The Washington herald., 1922-07-31

You'd better come up"
He hesitated for the fraction Of q
moment
Perhaps I'd better call some
,ther time"
lust as you say" Her words
were murmured as an aside. The
main concern of life was adjusting
Of some stray wisps of hair In the
elevator mirror. Her cheeks were
brilliant, her eyes sparkled-she had
never seemed so lovely. so exquisite
ly to be desired.
Despiring himself. he found that
ae was walking down the tenth
door corridor a subservient foot be-
hind her: was in the sitting-roo
while she disappeared to shed her
furs. Something had gone wrong
in his own eyes he had lost shred
Of dignity; in an unpremeditated
yet significant encounter he had
been completely defeated.
However. by the time she reap
peared in the sitting-room he had
explained himself to himself with
sophistic satisfaction. After all he
had done the strongest thing, he
thought. He had wanted to come
I'D. ne naQ CO1nc. Icl WhdA haP-
oened later on that afternoon must
be traced to the indignity he had
experienced In the elevator; the girl
worrying him intolerably, so much
90 that when she came out he In
Voluntarily drifted into criticism.
who's this Bloeckman. GloriaT
"A business friend of fathers"
"Odd sort of fellow!"
He doesn't like you. either" she
said with a sudden smile.
Anthony laughed
I'm hattered at his notice. He
evidently consider me "a He
broke off with is he in love with
you?"
Il don't know"
THE deuce you don't" he in
sisted. "Of course he is. / remem-
ber the look he gave me when we
got back to the table. He'd prob
ably have had me quietly assaulted
by a delegation of movie supes if
you hadn't invented that phone call.
He didn't mind. I told him af-
terward what really happened"
sYou told him.
HE asked me-"
II don't like that very well" he
demonstrated
She laughed again.
"Oh. you don't?''
What business is il of his?'
None. That's why l told him."
Anthony in a turmoil bit savagely
at his mouth
why should 1 lie.' she demanded
directly I'm not ashamed of any
thing I do. 1t happened to interest
him to know that l kissed you. and
so satisfied his curiosity by sim
pie and precise yes Being rather a
sensible man. after his fashion, he
dropped the subject
Except to say that he hated me-"
"Oh. il worries you? Well. IL you
must probe this stupendous matter
to its depths he didn't say he hated
you. i simply know he does"
1T doesn't wor-"
"Oh, let's drop itr she cried spir-
itedly. It's a most uninteresting
matter to me-"
With a tremendous effort An
thony made his acquiescence a
twist of subject. and they drifted
into an ancient -and-an-
swer game concerned with each
others past. gradually warming as
thsy, discovered the age-old. imme-
mofial resemblances in tastes and
ideas. They said things that were
more revealing than they intended
hut each pretended to accept the
other at face. or rather word, value.
The growth of Intimacy Is Ike
that. First one gives OF his best
picture. the bright and finished
product mended with bluff and
falsehood and humor. Then more
details are required and one paints
a second portrait. and a third-be-
fore long the best lines cancel out
-and the secret is exposed at last:
the planes of the pictures have
intermingled and given us away,
and though we paint and paint we