Evening star. [volume], February 25, 1936, Page B-5, Image 21

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"■ ...DAILY SHORT STORT ————j
F, O. B. CHINA
By Virginia Cheatham.
WOO thoughfully
** contemplated
the catsup. She
glanced furtively at
the young man
seated opposite her
and at the other
occupants of the
tea room. Then
nonchalantly she
picked up the bottle
and dumped a
small red mound of
catsup on her ice
cream. There was
a sudden cessation
of movement across
the table.
“Boo," eaid the
young man conver
sationally, “you’re
quite a pioneer,
aren't you?”
Boo surveyed him
critically and sigh
ed. It was no use;
there wasn’t a flaw
in Tommy any
wnere. rani uwv*«v«i " -—
personality of an adding machine.” He
glanced up, sensing her eyes on him,
reached his hand across the narrow
table and grinned. She smiled back,
but as his smile faded and a tiny
wrinkle appealed between his eyes, her
eyes narrowed worriedly.
"Tommy,” she inquired, "don’t you
think you'd better tell me all about it?
He looked up and started guiltily.
"D’you love me, Sugar?”
She laughed. "More than ever.”
*‘A.nd are you going to marry me?”
"Tommy,” she sighed, “if you ask
me just once more I won’t.”
* * * *
'T'OMMY leaned forward, regarding
her earnestly.
"Boo,” he said, "I just found out
today that I have to leave at 6 this
evening for Shanghai.”
"China?” Boo questioned incredu
lously.
“It’s an engineering job in the
Yangtse Valley. Johnson was sup
posed to go, but his wife was taken to
the hospital this morning for an
operation and he can’t go. It’s a big
opportunity and I don't feel that I can
afford to pass it up. Boo,” uncer
tainly, "Boo, I don’t suppose you’d ...
go with me?”
She sat very still. "They have wars
and things in China.” she mused.
"Oh, but think, darling,” he pro
tested, “all the temples and scenery
and...” ,
“And floods and earthquakes and
famines,” she finished pessimistically.
“But jewels and sitks and . . . Boo,”
desperately, "Boo, think of the clothes."
Tommy dejectedly scrutinized the
tablecloth.
“Okeh,” he murmured. ‘I get it.
I should have known that no girl would
face it. Oh, I don’t blame you,” as
she made a sudden movement, “but
ch, skip it.” And he dropped the sub
ject so suddenly Bo was left with her
mouth a little round ”o.”
* * * *
"r>UT, Tommy,” she began, “I . . ■”
“Don’t,” he interrupted savagely,
•‘don’t let’s talk about it.” ^
‘Tommy, if you’ll listen ...”
He set his mouth in a firm line.
“No,” woodenly.
She stamped her foot.
“All right, then,” she raged, “if you
won’t listen like a human being!
Stubborn, obstinate
‘ ..." His pitiful de
Itermined face
melted her anger.
“Oh, Tommy,” she
I sighed, “why do
you have to?"
During the aft
ernoon that follow
ed there was little
conversation, for
both were engaged
in very private
thoughts. Their
walks in the lobby
< were unbroken ex
cept by Boo’s one
lengthy telephone
call.
On this occasion
she was late for the
curtain, much to
Tommy’s annoy
ance, Tommy being
a young man who
took himself and
every one else much
too seriously. When
she took a deep breath and made
one last effort. “Tommy, about
China.”
* * * *
TOMMY hurriedly tucked her arm in
A his and made way down the aisle.
Boo, giggling a private little giggle,
missed the gleam in his eyes.
About five minutes to 6 they stood
solemnly facing each other on the deck
of the Maurania. High above their
heads the whistle shrieked warningly.
Baggage was trundled past them.
Finally, “Well . . .” they began simul
taneously, and stopped, each waiting
for the other to continue.
Tommy hesitated for one brief sec
ond. Then he grasped Boo's arm
firmly and piloted her down the com
panionway and Into his stateroom and
closed the door.
“Tommy, what on earth?”
“Nothing,” he said calmly, “except
that you are going to China after all.”
Boo collapsed Into a .chair. "What
—how-” She made a desperate ef
fort to compose her mind and grasped
the first thing that occurred to her.
“You haven't a ticket,” she reminded
him absurdly.
“I'll send you f. o. b.,” he grinned.
* * * *
'T'HERE were bustling noises all about
them. The whistle blew again.
“I think I'd better go, Tommy.”
Tommy sat down comfortably.
“We'll have the captain marry us,” he
told her.
Boo rolled over in the chair. She
put her head in her arms and her
whole body shook convulsively. There
was a staccato rap on the door.
“Steward, sir,” said a voice. Tommy
looked at Boo uncertainly, then went
to the door and opened it.
"Your trunk, sir,” announced the
voice and was gone.
He examined the trunk carefully.
“Wait!” he called, “you've made a
mis-”
“Tommy,” said Boo, “that's my
trunk.”
As Tommy turned, she caught a
glimpse of his astonished countenance
and went off into peals of laughter.
"I tried to tell you,” she gasped be
tween giggles. “You wouldn't listen.
Think Tommy. Did I ever tell you
that I wouldn’t go to China?”
(Copyright 1936.)
Boo surveyed him critically.
GIVEN ASSIGNMENTS
Mrs Lon? Named to More Com
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Mrs. Huey P. Long has received
more Senate committee assignments
than her late husband, whose unex
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Majority Leader Robinson named
her yesterday to the committees on
lnteroceanic canals, post office affairs,
public lands, immigration and claims,
one more than her husband had.
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