Radio mirror (Jan-June 1948)

to the living room, and I'll steer whoever it is into the office." "She's only fainted, Carl," Anne comforted him as they laid Phyllis on the living room couch. "She'll be all right — " She stopped, at the sound of the high, hysterically triumphant voice that floated down the hall. Suggs' voice. "We've done it!" he shouted. "Open that envelope, Jerry boy! Read those papers! Resigned as State Chairman, National Committeeman, his bank directorships . . . everything. He's through. That's his surrender!" Over Phyllis' still face Anne's eyes met Carl's. "Suggs," she said. "It's out of our hands now, Carl." But it wasn't over, not quite. Carl had his late rendezvous to keep with Ledderbe. Phyllis insisted, over Jerry's and Anne's protests, upon going to see her father, and upon going alone. It was Carl .who returned first. He was waiting when Jerry's car, with Phyllis at the wheel, stopped before the house. He crossed the lawn to meet her. "PhylHs— " "Yes, Carl. What happened?" "I brought Ledderbe back with me. He's inside with Jerry now, and he still can't believe he's safe from Dineen. But that isn't what I want to talk to you about." "I — " She looked ready to run, then changed her mind and waited. "What is it, Carl?" "I want you to marry me." "You'd be throwing your life away," said Phyllis. . "I think too much of you to let you in for something, t — " She found that she suddenly couldn't say another word. "Forgive me, Carl — " And she turned to run. "Phyllis — " He started after her. She heard the sickening thud as he went down, heard him groan. She spun around, was kneeling beside him. "Get Jerry," Carl moaned. "It's my leg. The — blasted leg that isn't there." Phyllis stayed with him through every minute of it, and she flinched just once when Jeri*y cut away the sock and exposed the torn flesh beneath. And when Carl was comfortable, and Jerry had turned his back for a moment, she bent close to Carl, whispering, "Carl, I love you. I just found out. When you fell, back there, it was as if it were I who'd been hurt. You're as close to me as that. Can you believe me, Carl?" Jerry, returningj stopped short at the sight of them, backed quietly out, went down the hall to the kitchen to Anne. He put his arms around her and rocked her back and forth, humming foolishly and grinning. "Jerry Malone! If you won't tell me what it's all about — or has all the excitement gone to your head?" "Nope," said Jerry, "my head's all clear. Everything's all clear for everybody — even for Phyllis. Her father's name isn't going to be smeared all over the papers after all. There'll just be a genteel announcement that he's out cff politics, out of the state. Suggs can't do otherwise, now. After all, he's proved his case in public by the very fact that Dineen is getting out, and he owes something to Carl and me for helping him prove it. And furthermore — " Anne shook him. "Jerry, stop! 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