Evening star., 1922-02-05

theater, and that 1neZ had gone TO
| worship in what seemed to her a fit-
ting costume. Or else she'd heard Of
| some friend from Duluth being in
| town and meant to pay call in
state.
So tidied up the studio and sat
down to wait. At s o'clock she hadn't
come in. or at half past. At l
started in to get dinner. and 1 had
| things nicely under way when back
she came. 1 could see at a glance.
too, that it was different Inez. She
| had her chin up and there was con-
fident look In her eyes.
For the love of soup" says I,
"who have you been vamping? Not
Doug Fairbanks?"
"Me?" says Inez. mo. 1 don't vamp
nobody. I been to see about gettin'
a job
"Where?" I demands.
"At that 3Iaison Noir." says she.
"Oh" says l. "Did you get past
the snippy young person this time?"
did says Inez. You ought to
see. She opens the door for me and
almost breaks her neck bowin' so
low. She don't know me at all, that
one And when I ask for the boss
she says. 'Oui. oui. madame! Ger
tainment" Too sweet. Take me
upstairs to swell parlor right off,"
And then?" 1 urges.
I see him, all right" says Inez.
Funny Frenchman. with cute little
black mustach and rouge on his face.
I guess he wears corsets. too. But
he's nice to me-awful nice"
Even when you braced him for
job?" asked.
II DON'T" says Inez. II tell him I
like to see dinner dresses like some
friends of mine get there. Maybe
opera wraps. too. And, say. you
should have been there. Trilby May!
lit was like show. He makes
me sit in big chair with tall back
and cushion under my feet. Then he
rings a bell and in come that snippy
girl with something to drink in a
glass and cigarettes with gold ends"
"You didn't go that far, did you.
Inez?" asks.
"Sure I did," says she. "It was
regular drink. too. Make me feel like
I don't care for anything. I smoke
cigarette, too. The Mister Lefieur-
that's his name. Lefieur-he claps
his hands and somebody pulls back
high velvet curtains from little stage.
Next he turns on lotta lights and
those girls come walkin' on grand
and wiggly, one after the other.
Every time he claps his hands comes
a new one. And such elegant dresses
they had on! All right from Paris.
Mister Lefleur says so. He stands by
me and whispers in my ear like he
was tellin' secrets, tellin' me what
swell dresses they are. and how nice
I'd look in some, and how the others
wouldn't do for me at all. He don't
|, say what they cost, though. I ask
about one or two, and he just lunches.
his shoulders and says, .Pouff, mad
eme, Eat we shall arrange satisfac-
| tory So I don't ask any more, but
just watch. And when I see some
I like that he thinks will do fer me
he has the girl come where am and
turn round and round. Then feel
the goods and put my head on one
side and say it amt just what want
Huh"
| X \
1T KNOW" says I. with that
! grand duchess air of Of yours?
| Well. Inez, that's one way Of getting
| hunk with an establishment that had
turned you down. That was your big
idea, suppose?"
II amt so silly" protests Inez.
Lolita ladies' do that. But me, lido
that so can see the boss. After
don't buy any dresses he has 'em
come in with opera wraps on. Such
swell ones-white fur on collars and
cuffs and all like rosebuds inside.
But them girls Is so slim and skinny
Some Of 'em half portions, too. They
look smothered in them elegant
things. I laugh and tell Mister Le-
fieur why you don't have one big
girl to show 'em right says. Not
all lady customers are little. like
that. They can't tell how they'd
look And him, he don't think Of
that before. He says it is true, and
asks will I try on one Of the wraps
You bet I do. And when I walk
around with my head UP and my
shoulders swingin' slow Mister Le-
feur he lets on he's ticlxled to pieces
He says am like lady of the en-
pire and that must buy that wrap.
It would be a crime If didn't"
"And then" says I, you were up
against It, eh?"
.Not so much," says Inez. II know
what to tell him. got 1t all thought
out. No. says I, I couldn't buy any
thing so expensive until my rich.
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