Radio mirror (Jan-June 1948)

"Oh, please understand! I'm flattered— complimented. And I think you're a fine man — " "But I've only got one foot," he broke in. "I didn't lose the other heroically, you know. It was an auto accident. It might have happened down the street. But instead it happened in the Philippines— so you don't have to give yourself a sales talk about how you're turning down a hero. You're not." She went white, then furiously angry. "That has nothing to do with it! You must believe that! Please believe it. You—" "All right," said Carl quietly. "I'm a heel to even mention it. But that's only part of it. There's another part — and this is really mean. It just goes to show what a guy will stoop to when he feels the way I feel. You're in love with Jerry Malone — and you're making nothing but misery for yourself by keeping your mind set on him. You know that. I don't see why you don't try to shake yourself loose — " He plunged on desperately. "I know this sounds like a boast, but I might as well get everything off my chest right now. As long as you live, nobody else — nobody else — is going to love you as much as I do now. And there's one other thing: I'd like to grab you and kiss you until you yelled out loud. Don't get scared — I won't. I was too well brought up. And now — excuse me, I've got to get on to see Suggs." It was several days before he saw Phyllis again. Hubert Suggs, with a minimum of the grandiloquent phrases for which he was known, put him to work on sight, and after that Carl found that Jerry had stated only a fraction of the truth in promising him excitement in the News and Dispatch office. An attempt was made to poison Ledderbe in his hospital bed — Dineen's work, Jerry was sure, while Roger Dineen blandly hinted to Prosecutor Pierce that perhaps Jerry had some private reason for wanting his patient out of the way. 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