HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-05-26, Page 6THURSDAY, MAY BOth, 1938 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
“AFRAID OF LOVE”
by Phyllis Moore Gallagher
Before either of them knew what
had happened, their Bps were press
ed together. Her arms were around
him and she, could feel the bones of
this shoulder strong and sharp thro'
his uniform^ She‘did not jiiove. She
didn’t want to. His lips were like
a touch of flame on her. own and the
burn ran through her blood, leaving
an ache of rapture, fear and utter
capitulation in its wake. He said
something beneath his kiss, but only
a shout could have been heard.
Then he took her arm and led her
hack to the house, his fine strength
making nothing of the wind.
On the side porch, out of the gale,
Lee took her by the shoulders and
swung her sharply around so that he
could look searchingly into her eyes.
He said: “Patsy, did you mean to
return my kiss like that? Did you?
It wasn’t just that you were afraid
out there--” His hands were hurting
her arms. .Suddenly a feeling of
dread possessed her—something re
lentless out .of the big house—some
thing relentless out of past. Faces
crowded into her brain—her mo
ther’s pale stricken face with the
haunted dark eyes; Marcia’s face—
Ted’s.
Without answering she pulled
quickly away from Lee and ran into
the house and up the long winding
stairs to her room, She fung herself
across the bed and buried her head
in her arms. Her whole small body
shook. Over and over she dried, to
herself: “This can’t happen to me!
It can’t! It can’t! I’m afraid of love!
CHAPTER IV
That night Patsy cried herself to
sleep in her wide tester bed. Next
morning she awakened with a faint
throb in her temples and her eyes
feeling as if they had been starched.
While she was still asleep old Eph-
riarn had brought her iced orange
juice, cereal and a glass of chilled
milk and put it on the little maple
table beside her bed.
Patsy ate hurriedly. Then she got
up, bathed, put on a gray wool frock
and tipped into Marcia’s room. Mar
cia was not there and downstairs she
learned from Mandy, the cook, that
her sister and Grandfather had gone
to Washington to see Dr. Cole Proc
tor, nerve specialist. Mr. Cavnedish,
old Mandy said, had gone into town
to look for an apartment. Mandy al
so said that Mr. Richard had called
very early, but had not wanted Patsy
to be awakened.
Patsy went out then. The morning
was lovely and cold and clear after
the storm. There was a faint, de
licious odor of wood smoke in the
air.
A Walk in the Woods
Richard’s house was about a 20-
minute walk from Tree Tops. She
found him in that curious basement
laboratory of his. He didn’t hear
her open the door.
Patsy flung her hat expertly on a
peg behind the door dropped her
coat on a dusty wood stool and went
•over to him. She ran her fingers
lightly through his wavy hair and
said: “Hello; How’s the big strep to-
eoccus-and-botulinus man today?"
Richard turned quickly. His hon
est -brown eyes lighted up with that
tender look that was hers aloiie. He
said: “Hello, there! You’re just m
time for the funeral. Those white
rats I inoculated yesterday all turn
ed up their toes and expired!”
“Oh, Richard!” she cried in an an
guished voice: “All your work for
nothing!"
Patsy Changes Her Plans
She laughed then. She had seen
him like this a hundred times before.
She thought now: “He’s forgotten
that I told him last night that I
wanted to marry him today.”
But he hadn’t forgotten. In the
next moment he said: “Changed your
mind, Patsy?"
Patsy’s face paled. She moistened
her lips. “I haven’t changed my
mind, Richard. But I couldn’t do
that to Grandfather. Not after what
happened last night. He’s making
such laborate plans for our marriage
I think it would break his heart if
we eloped."
Richard said: “I guess your right,
angel. It wouldn’t be exactly cri
cket. He’s a grand person.” Then
he took off his apron and hung it on
a wall peg. He said: “Let’s get out
of this rat's nest and take a walk. I
don’t think I ever saw a more lovely
day!”
They walked for an hour in the
sunshine, over the fields, red and
RESTORE VIGOR TO
EXHAUSTED NERVES
BY TAKING
They Help To Bring The
Shattered Nervous System
Back To Its Old Time
Condition
I gold, with showers of autumn leaves,
I along the banks of the Severn. They
laughed at the place where they once
found Victor Caldwell swimming and
how they had dug a hole and had
buried his clothes in it, leaving him
a note to that effect. The ground
still showed evidences of the tunnel
ing that frantic little boy had done
to save himself the humiliation of
going home draped in tree branches.
At last Richard said he had to get
back to his work and Patsy walked
alone for another hour, down a
twisting’ country road and up thro'
the apple orchard of Tree Tops to
the house. 'She came in, .her cheeks
flushed from the cold, and found Lee
Cavendish making himself complete
ly at home in the drawing room. She
winked a little in the soft light and
wondered if her nose was shiny and
hated herself for it.
Lee said: “ILuncheon has been
waiting an hour and Mandy is in a
temper; throwing pots and pans
around! What made you so late?
I’ve worn a -.path from the door to
the window and from the window to
the porch. That’ll be something to
remember me by. You see I now’
have a home. An apartment on State
Circle!”
Love Again
She felt suddenly that she must
gay something or do something lest
he see that she was in love with
him and aching and miserable over
it. She said, quickly, her eyes very
bright:
“I’ll race you to the dining room.”
They started off at a run through
the big house, slipping on rugs, col
liding at the small door of the
breakfast porch, laughing like chil
dren. In the silly, youthful tussle
Lee was determined to be the first
through the door, but his blond hair
was pulled and her fingers bit into
his shoulders for she became as
fierce in play as a tiger cub. “Oh,
no, you don’t, my good woman!” he
kept laughing. The struggle grew’
secretly more earnst than play. Be
cause he was a man he was secretly
determined to conquer her. H6
finally held her in an iron vise with
one arm, blocking her from passing
over the threshhold, smiling down
at her.
And suddenly he saw the look in
her eyes, felt a glow of excitement
because her golden head was so
close, because there was a faint
and elusive fragrance about her, be
cause she was as slim and supple
and lovely as a Spring flower against
him.
His other arm went about ’her,
hard and quick and tender, and he
bent and kissed her mouth. Her
lips clung And in that moment
they went blind with the conscious
ness that something breathtaking
and w’onderful had happened.
He crushed hex’ to him again and
kissed the parting of her hair and
her cheek where he had seen the
dimple. “I’ve no right to love you,
Patsy—no right at all. But I do—•
God knows I do. I knew it last
night on the portico and out in the
storm. I think I’ve known it
always.”
They beard the front door open;
heard Admiral Warfield say: “Now,
Marcia, if you’ll just try you can
lick it, dear!” Heard Marcia say,
“Dr. Proctor was right. I'll .try,
Granddad. I promise faithfully that
I’ll try!" Then they heard her
heavy step on the stairs and her
door close and Grandfather calling
old Ephraim.
Lee said: “Wait a minute, Patsy.”
And he w'ent straight out into the
hall to Admiral Warfield. Patsy
stood leaning against the door, her
heart racing, her fingers trembling,
something deep within .her urging
her to call him back, and yet some
thing more powerful conquering
that urge; something that told her,
as it must have told hundreds of
girls before her, to wait—that per
haps she wras the one exception—
that love would not do to her what
it had done to so many others.
Lee said: "Admiral Warfield, I’ve
fallen in loven with Patsy—you can
understand that, I know. I want to
marry her when—when I’m free to
marry anyone.”
Patsy’s icy fingers twined toge
ther, her legs became limp beneath
her. She heard Grandfather clear
his throat, heard him ta.p his "cane
against the bottom step of the
stairs, heard his voice and felt a
pang of relief when she recognized
it to be gentle and understanding.
He said: "Forgive me son, but
you see it takes a moment for an
old man# even an old sailor, to ad
just himself to surprises like this,
Last night I announced Patsy's en
gagement to Richard Bowie—" His
voice broke off suddenly and there
was a cogent pause. Then he went
on: "Does Patsy know about this?"
Patsy moved a little then, very
quietly, until she could see into the
hall. Lee was standing very straight
and tall and straight and folondiy
handsome, looking directly into
Grandfather’s puzzled eyes. And
Grandfather, she saw, was leaning a
little heavily on his cane, She
thought: "Oft, I should have stop
ed ILee! Grandfather is old! He’s hud
Marcia’s illness and Ted’s affair
with Virginia Keith and Tippy
flunking out of the Academy worry
ing him. Now' lie lias me—in love
with a married man!"
But when Lee answered evenly:
“Yes, sir, Patsy knows." Grandfather
took his hand, shook it and said: "I
like the w’ay you came to me, son—
an officer and a gentleman. Be good
to her.
Scene Shifts to Reno
Out in Reno, Kitty Mitchell Cav
endish sat up in her luxurious pink
satin bed, her shining black hair
falling around her slim shoulders,
her lovely eyes dilated. The break
fast on the little Chinese lacquered
table across her lap was untouched
She was staring at the headline of
a Reno newspaper as if she didn't
quite believe the bold black lines.
She read aloud, slowly:
“COUNT RODLFE de VEAU AND
MILLICENT, WARD, HEIRESS,
ELOPE!”
Her blue eyes dropped to the ar
ticle, still incredulous, irriated------
“The elopement came as a sur
prise to the friends of the
couple. It had been rumored
that Count de Veau would
marry Kitty Cavendish, wife of
Lieutenant Lee Cavenwish, U.
IS. N., Aviation Corps, as soon
as her Reno- decree was grant
ed—”
Kitty read no more. She was fur
ious and aghast! With one swift
move she out of bed, the breakfast
table crashing over the other side
to the rug. * She lit a cigarette and
paced the floor. So he had mar
ried Millicent Ward, had he! So ;he
sold bis title for a better price, had
he!—to a girl who- could probably
pay more for it than any other per
son in the world. He had made her
Kitty -Cavendish, the laughing stock
of the country! Well, he couldn't
get away with it! No one was going
to sit snickering up their sleeves at
her—no one was going to feel sorry
for her!
Bertha., her maid, came into the
room then and saw her mistress
smoking frantically, saw fthe over
turned coffee pot and the toast and
tomato juice and bacon spilled half
on the satin <coverlet and the floor.
She was almost afraid to interrupt
the tantrum but she began, hesitant
ly: “Miss Kitty, here’s a special de
livery for you, ma’am.”
What Kitty Learned
Kitty took the letter, opened it,
read it hastily part way through and
started to throw it into- the waste
basket. But then she saw Lee’s
name. Virginia Keith had written:
"By the time you get this you
will probably be married to
Rolfe: off with the old and on
the new! It’s a pleasant world,
isn’t it? You might be interested
to know that Lee is waiting as
breathlessly for the decree as
you.. You can guess the ans
wer—another woman. Her natfie
is Patsy Warfield and she’s very,
young and pretty. The odd part
is that she met ILee about three
weeks ago the very night -her
engagement to Richard Bowie
was being announced. The
courtship has been a whirlwind
affair to watch. A love match.
He swept her off ;her feet in the
best Cavendish tradition and
she’s giving up an operatic car
eer which the Bowie money
would have made possible to
marry .him. Richard Bowie took
the whole thing as a Maryland .
gentleman should, but he looks
‘like a darl^ wraith and seldom
leaves his laboratory. He is a
scientist."
Her vivid blue eyes began to glow.
Her lips tightened in a narrow line.
There wasn’t much Lee could do if
she wanted to stay married to him
•—not with the club she ;had to hold
over his head. ‘She called out, her
voice high-pitched and excited,
"Bertha! Bertha! Pack my trunks
and tell Jenkins to bring the lim
ousine around. We're going to An
napolis,"
CHAPTER V
Virginia Keith was throwing, as
she told her friends, a cocktail party
It was in. honour of Courtney Val-
lance, casting director for Premier
Pictures, who was in Annapolis,
where a navy film, staring glamor
ous Lucia La Fonda, was being made
Every one, Patsy saw as she and
Lee came through the door, was
there, for Virginia had no nice dis
crimination in inviting her guests.
In the corner of the long room
little Charlotte Fellows, in a gold
lame the color of her hair, was
picking out chopsticks on a black
lacquered piano. Tippy was sitting
beside her and Ted was standing, his
elbow resting on the body of the
piano, a ’’ighball in his fingers, Pat
sy noticed that both her brothers
were watching the shimmering white
vision of Virginia as she glided
that Virginia wsa ignoring Ted and
that a moment later she went over
to Tippy, caught his hand and led
him out on the shadowy balcony
overlooking the Academy grounds.
Patsy thought: “Ted’s still insane
ly infatuated by Virginia, but now
that he is becoming a nuisance
she wants to get rid of him. I don’t
like Tippy getting mixed <up in it.
Virginia means nothing to him* No
women ever will, really. He ought
to have more sense!"
Lee leaned close to Patsy. He said:
"About ten minutes of this will be
enough to- last lifetime, darling!
Say your hello and let’s duck!"
(To be continued)
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