The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-10

SILVIA Rivers. richest girl IN
town, is giving a party at tne
Yacht club and Boots IS heart
LroL.n because she IS not InVit-
ed. She accepts last-min ute
invitation to dinner TO be given
Al tn. club the same night as
syIvia's party by Mrs. Waterman
one Of Larchneek's social arorteTS'
gored and lonely, Boots calls
an Young Mrs. Hart, a neighoor'
am meets Denis Fen~ay, Mrs
Harris cousin
NOW co ON WITH The SIOH1
CHAPTER II -,
81 must be running along,
Roots told young Mrs. Hart;
ratber uncomfortably. She had
been an idiot, she reminded her
self 70 come buttIng IN here;
Lois would think her a fool ana
this cool, utterly superior young
man with his foreign air OF dan,
tfied elegance, rather bothered
her.
Nonsense. my dear Lois
seized her arm and made her SIT
down again. Denis is staying
with us-oh. you didn't know,
Won bad child. you haven't been
10 Gee me in weeks. Boots, she
said affectionately and rather
gushingly, was Just graduated
from high school some weeks
aoo-with honors. And are We
proud Of her.
than ever a fool. Why must
Lois emphasize the fact that she
was lust out of school! Sne
wanted 20 appear a woman OF the
world. wanted TO escape from
the tight shell of youthful en-
barrassments and mhIoitlsns
which cramped her.
The young man smiled cooliy
she thought) At this. she had
sat down again. at the insistenee
OF her hostess. Mrs. Hart was
Longing gracefully in a deep
chair and the Young man had
eased his tall self into another.
Really" ne said idly. Boots
could have killed him for it And
'.really" ne said again.
"Denis," interpolated Lois Hart,
facing the girl, sis just back from
England. On his way to Cahfor-
MA. He," said Lois impresslvely,
writes"
"Ohr' Boots forgot momentar-
ily her distrust of the stranger.
her uneasineSs. do you, really"
The young man waved ms
achievements aside airily. He was
very good looking, Boots thought
If you admired that rather super
cilious type. He had long, mar
row, gentian blue eyes, put in
with a smutty finger. His eye
lashes were ridiculously long
They fascinated one. His black
hair fitted him like a silker
cap
Just the same. she didn't like
him. She resented him. Maybe
il was partly because tonight she
was feeling lost and hurt and out
of things: at any rate, after
few minutes of this wandering
desultory conversation she said
she must go. She hadn't left q
note for the parents. They would
be at home any minuteS-they
would wonder.
Lois. who knew how the casual
comingS and goings of Larch'
neck's younger set were manag,
ed, rather opened her eyes al
this, but she did not protest
Denis would walk down with
Boots, she said
ono, on no, I'll Just slip thru
the hedge" Boots Raeburn, nOteC
in Larchneck for her Smooth
line" her ease and poise, was ae
tuallv stammering and flushing.
Somehow she managed to ge
away. Her cheeks were very hot
He might have insisted on accom-
panying her, she thought resent
fully. He might have
The house was still dark ant
silent when she let herself int
il. She switched on lamp il
the sitting room and went up
stairs to her room. 1t was a big
wide APARTMENT, shabby and com
Portable.
For the thouSandth time Boot.
thought enviously of the rooms
of the Their girls. Isabel, with
her pegged maple and candlewicE
spread and the big satin puff
hand quilted. And Sylvia River!
whose sitting room had beer
"dOne" by a famous decorator
from the city all in pastels will
modernistic furniture. No, i
wasn't fair. Life itself was no
fair.
She ran water into the tub il
the big, staring white bathroom
She scrubbed her teeth meticu
iously, and stared discontentedl!
at her unflawed skin in the mir
ror. What good was it, she de