Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-11
CARELESS HEARTS
BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR
Copvri0ht. 1920. Ly Public Ledocr ~,

stance called him up at his office wav-
az 5Iiu MN nm whenever she could and roped
hII rI INTO engagements with her Until
e.o1, emeh ne genuinely like her She was a
HUD' fnr Sh Jho,'ipanion' she was attractive look
ms she Had charm, and she knew how
10 make herself agreeable Nv"
i,,i,, IL" one Gay Hortense said laugh.
tmEiS;, tn,;.S,, Has Constance taken you in
Julian laughed. What do you moan -,
70. it's a wav she has, and generaII,.
Sne pIaE' some kind of game with ID
cue pretendS to have ideas which sb.
!,a ISL ~ sympathy with at all In Your
GISS, Gitra should say she was trying to be
JuIlan laughed again, but did not adj
Ill.,, .ltl, " II gave him new line on Con-
2tanCe' however, and his attitude toward
'''r rom then or was different.
r,,H mnehrNer she made n remark that
Juiian was. sure was not based on any
S.hIere belief Of hers, he would laugh,
Hnd ask her " ahe wasn't posing Just Il
Io.'e' A. hrst this piqued and nngercd
!or, ana then when she realized that Il
'he'nt h" was seeing through her she
l@rrea about and became really natural
'lll' IikabIc. 1t was then that she be-
came actually interesting to Julian.
me cold winter day they had been
having tea at one of the big hotels II
vas Saturday afternoon. and as .he,.
Wrr" emerging from the warm. crowded
lobby INTO the street. man and a
woman man "'me up the steps together
n" woman was wrapped in furs. The
'I'"h or her skin was touched wifi,
rose, and she had long gray gre n ewes,
IN" man who was with her had ewes
ipr no one else and she was laughing
up lu'C MS face. Julian had a strange
S'nS" ton that he had never eNDerIcnced
h'i"rr He StODped and waited for her
=" com" M. unconscious that he had any
one with him. Then she raised her face
3'd "a" him and instant recognition
I"on"d into her eyes. It was Diana
EvCr"thinC happened in a moment
ana then she. had smiled and bowed nnl
was gone Julian was brought back 10
earth by Constance LorIng's voice.
W"U Julian, you seem stunned You
I""k aS 4 you had seen an applritlon. "
Constance had observed Diana closely
HHd with another womans instant ap.
pratsal had seen that ahe was perfectly
~'r"' mod Ind dangerously attractive ShC
I w"n1ercd curiously who the woman
could be
"Somn one haven't seen for a lona
'Im" Julian said with n crisp dlsmissa
~ ihc subject But he was CONSCIOUS
Of IN" fact that he wanted to get rio
rhh'k. to hc alone. with woman's in
tuition Constance knew this too. anC
was furious when Julian left her at he
hotd fifteen minutes later.
Alone at last he hailed taxi nni
drove to his club. his brain in q wIhrI
rf course, he had known he must NEE
Diana some time. he had known tina
Ehc was somewhere in the city. But nov
jhot hr had seen her he curiously wal
not satisfied he wanted to know more
about what she was doing. What n foo
he had been to let old Wheelock have hi
VIZ, about Dilna's independence
v.0S true .hn5 she was looking well. won
derfullv wnll. he reflected as he visual
we'd the lovely laughing face but wha
wa" she doing where was shegetting tn,
mpoev to live? He must find out imme
diAtcly