Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1932, Page 41

THE EVENING STAR, WASHING MARTINS s Vichi * INSTALLMENT XVIIL 1 OR three whole days it rained.| The promenade was deserted. The bathing place was desertea. | The smart visitors who stayed at the Big Petermann, Herr Wu- | nd Bobby and the L; y &l stayed: indoo Good. Marti stlin He behaved as if the weather were fine and nothing at all the matter between | him and May. Once or twice during the day he left the bathing station and strolled into the town. | I'm going to have & meal,” he said to Herr Brindl. But he did nothing of the sort. He did not by any means go to have a meal. Occasionally he cooked himself bacon and eggs on the spirit Jamp. It was the post office he trudged to, and came back empty handed. He fingered thc lly the real silver | medal wk 3 won for his record | swim. He swam his 1,500-beter course, though_the » ‘was cold and rough. He took minutes 58 seconds—this could not be called good time. Again | he went to the post. Nothing. —He | stood in front of the Big Pe!crmanni SUMMER Baum 7y A keep your head above water and play the game as best you can. Then you get knocked on the head and you drop. You're finished. I'm not a man to cry out before 'm hurt. I've always stuck it out and kept my heart up has ever known me down-he: poor-spirited or fed-up. I've let any one see it when been tired or hungry or what might be. But when it cgmes to bel disqualified—and then you going a: as well and me staying here with the whole rotten business on my -hands— well, then I give up. Let them do as they like, disqualify me and ostracize me and trample o me. Right. Good. I'm not the only one nowadays——" May did not reply at once to this| outburst. She moved nearer to Mar- | tin, who was still bent over his work. She took one hand from the pocket of her coat and laid it on his blond wet head. She looked at once vacantly and intently, at the water flowing from the spout. When she found that Martin had nothing further to say, when he ltopged his sewing and merely laid his head in her hand, she quickly sat down on the threshold beside him. “So that's how it is,” she said. “You and whistled. No result. | must go across to the hotel and have He put a good face on it and took some money out of his drawer. He laid hands on his sacred capital and went into the Cafe Petermann, where on wet afternoons the visitors of the hotel usu- ally congreated. May was not to be seen. 'Martin drummed on the table and whistled in tune to the little or- chestra % “Hullo, Martin. happy as all that? asked Carla as she passed by. Martin paid and went to the post. On the third day a letter was handed to him over the count It was an im- ortant looking registered letter, and | B heart gave & bound as he signed for | it. He tore open the envelope and read | the letter while he stood in the entrance, ushed this way and that by people com= ng in and going out. First he went White, then green, then he flushed a dark red. He gulped several times and then stuffed the letter into his pocket and went straight across the square and back ibto, his hut, When he got in he réad the letter once more. It was s hateful, beastly letter, & rottén let- ter through and through. Martin sat and stared. He threw himself on the small béd. SR healthy man sleeps off a pain that hAloo 31\3121% to be borne. S0 Martin slept, and when he awoke, though it was still bad, the worst of the agony seemed to have passed oOver. Martin Jooked for something to do. It was raining hard. He piilled off his shoes and began to patch and hammer at the worn soles. The Frauensee shingle was sharp and soon made an end of cheap 12-schilling shoes. A walking tour in them was not to be thought of. How crisscross and contrary everything was! Martin looked about him with an expression of raging fury and good- humored despair. His eyes fell on his pajamas, Wwhich had had a large tear in the sleeve ever since Anika Pozwaurek’s yisit. He took up the coat and got out his little housewife. Then seating, himseélf on the \t::emm?mn“; the dri spout_he an Wi al immen::p‘:%gth of thread to stitch away and forget his troubles. May fotld him thus occupled, When, shortly affer 3 o'clock she came stroll- ing over the wet sand with a cigarette in her moyth and an air of exaggerated unconcern, She was wearing & leather motoring ‘coat_and a leather motoring cap. The leather chin straps were un- fastened and hanging loose, and she was sprinkled all over with drops of rain. She:looked altered in a way that might havé been due to late nights and exposurd t5 ¢old. Martin noticed this against the door post { hands sunk in her large . But he was obstinate ‘not Jedk up. Good aftetnoon, h!zfarfin." Good afternoon, May.” ‘Are you.all Tight?” 'Yes, thanks." Martin sewed on, May threw down her cigarétte and trod on it. First she took a breath, then said: “I only came toflten you that our walking tour is oft” Martin ‘yent white for a second time that .. His nerves had got very shaky these weeks. “I see. Pity,” was all he said. “Yes. MAigreat pity.” There wes & pause while Martin went Sewing. -y m‘%um Carla had explained everything,” he sald next. “I had an | idea that you had confidence in me. | If not—good. And so—no walking tour. A great pity.” “That is another matter,” said May, keeping her hands firmly in her coat pockets, “We'll talk abdut your affairs with women another time. I only wanted to say that we are going away.” Going away? When? t do you me: Who is we?” asked Martin in | panic | “Now, at once. As soon as Tat has } packed. The chaffeur has filled up | with petrol. Tat won't stay any longer he's out of spirits, That woman was too much for him, and he can't stand | all the talk in the hotel. Besides, it never stops raining. And now he wants to go. That's why our tour is off.” May’s voice began to tremble, and her eyelashes were wet with tears. So she hurriedly took out another cig ette. Martin did not so much as glance up. He merely sewed on blindly at furious speed. He had the feeling in his throat that he would have to | swallow his Adam's apple. “I see. And so you're simply go away. And that ends everything. An T've got'ta stay on here when it’s all over?” He asked, in an abrupt, deep voice that was new and unrecognisable. | “Why should you say that? «course, it’s bad luck that we are leaving 80 suddenly and just when I am angry with you. Yes, it is true I'm angry with you, Martin. But that doesn’t mean {t is all over. What an idea! Why, in four weeks you'll be in Berlin! By that time it will all be better and then it will soon come right.” “No, " said Martin stubbornly, and shook his head. “Oh, come now—just look up at me, Martin—" " sald he. “Nothing will| It will never be better. . And I shall not come to Berlin ‘There is no estion of my swimming for the club. ey've withdrawn my name. They've struck me off. I'm disqualified.” “Good heavens—have they? Dis- qualified? Because you've given swim- ming ons here? That’s frightful. For how long?” “Six months. But just let them wait. They'll be surprised when they see what a hole they've got themselves into. Let them see if they can find any one to swim the 1,500 meters in 20 minutes and 13 seconds for them. ‘They’ll find themselves in the soup, the whole lot of them in the club. That's all. I shall resign from the club for good. That's what I shall do. That's | what they'll get for disqualifying me. But you know, May this is only the beginning, the beginning of the end. For a time you can struggle on and | It gives relief by soothing perves — not deadening o them. Contains no opiates. Won't upset stomach. Being liquid, it acts quicker than pills o powders. 9 Sold at drug stores in single a talk with Tat.” ~ 1 on | It's true he is in a bad humor. But just talk to hi ‘Tell him about ;;?;‘r my'emion. It's sure to interest “Do you believe in it then, May?” “{’“ghM it (l’l?.fi not tl"na!!er about me, ay, little prac "0t course, T believe 1 itr o = 1¥ine “I_sometimes wonder -whether I do myself, May. I feel I'm a fraud some- times, talking big about my invention. It has gone on so long—and never a word. I have to keep telling my: that I'm not a fraud and that [ reatty tit on sometning gooa snd that | sl 4 | ceremony, I observe.” | talk to Tat. |“Only be quick.” it will all come right— “Well, look here. Just go now and | But don't waste any time.” Suddenly the pajamas were sent fly- ing into a corner, and Martin's feelings exploded without the least warning.| May was astonished to find herself caught in an embrace that took her| breath and her senses. The furious en- | dearments that followed each other on“ & tide of tenderness and anger, hope and despair, were utterly incomprehen- sible. She had only a confused sense, | mixed with a certain happiness, of | having several bones broken, of being devoured and swallowed by a giant who was made of iron. ‘What is the matter with you, you foolish boy?” She stammered when she vered her breath. hall I tell him this? Shall I tell hi; how madly, how craz Vi utterly I love you? Shall I tell him that I must have you for my own though the | world goes to bits. That 1 shall simply | go to the dogs if I can't have you? Shall | I tell him that?” “No. . .” May murmured, smiling happily. “Shall I tell him how it's going to be | with us? How happy we're going to be | together, May? And all about our castles | in the air? And that I'll hold you fast and never let you go and that I don't care a bit whether you're angry or not? | And that I won't give you up even though my hands are hacked off. and that it's none of his business if we mean to stick together? Shall I tell him | that—-"" “No—no—you baby, you dear . . .” May sat distracted and disheveled on ‘ the threshold with her leather cap awry. She was between laughing and crying. “Off we go then,” Martin sald with an air of grim determination. Herr Lyssenhop, when May Iound‘ him, was sitting on his trunk, which | was packed too full and wouldn't shut. | He was dressed for motoring. | “One moment, Tat. Martin wants | to speak to you,” she said. “Who?" “Martin. Martin Heil. Dr. Hell— } from the bathing place. We're going to be married, as a matter of fact “Indeed. ~Very good of you to tell ON, D. C; FRIDAY. me, T'm sure. You don't stand on| “Well, Tat, there might, indeed, have been more ceremony about it. 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