Nogales international., 1930-01-07
Sometimes believe AM an OLD fashioned Girl a. heat

next to her"
| He had met Devil-May-Carel Wei
he was glad that he had not met he
earlier. Otherwise-he was an ex
tremely sane young man-leavin,
Palm Beach would not have been easy
In one brief hour at dinner she ha,
lett marks upon his soul. He knew
that. Now, strolling with the laugh
ing crowd toward the pool, with then
but in no way of them, he re-created If
his mind her features, her expressions
remembered all that he had read al
her in the fevered Sunday supple
ments. She could drive an airpiane
she'd shot a tiger; she'd climbed
mountains; she'd dehonairly skippered
her own speed-boat out to Rum Row
off the Jersey Coast, and in extenua.
ton thereof told a thrilled world thai
she wanted to meet men who were the
spiritual heirs of L'Ollonois, Black
beard, Lahtte, and the rest. Scandal
always hovered about and around her,
but not even its shadow rested upon
her. Her friends, the press and pub
lic-every one seemed to consider her
unique type, one to whom anything
was possible and whom nothing
snlirched: There was, for instance,
the tip that had been given by a re-
vengeful discharged maid to the effect
that Lucy Hardness was having an
affair with Ted Kelly, the lightweight
contender. She was found at his
camp in the Catskills, unchaperoned,
a lone woman amid a dozen plug
uglies. Yet her announcement that
she had bet twenty thousand on Kelly,
and intended to see to it that the con-
tender trained properly, was accepted
applaudingly by all the world. The
world also thought it perfectly proper
for Lucy Hardness to have gone into
training with Kelly. She did road
work, boxed, skipped rope, and frankly
told reporters all about it. When Kelly
met the champion she sat near his
corner and was the first to grip his
hand when the champion was counted
out.
And this was the girl, the 1Vonan-
she was only twenty-three, but how
ridiculous to call one who had done
all she had done a girl-whom he had
rebuked, whom he had told she was
too nice for this gathering tonight.
He colored painfully. A prig, that's |
what he was. And she had Knocked
him, saying she was an old-fashioned
lirl at heart. And then, when this
;hastest of all Dianas had rendered an
invitation, he had not the wit to grasp
t instantly, but must clumsily ask her
o tell him in words of one syllable.
~allow, that was the word.
His feet Jagged, and he was last at
he pool. The men had disdained
'athing suits and, dinner-coated and
atent-leathered, stood laughing by the
iving-board. The women were now
ripping down to the shallow end
oes tested the temperature of the
later, and shrill shrieks drowned the
1irth of the men. t
A tall, Viking-like man edged him
} one side.
Stand anywhere else, young feller," /
e chuckled, "but give me the pole. v
his anklet fits a certain girl, and r
m the ba-ad boy who's going to put v
on her." a
Lesson eyed the man resentfully, and j
ct even in his resentment would have :,
fanted the charm of the blond giant. .
e had met him before, and had heard c
uch of him. Stevens was his name,
i'm Stevens. He possessed all those G
ings which Lesson lacked: wealth, q
sured position, and the things which &c
company them. Lesson remembered =
w that all through dinner Stevens
ID called across the table to Lucy y
arkness, had raised his glass to her,
deed had never seemed to take his