Evening star., 1921-07-03

where she is. too. and inside of ten
days We'll be booking our old sketch
/ Good Gawd"' walls Gwendolyn'
slumping on the rug as the door
slams behind him.
WELL of course we couldn't just
w breeze out and leave her like
that Besides Barry hadn't settled
/! his bill. We helped her into a cor
| ner. Barry and l, propped her up
. with cushions and offered all the
/ soothing words that came to US.
"Awfully sorry says I. but 1nez
/ didn't mean to be quite so TouSh
with him. She doesn't realize her
| strength, you see. and L had no ldea
would have stopped her. Maybe he
come back by morning.
NO. he'll not means GwendolSn;
| Not If that Birdie woman gets hoi4
of him. And we were doing so We'll
here! Oh, OH"
But there are lot of vaude-
Vile artists knocking around Times
! Square," suggests Barry. can
! round up a dozen for YOU any day
i Not one like Percy POLLOCK I'm IN,
| II.
a help. Why. he would even wipe
dishes after hours. And now he
| he's gone-forever: I'll just have to
close up. that's all" ave
Tough luck" says Barry, III
there's anything we ,I1,n can aow .rdden,v
| sitting up and wipins her eyes y" no
! is that superb creature who gave
! Percy what was coming 10 MIN so
i Thoroughly?
but who are you?" demands
Gwendolyn. What do you do?
"Cs??' says 1: oh. were a versa
tile pair We do almost anything,
from dealing 'em off the arm IN IN
| ouick-luuch joints to acting in the
"Rut now?" she insists.
| TO tell the TRUTH says I. were
strictly at liberty just now; at least:
we wflr be after tomorroW. WnS:
Come. Inez," says /. beckoning
her over. This is Miss-er-
Mrs Tremsine ain ,.s, says and G"sraGlyn shabins
sauds snti what glorious physique you
have, my dear! Such exquisite color
ing! Such poise! Such glorious eyes
Land hair! a pink and white goddess.
SThat's it. Oh. I've found 1t! Ihe
| white goddess.
"Hey?" says Inez.
"That is what you shall be here.
says GwendolyR. waving her arms en-
Ithusiastic will you come. dearle?
II dunno" says 1nez. What you
want?"
| II want you to come and be the
presiding genius in the Cave of the
White Goddess" says Gwendolyn. I'm
two days l can do it. Yes. I've felt
ali along that the Mad Mullah was
playing out. 1t only brought the
women. And women aren't spenders
the men coming. And the White
! Goddess will do it. They'll go Wild
over YOU. Absolutely. Listen. 1nez,
dear; I shall change this place into
a white and gold room. A little paint
and a few yards of muslin Will do 1t:
| At one end will be white and gold
throne There you shall sit, crowned
and glorious. reigning over the pam
Duet. 1t will knock 'em cold. Will you
do it. dearie?"
! Inez stares at her a minute. What
1 have to do?" she asks.
make change says Gwendolyn.
Prom 6 until 1880. You will. won't
"Trilby May, too" demands 1nez.
"Who?" asks Gwendolyn.
That's me-" says l. "And doubt
!
though, how I would At in
Quite simple" says she. "As a
lady in waiting"
OH says I. "on the tables? Well.
can do that. What do you say. Inez;
shall we give it whirl?
How much?" says IneZ.
"Oh. we will arrange that satisfac-
torily," says Gwendolyn. Suppose
we say twenty apiece to start with.
] and then a 10 per cent bonus on all
receipts over q certain amount. I al
ways believe in sharing profits with
my co-workers. And this is bound to
go big. Shall we call it settled?''
Inez looks at me inquiring. IT'S a
be to give her what she wants. Well
show up Monday afternoon, shall
we?"
About $500" says Gwendolyn. 81
hope to have the place ready by then
and that will give US time for little
rehearsing. Goodbye Inez. Percy
Pollock can go hang.
A ND so. hardly an hour after we
had wandered into this Greenwich
Village joint as strangers, we walked
out as near-partners.
(which is what I call rather shifty
work." says Barry. Say. do you
think you're going to like it down
here?'.
We've tackled a lot Of things that
looked worse" says I. Anyway, now
that Inez's rich uncle has faded into
the background more hopelessly than
ever, we've got to do something. Be-
sides, we should worry. It's Gwen
dolyn that's got to do the hustling.
Three days! I doubt if she can make
the grade"
But didn't know Gwendolyn. When
we reports down there Monday after-
noon I could hardly find the place. 1t
was SO changed. The alley had been
cleaned up, the brick walls white
washed, and out at the entrance was
a new sign announcing '"rhe Cave OF
the White Goddess" Inside were a
lot of white tables and gilt chairs
with white hangings as background
and at the right of the door as you
came in was this throne affair. Course,
it's nothing more than a foot-high
] lnlatform with 4 sort of black velvet