Evening star., 1926-03-21

| gether suddenly. She leaned for
| ward. staring out at the sidewalk.
speaking of SATAN" she said.
well. of ALL"
What is it?" I asked her. you
mean your gorgeous friends heaved
in Sight just as we were speaking of
him?"
Il mean more than that" she an
swered. Who do you think is with
him?"
Joe and / joined her at the VIM
dow. and we fully shared her sur
prise when we saw the couple stroll
ing on the sidewalk. She'd told the
truth about the astonishing good
looks of Mr.. Bellworthy Cameron,
though his looks weren't what as
tonished us. He was one of those al
most beautiful black and white-and
pink young men you see sometimes:
he had wavy jet-blacll hair. blue
black eyes, Greek profile" and
high rosy color, like ii girls. in his
cheeks. with the rest of his COM
plexion like white enamel. He was
tall. graceful. broad shouldered and
small -waiSted-yOu couldn't imagine
him being foolish enough to trade
his looks for the Apollo Belvedere's.
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- us at the window wasn't the CO.
incidence of Mr.. Bellworthy Gamer
ons appearing just as we We're
speaking Of him: it was the identity
of the lady with him-and, also, the
strange manner and changed appear
ance of that lady. 1t was Geraldine
Wygate.
1t was Geraldine: but not the Ger
aldine familiar to us. In the first
place. She was walking with her
white gloved hand reposing upon the
inner crook of her escorts elbow
arm in arm with him in the public
afternoon sunshine.
How long has she known him."
I asked Bella.
Since yesterday. She came into
the Camerons' just as I left
"And she's already like that" /
said, nodding toward the sidewalk.
''What'n she be like in month from
now?"
1t was Joe who answered. not
Bella. She'll be even more beauti-
full" he said: and to Bella's and my
surprise, as we turned to look at him,
we saw that he was perfectly serious.
Il never knew that she was beautiful
before" he went on: but now I see
that she is. She's charming. 1 al
ways thought she was just a moving
statuette: but she's come to life"
Rather" Bella said. $50 have
you. it seems. What's got you so
sentimental. all of a sudden?' Then,
as he didn't answer, she turned again
TO the window. "Geraldines always
been queer" she went on; but this
afternoons walk Of hers. with her
hand and heart openly on a mans
sleeve for all the world to sec
we'll, it's simply the queerest thing
she ever has done or will do
Bella didn't stick to that opinion
long. however, for Geraldine did
queerer things than to make it clear
she'd fallen heels over head in love
with Bellworthy Cameron at first
sight. For while some of the other
girls were inclined to follow her ex-
ample. and they gave him what they
called "a great rush; but after
they'd seen little more of him. most
Of them lost interest rather suddenly.
My cousin Bella was one of these.
"Of course I was right in guessing
that he wasn't anything except some
thing to look at" she said. Hes
just so many pretty pounds Of con-
ceit and mush. I've no doubt that
quite number of inferior type girls
have lost their heads over him, and
SO that't what he expects of all of
us. It's all he does expect, and all
that interests him. He's really pretty
awful-and practically all the girls
found it out, except Geraldine
Bella shook her head, like a person
gloomy over an unanswerable riddle.
IT'S the most unaccountable thing l
ever knew" she went on. Geraldine
Wygate was the most fastidious girl
in town, the most purely mental, of
all of us, and the most remote from
mushiness. Since the rest have
cooled down and just dropped him
fiat, she sees him all the time!
Wouldn't you think she'd see what he
is? The rest of us have. No; he's
nothing but O. glossy looking bad egg,
and Geraldines wilder about him
every day of her life
Bella was almost right: Bellworthy
Cameron's looks were probably respon-
sible for many Of his lacks and faults;
but young people don't often make
allowances for causes, and he hadn't
been in town a full year before he was
pretty thoroughly unpopular with all
of us. The young men found him
little bit too smilingly sleek and su-
perior: he wanted us to feel that he'd
been about the world rather more than
we had: and probably he had, too; but
it's never tactful to make such things
evident. AS for the girls, what Bella
said Of him spoke for all-eXcept
Geraldine, of course.
think Geraldine was glad when
the other girls dropped him; but
her view Of the dropping was the op'