Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1936, Page 32

NOTHING TO DO By Moses Schere. ELLEN could dance, and that was the trouble, and she couldn't forget it, which was worse. Half a year of married life couldn’t eclipse years of starring in night clubs. “It's not that I don’t love you, “Bob,” she sald, trying to make him less angry. “It's that I can’t forget the old times. The lights and the crowd— gosh, Bob, don't you ever want to go back to them?” “No!"” “Well, I'm sorry, dear. I couldn’t help it. When they made me the offer I just had to take it.” “And left me with the farm,” he said bitterly. “Well, the bank is still willing to buy it. Bob, I know it was a dirty | sort of trick to run off while you were | in Washington buying supplies, but I simply had to do it.” He glowered at her. The note she had left him had been loving, but very definite. She'd said she still thought that running a dairy farm was a fine, peaceful way to live, but she'd decided that they were still too young. | Even though she'd been dancing | and he'd been singing till they both said they were tired of the show busi- ness, and married on the strength of it, they'’d made a mistake to quit so soon. She'd had an offer from the| place where she used to work and| she was taking it and please meet her there and please don't be angry, | but think it over. | o "I'VE thought it over. I don't like| it, Ellen.” She grimaced into the bright-| ligthed mirror, adjusting her head- dress. “I can't back out now. Do be sensible.” “I see. It's all right for you to| back out of our marriage contract.” | “Oh, dearest, I'm not doing that!| Didn't I say I love you? It's just that we meaie a mistake, starting that farm so soon. It's a swell, peaceful | Wway to live, and bring up Kids some- time—but not now.” The buzzer sounded, and she rose to go out to the | floor, to whirl madly in the bright | lights. “Don’t be a silly, Bob. Any- way, there's nothing you can do| about it.” | She kissed him with her old sauci- | ness, the sauciness he used to like. | Now it was galling. He stayed in tig | dressing room for & while, finally| wrote her a note. Nothing he could do about it, said the note, except—— % & * % OING out, scuffing along the side- walk, he wondered miserably if it would come to that. Why, they weren't so young any more, and she knew it. She could dance, and that was the trouble. But she couldn’t dance forever. It wasn't like when they were 20 and it seemed they'd | still be hoofing when Broadway was en airport. “He glowered at her.” She couldn’t say she hsdn't been happy on the lit- tle farm, either— dancing to the radio some nights, just for fun. Why, they couldn't be separated like that, after plenning the whole thing and saving for it . . . and marrying. But there was nothing he could do about it. Noth- ing. Nothing but get a divorce, as his note said, and it hurt to think about that. He went back to the farm and got / the milk in, work- ing at it as though he’d done it all his life. He did the housework without Ellen, but that was only because he did nothing but work to keep from thinking. At breakfast he got the tenor on the radio and chimed in with his bari- tone, but it was silly, without Ellen to listen—sounded empty and dismal. * K Xk NOTHING he could do about it. A week, and two, and .three, lndi | nothing he could do to bring her back. | She was trying to get him to sell out | to the bank—there'd be a profit—and come join her in an act like their old one, and sometimes when he missed her most it seemed like a good idea. The old life was easier, in a way ... But you had to think of the future. On the farm they were sure of being happy for a long, long time. S8ix months of it had shown them that, and he wasn't going to give it up. He wasn't going to wait forever, either, for Ellen to come to her senses. He fixed the cows for the night and took & late train in. When she came off the floor he was there in her dressing room, waiting with a | quiet, sober look. She kissed him frantically. “Bob, Bob, you've come to sing with me!” “I've come to take you with me” he said. “Please come back, Ellen.” “No,” she muttered. “I'm sorTy.” * K K ok I_IE COULDN'T argue. He stood up and took his hat. “Well, no need for me to leave you another note. You know what the last one said. Except for that, there’s nothing I can do about it.” He turned his back quickly, but he had to look at her once more, be- cause there was a cold dead feeling waiting to swoop down on his heart and he dreaded letting it come. He made a little, eloquent motion, saw that she was very pale, and her eyes looked thorugh him, thinking. “Bob!” she cried queerly. And, after a moment, “It's true—I wasn't sure—it’s true.” He came back and took her hands. “I guess I can't dance and more,” she whispered. They kissed for a long, warm time. “The stork is going to do something about it, after all « o o I'm so happy!” (Copyright, 1936, DAILY TRIPS All conveniently timed—luxurious new su- per coaches in service on many schedules. HOUR SERVICE Similar reduced running time ti Norfolk, Fredericksburg and intermediate points. DOWNTOWN TERMINALS Combining frequent schedules. short running time. and terminal locstions in the heart of hotel, shopping and theater districts, Greyhound is the time- saving way to Norfolk and Richmond. Gt Nov CENTS PER MILE For round trips between principal cities —lower than any other public travel. 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