he perceived that since he was making love to every woman possible was no longer bis one pure star and he wondered whether she had ever been anything more to him than a woman and if had spoken to him were other people talking about him he suspiciously the men at the club that noon it seemed to hun that they were uneasy they had been talking about him then he was angry he became he not only defended but even made fun of the y m c a was rather brief in his answers afterward was not angry he was afraid he did not go to the next lunch of the club but hid in a cheap and while he a ham and egg and coffee from a cup on the arm of his chair he worried four days later when the bunch were having one of parties drove them to the which bad been laid out on the river after a the streets bad frozen in smooth ice down those wide endless streets the wind rattled between the rows of wooden houses n on � j v m ud tbe district seemed a frontier town even with id chains on all four was afraid of and when he came to tbe slide of a bill he crawled down both on round a comer came a less cautious car it it almost r ed them with its rear in relief at their escape tbe � ob baby and waved their bands to the agitated other driver then saw laboriously tip bill staring at tbe he was sure that bim and saw kiss him as she you re such a good at lunch next day he with out last ni with n brother and some friends of bis what driving s glass thou t i saw you up the avenue hill no i wasn t � i didn t see you said hastily rather perhaps two days afterward took to at tbe hotel she who had seemed well content to wait for him at her flat had b to hint with melancholy smiles that be must think but little of ber if be never introduced her to his friends if be was unwilling to be seen with h� at the he thought of taking her to the ladies of the but that was too dangerous he have to ber and oh le mi t and � he on tbe she was unusually smart all in small black hat short black coat loose and swinging and austere hi black velvet frock at a time when most street were like evening gowns she was too smart every one in tbe gold and oak of the was staring at her as followed her to a table b� hoped that the bead waiter would give th� u a discreet place behind a but were stationed on aisle seemed not to notice her admirers she smiled at vith a lavish c isn t this what a pet looking had difficulty in bang lavish in return for two tables away he saw all the meal watched then watched being watched and tried to ke s gaiety i felt like a to day she ti q led i love the don t you it s so live and yet so � so refined he made talk about the the the food the people he recognized in the all but there did not seem to be anything else to talk of he smiled at her fluttering he agreed with her that was so hard to get along with young such a hay kid really just no good at all but he himself bad nothing to say he considered telling her his about but � oh it was too much work to go into the whole thing and explain about and everything he was relieved when he put on a he was cheerful in the familiar of his office at four o clock called on him was agitated but began in a friendly way how s the boy say some of us are getting a we d kind of like to have you come in on fine short you know during the war we had the the and walking and just the plain dead to rights and so did we for quite a while after the war but folks forget about the and that these a chance to begin working again especially a lot of these parlor well it s up to the folks that do a little sound thinking to make a conscious to keep these fellows some back east has ft called the good citizens league just that pose of the chamber of commerce and the l and so on do a fine work in keeping the decent pet in the saddle but they re devoted to so many other causes that tb can t attend to this one problem properly but the good citizens league the g c l they stick ri t to it oh the g c l has to have some other purposes � here in i think it ought to support the park extension project and the city planning � and then too it should have a social a being made up of the best people � have dances and so on as one of the best ways it can put the on is to apply this social business to folks big so you can t reach em otherwise then if that don t work the g c l can finally send a little around to inform folks that get too that th got to to decent standards and quit shooting off mouths so free don t it sound like the organization could do a great work we ve already got some of the strongest men in town and of course we want yon in how about it was uncomfortable he felt a back to all the standards he had so vaguely 