Evening star., 1925-07-23

band. She is also hardened hirt"
I'VE thought of going on directly"
| she announced. What ought we TO
| do about Arthur"
"Ill go and tell him as soon as
you're ready" Grant offered.
We're all here now. Rose and
| Tommy are outside and Bobby's gone
for his coat We've had to forgive
| him. He's so terribly penitent. We've
| four without him II you like. / sup
! pose you could look after me with an
| effort" she added, looking up at him.
| "Of course I could, but we ought to
let him know we're going" Grant
! decided. IN step across and tell
| him.
Susan turned toward the cloakroom.
and Grant made his way towards the
| two people whom they had been dis
! cussing Gertrude welcomed him with
a smile, half challenging. half pro-
| vocative. Her companion was in
clined TO be querulous.
| Lady Susan wants to know wheth-
er you're coming along with us. Ly-
| mane?" Grant said. We're all quite
| ready"
The young man glanced at the
| clock
Much too early" he grumbled.
"Therell be no one there before l
| o'clock"
ne OtileTS seem 10 WISH 10 go
| We'll, there are four of you" Ly-
name pointed out. TN come along
presently"
II think you'd better come with US"
Grant persisted. THAT is, If the prin-
cess will spare you"
But l will not spare him." she
laughed. II like him very much. He
says much nicer things to me than
you do and 7 do not see why you
should hurry him away, just as we are
| getting on so nicely
Neither do L." Lymane agreed.
Make my excuses, there's a good
chap. I'll come along within half an
hour or so. Lady Susan is in your
charge, anyway, not mine. I'm the
odd man out"
Grant turned away with the slight
waiting for him downstairs, reinforced
by the advent of another young man,
| d friend of the Lancasters.
| Arthur is hopelessly enslaved,"
Grant announced. 1.-The beautiful
princess has him in her clutches He
| says he'll come along presently. l
should doubt whether we see him
| again this evening
| 1T doesn't really matter whether we
do or not" Susan remarked. as she
stepped into the car. by Grants side.
THAT nice Wheeler boy who plays
! tennis so we'll is corning along, so we
shall get all the dancing we want.
Are you going to dance with me.
! Grant? And why do you look so
| cross?"
I'm not really cross" he assured
her. but Arthur, when he likes, can
be such a hopeless young ass. Any
| way, I'll get the first dance with
YOU
They glided across the square. past
the gardens and into the quiet street
on the right hand side. They entered
the restaurant to the strains of modi-
| fed jazz music, ordered champagne
and sandwiches and sat down at a
round table.
You do dance well. you know,
Grant" Susan told him after their
second turn,
You're rather wonderful yourself
after eight sets of tennis" he OBJ
served. rs it my fancy or are you
a little pale?'
II did feel tired a little time ago."
she admitted. Its passed off now,
though. What shame one of you
have to sit out!''
Bobby isn't going TO sit out long"
he pointed out. Young rascal"
They watched the young man lead
away one of the professional dan
seuses. Susan laughed heartily.
4.
He can't dance for nuts. If he
| wanted to dance with a professional
though, l wonder why he didn't
choose the little one at the next table
to US"
Grant glanced at the girl whom
his companion had indicated. at first
| careessly. but afterward with gen.
uine interest. She was seated at a
small round table close to their own
dark, pale, almost sallow, with
rather narrow eyes of a deep brown
| shade, silky eyebrows and eyelashes
and black hair in which, as she
moved her head to the music, there
semed to be a glearn of wine color.
She was plainly dressed in black taf-
feta gown and she wore no jewelry of
any sort. There was something about
her expression peculiarly insCrutable
and yet Grant fancied that as his
eyes met hers she intended in some
| mysterious way to let him know that
she had observed his interest.
What quaint creature! he OBJ
served. "I wonder who she is?''
She's one of the professional
dancers" Susan told him. She was
here on Monday, and when we were
here the week before. She was
| dancing all the time with the Japa-
nese count then, the young man who
does the interpreting at Nice. Look
at BOBBY belng taught new steps
isn't he priceless?"
The evening wore on in the usual
way. The little party danced inces-
| sanity, drank a moderate quantity of
champagne and a great many orange
AIDES and watched the throng of
people with certain amount of IN
terest. Suddenly Susan touched
Grant on the arm.
"A tragedy she whispered. Look
at the dark young woman'S face. Her
Japanese count has just come in with
| another woman
! Grant turned around and was just
in time to catch an expression on the
girls face which, for moment,
almost shocked him. The slightly
scornful air of inscrutability was
gone. the lips had parted, there was
a CLEAN of white teeth, her eyes
had narrowed almost into Sits, and
her eyebrows had drawn closer
together. 1t was all over in "A
moment, so quickly, indeed. that
Grant wondered whether it had really
been murder that he had seen there.
She even glanced across the room and
nodded carelessly at the young man
and the girl, a danseuse from a neigh
boring cafe. Grant exchanged a ques-
tioning glance with Susan.
Continued in Tomorrow's Star.)