Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-15

/ nothing but a common little suburb
! ante. It's just the novelty Of hav
! ing some one around who isn't eX-
actly the kind you're used to-
You don't know what YOU are Bui
| do. You're woman, and theI 9
aren't very marv of. them left"
| She got out of her chair and stood
| away from him. her back against a
! pillar
That's rubbish. Louis. don'I
mind little after-dinner airtati"r
| But YOU mustn't talk this way It's
| altogether TOO lurid and like the third
act"
You're quite right. This isn't fir
tation. This is plain human hunger
! didn't know how ! starved for some
I things until you came here"
THE trouble with you and Philenda
Is that YOU have too much. she adj
vised him.
i The trouble with me and Philenda
is that we haven't enough" he said
quietly. We never have had enough
( We've had lot Of junk around US
IL that's what YOU mean. thought
, in the beginning. that there was
going Ia be more. There used L" he
something in Philendas eyes that
fooled me-"
Maybe YOU fooled her.
She has what she wants. She :
very successful, isn't she, along wha;
she calls her line
He stopped and seemed 10 pull
himself together. la readjust. Carl
said nothing.
She hated to leave him there on
the verands. He seemed So al,sn-
doned. almost helpless. But il was
all she could think Of In do.
-
CAROL told herself that 1t was
- wonderful TO get home and thlt
she adured beir~- - her own home
again. She told Tot, the same timing
and fell I'm love " ith her children all
over again. But. that first dav or So.
both she and Tom acted "A little over
enthusiastic. as If they might be con-
cealinE some let-down. They dis.
covered that they had spent alto
Sether too much money while they
were away ana would have fo ca'ch
mp ny heinz rather rigid about sum
mer economies. The house wnl,iss
have To go without painting, carol
put a twu-line advertisement in tnt.
paper for n cook and went 10 work.
She shut Lake Forest out OF her
thoughts. nr tried Ia. hut. ono. IN a
while. as she washed dishes or tried
To interview some inarticulate girl
who VAS applying for job. SIRE
would get clear picture az the
Carver house and OF Philsnda en- :
gaging only the most trained and ex-
pensive OF servants. Try as she dill
To make comedy out of the change. IL
hurt.
Tom somehow seemed less comps.
tent shan usual He had chang III
from being gay vacation conpan-
ion into the usual hard driven young
business man in subordinate posi- =
iion. Ii was a good subordinate po-
sition and IL had prospects. Rut nn
prospect of anything like Lake ForeS'
AMI the reserve power and success oi
Louis Carver.
On the surface. things adjusted. OK
course. She told IhiiendaS friends
about her visit 10 the Carver~ ana
described phtienda's establishments; IA
the ones who had never seen il, Rn;
she did not talk much about Louis
Carver
Old Mrs. Rice, PhiIends's mother
meeting her on the street one day
told her that rh,lenda was con,ir :
IN visit for week, The news gave
Carol an unexpected stir.
Louis coming. too" she asked.
~ don't think so. He's always -
very busy explained Mrs Rice "bu,
Nou must come I" see Philends a.
soon as she comes. She's always
been so fond az YOU. Carol dear"
However, IL was Phientia who ga u,e
To see Carol FIRST. She couldn't have
been In town more than a day before
she came, for Carol hadn't even heard
of her arrival. Eut one afternoon, as
Carol WAS cleaning up her living room,
after hacking the children out on the
sleeping porch for maps. rhilentia
walked in. She was lalid and negli.
gent ot manner, as e>er and. na,ur.
allv, her clothes were important
Hello exclaimed Carol. 4 iidn I