The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-25

the Silks. The banker remembered,
strangely, a vision of glazing legs
and fiarboyant rouge that came
awkardly through his office door
with the air of one who was being
trapped. Brandon remembered the
girl who had mo place to CO." ex-
cept to her silk counter or her
rooming house. And Joanna under
stood why they looked at her.
She smiled at them both. L
couldn't say that so easily she ex-
planned brightly, 'if it wasn't that
I'd read, some place, that those
three things were particularly
wicked. recognized them inn
mediately as the ghosts that were
always haunting me. John and Mrs.
Adams misunderstood me If l went
out and didn't get home until four In
the morning. They thought there
couldn't be any place decent for a
girl to be after half past ten. IL
I took a swallow out of their TASKS
the boys distrusted me when 1 drew
a line they mustn't cross, and said
was fooling or that I wouldnt
take the swallow. And lot Of men
and women who didn't have the good
time when they were young that l
tried to have were envious of me
because 1 happened to be young in
these days instead Of them, so they
said 1 must be bad like all other
modern girls. That's the way you
count them up, you know-Misun-
derstanding, Distrust and Envy. I've
always had the three of them in my
mind, but l haven't known people,
before. to whom I could talk about
the things I really feel. I've just
known boys, and their main line Of
talk has been. Give me kiss"
And" Brandon urged, quickly,
say has been?"
Joanna considered a moment. Then
she said, as if she were speaking
with judicial concern: 1T doesn't
sound right, I know, but my idea
has always been that today a girl
shouldn't be afraid of kiss. because
it's better to give and take them,
and know what they amount to-
than it Is to think about them all
the time and then take them too
seriously, like girls used to do"
GGLESTON was silent. Bran
r don, after he had toyed, for
Ill a moment, with a fork, deft-
ly turned the conversation into a
different channel. He invoked a
discussion Of the people Joanna had
met the night before. at Yvonne's.
And you think" Eggleston asked,
that these people are most desir-
able? That they represent the bet
ter things Of life, and follow the
paths along which a young girl
should trod?
II don't know" Joanna confessed,
briefly. I've got to find out. At
least, they are not downhearted. l
hate people who are downhearted.
There's time enough for that when
the undertaken begins to count on
you"
For you. at least" Eggleston re-
marked, there Is quite an interval
before that time arrives"
Yes" Joanna agreed. And when
that time does come 1 want to look
back and say o. K. If the money
does that for me I'll be satisfied.
at required money, then" Bran
don asked, ito make that prospect
possible?"
You can't get anywhere without
money, can you? Everybody know
wants nothing else but that. That
is. everybody but one"
Eggleston caught her UP, sharply.
There is one, them"
Yes" she replied. zone. But l
don't want to talk about him. now"
When they finished their luncheon
it was Eggleston who found an ex-
cuse for Joanna to stand, for short
time, in the library again. And it
was he who Unanswered her so that.
for brief moment, she stood close
to the fireplace, beneath the painting
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