Evening star., 1921-08-28

exasperating to be despised for follow
ing his own preference.
He slashed his way savagely through
| the. next days match. winning at the
! fourteenth from Sam Wainwright. He
lunched at the clubhouse and spent his
| afternoon lounging on the veranda. He
did not see Winifred at dinner. which
she elected to consume at another table,
and when he found her. afterward. she
congratulated him sweetly on his
| triumph. but declined to renew the
! argument
! Lets not discuss it, please. 1 had
| no conceivable right to criticise your
taste in--in choosing profession. And
I'd rather not talk about it any more =
He could not make progress against
this cool determination. He watched
! her dancing with a boy from Harvard.
Eddie himself abhorred dancing vi
ciously. He found corner in the lobby
and surrendered to dull resentment
he care what she thought about golf
| and golfers. anyway? A girl SO stub
bornly wrongheaded as she was
couldn't matter. one way or the other,
| to Eddie Penfold
! He avoided her thereafter with some
deftness. He breakfasted early; he
lunched at the clubhouse; he angled for
| a dinner invitation at the Lorton cot
tage. He repeated the performance
! Friday. except that he went to the
|
through the upper bracket and faced
/ him in the finals. He was glad Of this
| He knew that he was going to beat
| Tregler this time.
THE fact that Tregler's drive lay
beautifully in place for running
approach had nothing whatever to dc
with Eddie Penfold's tee shot. He was
not even thinking about it as he in
(, spected the group clustered behind the
cord barriers. Vaguely without logic
or hope. he was looking for one face
among the many. Something throbbed
chokingly in his throat as he saw her
met her eyes squarely. felt the half
! scornful condescension in her hall
smile.
| Shed come out to see them start
anyway! He felt his nerves draw
tight. 1t was up to him to do some
! thing >more than beat Tregler-he
must vindicate the game.
! He felt almost as if the curt nod
/ nearer bystanders were a spoken
challenge. And his answering ges-
ture took up the gage defiantly. He
! knew that he would play better for
i the added incentive. He'd play per.
q
leap from the turf, saw it come tc
| rest almost where Tregler's lay.
i He clung steadily to the resolution
! His putt was a few inches short. after
Tregler had played his third within q
| foot of the cup. They halved the sec.
third. Turning. as he moved to the
/ fourth tee, he made sure that she was
still following. Her uncle waved ar
| encouraging hand. Eddie grinned
H. l. l. L.
| her presence to the old mans urgency
He'd show her! -
/ Tregler won the fourth, running
| down a putt from well off the green
while Eddie was taking another per.
/ feet four The circumstance did not
/ trouble him. Treg1er owed little tc
luck at any time. The. breaks nearly
J always favored his opponent, and
/ Tregler won by steadiness, playing
safe when the other fellow took
! chances. They were even at the turn
but Tregler took the tenth when
I short of the green and was two uI
at the thirteenth. with another long
putt.
Il Eddie resisted temptation. Fou,
times Tregler had beaten him simply
because he had tried to overcome q
| lead by going after brides. There
| were five holes left, and perfect play
| on four of them would win: Treg1eI
always had bad hole or two, and q
lead seemed to make him overcon-
| fident Eddie shut his teeth firmly
and drove twenty yards short OF
! Tregler's shot. squarely in the mid,
die. They flalved the hole. and the
short, tricky fifteenth. Eddie had
| forgot. sn Wtnifred Kendrick now.
| Tregler placed a cautious ball well
to the right of the line, avoiding the
| risky carry over water and trap
! Eddie decided Instantly to- follow hfs
fexample. The ball arched out toward
1.-THE safety zone, All audible breath