Evening star., 1932-09-18

S6lO DILSkly. GOW dUOuI y C1tdE Ci1CAtL Soup
and sole meuniere and asparagus and straw
berries?"
Can we really have sole?" she asked. 1T
sounds like home I lived in Nova Scotia till
was 15 My people were English
English. That accounts for the arbutus'
THE what?"
THE pink and white color scheme that
manufactured by fogs and mist and not by
chemist"
She blushed promptly. 1--WE always thought
it would be an advantage to have a complexion
that didn't operate so independently. I'm
always looking naive when it would be much
better to seem sophisticated
IT wouldn't worry about that You'll get ON
In the world In spite Of your looks"
you don't know New York from a music
teachers point of view. I look as If were
simple country girl and get paid on that basis
don't get New York rates for my work. but
have to pay New York prices for my little studio
and my clothes and I'm getting the most
luxurious New York ideas about those clothes.
It's frightfully complicated. wonder why I'm
telling you all this"
do you really wonder?'
Not really / knew from the minute
looked at you that you were the kind of per-
son who could be a genuine friend"
ITO our friendship" he said and put out
his hand and laid 1t over hers. He had fin
at a gulp. Then he smiled at her with q
pleasant sense that this little adventure was
going very we'll indeed. Perhaps she saw the
scorn back OF the desire in his eyes She smiled
at him wistfully and did not move.
L uE jerked his hand away. He hated her
suddenly for being what she was and max
ing him like her the way a man had a right
to like a girl Of her type. He wondered with
acute bitterness what had made her the sort
Of girl he could hate so terribly, yet admire
so much. And he hated her most Of all be-
cause he knew how lovely and altogether ador-
able she must once have been.
"Oh," she protested. Il shouldn't have let
you-I don't know what you think Of me-"
I'll think what you like for the next hour, +"
he said
The hour was shorter than he had dreamed
60 minutes could be. She forgot about every
thing that had made her in such hurry in
the dim past back at Carmchael's. He forgot
it, too The situation announced its return
when she said:
I've got to fly now. must get the little
Rushton girls finger exercises and be home
in time for her lesson. 1 darent miss that
lesson. l need all earn need more than
that now"
so you want me to let you go?"
I've got to 60"
I'm not going to stop you. You've known
from the first that I'd let you of when the
time came. You were right about me-"
"Of course I right about you, Mr.. Mack.
Or would not have come to lunch with you.
wouldn't have come with any one else. You
know what I mean Any one didn't really
know"
You don't know me. I'm some one else. I'm
MacLennan Carmichael"
You mean you're not Mr. Mack"
That added X was your own idea"
You let me think you were Mr.. Mack and
you're really one Of the firm. Is that it?"
Luckily for you that's it. I've had my
moneys worth. It's all right with me. I'm
paid in full It's been very jolly and the most
amusing part of it is that you look better in
the krimmer donated than in the furs you
picked for yourself"
She was daunJess. She gathered the coat
around her with something that did very we'll
for hauteur. 1T has been amusing, hasn't it?
Too bad we won't be meeting again, Mr.. Car
michael. I've spent too much time on you as
it is, SO can't possibly stop by at your shop
for my coat. And of course, I can't run around
in the cold without a coat. So don't neglect
to have your delivery man bring call for the
Carmichael property when he delivers mine.
Thanks lot for everything and good-by."
you're more than welcome" he said as she
sailed out in the coat which couldn't get her
into trouble because he was paying for it.
He hadn't thing on his mind now but
squaring things with Mrs. Sulgrave. He couldn't
permit her to blame poor HeloiSe for her own
carelessness in hanging tempting fur coat
where it might actually force itself on a pretty
girl with deficient ethics. He muddled through