Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1935, Page 28

B-12 LOVELY LITTLE FOOL, A Story of Washingtons Soa Set ¥ CHAPTER XX. FTER a terrible silence Mr. Seymour spoke, his voice low and trembling. “We may as well let you have it, Betsy. It wouldn’t be fair not to tell you— everything. Terry cracked up late this afternoon over the Potomac. He's in Emergency. Critically injured. He may be blind—if he lives. We aren't permitted even to see him.” Betsy’s hand flew to her mouth. Her face was stricken beautiful with shock. Her blue eyes suffered. A coldness, & deadly coldness, that seemed to freeze her heart, went through her. She gathered her strength at last to cross the room to her mother, to lay her hand over her mother’s hands that were nervously twisting the handkerchief. The room was very still until Betsy said: “Darling, Terry will be all right. I feel it. I just know it.” “Oh, I don't know! I don't know!” her mother moaned, tears starting up in her eyes again. It was when a sob came from & corner of the parlor that Betsy saw Sonia huddled in a pitiful knot in a ricketey old chair. She turned her head and looked straight into the girl’s deep-set eyes. If ever she had had any doubts about the little dancer's love for Terry it vanished in that moment. And later, upstairs, when Sonia, restless with misery, paced the floor for an hour and threw herself, at last exhausted, upon the bed, sobbing as if her heart would break, Betsy knew that for all her sordid environment, for all her entanglement with Tige Williams and her warped beginning, she was real and fine. Terry had once said: “She’s sweet, Betsy—honey sweet. She’s not like those other girls at the burlesque house.” And he had been right. Betsy and Sonia didn't sleep. When- ever they closed their eyes they saw Terry sweeping down from the sky, crashing into the water, his broken hody lying there in the wreck of the plane. Their slim, young bodies be- neath the little flowered voile gowns with puff sleeves would break out in perspiration and they would lie very straight and still upon the bed court- ing the relief that sleep alone could bring. It was toward dawn when Sonia touched Betsy'’s arm lightly and whispered: “Awake, Betsy?” Betsy turned over on her side, “Yes. I haven't been asleep. I couldn’t.” Sonia said, throat-deep, not quite knowing how Betsy would take it. “I have $500, Betsy. It's all I have, but I want it to go on Terry’s bill. I want him to have every attention.” Betsy caught her hand and squeezed it, tears swimming in her blue eyes. “You're & dear, but—I—couldn’t. I'll manage somehow.” Sonia cried out softly, the words pouring from her: “You must! You must, Betsy! Terry and I are going to be married, 1f he gets well. I'm going to quit the stage. “All T want in life now is Terry, a little apartment somewhere, I don’t care where, kids later on, maybe. Please, Betsy! You've got to. You can pay me back some day—if you want to!” Sonia didn’t say that she had heard the details of Terry’s crack-up on the radio a few moments after it had hap- pened and that she had gone instantly to Tige Williams to plead for that | money. She didn’t say that she had promised Tige to go to New York with him soon, to live with him even though she knew he had a wife out West somewhere. Nothing had mat- tered but that Terry should have every medical attention. She knew that the Seymours were in desperate straits, that they couldn’t afford the cheapest ward. And even if she never saw Terry again after he recovered, even if her body that she had kept sweet and clean, despite all that peo- ple said and thought of her, became & loathesome thing to her—nothing m-lzl:ered but that Terry should get well. Betsy felt & sickening clutch at her heart, pain running like fire along EDUCATIONAL. 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Then came the happy day when he announced the boy had every chance of living, that he was responding. beautifully and would not be blind. He said that the treatments would take weeks, months probably, and that a famous New England eye specialist would have to be called in on the case. Betsy didn't realize that Sonia’s $500 would be only a fleck of foam on a sea of expense, Five hun- dred dollars seemed such a lot of money. In her happiness over the| chance of Terry’s recovery she thought | of nothing but seeing him well again, watching him throw back his head in laughter, the same old Terry with the wit quick on his lips. _With _her mother and father and Sonia, Betsy camped at the hospital. She went to see Terry before going to the office each morning and rushed back to him every afternoon. She wasn't away long enough, she told Maysie Parker, to get the iodoform and hot carbon out of her nostrils. Sonia, t00, was never far from Terry's door. 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