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All Welded Joints — No Rivets See your dealer or write EVEREST & JENNINGS Dept. 2 761 N. Highland Ave., les Angeles 3$, Cat. Papa Dennis put his thin cheek against hers. "Yes," he said. "Talk to me. That's what I'm here for, my child. Will it help if I say that I have some idea already of what is troubling you?" "Papa, how could you? I haven't said anything . . ." "I'm not totally without worldly experience, Elizabeth. Your mother used to say that I could read between the lines almost as well as any woman. I — took the liberty of doing so with your letters. I'm quite aware that a man named Nathan Eldridge has come into your life." Elizabeth said bitterly, "And gone out again." "And you loved him," her father said. "Loved him? Oh, how can you talk about such things? It was so strange, so quick, so — so complete! You wouldn't have known me, Papa. I wasn't Liz any more. I was just . . . just what he wanted me to be . . ." "Vou were always Liz, you always will I be," her father said. "I've always known somebody would find you, and find what was hidden in you." Liz stared at him. "Did you know he would throw it away after he found it?" "What happened? Can you tell me that much?" "I can tell you everything in a few words," Liz said passionately. "He didn't want me. Oh — he loved me, Papa, I know that much. But . . . we thought of two different things when we spoke of love. He's a powerful man in his little kingdom, powerful and busy and not . . . not conventional in the way we are here. That didn't bother me; I knew he would never do anything to hurt me. He did love me. But when I said love, I meant everything. I wanted to belong to him completely. I was sure." "And he was not?" "He didn't even know that he wasn't. Maybe he was just afraid, Papa; nothing like this had ever happened to him either. He's been fighting so hard for so many years to achieve the position he has now. He wasn't used to — to opening his heart to another human being. He was frightened, I think, and he was afraid to act as he wanted to. "Don't think too badly of him!" she said finally. "In the end he frightened me, but I know he didn't mean it as another man might have meant it. He wanted me and Althea to move away from Marcia's house, to a little house where we could live alone. He said . . . he said it was the only way we could get to know one another." "But you knew already, Elizabeth?" "Yes. I knew. It wasn't the house, or the suspicion that he meant to make it that — that kind of arrangement. I knew him too well for that. What frightened me away was the knowledge that he wasn't sure. If he didn't know by then, when I was so heart-and-soul certain . . ." Liz stood up abruptly and went to the window. "Papa, Sam asked me to marry him." * "Elizabeth!" he protested. "You must admit that was a most abrupt transition." "I know, Papa. But that's exactly what Sam did to me! Is it any wonder I ran in here to you like a demented woman? Papa— what shall I do?" "You know my sentiments about Sam, Elizabeth. Nothing would make me happier than to welcome him into the family ... as long as my Elizabeth was equally happy." "I didn't say anything to him, Papa. I do love Sam — you know that. But I guess I need time to forget, and time to give Sam and myself a chance. Whatever we might have, it won't be tremendous. It will be . . . quiet, and right. And peaceful. I think when — when I'm all purged of this other thing, that's what I'd really want and need." "I'm afraid it's not so simple, my child," he said soberly. "You were so upset when you came in that I didn't find the courage to give this to you." He handed her a yellow envelope. "It came while you were out." Liz recoiled as though he were handing her a live snake. No, she thought; I won't touch it. Not now, in the first peace of mind I've known since Nathan . . . Nathan! I won't be drawn back — I won't! But her hand, obeying a deeper, more insistent command, reached out and took the envelope and tore it open. She read the message and handed it to her father. He nodded. "This may be the answer to everything," he said. "You may realize that if you made any mistake at all it was in running away from the one you love most deeply . . ." "But nothing can come of it, Papa. Nothing can come of it!" She went out, forgetting to close the door, and after a time her father too went upstairs to his room, so troubled that he forgot to take the telegram with him. Patsy found it on the floor when she went in a little while later, and read it almost before she realized that she shouldn't. "But if I hadn't, how would we have known to get your room ready?" she argued when she waylaid Grayling on his way into the house and told him. Even Babby had to be told the contents of the telegram, though her excitement, Patsy said rebukingly, was indecent. So by dinner time, without a word from Liz or Papa Dennis, the household was prepared for a guest, and everyone in it knew the words of the telegram by heart. "Arriving Three Rivers late Wednesday, Nathan." "And the worst of it is, Sam's coming!" Patsy told Grayling. "He's been invited for the longest time for the night after Liz got home. I can't take it on myself to put him off." "Don't think of it. Let it all boil up in one fell swoop," her brother advised. "Get it over with." "Your figures of speech are mixed, but I agree with your sentiments. But oh, Grayling! Liz — she's so not herself!" Grayling opened his lips, and Patsy said instantly, "Grayling, if you say 'then who is she?' I'll — I'll cut down on your portions tonight!" It was just as well that Patsy didn't have to make good on her threat, she thought later as she and Babby brought filled plates to the table and took them away again only a trifle emptier. Nobody at all was eating! She and Grayling and Babby were too excited, and Papa was too sad, and Sam was too conscious that something was wrong — though he didn't know what, yet, Patsy was sure. And Liz . . . Liz made a gallant effort, but finally gave up and said she would just have coffee, please. After dinner, Sam and Liz went out on the porch, and the rest of the family scattered. Usually it was different; they all sat around and talked, the ones who didn't have dates . . . Sam, smiling in the darkness, commented on the sudden lack of Dennises. "Such tact, and at the wrong time too," he said. "I'd feel more comfortable having them all around me in the customary manner — "