Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-18


CLING, the other tucked beneath
IL her. The electric lamp on the
table behind her diffused a be
comingly shaded light over the slim,
rose Colored figure. Lacy was sewing.
and her hand moved to and fro fro
her rings caught the light and sent it
back in sparkles Of blue and red and
green. The dangling foot wore
golden shoe.
You know, Evelyn" said Lacy,
YOU know Monkey was simply fiend-
ish to m, about the whole thing. Now
I'm sure he told YOU whole lot of
nonsense about my being quite mud
dled-Tm sure he did" She took lit
lie. vicious stitches that stabbed the
fine white stuff on which she was
sewing.
Evelyn, in the opposite chair,
laughed a little. She was leaning
back. her arms along the arms of the
chair, her head tilted against a bril-
liant emerald cushion. This vivid
green and the golden lights in her hair
alone broke from the shadow which
covered half the room.
Lacy, frowning and looking across
Al her cousin. could not really see
whether Evelyn smiled or not.
Didn't he?" she repeated, Il know
he did. because l know what a fiend
Monkey can be-
Evelyn laughed again.
And weren't you muddled, Lacy?
Lacy stopped sewing
"No. of course not-not really. OF
course, Just at first-just for the min
ute, YOU knoW-well, it was really too
bewildering What would any one
feel like if they opened their own din
ing-room door and saw A perfectly
Oh tc~lH
in a Counterpart and a beard, calling
them Lacy.
Poor old Lacy"
II tainted" said Lacy with modest
naturally. And afterward-
well, of course, il was most dreadfully
agitating. | mean, when | really did
see him-neXt day. you know kept
thinking of you. darling; and, OF
course. couldn't help feeling upset
and confused But afterward-after
ward. when I thought it all over, |
wasn't A bit confused; and ! made up
my Omind them don't care what
Monkey says-I made it up then and
there"
Did you?"
Yes. I did. You know, Evelyn,
Monkey doesn't believe a bit in wom-
ans intuition. And | believe in it
most firmly. Don't you?'
Depends, my child
What do you mean"
well. supposing your womans IN
tuition said one thing and mine said
another"
You're laughing at me. I didn't
think you'd laugh about a thing like
this
Evelyn's left hand just rose and fell
again. There was a dark CLEAN from
the one ring she wore above her we'd
ding ring, a dark emerald CLEAN.
IF / couldn't laugh
"WeI. I couldn't. I think you're
frightfully hard to understand, Eve
lyn'
Evelyn laughed quite naturally.
Il Knoxville is real, life is ear
nest Well. what did your woman's
intuition say
Lacy pressed her lips together. Her
eyebrows rose, making perfect arches
over dark, reproachful eyes.
You know you mean TO tell me, so
you'd better out with it,
"Evelyn's voice was lazily teasing,
but her hands frightened q little on the
chintZ-covered arms of her chair.
Il tell you because / think you
ought to be told. and because-Evelyn
when | went over it all in my own
mind afterward. I was sure, quite sure,
which one of them it was"
Were you?"
Yes. ] was"
And which was it,"
oh. I'm sure that he's Jack" said
Lacy in her high. sweet voice. She
dropped her work and gazed in Eve
lyn's direction, wishing with all her
heart that she could see her cousin S
L, to- ~-r.f91 net
a green cushion. All the light seemed
drawn to a focus about her own rose
colored figure The other side of the
room was deeply washed with shadow:
the chair in which Evelyn sat looked
black and formless. Evelyn in her
dark dress was just a shadow in the
shadow her hands, on the arms of the
chair. showed pale against the dusk
background; her face was A pale oval
whose features could hardly be dis
cerned.
Jack" said Evelyn. Her voice was
quite toneless.
Yes, I'm sure he's Jack-I'm quite
sure. EVELYN"
'Why-Jack?"
That's what | want to tell you.
I've had plenty Of time to think about
il. you know. with Monkey away; and
the more / think about It, the more
certain | am
But WHY"
Lacy leaned forward, needle in hand,
her color bright and clear
I'm tell YOU. ! think YOU ought to
know. You know that horrid para.
graph in the Weekly Whisper"
Yes"
We'll. ] brought the paper over with
me to show Monkey; and he was so
furious that he just pitched it into a
corner Of the room
But l don't see what that's go to
do"
Wait, I'm telling you. Monkey
! pitched it on 10 q chair. Well, when
| came init all happened in the din
/ ing room you know-when I came in
| and saw him-JaCk--only of course,
never thought of it's being Jack till
! afterward. what with the beard and
| the Counterpart. and his saying Lacy
/ and my fainting-"
| "Yes-go on
Il am going on, darling" Lacy's
voice was reproachful. Il am telling
| you, and you mustn't interrupt. Well.
when / went in and he said Lacy" ]
saw that wretched paper all crumpled
! up on the floor; and it wasn't where
! Monkey had thrown it at all but over
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