Evening star., 1926-03-21

| mo she'd seen Cameron and Geraldine
driving in Geraldine's new open car.
Cameron's hat few of. and Geraldine
| jumped out and ran back and got
| 1t for him. It was muddy. and she
cleaned It carefully with a lace hand.
kerchief before she gave 1t to him.
"She looked like an acolyte permitted
| to perform some high ceremony in
| a church," Bella said. What I'll
never understand is how any woman
can fall so slavishly in love! Every.
body's talking about 1t"
She was right about that. Gerald
ines infatuatiOn had become our
| principal topic: and every day or so
| you heard Of some new manifestation.
"GeI aldine's latest" came to be an
! everyday joke. The girls went to
| see her just to get something new to
| rush about and giggle and marvel
over
Hes her saint now" one of them
| would say. "She found a picture of
| st. George, and she says it's more
like him than his photographs are,
so she's having a silver frame made
! for it, and she speaks Of him as her
saint. That's what she actually told
me, my dear. She said: The only
difference is that my saint is so much
moro beautiful II you don't believe
me, 60 on over there and listen II she
doesn't say the same thing to you.
She will! shouldn't be surprised If
she'd told the ice man about It,"
Geraldine didn't conflne her worship
to describing Bellworthy as a saint.
! She went to Joe Buell. again, and to
each Of the other directors, to get the
street car company's legal business
for Cameron: she went to almost
every one she knew, to get favOrs
for him; and she had her father put
him up for membership in the club,
where we weren't enthusiastic about
admitting him.
IT believe it would be wiser to go
rather slow" Joe said. II have some
Information that leads mo to think
action on his name had better be
postponed for a time"
One of the others spoke up. Il
don't see any need Of postponement.
What I most object to is his letting
girl do so much for him. It's too
much like making use OF something
a man oughtn't to use. I'd like to
see him blackballed right away"
NO" Joe said. We're all friends
of Wygate's, and we don't want to
hurt peoples feelings. Let's just
postpone the matter for a time.
The rest Of us agreed to that, and
Wnen tn0 OtHcTS ndu eo'o'
Joe what was the information he'd
mentioned.
This fellows really no good. ne
said. "It's not my business. OF course:
but I've felt differently about Gerald
inc ever since we first saw her out
walking with him. You know how I'd
always thought Of her. / told mother
that very day I'd be just as interested
In showing attention to my own Sis
ter as I would to Geraldine. Ia al.
ways thought Of her that way-as II
she were a person you couldn't have
any really personal interest in at all.
But when I saw her coming by the
house with this fellow and looking up
at him In that pretty. glowing way
all changed and so alive-why, l felt
differently about her; that's all.
"Golly.' / said. and 1 sat staring at
him: but he was looking at the wall
and didn't notice me.
You see, haven't sympathized
with all these Jokes about her., ne
went on. II haven't enjoyed them at
ALL"
IT suppose not" said. what have
you been hearing about Cameron? You
haven't told me-"
"He's q low life" Joe threw away
the cigar he was pretending to smoke.
Hes the worst kind Of masher. and
that's all he is, though I'm bound to
say old Judge Cameron says he has
got the makings Of good lawyer In
him. Well-he may need to be-.
"How's that?" I asked. for he spoke
with a bitter kind Of significance.
Outside Of everybody's need Of sue
cess, has he any special necessity to
be a good lawyer?'
Joe turned and looked at me, and
was astonished to see how savage his
frown was.
"Cameron's in trouble" he said.
TITS over a girl
"You don't mean it?"
Don't I?' Joe said. Its that old
rascal Louis Crispwell's daughter" he
said.
Louis Crispwell was what's called
police court character" profes'
sional bondsman, and his daughter
was pretty we'll known by sight about
town. She was big. fine.looking girl
Of the high.colored type, and she was
all up and down the street every day
in a secondhand roadster" her
father'd bought for her and painted
bright red.
"One of our foremen lives next door
to the Crispwells," Joe told me. "He
says Cameron's been there so much
the neighbors concluded he and Una
| must be married. They thought Cam
eron must be Louie's son.in.law. He'd
spend most Of the evening at Geral-
dimes and then go down there to see
Una Crispwell. Well. he hasn't been
there SO much lately, except when