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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1938-12-08, Page 2Synopsis: At the invitation of her wealthy uncle, Richard Carruth, and his foster -daughter Lois, Kettle Lodge leaves her home in a New tlanrp- shire hamlet for a month's visit in New York. Lois meets her at she train and on the way to the Carruths' Park Avenue penthouse warns her to call her aunt Evelyn, not Aunt Evelyn. They enter a great room filled with friends of Evelyn and her daughter Milli- cent who are there for cocktails. Katha is interested in Kemp Lor- ing as Lois had told her she had better not look at Kemp twice or Millicent would have her claws out. And Bill McMillan — she likes him but wonders whether this wealthy boy isn't merely planning to amuse himself with her. Her Uncle Richard arrives late in the afternoon and greets her as sin- cerely as Lois had. Evelyn pleads an engagement immediately after dinner and evidently considers her niece's visit a trial. Millicent doesn't even remain home for din- ner, going out with Kemp. Katha has a pleasant evening chatting with her uncle and Lois. Early next day McMillan phones Katha and makes a date for evening. Lois explains Evelyn's nervousness by saying she happened upon Eric Carlton and Evelyn while he was kissing her. Eric is younger than Evelyn but they go together con- stantly to parties while Richard is engrossed in business. Lois con- fides that Terry Reese, a college student with little money, whom she met while horseback riding in th park, has been avoiding her since he learned her father was so wealthy. CHAPTER V Katha, wearing a silver dress, sat opposite Bill McMillan in a night club. The music was soft and mellow around them. She felt warm and happy. He had been gay throughout dinner, talking nonsense. And when they danced and he had held her close- ly, she'd thought, "Why, I like him"—incredulously as if she had not expected to like him and was surprised and delighted that she did. Now she 'looked at him across the table and her eyes liked what they saw—Bill's bronze head, his intense blue eyes squintin a little ette, his finely carved mouth. Again the feeling of warmth and happiness swept over her. But— no! This was what always hap- pened to small town girls! It wouldn't happen to her! She wouldn't let it! Their Eyes Meet Bill's voice stopped her thoughts. He grinned. "Let's have it, Katha. What's going on in your head about Hie?" She laughed softly. "I was thinking of what Lois said today. She said, 'I like Bill, but' . . .." Smoky -colored eyes, blue eyes met. They smiled at each other. "I'll finish it for Lois," he said, looking at her directly. "I like Bill but he's a worthless spend- thrift who never earned a dime and who lives on the fat allowance of a rich old uncle. I like Bill ... but he should practice his profes- sion, which is law." "It's just what I thought," Rothe said. "And" on my second night in New York I'm out with precisely the kind of man my mother warned me against." He grinned again. "But your mother hasn't met me—yet." "No," slowly. Her mother would like Bill. You liked him in spite of yourself. You had to admire his head and his eyes and the way he smiled . . His hand reached out and cov- ered hers. "Katha, all evening I've been trying to avoid saying all the things you probably thought I'd say." He gave a short, deep laugh. "But I find I want to say them and I'd—I'd mean them: For instance, how much I like to look at you. Do you know what's been going on in my head about you or—or shall we d^nc_e again?" "Let's dance." Resting her hand on his boul- der, she thought," I want to hear what he thinks of me! I want to but I . they're stale compli- ments he's paid a hundred girls!!" Bill looked down and smiled. "Well, anyway, let me ay I think you're a very swell dan•er and that ...." The Country Cousin But he didn't go on. She weuld- n't believe him. Wise Katha — on the defensive. She wouldn't believe him if he told her that he bed lovhtl her across a room last evening before they had been in- troduced. That t4iis Morning he hntl rea.chc.d for the telephone as ' soon as he had awakened. That all day he hadn't been able to think of anything except seeing her tonight. Millicent's little cons at was That alaugh g country in. Ta h —but the laugh was on Millicent and Evelyn and—him! Arid Natha wouldn't believe him if he told her that heretofore he had preferred a hard fast game of polo or tennis or golf to having cocktails or dancing with any girl he knew. That he was wise enough to see through the game most girls played—girls who knew he was the sole relative of a fab- ulously rich old uncle. She wouldn't believe him if he said, "I've never worked because I've always had plenty of money and any place I'd occupy in a law firm could and should be filled by somebody who needs the money. I like sports and follow thein here and abroad—polo,-and tennis and golf." She Wouldn't Believe Him He wished she would believe him, that he could say, "I'ni in love with you, Katha. I love ev- erything about you. I'm sure about myself where you're con- cerned." Be wished he could be sure of her. Suddenly he smiled. There was good skiing up north now. But he wouldn't go. He wouldn't leave New York as long as Katha was here. And for the first time in his life he knew he'd rather look across a table at a girl and hold her closely while dancing than see the best game of anything ever played! As long as Katha was here . . . She was going to be here only a month. And in that month he had some- how to make her believe hint so that she would never go away, never leave him ... . Funny what happens to you, he thought, feeling her hand resting lightly on his shoulder. You niet scores and scores of girls, you liked some more than others, and then one night you saw one girl— the truth. Certainly she would not write her what Lois had told. Tier about Evelyn. Nor could she write her that Bill McMillan, in one. short unforgetable evening, had made her feel what no other Haan had over made her feel. They went to several places, smart places where famous .orches- tras 'were playing, second-rate places, and finally to a little Bo- hemian nightclub where the ta- bles were covered with red check- ered cloths and where a lone vio-, linist went from table to table and played haunting love songs, old and new. Filling the EngagementBook Bill asked the violinist to play "Ich Liebe Dieb" and he lighted a cigarette and looked tenderly at Katha while the music enclosed them. And Katha thought, "How did he know that that is one of my favorite songs? It means. I love you. But Bill isn't in love with me, Perhaps he thinks it would be fun to have a harmless little romance with me whilel'm here. And he'll stay here but I'll go back and we won't meet again, ever. He'll forget but I won't for- get, and he'd spoil the boys at home for me." Oh, why, couldn't she be sensible? Why did it seem so wonderful to be sitting in this funny little place with a man she had met just last evening? Why did she want tonight to be longer than any night had ever been be- fore? When the violinist went away, Bill asked, "Will you, have lunch with me tomorrow, Katha?" He flicked the ash froni his cigarette. "That is, if you haven't ....'" "I haven't any other plans ex- cept to go riding with Lois early in the morning." "You like Lois." • "I love her. She's a darling person." Bill grinned. "Have you an en- gagement book? 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The dates you had, the plans you had suddenly were nothing. This was falling in love:. . . It made the heart you'd thought was the strong, steady heart of an ath- lete do crazy gymnastics. It made you afraid and happy all at once. CHAPTER VI Now it seemed an incredibly Iong time since he had spoken to her. Looking down, smiling, he asked, "You still here?" She looked up and laughed softly, wishing she could think of a clever remark. But you can't be clever, you can't even think clearly for feeing ;;o much! She thought, "But I won't! I won't fall in love with Bill! They expect me to, Millicent and Evelyn, be- cause they know he's handsome and charming and amusing. They expect me to fall madly in love with the first man who takes me out in New York, And I won't!" "Have you hacl enough of this place?" he asked. "Then we'll go soDge place else, Tired?" SS',`,e smiled. "Always reminding me. . . . You promised to show ane where the lights are still bright at dawn. I'll stay awake if it kills inc." "Have you written your mother? If she knows what bad company you're in. Katha, don't let's talk. This music is too good." She could not write her mother get one. I'm going' to fill it up. Lunch tomorrow and a motor tour of the town. Dinner and the thea- tre tomorrow night. And on Wed- nesday night Kitty Henshaw is having a big party. . " She laughed. "But I'm visiting, my relatives.. ." • "You know that I know you' don't give a hang about any of your relatives e:;cent Richard and Lois. And you can ride with Lois in the morning and get back lit time to have breakfast with Rich- ard. You can nod at Millicent and Evelyn in restaurants and at parties. They just go home to sleep and change their clothes, you know." Did she know about Evelyn and Eric Carlton, he wondered. If she didn't, she would. Katha said, "And you know that I know that Millicent and Evelyn didn't want inc." Bill's eyes were tender again. "Richard and Lois did. And now —now I do." 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State if you are ed in the Carruths' drawing -room when Bill stepped in briskly to say goodnight. He took Katha's hand and said, "Don't thank me for tonight. Let me thank you. It was great. To- morrow at one. Good night, ICatha." "Good night, Bill. Thanks — anyway." As he walked down the street to his car, he whistled loudly and a little off key. He wished he had someone to whom to talk! He'd like to blow a trumpet and shack people on the back and shout, "I'm in love with Katha Lodge! She's beautiful, she's wonderful!" Nothing that had ever happened to him could compare to the crazy but beautiful tumult inside him now. Katha still stood where he had Ieft her.. Her face was burning. Then slowly she walked to the broad window and looked with charmed eyes at the peak of white skyscrapers rising out of the semi- darkness of a February dawn. He didn't kiss me, she thought. And I thought he 'would try. And though I'd have said no, I wanted him to kiss me. Bill... . 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