Evening star., 1925-05-24


look at her and ran down the hill,
across the pasture. There, climbing
the stone wall, he stopped and looked
back. He saw far off, nearly hidden
in the apple trees, the f1utter of her
white frock.
The only sporting thing to do. he
told himself that night, was to pre-
tend 1t had never happened. He
would not write to her. He might
expose her If he did. 1t was mex
cusab!e to have taken advantage of
n passing feeling, which she was too
young to understand. But nobody
need ever know that it had happened
except himself and herself. She
would forget about 1t, or remember
IL only as an episode.
His resolution not to write to her
was shaken. but not broken, two days
| later. when. in a square envelope, he
got photograph. 1t was n picture
of her on the Arab horse. almost pre-
cisely as he had first seen her, as
he would always remember her
The way to forget her was to 20
to work. to earn his own way through
college. to become an architect. 1T
did not occur to him that doing that
was way of remembering her
Jimmy worked eight hours a day
all Summer carrying a hod, and four
hours every night studying for his
entrance examinations. He went
down to New Haven in September
with money In his pocket. passed his
examinations and found jobs by
which he could earn his board and
room. BY Spring he had man
aged the task of earning his living
so well that he could play tennis for
"a couple of hours every afternoon.
As freshman he wasn't eligible for
the team. The next Summer he got
80 day as a mason. In the Fall
ne went back to college with
certain grim confidence He knew
now what a long way he had to go.
Three more years in college would
permit him to look for a job as
craftsman in some big office. Five
years as a MISUNDERSTANDING six
years-and he would be ready to
practice his profession. He meant
to graduate with honors, so that
' there would be no question about the
draftsman's job in the big office.
de graduated in the Spring of
1917 into an officers training camp.
Eight months later he was in France
II was four years since he had seen
! Cynthia; nearly three years since he
| mad last heard from Hugh. He only
| knew they were somewhere in Eu-
rope. He was lucky to get a place
as craftsman in the Chicago office
OF Morrill, & Morrill, at $50 a week
| a FTER six months in the drafting
| room, Jimmy took stock of what he
| had done. In the first place, the men,
| ory or Cynthia Wainwright was too
much part of his life. 1t was NOR
bid thus to remember a girl he had
| neither seen nor heard from in years:
would probably never see nor hear
from again. He would cut that mem
ory out of his mind. In the second
place, he would need something to
take her place in his mind. There
would be another girl-eventually
But in the meantime he was going
to study skyscrapers on his own. His
days were occupied with almost me-
! chanical work. But his evenings
needn't be. He would study modern
steel construction. And somewhere
In that study he would find the way
| in which a skyscraper ought to grow
to be true to it's own nature.
For three years, Jimmy manipulat-
| ed T-square in the daytime and
studied at night. And then he read
| the announcement of a $4,000 prize
| offered in New York for the design
| of new hotel, hotel 81 stories high
| and conforming to the new law which
| forces a facade to step back from the
ing what it meant, to win that prize
/ He did win 1t. He won it after
years intense struggle, a year of
working IL and Il hours a day,
year when the idea of his building
| never left him until he went to sleep
at night. and came into his head as
he awoke in the morning. He found
himself in New York again, in Spring
with money in the bank. and fame to
his name. and the joy of knowing
that the hard-rock men were already
blasting into the Island of Manhattan
for the foundations of his dream-a
dream 81 stories high and solid as
mountain.
He was going to look up Hugh
Wainwright. He wondered whom
| Cynthia had married. He wondered if
| it really mattered to him that he had
succeeded, 10 years after.
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lie ran into Hugh in Forty-fourth
- street. two days after his arrival
II wish I'd kept in touch with you,"
Hugh said, as they shook hands
| "Why didn't you answer my last let
| ters?"
Jimmy stammered. He couldn't tell
| Hugh why.
Never mind" Hugh said You're
| here now. You're coming to lunch
with me. And after that you're going
to Round Hill and play tennis with
| to talk you into going into partner
ship with me-if l cam"
Jimmy grinned.
You haven't made any definite ar
rangement with anybody yet, have
you?" Hugh asked anxiously.
NO" Jimmy said. I've only been
in New York two days. Nobody has
asked me-
But they WILL" Hugh said. You
can have anything you want now"
Jimmy grinned. He was afraid he
looked red.
You can, you know" Hugh insist
ed Anything-anything at ALL"
Jimmy, irrelevantly, wanted to ask
him where Cynthia was, whom she
had married. But he did not. Instead
he went to lunch with Hugh and
talked. Hugh had gone to the Beaux
Arts for two years. And then he had
wanted to found an architectural
firm. He had connections, opportuni-
ties-a bonanza.
Later. at Round Hill. Hugh beat
Jimmy at tennis In straight sets.
Hugh shook his head over that.
II don't understand it," he said to
Jimmy. You're really out of my
class. You ought to give me at least
IS points. You're a better player than
I am. But I still beat YOU"
Jimmy flushed. He knew why it
was that Hugh beat him, would al
ways beat him. 1t was because he felt,
would always feel, inferior to Hugh.
But he could not bring himself to
say so.
| TITS that same old mental hazard"
Hugh continued. It's what they call
a comDleX Have Won got a VAIN