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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-06-09, Page 2THURSDAY, JUNE Oth, 1038 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE “AFRAID OF LOVE” by Phyllis Moore Gallagher Back in Lee’s apartment Kitty stood very white and still in the •centre of the room. The first angry tumult of frustration had passed. The desire to draw her ruby finger­ nails down Patsy’s lovely young face had gone. The urge to beat her fists against’s Lee’s chest had gone, too. She stood very white and still, forgetting Rolfe de Veau and Millicent Ward for the first time in days-—forgetting just why she had come back to Annapolis and to Lee. Only one thing beat in her brain like the warning rattle of a snake— the thought to get even with Lee— to hurt -him as he had hurt her to­ night—to humiliate him as he had humiliated her before Patsy War- field. She hadn’t remembered just how tall and blonde and handsome he was—she hadn’t remembered how his lips had once flamed against hers—how she had loved him so desparately and impatiently that she had resorted to trickery to get him. But seeing him with Patsy to­ night, it had all come back over her. A hundred poignant memories, Football games with Lee starring. Dances at the Armory. A kiss on the sea wall. Everything. Otherwise he could not have hurt her; could not have humiliated her. Not until now when she had known definitely that she had lost Lee did she realize just how much she still loved him: just what stupid inane affairs she had had with Rolfe de Veau and. countless other men. And loving Lee, oddly enough as only a woman passionately in love can, she des­ pised him, too. Despised him and wanted to hurt and humiliate him. And she knew how she could do it. ensigns to marry then—they didn’t have to wait any specified time. Write what you please, Wally—” And then she hung up and called Baltimore and spoke to Tony Dortch who ran a gossip column. After that she called New- York. Finally, when she hung up the receiver for the last time, she lit a cigarette, puffed on it industriously and said to herself: “Now we shall see what we shall see.” CHAPTER VII Patsy woke the next day about 3 o’clock with the vague feeling that she hadn’t slept for even a second. She had heard the grandfather clock in the hall downstairs chime one, two, three. She had heard it strike five. Then she must have fallen asleep. Still, even then, thoughts and memories and sounds had stalked through her mind. Kitty Cavendish had been there, Lee’s tortured face Courtney Variance’s words just .s he had said them when driving her •home from State Circle: “Would it help any, Patsy, if I told you that I tare a lot about what happens to you—that I’d like to give you a screen test. If Dmetrieff thinks you have a yoke—you have a voice” Words, faces> sounds, shrieks—all night beating against her subcon­ scious mind; twisting her in bed; making her sob in her sleep far be­ yond any reaization of it. She was awake now-, weak and ’pent, and lay looking out of the window, the sunlight slanting golden across her silken curls, the delicate pallor of her cheeks, her desperate­ ly unhappy blue eyes. Old Ephriam Presently Patsy was in the car with Courtney Vallan.ee, sobbing convulsively what liadl happened. They drove away. .She read the paragraph, her face paling, her slender fingers trembling until the paper rattled. With tor- turned young eyes she looked up in­ to Ted’s compansionate face. She said; “Has—ihas (Lee seen this?” “I thinlc everyone in Annapolis has, Patsy,” said Ted, “I was with Lee all morning, There’ll be a court of inquiry and a court-marital, all right. But Lee’s more worried about the insinuations against you in this rotten thing than he is about himself.” Patsy moistened her lips. “It does not matter about me, Ted. Really, 1 only hate it because of Grandfather, But Lee—you know' what the navy means to Lee!” Rules of the Navy Ted tried to be cool and practical and soothing. “If Lee has 'Com­ mander Reguer defend him he might be acquitted. There’s nothing about naval law, that that man doesn't know. I think he could recite backward from memory the Navy Digest. Lee might get off with just being sentenced to stay at the foot of the lieutenant’s list for a couple of years, or remain there until he had lost several hundred numbers. The only trouble is Lee’s case is so damn weak. Even, if they had tes­ timony from the witnesses at that mack-wedding—and that would re­ quire wiring all the four corners of the world to locate those officers, there would be no one to prove what was in Lee’s mind. That he didn’t know lie was being legally married. Kitty’s testimony would be, natural­ ly, that they had planned it all out beforehand. Tht long and short of it would be Lee’s word alone to go on and tihe Judge Advocate and those seven officers sitting might not be convinced. And I understand in a case like this that the verdict had to be unanimous and can’t go by majority. .Suppose one man, say like Captain Richards, who is hard- boiled as hell—wasn’t convinced. Then Lee would be out of tihe Navy, court-martialed, and disgraced.” Patsy covered her face with her hands for a moment. Then they lay still and pale on the candlewick spread. “What does Lee think, Ted she finally asked. “As far as I can gather, he in­ tends to plead guilty, get out of the navy and divorce Kitty,” Ted told her. “He said this morning that he was going to tell the court that he didn’t want any counsel. He has an idea that, convicted or ecquitted, he will forever after be held in dubious respect by his fellow officers. And that’s a stiff dose to drink.” Patsy’s eyes opened wide. “Oh, Ted, he musn’t do that! He musn’t Don't you see, it wasn’t ihis fault'— it wasn’t! ISurely the court would understand, recommend clemency! Surely if Lee stood trial—” Ted reached for a cigarette. “I’ll talk to him, Patsy. I’m on my way now to Worden Field. He's with the Plebe team this afternoon.’ Then he cupped her chin with one hand and said: “Keep it up, old girl!” and left. red-brick house across the street, luxurious silver foxes dangling al­ most to her small patent pumps. Kitty saw Ted and Lee, too. She waved at them and smiled and as she ran down, the steps to her car parked at the curb she waved again and threw them a frivolous kiss. Resentment began to rise in Lee, welling up from the core of his be­ ing as lava stirs and rises within a volcano. Kitty smiling at him, throwing a kiss! She had her re­ venge now! iShe had dipped her je­ weled, scarlet-tipped fingers in poi­ son, .had splattered it in his and Patsy’s face and now she was happy —and no doubt felt justified. Ted said: “What nerve! Throw­ ing us a kiss after turning that lousy story over to the papers! What’s the old wheeze about a woman scorned , . ,?” “I don't know,” said Lee, his jaw’ a hard knot. And then he said, gritting his teeth, “Have you ever hated any one enough to kill him?” Ted said, “Lord, no!” But he thought, 'Tin lying. I’ve wanted to kill all the men who have pawed over Virginia. I think I’ve wanted to kill Virginia That couldn’t be love I couldn’t really love Virginia and feel like that! But what is it?” Kitty Meets Victor GIVES YOU THIS FEATURE Telling the World IShe pioked up the telephone, -call­ ed a Washington newspaper and asked for Wally Walters, who ran a gossip column. He wasn't easy to locate. She trailed him by wire from hot-spot to private homes and at last, about midnight, found him at a diplomatic reception. She said: “Wally, this is Kitty Cavendish. Yes I thought you’d remember me. You have written such delightful tid-bits about me. Well, here is a scoop for you. I'm in Annapolis. Lee wrote to me, pleading with me to come back to him. And I did. But be­ fore I could get here he had fallen violently in love with Patsy War- field. I came in to find them to­ gether in Lee’s apartment* What’s that? Well, after all, Wally, I do have my modesty—use your imag­ ination. I’m going to divorce Lee of course, and I shall name her -co­ respondent. By the way, Wally—it might interest you to know that Lee and I were married on December 24, 1926, at Claiborne, Md„ while he was still amidshipman. The Re-v. Charles Steele, of Elkton, per­ formed the ceremony if you want to check it. Yes, we got away with it and remarried in the chapel, June Week, when he got his commission. You see. the Government permitted had put a small berakfast on the table beside her bed as was his custom, but she couldn't eat it. She felt as if she could never eat again. And it was all her fault. -She had done with her life just what she had promised herself that she wouldn’t. She’d fallen in love and the man was Navy, attractive to women—but, thank God, not by them!—and married. And no matter how hard she tried there was nothing that could stop her from loving Lee Cavendish. Backache Bother You? It May Warn of Kidney Or Bladder Irregularities, Take A Diuretic For The Kidneys Be Sure And Get DOAN’S A t. MILBURN CO., LTD, PRODUCT Reading the “News” Ted came to her door then and almost as soon as he knocked he opened it and thrust his dark head around it. Oscar, Ted’s little wire- haired pup, slipped through the opening, skidded giddily on the round rag rug and made a leap for Patsy’s bed—-and Patsy. His tail wagged apologies for his uncon­ trolled affections and his licking tongue was more eloquent than words. Patsy sat up and hugged him in her arms and said: “Come on in, Ted. My, you look like the morning after, all right!” She had known the moment she saw Ted’s face that something was amiss. She wondered swiftly what Virginia Keith had done now — if Tippy was mixed up in it. All of Ted's troubles nowadays circled around Virginia. Ted had a newspaper rolled in one hand and was beating it nervously against the palm of the other. When he reached Patsy’s bed he opened it and said: “t think you ought to- see this, Sis. It’s a hell of a mess.”' And he pointed to Wally Watler’s column. Still Patsy thought it must have something to- do with Virginia. -She gave one of Oscars ears a tug and said; “Go to sleep, you imp!” And obediently the pooch retreated to her pillow, curled himself up tend [Went to sleep. No Defense After football practice Lee met Ted at the officers’ quarters. As they walked through the Yard to­ ward town, Lee’s eyes were full of the poignant memory filled beauty of the Academy—the massive gran­ ite buildings resting upon foundation of fine tradition and heroic deeds; the monuments of the heroes of the past as an inspiration to the heroes of the future. He stood and look­ ed about him. There was Mahan Hall, with many happy recollections of first class hops; the superintendent’s house, the gola that would be reached by one or two of his fellow class mates after hard years of Service; Maury Hall, where he had sweated over math and silently prayed to old Te­ cumseh; Memorial Hall, with the deathless words of Law-rence flam­ ing down—"Don’t give up the ship!’ Ted said: “What the devil are you doing?” “Thinking,” Lee answered .husk­ ily. “One day soon it will be an-, chors away for me and one last look at The Yard.” “That’s what I want to talk with you about, Lee,” Ted said, quickly, glad of the opening. He stared straight into Lee’s face. There were unaccustomed lines about his mouth, he saw, and shadows under his eyes He looked as if he had not slept for a month. He thought: “He’s tak­ ing this hard. He looks a good ten years older than he did last night.” Ted argued with him but Lee was determined; It was a nauseating mess, he said, that nobody could clean up., It was the result of the youth, his bad judgment in one wo­ man and liis cowardice in not resign­ ing from the Navy the moment he knew he was married, staring him full in the face. Ted said that he had put the wrong meaning of “co­ wardice,” but Lee only shrugged and said; “Skip It, Ted-—please.” As they turned out of the gate they saw Kitty come out of a flat front [Suddenly a dark, fashionably dressed young man crossed the nar­ row street, stopped at her car and put a- detaining hand on Kitty’s shoulder just as she was. about to step into the car, She turned, still smiling; and then her expression changed completely Ted said: “By the gods, that’s Victor Caldwell stopping Kitty to talk with her. You- know—he’s the mystery of Annapolis, Went to New York, struck it rich and nobody knows how. Richard Bowie, Patsy and I used to play with him years ago when Dad was stationed here. He was a good kid then. We were all nuts about him. But now he comes back in his cars, flaunts his wealth. Mere piece of swank—you know—hometown lad makes good!” •He paused, ahd then went on ex­ citedly: “Say-y-y-y, Kitty looks as if she’d seen a ghost!” CHAPTER VIH The Annapolis Hot Dog Parlour was crowded All of the riff-raff —the water-rats, the very dregs of the town—were there. iSome were shooting pool; others were dropping nickles into claw machines and grimly watching the small sil­ ver derricks reach for clocks, cig­ arette cases, golf balls and compacts and expertly pick them up and let them slide back from where they had been lifted; still others were drinking and eating. Tony Frenetti, who owned the parlor, was scanning the racing re­ sults in the morning paper to see if his number had won the pool. He folded the page, stopped short and began to grin. Instantly the numbers racket had been forgotten, for he saw the ar­ ticle about Patsy Warfield and read it through, his grin’ widening. Years ago he had been a gob on board the Commander’s Warfield’s ship.. Years ago he had grown to hate the com­ mander—to hate him with an in­ tensity and viciousness that lived and grew and remained within him long after the comnlader's death. That hatred had begun in Guam, born of nothing more than an insane jealousy of Warfield’s rank, his cul­ tured voice, his Academy back­ ground and his extreme good looks. Nor was Warfield like the other of­ ficers. He was, Tony imagined, a snob because of his ancestry and his forebears immortalized in oil and marble at the Academy. Nights in Samoa, in« Shanghai, in Hawaii, Tony had stayed awake in his bunk dreaming of skillfully, throwing his stilletto and striking the mark of his hatred—Command­ er Warfield. A brawl in a geisiha house in Tokio and being dishonor­ ably discharged from the navy had cheated Tony of his ambition. And then, clear across the world, Com­ mander Warfield had died. Tony came around from behind the counter then, waving the paper, his small black eyes glittering. 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