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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-05-12, Page 2tuviway, may THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE “AFRAID OF LOVE” by Phyllis Moore Gallagher jghe couldn’t tell him that the; only thing she had against the navy i were the uniforms that did glamor-1 ous things even to almost homely men. That would sound a little id- iotiv. So she fell back on the com­ plaints of navy women who, never­ theless, if they had to do it over again, would jump at the chance to marry in the navy. IShe said: “Well, look at Grand­ father. A retired Admiral of 67. Just a heart-broken, lonely old sailor finishing out his days here at Tree Tops, satisfying his craving for ac­ tive duty, the sea, salutes, flags wav­ ing and the rest of the show, by tin­ kering with his ship models and dreaming over his Reuterdahl paint­ ings of destroyers. “From the wife and sweetheart angle, a girl should be a fool to marry an officer until he’s getting a four-striper’s pay. And when he’s getting a four-striper’s pay he’s us­ ually too settled to be exactly roman­ tic. No. sir, no tired l'ittle wife role for me, getting circles under my eyes and calulses on my hands and all my J.G.’s earnings going for his uni­ forms, and to pay the mess bills! Not that any JG has 'invited me to face what it means! Now, of course, if 1 were an heiress . .” Never Hail Love Lee waited for her to finish, his eyes amused, regard her a little un­ certainly. He was thinking that it had been a long time since he had exchanged this many words with any­ one so young and eager-eyed and ut­ terly precious, and that the moon­ light was doing something extraor­ dinary to her hair. He was thinking that if he had come upon her like this several years before he would have been in a posi; tion to do something about the crav­ ing to know all about her, the feel of her golden hair in his fingers, the softness of .her lips against his own. But for some time now Kitty, and what Kitty had done to him while he was still a midshipman at the Academy, had stood 'between him and any chance of happiness. His jaw hardened and the left hand in his coat pocket clenched until the knuckles ached. He didn’t know where his reputation as a heart­ smasher had started. Certainly he wasn’t one. He’d never had love. Infatuation, yes—a wild, boyish in­ fatuation for Kitty Michell, who was older than he, who had .blinded him and made him believe for a while that something not quite beautiful was love. He wanted love now—real He was starved for the right man’s arms, the one woman’s lips. He was wretchedly homesick for the endearing realities of life. It occur­ red to him, with a sort of pang, that he’d like to have a small white ■house with the right girl waiting for him. Some one in a blue silk dress to match her eyes; some one arrang­ ing daffodils, to match her golden hair, on his supper table; some one who would always be in the small white house waiting for him at the end of sea duty; aind some one he’d know wasn’t in another man’s arms the moment his back was turned. He wondered swiftly if Patsy had .heard that Kitty was in Reno waiting to divorce him so she could marry the Count Rolfe de Veau. “And so,” Patsy finished, .her eyes bright, “don’t tell me anything about the sea being a mans job and the navy being romantic! I’ve heard all that before and it’s just so much duck soup.” She looked straight into his eyes. She was smiling, but her mouth trembled a little. He said: “You’re lying, of course.” And she said, softly: “Yes, I’m lying. I love the navy better than anything in the world, that can be criticized about it there I are a million compensations. You know that. I don’t have to tell you!” He grinned at her. r“’ ly he was conscious of a breathless ber voluptuous young body—leav- love, wo- Patsy thought: “I like the blond hair and his blue eyes and I think he has the most gentle mouth I ever saw. Perhaps I’m losing my mind but I feel that I would like to creep into his arms and stay there forever,’ She knew she was being very fool­ ish, of course. Lee Cavendish was exactly the man she had avoided all her life—-handsome, attractive to wo­ men, navy. And he was married. Her lieart began to pound and the pulses ed. m her throat and Wrists ach- CHAPTER II a momet the porch was very The orchestra of the night A grandfather’s clock in There are a few things 1 I suppose Ted told you. I’m becoming engaged to- For a moment she and pressed the hack her trembling pounding and her it had a fever. lips. She For still, paused, the hall ticked evenly, a little labor­ iously with great age. Several scar­ let leaves, plucked by a vagrant wind danced round the white columns of the portico and off into the night. But Patsy’s voice was very steady as she said: “Will you excuse me now, Mr. Ca­ vendish? must do. too, that night?” He replied, deadly even: “Yes, he told me.” And there was something so young and hurt and defeated about him that Patsy’s breath caught in her throat. She turned quickly and ran into the house and up the long, winding stairs. In her own room she softly shut the door and leaned against it, as if for support, closed her eyes of her hand to Her heart was brain felt-as if thought: “I won’t let this happen to me! I won’t! He’s handsome! He’s attractive to women! He’s navy! He is married! He’s everything I don’t want!” Suddenly, into the crying of her own mind, Patsy became slowly con­ scious of muffled sobs — sobs that came through the partly opened door connecting her room with Marcia’s. Patsy stood and listened and tried to reason why Marcia’s happy mood had changed into one of her frequent spells of morbid despair. There was never any accounting for it. Only to­ night it might be because about this time m the IFall, years ago, Grand­ father had announced her engage­ ment to Lieutenant Tom Kane. The house had looked very much as it did now—candles burning, flowers everywhere, garlands of chrysanthe­ mums strung through the spokes of the stairway. •She shivered her arms above hands. Marcia —as her mother had loved her father as Ted loved Virginia Keith—as she, Patsy, had promised herself that she would never love any man! Love had wrung her sister’s heart like that had crushed her spirit and struck grim lines about her mouth and eyes —and yes—affected her reason a bit. and began rubbing the elbows with her had loved Tom Kane Another Visitor .Suddenly Patsy was remembering a moment on the portico, a moment which had been breathless with ten­ sion. .She was remembering that she liked Lee’s blond hair and his blue eyes and his gentle smile and that she had wanted to creep into his arms and stay there forever. A chill of stark fear went through her and and she covered her face with her palms. Then she heard a voice: “Patsy, darling! Don’t you know that your guests are arriving! That your future husband is pacing the floor below! That old Ephriam is do­ ing his best to >be host and hostess and affianced couple all in one!” Patsy’s hands fell to her sides. She For one* little thing j could feel them cold and moist and trembling. Virginia Keith trailed languidly across the room to Patsy with her golden sandals shining Then abrupt- and her speacockgreen satin clinging tension between them. He thought |ing so ijttie to the imagination, swiftly: “God, if I were only free to|Forked tendrils of smoke curled up fall in love with her, to .hold her in! tke length of her white arm from the my arms. .................... But as flamed, it Kitty and offr---- had quite forgotten that Tree Tops ! jler money was ablaze with lights, ] " ’ ! with countless flowers and that dish­ es rattled in the kitchen because to­ night Admiral Warfield would an­ nounce Patsy’s engagement to Rich­ ard Bowie. She’s so—untouched.” {cigarette in her scarlet-tipped fm- quickly as his blood had '• „erSt cooled. For* there was,* a’beautiful young woman, almost he had nothing to could Hq but looking much younger, and 'er Patsy—not even friendship. He | who with her two discarded husbands p.1..,. m m „ __ jewels, her Paris perfumed •; background and her sleek red head Distressing Headaches A Symptom of Disease Help Banish Headaches With And Enjoy Good Health I T. MILBURN CO- LTD- PRODUCT made the conservative navy folk of Annapolis feel a little like country boobs. Patsy wondered how, as she had for two years now, how Ted had ever got up enough nerve to pursue her and fall in love with'her. She won­ dered what kept Ted in love with Virginia, when she was so obviously man-crazy and fickle. And fcably not quite normal. Patsy swallowed hard. It was difficult to speak, but she managed to say: "I didn’t hear the knocker, Virginia,” She hurried over to her maple dressing table, dabbed powder on her nose and ran a cursory comb through her golden curls. Virginia the smoke sensuously else. She pro- Inhaled deeply and held on her tongue. She did it as she did everything said: “You’re due for a surprise, Patsy. There is a most gorgeous man down­ stairs, Handsome. And something a {little better than being merely hand­ some. .Something you can’t quite put your finger on. He’s tall, of course, frightfully blond and has the dreamiest blue eyes you ever saw. And he’s tan. You know that rich bronze that comes of riding the sea oi’ walking the deck in the sun or being stationed in the tropics.” A Warning “Yes, I know,” said Patsy lightly, touching her lips with crimson. "But Lee Cavendish is married! And even if he weren’t, I’h becoming engaged tonight, and engaged girls aren’t on the market for gorgeous surprises! As for you, Virginia, if you make a play for him, Ted will probably kill you. Ted is intense like Mother’s side of the family and intensely jea­ lous. You ought to know that by now.” ■She thought: “If Ted could Virginia talking about another like him him kill been more like Tippy? Tippy never feels anything for long. Nothing real­ ly gets under his skin. But Marcia and Ted—and yes, I come right along with them no matter how much like Tippy I try to be!” Virginia opened her incredibly green eyes, turned her head a frac­ tion of an inch and smiled languidly at Patsy. “.So you know Lee Caven­ dish? But I’ll bet you didn’t know that next month he’ll be a free man —completely renovated. Then she walked serenely in­ drawing room. Cavendish, Patsy saw, was not Ricaard and Grandfather The Country Newspaper The Country Weekly is the most ■popular week-end visitor of the rur­ al community, welcomed fifey-two times a year. In some families it has been a fixture for generations. It is in most instances a tried and true friend. It puts ..on no airs, talks the language of the people it visits, knows them well and under- standingly tells its news of the neighborhood simply and quickly m good-will, does not oyer­ drops out of week rolls ■5. *Offi IE® Montreal-loronto ROCHESTER-BUFFALO-ERIE of a prize-fighter laugh rang out. was just the tonic hear man seen seen that he might kill her. I’ve crazy with jealousy. I’ve look at her as if he wanted to her. Why couldn’t Ted have it beat intolerably, he stood still. Ted’s and Virginia’s voices were crowded out by the chatter in the drawing room and some one playing softly on the piano. She lifted het golden head and fixed q faint smile on her lips-—a modern young’ Mona Lisa. to the Lee there, were deep in conversation before the flickering fire, spiraled glasses in their hands. Old Ephriam was pass- mg slowly from one guest to another with -co-cktails on a Sheffield tray. Tippy talking to blonde little Char­ lotte Fellows, looked up and saw Patsy. He grinned and joined his fists together above his sandy head in the salutation in the ring, Patsy’s silvery Tippy’s nonsense she needed to give her courage. The night, distorted and blurred <by what had happened on the portico and up­ stairs, grew less disturbing. She said Tippy, you’re an oaf!” Suddenly it seemed to Patsy that everyone was speaking at once. They had heard her, had turned. The room ■became a faint, friendly octopus. Hands heached out at her everywhere Presently everything Patsy -had felt on the portico became a little vague, a little unreal. It was not true, she thought but only her silly imaginings, that her heart had pounded and her wrists and temples' had ached—that she had wanted to creep into Lee Cavendish’s arms and stay there forever. She flung back her slim shoulders, raised hpr glossy head and searched for Richard’s eyes across the room. When she found them she gave him all the glory her young smile. (To be Continued) of •“I’m thinking of asking What do Lee prob­ ably doesn’t know the date of ■0V his He- some girl to marry me. you- think of the idea?” She—“It’s a great idea, if you ask me.” her She she continued, ;palatial estate brought across ■Claiborne side “how that the when here freedom himself!” ■She paused and took a drag on cigarette and inhaled slowly, wondered a little why Patsy’s pale cheeks suddenly began to flame. Certainly ILee .Cavendish, being a free man, didn’t mean anything to her. Or did it No. it couldn’t. Pat­ sy had known each other since they were kids, ever since the time her father was stationed for two years at the Academy. And always, while Richard was a student at the Univer­ sity of Pennsylvania he had Sipent his Summer vacations trailing Patsy over the globe—to Honolulu, to Seattle -—and once clear to Shanghai just to spend two weeks with her. Virginia went on in that curiously husky voice of hers: “People say that ;Lee never loved Kitty, that he married her for her money because an ensign—he was an ensign when —makes so little and he was so des­ perately poor. You know — first family in Virginias—stony broke— his father having a tough time rais­ ing the entrance fee to the Academy —that sort of background.” Portrait of Kitty She paused a moment and joined Patsy at the dressing table. “I can certainly see,” Twin Oaks the Kitty’s father Severn on the he retired and moved down from New York, would be enough to stagger any young man just out of the Academy. But when you meet Kitty, if you ever do, you’ll stop and reflect. I don’t man could resist her. eyes, gleaming /black cameo, features—the creature I have ever seen! about 20, though Fknow her to be at least 3 0. You see, I met Kitty Cavqndish in Paris last winter and got to know her intimately. We still correspond. I just had a letter from her telling me that she’s going to marry Count Rolfe de Veau the mo­ ment the decree is handed down.” “And so what, Virginia?” Virginia shrugged her bare white shoulders. “Nothing darling. Except I like the name* of Cavendish. Vir­ ginia Cavendish. That’s rather eu­ phonious, isn’t it?” There was some one at the door now. Some one wiho said evenly, deadly cold: “Patsy, I’d like Virginia—alone! ” Patsy and Virginia wheeled ly and faced T.ed Warfield. He say anythink more just then, didn’t need to. ly miserable young man, and a little shabbily erect shiny uniform, agony in his black eyes. His lean cheeks were flushed hot and ,painful. He was a young man who .had Virginia Keith in his blood. Like some kind of flame burning him up, destroying him—• As Patsy, white-faced passed through the door down the steps, leaving she heard Ted’s voice, strained with forced control. Heard him say, “What was the meaning of that last crack, Virginia Just what did you mean iby—euphonious?” Fearful Moments Patsy reached the bottom of the stairs and nervously looked back. Suppose some one heard them quar­ reling! 'Suppose Ted, wildly jealous as he was, killed Virginia! She felt the .blood fly out of her heart, to the farthest corners of her boBy, where see how any •Brilliant (blue hair, clear-cut most beautiful Looks to see quick- didn’t He He was an eloquent- proudly in his and shaken and hurried them alone, harsh and TRIED TO SELiL OLD Exeter ©uneii-Afttmeute Established 1873 and 1887 at Exeter, Ontario Published every Thursday uornlng 1UBSCRIPTION—$2.0,0 per year in advance RATES—Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c, each insertion for first four insertions. 25c. each subse­ quent insertion. Miscellaneous ar­ticles, To Rent, Wanted, Lost, ox Found 10c. per line of six word*. Reading notices 10c. Card of Thanks _ vertising 12 and 8c. per line. 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