Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1935, Page 25

FEATHER INHERHAT JULIE ANNE MOORE T WAS Rita’s night to get dinner and Ann, feeling unusually fagged, stretched out on the couch. She lay there now with closed eyes, thinking of Lee, of the ring she had Bot. yet put on her finger. How easy she had been. Planning for weeks what she would say when Lee brought up the subject of her eonversation with his mother at the hospital—and then being so com- pletely disarmed that the ring box was in her hand before she realized that Lee had no intention of clear- ing up the debris of the past. To Lee, obviously, the past was of Ro consequence. Nothing had mat- tered to him but that they resume where they had left off. He had said 88 much in their few minutes together in Boston. ... “As far as I'm con- cerned, we're just where we were, Ann” . . . 8he should have been warned then; but she had'been too busy fortifying herself against what she saw as an inevitable attempt on Lee's part to explain his mother's at- titude, to try to persuade her that she had been unfair in breaking off their engagement without even offer- any reason for it. Ann had no doubt of Lee's love for her. That troubled her most, for she knew that however long and earnestly she tried she could never care for him in the way that he wanted and had a right to expect. She respected him, admired him and liked him very, very much. She was proud of the fact that he was in love with her, that of all the girls he knew he had chosen her for the greatest adventure of his life. . . . But as his wife, that 'was not enough. She shiould love him as he loved her, as she— Her will to put Bill out of her life, definitely and permanently, cut across her consciousness and left the thought of him hanging like a severed thread. But no amount of thinking, of self- analysis could quite explain her action to her own satisfaction. Many things accounted for her quiet surrender. She had been unfair. There was no doubt of that. Her behavior at the hospital after that little talk with his mother had been constantly on her conscience. Then, too, she had been influenced by the attitude of Mollie and Bill. Perhaps they both had looked upon her engagement to Lee as an achievement on her part, but whereas Mollie had rejoiced wholly out of her fondness for Ann, Bill's approval had been forced and in- volved by a sense of loyalty to Lee. But whatever the reason for it, Ann knew that when she let Lee pyt the little ring box in her hand and offered no protest she had given her promise, finally and irrevocably, and that when he came for her she would go with him. Before Ann realized that Mollie was in the room, Mollie was lunging at her, & radiant, noisy, demonstrative Mollie, who waved a last edition of the Globe and demanded, “It it real, Ann? Has it come to pass after all these.long, miserable wrecks?” ... Ann looked at the large picture on the front page of the -Globe and nodded soberly. “I'm afraid it is,” she said. “And has...is it necessary for newspapers to do things like that, Mollie?” “But, darling—it's a perfect picture 01 Lee. And"—laughing—"of your THE EVENING back. Oh, Ann, I was 30 afraid you wouldn’t be sensible.” Ann was not listening. ' Reading the lines beneath the picture, her eyes had suddenly fixed upon & ouriously fa- miliar name: coming.. Doubt it? ope and only Lee Monday, who took off from the airport here late this afteraoon on what he hinted might be a record-breaking flight to Los Angeles. The charming young woman standing, on tiptoes to de- liver the accolade to the country’s most popular young man is Miss Ann Rogers of Elmville, Conn., who was with the fiyer when he was forced down in the Berkshires sev- eral months ago. Yes, Spring's coming and no mistake.” When Ann's eyes lifted Mollie was going into the kitchen. Mollie had done that, Ann told herself. She even suspected ‘that Mollie had put the photographers on Lee’s trail. It would be like Mollie, Ann thought, for her to inspire just this sort of thing. She could not have hoped for so intimate a pose, certainly, but a picture simply showing Ann and Lee together would have served Mollie’s plan. In this conjecture Ann was right. Mollie had said to Bill: “I think if we could start some gossip, Ann would do something about it. Amm wouldn't let Lee down if it got around that they were engaged and Lee didn't deny it. I think I'll talk to one of our photog- raphers.” And so all Washington knew that night that Ann Rogers of Elmville, Conn., had kissed Lee Monday good-by when he was about to take off on a transcontinental flight. And before the week was out the whole country knew it, for a national news and pic- ture service sent that picture out spe- cial delivery. * Mollie said nothing to Rita about the picture and it was not until they were having dinner that she picked up the paper from the table and found STAR, WASHINGTON. the picture for herself, Presently she looked up and blew Ann a kiss. “Well, baby, you're on your way again. Better sit tight this time.” found Selma pale and eyes 88 if she had been weep- “I was hoping you'd come,” she told Mollie. “But I couldn’t have blamed you if you hadn't. This house is under a curse.” “Piddlesticks!” Mollie said. “You can’t let it get you down, Selma. Brace up. . . . Where's the Senator?” “In his study. Why don't you go in and talk with him? The poor darling’s ground down to nothing but nerves.” When Mollie left the room Ann sensed that Selma wanted to say some- thing. She got it ouy at last. It was Carl again. “If I've ever needed him, Ann, I need him now. But he has come only twice this past week and both times he was in a fever to get away. I | don't have to ask you if he's seeing Rita right along. I know it. She doesn’t mean to give him up. You thought she wanted him simply be- cause I was ugly about it. But I tried to be so sweet to her when we were in Boston that she couldn’t think I cared—and it hasn’t changed things. It she doesn't let h'm go I'll—" Ann said quickly, “I think you're doing a lot of worrying to no purpose, Selma. Carl hasn’t been seeing Rita as often as you think, and I still teel certain she isn't in love with him.” “Then why doesn’t she be decent about it? 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