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HOOTH KAENURN, 18 sud pretty, belongs to the younger set at. Jaretineck, fo
fashionable New York 'mulzuri, The Baeburns have bui Tunnetal reverare, SYLVIA RIVERS, Highest Hirl in town. le gling • party at the Yacht Club and Doota la beattlroken beenuse alte in net Jovited. Bhe ncceptam Inaturalnuto vletion to a dioser to be alvon the same night ** Hylvia's party by MaS, WATERMAN, das of. Larchneric's social arbitare.
Doota averhear her crowd laughing about
| her acceptance of the cloner invitatkom azul la crashed by this unkindness. That night at the Yacht Club she meets. HARDY WHITMORE, one of Sylvia's moeste, and he orpen im ceme for a rito in kle sulibont.
CHAPTER IV
At Sylvin's table the glasses were | alied and emptied and filled again.
Great red roses in crystal vase dropped in the heat and smoke and açallered their petals on the white cloth. Food copied on the plates while girl, nad boy laughed, talked, danced and wandered back again.
Meanwhile, Hardy's absenço did not go unnoticed. Patty's sharp eyes instantly caught it. Isabel was con- scious of his departure and Sylvia herself, although apparently ignoring it, was perfectly aware of his defalca... · tion.
One of the boys, with the ninle's delicious usun! obtuseness, inquired casually. "Where's "Hardy "get to?" Isabel pressed her small slipper against bis instep signniling for Bitence.
It did not matter, really, Isabel mid to herself, annoyedly. There were more than enoughi men to go around. Why did they always have to kowtow to Sylvia-ave her feelings? She would not admit, even privately, the hold that Sylvia had on the crowd. Sylva's parties, Sylvin's money and her big ear and the orchids that she ware so unconsciously, impressed them. Some of then, were in ber debt, In a way, and had to eurry favours, Ladio's father worked for Mr. Rivers and when Patty's plowance fell short it was Sylvia' who come forward, Isabel happeried to know, and paid for luncheon tips, trips into the elty, even silk stockings sometimes
By MABEL McELLIOTT .
Suddenly the girl honed her name called in the silence. Vaabel!
Hanbell"
1934.
"As for me, I don't owe her any- thing." Isabel reflected, with antis- faction Ah, but didn't she, really? Sylvin had made accept that black, you couldn't do much with a long dress the curve and I'd make a dash for chiffon dress, when they were in the wound around you. Foolish, foolish, it 7" Boots wanted to know. play together. Isabel had borrowed unhappy Bootel Isabel felt somehow I drive Larry's ear myself," it to play Mrs. Hustings, in "Not for responsible for her. She had seen Isabel decided, "He left the keys Bay," up at the high school, and hurt and bewilderment in the girl's in it. He always docs. I'll just run Inter Sylvin had said, with apparent eyes that night, as she douced by. It you home and come back later. Look, carelessness; "I want you to keep it. was the fault of all of them.
Pll have when I, whistle you come. No, but really, I mean it."
Isabel had been tempted beyond her strength. The black chiffon had nade her creamy skin look creamier: It had brought out every single glint in her copper-couloured hair. It was the sophisticated sort of frack young girls dream about and their mothers refuse to buy for them.
I can't can't bear it." Isabel the engine running" sobbed soundlessly to herself, huddled, Boota walted apprehensively in the against some hawthorn bushes in the darkness. The crowd on the veranla bunk of shrubbery surrounding the had thinned now. Atfendants could be house,
seen, moving about in the big lighted Suddenly she heard her name calledrooms, straightening chairs, clearing in the stilhess. "Isabel Isabell" littered tables. The orchestra played
Sho trembled all over. Was "Home, Sweet Home." true, then, that ghosts came back to haunt you? It was a ghostly voice, faint as far away, and yet it was Buuts' voice, surely!
Boots' Still Isabel did not come. head ached. She was desperately trying to fend of thoughts of the morrow of her apologies to an angry
So she had kept it. And she had found, after that, was not so easy to be simple an natural with Sylvia. It was casier to fall in with her mood, "What?" he quavered bravely, and incredulous hostess; of the giggles play up to her, bite back,the contradic-Who is it? She peered into the which would be her portion if the tlons that rose to one's lips when blackness, unable to distinguish a story got around. But just now all Sylvla made one of her cool, out-thing
she could afford to contemplate was rageous, extravagant pronouncements. "It's me-Boots," muld the voice the immediate problem. Once home. ateality. "I'm here in the summier safe in her own room, she could plan house."
There was 'low whistle Isabel demolished the space be-:
hydrangeas, tween the shrubbery and the old, the vicinity of the rustic, embowered summer house in Klimmering palely in the darkness. in that direction. The two jumps. Yes, it was Boots Ine-Boots ran burn and not her ghost who sat dewy grass was damp to the soles
of her thin stockings. She-glimpaod. muddled in the shadow.
for the future.
A
from
Sylvie had not been able to buy Boots-had not, in very truth, tried, No, from the instant they had met, between the two girls it had been war-to the knife. And now (Isabel thought) Boots was committing the crowning crime of all, walking off with Sylvia's mun, At least, she supposed "What on earth's the matter the roadster, heard the blessed sound seen, his bright head had been beat felt as though she were going to be Hardy was with Boots. When Ins! Isabel's teeth were chattering. She over Boots' gilt one, their steps had sick.
melted together like so much quid "There's such a racket down on the poetry. Boots, in her one pretty pier," Boots said in a fretful voice. frock, Ianbel said herself loyally. "I didn't know what to do. I've lost was better than a dozen Sylvias, ...
my shoes" "This party's died on its feet," "Lost your shoes?" The full tide Sylvio announced, suddenly in a of relief flowed over Isabel. She How reached out a tentative hand, gripping wilonce. "Let's do something. about Henry's 7"
her friend's shoulder. "You're not.
If she weren't the hostess, Isabel not wet," she said with apparent rofferted, they'd nil be perfectly frank Irrelevance.
wrong
about it and any they wanted to stay "No, of course not. Why should and see the thing through. The unrty I be? I can't think what's was as good as it had ever been, only with everyone to-night," Boots com- Sylvia's long dark eyes were narrow-plained. "The whole world seems to ed now, her mouth was set in a petu- have gone crazy or something. Every. tant line. Sylvia, was very angry. one ranting and screaming, down on
They gathered up their things; the pier like a crowd of Fijis.
"Oh, Sylvia's white and liver bag, her
Isabel Boots, darling" frothy wrap, Patty's compact, Isabel's laughed aloud, from sheer relief. "I lipstick. It was late, Isabel thought. thought. . I was sure Tho older women had begun to look "And now the thing is, I must get tired And Boots Raeburn was not home-but how?" Boots demanded, at Mrs. Waterman's table. Oh, wall unheeding. That foolish boy! When Just as Isabel skirted the musicians' wouldn't go sailing with him he dais, a shout went up out of doors. pleked me up, and ran and my choos One of the men who always hung dropped off... and I get away from around the club-not exactly an at-him and dashed and hid here. He tendant, just one of the "regulars" in went off in the boat by himself but 1. blue jeans and a battered cap, west; couldn't find my shoes anywhere and running down the pler. Isabel hoard I guess I had a good cry-don't tell the words, "Blan overboard." She anyone I'm such a fool, Izzy darling, ran, too. Everybody, it seemed, was and I must have been asleep..." on the pier at once: hatless girla In
frail frocks, men in dinner clothes, The relief of hearing hor say the their eyca searching the black horizon. commonplace words, plaintively, com- "Young fools!" she heard a white-plainingly, was exquisite. Isabel
haired, mountached man any, angrily hugged her. Then someone cried, "They've got
him, and the words tan from mouth)
"Oh, Hardy's_boat tipped over," |
to mouth. Hardy it was Hardy sho said, "and I thought you'd gone
and everyono know he was a whiz with a sailboat. What could
huve ha
with
him
D
Boots
...my mind was Just in a whirl
"I hapg he's all right," appened? The night was calm, the sound was running smooth as contributed, although ho uld act ter
rthly and I was, frightened for, a black glass,
Isabel's heart began to beat very minute; and Mrs. Waterman will never can't fast. She was fond of Boots always forgive me, that's certain. I had boun. What if anything had explain... happened to 'Boots?
The thing now," Isabel sald, "is She had lost the others now: Sylvial to got you home. Oh, If I'd only and Patty and Laddle were nowhere brought the roadster! I wanted to, to be scent. She tried to see over the but Laddie offered to drive me. shoulders of a tall man just in front She considered the situation a mo of hor and failed, - Isabel wan ment, her bright eyes thoughtful.. thoroughly frightoned, now;
She
"Look," she offered, in the silence. mushed her way, through the crowd, "I toll Mra, Waterman you were back toward the club-house. Some of taken that you went off to the the younger poople were making a dressing room and didn't feel oquali great joke of the whole thing.
to coming back.. That crab-meat atļ "Well, if they will get sloshed!" suppor," "sald Isabel viciously, was she heard a hiigli, giddy voice saying, enough to set anybody off." merrily. Isabel was terribly angry.! "No, no, she'd noyor Vollova it," Imagine anyone making fun of any. Boots sald despondently. "It sounds thing so terribly serious.
•
willy. If I had my shoes I'd go in
It was Ruas Lund, the swimming in- structor at the club.
of the purring motor, jumped in.
But it was not Isabel at the wheel
(To Be Continued.)
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