Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-21
CHAPTER Mi
Triumph

n HANY girls would have been delighted
M at the triumph that was Calls that
~ evening, and for a time Gail did
glory in it.
1t was intoxicating, this feeling of power
that swept over her when at last she real
lied the situation. Fay knew Arch Ken
nerley, and she had counted making an
impression on him tonight No doubt she
mad come to the dance for that very pur-
pose, and could one ask more from Fate
than to be revenged in this fashion for what
had happened in the past?
Fay had come to Dalesburg and there
had completely turned George Hartley's head
with her fascinating city ways. But now
more than strange that Gail should have in
turn come to the city, and having coated
herself literally with the veneer of the mod
ern debutante, had succeeded in stepping in
between Fay and Arch Kennerley!
Gail would not have been woman if
she hadn't seized and used the weapon put
into her hand by strange and contrary
fate. Because she was we'll aware of the
fact that Fay's eyes followed her every
where she went. She played up to Arch.
She smiled up into his eyes, she used a
hundred little tricks that she had uncon-
sciously absorbed here and there and hadn t
known until tonight that she possessed.
The result bewlderng. In her blue
velvet dress Gail was easily the most at
tractive girl present, and added to that she
was alluring, half shy, half bold, her eyes
flashing provocatively one moment and
yelled with demure lashes the next
Arch, stimulated by several drinks from
a pocket flask, was vastly impressed. He
insisted upon dancing every number with
Gail, and glared furiously when other men
cut in" For the most part he succeeded
in evading these pests" he put it, and
as soon as Gail was snatched rudely from
his arms he would Immediately "cut back -
You're adorable!". He breathed, his
lips against her hair. Look up at me,
Gail, let me see your eyes L like woman
to be independent"
To these remarks and others like them
Gail would reply eYasively or not at all. She
now possessed a Zine" of her own and it
was easy for her to parry such thrusts and
to keep the conversation in light channels,
at least While they were dancing, or there
were others about. Afterward she didn t
know whether she would be able to manage
or not. She might have to decide tonight
upon the course she would take. Arch
might demand a straight yes or no. she
might not be able to hold him off, and Gail
was not at all sure that she wanted him.
In the dressing room between dances
Gail encountered Gracia Van Alstyne and
Dot Haynes. Gracia wheeled from the mir
ror where she was applying a carmine pen
Gil to her rather thin lips and flashed a
smile at Gail
Well, Cinderella, I hope you're salts
fed. You've certainly succeeded in routing
the delectable Fay, and because of that I'm
almost inclined to forgive you for poaching
on my preserves. You know Dot | was
Just beginning to make some headway with
Arch when along comes Gail and vamps him
completely away from me. Who would have
dreamed that Gail would turn out to be
such a siren?''
AS usual there sting behind Ora
cha S words, but Gail had reached point
where she could laugh quite easily at small
digs.
AIS fair in love" she quoted lightly.
but her heart sank within her as she real
zea IN spite OF her tone of raillery how lit
tie she cared for Arch Kennerley
saturday, Making Up Her Mind" and
.'The IneNpected Hannensn