Evening star., 1935-01-25

thia asked suavely. HE was en- ole
friend of my fathers
rs he, Daniel?" Daisy Gayno
tossed the ball to her husband.
II don't know" Whatever any one
| else might think, Kim had the GER
| tainty that Gaynor lied. The big mar
knew definitely just where French
was at this hour. So did Savedra, hi
| thought, as he met the ENJOYS eyes
What was being cooked now between
Yucca Oil and the government OF Bo'
naventura? If he wanted the pos
| there, he'd be running down this clev
| of their mutual interest in hiding
Simon French's presence in Washing
| ton Not wanting it. he stood OUTSIDE
the fence while Shannon came to th'
net for Cynthia I'D like to see him,
the Senator said.
"Oh, he's incommunicado, as We sa.
in Orocaizo," Daisy Gaynor chirruped
Her importance rose like the bubble
! in her glass. Hes busy man, Sen
ator Shannon, very great man whit
must sometimes keep his comings ant
goings incognito."
1T sounds to me like dirty work a
the crossroads"
Savedra gave Shannon a sharp
/ glance Of inquiry. then smiled ant
shrugged his shoulders. ''Senor French
has the right to privacy he assured
him in his careful English. 1T is
shall we say?-the prerogative OF EN-
perors."
"Emperors?" Cynthia asked.
What else? Emperors, Kings art
but symbols of power, and is he not
in his person, the power of American
oil?'
And what a power!" Shannon
chuckled.
"The new fulcrum Of the world, anc
Senior French is It's Bonaparte." HI
smiled pleasantly at Kim. You know
him, of course?"
Slightly"
"Only that? He knows you"
"My father knew him we'll" Gym
thia said. I'm really sorry I'm no
seeing him" She was trying to max
! contact through Savedra now, ant
Dysart must have caught the impor
of her anxiety, for he turned to Dais,
Gaynor. 'I shouldn't mind seeinl
him myself" he told her. Il CAM
up with him once on a boat from
Buenos Aires. He's tremendously in
; teresting."
: well. he's not my idea of a no
number" She grinned through cigar
cite smoke at all the men within
range of her glance. A short timt
! later she rose with Dysart.
"I don't know how the rest Of vol
are going to spend the evening, but
we're going to dance" she trumpeted
Instantly Savedra was on his feet
| looking at Cynthia; but Mardi Freel
rose with him. Heavily Gaynor guild
ed Sonora Savedra to the floor. EX'
pectantly Holly waited Kim's signal tc
dance with him, but curious reluc-
tance to leave Cynthia alone at the
table with Shannon held him back
It wasn't, he told himself, any latent
jealousy of Geoffrey Shannon, the sort
of emotion that man might feel il
he himself were ready to cry quits or
his marriage. The Senator from Ath-
aDaSKa mlBHL lUFc NyutIlAn WCA
enough to break down few of his
own barriers in order to marry her
! when she'd be free, but Senator from
Athabaska was not what Cynthia
wanted. OF course, she might wrangle
continental embassy for old Geof
He had the political power and she
had the money, and they both knew
their way around. She wouldn't mar
ry him, though, and go back to Atha-
baska any more than she'd ask him
now to take her out from the en-
barrassments of this situation. He
wished, though, that Shannon would
break it, but Godfrey was taking ma
ncious delight in sitting tight. I'm
not much of a dancing man." he was
telling Holly.
"Aren't you? I'd have thought you
could be anything you wanted to be- d
"Not at all. I've always wanted to
be something I've never been"
Don't believe him. Miss Barlow "
For the first time since they had