Nogales international., 1935-07-20

Were modernists, Sandy" she
said Every night is night out
as far as either of us Is concerned.
We're not playing the marriage game
according to the old sentimental stan
dards, not Tony and l."
Sandy's eyebrows came down. and
his eyes narrowed,
In that case" he said, I'VE might
have dinner together, tonight-~I'd en-
Joy feeling like a husband-robbing
Lotllario for a change. I'm sort Of
beginning to lose confidence in my
sell"
Ellen felt just = Jittls Icy, inside.
1t was the first time since her wed
ding that she'd actually nlsde the
break--tbat she'd put herself, mar
ried, In a position Of accepting social
favors from another man.
"I'!l meet you anywhere you say,
Sandy" she told him. "at any time
you say"
Let's make it a real party" he
said. "We'Ii dress. and I'll stop for
you at your place in about an hoi1r,
! don't suppose, by any chance, that
you'd have a cocktail waiting for
Marriage" she said, "hasn't
changed my ideas about that, Sandy"
But she was all ready when he
came for her in an hour (she net him
at the door, he mustn't come pp to
her 80 eeyi9gsly Ailsnaneaa Apagt-
EentD
Sandy did it all very we'll 1t was
as # that evening he were planning
to ou:do hirnself-to make the party
memorable. They rode in state tC
one OF the larger hotels that boasted
a dance orchestra and a roof garden
They were shot, in the hotel ele-
ra:or, to the roof garden. They were
shown to a table close beside the dance
floor.
IT'S a nice roof" she told him
and tried valiantly not to tell hersclt
that it would have been perfect j
Tony had been the one to hold hacl
her chair, to seat himself opposite
her!
y suppose" said Sandy, as h
studied the menu, that the boy frien(
is working, or something. Well, more
power to him p
And Ellen echoed,
More power to him." as she fol(les
her hands tight beneath the da,nasl
table cloth, and let her eyes wandel
across the room. AS her glance wan
dercd from table to table, she felt he,
body stiAen. For there, directl,
across the dance floor, immaculate il
dinner jacket, and with his blue eye
bluer than ever. sat Tony. Ton.
wasn't alone, either, for Jane i'll
wisp of devastatingly cut hame-col
cred chiffon, sat opposite him.
Why" Ellen whispered, and he,
breath came III startled little gasps
''why, there's Tony, now!"
1t wasn't that her voice carried, i
was that her thought carried! Tom
looked up from across the room a,
sharp as Sandy did from across th'
table. And then, without a word tt
the girl in fame color who sat op.
posite him, he was up out of his feet
was coming over the polished square
OF dance floor.
Say" he began, this IS a Sur
prise"
Sandy had risen, and was lingering
the sickness Of his Vandyke beard
The gesture was sophisticated, per-
hAps, but the eyes above the beard
were frankly apprehensivc.
"So ii is," said Sandy. He grinned
neryously. 'Just what does one do
III a situation like thisi" he asked.
"it's all out Of order !"
Ellen was laughing She tried to
make her laughter sound casual.
"One says, Hello" she said, "and
'gocdhy'."
Tony wasn't as brown as he had
been when Ellen first saw him.
You're all wrong, Ellen" he said.
AT time like this. parties join to-
getheri If you haven't ordered, come
over to our table"
There wasn't anything else to do.
Ellen, as gracefully as possible, and
wishing that her dress were pink or
blue or orchid or anything but white,
rose from her seat, and was escorted
by the two men back to the place
where the girl In fame chiffon was
sitting.
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