Evening star., 1934-09-03
BY
KATHERINE
CARSON

some of them ought to want g Rolls.
On the other hand, he did not want
| to lay himself open to snubs. II he
| approached a man, trying to sell
something. and the fellow turned
! him down, he knew himself we'll
enough to know it would plunge him
! into the depths. He explained all
! this to Tootsie. Somehow it Wa
pleasanter to confide in her than
in his mother, these days.
I'm just too sensitive, 1 guess" he
admitted with a brave smile. I've
always been, from a child. Well, I
suppose I will end in the poor house.
but I've got to go out and suffer
awhile first. Doesn't it seem that fate
pulled raw deal, when any one that
hates the vulgarity of it as l do has
to go out and tackle big business?"
you poor boy" Tootsie smoothed
his hair lovingly. "Ill tell you what
you ought to do. You ought to marry
a rich wife. Somebody who would
love you so much that she would want
you with her all the time. You we're
made for good fortune, and I can't
bear to think of you slaving away
your life and wasting your talents" :"
They we're both quite affected at
the idea of Stanley slaving away his
life and wasting his talents. Stanley
pressed her hand. "Ah, Tootsie, you
are the only one who understands
me, except my mother"
Stanley came to be accepted by
Tootsie's group as one of the habitues.
Tootsie called him her best beau, and
chided him for totally non-existent
jealousy when she danced with the
sleep-eyed youth who was known as
Ramon. He was also chided, but not
so playfully, if he acceded to one of
Eftle's numerous requests to "be
friendly"
The gang" as they liked to call
themselves, suited Stanleys unquiet
state of mind very we'll, with their
feverish search for gayety. They
might be queer, some of them might
be little off color, but when you
are never entirely sober everything
takes on complexion slightly un-
real. 1t was not until he had unex-
pectedly seen Mazda with Gerald
Pryde at the hotel that Stanley
realized he was ashamed of his
associates. When Tootsie had drag
ged the girl over to their table, he
had had an impulse to get up and
take her out into the clean, snow
filled air, away from these taWdry
women and too-wise men. But the
impulse had passed, and then he
had found himself resenting her
aloof air, the chill which she and
Pryde failed to keep out of their
voices.
Come around and judge his friends.
would she! She couldn't come the
older sister over him. His friends
were as good as hers any day. No
telling what riff-raff she ran with at
the hospital, and as for Pryde, he was
stuffed shirt. His friends were in
teresting. unusual people. Look at
Sonia, real Russian countess, and
Effle, who had been married when a
mere girl to horrible brute of a
man, but was so brave after facing
lie after her divorce. Look at Ramon.
There was real temperament for YOU.
He would be famous some day. Tootsie
"a SO01 cC1 iiod IlCl ways, DuI SIle
had the biggest heart in the world,
and if she still wanted good time at
her age it was nobody's business, least
Of all Maida's.
When Mazda, full of anxiety about
her brother, made the trip across town
the next morning during her hours
of she found Stanley drinking his
coffee, blear eyed and wary of her
Where did you pick up those funny
people?" she asked him, smiling.
"Yes, I might have known you
would hot-foot it over here your first
chance. I suppose you don't like my
friends because you did not pick them
out. You have always tried to boss
me, but I'm a man now and you can
just mind your own business. And 7
don't care to discuss my friends with
you when you take the attitude YOU
do"
(To Be Continued.)