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BEACH CLUB GIRL

By MABEL McELLIOTT

CHAPTER XXIX

ford. She did not speak of her to matched her smaller steps to his grent Isabel, Isabel would not understand.ones.

Boots reflected that she liked Ed- The long, cold, dreary winter drag: Kay who had everything, was every ged on. And presently there dawned thing sweet and clover and desirable, ward a lot. He was plensant to ba a day when the light was Koldon occasionally reminded Boots of the with, He made you forget your lustond of gray, and white clouds heritage she had lost. It was not that troubles, His conversation was tho scudded across the surface of a sky who saw Kay very often; she did not. light talk of the day. He knew all of heaven's own blue. And there was But whenever Edward Van Selverf the newest restaurants, the Intrat the feeling of spring in the air.

took Boots to ten or to the theatre catchwords. Door men. clevator Boots had seen Isabel twice, during Kay's name peppered his conversation, starters, the captains in the big res. the winter. She was starved for I think you're in love with her."taurants all had an expansive air and news of her own people. When Isabel Boots had sold to Edward with a slow a wide smile for the rich young man. had greeted her, enthusiastically, one smile one evening as they dawdled day across the counter, Boots had over tail drinks in a corner of a big been quite simply glad to see her hotel lounge faced in walls of She had made no pretences, offered chromium, braced against sents up no explanations, for her being in holstered in dove-coloured leather. I Lacy's. Isabel had said something Edward grinned. "Me? With Kay 7 haltingly about being "terribly sorry" You're er-cra-azy, girl. Kay's not my to hear about Russ's death. Boots type." had thanked her simply. Even now, when she heard his name and people spoko of his going, it didn't seem quite real. It was all part of an old dream.

"Hasn't she, though?" agreed Ed ward with enthusinam. "Smart and beautiful and all that rot. Did you know she speaks five languages?"

"She would," Boots muttered under her breath.

"What did you say?" Edward was nodding to a group of rather noisy young people milling about the next table.

The big motion picture theatre was crowded. A tall cadet in a braided and buttoned uniform led them across the chastely simple, foyer. There were modera pleces of" sculpture, angled, creamy white, all about. There were deep piled eastern rugs on the marble floor. Somewhere a great organ boomed and trilled and thunder

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Boots considerd this, her eyes drift. ing over the well-dressed crowd ed. thronging the narrow corridor. She "In the back. We like to sit the was wearing a now frock to-night---| back," Edward sald firmly. And her

new workaday frock of black presently they were seated side by Isabel had brought her news of the crape with a frill of sheerest organdio, side in deep upholstereti chairs, the LONDON SERVİCE younger mot In Larchneck. Sylvia, Her skin Isabel contributed, had been home for about had a positivo transparency screen a bluish square of light hair

ber pale-gold hair, a city block away.

"Nice!" Edward's big hand found Christmas vacation, "looking tun-brushed into a shining cap, feathered

her small kand, gave it a friendly "about the amali black hat she wore, ning" In a mink coat. "But imagine,"

she pressure, release it. "She's she's extraordinary." Isabel had Interpolated, "imagine mink on a girl her age!") And some admitted aloud. "She's got every how this particular comment had made thing,

Cory far the

old days seem very away, the old struggles and heartaches unreal. Boots felt she had grown up.

She was living a real life now. The big question of whether to spend 20 conte or a quarter for lunch, the saving for now pair of shoes, the efforts to send one's sales totals up so that the end of the week brought approbation, or better still, a raise in one's pay envelope all there were real. The "Nothing." Boots, glancing at her other matters, parties at the Ritz, reflection in the mirror opposite, felt diamond wrist watches, silver fox auddenly dull and uninteresting. How man in the hussar's uniform, keeping scarves and tap dancing lessons, were ally of her to be rejoicing over this his cool, aloof profile turned toward

Nice much embroidery.

bat cheap frock, bought in Lacy's "n- the watching thousands, was ever so relatively unimportant..

expensive dress department." Kay little like Denis. Isabel herself, though sweet

"I must be mad," she told herself had half a dozen black frocks, cach and friendly and confiding as ever, seemed more adroitly cut than the other, angrily, with a little shrug of disgust. and "Denta la certainly nothing to mo. very young, very frivolous to Boots And Kay could speak French

But she brought news of her German and Swedish and and Rus He was merely kind. I--I didn't oven mother, and that was important. Mrs. slan perhaps. She, Boots, was Ignor- like him at frat. Besides he belonga Rachurn, Isabel reported, was well. utat und untutored. Kay knew just to Kay,"

what "She misses you dreadfully

to do, just what to say, In] Why don't you go up and see her?"

exactly the right tone. Roots shook her head, considerating. No, she would not go until they sent for her. It was not stubbornness that held her back but pride. Her mother well-was going about, She must be happy. It was enough to know that. Later-much Inter--she

Boots settled back, sighing with exquisite relief. The big, cool, vaulted place, with its dimmed lights, Its hushed and waiting throngs, sulted NEW YORK SERVICE her mood exactly. Presently the film

wheel past. A story of love, began

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The picture had played an old trick "BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. upon her. She could not shake Denis image from her mind. And beside her Edward Van Selver, big and brown and wholesome and rich, squared in his rent to watch her, Edward,

W29 thinking .new thoughts. The girl who had been just a dullghtful playmate for odd houts now presented herself to him in a new light. How lovely she was in this half light with that mysterious, pro- vocative little smile playing about her mouth! Edward touched her warm hand again and it remained in bla own simply, as confidingly as a child's might. *

these days? Edward wanted

"What's Denis_doing with himself to know, signalling for his check. " about

too, we want to see that Garbo sicture we'd better be barging along," he added briskly. Edward was a restless Muul. Ho had to be going placra, doing things all the time. He liked the little fair-haired girl at his side, She was sweet, he told himself. There was something darn sweet about her

"She's darn sweet," Edward told

And now spring had come to a waiting world. Last spring she had been careless, so unawake. Now, in the span of a single year, she had I haven't seen m for ugęs. *! known love and heartbreak and her Boots made it sound very gay, very whole life had been changed. She had casual. Denis. had, in effect, "pras- not known what work was, nor how tically dropped" her, she told herself. himself again. But the words had a one struggled for the mere essentials Never mind, one of these days she new meaning now. He felt an urge of living. Now she knew. Perhaps would be a big buyer for a smart to protect, to guard her from the that was why mention of Sylvia shop. She would go abroad she world. Poor kid, she was having a And not Rivers who had had so much to do, would learn how to order head waiters hard time of li, wasn't she? really, with her breaking away from about. Even Kay, with her cool complaining, either.... the narrowness and

and safety of home prrogance, should not daunt her The web of fate was Lightening woke her responses on

only vaguely. then.

around them both. Boots, brooding Sylvia had been cruel to her, but that

over the memory of a dark, disdainful was because Sylvia, knew little

face; Edward in whose mind a slow about life. The struggle for existence

dream was taking shape at last. A had never touched Sylvia.

dream of a little stone house in the country

And Home place and dogs horses, rones tumbling ever stop walls, and in the background a slim.

Edward tucked her hand in the crook of his arm. "flow's for walking across town? It's at Fiftieth Street."

"Oh, I'd love that!"

"I don't hate her any more," she Edward toll the doorman he would said candidly to Isabel's question, pick his car up later. Very good, Mr. "I scarcely ever think of her at all." Van Sciver; yes, the big blue one. I

No, it was another girl, dark-haired, know it; sure I do, auavo, silken-voiced, who figured in "You're cute, do you know "hair. Boots' life this spring. Kay Chilling-1 Edward told her contentedly as she

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