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She stretched out on the hot, white sand and lay there in that blissful stato of suspension which is half- waking and half asleep.

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CHAPTER I

ful embarrassments and inhibitions

For the thousandth time Boots thought enviously of the rooms of the other girls. Isabel, with her pegged maple and candlewick spread and the big satin puff, hand quilted. Anded creature,

room had been "done" by a famous euid be

AF cruel! It wasn't her decorator from the city, all in pastels fault that their house was shabby. with modernistic furniture. No, that they had to plan and contrive

that anyone ever talked so about her: She ran water into the tub in the what venom there had been in Patty's big, staring white bathroom. She light, careless voice, what unabashedl scrubbed her teeth meticulously, and gieel But then Patty wan Sylvia's stared discontentedly at her unflawed friend and sycophant. skin in the mirror. What good was was definitely her enemy-and always And Sylvia it, she demanded passionately of her been since that first day of school self, what earthly good was it to be four years ago when Boots' theme had pretty and graceful and woll behaved on the first-term prize and Sylvin's it got you precisely nothing bad been sholved. Old Mrs. Waterman had undoubtedly "It's absurd. It doesn't matter. naked her, at the lust minute, to "None of this matters," Boots tried to

"Mes. Waterman's table would be tell herself calmly and judicially.. full of stodgy old people and across "Years from now I'll laugh at it.) the room, accompanied by shricks of Mnybe I have forgotten i laughter, would be Sylvia's group.tirely." (avdy among the rest.

But her palmts were wet ELK

L'I

shu

She flung back her golden mane raised herself from the sand. There like a wild, young, resentful mare. were only a few people on the bench No good thinking of all this and circling the pool now. Somehow now, She would go, wear her plaid Roots managed to walk to her cubicle, organdle, her old slippers... do She thought even

stupid Dintay the best she could.

Adrian must are that something had

brief

"I must be running along." Boots told young Mr. limit, either uncom fortably. She had been an kies, she reminded herself, to come butting in here, Lois would think her a fool and this cool, utterly superior young man, with his foreign air of danified elegance,

rather bothered her. "Nonsense, my dear." Imis seized ker arm and made her sit down again. | "Denis in staying with us-oh, you didn't know, you bad child, you haven't been to see me in weeks. Boots," she sail affectionately and rather gibing ly. "was just graduated from high school some weeks ago—with honours And are we proud of her!"

*Boots flushed, feeling mure thau

a fool, Why mukt Lokk em!~ She was asleep when the parents happened to her, as ho handed her the phasize the fact that she was just came in, 10 minutes later, one nem key. But Dintay only stared owlish- out of school? She wanted to appeur fung nerons her face, sleeping the ly and said it sure was hot,

woman of the world, wanted to untroubled sleep of childhmed." escape from the tight shell of youth-

She struggled into her Low Another bright, hot, breathless day garments. The striped seersucker. which crimped her.

dawned. Boots woke to n feeling of dreea had seemed pretty and fresh this gaiety and hopefulness. Anything morning. Now the hataful cheap- might happen it was sure to be noss of it aickened her. A 60-cent a splendid party...what an idiotpremant she had been to grouch about things felf, feeling happy and clever to be

more able to sesterday. Everything went

way. Now annathly on this hol morning. Atverything was blackened and spoiled. 11 Mrs. Raeburn, bound for the stores. All she asked was to be able to get dropped Boots at the clubhouse gate. away, to get out of it all to sem

beard place where clothes and money didn't Shouts and splashings were above the sound of a played piano. matter, Maybe she could ben Boots sprinted lightly up the sairs.

.anything. It was delicious to be alive, young, She came blinking into the dark- happy to-day. Delicious to slip into ness of the awninged perth some mo- her still-damp shabby suit, run a ments later, a slim girl with dark comb through her fair hair, pressing yes barning in a white face, her gitt the, waves dumply down before den hair framing her face in a classic cap The young man waved his achieve- ning her cap. Sylvin Rivers, and her of wet

ringlets. The young man ments aside airily. He was very good open snubs were forgotten. It was looking, Boots thought, if you admired enough to-day to have the great, that rather supercilious typo,He had sunny world, to play in and the blue long, narrow, gentian blue eyes, put Sound and the narrow pool with its in with a sputty anger. His eye springboard and diving stand. lashes were ridiculously long. They It was too early för "the crowd." Jessly. She remembered him now. fascinated one. His black hair fitted although the girl saw one or two Russ Land, the now avinming in him like a silken cap--

familiar facer and waved gally to aftructor. Isabel-or somebody ad Just the same, she didn't like him. {few of the high school set who alrendy Innguldly dismissed Russ as a "hig She resented him. Maybe it was seemed "just kida” to her. Nothing roughneck." Ho

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The young man smiled woolly (she thought) at this. She had and down again, at the insistence of her hostess. Mrs. Hart, was lounging gracefully in n deep chair and the young mun hal ensed his tall self into another,

"Really?" he said idly. Boots could have killed hint for it. And "really?" he said again.

"Denis," interpointed Lois Hart, facing the girl, “is just back from England. On his way to California. He said Lois imprensively, "writes

"Oh!" Boots forgot momentarily her distrust of the stranger, her uneasi news. "Do you, really?

left

she had made it her

contrive

this

settlement worker.

now

idling with the rolls at the player plane turned a frank stare of adrir- lion up to her.

"Hello," he said amiably. Boots returned his salutation life-

strong.

partly because to-night she was feel could bother her, nothing unset her, squarely built young man of La or ing lost and hurt and out of things: ale told herself gally. Today was 26 and therefore, to Boots, one of the at any rate, after a few minutes of wonderful. There was a special feel oldsters. He had a thick, unruly this wandering, desultory conversation ink in the air of hope and promise. crest of stiff brown hair, magnificent she said shu must go. Sie hatin' The dance to-night Would it wander-shoplders and a rather

engaging What matters if she wore smile. Boots could not remember a note for the parents. They ful, ton. would be at home nay minute-they to be among the oldsters? Hardy etually having spoken to him before, would wonder.

would see her. Hu might even single though she had known, of course. Lois, who

know how the casual her out...

for a number of weeks who he was. vonings and goings of Larchneck's She dived and swam in solitary He simply did not "belong." younger set were quanaged, rather happiness. Afterward she stretched

To-day she returned is greeting opened her eyus at this, but she did it on the hot white sand and lay apathetically. Nothing mattered. not protest. Denis would walk down there in that blissful state of suspen- "Going over town?' with Boots, she said.

siun which is half waking und half "No, oh no! I'll just slip through į sleep, thinking her own thoughts. the hedge." Boots Raeburn, noted in: She anust have actually fallen Larchneck her "smooth line," herleep, although she hadn't intended ease and poise, was actually stammer-to do se, because the aus was blazing ing and lushing.

down in the intense heat.of michlay Somehow she managed to get away, when she heard her name. -

She Her checks were very hot. He might

came out of a dim. foggy have insisted on accompanying her, dream, unstirring, the thought resentfully. He might

"My dear, we had a good laugh out, fused, politely and definitely. To- lutve

of it. Mrs. Waterman called Mother day she shrugged her shoulders and

She nodded, already moving across the big, bare room, scented with dust, its floor scarred by young dancing feet. She was in a very daze of pain and misery. What did it matter what he asked her?

Kuss Lund was at her side. "I'm driving, Can I drop you?"

Another day she would have

(To Be Continued.)

The house was still dark and silent and said who could she get at the stepped into his littlo zar, when she let herself into it. She last minute. Mother said, of nurse switched on a lamp in the sitting room and went upstairs to her root. It

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*

Boots lay still as a statute, her beari hammering, hammering In her breast. She felt. a little sick. She did not. stly.

of

There 'was'n general burst aughter and the gay, inconsequent! volca went on. Patty's voice.

"It will be a riot. I cari just nee Sylvia's face when she sees her with than genybeard

"Well I think it's a shame. I think Bucts is pretty swell," sald | Isabel loyally. "Just because they've lost all their money and she can't) keep up with the crowd...”.

If she hadn't been so desperately rick, if her head hadn't been whirl- ing and her heart pounding like a wild thing Boots would have blessed' her for this. Instead ake lay

there, transfixed, unable to move hand or foot.

""Oh, can all that stuff," she heard a boy's voice, unrecognized, say dis-) gustedly. "You women-"

Then the group drifted away, Sho wished that sho might dic.! Only that. To be engulfed in same. biensed, all-enveloping tide. To pass nut of life painlessly, definitely, once And for all. That was all she asked. Her pulso pounded in her templo; she

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