New-York tribune., 1920-10-31

prising, The minute you get to ex-
pecting a thing or taking 1t for
granted, it isn't an inspiration any
more. They're just as likely to come
from bld things as from good things
He says a poet can often get an in
spiratbn out of temporary affair
with tie very worst sort Of woman,
f thGe just happens to be some-
thingabout her that strikes him, you
know but that he couldn't get ono
fromthe best wife in the world"
End turned abruptly to the win
dow gain. She wanted to know the
wors, and if Dorothy saw how she
felt bout it she'd stop.
Cut her shum went on, "Fenton
says that what poet needs just as
mud as inspiration, is-well, sup
por-- somebody that he can count on
-stmebody he'll always have to-
ccna back to; "a harbor, you
ln@. Without that, he says, the
gratcst genius in the world will
bum himself out without ever doing
hisbest work. And he says I can be
That to him better than any one else
inthe world"
7 never heard Of anything" said
Enid, $3.50 abominable on his
part, or so stark staring crazy on
yours. You're talking about marry
ing man who says in so many
words that all he wants Of you is to
support him, so that he can 40
around doing anything he likes-get-
ting drunk, having affairs with wom-
en-and when he's tired or in trouble
come sncaking home to you. And
hot even pretending to be decent.
Why, do you remember last Sum-
day, with that awful Ernestine-
whatever her name is?"
Dorothy did. The girls had been
unable to find out to whom Ernes-
tine owed her invitation to break
fast, but that she believed herself
to be adequately invited there could
be no doubt. Until recently she had
been (she was extremely free with
geographic details) commercial
model--one Of those young ladies
who are always appearing in the ad-
vertising pages wearing union suits
or about to take a bath amid mar
wells of sanitary plumbing. Lately,
however, she had realized her life's
ambition by getting a job with the
B. & S. people in the movies-an
opportunity she frankly boasted Of
owing to the personal infatuation
Of some one in authority.
There are persons whose sufficient
Characterization of her would be a
grimly significant "the less said.
the better" Enid and Dorothy did
not take this attitude. They meant
to be liberal in the matter of allow
ances for every one. One needn't
throw stones even if one did not live
in glass house.
4 FTER an experimental cast or
~ two last Sunday Ernestinc
had fastened, inexplicably,
upon Fenton Royce. And the be-
havior of the pair for three mortal
hours thereafter had made even the
hardened denizens of the studio
stare.
Dorothy remembered all right:
Enid could see that.
"Well,' y she asked vigorously,
chow will you like being married
to him when he acts like that right
before your eyes,"
Dorothy sighed.
ooh, I know" she said. "I've
thought of all that. He says she's
an interesting type and he means to
to discover her soul. He's-she's
gong to be out at Riverview to-
night, too, with man she's bringing
from the plant-an author out there
fenton wants me to keep him
amused so that he can 90 on-study.
ing Ernestine. And if the other
man wants to-study her, too. sup
pose | shall have pretty poor
time
And after all that" said Enid,
with bitter incredulity, "you're 60
ing to tell him you'll marry him to-
morrow" She flew back to her
chum and shook her.
dorothy, dear" she cried. "Wake
up! It's nightmare. It's just i'm
possible. 1t isn't SOL"
'Well, it seems like that to ME
sometimes" said Dorothy, "but if it
isn't so''- With sudden enerev
she clutched Ends two wrists and
looked searchingly into her eyes. "If
it's a nightmare, then we're all in it
you and Bob just as much as Fem
ION and me-"
Enid stared at her. "What do
you mean?" she gasped.
Dorothy drOpned her u,r;c+s ,,d =,