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° Th lslhe imam make. Bu: alilied W i 61W ~ me m4 Lhg topaz ring. sm had not dared to wear it. I loveily Bnenadaiept wl i under e p - low last nigm. aim this moraine she mo lookeﬂ at it iol’ t. ions Ame before putting it in a safe corner in her trunk. The senders name had not been on the 84!. but even he- [m-e mu him glanced inside the nar- row band she knew that the inscrip- iiont would read "To Star from Ken .'

Sue saw Kent several times that day, but she wok care tovbe talk- ing to Mrs. Jenkins or 918M118 WW1 Stuart so that he had 11091790111111- ltv to doymore than wish her a merry Christmas. l-Iis expression al he said it was so stem "iﬂi 5119 WOHUJTEG if he knew already what she had to tell hun. She almost wished he did. But in her heart she knew that she would not escape that easily.

Finally the dinner gong sounded. If she could just get through this day! Perhaps tomorrow she Wou-d feel more like acknowledging the ii-uih. Meanwhile it seemed a shame lo spoil Christmas. She was iieliaht- ed when Gloria. decided that she, would come to dinner and. as H had expected, her cabin mates presencekept Kent from saying more intimate than: "Don t you like your ring?" _

“It's beautiful!" star said sin- cerely. _

"But you're not wearing it.”

“Iii can't yet." Star avoided his questioning ook.

He did not ask why, but he left before dinner was over, explaining that he had to look after some 0i the passengers who were not well. Gloria turned curiously to Star after he had gone.

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"l didn't mean to pry," Gloria added. "but if it will hel you any to know that; Kent is m ly in l0\8 wlth’you, let me be the first to tell you.‘

Star blushed deeply. "I know. And I love him. But I haven't any right o» his love, not after what I've done." Star would say no more and Gloria knew that it was useless to

prcss her. Meanwhile. Kent had gone

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shoulder: blotted out the one looked wward mo bow of snip. Almost at the some instant no saw nor ma came rapidly along tho deck.

“Btu?

8m trembled at the now note in his voloo and for o. second could not speak at all. Then: “You wanted to see me?" sne said in a very small voice. ted

"i never wan anything so miwlxlnadto ia-ixtoyoibiiridyou seemed to avoid me. Sta.r—-" oes- perateiy———-"you don't love me, out there's soinetning——1 have to talk to you." he finished lame .

Sun- took a deep breatn. "Now!" she said to herself. '!'i.>on't say any- thing more." l-ler words came in a rush. "1 have to tell you something that will make you hats me. Kant. do you know wny I came on this cruise?"

"its enoush for me that you did come."

"mo." She could not look at him now. Hail turned away and .~. - mg straight into the darkness she began nei‘ sorry little story. "Itave you ever heard o1 5 John Kenneth Barret?"

Kent seemed surprised. "John Kenneth Barrett? He's a doctor. isn't he? someone once mentioned the similﬂ-Tiuj oi our names. I rem- ember now. rIe s in the service, too. On the west coast. I believe)’

"I thought you were he." "But—-out why?"

"1 came on‘ this trip for revenge," Star told him miserably. "John Kenneth Barrett neglected his lather-walked off and leit me to taxe care of him while he was ill and dying—" Kent did not inlerrup. while she told him how she had planned w humiliate her unknown roster oou.in. "It seemed right when I started," she added in her own defense.

“Hlimiliate him? What she should have had is a good sock in the nose!” Kent cried warmly.

"No." Star shook his head. “I had no right to act as I d-d. And I-I hurt you. Pm sorry for that." "Star!" Kent took a step toward her and then as ii recollecting him- self, stopped suddenly. Star nOticed his action and flushed in the dark-

ness.

"That's the kind of a, girl I am." she said, “but I'm not the kid who would o of! with Jack Coates. 1 mean, ie only asked me to vislt—" "I've known Jack coates‘ kind be- said grimly. No matter ed I knew that you wouldn't have left like that if he'd told you the truth);

They were both silent while they looked out over the water. Star re- flected that it hadn't been so hard as she expected. And Kent didn't seem to hate her. But he did act re- served, withdrawn, as if he were

straight to the Underwood cabin and kllOC ed on the door. Stuart called in surprise: "Star?"

Kent opened the door. “No, Stuart. Star is still at dinner. I just wanted to talk to you for a minute before she comes in."

"I'm not slck." Stuart was deﬁnite.

“I'm glad to hear that," Kent ans- wered gravely, "but I didn't expect you were. I want to aE-k ou to do u favor for me, if you wi l.”

“LVhat?" asked Stuart practically.

"You see—" Kent found that the child's eyes were embarrassingly observln —"Santa Claus left a mes- sag-e wit- me for Star."

"What I essage?"

"I can't tell you that: it's a sec- ret, And 1 couldn't tell Star either," he added hurriedly, “because there were too many people around at dinner. But if you'll ask her to come to the top deck about ten o'clock, I'll be there and I can fell her then what the message is."

Stuart considered this request somberly while Kent's heart almost stopped beating as he awaited the verdict. At last the boy nodded his heed in a reement.

" ‘ll tel her to come to the bop deck at ten o'clock. But I won't say it till she tells my story."

Kent hugged him hard and said that would all right. I-Ie went out quickly, leav rig Stuart more than ever convinced that grown-ups were hard to understand. The doctorfs hands had been all termbly when they touched ‘his. shoulders.

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Star went slowly u the compan- icnway. In her han she clutched the little box which contained the topaz ring. Stuart had told her oi Santa Claus’ message lust before she kissed him good night and she had promised him that she would be on the top deck to receive it.

The outline of Kent's broad

thinkin over what she had said. Sudde she remembered the box she hel

. "Well. I guess that's all then." she said with a sigh. "Except to return this to you."

Kent looked down at the little box as she held it out, and took it. slow. liy. He tumed it around in his hand before he said: "It isn't much, I know. I just wanted to-to wish you a merry Christmas. And I thought you might like it. But of course you have all the jewels. you want."

Hcgrasped her hands and pressed the ring back into them. "Anyway- keop it. You can look at it some- times and remind yoiuself that a poor ship's doctor once dared to nope you mLght wear it."

“I don't know what you're talking 8»b0lii._" Star $81G. bewildered. ‘I havent any jewels, And you certain- ly can't be as poor as I am. I don't know if Ill even have a. Job when I get back."

Kent released her hands only to grasp her shoulders more firmly. "Then your uncle didn't leave you all his money? Oh darling! Why didn't you say so right away? I've been airaid to tell you how much I love you-how mixzh I want you!"

It seemed to star that all the Christmas bells she had ever heard were chiming in her heart. With Kent's arms around her, with his ring gleaming in the moonlight as nei- hand creptaiap to his cheek, she felt that she h never know what haﬁpiness was before this.

e moon had climbed almost overhead before she stirred and said wonderingly: "I can't believe that this is I. When I took this Christ- mas cruise I thought three weeks would be long enough '

“Mmm—-" Kent, interrupted. his lip; on the curve of her chin. "dld I ever tell you how adorable you are? Why. you dear little idiot, a. lifetime

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