Evening star., 1934-02-11

L you THINK you are, ne
said. But my experience Is
that you never know who you're going
to marry in this world. once thought
I was going to marry cabaret girl
called Myrtle Blandish."
Were you engaged to her?"
"All signed on the dotted line. And
then one day I got letter from her
saving that she had run off with
man named Scott or Pott or even
her handwriting was practically
illegible-Bott. 1t Just shows you,
doesn't It? However, I can see now
that it was the best thing that could
poor old Bott. A nice girl, but essen
TALLY female Week. 1t wouldn't
have done. Her habit Of never going
to bed before in the morning
would alone have been enough to spoil
the coziness of the home"
"And now you're engaged to Lord
stablefords daughter? Rather a
step-up."
Quite. Both socially and spiritually
They don't come more spiritual than
Beatrice"
rs that her name? Beatrice what?"
"Bracken."
Not Lady Beatrice Bracken? I've
seen photographs of her in the papers
She must be lovely"
Lovely! Say, have you ever seen
Greta Garbo?"
Yes"
"And Constance Bennett?"
ayes"
"And Norma shearer?"
"Of course have
mix 'em together and what have
you got? Beatrice"
And did you really say what you
were telling US to Lord Stableford?"
well, not these actual words, per-
haps. But was firm with him, very
firm"
And he crawled?"
II had him paving at my trouser
legs. o course, I'm pretty rich. That
may have helped"
Blair has hardly any money"
But they tell me that everybody
whose opinion matters regards him as
one of the leaders of the younger
school of novelists."
$50 he Is. But he writes the sort
of books that most people don't read.
He's above their heads. I mean. AS
a matter of fact. he makes practically
nothing out of his novels"
How does he eat?'
Hes got a job with the British
Broadcasting Co."
Packy was interested. He liked his
radio of an evening.
"Is he the fellow who says. Good
night, everybody, good night"
mo. He. :"
1--WE got him placed. He's the one
who lectures on stock prices"
No. He does the noises off"
"How do you mean, the noises OFF,"
well, when they have sketch or
something where they have to have
noises, Blair makes them"
"I get you. You mean, somebody
says, 'Hurrah, girls, here comes the
Royal Bodyguard! and Blair goes
tramp, tramp, tramp
Yes. And all sorts of other noises.
He's awfully clever at it.
Packy nodded. II can quite see why
you want to marry him. The home
can never be dull if at any moment
the husband is able to initiate a motor
horn or the mating cry of the boil
weevil. But you don't think your
father will take that View?"
Father Is very material. He seems
10 think so much of money"
And just about now Eggleston is
breaking it to him that he hasn't any.
Tell me, what is the greatest number
of wildcats your father has ever killed
with his teeth in given tine?"
The question seemed to displease
the girl. Il wish you wouldn't talk
like that"
I'm sorry"
"They may get along splendidly."
'"They may"
what I'm hoping is that, even If
father doesn't agree to our marrying
at once, at least he will like Blair we'll
enough to give him some good job"
Initiating boil veev.ls?"
In the bearing of Jane Opal as she
hitched herself round in her chair
and gazed at Packy there was some
thing of the old fire. Il see you have
o cauliflower ear"
"An old foot ball wound?"
''Want another?"
"No, thanks"
'Then don't talk like that. Blair
E q very wonderful man, and he only
makes noises off because his books
are so clever that the public won't
buy them. The critics say he Is the
coming novelist"
"And here he comes"
Blair Eggleston had suddenly ap-
peared in the lobby and was standing
peering hither and thither in search
of his vanished lady. Even at this
distance 1t was evident that he was
somewhat dazed. His face wore a
bewildered stunned look.
We'll, he's still in one piece" said
Packy, "and there don't seem to be
any tooth marks on him. Can Dad
be losing his pep?"
He looks goofy," said Jane. "I
wonder what the matter Is" She
called loudly, and the coming novelist,
at last sighting her, advanced totter-
ingly, as one who has either suffered
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