Evening star., 1922-08-20

| straighten out the checks tonight.
Don't you think so. Miss Lescott?"
Pat abolished them both with a
| sweeping, backward gesture of her
left hand. Nine and eight are seven
teen and six is twenty-four-no-
| run along and play! I'm busy"
lessons face diverted Cornelia SO
that she longed to laugh outright
He was trying SO hard to look
| pleased. ~
Your COUSINS wonderful girl
Miss Lescott." He spoke wistfully
as they struck through the. pines
toward the clubhouse. i've never
| met any other girl who had that
faculty of decision as completely de-
| veloped as she-she always knows
| exactly what she wants and exactly
! how to get it" He sighed. Its a
great thing-I envy it in her because
it's so entirely lacking in me-
! Cornelia was suddenly sorry for
him: he was more boyish than ever.
You're in luck, Miss Lescott" he
went on. You and I are lot alike,
don't you think. IL mean" He
flushed and stumbled, suddenly self
| conscious. Il mean that we both
seem toto lean on stronger charac-
ters. I've noticed how you-''
Il suppose there's a certain re-
semblance." she admitted. good
| naturedly, checking an impulse to en-
tighten him.
LIE came back to the topic as they
left the tee. Il keep thinking
what a splendid wife she'll make
some lucky chap" he told her. "A
girl like that could do anything she
| pleased with a fellow. I suppose"
She'll probably prefer her inde
pendence." said Cornelia dryly. 81
doubt the possibility of her marrying
anybody"
"Oh. she'll never have a chance to
escape" He paused to play gloomy
brassy shot to the edge of the green.
"A girl like that
Don't be too sure" Cornelia spoke
tartly. Men don't like competent
women Her voice frightened.
They're all alike in that-it's the
silly sort they lose their heads about"
There's something in that" He
nodded soberly. # suppose it's natu-
raj enough. too. The sillier a girl is
the better man looks to himself.
But I think you're, wrong about your
cousin. all the same"
'It doesn't matter much. Shell
F., never be willing to submerge her in
dividuality." She spoke with f1nality
and he dropped the subject as abrupt
ly as he had introduced 1t. They talk
ed golf for a dozen holes. The quality
Of his game irritated her. A man with
such outrageous form had, she felt, no
right to score threes and fours.
If I'd married girl like that
twenty years ago. I'd be a different
animal" he announced suddenly.
Makes me feel as II I missed the
whole target, somehow. Just puttered
at things all my life." He glowered
at. his driver. Look at that club!
Took me a year to get it balanced!
II I'd had the right sort Of wife shed
have put her foot down hard on that
sort of thing" = +. -
Cornelia Lescott laughed.
II suppose it does sound funny"
He grinned ruefully. But can't
help thinking I'd have done something
il I'd had the luck to"
She laughed again. That's a re-
freshing variation on the Adam theme
at least. What would you have cone
if you'd been prevented from whit
Ting out .those-those shillalahs?''
She and Pat had wondered about his
business If he really had one. It,was
queer that he never talked about 1t
himself. = Pat thought that he must
be ashamed of 1t. Cornelia asked the
question now on impulse, anxious
merely to change the subject,
"Oh, I don't know. Invented some-
thing else. I suppose-something USE
full and sensible. with pot Of money
in it, like the lathe" He grinned. 'I
got more fun out of making those
clubs. though.
The lathe? Her mind sped along a
suddenly opened avenue OF associa-
tons. The Jesson bathe! i,
@Why-why. you" She caught her-
hnr =