larry she said steadily the 11 larry she sa said d steadily the reason I 1 cannot marry you Is because pat thayer la Is my husband teason leason I 1 cannot marry you Is because pat thayer Is my hus husband bandl I 1 an expression of utter bewilderment ra ent crossed larrys face fie understood der stood the girls words with without out being able immediately to grasp their significance and then he understood more poignantly than ever before just how flow much lie he loved this slender level eyed girl tits ills blue eyes sought tier her black ones to exchange a oies lines sage of frank and love then it seemed that a sinister shadow came between them a shadow very real to any man and won woman n in a like situation but starkly tragic to persons as young youn and filled with the passion of titus titas llop these two pat thaders Th ayers wife she belonged to thayer she was married to tbt man about whose commanding and exotic and highly unpleasant per son on allty there existed unsavory ru ni enors tony looked nt at him compassionately site she suffered because she had hurt him yet she felt fell a sense of infinite relief that she had bad elected I 1 to share hex her burden she saw BOW larrys I arryl blond head move slowly from side to side na as though he were struggling to understand what it meant striving to peer into the fu ture and reconstruct his dreams aroa the girl took his hand in both ot of hers and gazed straight into tits bis eyes im married to pat she 1 saad I quietly and her cheeks were crim son but ive never been his wife 1 ile he drew in his breath sharply you you menn mean tony just that lurry larry there has never been anything between pat and myself except a ceremony A great load lifted from rom the heart of the young man lie ile dared a question do you love himl her eyes widened 1 I despise him and young mr air welch threw back his head and smiled gosh 1 lie he said that makes an me happy when you told me he w ans your husband I 1 felt sick all over now it seem Im important t not a bit oh I 1 I 1 know im silly but it 11 seems as though everything can be adjusted if its true that you hate him its true all right enough then she lowered her voice cant you understand now why I 1 worried for ivy when I 1 saw her in his arms dont you yon see how flow different it I 1 happened to know that pat thayer thaya Is legally married that beli being a 17 tile tha case it exactly fair to ivy to permit the tiling thing to continue Is it scarcely A new and square set came to his jaw ill have to 11 als things I 1 sure will ile he was silent for ft moment then seated himself again sit down tony she wua was glad enough to obey she was glad he took tier her hand and spoke in a gentle understanding understands g voice can you tell me nil all abou it tony she nodded shean she answered 11 without tt io i lur turning n last year november 1027 where nashville when the team went up to play vanderbilt 1 I see you known thayer very long then no tie he had only been in col legg two months the whole campus was wild about him I 1 ava was s a year and a half anif younger than I 1 am now from the day he arrived at marland the girls were all crazy about him ile he seemed to have singled me out for hla his particular attention 11 1 I remember said larry grimly 1 I sure do P 1 1 I was waa flattered I 1 ran around with him film a good deal he took we me to lots of dances I 1 with you much then larry you were on the team and coach had you training pretty hard and you were always making up classes you had bad missed on football trips anyway I 1 was just a silly kid thata why I 1 know how ivy feels right now she regards pat tbt thayer pretty much as I 1 did for aw awhile lille not in love with him nearly so much as aa ashes dazzled by hla his manner mann erand and experience anyway I 1 knew I 1 was wa nattered flattered because the most picturesque man on the campus had chosen me I 1 liked to be with him and for a while I 1 was fond of him tie fie can be pretty charming if he wants to looking back on it I 1 know it at was a kid infatuation with no more depth than the water in a gold fish bowl tier her voice trailed off and when he be did not speak she continued im try trying ang very hard to make you yon see through my eyes as they thet were were then larry trying to make you un der stand me as I 1 was rather that than as aa I 1 am what the Anto antoinette luette pey ton of Novem bei bet 1027 did would be impossible for tile the tony of slay may 1020 1929 do you understand sure go ahead she drew a long breath the mic girls all envied me I 1 was silly enough to let my head get turned by taint that too soe see im not nol sparing myself at ull oll and th thin then en came the he game with vandy I 1 went and so did pat you dont know much about that day larry because you were with v ath the team all thealma the time Alme but we descended on nashville and took it by storm I 1 went to the game with pat and you remember what happened there our last minute rally that tied tile the score marland had tied one of the greatest teams in the southern conference and done it for the first time in his tory it was an intoxication everything was wonderful and now you can get ready to laugh at roe me now youre going to team learn what an idiot I 1 am well he prompted what TO BE BB CONTINUED |
