Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31

what isn't, once you are really one
of u.s.
That's just it, Remy. | find that
| don't really want to be one of
YOU. The type doesn't impress me
as being the perfect thing, by any
means. I'm afraid of becoming a
rubber stamp"
She smiled at him with disarming
candor.
Don't worry. old dear! You won't.
You'll be my young Lochinvar' to
the end. And frankly. ] hope you
always will be wild-western and cave
mannish--it was what first attracted
me to you, you know" she added.
I've always wondered"
ENVY got up and stood leaning
~ against the mantel, facing War
ner. She looked at the tall. slim
young man before her with an APP
praising glance that missed nothing,
neither his good nor his bad points.
His keen face and slender. athletic
figure, though undeniably good. were
somehow questionable. He was
handsome, compelling. in an unstand-
ardized way--sharply different from
the men she had always known. AT
times she felt like a pith-ball between
two opposing electric poles-now at
tracted. now repealed. On the whole.
she had been far more attracted than
repealed. She felt strongly attracted
now.
Yen. l like ito certain extent"
she said, finally, and smiled.
when it doesn't interfere with
your plans" Warner grinned sar'
donically.
"If YOU mean the wedding cere-
mony and giving up that ranch OF
YOURS on the edge of nowhere Tor
fathers office-yes. You really nave
been rather absurd about the we'd
ding. old dear. I've worked hard over
the whole thing. 1t will make beau
tiful picture. and | certainly feel that
| have the right to arrange my we'd
ding according to my ideas-espe-
ciallv as YOU didn't seem to have any
on the subject"
ooh, yes-I had some. I'd thought
about it-out there, under the stars
lust a few friends-in some dim,
quiet church.
Remy laughed tinkling, amused
laugh and sank down again. on her
chair.
TITS unfortunate that our ideas
on the subject didn't happen to CO.
incide. Phil.''
well, | wasn't thinking paticular-
~ of the wedding. | was thinking
haven't you noticed that our ideas
never coincide, Remy?" demanded
Warner.
They conceded the night you asked
me to marry you and l consented.
said the girl quickly.
Warner shifted his stance little
and looked down at the fire before
speaking.
"Yes-but, if you will be as honest
you'll acknowledge that, for once,
you made a mistake"
II acknowledge no such thing" re-
torted the girl.
Don't you think it A mistake to
marry a man whose whole attitude
toward life and mode of living are
so different from your OWn?"
She made an amused little moue.
mot if he will promise to change
them-as you have!'
That's just the point" said
Warner slowly. II find 1 can't keep
that promise.
"Ah, that is serious. A man who
won't keep his promises" Her
voice had An icy edge to it.
''It isn't that I won't-it's that
can't, Remy.'
"Just what do you mean by that"
she asked, after an instant's pause.
Warner leaned restlessly against the
mantelpiece, then moved away from
it uncertainty and sank into chair
near Remy's.
"See here" he said. Tets talk this
over sensibly and quietly"
What do you want to talk over
sensibly and quietly?" demanded the
girl.
"Why-the mistake we are think
ing of making and how to avoid it."
Warner leaned forward and spoke
earnestly. tiff you had engaged
passage on a boat sailing for Europe
and had suddenly discovered that she
was unseaworthy, wouldn't you can
eel your passage. Renly? I've come
to the conclusion that our boat will
go down in the first blow. and l
think the only sane thing to do Is
to cancel our passage"
'You can't cancel a passage when
it's time to haul in the gang-plank.
It's, too late-no steamship company
would stand for it. Phil. And, be-
sides, if one has any sporting blood,