Evening journal., 1919-08-13

dorothy. aged 26, is spending the
ummer at Lively Beach. having stakod
Ter job and $500 savings on the chance
Y winning a suitable husband during
he summer. These are her letters home
% Joan, her chum).
Lively Beach again, Tuesday.
Ny darling Joan:
Well. / guess its all over but the
shouting. The gods Of high Olympus,
Who amuse themselves with the an
les Of mere human mem and women
ire doing the shouting.
You see Coy the date. line that I'm
back at the Beach / motorcd here
with Jim Ross But not until some
thing happened that turned my heart
10 lead. IL was this way:
went down TO the little camp where
captain Wallis wrote his novel and
where I, the humble but necessary
stenographer, made it possible for him
TO do II in time. wanted 10 gather
up some papers and small belongings
I had left there. Besides. 10 was quiet
and I wanted to be alone and think.
! knew he would not be back from
town TN late And what Jim Ross
said about Eric not caring except as
The novelist for his Indispensable sec
retsry" was tormcnling me beyond
words.
Not that I have permitted myself 10
dwell upon serious possibilities. But
loan, there S a time in the course OF
friendship between man and woman
when. given the vital response, the
emotion can become love.
Love bcgets love. One loves. as one
answers a call. all else being right
And in my deepmost soul ! suppose
there had been a feeling that he cared
Vet I never was sure. I could never
tell whether his tender manner was for
me alone or was his way toward all
women he liked and respected. There
were moments, JO1n-Oh. well. what
is the use Of my writing 10 all now.
suffice 10 20 say mat with my papers
7 accidentally gathered mp q notebook
which / thought at first mine j op-
ened u and my eye fell on The pontilcd
memorandum:
Types. Girl at F's office. Thin. dark.
wiry. Foreign perhaps. Devoured with
ambition TO get on financially. ShreWd
selfish. Tcmperamenial rather than
pretty. Use in story for Walkers
Magazine 'The purple Flame. Get con-
versation next time at Ffs.
Mrs. Warnock Good type Of sala-
mander. Heartlcss. Hungry for amuse-
ment and conquest. Intrigue. Insert
the talk with her in conservatory at
LIS ball. Intellectual and social sponge
Cares for nothing but affairs de occur
Episode with H. as basis Of story.
Miss Vsrick. The unusual. genuine
girl. Intelligence and Geauty. Charm
for some. Honest Type Of girl who
Knows value and determines 20 play it
10 10 advantage. Use conversation on
porch and in boat, l.. B. hotel. Epi-
sodes, etc"
There were others-"types' he had
,oted for future use in his novel-writ-
ng-but I hadn't heart TO read them.
% that Is the whole story Jimmie
Ross is right. There was nothing more
than the casual interest Of a writer in
4 rirl who would sometime do TO use
n story. ] am merely a "type.'
went through my bad quarter
lour. Joanie And then 7 got up
hook the kinks and wrinkles out OF
mvseH as best 7 could. made a bun
at laughing. collected my beionsings
and went back TO the Inn With a smile
IN my face-and hell in my heart.
Yet truly I cannot repro7ch Captain
Nails I'm The slightest way lie is a
writer before everything else. Tie is
probably not the marrying kind. Not
! womans man" Certainly he paid
small attention 90 the females al the
4. B. Hotel" I got the lions share.
Jimmie Ross is rather a dear lad in
many ways. can never feel indiner-
mt or lacking IN gratitude for the way
ie has helped me ihrouzh This trying
,pisode. But am still tired and