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I even let her convince me that the decent thing to do was to go away without telling you — set you free to find someone who'd make you happier, more secure — " OH, Walter," she whispered, and then she covered her eyes. "Hurry," she said in a choked voice. "Call the desk and see if your rooms have been turned over to someone else. If they haven't, tell them you're reregistering and ask them to send the boy up with the key. It's too much almost losing you, and then finding you again. I've got to be some place where I can let go a little bit." The suite was still vacant. And, once they were in possession, Portia found that she didn't need to "let go" after all. She was much too happy. They both were. Walter clung to her, marveling at being with her again, marveling at her. "Have you ever been beaten?" he asked finally. "Why weren't you finished this afternoon? I'd dropped out of your life; you came to town and were told at every turn that I'd left for Ankara — why didn't you believe it? Where do you get that stamina or courage or faith, or whatever it is? No, don't laugh — if you can tell me, maybe I can learn to believe in myself again." Portia closed her eyes, hating Leslie at that moment more than she'd ever hated her before, hated her for the fine, thorough job she'd done of destroying Walter's faith in himself. "It's simple," she answered. "The old cliche, loving not wisely but too well' is silly. There isn't such a thing as loving wisely, and it's impossible to love too well. Lov<=» surpasses all thinking, all common sense; it can work miracles." "1 wish it could work a practical one," he said bitterly. "I wish it could cancel that trip to Ankara and put me back in Parkerstown for the rest of my life — " "Do you mean that, Walter? About Parkerstown? You can't — " He nodded soberly. "Oh, but I do. I was fed up with it when I left, but since I've been here I've realized that the trouble wasn't with Parkerstown but with me. And I've changed, at least in that respect. This Ankara trip — a couple of years ago, no matter how much I hated leaving you, I'd have still felt a little tingle of anticipation, a sense of adventure. But not now. I hate — I resent — having to go. I just want to go back to Parkerstown and write — if I can still write." "You can stiil write," said Portia. "I know that as surely as I know that I love you. And maybe — maybe you can get out of that trip. Walter, exactly what is the procedure when a manuscript goes to a studio? Doesn't Leslie read it and submit a synopsis of it to her superiors?" He nodded. "But they all read it and turned it down — " "You mean they turned down her synopsis," said Portia excitedly. Walter, I'd stake my life that that's what happened! Perhaps 'Survival' isn't as good as 'Challenge' — but I'm sure it's better than 'Late Blossoming', and that was a hit. Aren't you free to offer it to another studio? And if we could postpone your plane reservation a day or two, and get a rival studio — say like Soundstage — to read 'Survival' in a hurry . . . and if they bought it, and I'm sure they'll buy it, you could pay your debt and you wouldn't have to go to Ankara — " She stopped, breathless. Walter was laughing at her. But his eyes were alight; he was catching fire from her enthusiasm. "You dreamer!" he laughed. "You wonderful, impossible dreamer! We'll try it, and there's a crazy, far-off chance it might work — " It had to work, Portia thought. Not thought — prayed. And she knew that it would work. They would sell "Survival," pay Walter's debt; they would have each other again, and Walter would have back his faith in himself. They would do it somehow — because they were together. Together, they could do anything. RADIO MIRROR QUIZ 1. You know him as Frank Morgan. What is his real name? 2. Jack Smart, "the fat man", weighs (a) 175, (b) 235, (c) 270. 3. 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