Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-03

Barbara Knight, tcho has alrays
had her otGr tCdD, nidrrteS hefh
Grant, the most eligible man OF the
season. and prepares to 90 OF hdvtn9
her oiCn Ddy for oil time She IS
leader IN the younger set. aud dHhough
her ideGS are those Of the people she
associates tctth-ultrd-Sopht
she loueS her husband as ne Iotes her,
underneath the social Ve,reer. hetth:
hoWeUer, reaches out for me real
thinos Of life, real friends aud real
talk, NOT the small pdtter OF people
tUho are not thinkers. Kdthertne NetC-
,bery. his private secretary dnd col
leoe tUomdu. offers hin, just this 1rtena-
sRip He Is Interested in her frtendS,
too: and although there Is nothing ~
II that he 1Could not tell barbara. stu!
he feels that she toould not understand
and therefore keeps everything TO
himself
DOB CRAIG felt this change in kath-
- crime toward himself. Never had she
given him the slightest reason to sup
nose that she cared for him. Ihelr
friendship had been based on natura'
normal relationships. If BOD careo ioi
b.r ~ in a careless moment Katherine
,e.red close enough for him to smell
tho nerfume from her hair. or perhaps IL
she touched him lightly on the atti III. dr, b,,,
bis nIIIses leaned, no one knew TINS pu'
pnh himself He was willing 10 walt
and 20 take his chances at winning nei
No one knew better than he did tlat ~
force matters would be to rum every
thing for himself; 49,, ., dlffarert
She delighted in arguments ana mos, s,,
~ ALI in arguments with nun IN .ISa
she would use all manner OF III ~
little methods 10 annoy mn nm !, her
caught little shades or meahlils iirs'or III
attitude and once in while an ahus'oi
~ ~ xaitb trat was unmistakaole.
~ CtTce when they were talking togethef
@ob I don't know what | want from
life, but ! think it's romance; ~ ,,S' CourS %
you couldn't understaHd }dn tHai iIneginS 5eI you
leading anything but perIecty re- re-
snectable. umntercsting life to the enc
of your days ., +, ,no bIs
They were alone together in the o.t
living room. Mrs. Newhery hao s9iie ~
crime was restless, she TOOK out he'
"s" YOU think don't understand IN
II Gaming OF romance he said evenS
turning slim ivory paper cutter, "nici
he had taken up from the taole' over '''N
over in his fingers.
Katherine shrugged her shoulders.
"Oh. YOU newspapermen." she sait
lightly. You're the most practical peo
ME Imaginable. You'd never step ou
~ your narrow little lives, nothing wouls
tempt YOU to go wll-o'-the wisp hunting
TO leave the accepted things In searCl
of the Intangible. How much we talk
all we people, when we get togethe
here, and yet it's all talk done WITHIN
four walls"
paints, and Nancy strings words I
music" Bob suggested.
Take Keith Grant" Katherine wen
on, as II she hadn't heard Bob at all
IT think he's done more than any
the rest of US to get out of his rut, an,
Not one of us has ever heard him sa'
a thing about the people he knows. AM
his wife, I wonder what she Is ike
shes beautiful" Bob suggested.
Yes, she is" Katherine said honestly
TT would he Interesting too. to tr
been curious about that kind Of woman
He's very much in love with her" sh
said irrelevantly,
These conversations got nowhere, bu
| they served 10 show Bob that Katherin
| was not happy, not as she had been. i
her heart Of hearts, Katherine, the sen
| sible was wondering what 1t would b
| like TO be- petted and spoiled, to have
| man hang on ones very. words, TO wea
gcTgeoJs clothes without thought {
| the price, to take everything and Civ
nothing. Katherine, who had never eve
! thought Of the power OF money was no.
| wondering how II would seem to haN
! plenty OF II. II wasn't that Keith ar
| pealed TO her personally, that she wa
! interested in him as man 1t was ratht
| that he represented n class that up I
now she had taken for granted. eve
scorned little, but in reality had know
| little about,
Keith made no attempt to tell Ba'