The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-14
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until one day in raid July. when the heat wave had surged to it's record height
 Lily was telling Win about some new clothes she had just bought and urging her to do likewise.
 Now if you had party dress to doll up your life tonight"
 II don't need to spend my hard-earned dollars on party dress, as it harpens." Win answered. I've got the most gorgeous gown you can possibly imagine. There's only cne trouble. I shall never be invited to a party good enough for it"
 I've just invited you to swell a party as there coald be in little old New York;" boasted Miss Leavitt. 'It's an artist gives this party sit to artists sometimes, Sun 10 covers O magazines. This artst friend of mines the best in the whole bunch
 Man or Woman?" Win wanted to know.
 She expected the answer to be man." but Lily did not seem to hear. Fer face looked dreamy.
 Its the loveliest house where the party'll be-, she said. Faint the artists own. It's some relations that lent it for the summer while they re away at the seashore. 1 bin there. It's in the Fifties, just off Eft Avnoe Tonight it'll be cool as snow, and everythng'H be iced for supper. Iced con- summary chicken salad cold as the refrigera- tor. iced champagne, cup flowin' like water; ice cream and strawb'ries, the big, sweet, red ones from up north, where they keep on growth all summer, and lilies and roses from the country to give away to us when go hOme."
 Win forgot the question that had not been answered She seemed to see those straw berries and to smell the sweetness of roses and lilies in a house ''as cool as snow"
 ''Heavenly! she sighed. "I didn't remem- Der there were such things in the world"
 Well. come with me tonight and remind yourself" coaxed Miss Leayitt. "You needn't be afraid, because l said it was artists to butt into some rowdy crowd. They'll be as quiet and refined mice. They're more your kind than mine, 1 guess"
 But who invites me-" Win made another bid for information.
 My artist friend said I could bring any one wanted to bring, and I want to bring you. 1 don't just know who'll be there, but guess not many, and it's real swell house to see. You always refuse everything l ask you to do, but do think you might say yes this one time and show you're not proud and stuck up. It'd do you goodp
 Il believe it would, and I'll go!" cried Win. She was in the mood to say ''yes" to aaytl,ing.
 'Huy gee! That's the best things hap tened to me since the measles" exclaimed Mss Leayitt jovially. "I'll call for you at yoe' place half past nine this evening"
 t4 n had not guessed how wildly the sig:5 of the moon dress and putting 1t on
 
 mind But as she stood gazing into her greenish glass that night. the moon gown shimmering night-blue and silver it was as if Peter Rolls came and looked over her shoulder, their eyes meeting in the mirror Yes she saw him for an instant as clearly as that. He was there. He was her friend, the incest, most altogether delightful man she had ever seen.
 Five minutes later, taxicab stopped and chortled in front of the apartment house. She able to see a face crowned with red hair looking anxiously up from the cab window.
 What an extravagant creature" she gasped, breathless, when she reached the taxi.
 T had present from gentleman friend" said Lily in a self satisfied voice, adding hastily in difference to Miss Child's "stuck-up primness," "a filopena present, to choose myself anything l liked with. I thought us bein' in party dress, and you sort 0 tired out, taxi'd be just about the best thing goin'."
 Lily made the taxi stop in front of house only three or four doors off Fifth avenue Miss Leavitt had the fare ready, with a small tip for the driver, and the two were out of the cab, standing in the street, before Win noticed thing that struck her sharply and quickly as being very strange.
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