South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-24
WHAT Bless DEAN BROU CHIT
ABOUT.

If you could realize the despair
you've saved US from you'd pat each
other on the back as public bene-
factors" declared Bess Dean ex-
avagantly. as Dicky and met
Alice HOlcOmbe and her in the lob
by OF the Cresthayen movie theater
after the performance.
Dicky gravely and ostentatiously
Iatted my shoulder
See what a value is set upon our
society, Mrs. Graham" ne drawled.
Perhaps we might rent our con-
Versauonal powers out at so much
an hour
oh. don't be so conceitedl" Bess
Dean retorted. "Of course. we love
TO hear you talk''-she made an au-
daciOus, and / was forced 10 admit.
wonderfully alluring face at him
but your chief attraction Just
now is the eats you promised me
after the show. I'm simply starving
10 death. / scorned the boarding
house dinner tonight in anticipation
and when the intermisSion came
and you hadn't shown UP. / said 10
Alice that she could look for me
tomorrow in the little lake back of
the schoOlhOuse. never could
nave survived the disaL pointment."
Moments of Insight.
looked at the girl in wondering
and grudging admiration. The
things she was saying would have
been vulgar hints for an elaborate
supper on the part OF anybody else.
But upon her lips they were simL dy
eXtravagant, irresistible nonsense of
an adorable spoiled child. And vet
! knew that behind the nonsense
lay the deliberate scheme to allure
Dicky into buying an expensive
meal. That Dicky shared my ad-
iniration without qualifying II with
criticism / could tell by his laughing
eyes.
Thank goodness we arrived in
time!" he calculated melodramatic-
ally. How about you, Miss Hol-
combe? Were you about TO seek a
'watery grave also?"
Not tonight. thank you. she
drawled, and 1 knew that she was
intensely annoyed at Bess Dean for
involving her in this ridiculous dis
cussion. Besides, / ate my dinner
not knowing until time TO start for
the theater that there was anything
else in prospect. So you see 1 am
fortified"
CAAs DuA NOu lluSl tulllNdlt an
appetite by the time we get to the
inn to keep the rest of us com
pany!" Dicky assured her cordially
Now suppose you girls wait here
while l rustic a taxi"
He must have been unusually
fortunate, for il was only a few
minutes before he secured one. and
we were on our way to the new inn
which Miss Dean put in the time
describing with great fuency. The
frivolous nature of the girl unwit-
tingly betrayed itself as she talked.
one could see that all of life worth
while to her was the latest fashion,
the most exciting amusement, the
newest eating place.
Why DiCky WINGED.
The inn, rather an unusual tyr @
OF cafe. was fairly well filed. but
we were fortunate enough TO OBJ
tain a good corner table. and Bess
Dean at once seized the menu.
"Oh-h, I knew it," she gurgled
childishly. They've got a lobster
thing-um- bob on tonight, that's one
OF their specialties. Please. Mr..
Graham, mayn't l have some?"
She glanced up at him coquet-
tishly from under the short brim of
the rakish hat she wore. Dicky
promptly accepted her challenge.
while Alice HOlcombe's ironical
eyes gazed at them both with con-
tempt in her glance, and I began 10
| feel the humiliation known to q
wife or fiancee when the man who
is supposed TO be her especial prop
city publicly answers TO the lure OF
another woman.
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