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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1984.

BEACH CLUB GIRL

By MABEL MCELLIOTT

She burrowed deep into her plilow, wishing shonsed not face the day. "What a fool I always am!” she

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

groaned.

thousand

I morning. She would say what oai SYLVIA RIVERS, rich and spoiled, rules carth would she say? Oh, nonsense the younger set of Farchneck, fashionable ; —forgot all this--it doesn't matter. New York suburb. Sylvis given a party at it'll all be the same in

*ll the crowd years- the Yacht Club and maka carept 100TI RAEBURN of whom he Jealous.

Boots, heartbroken by the snub, accepts a belard Invitation to a dinner at the club that same night given by MRS. WATERMAN, one of the town's noclub lights.

HARDY WHITMORE one of Sylvia's guests, rushes lots off the dance floor and tries to persuade her to go aling. She to Tavs und runw away, losing. her whore, Hanly zone off in his boat and fallı overs, board. The entire club is aroused and be is evecued. Boots, embarrassed and shoeless, driven hame by HUSS LUND, swimming

Iniffuretor.

CHAPTER V

Boots had her hand on the, alde door now, fumbling for the handle, "I guess must have made a mis-

+

When she awoke it was to cooler, winds memory returned and with

and for blue skies. Then n sick sense of despair she burrowed deep into her pillow, wishing she need mul face the day. There would be the inevitable apologies to make; u girl under Mre. Waternion's ban might very well give up any further hope of social life in Larchneck. The old Indy still ruled opinion 'strangly in Boveral powerful groups.

"What a fool I was! What a foot always am!" groaned the girl, burrow. Ing her head deep. And yet what· she had done any" them might have dono-would have! To go out on the

"Well, well, this is indeed a sad affnir," said, the tall, imposing lady.

"Oh, I'm so terribly sorry," Boots began falteringly. Then she observed, with

acute astonishment, that the elder woman's, eyes wore red-rimmed. Surely-surely her escapade had not been sufficiently important to wring tears from the bright blue all-seeing eyes of Clarissa Y. Waterman!

"It was most unfortunatei" agreed the other. "It was good of you to come."

Boots took heart from this tone, and plunged on. "Oh, but of course I carie.

What else could I do, in the circumstances? If you only knew how sorry I am! And the way it happened Why, anyone could under- viand it. It might have happened to nayone!"

take," she said confusedly. "Isabel veranda with Hardy Whitmore had not help herself. She had

Hathway was going to plek me up" "That's all right?" She could see the flash of white teeth in Russ Lund's sunburned face. "Mias Hathway ask ud me to get you--safd abe couldn't get away from the gang."

He slid the motor into high and, since they were already gliding swift. ly away from the club, Boots had no choice but to sit back.

"I don't know what this is all about," Ruas Lund said lightly and gayly, tooling the little car with nu expert hand, "but it's all right with mc. I take you home, wheel the bus back to the club for Miss Hathway--| that's all right?

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been dangerous in itself. But Hordy had been drinking. He had wonted her to go sailing with hira and a had struggled and got away, losing her slippers. Suddenly Boots began to laugh, shaking hysterically.

"Why, the whole thing's ridiculous, completely and utterly ridiculous" she told huraelf. The very sound of the words, spoken aloud, comforted her, There was nothing to. It. She would go up to Mrs, Watermanis, explain, be forgiven. But at the thought of forming the words, her cournge failer. ed. No-no-she couldn't.

She was being lightly incoherent and she knew it. But she couldn't to go o#. Heavens above, was the old woman actually weeping over her (Boots') confession? Yes, there were unmin takable tears in her eyes now. This, thought Boots, solemnly, is awful, Never again, so long as I live.

But what was 'Mrs. Waternian say- ing?

"As I said to Florida läst night, one never knowa. And-Cousin Ella seemed no well, just the past month or on. She even came down to lunch yesterday. When that waiter came to the table with the message last night I thought it was from Henry. He'd threatening to run on

from California any day, to see her. Then

been She jumped out of bed and, throw- Boots felt a slow flush creeping ing on her thin blue dressing gown, over her face. "I lost my shoes," she rushed down the hall on the bathroom. said uncomfortably, in the pause, "A cold shower would drive the blues -it was going to be darned awkward away.

getting back into the club, explaining Tho smell of coffee floated up from to my hostess-"

the lower regions and the unmistak- -----"You - poor-kid!". - IIls tone-of-sym-able-sound-of-Linda, pushing the

pathy was almost unendurably sweet to her jurred nerves.

Don't be nice," she warned. "if you do, you'll have me sobbing your shoulder in a minute.“

on

"Those old hens around town would be only top glad to pick a fight with. a pretty girl like you," Russ pursued, interrupting himself to ask, "Which way do I turn from here? What's. your street? I'm not sure of it at night."

She told him and in a few broken phrases sketched the events of the evening, omitting names.

carpet sweeper around. No one in the world ran the carpet sweeper as Linda did. It sounded, Mr. Raeburn said, in moments of exasperation, "like a Mack truck gene witd."

"Hi, Linda!"

A coffee-coloured face, framed in n sort of mob-cap, appeared in the frame of the stairwell,”

"Where's everybody."

"Yo' mother's gone to market. Yo' father's off to the city long ago. He taken the 8.10.**

"Well, how about some breakfast? It was half-past 9 when Boots re "Rotten break" the young. man appeared, her golden mane damp and commented mildly when she finished sleek. Linda had brought the tray So you can see I'm everlastingly upstairs and in luxury the girl break- grateful to you for helping me out fasted. The coloured woman looked of this." The words were hard to say,į admiringly at the lithe figure in the They almost stuck in her throat. A sheer pafantes, the slimpsy robe best- week ago she hadn't known Russ Landed tightly around the slender hips, was on earth, except in a dim way. "Scena like you was off partying He was merely the red-necked, square- Just night." ly bulit young man in the black jer- Boota shrugged. Oh, if she only sey, with the woolly white sweater hadn't gone to that wretched party! Blung over his shoulder, The swim- "Somebody telephone you while ning "pro" at the club. Nobody know | back," Linda contributed, shuflling| him, except the "kids" and the older around, pleking up scattered books,

learn to swim.

women who wore timidly beginning to straightening ced. Somebody?

Boots' heart raced, That's perfectly o. k.“

She noticed for the first time that he was not in evening clothes. As if in answer to her unspoken thought, he said easily, "I was helping out in the men's coat room. Have to earn an honest ponny wherevor I can."

She liked him for that, even while deploring the necessity, "I thought hadn't seen you on the floor," she told him.

"Me?" His great laugh rang out

"NO

Who?"

"Dunno, Some lady. She didn't leave no message. Say Blie call later."

The toast was so much sawdust now, but Boots forced herself to swallow it anyhow. She had to face the day. there was no shrinking away from

Her mother did not conse back and at long last she got into her freshest. frock, a crisp brown and white striped the direction of the Waterman house. linen, and bogan to walk slowly in

I don't run with that crowd!”. It was an imposing structure, a gabied Thoy were at her door now. The and turreted affair of grim gray. dim amber bulb burned in the front stucco and fieldstone. Boots had hall. All the rest of the house was always hated it and to-day it seemed shrouded in silence and darkness.

especially forbidding. "Well-well, thanks a

"O. K." he said again. "Can you make it in those thin stockings ?".

'She nodded, smiling nervously.

"I'll be seeing you," Russ Lund told her. Then she was on the walk, the flagstones .cool under her feat. She was flying up the stairs. She wan. İnaldo.

The elderly mald who opened the door was grim, too, and Boots thought nbe looked at her rather oddly. "Mrs. Waterman will be down in just a fow

minutes."

·

Boots wandered around the big. overfurnished study with its cabinets Isabel would get her wrap for her, crowded with Copenhagen ware and so that would be all right. But her Drosdon bits. There were carved and slippers were irretrievable. Well, it gilded cabinota, leather chalra, castorn couldn't be helped. Probably they'd carpets. The walls were covered with been kicked into the water, in all the an expensive but hideous Imitation confusion attending Hardy's rescue, ping, the owner's solo concession ta Oh, woll, time enough to worry about modern decoration. Boots' heart graw that, Meantime, she could be more lendon with every moment spont thankful she was safe at hote, un. there. When at last the firm sten noticed.

of the house's ntistress sounded in the She undressed swiftly and crept be. hall she felt as if she might sink to tween the sheets. Sleep sluded her the ground from sheer weakness, “ and sho lay toasing for hours, by Nor were her fears dispelled by turns worried and hopeful. She would Mrs Waterman's appearance and her. call Mrs. Waterman first thing in the first words.,

I rushed off to the telephone-and dear, dear, the malds vaid Dr. Franks had takon her to the hospital. A stroke I didn't even stop to ex- plain to anyone. There was a good deal of excitement as I left. Some young man was saved from drowning. I hope you got home all right?”

The leaden weight, whieli had been pressing on Boots' heart was lifted now. She could have sung

aloud from sheer thankfulness. But poor Cousin Ella She mustn't forget her. Boots fairly flew down the street, once she had got away from Mr. Waterman's tearful reminiscences and the iron fence of the big house. Once home, she telephoned Isabel.

Oh, my dear, I tried to get you Arst thing this morning! cooed hier frlend, "llow did-overything go1"

(To Be Continued.)

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