The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-14
CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER FIVE
MO one in his right mind could
~ have called John Kaye hand
some, but there was something ar
restingly pleasant about his lean,
ascetic face. about the blue eyes
smiling behind the rimless glasses.
He had blunt fingered hands with
closely-clipped nails-a surgeons
hands-and his light brown hair
was thinning at the crown.
He held her hands now, smiling
back at Katharine. Just of the
boat" he said
You came right oUtl Why, you
nice thingl'
She flushed. the thought of Zoe
intruding at the very moment. Zoe
would have said. You lamb" and
You darling" and You precious"
But even with Johnny, who. Kath-
arine said to herself, was like the
brother she'd never had, she could
not be quite so familiar Never
mind-Johnny liked her as she was
What's troubling you?" The
keen eyes looked her over in such
friendly fashion she could not re-
sent it. You're thinner. But
haven't YOU grownt"
You've been gone two years,
Johnny dear" It slipped out before
she noticed 1t. She licked of the
names on her fingers: Munich,
Vienna, Paris How many degrees
have you nOw?"
He smiled. Learned a few things
that's all"
And what nOW?"
'Now-Well. I'm staying in New
York for a while. Old Munster has
asked me to come in with him"
DIR. Hugo Munster? Oh. Johnny,
that's marvelousl"
She could be herself with him, as
always. John Kaye. who was a dis
tant cousin Of Bertine's and had
lived in the house during holidays,
when he had been attending medi-
cal school.
They sat down together.
Tell me everything. Johnny"
I want to know about you"
He had a gentle voice, a good
doctors voice, and a good doctors
probing. intelligent look
She shrugged her shoulders. In
her rumpled linen coat and jodh-
purs. her russell boots stretched out
in front of her, she looked oddly
childish.
"Oh. nothing much. The same
old deadly roundl"
"How's the sketching?"
She frowned. Daddy didn't like
the idea of the life class. Honestly,
John, he has prehistoric ideas. Any
how, I'm not any good"
Her black mood threatened to
descend again.
Nonsense, you're great. Don't be
a defeatiSt. How about college?"
She rumpled her hair. I had two
years Of it, you know; but I fiunked
math. I take French afternoons
from Ma 'mselle Audice down in the
village. Anyhow 1 loathe girls col
leges-all proms and hockey and
handmade sweaters"
He gave a great laugh at her de-
scription.
Johnny. what I want is to begin
to live. This" her comprehensive
glance swept the big. richly fur
niShed room, this isn't living"
We'll. it's very comfortable, John
Kaye said. producing a limp packet
of cigarets. "How's Bertine?"
"Oh, she's a dynamo of energy as
usual. She makes me feel futile"
You need more iron in your VS.
tenn" But he spoke absently. She
had the sensation he wasn't really
attending to his words. In love?"
Scarlet flooded her face. Dear,
oh dear. what's the matter with
every one today?" She tried to
laugh, but did not make much Of a
success of it.
Every one?"
"Oh. Zoe Parker was talking"
Little cuddly, cunning Zoe?"
The same"
She still as pretty?"
oh. very!'
Well. what was she talking to you
about?"
She thinks" said Katharine
slowly that I'm the original ice
maiden: says men are afraid Of me
my type. at least. Is it true?"
He exhaled deliberately before an
Swering. I'm not"