The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-04
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men. with a fair apportionment of good looks, wit and sex appeal; every hour of every day dedicated to the amusement of the moment; un- limited financial resources to pay for their pleasure; high-powered automobiles. thoroughbred horses, weli-kept tennis courts and golf links; a place in the country with quiet walks in pleasant forests. big hammocks suspended in leafy dells. l canoes afloat upon the shady river, music to be had for tho wanting and a polished floor shining it's invita- ton to lightly dancing feet--in such a youths Utopia, 1t woulud seem all life must blend in a merry medley
 of laughter. songs and love, Ginger's party had all these and
 more. But there was no laughter among them save what was grimly forced. The only song was that of the willing and large-lunged Benito.
 As for love nffairs--inside of "A
 hours, they had got their love af- fairs into such q state of confusion that 1t seemed as though they could never be righted world without end. The party opened to false start on the first day and floundered clumsiiy along. growing steadily worse. until within three days everything imaginable was wrong with 1t, nothing was working out well. and nobody was having good time--unless. indeed, it was Eddy Jackson. And he was pretty well swallowed up in the sorrows of the sad majority.
 In some ways the unoffending Patty had the worst of 1t. Patty was perfectly agreeable to anything and everybody, she was entirely willing to do anything that was asked of her and accept anybody as partner.
 If 1t seemed advisable as Eddy maintained, for her to accept the unwilling attentions of Speed Roney, Patty did not complain even when 1t became increasingly ob- vious that Speeds interest was en- tirely forced, prompted not at all by personal desire but by the clever coercion of Eddy Jackson.
 Never much of an ornament to society in q conversational way, Speed fell prompt prey to the moody constraint of the others and lapsed into q mental depression from which he made no effort to arouse himself.
 To Patty he was overbearingly. oppressivcly polite, seeming even to prefer the company of his own sister to her, than which no more fatal thing can be said of any woman. To Ginger he had no op- portunity to show even the formal courtesies that might be expected. for she was completely monopolizcd by the sudden aggressiveness of Eddy Jackson and In way that brooked no interference.
 Speed was not having good time on his own account. Phil had written him that Ginger was bored, but remembering hs he did her ut- terly unquenchnhle vivacity In the old days. her almost inhuman ca- pacity for adventure and excite ment he was not prepared for this still, soft, suffering Ginger. He quickly made up his mind that she was jealous. And of whom? Of whom, indeed, but Cotton, forced uninvited into the party by his own minimizing act.
 For her part. Cotton found her self effectually sequestered in the Rattletrap with Bard Holloway most or the tune, una the BltuntlOn was neither of her doing nor to her liking. Bard did not interest Cot ton. She knew a hundred young men very much like him on the whole. and his type had no charm or novelty for her.
 But take Eddy Jackson now! There was a type that Cotton had never before encountered, and she was merrily intrigued. A farmer. rich young farmer--an agricuItur- ist. rather!-lookcd up to by old experienced men the sort who could make Pay Dirt out of com mon Iowa farm--one who knew his way about In the world--good-look ing. too, in q powerful way. He was n constant spur to her laughter and to her wit, and q keen observer could almost hear the mental click of their verbal contact.
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