Cash McCall
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“But that is what you were thinking!” she defended herself. “Maybe I should have waited for you to say it but—”
“What about Italy?” he asked unexpectedly. “You’re leaving next week, aren’t you?”
Leaving … Italy … what was he talking about? Oh … yes, she had had a Vague idea that she might go to Italy … sometime. But she’d forgotten all about that ages and ages ago. Cash should know that. Why didn’t he?
He did!
A smile had broken on his face. “Hurry,” he demanded. “Don’t you remember the ogre who chops off the heads of bad little girls who are late to dinner?”
“But I’m not a little girl any more,” she protested, laughing as she ran to the door ahead of him, opening it and then turning back, catching Cash’s soberly concerned upward glance as he passed the foot of the staircase.
There was no need to ask what he was thinking. She knew. When you were really in love you always knew.
About the Author
Cameron Hawley (1905–1969) was simultaneously a businessman who rose through the ranks to become a top executive at Armstrong Cork Company and a prolific author of short stories and articles, which frequently appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Life, and Good Housekeeping. In his midforties, he decided to devote all of his time to writing. The result was Executive Suite, the bestselling, iconic novel about the dynamic men and women who work at the highest levels of corporate America. Executive Suite was produced as a 1954 motion picture that starred William Holden and Barbara Stanwyck, and was nominated for four Academy Awards. Hawley continued to focus on the themes of free enterprise, big-business adventurers, and the pressures of modern life in his later novels: Cash McCall, which was made into a 1960 film starring James Garner and Natalie Wood; The Lincoln Lords; and The Hurricane Years. Hawley lived for many years on a farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he enjoyed hunting and fly-fishing.
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Copyright © 1955 by Cameron Hawley
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ISBN: 978-1-5040-2581-2
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