The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-14


 q will, when next time comes!' Win was tempted to toss after him impudently as, lifting his cap, the motorist took nasty short cut to the motor. Win was actually laughing when Earl Usher joined her.
 Chapter V-Lady in the Moon
 On Monday Win was descending in one of the store elevators when in streamed some jaded mothers and children, for whom she backed humbly into a corner, and then, just as the doors were about to snap shut once more for a downward plunge, young man and woman hurried laughing in. Winifred Child shrankt farther into her corner, plastering herself against the wall of the elevator and turning her face away, for the newcomers were Lord Raygan and Ena Rolls. l.gf
 "Why, hello-lts the Lady in the Moonw exclaimed Lord Raygan gaily, just when Win had begun to hope she might reach the ground floor level without being dis covered.
 Involuntarily Ena turned with a slight start, recognized Win, pretended not to, and presented the back instead of the side of wonderful hat. An aigret jabbed viciously at the tall shop girls eye, and Miss Rolls said hastily What Lady in the Moon? I don't know whom you're talking about Lord Raygan. But oh, here's our floor! This is where l want to get out:'
 "Never mind, let's stop in and come up again., commanded Raygan in the master ful way which Ena loved for its British male brutalty--when it didn't interfere with her wishes. "Its Miss-oh, you know from the Monarchic. Don't you remember her in the moon dress?. How do you do, Miss -er- CT? Who would have thought of meeting you here?"
 "How do you do?" responded Win des- perately, and Miss Rolls, making the best of a bad dilemma, found it obligatory to recognize Miss Child. If she had not done so Lord Raygan would have thought her snobbish, though it was not entirely from snobbishness that she had wished to escape the girl of the Monarchic.
 Her heart was beating almost as hard as Wins. Her brother Peter and Lady Eileen were somewhere in the shop. This was the day chosen for sightseeing expedition to the store insisted upon by Raygan. Ena had associated in Raygan's eyes with the Hands. She had felt a pres,ntment that something horrid would happen, but she hadn't sup posed it would be quite so horrid and up- setting as this. A dozen times Peter had asked if she'd eyer heard from Miss Child. Only day before yesterday-the silly fellow never seemed to fogget! And any moment now he and Eileen might come.
 "Why, yes, of course, Lord Raygan," she said, able in the midst of alarums to enjoy the repetition of his title, which made peo- pie stare. "We'll stay in the elevator and talk to Miss Child and go up again when she has gone. Are you really working here in the store, Miss Child, as-as-a-"
 The lift had at last reached the ground floor, and all Win had to do was to let her. self be borne out on warm tide of females. Ena pressed her body against the wall, and Lord Raygan must, perforce, stand by her.
 "Goodbyr' she cried. eve have to go up again, you know'
 "We'll sail by, anyhow, and see where you hang out later," Raygan called after the dis appearing form in black. And we'll bring Rolls and my sister,"
 It was impossible for Win to forbid the party to ''sail by," or to make any answer at all, over the decorated heads of many women. But she felt as if she would rather die than have Peter Rolls see her working in his fathers store. He might easily think that she had taken place there be- cause of knowing him, and that, regretting the snub delivered at parting, she had hoped he might some day find her in the Hands.
 Wondering what on earth was to be done, Win suddenly recalled the look in Ena Rolls eyes. which had said as plainly as spoken