Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-05

his own way in the world. The sight Of her
troubled him; the Tilt Of her voice; the COOL
straight gaze of her gray eyes.
RUT. at the prom, he danced with her, and
she said she was tired.
"Please-can we slip of before some one cuts
m? I'm deadl" she said. "And want to talk
to you Do you know that my father says that
play Of yours last Fail was the greatest he's
ever seen? He was a claSsmate Of your fathers,
you know-he played on the team with him."
Steve didn't know how It happened, but he
found, as they sat out the next two dances he
was telling her about himself and those secret
feelings Of which he'd never talked to any one
7 suppose sound cuckoo" he said: But
do you see what mean?
Sort Of" she said. "Yes-I think do. But
think you're wrong too You ought to take
advantage Of any break you get There's no
reason why you shouldn't cash in on what you
do here when you get through. I'm pretty sure
dads going after you"
There was q logged look in Steve's eyes.
"n-oh, you've any pull with him, I wish
you'd ask him not tot" he said. "AM tIlis-it
hasn't anything to do with what you do after
ward-not really"
I'm not so sure" said Anne. She was
younger than Steve. But she was years older
than Steve, too. ..x - - .
Very wise she was, and very lovely, this Anne
Wentworth Wise enough to know what she
wanted when she saw 1t; wise enough, too to
AAAOW tA1c DSSt way 70 go ABOUT BeGG10g It. she
wanted Steve; she knew that much that night
at the prom. And she knew, too as even the
youngest girl does know that particular thing
that he wanted her-and that, II she left It
TO him, he'd never get her. Not hel He'd 90
of to South America, or Africa, or some such
place, building bridges digging in mines UNI
less she stopped him.
Just how Anne managed certain things isn't
wholly clear; certainly Steve had no idea that
she was managing them at all. Wentworth of
Wentworth & Hay, was big man In down.
town New York. He was a big man in the
affairs Of the university, too. He had built
Wentworth Hall in memory Of his father When
coaching regime was passing and a new one
was to be installed, it wentworth, 90, as
rule who made the final decision.
And, as it happened, the game that Steve
Arnold had won had been the last to be played
under Jim Thurston head coach. He had
resigned before the season had begun. So, that
Winter and Spring, many conferences had to
be held, usually Ia New York, and Steve as
captain -elect, had to take part in them, if only
for the sake of appearances
1t was natural enough that Wentworth 49,
should ask Arnold, 81. to dinner a good many
times; 1t would have been unthinkable for Steve
to decline those invitations. And how was he
to know that it wasn't natural at all for a
debutante in her first season to dine at home
as often as Anne Wentworth did? He liked
her-oh, he was crazy about herl He'd have
been less than human if he hadn't let her see
to it that he turned up at good many parties
OF the sort he'd been sedulousy avoiding since
his freshman year
RUT his resolution wasn't shaken; not for a
moment. He had Summer job, of course,
after his junior year. 1t took him out to the
Cascades where he labored nightly in the
building OF q great bridge, and he came back
with his life settled for five years after his
graduation. Tom Hutchinson, of the contract
ing firm for which he had worked, had taken
a fancy to him. and he was to go to South
America on the first boat after he had taken
his diploma. So much, triumphantly, he wrote
to Anne
"Yes?" said Anne, to herself. after she had