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OctoW IS, 1937 THE EMPORIA DATLY GAZETTE faff. TWO'S COMPANY By MARGARET GOTOX HEJWKX3 nice -girl with' ilsien; ffsy, pluosp, routhful mothsr, brought home; hut- bind. stepfather, Is charmlnr. poised, dark-haired, weU-Ullored Hoaey'i junior by 10 a auto met Nina at "a party ho crashed. Hi hu copper hair and ah engaging manner.

Nlim'j closest friend, Chapter Nine. A Revealing" Flash. When Richard turned around arid came over to them, his face was imperturbable. Nine Introduced, him, and after a the Hallldays continued on Richard took Nina's arm. He began, to chuckle His chuckle was different from most people's.

way down In his thront. tha new heart throb, am 1 And even In the dusk she coiild see that his glowing. with amusement, probably. She had to make an effort to answer, "You hear everything. I never knew such a man.

Well, afe you flattered that they thought "Immeasurably, Nina, "I just going to turn 'round." But right on walking ahead, just the'sanie. "I thought' you were all tied up with that crowd at home?" chUd, when you the party" became -as a pricked balloon. faded away; immediately. Honey prone, with, a cold towel, on er-foreh'ead, arid a -soda-mint, on her'tongue. I'knew I should'-over- tske.you." Nina glanced at him.

"You knew that the air would do you good." i "Er-, Hlsylegs were not enough longer than In their, strides. He was' just under six Nine was good five feet It was almost like dancing, "she thought, they were Darkness came on all of a sudden, the way'it does in the autumn, and they 'lit cigarets and walked for some In silence. Nina began to feel an absurd lightheaded feeling; and when they turned finally, and faced the lights, glowing in the sky; overj.the; dark outlines of trie an even more absurd feeling would like to cry Quite be cause "what was there to cry over? "Hap- But she.could pnlyjook at him. she squeezed.hi?amvup agalriut her side; and.TieJreturned keep- Ing, hersr.close. ''Those' they're quite he artbrea aren't She nodded.

"Lights in the' darkness have a soft" spot-in my He wtnt on: "OnceV-Jii': Africa, 'in safari. wandered half might through the dense under- jsh, with nothing but my cigaret light' and a pop light, to keep the beasts away. first, I could only sense that something was following then, either my hearing became more acute, or my enemy more 'sure of himself, because .1 could hear an occasional twig a-branch snap back that'I hadn't touched I don't-think I-have ever responded to anything in-my life, as I IES'- the beauty of those camp llglifcs. twinkling. out the African night." He laughed; "I had reason to.

The next morning, our lead-boy bagged a huge black panther, riot 500 feet from my tent." The. casual he spoke -of 'it, horror seem all the more vivid; "Those snug little 5Sth street -mustr seem pretty pale in don't know. They mean home 1 and safety." 'TTo'u mentlori all these places in such'an 'offhand manner, Shanghai What -were you doing in Africa?" I-had a place in Morocco He looked some memory. i Nina' 'thought she would never get-: his- life straight, and she wanted-to not for Honey's get clue about his character; but know. when she had been e.

girl, driving in the big open ith daddy, she had' slipped a hand'into, the huge fur glove with and she had felt as though she the same person" as he; She" to feel that way now. A-something soft fell on- to her and another. It was the first snow of "Cook, Richard But in'a 'few. minutes had turned into rain. "Wait a second," he 'told her "I'll get a cab." They paused under a though several passed, they; were-all occupied.

After a two cars shot out of- the side street on a' green -sedan turned south, but -the empty taxi headed north, Richard whistled, stepped off the curb waving his stick Just as he did so, the driver of the 'second car changed his mind- and wheeled about drunkenly. with his back turn-rt, stood directly in the car's path. The overloaded- with young evidently quite' out 'of control. Nina called out frantically, Richard jumped to one side In time. The fender missed him-by bare' Inches.

was safe, but Nina- stood trembling. In the fraction of a second that ahechad watche'd him in' danger his' life, a revealing- flash had come Scott Mouse Co. REAL Union, ConniM Tau Boy or Seit. Sw TJt Anrvaf. to her and wts frightened stUl.

Terribly. "Nina He hurried over to her, saw that the tears were brimming over on to her white cheeks, and put his arm around her, "I'm all right, my dear But St wasrit that. When she had seen him standing there, right In the path of the oncoming cor," she hadn't called a warning his name had cried out: "Darling!" Nina knew now that she loved him. On Thanksgiving evening, left the Penwick's dinner-party as early as she decently could. Honey was the confirmed stay-out-the- late-er and- Nina wanted to be: In bed when they got home.

-She chose to play backgammon, rather than' bridge, because it was easier to. break up one person's game, than three. And she. chose to play with Tom Halliday, Betty's brother, because he was so easy to handle. Tom was a nice, ugly, boyish person, whose every remark you could predict.

If s'ou said it was a grand party, he would say, yes, it had been grand ever since you came. In other words, you knew where you. stood with him. He could be counted on, which was something. was '-one of the people who had asked Nina where she had been all.

his Ufe, the first time he met her. He was pretty crazy for her, poor Tom. After four games, she stopped without compunction. Tom was so delighted to have had her choose him, in, the first place, that his evening was made any way. Nina bade him good night on her shivery 74th street stoop, 'arid couldn't get-up to her room fart She made ready for the refusing to think.

She concentrated on creams and lotions, and only let herself go when the lights were out, and she was In Nina was in the first stages- of a series of- emotional Richard. In this present she "sought 1 to convince herself that she wasn't really in love with 1 him, at all. Physically attracted, yes. But not in love. Nina-had a and a pretty fair, smattering" of psychology.

In a out, of keeping-with her deliberate calculations she began to count up her -fingers, all- her past loves. Therel You'see'l. By; this method, she -toid herself; plained everything. That 18-year- old St. Paul Yale' and-Frank; that'good- looking-golfer, who Mid-Ocean, in Vanderpool kid, last winter all 'irnmature creatures, beside whom Richard Challpner- "was the of -sophistication.

The fact that her stepfather would have made many, of the-current men-about-town seem decidedly bucolic, only added weight to her gument. It was decided then. She was not in love with him, merely-be- glamored. So there was nothing to bite her fingernails' about, or' heave over. She-was just a silly girl.

She was' just about to curl" up In, a ball, like a kitten, and. go to sleep, with a- great load off her mind, when she thought of Had Richard heard her when she called out "Darling," so frantically? Had he suspected her childish infatuation? More cogitating. Then' no. She thought riot. Everybody was "darling" in 'this indiscriminate age, and Jwides, he had acted quite naturally'on the ride' home.

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