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Hilltop House (Continued from page 11) pockets. He was frowning thoughtfully. "I hope you understand, Julie, that when the time came for us to know all the important things about each other, I would have told you that myself." "Ricky." The urge to comfort, to be reconciled, was too strong for me. I stopped before him and put my hands on his shoulders. "Don't you think that time is — well, all along, now, as we're getting to know each other?" His lips came down on mine, and in the swirling excitement I knew how true it was that one part of me, at least, had no doubts at all. I was alive, vitalized, stirred by a warm tide of emotion whenever he touched me. I was in love ... if that was love. . . . But what about the part of me that stood aside, and questioned? Was that a part of everyone's falling in love? "It's too bad Jeff couldn't be included," I said unhappily. "Did you know Dr. Gordon had asked him?" "Sure, but Gordon said Jeff wasn't interested." Ricky eyed me sharply. "Isn't that the way it was?" "Oh, nonsense! Ricky, he's crazy to get into it. After all, he's been in practice for some years, he's ready for the next step if anyone is! He just — well, he hasn't got the money." "If he had it, he'd hem and haw before he took this kind of chance with it until it was too late," Ricky said bitterly. "I know my brother." He frowned. "So Jeff said he was interested. That's . . . interesting." Interesting wasn't quite the word Ricky meant. It was hard for me to understand why, in spite of the dislike those two claimed for each other, they were always so deeply concerned with the other's activities. Ricky, on the tide 'of his own success, finding it food for thought that Jeff would have liked the chance he'd had to turn down . . . why? I didn't have to wait long for the answer. Jeff called me the following noontime, so beside himself with excitement that at first I didn't recognize his voice. "It's me, I, Jeff," he fairly shouted into the phone. "Julie, if this is your doing — " "If what is, Jeff, please — " "This hospital business." Jeff took a deep breath and calmed down. "All right, I see it's news to you. I apologize for what I was thinking. You don't know what that unpredictable problem child did, I take it." "You mean Ricky?" "Ricky." Jeff gave an exasperated laugh. "Julie, on my word of honor, I don't know whether to go over to his office and punch his nose or take my hat in my hand and say thank you. He went over and gave Gordon a check in my name, and said he was acting as my messenger. He said he felt he wasn't ready for such a big operation as yet, but he'd persuaded me to act dangerously for once in my life and here was my cash to bind the agreement." Silence swung over the wires. Then I managed to congratulate Jeff, and to beg him to accept Ricky's gesture in the right way, the way he knew in his heart Ricky had meant it. "It's the best way he could have repaid you," I reminded Jeff. 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