Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

"Maybe it hurts me as much as if does pou. Maybe I don't want to leave anynore than — anymore than maybe you ion't want me to — " "Then you don't have to. Come on back and meet Ma and Pa. They'll like you. Dome home with us tomorrow — " "I can't, Wayne." Someone was calling her from the bandstand. There was the urgent sound of an ntroduction being repeated and then someone was whispering urgently: "Emily!" He had to watch her go. Then McGee vas at his side again, chewing his cigar silently while the music welled up from he bandstand and Emily's voice came hrough, fresh as the song of a bird. "Look, kid," McGee said. "I was listenng. In my business you learn to listen to ;verything. You really want to marry imily?" Wayne said harshly: "Yes." McGee said softly: "She's married already, kid." The words seemed to explode in his lead like the roar of thunder. He turned :o McGee and suddenly he was shaking lim until McGee made him stop. "That's not going to do any good," Mcjtee said. "It's not going to do any good 0 get mad at Emily. She's the sweetest dd this side of Paradise. And she's mailed to the biggest heel this side of Hell, it's not so easy for her either, remember hat. Waking up and finding the guy you bought you loved is a louse. And being rtuck with him. Married — " "Why didn't she tell me?" "Maybe because she's ashamed and biter and scared. Maybe because there isn't mything anyone can do about it. He von't let her go. Maybe she wanted somehing bright in her life for a minute, too. [hat was you, kid. Sometimes you can ove someone — and still it ain't going to :ome out, 'they lived happily ever after.' rhere isn't much left for Emily except vorking and singing — " '"I didn't know," Wayne said. "I didn't mow!" "Look at it this way, kid. You been here it a Fair three days. Well, what happened? iTou met the sweetest kid in the world and :or three days the two of you could pre;end it was like a fairy tale. What's so bad ibout that? 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