Evening star., 1931-06-20

| Leonore Phipps had q birthday party
with O hotel dinner and q dance in
San Francisco IN the 1lrst week OF
August. The dance had been wonder =
ful, and the foggy, cool city delicious
after the baking inland heat Of Clip
persville. and the whole experience
fIled with wild laughter and without .
Best Of all had been the morning
after the dance when, waking in the
big hotel on the hilltop, Gail had
breakfasted In pajamas with the other
girls, looking out across the gray Sum-
4 mer bay at the white wakes Of the
bering all last nights fun, detail by
detail.
After breakfast the party had split
and scattered, GaA going on with Van
In the roadSter.T .~@
They had gone to the CIin House and
Apostrophized the seals that we're bark
ing harshly on the rocks behind the
drifts Of fog: they had had ttntypes
taken on the boardwalk and had tried
al the swings and chutes. They had
come downtown again and lunched on
q roof above old Chintown, hearing the
cars honking in the streets below and
the flshmen crying their wares, and
watching the trafac on the bay, the
feet coming In heavy with its catch,
and the splendid Aloha making her
/ majestic way seward past the forts
and the clustered Fich green trees @n the
ellis ct the Golden Gate. The ScR was
were hot and still as they EHised
through them in . giddy shopping tour
at 3 O'Clock. r.E@
Peering into the crowded narrow shop
windows they had discovered dragons
and strange gods, Seahofses and star
fish picked In medicinal hrines, oysters
dried in nat circular cakes and strung
on brown grasses. They had stopped
at the markets, where rabbits had
hoped heavily over sawdusty floors
and long ropes Of the tentacled octopus
had dangled before the eyes Of the
trousered slAnt-eyed housewives. They
had bought ginger and lichee nuts, had
fingered long at the theater doorway,
studying the cheap little photographs,
bursting into fresh laughter as they
pretended to translate the hieroglyphics
to each other.
An Idiot. yes: but Van was q most
loYable idiot. the ideal idiot with whom
to spend q silly day like this, when ones
the excitement Of . gala night and
when one had him TO ones self, not
showing on, not given any chance to
be drawn away, innocently 20 hurt ones
feelings. This day in Chinatown was
one to be marked with white stone
for Gail.
At they had known they must
start for home. It would take almost
two hours to drive to Clippersville; Gail
had not dared prolOng the fun too far
Van had landed her safely at her own
gate at o'clock and she had gone into
the dim old hrooding house that was
close and dark tonight with sudden
realization Of the limitations OF the
place, the stupidneSs of home.
I've had the best time ever had in
my hfe!" she could tell them over and
over again, exhausted by sheer felicity.
She told them the jokes, the situations.
the events, In an inconseQuential
tumble. Edith had listened eagerly.
sympathetically. Ariel had listened,
too. but with 3 difference.
She went out for . casual drive with
the Camps after the movie" Edith had
said, "and they broke spring and 1t
was nearly midnight when She got in!
Phil and / were terribly frightened"
Calls eyes and Ariel'S had flashed
together. But even when they were
alone Ariel had not been commune
cative.
"You run your affairs and let me run
Simply. nv ''
"fslit II want n broken surinw.
Ar,elS"
"T saw N was"
oaiI had heen Eoo anxious n re&
hack IA her own DRAINS ard vaemoFies
to vnTTv even aho,,t ArIeI
The Sev haA MA itS Inarvslo,,.s y,.c.
rosnt r. had. conne St 4 o,cVor,S w11sc
she and Van, laughing over the pur-
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| and charms in the esndai-acented
ons,,nn -srenteA f1,terior ~ 4 dayf IitfIs
| Ghinatown shnn had hne,I reI,,ets rtiv