Evening star., 1925-11-29

Joanna regarded him elaborately,
frankly initiating his own examination
of her moment before. Yes she
said, her inscrutable smile playing
upon him. Then you have way with
you-as a teacher. / suppose you We a
diploma or some good references. or
things like thatE' His ready laughter
bubbled through his mask OF serious
ness.
"Only experience, my lovely Jo-
anna" he said, finding her hand
among the cushions and taking pos
session of it with both OF his own.
My experience will have to be your
guide, and yours my ambition When
he finished he gave her limp. fragile
fingers a confidential pressure, and
looked into her own shining eyes with
deep smolder in his. She seemed TO
be unconcerned about her hand. she
even moved her knee, Il little, to help
out down the space between thenl.
She said them
I'VE seem to be making a bargain
of some sort. When you happen 10
think about it, tell me what 1t is. won
you? The best ! can get out OF II is
that you want to be a guide and
you've ambitions of some kind. | IKE
ambitions tremendously. IL S so nucil
fun fiattening them out"
Yes" he admitted. You'd fatten
out almost anybody, / should imag-
inc. You wouldn't be afraid of missing
anything. That's why I'd like II aW-
fully If -" She nodded at him. /
know" she finished for him. IF Ia
give YOU my other hand, too, and let
YOU fill up the rest of the distance
between US. Then you could tell me
just how pretty you think l am, ana
how you've always been crazy ABOUT
hair like mine and you'd like to run
your fingers through It, and maybe
you'd have something new along that
line that I'd never heard before, and
then you'd end up by saying l was
Just made for somebody to love a lot
and you're somebody. Have l forgot
ten anythinE'
Not thing" he declared. When
do we Begin
This time they laughed together
buoyantly. Joanna decided she was
going TO enjoy this fair-haired, eoul-
lient young man whose chief aim in
life, according to Yvonne, was con
soling neglected wives He was
amazingly handsome. as easily read -
to her-as an open book and, she was
convinced. utterly harmless. fvonne' 5
picture of him puzzled her. She con
cluded he would be easily in his thir-
ties, but already she was becoming
accustomed to older men than her
dancing boys" had been. John always
had appeared older 10 her than any
OF the other chaps she knew, al,
though he wasn't in years. She was
astonished, secretly. at her own ability
to be interesting TO men who must
have served many apprenticeShlpS at
more dazzling Shrines than hers.
She was still disturbed by that ready
supposition of his at their sudden
meeting earlier in the afternoon. She
reminded him of ii again, and declared
that she wouldn't be satisfied with
him until he had made satisfactory
explanations. He was not abashed.
You were such a surprise" he as,
sured her. Not at all like the usual
girl one sees about, in places. I'm
! feafully fed up, you know. on girls
most girls. l mean. They've lost their
enthuSiaSms. You're enthusiastic
! Sort of caught me up sharply with it
| And YOU haven't been spoiled. The
girls one meets nowadays seem TO be
| spoiled-that is, too many of them
! The kind | know. They're the daugh
| ters of the crowd that has chow dogs
| you know. Funny. but it's always
struck me that when a woman gets q
| chow dog her daughter goes TO the
| devil. Really doesn't go TO the devil
| you know, but tries to act like she haG
! been to him and found him too old