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shoulders, the familiar swirling of
his hair back from his forehead. .
And her heart instead of dancing
wildly as she had anticipated, stood
still abruptly. But she felt it grow
ing until she was all heart—-a great
bruised .hushed heart. (She saw the
back of Worth’s head, Sue bending
toward him talking, smiling . . .
And the great heart which she had
•become rocked unsteadily and lay
at their feet.
Louie and two girls were standing
over her when she opened her eyes.
She was on the co.t in the dingy
back room. Louie, kind
and ruddy, was apologizing
humidity, the crowd, the
Louie had known all along
I ‘IF TOMORROW COMES’
■MBut the announcement of Sue’s en
gagement to him had been made af
ter he had told lher lie loved her on
that wonderful moonlight night in
tlhe 'country.
For a moment Merry stared out
across the sea, drab and gray-green
under the Winter sky. Far out a
solitary fisherman drifted slowly, a
speck on. the horizon, and closer in
two gulls flew low over the break
ers.
BY AGEE HAYS
Worth would purposely de-
her.
Helen’s astonishment Merry
in humming softly, the candles
Her Mood Changes
From the quiet she drew peace.
Could not Sue have announced that
engagement whether it was true or
not? Was this net Sue’s way of
seeking revenge? 'She could not be
lieve
ceive
To
came
relit in her blue eyes.
Peter (had. persuaded Helen not
to open her little shop officially until
the next weeik-end. And since she
was still not strong enough to stroll
on tlhe beach he rented a car and
took her that afternoon fcr a drive.
Merry wisely declined to accom
pany them. Instead she remained in
her room and wrote to Worth. But
she wrote shyly and a little reticent
ly, partly becaust she could not
quite forget the offending clipping
and partly because she felt that an
attempt to confine to cold paper and
ink the shining wonder of her feel
ing for Wouth would be almost de
secration.
For a week those letters of Werth’s
came regularly and hers went to
him. She did not mention the
clipping Bolb had given her. Perhaps
he had not seen it either. It would
be a joke on Sue if neither of them
had noticed her “revenge.”
Merry worked about the cottage
contentedly now, helped Peter -put
the stock in order at Mother’s Shop
and arranged attractive posters there
Worth had said he 'could not
come down this week-end, but per
haps the next. The next! Ten more
days. Ten evenings alone watching
the waves uravel cn the sand, and
he would be beside her, Worth would
be here! She wondered how sihe
could manage to wait ten days. Ten
days! It seemed an eternity.
•Bob had come down the week be
fore and Merry had chided him for
it, though she hadn’t the heart to
scold him—in seven more days—
Worth would be there.
No Letters
But at the end of ten days it
was to be Bolb and not Worth who
again stood beside her. For on
Tuesday Worth’s usual letter did
did arrive. Wednesday, no letter.
Nor Thursday. Each day vague un
easiness grew within her, After the
second day she waited had to write
him until she would hear.
And Friday morning the charac
teristic long envelope, the character
istic Worth writing lay in her box.
“It’s all right! He has written!
It’s all right! It’s all right!” her
heart sang. .She knew now. He had
just been busy. In only a few hours
she’d see him, anyway.
But as sihe persued the brief note
a hard little pebble seemed to grow
to boulder proportions in her throat.
She could not swallow. She found
herself wandering wretchedly back
and forth on the walik
beach. Back and forth,
forth. It wasn’t real,
dreaming. This couldn’t
It had been such a few words to
change the course of one’s
few and in themselves each
inoffensive word. But she
at them as fascinated and
stricken as though she had
ered a serpent in the envelope,
knew it was killing her, but she
could not let it go. There was no
way of escaping its hideous and in
evitable poison.
“Dear Merry:
“I
fore,
easy,
have
hope
he your friend and will hold a
kind memory of me as I will of
you—always. As ever., WORTH.
P. S.—As much as I
to come down this one
I can see it wouldn’t
ters/’
albove the
Back and
iShe was
happen.
life, s<£.
.a very
stared
horror-
dis co v-
She
should have written you be
but believe me this is not
I realize now that I must
been a little impetuous. I
that at least you will let me
would like
more time,
help mat-
Lost
She realized only one thing. She
had lost Worth. This time it was
net imagination. It was by his own
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hand, by his own words, he had dis
missed their love.
Mute with anguish she walked
the shore where she had planned to
walk with Worth; walked until she
went home exhausted. And going
in the back door to avoid Mother,
she flung herself upon her bed shak
ing with dry, hopeless sobs.
,She didn’t want to see Bob when
he came, but Helen, worried by the
stark grief, in Merry’s eyes, persuad
ed her a walk with Bob would do
her good.
Bob kept his promise about not
making love to 'her, but she looked
up to see the same white haunted
expiession on his face that her mir
ror had shown. With sudden com
passion she flung herself in his .arms
lifted her lips to his.
became whiter as 'he
him and held her as
let her go, as if this
never return to him.
The kiss had not
foi^get Worth. It made her more
aware that the great love she had
for Worth was different. But Rob
ert’s love was not different. His ex
pression was as rapt as Worth’s or
her’s had ever been. Abruptly, she
wriggled free of his embrace.
“Foigive me, Bo;b!” She blinked
back tears resolutely.
Bek’s face
pressed her to
if he feared to
moment might
helped her to
CHAPTER. XXIV
Week upon wretched week passed
. -—days alike, as unimportant and
monotonous as the gray sands on
i the almost
. gone back
where he
quite well,
know that
paid his expenses at school
from Merry’s earnings, too.
resolute, continual study was
warding him with phenomenal pro
gress, and what money they sent he
spent reluctantly.
Helen watching Merry’s classic
beauty shadowed with mute grief,
undeistood and, understanding, was
bewildered. Worth Hunter seemed
fine and serious. How could he so
lightly break Merry’s heart?
Of course, being handsome and
popular, Worth' may have had many
love affairs—and Merry, Helen real
ized with a tender catch in her
throat that Merry was like herself.
Once she had loved like this, there
would never be another great love.
From her shop Helen could see
the stretch of beach, could see Merry
walking with eyes out to the sea,
waaching the gulls, watching the
majestic whitecaps, .but never turn
ing expectantly toward the land.
Something had died in Merry’s heart
semething beautiful which would
have turned her hopes eagerly back
foi* the sound of a footstep, for the
caress of a voice.
Always Alone
Even when Robert Foster strolled
doggedly beside her,
alone. iHelen sighed.
(been a poem which
cur to her, walking the beach
Merry was now:
There is a lonelier place than a dune
With a scud of white cloud in
November
There is my heart, O flying
when I remember.
When I remember. Strange
now her own great loneliness
come to a swift bright end, she
should have to suffer it still in the
aching heart of her daughter. And
Bob Foster—would he some day al
leviate the pain a little for Merry
as Wayne Millington had for Helen?
Summer arrived slowly at Sea
side. Bright days followed, at first,
by foggy chill ones; week-end crowds
increasing until by June they were
daily throngs. And Seaside had
become a musliroomd metropolis.
Merry had taken a place at Louie’s
restaurant.
Bob Foster, resigned from Uncle
Bob’s employ, was checking clerk at
the Natatorium.
And dread haunted Merry’s grief-
stricken heart—-a dread more vicious
each day. Worth would come. The
Hunters spent their summers here.
How
him,
as a
It
he did come. All of Lone's waitress
es Louie himself had been busy all
morning. Even the hour ntervals
of rest had not been enough to keep
Merry from aching with weariness.
Her mirror had shown her a slim
sad girl in a cool orchid uniform.
She had not noticed the etherial
beauty of the face, the pathetic wist-
fulness of the large violet eyes,
wihlie with cosmetic magic she trans
formed pallor into faintly flushed
radiance.
Slie Sees Worth Again
She approached the couple in
the front booth absently; stood be
side them before she recognized,
first Sue Williams who faced ■ her,
beautifully 'dressed and talking
with animation to—Worth!
Yes, Worth! Her heart recognized
him a split second before her eyes
did, the old broad sweep of his
Peter had
the great hospital
needed. Helen was
even John did not
of the money which
came
John’s
re
empty beach,
to
was
but
part
Merry
There
used to
was
had
re-
as
gull,
that
had
could she stand it — seeing
trying to accept him casually—
person apart from herself?
was a warm July Sunday when
desper-
the siz-
Louie
hearted
for the
work;
that in
the quiet eyes of this slender girl
shone a quality of intelligence and
sensivitity far surpassing that of his
ing until see was all heart—a great
Louie 'knew, too, that many who
came once, came regularly thereofiter
because they had seen Merry.
“You must rest vun—two hours,”
Louie panted. "Maybe tomorrow I
let you stay home a half day.”
•Merry was not listening. Now she
remembered. Worth! She sat up
quickly.
“The couple at the first table—
Did they notice me?” she demanded.
“I—” Mayme and Louie searched
their memories. “Maybe yes, may
be no. Now don’t you worry about
the customers. A lot of people
around there jump up. But ve take
care of them.”
Plans to Leave
After the others went back to
work, Merry lay there remorseful
and ashamed. She had made a foc-l
of herself in front of Worth and Sue
Williams. There was nothing she
could have done to have pleased Sue
more. Her cheeks were ' burning,
Merry sought desperately to escape.
She yearned to go to a far eorner of
the' earth where she would never
meet Worth, where she could not
hear of Sue. Somehow she knew
she could no longer wait tables
at Louie’s. She rose and finding
Lcuie in the kitchen told him.
Thereafter, she would always as
sociate great heartache and
ation with the odor of steak,
zling of fait.
“‘Help me only today,”
pleaded. See? Ve got this crowd.
I ain’t got time to get nobody now'.
You should giff me nodice.”
‘Merry’s sense of (responsibility had
always been keen. Louie was right.
She must help him today. As sick
with apprehension as if she was go
ing to face a firing squad. Merry
ventured back to the dining room.
But the crowd had gone. Those
she waited on now knew nothing
about what had happened an hour
before.
Through the long afternoon a part
of her was rehearsing for the next
meeting with Worth. She must
make >up a nonchalance for this
ghastly joke her heart had played on
her today.
“The shoritoake is nice today,” her
lips would say while within her she
was reiterating relentlessly. “Oh,
hello, Worth! Hello Sue,” very cas
ually’ . . Just enough surprise.
“Two hamburgers and a side of
•potatoes?” . . How nice to see you
again,” she must say that simply—
must make it sincere without gush
iness. Worth would hate gushiness.
Any one
“Two
drink?”
ternoon.
there.
She
them.
She
She hated deceit. But she must go
through with it. She must—
It was only five minutes before
she would have finished for the day
that she looked up to see Worth
coming in alone. 'She turned quick
ly and walked toward the 'kitchen,
her pulses throbbing wildly. May
be she could manage to stay out
there, could leave by the back
But she couldn't!
One of the girls rushed
breathlessly.
“Merry! Gosh! There’s a
lookin’ guy out in front askin’ fos
you! I meant to tell you but we
■been so busy. He come one before
this afternoon, while you were lying
down. He asked when you got off
and when I said 9, he said he would
be back then. Gee, are you in luck?
(To be continued)
did.
specials? And what tc
“Yes, I did faint this af-
It’s been pretty hot .back
But how did you know?”
must not seem to have seen
hated herself for this deceit.
door.
back
keen
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INTERVIEW HIGHWAY MINISTER
A delegation consisting of War
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of Kirkton; Reeve Burt, of Listow-
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highlway between Elginfield and
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The delegation were ■cordially re
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DIES IN LUCAN
’ Robert Ditchfield, a rosideiit 'fttf
Lucan for the past 17 years, died in
his 8 8th year. He formerly, lived in
Ingersoll and Woodstock district.
For the past years he had been in
ill health. He was twice married
and is survived by one daughter;
four stopi-daughters and nine sous.
The funeral was held Thursday from
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