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Bonts everliest her crowd wahing abou her acceptance of the dinner Invitation and i eruabed by this unkindness, That night at the Yacht Club aho mesta HÄRDY WHITMORE, one of Szlvin's Kiente, and he urges her rome for a ride in his selle

CHAPTER IV

At Sylvia's table "the glasses were Olled and emptied and, filled again. Great red roses in a crystal vase dropped in the heat and smoke and scattered their petala on the white cloth. Food cooled on the plates while girl and boy laughed, talked, danced And wandered back again,

Meanwhile, Hardy's absence did not go unnoticed. Patty's sharp eyes instantly caught it. Isabel was con Acious of his departure and Sylvia herself, although apparently ignoring it, was perfectly aware of his defalen- tion,

One of the boys, with the male's delicious usual obtuseness, inquired casually, "Where's Hardy got to?" Isabel pressed her small slipper ngainst his Instep, signalling for silence.

It did not matter, really, Isabel said to herself, annoyedly. There were more than enough men to go around. Why did they always have to kowtow to Sylvia-save her feelings? She would not ndmit, even privately, the hold that Sylvia had on the crowd. Sylva'a parties, Sylvia's money and her big car and the orchida that she were so unconsciously, impressed them. Some of them were in ber debt, In A way, and lind to curry favours. Laddie's father worked for Mr. Rivers and when Patty's alowance fall short Was Sylvia who came forward, Ianbot happened to know, and pald for luncheon tips, trips into the city. even silk stockings sometimes.

it

By MABEL McEALIOTT

Suddenly the girl heard her name called in the silence, "Isabell

Label!"

"As for me, I don't owe her any thing" Isual reflected; with natia- faction. Ah, but didn't she, really?, Sylvia had made her 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, toolish, it" Boots wanted to know. play together. Isabel had borrowed unhappy Boots Isabel felt somehow "I drive Larry's car myself." responsible her. She had seen Isube! decided. "He left the keys hurt and bewilderment in the girl's in it. He always doce. I'll just run eyes that night, as she danced by. It you home and come back later. Look, was the fault of all of them.

when I whistle you come. I'll have the engine running"

"I can't can't bear it." Inabot sobbed soundlessly to herself, huddled against some hawthorn bushes in the bank of shrubbery surrounding the house.

It

Boots waited apprehensively in the darkness. The crowd on the veranda had thinned now. Attendants could be seen. moving about in the big lighted rooms, straightening chairs, clearing littered tables. The orchestra pinyed "Home, Sweet Home,"

it to play Mrs. Hustings, in "Not for a Day" up at the high school, and Inter Sylvia hnd said, with apparent carelessness: "I want you to keep it. No, but really, I mean it."

Isabel had been tempted beyond her strength. The black chiffon bar made her creamy skin look creamier: it had brought out every single glint in her copper-coloured hair. It was Suddenly she heard her name called the sophisticated nort of frock young in the stillness. "Lankell Isabel!" girls dream about and their mothers) Sho trembled all over. Wus refuse to buy for thom.

true, then, that ghosts came back to

Still Ianbel dit hot como. Boots' So she had kept it. And she had haunt you? It was a ghostly voice, bead nehod. She was desperately found, after that, it was not so easy faint and far away, and yet It was trying to fend off thoughts of the to be simple and natural with Sylvia. Bouts' voice, Burely.

{morrow-of her apologies to an angry It was easier to fall in with her mood, "What?" ho 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 tions that rose to one's lips wheat blackness, unable to distinguish u story got around. But just now all Sylvia made one of her. cool, out- thing.

she could afford to contemplate was rageous, extravagant pronouncements. "It's me-Boots," said the voice the immedinte problem. Once home, steadily. "I'm here in the summer safe in her own room, she could plan

for the future. Sylvia had not been able to buy house." Boot-bud not, in vary truth, tried. Isabel demolished the space le-

There was a low whistle from No. from the instant they had met tween the shrubbery and the old,

vicinity of the hydrangeas, between the two girls it had been rustic, embowered summer house in glimmering palety in the darkncas.

Boots ran war--to the knife. And now (Ianbel two jumps. Yes, it was Boots Rae-

In that direction. The Thought) Boots was committing the burn and not her glost who

dewy grass was damp to the soles Ent crowning crime of all, walking off with huddled in the shadow,

of her thin stockings. She glimpsed the roadster, heart-the-blessed sound of the purring motor, jumped in. It was Rugs Lund, the swimming in- But it was not Isabel at the wheel. strucior at the club..

(To Be Continued.J

Sylvia's on. A least, she supposed "What on earth's the matter Hardy was with Boots. When last Isabel's teeth were chattering. scen, his bright head had been bent felt as though he were going to over Boots allt one, their stepa hnd sick.

She

melted together like so much land "There's such a racket down on the poetry. Root, in her one prettypler." Boots said in a frelful voice, frock, Isabel safd herself loyally, "I didn't know what to do. I've lost! was better than dozen Sylvias,. my shoes-

"This party's died on its feet," "Lost your shoes?" The full tide Sylvia announced, suddenly in of relief flowed over Isabel. Shei

ifawrenched out a tentative hand, gripping ellence. "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 reflected, they'd nil be perfectly frank, irrelevance.

wrong

about it and say they wanted to stay "No, of course not. Why should and see the thing through. The narty I be? I can't think what's wag na good as it had ever heen, only with everyone to-night," Boots com Sylvin's long dark eyes were narrow plained. "The whole world seema tu ed now, her mouth was set in a petu-have gone crazy or something. Every- lant line, Sylvia was very angry, one ranting and screaming down on

They gathered up their things; the pier like a crowd of Fijis. Sylvin's white and silver bag, her "Oh. Boots, darling!" Innbel frothy wrap, Falty's compact, Isabel's laughed aloud, from sheer relief." "I lipstick. It res fate, Ianbel thought. thought I was sure The older women had begun to look "And now the thing is, I must get Lired. And Boots Raeburn was not home-but how?" Boots demanded, at alra. Waterman's Lalife. Oh, well-unheeding. "That foolish boy! When Just as Isabel skirted the musicians' I wouldn't go sailing with him be dais, a shout went up out of doors. picked me up and ran and my shoes One of the men who always hung dropped of.. and I got away from around the club-not exactly an at him and dashed and hi here. He tendant, just one of the "regular" in went off in the bont by himself but I blue Jeans and a battered cap, went couldn't find my shoes anywhere and running down the pier. Isabel heard I guess I had a good cry-don't tell the words, "Man overboard." She anyone I'm such a fool, Izzy darling. ran, too. Everybody, it seemed, was and I must have been asloop.

on the pier at once: hatless girls In

frail frocks, men In dinner clothes,

The relief of bearing her say the

their eyes searching the black horizon. commonplace words, plaintively, com- "Young fools!" she heard a white-plainingly, was éxquisite. Isabel haired, moustached man any, grily, hugged her.

Then someone cried, "They've got "Oh, Hardy's boat tipped him,'

Uver."

and the words ran from mouth she said, "and I thought you'd gona

to mouth. Hardy It was Hardy with him

Boots

and everyone know he was in a whirl my mind was just whiz with a sailboat. What could have happened? The night was cahn, hopo he's all right," the sound was running smooth black glaan.

Isabel's heart began to beat very fast. She was fond of Boots-always

contributed, "although he did act ter- ribly and I was frightened for a forgive nic, that's certain. I can't minuto, and Mrs. Waterman will never

had been. What if anything had explain.. happened to Boots?

"The thing now," Isabel said, "in

She had lost the others now: Bylvia to get you home. Oh, if I'd only! and Patty and Laddle were nowhere brought the roadster! I Wanted to, to be reen. 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 her and failed. Isabel was ment, her bright oyes thoughtful, thoroughly frightened now. Sho Look," she offered, in tho silence. pushed her way through the crowd, "I'll tell Mrs. Waterman you were back toward the club-house. Some of taken ill-that you wont off to the the younger people were making a dressing room and didn't feel equali grent joku of the whole thing.

to coming back. That crab-ment at "Well, if they will get sloshed!" suppor," said Isabel viciously, "was sho hoard a high, giddy voice saying, onough to not anybody off." morrily. Isabel was terribly 'angry, "No, no, she'd novor bellove it." Imagine anyone making fan of any-Boots wald despondently, "It sounds thing so terribly sorious

sily. If I had my shoes I'd go in

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and explain to her myself-tell tha tecommended for many years by Boots wasn't there: Oh. Isabel whole story. But I can't go back fovernment Civil Hospital, Peal nald to herself, wildly and despairing- in there like this. NE KARDA ly--the worst had hapnoned. Hardy Isabel, shrugged "her

had upset the boat. Boots, tangled "I s'pose you can't," shoulders.ospital, sto., and by all the loca

in those Buttoring skirts, had been "Could you get Laddle or some lost. Boots was a fine swimmer, but body, and have him-drive over into:

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