Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-19


the evening newspaper which was
lying on her knees, where her hus
hand had aid it when he himself had
finished it, II was folded back to one
If the inner pages. She began tn read
what she had probably never read be
fore in ali her life. namely. the the
atrical notes--th0se printed i'm the
smallest possible type. made up like
an oldfa shioned bouquet of the
smallest foWerssplucked from the pub
LEFTY agents offerings. The very FIRST
one of these informed her that Miss
Josephine JOY was going West ON that
very train to make her first picture
Miss Joy was celebrated dancer
and though she had done. lmost every
thing else in the world that there II
to do. il seemed that she had never
made picture.
II was no f1attery to call J ev JOY
the wickehest woman in The world
Hardened men who had long ceased I,
use the adjective, except perhaps IN
connection with their wifes cook
used it in speaking of Joey. For she
did all the things that even wicked
people ought not tn do--she hetra we'd
and Knocked and aha ndoned. If mar
ried. she sued faithlesslv for divorce
and if not married. she sued even
more faithlessly for breach of promise
She was bold and beautiful.
Eve drew long. deep despera e
breath and glanced across the aisle
to where her handsome husha nd wits,
his broad shoulders turned from her
was staring idly out Of The window
She had ma neuvered him away on
this holiday trip.
A holiday, Eve though there was
no holiday possible for the plain wife
of a handsome man. Mi Of course
that she was plain. or thought herself
So except in moments of great depree.
sion, like the present. she had q ni"e
smooth. round little face. and round
friendly brown eyes and soft smoot h
brown hair. When she was n child
she had taken part in a school pa gea mt
in which she had played the part Of
Jenny Wren. and the experience
seemed to have left a perma nent effect
upon her looks.
She was not of p Jealous or suspi-
cious nature, and she had n" real rea
son to doubt her hus,Ja nd's devotion.
which after eight years of married life
remained both romantic and alive.
Only there was between them more
than the usual difference between the
masculine and feminine points of
view as TO what constituted legitimat e
amusement. Ewes idea of amuse-
ment was to do anything with Tom
from golf to Shakespeare. Toms idea
ff amusement was To render the ricn
and Vartegated pattern of his life a
little richer and more variegated.
He had an raordinary range of
acquaintance. He had friends among
thieves and great ladies and priest :
ana shippers OF racing yachts and
policemen and opera singers and WON.
an lawyers. II sometimes seemed to
Eve that he knew every one in the
world except the tiresome well bred
people with whom she had been
brought up
II YOU went to the circus with Tom.
the clown waved his hand and the
great trapeze expert spoke to him as
he passed and said. as Tom was sure
to tell YOU later. Say. Tom those were
swell guys YOU were with" They
worked together in the same gym
nasium, for Tom was n notable anna
teur boxer and in his earlier DAYS was
always getting into fights in public
coming out victorious-and telling
about them. OF course Eve knew he
ought not to tell-it sounded little
like boa sting.
A s matter NJ fact. she liked the
boyish. exuberant streak in him:
she liked his being on intimate terms
with the policeman at the corner and
his knowing every head waiter in the
world. Only II made her anxious when
this vivid interest in human contacts
concentrated itself upon a beautiful
woman, because, though she was not
jealous. she was wise and she "a w
that to an attractive man like her
husband forever forming new human
relations, one must eventually happen
of which she would be jealous.
And this might very likely he the
one. She let the paper drop on the
floor and crumpled it with her feet.
Tom would never read crumpled pa
per. and perhaps he had not noticed
the item.
But. OF course. he had, and In a mo.
nent he came across the aisle and
sitting down beside her. laid his great
rudy hand with the scar across the
knuckles on her knee and said who
DO you think Ia on this train-in the
drawing room Of this very car-but
Joey joy" He stopped and looked at
his wife-his triumphant interest Civ
ing place to amused affection. Il don I
suppose YOU even know who that Is. p"
Really. darling" said Eve. life
with you is more OF an education tina n
who she is a very unscrupulous
woman"
Tom threw hack his head and
laughed. INSCRIPTIONS" he said;
well, that is about as near to com
pliment on her moral character as
Joey has ever come"
Joey" said Eve. ''Do you know
herr" OF course she might have
guessed that he did.
'Oh. ] met her years ago. when
had q crush on girl in her company.
she probab ly wouldn't remember me. y
"Oh. she'll remember YOU an
swered Eve rather drearily. They al
WAYS remembered six feet OF mas
culine beauty.
II used TO 60 to her show every
night" Tom went on. 1T was before
I met you. OF course-it was just after
that splendid thing she did in the
hre-danced with the flames almost
bursting out over her head, pretending
ii was new smoke dance she was
putting or for the first time. She
saved thousands of lives that night.
and was going to get medal for 1t,
only lust as Il was under consider
alton one Of the worst ~ her sea ndals
broke. Unjust. I always thought.
In her heart Eve thought that the
Government or the Humane Society
or whoever II was. had heen perfectly
right not to give a notorious woman
ike that a medal for anything. but
she never argued about theoretica
points, and Tom went on with MS
"reminiscences.
A FTER dinner they settled down
- to game Of Russian bank.
They did not often play AT home be-
cause Tom was so much better at IT
than she was that the game no
longer interested him, although she
always wanted to play because she
had the temperament which made her
think she was going to win the next
game.
what was her surprise now. after
they had been playing little time,
10 and that she actually was win