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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Suzy + +Author: Watson Parker + +Release Date: October 17, 2010 [EBook #33919] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUZY *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + +<h1>SUZY</h1> + +<h2>By WATSON PARKER</h2> + + +<p>[Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Amazing Stories March +1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<div class="sidenote">Her voice was his only link with sanity. It was a beautiful +voice. He never really thought what she might be.</div> + + +<p>"Suzy, Suzy, Suzy!"</p> + +<p>Whit Clayborne looked at the luminous face of the bulkhead clock for the +hundredth time that day. Sweat started out on his forehead, and he +gripped his face with a convulsed hand, moaning in helpless anguish.</p> + +<p>"Suzy, Suzy, Suzy!"</p> + +<p>The clock clicked impersonally in the darkness, and Whit moaned again.</p> + +<p>The cold. The darkness. The quiet. And the solitude. But there was +always Suzy, linking him to the earth so many miles away.</p> + +<p>"One hundred and forty-three days out, four hundred and seven to go." +The ritual of the report, designed to keep him thinking, day after day.</p> + +<p>"Nothing to report, sir, all equipment functioning. All graphs tracking. +No abnormality of any kind. My health is good...."</p> + +<p>In four hundred and seven days they would bring him down, nearly mad, +nearly dead, but his records well made on earth, and the record was what +counted.</p> + +<p>Five hundred and fifty days in an observation capsule, the economical +human machine that did the work of fifty tons of unprojectable +electronic equipment. Five hundred and fifty days of cold and quiet and +solitude. The first eight men had died in the cold and loneliness of +space, until they thought of Suzy, there in the WAC manned offices at +Point Magu.</p> + +<p>"Suzy! My God, Suzy, where are you?" Whit could stand the waiting until +the time came close, then his mind would give away until her voice, +bridging the space void came to him and brought him peace.</p> + +<p>"Whit? Whit, wake up, in case you're asleep. It's me, it's Suzy."</p> + +<p>"Asleep! You know I'm not asleep! You know I stay awake for you! I'll +always be awake, Suzy. I wouldn't miss a minute with you, not a second."</p> + +<p>"Gee, Whit, you're nice. You're awful nice."</p> + +<p>"Suzy, for the hundredth time, will you marry me?"</p> + +<p>"Aw, Whit, you know I can't. You know they made me promise that before I +took the job."</p> + +<p>"Promise to be a talking floozy to fifty men in space, to hold 'em all +at arm's length, let 'em love you, then leave 'em in the cold when they +came back down to earth. They made you promise to keep us stringing +along, until we got back home safe and sound, then turn us loose with +our love for you burning a hole in our hearts! They made you promise a +thing like that, Suzy?</p> + +<p>"You can't handle the merchandise, Whit. When you come down, then we'll +talk over things together."</p> + +<p>"Suzy, I love you, I love you!"</p> + +<p>"I mustn't say that I love you too, Whit. They made me promise that I +wouldn't say that. But Whit, you're awful nice."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>Whit sat silent, and Suzy kept on talking. She could always talk. No +matter what you said to her, no matter how you felt, no matter where you +were, Suzy could always talk to you and make your life seem brighter, +and the trip back home again worth fighting to make. You fell in love +with Suzy, they all did, but as she always said, they made her promise +not to say she loved you back. Not until you got back home, safe and +sound and sane.</p> + +<p>That was Suzy's job on earth, in a drab little office with an engineer +who controlled her channels, and sometimes blushed at what he heard go +out over them. She spoke, sometimes gaily, sometimes gently, sometimes +with all the frail strength of her body, into a microphone beamed to +each capsule in turn, and in those capsules were men, who, but for her, +would go mad before their time was up.</p> + +<p>And Suzy never cheated, and she never lied, and she never changed. She +was the love light of outer space, she and a dozen others at Point Magu. +She kept men sane, and she brought them home, and she kept her promise +never to love and never to marry until they came back again.</p> + +<p>"Whit? What we were talking about yesterday. Did you think about that?"</p> + +<p>"You mean about the gardenias?"</p> + +<p>"Umhummm. My gardenias, to pin on my blouse."</p> + +<p>"Suzy, I'll bring you a thousand, one each day, until you say you love +me. I'm drawing them now, on paper, one every day, for you."</p> + +<p>"Aw, Whit, you're awful nice."</p> + +<p>Then, after frantic good-byes, shouting, screaming, pounding on the +microphone, hoping that the dead metal would somehow speak once more, +Whit would settle back for another day's dreaming of Suzy, while he kept +his tiny house-in-space, read his little gauges, and kept his dreams +alive. It was only in the afternoon that madness came too close, and in +the power-saving darkness he raged and cursed and pled and begged, until +Suzy's voice came winging out of space to comfort him for another day, +when they talked of all the beautiful things that people talk about when +there is love between them.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>For Suzy loved her men, all seven of them. To know them well, to listen +time and again to their recorded conversations, to pick out points that +were worth repeating, to avoid the subjects that depressed them, to say +what would bring them home in love with her was a pleasure to her, and +she worked hard at the job. All alone, late into the night, Suzy would +sit in her little office, listening to her records, and planning the +next day's battle for the sanity of her men.</p> + +<p>"Now Al," she'd muse, "he'll want to know how that recipe came out, the +one with the mushrooms. Poor guy, he does like to eat. I'll tell him +about the party I went to with Sheila, and how she ate up all the rum +cakes and could hardly find her way home again. He'll like that."</p> + +<p>"And Jim. He'd like to have another problem, like the twelve coin one. I +wish I had a mind like his. Maybe Miss Graham can find me a book on math +problems that a man can do in his head. And I'll tell him how nice it +would be to be a professor's wife, and a little college in the north. +He doesn't want <i>me</i> yet, but he wants somebody...."</p> + +<p>"I guess I'll have to talk sex to Crazy Cat, too. It's about the only +thing he likes to think about, and that's my job. I hope he doesn't +realize I'm not the hellcat he seems to think I am. Maybe some of the +girls could give me some ideas he'd like to think about; my dates are +pretty dull. They really should have given Crazy Cat to somebody else. +Some psychiatrist slipped up there, I guess. But I'll bring him down! +I'll bring him down sane if I have to wade in filth up to my eyeballs! +That's a joke."</p> + +<p>"Whit's hopeless, he loves me so. I hope he doesn't go off the deep end, +and end up whacky. Maybe we'll have to relay him some instrument checks, +to keep him busy. Or maybe, if I told him I'd marry him it would keep +him leveled for a while. Can't say that too soon, though, or he'd go +nuts from jealousy. I guess I'll just have to keep on letting him love +me, just being me, just showing him I care about him as much as I can. +He's a dear, really."</p> + +<p>That was the way Suzy mused, in her drab little office, after hours, +doing her job for her men, her hopes up in the sky where only her voice +and her love could reach them.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>Miss Graham was stiff, and stood tall in her prim tailored suit. Her +dark man's necktie clashed with her hair and her complexion, but her +face was kind and her voice, although firm, was soft and understanding.</p> + +<p>"Suzy, I want to talk to you. Don't get up."</p> + +<p>"Yes, Miss Graham?"</p> + +<p>"I've been listening to some of your records. Some of this stuff you've +been putting out is going to make us trouble, you know."</p> + +<p>"I'm sorry, Miss Graham. I try to do what I think is best, and you know +I spend a lot of time planning. It's too late to shift poor Crazy Cat to +anybody else, and it's the only thing that seems...."</p> + +<p>"I'm not talking about Crazy Cat Tompkins, Suzy," interrupted Miss +Graham. "I'm talking about Whit Clayborne."</p> + +<p>"I see. I know I shouldn't have said that I'd marry him, but gosh, he +was just about to go to pieces, right while I was talking to him. I +could hear him grit his teeth, and I could hear the mike squeak with the +grip he had on it. It was awful, Miss Graham."</p> + +<p>"Couldn't you have waited? You could have asked me what to do, you +know. Men ask our girls to marry them every day; it isn't as if it was a +new problem that we hadn't handled before."</p> + +<p>"But he needed me, right then. I didn't think he could wait. I <i>had</i> to +say I'd marry him, or he'd have been biting pieces out of his mattress."</p> + +<p>"I know you did your best, Suzy. Those rules, well, they're not only for +his protection, you know. What are you going to do when Whit Clayborne +lands, and comes in here to claim his bride? Had you thought of that?"</p> + +<p>"Honestly, Miss Graham, I didn't think of anything, except that he +needed me at the time. But of course I'll let him go. I'd let him go +even if the rules didn't say I had to."</p> + +<p>Miss Graham's voice was unexpectedly gentle. "You want to get married, +don't you? We <i>could</i> break a rule, just this once."</p> + +<p>"Not like that, Miss Graham. Not like that. It wouldn't be fair to hold +him to a promise that he made in space. Even if you'd let me do it, I +wouldn't marry him. I couldn't live with myself. He doesn't know, well, +about me. He wouldn't have loved me if I'd told him. He's never seen me; +all he's in love with is a voice that understands how to keep him sane. +I wouldn't hold him to that promise, Miss Graham, if he was the last +chance to marry that I'd ever have."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>Miss Graham was silent for a few moments, then turned to the door.</p> + +<p>"You've figured out how to let him know that you won't marry him?"</p> + +<p>"I'll tell him when he comes down."</p> + +<p>"And you think that just telling him will do the trick, Suzy?"</p> + +<p>"The way I'll tell him, it'll stick, oh it'll stick all right." Suzy +choked off the last words, and blinked back the tears that seemed to +come into her eyes.</p> + +<p>"I'm glad you've got it figured out, dear." Miss Graham said +approvingly. "His orbit got knocked loose somehow, and he'll be in this +evening, to talk things over."</p> + +<p>Suzy gasped. "So soon? I mean, well, I've got it sort of figured, but, +well," she paused, collecting her thoughts. "As well now as ever, I +guess. I'll wait for him."</p> + +<p>"Do you think he'd get violent? I could leave a couple of engineers in +the closet, or maybe you'd like to have Sheila...."</p> + +<p>"No, I can handle him, and I'd rather not have Sheila here when he comes +in. I'll handle him. And thank you, Miss Graham."</p> + +<p>The door closed on Miss Graham's back, and Suzy began to think of Whit +Clayborne.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>The door opened slowly, and the pale young airman came into the office +on unsteady feet, his hat in his left hand, and a small package tucked +under his arm.</p> + +<p>"Is this Suzy's office? I mean, will she be in soon? Where can I find +her?" The questions came eagerly.</p> + +<p>"I'm Suzy."</p> + +<p>For a minute the words meant nothing to him. He looked, blankly, round +the office, then back to the seated figure.</p> + +<p>"You recognize the voice, don't you, Whit?"</p> + +<p>He gulped, and the expression drained from his face, leaving it blank, +and helpless. Suzy's heart went out to him, as her voice had gone to him +through space.</p> + +<p>"I know, the wheel chair, the rug to cover my knees, the brace on my +arm. There wasn't any other way, Whit. I couldn't tell you. My voice, +Whit, was all that counted, up there. Down on earth, other things count, +too. Forgive me, Whit."</p> + +<p>His head seemed to swim, and his unsteady feet fumbled with the floor as +he came to her.</p> + +<p>"You could have told me. I'd have loved you, I'd have loved you anyway."</p> + +<p>"Would you?" Her face turned away from him as he came to her. "Would +you, Whit? Would you have stayed alive for a broken girl like me? Would +you have waited out your trip for the sake of a cripple in a wheel +chair? I know you, Whit, I know your heart and your soul, and I know +you'd have never loved me if I had told you what I was from the +beginning."</p> + +<p>Whit didn't speak, and Suzy continued.</p> + +<p>"It was a job for me, Whit. I had to bring you down. I lied to you and I +deceived you, and now you're free, and you can go away, to live a better +life than I can give you."</p> + +<p>"Suzy, you're saying that. You've thought it out, and you've written it +down, and it's what you planned to say to me. Is it the truth, Suzy?"</p> + +<p>"Whit, go away. I've said my piece. I've turned you loose. Now go! Go +away, and don't ever come back to me again."</p> + +<p>Whit's body seemed to straighten up, and he put his little green package +down on the desk in front of her, then moved away.</p> + +<p>"Open it up, Suzy. It's a gardenia that I brought you. Sick or well, +crippled or sound, I'll bring you another every day, until you say you +love me."</p> + +<p>Then he went away.</p> + +<p>Suzy rose slowly, kicking the rug from her knees. She folded the wheel +chair into a compact bundle, and stretching up on her toes, put it back +on the highest shelf in the closet. Quietly, she put her hat and coat +on, and went out of the office, locking the door behind her. The click +of her high heels echoed bravely in the silence as she felt her way +along the vacant hallway.</p> + +<p>"Sheila, Sheila, come to me, girl," she called.</p> + +<p>The big German shepherd shook herself as she rose from her bed beside +the doorway, and with the practiced skill of years brought the handle of +her harness beneath her mistress's groping hand.</p> + +<p>Suzy knelt beside the big dog, and put her arms around her furry neck, +weeping softly into the thick fur.</p> + +<p>"Sheila, Sheila, I think he's going to marry me!" she said.</p> + +<h4>THE END</h4> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Suzy, by Watson Parker + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUZY *** + +***** This file should be named 33919-h.htm or 33919-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/9/1/33919/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Suzy + +Author: Watson Parker + +Release Date: October 17, 2010 [EBook #33919] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUZY *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +SUZY + +By WATSON PARKER + + +[Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Amazing Stories March +1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed.] + + +[Sidenote: Her voice was his only link with sanity. It was a beautiful +voice. He never really thought what she might be.] + + +"Suzy, Suzy, Suzy!" + +Whit Clayborne looked at the luminous face of the bulkhead clock for the +hundredth time that day. Sweat started out on his forehead, and he +gripped his face with a convulsed hand, moaning in helpless anguish. + +"Suzy, Suzy, Suzy!" + +The clock clicked impersonally in the darkness, and Whit moaned again. + +The cold. The darkness. The quiet. And the solitude. But there was +always Suzy, linking him to the earth so many miles away. + +"One hundred and forty-three days out, four hundred and seven to go." +The ritual of the report, designed to keep him thinking, day after day. + +"Nothing to report, sir, all equipment functioning. All graphs tracking. +No abnormality of any kind. My health is good...." + +In four hundred and seven days they would bring him down, nearly mad, +nearly dead, but his records well made on earth, and the record was what +counted. + +Five hundred and fifty days in an observation capsule, the economical +human machine that did the work of fifty tons of unprojectable +electronic equipment. Five hundred and fifty days of cold and quiet and +solitude. The first eight men had died in the cold and loneliness of +space, until they thought of Suzy, there in the WAC manned offices at +Point Magu. + +"Suzy! My God, Suzy, where are you?" Whit could stand the waiting until +the time came close, then his mind would give away until her voice, +bridging the space void came to him and brought him peace. + +"Whit? Whit, wake up, in case you're asleep. It's me, it's Suzy." + +"Asleep! You know I'm not asleep! You know I stay awake for you! I'll +always be awake, Suzy. I wouldn't miss a minute with you, not a second." + +"Gee, Whit, you're nice. You're awful nice." + +"Suzy, for the hundredth time, will you marry me?" + +"Aw, Whit, you know I can't. You know they made me promise that before I +took the job." + +"Promise to be a talking floozy to fifty men in space, to hold 'em all +at arm's length, let 'em love you, then leave 'em in the cold when they +came back down to earth. They made you promise to keep us stringing +along, until we got back home safe and sound, then turn us loose with +our love for you burning a hole in our hearts! They made you promise a +thing like that, Suzy? + +"You can't handle the merchandise, Whit. When you come down, then we'll +talk over things together." + +"Suzy, I love you, I love you!" + +"I mustn't say that I love you too, Whit. They made me promise that I +wouldn't say that. But Whit, you're awful nice." + + * * * * * + +Whit sat silent, and Suzy kept on talking. She could always talk. No +matter what you said to her, no matter how you felt, no matter where you +were, Suzy could always talk to you and make your life seem brighter, +and the trip back home again worth fighting to make. You fell in love +with Suzy, they all did, but as she always said, they made her promise +not to say she loved you back. Not until you got back home, safe and +sound and sane. + +That was Suzy's job on earth, in a drab little office with an engineer +who controlled her channels, and sometimes blushed at what he heard go +out over them. She spoke, sometimes gaily, sometimes gently, sometimes +with all the frail strength of her body, into a microphone beamed to +each capsule in turn, and in those capsules were men, who, but for her, +would go mad before their time was up. + +And Suzy never cheated, and she never lied, and she never changed. She +was the love light of outer space, she and a dozen others at Point Magu. +She kept men sane, and she brought them home, and she kept her promise +never to love and never to marry until they came back again. + +"Whit? What we were talking about yesterday. Did you think about that?" + +"You mean about the gardenias?" + +"Umhummm. My gardenias, to pin on my blouse." + +"Suzy, I'll bring you a thousand, one each day, until you say you love +me. I'm drawing them now, on paper, one every day, for you." + +"Aw, Whit, you're awful nice." + +Then, after frantic good-byes, shouting, screaming, pounding on the +microphone, hoping that the dead metal would somehow speak once more, +Whit would settle back for another day's dreaming of Suzy, while he kept +his tiny house-in-space, read his little gauges, and kept his dreams +alive. It was only in the afternoon that madness came too close, and in +the power-saving darkness he raged and cursed and pled and begged, until +Suzy's voice came winging out of space to comfort him for another day, +when they talked of all the beautiful things that people talk about when +there is love between them. + + * * * * * + +For Suzy loved her men, all seven of them. To know them well, to listen +time and again to their recorded conversations, to pick out points that +were worth repeating, to avoid the subjects that depressed them, to say +what would bring them home in love with her was a pleasure to her, and +she worked hard at the job. All alone, late into the night, Suzy would +sit in her little office, listening to her records, and planning the +next day's battle for the sanity of her men. + +"Now Al," she'd muse, "he'll want to know how that recipe came out, the +one with the mushrooms. Poor guy, he does like to eat. I'll tell him +about the party I went to with Sheila, and how she ate up all the rum +cakes and could hardly find her way home again. He'll like that." + +"And Jim. He'd like to have another problem, like the twelve coin one. I +wish I had a mind like his. Maybe Miss Graham can find me a book on math +problems that a man can do in his head. And I'll tell him how nice it +would be to be a professor's wife, and a little college in the north. +He doesn't want _me_ yet, but he wants somebody...." + +"I guess I'll have to talk sex to Crazy Cat, too. It's about the only +thing he likes to think about, and that's my job. I hope he doesn't +realize I'm not the hellcat he seems to think I am. Maybe some of the +girls could give me some ideas he'd like to think about; my dates are +pretty dull. They really should have given Crazy Cat to somebody else. +Some psychiatrist slipped up there, I guess. But I'll bring him down! +I'll bring him down sane if I have to wade in filth up to my eyeballs! +That's a joke." + +"Whit's hopeless, he loves me so. I hope he doesn't go off the deep end, +and end up whacky. Maybe we'll have to relay him some instrument checks, +to keep him busy. Or maybe, if I told him I'd marry him it would keep +him leveled for a while. Can't say that too soon, though, or he'd go +nuts from jealousy. I guess I'll just have to keep on letting him love +me, just being me, just showing him I care about him as much as I can. +He's a dear, really." + +That was the way Suzy mused, in her drab little office, after hours, +doing her job for her men, her hopes up in the sky where only her voice +and her love could reach them. + + * * * * * + +Miss Graham was stiff, and stood tall in her prim tailored suit. Her +dark man's necktie clashed with her hair and her complexion, but her +face was kind and her voice, although firm, was soft and understanding. + +"Suzy, I want to talk to you. Don't get up." + +"Yes, Miss Graham?" + +"I've been listening to some of your records. Some of this stuff you've +been putting out is going to make us trouble, you know." + +"I'm sorry, Miss Graham. I try to do what I think is best, and you know +I spend a lot of time planning. It's too late to shift poor Crazy Cat to +anybody else, and it's the only thing that seems...." + +"I'm not talking about Crazy Cat Tompkins, Suzy," interrupted Miss +Graham. "I'm talking about Whit Clayborne." + +"I see. I know I shouldn't have said that I'd marry him, but gosh, he +was just about to go to pieces, right while I was talking to him. I +could hear him grit his teeth, and I could hear the mike squeak with the +grip he had on it. It was awful, Miss Graham." + +"Couldn't you have waited? You could have asked me what to do, you +know. Men ask our girls to marry them every day; it isn't as if it was a +new problem that we hadn't handled before." + +"But he needed me, right then. I didn't think he could wait. I _had_ to +say I'd marry him, or he'd have been biting pieces out of his mattress." + +"I know you did your best, Suzy. Those rules, well, they're not only for +his protection, you know. What are you going to do when Whit Clayborne +lands, and comes in here to claim his bride? Had you thought of that?" + +"Honestly, Miss Graham, I didn't think of anything, except that he +needed me at the time. But of course I'll let him go. I'd let him go +even if the rules didn't say I had to." + +Miss Graham's voice was unexpectedly gentle. "You want to get married, +don't you? We _could_ break a rule, just this once." + +"Not like that, Miss Graham. Not like that. It wouldn't be fair to hold +him to a promise that he made in space. Even if you'd let me do it, I +wouldn't marry him. I couldn't live with myself. He doesn't know, well, +about me. He wouldn't have loved me if I'd told him. He's never seen me; +all he's in love with is a voice that understands how to keep him sane. +I wouldn't hold him to that promise, Miss Graham, if he was the last +chance to marry that I'd ever have." + + * * * * * + +Miss Graham was silent for a few moments, then turned to the door. + +"You've figured out how to let him know that you won't marry him?" + +"I'll tell him when he comes down." + +"And you think that just telling him will do the trick, Suzy?" + +"The way I'll tell him, it'll stick, oh it'll stick all right." Suzy +choked off the last words, and blinked back the tears that seemed to +come into her eyes. + +"I'm glad you've got it figured out, dear." Miss Graham said +approvingly. "His orbit got knocked loose somehow, and he'll be in this +evening, to talk things over." + +Suzy gasped. "So soon? I mean, well, I've got it sort of figured, but, +well," she paused, collecting her thoughts. "As well now as ever, I +guess. I'll wait for him." + +"Do you think he'd get violent? I could leave a couple of engineers in +the closet, or maybe you'd like to have Sheila...." + +"No, I can handle him, and I'd rather not have Sheila here when he comes +in. I'll handle him. And thank you, Miss Graham." + +The door closed on Miss Graham's back, and Suzy began to think of Whit +Clayborne. + + * * * * * + +The door opened slowly, and the pale young airman came into the office +on unsteady feet, his hat in his left hand, and a small package tucked +under his arm. + +"Is this Suzy's office? I mean, will she be in soon? Where can I find +her?" The questions came eagerly. + +"I'm Suzy." + +For a minute the words meant nothing to him. He looked, blankly, round +the office, then back to the seated figure. + +"You recognize the voice, don't you, Whit?" + +He gulped, and the expression drained from his face, leaving it blank, +and helpless. Suzy's heart went out to him, as her voice had gone to him +through space. + +"I know, the wheel chair, the rug to cover my knees, the brace on my +arm. There wasn't any other way, Whit. I couldn't tell you. My voice, +Whit, was all that counted, up there. Down on earth, other things count, +too. Forgive me, Whit." + +His head seemed to swim, and his unsteady feet fumbled with the floor as +he came to her. + +"You could have told me. I'd have loved you, I'd have loved you anyway." + +"Would you?" Her face turned away from him as he came to her. "Would +you, Whit? Would you have stayed alive for a broken girl like me? Would +you have waited out your trip for the sake of a cripple in a wheel +chair? I know you, Whit, I know your heart and your soul, and I know +you'd have never loved me if I had told you what I was from the +beginning." + +Whit didn't speak, and Suzy continued. + +"It was a job for me, Whit. I had to bring you down. I lied to you and I +deceived you, and now you're free, and you can go away, to live a better +life than I can give you." + +"Suzy, you're saying that. You've thought it out, and you've written it +down, and it's what you planned to say to me. Is it the truth, Suzy?" + +"Whit, go away. I've said my piece. I've turned you loose. Now go! Go +away, and don't ever come back to me again." + +Whit's body seemed to straighten up, and he put his little green package +down on the desk in front of her, then moved away. + +"Open it up, Suzy. It's a gardenia that I brought you. Sick or well, +crippled or sound, I'll bring you another every day, until you say you +love me." + +Then he went away. + +Suzy rose slowly, kicking the rug from her knees. She folded the wheel +chair into a compact bundle, and stretching up on her toes, put it back +on the highest shelf in the closet. Quietly, she put her hat and coat +on, and went out of the office, locking the door behind her. The click +of her high heels echoed bravely in the silence as she felt her way +along the vacant hallway. + +"Sheila, Sheila, come to me, girl," she called. + +The big German shepherd shook herself as she rose from her bed beside +the doorway, and with the practiced skill of years brought the handle of +her harness beneath her mistress's groping hand. + +Suzy knelt beside the big dog, and put her arms around her furry neck, +weeping softly into the thick fur. + +"Sheila, Sheila, I think he's going to marry me!" she said. + +THE END + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Suzy, by Watson Parker + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUZY *** + +***** This file should be named 33919.txt or 33919.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/9/1/33919/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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