-INGLES- IDIOMA INGLES III 2010 PAG. 355 A359 APPOINTMENT WITH LOVE "S. I. KISHOR" (3 COPIAS) APPOINTMENT WITH LOVE Sis smaures 70 ats, said the great sound clock over the information booth in Grand Ceotval Station. The tall young Army lieutenant who bed just come from the di- rection of the tracks lifted his sunburned face, and his ‘eyes narrowed to aote the exact time. His heart was pounding witha beat that shocked him because he could rot contrl it. Ia six minutes, he would see the woman ‘who had filled such a special place in his life forthe past thirteen months, the woman he had never seea, yet whose written words had beeo with him and sustained him un failing He placed himself as close as he could tothe informa- tion booth, just beyoad the ring of people besieging the clerks, Lieutenant Blandford remembered one night in par- ticular, the worst of the Sghting, when his plane hed been caught in the midst ofa pack of Zeros. He had seen the grinning face of one of the Jap pilots. In one of his letters, he had confessed to er that he often felt fear, and only a few days before this batle, he haid received her answer: “Of course you fear. all brave men do, Dida't King David know fear? That's why he wrote the Twenty-third Peale. Next time you doubt yourself, I want you to hear my voice reciting to you. ‘Yea, though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, 1 shall fear uo evil, for Thou art with me’....” Aad be adja Capi BO, by Boe Coed cer Fg Gan Ot =had reenembeced; he had heard her imagined voice, and it had renewed his stength and skill ‘Now he was going to hear her veal voice. Four minutes to six. His face grew sberp, Under the immense, starred roof, people were walks ing fast ike threads of color being woven into a gray web. A'gisl passed close to him, and Lieutenaot Bland: ford started. She was Wearing a red flower in her suit Tapel, but it was 2 crimson sweetpea, not the lite red rove they hed agreed upon. Besides, chis gir was too Joung, about “eighteen, whereas Hollis Meynell had Frankly fold him she was thity. “Well, what of it?” he hhad answered, "Tm thirty.wo.” He was twenty-nine. "His mind went back to that book-the book the Lord Himself rust have put into his hands out of the hun- ‘deeds of Army library books seat to the Florida training “Ganp. Of Human Bondage, it was; and throughout the book were notes in a woman's writing: He had always nated that wniting-ia habit, but these remarks were ilier: tent He had never believed that a woman could see into man's heart so tenderly, so understandingly. Her name ‘was oo the bookplate: Hollis Meynell. He had got hold Of a New York City telephone book and found her Sdesess, He had written, she had answered. Next day he hhad been shipped out, bot they had gone on writing. “For thirteen. months, she had faithfully replied, and rove than replied, When his letters did not arsive, she Tnote aayway, and now he believed he loved her, aad she loved him. But she bad refused all bis pleas to send him her photograph. That seemed rather bad, of course, But she Bad ceplained: "If your fceling for me bas any reality, any bonest basis, what I look like won't matter. Suppose {Ted beautiful Ta always be haunted by the feeling that 6 Sus sn tse thn Fay oe were lonely and had ao one else. No, don’t ask for my Hote Whe you soon Now Yt go sal se ne En yor dl one yur Socom henetbe toh jTegare lim ty sup ogo coer dnt wane Tren Lito Hands beat sped ger has his plane had ever done. eo aG ‘young os wot coming toward in. Har Sue wenger on nya ats Eo Bort ear Her yr eso vr or ted chain's gene bmn n ar ple es 5 ee tgne come ae esate aed ho ene fgeting a otce shat he wt wenng a oe to ed Say Povoeae ale tied het le “Eng yw le se mama, he sew Hollis Meynell. . a he wanton snot cy id ho won wa pi yer grog he uted ver ¢ Sa Sas nn poy or eased eat nomi ro apt her unlrd it of tug beret i nt Bataleon howe sd ly oe Fevone fol phil irate i Seer i pp fot ws gi olsen be a ce =Lieutenant Blandford did not hesitate. His Singers gripped the small, worn, blue leather copy of Of Humon Bondage which was to ideatify him to her. This would not be love, but it would be somethiog precious, some- {thing perhaps evea rarer than love-a friendship for whiel he had been and must ever be grateful... “He squared his broad shoulders, saluted and held the ook aut toward the woman, although even while he spoke he felt choked by the bitterness of his disappoint- “I'm Lieutenant John Blandford, and you—you are Miss ‘Meynell, I'm zo glad you could meet me. May—may take you to dinner?” ‘The woman's fece broadened in a tolérant smile, “Z don't know what this is all about, son,” she answered. “That young lady in the green suit, who just went by, she begged me to wear this foxe on my coat, And she said that if you asked me to go out with you, I should tell you that she's waiting for you in that big restaurant across the street. She said it was some Kind-of a test. I've got two boys with Uncle Sem myself, so 1 dida't mind tg oblige you." your CALLED To-puTy In an age of fops and toys, Wanting wiidom, vod of right, Who sball nerve heroic boys ‘To havard all m Freedom's Bght— Bresk sharply of their jlly games, s quizzes Forske thes comrades g2y, And quit proud homes and youthful dames For famine, tol, and fray? Yet on the nimble air Benign Speed simbler massages, ‘That wale the breath of grace divine ‘To hearts in sloth and ease, So nigh i grandeur to our dust So near is God to man, Whea Duty whispers low, Thow must, ‘The youth replies I con RAPID QUIZZES, FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT ‘Who moke each ofthe following famous phrases? 1 The way tobe stfe is never to bo seoues 2 Let facts be submated to candid world 4 Hier ond Union one and ineparele, a7 end 4 Observe good faith and justice toward al ations. 5 Grown thy good with brotherhood. 8 Congress shall make no law expecting an extablish- mont of rligion 1, With malice toward none, with charity forall & Give me berg, or give to death! 8. All the is of demecracy can be cured by move do- mocracy. 10, These are the times that try aien’s soule =”