Evening star., 1921-12-25

customers. lou see, 1 We ndQ TO run
frishtfully in to debt getting the shop
fitted up. and If 1 can't swing it
Well, I've got to. that's all. on ac-
count of Ted. I shall start in there
next week. Wish me luck. won't
you?"
TN do more than that. Sudie Col
Inns" says j. Il shall round up all
the trade I can for you, for l think
you're perfect brick
That got her checked UP so she
couldn't say a word and when she left
those bright eyes of hers were some
what misty. Inez noticed it as she
passed her in the hallway and Of
course was curious.
Whats the matter with that Col
Inns girl?" she asks. You been find
in out things about her that makes
her cry, Trilby May?'
Eyes and no. says ]. "And listen,
Inez, your dope about her was all
wrong Vamping isn't her speciality,
any more than playing the saxophone
is yours. She isn't Miss Collins at all,
except for business reasons. for she's
married to bunged-up war hero that
she's supporting by working herself
to frazzle. So you've got to line up,
1nez. as one of her regulars when she
opens her new shop"
And after she'd heard the whole
tale Inez is almost as strong for Sudie
as am. She has good heart, Inez,
when you can get at it. But she's
hound tn have har srcnYciops oyep If
she has to shift 'em to somebody else.
That's lot to do for any man."
says she. eff he's worth it, all right;
but some of them war heroes amt
much good, hear"
WELL" says I, Il have her word for
it that this Ted of hers is regular
fellow. Let's hope she's a good
judge"
Suppose he wasn't all she thinks,
suggests 1nez. THAT would be tough,
eh?"
"Say, Inez," protests, "for the love
{ of soup quit the Grape hanging"
i And you'd think, to hear me press
agenting for Miss Collins new shop
those next few years, that 1 had a half
| interest in the business. I went
around telling everybody I knew
was, even to q casual acquaintance
met in Auntie Bates dressing room at
| the theater.
Perhaps you remember my men
tioning Mrs. Bates, who plays the
mother role in 1.-The Flapper." Giddy
old girl who used to be in burlesque
! and never got over it. This friend of
vile on the big time circuit, and looks
it. Rather a brilliant brunette. but
with a selfish little mouth and hard
black eyes. What noticed most,
though, was her wonderful glossy
hair and the atrocious do she had on
it. So I skimped my makeup time
long enough to tell her about Sudie
Collins and give her the address. She
promised to look her up.
I might not have been so enthusias-
tic if I'd known she was going to
horn in on my appointment hour the
very next day and keep me warming
a chair in the new shop for full half
Duk lILC1 Q l. 1ouuu uS1p AStlAEs a
full facial and all the trimmings, so
I settled myself in the little waiting
room and made the best of it.
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CHE proved to be q chatty person,
~ Miss Leclair. I listened in while
she told Sudie all about what a good
act she had with Morrie Kahn, whose
stage name was Victor Waugh. But
finally. when she'd nearly exhausted
that subject, she switched to personal
remarks about Sudie.
That's natural henna, amt it?''
she asks. "Your hair I mean. ]
thought 50. I can generally tell. And
that's q stunning waist you got on.
Miss Collins. So simple and all see
you're still wearin' ono Of them avia-
tor pins, Don't see 30 many Of 'em
now, do you? Gee. wa'a't the Girla
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