The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-18

Bruton, while still in college in the
North, she had had some wonder
ful Week-endS in San Francisco,
at the home of a college chum,
and they had gone out dancing
It was q town brimful Of ro-
nance, with its shining hills and
the blue waters of the bay. She
had loved San Francisco and
everything about it, including its
fog and it's water fronts, with the
gulls flying and crying, and its
ships that were going to far coun-
tries giving one such a sense OF
adventure. Here had sprung Lu.
ana's first urge to see the world,
to travel to far-flung corners Of
the earth.
It hurst her to remember fasci.
mating San Francisco. and the
barrier her own folly had put be-
tween her and the romantic city
in the West.
But make the most of what fate
offered now. Jimmy was nice,
honest, presentable, with no non
sense.
II expect another humble little
check the end of the week. I'll
take you dancing, Saturday night,
if you'll Gomez"
She had accepted. 1t aStonished
her to find how much she was
looking forward to the evening
with Jimmy.
At the shop she had a busy
morning. She was so rushed she
had to have a sandwich and a
small bottle of milk sent in for
luncheon.
When it came to buying their
clothes, the women who had voted
for Luana at the big fashion
show-irrespective of their fig
ureS-wished her to model for
them, so she was continually in
demand.
Mrs. VandaVeer arrived that
afternoon, with Ramon. Mrs. Van
daveer, perhaps, came nearest
Luana, in the matter of silhouette.
II can't make up my mind, Mr..
Quackenbush," she said peeVishly
to the couturier, and looking
through Luana as though she did
not see her, 80 I shall have to
ask you to send the gold gown,
and the russell crepe. and the
oyster satin to the house tomorrow
at 5 with the model"
Luana thought: "She's hate
fully arrogant! I wish I didn't
have to go!"
Luana set down her cardboard
boxes in an anteroom of the Van
daveer penthouse punctually al
5 o'clock, next afternoon. SIN
waited for S, 10, Is minutes BE-
fore the butler returned to say
that Madame would now see her.
Contrary to expectations in
view of yesterdays bad MOOD.
Madame was most agreeable to-
day. She was seated before the
mirror in her bedroom, putting the
finishing touches to an elaborate
makeup as Luana entered the
boudoir. Through the open door
she greeted Luana affably, and
told her to slip out of her dress
right there in the boudoir-no one
would come up to interrupt them.
"The gold gown first, please" she
ordered.
She decided on that, finally, and
on the russell crepe.
Nov you must come down to
the drawing room for tea, my dear
child"
Luana was hungry. Healthily
hungry after her days work. Be-
sides, because of Mr.. Quacken-
bush's ACCOMPLISHMENT to be eSpe-
cially nice to this best customer, it
would never do to refuse. Yet she
felt shy about turning business
into a social occasion.
There was a reason behind the
invitation, had she but known.
For Mr.. Joel Vandaveer had come
home Unexpectedly early, and
this had upset an arrangement
that Mrs. Vandaveer had made
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ing. Ramon and she were to at
tend the opening of a smart
bridge-and-cocktail club, and Joel
hated that sort of an affair.
When he came home early, he ex-
pected to have a cup of tea or a
cocktail with his wife, were she at
home, and Ramon's arrival might
be awkward.
But with Luana present, things
would look better all round.
Luana thought the drawing
room with it's exquisite Louis
XVIII furniture quite the most
beautiful she had ever beheld!
Wealth! What it could do! For
the first time in her life, perhaps,
it came definitely to her that it
would be wonderful to have
money!
Ito Be COntinued)
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