The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-07
CHAPTER XIX

Toni. I'm not putting any screws
on you, if that's what you're think
ing! I haven't fallen as low as
that! But, as I've said, we mer
must live. You're doing very vel
for yourself. And you're meeting
the right people. That's where
come in. if you don't mind. ]
know hardly anybody of i'm
portance in New York. Hardly
any moneyed, influential people
In my present financial position
I need to get in with the right
crowd"
She snapped: $50 as to make
another rich marriage?"
He took that humbly, rebuk
ingly.
Toni, you've grown so hard!
wouldn't know you for the same
grill"
I'm not the same girl, Brock
Get that straight"
And you're lovelier than ever
You're making money. You're
successful. I can't but admire
you for your cleverness, even
though you are cruel"
AGREES TO TRUCE
"You are worse than cruel
Brock. You'd like to have me
on the end of a pin, like q
broken butterfly. But I am Out
Of your collection. have flown
Everything is finished"
But not friendship" he ven
tured.
His gaze Travelled over he1
clothes, her face, her blond hair
He said, very softly, but an I'M
pleasant insinuation lay behind
the words: you wouldn't want
us to be enemies, Toni? Coopera'
ton. That's the idea"
And because he knew so much,
she knew she had to yield to
some kind Of truce between
them.
She hated it!
What exactly do you wish me
to do?" she inquired in an icy
voice.
ITO introduce me to people
who can help me find a job
That Halstead-Flagg fellow has
barrels of money and influence
I saw him incoming over you last
night. You're smart! At the
same time" he added boldly, 81
should like to meet Miss Harriet
Brewster. You know her, too"
Up and down Park Avenue
indeed, wherever the gay world
assembled-Miss Harriet Brew
ster's parties were famed. Fol
their dash. Their difference
The excellence of the food and
drink.
NO BORES INVITED
Nor were people indiscriminately
hidden to these gatherings. In
one way or another, almost all
her guests were celebrated.
Society. The stage. The screen
The international set. Above all
visiting titles. The smart polo
crowd.
Nobody boresome was invited
unless the name was s. old, SC
socially important, that it was
known the world over.
Invitations, then. were eagerly
besought by all the climbers to
Miss BreWSter's home. She cir
cumvented them all.
For a certain ruthlessness lay
in the character of the rich
orphaned girl who queened it on
Park Avenue.
She had invited Toni Goddard
now Madame la Marquise-foI
two excellent reasons to her cock
tail party. First, because she
was, at the moment. the toast
of the town in the night-clut
going set. And infinitely more
important, because she had 6
shrewd suspicion that Guy Hal
stead-Flagg was interested in the
new, mysterious beauty! She
must keep her eye on that! Fol
the 32-year-old society girl hac
set her cap for the handsome
bachelor from Kentucky.
Time" thought Miss Brewster
"for marriage" Not that shC
would ever settle down." Oh, no
She was a restless product O.
the twentieth century. She was
utterly, of the smart, pleasure
seeking set.
But now it was time for maj
rage, she had decided.
Not that she hadn't had he
chances. The society column
were constantly limiting of intel
national alliances for her. Blu
failing a titled nobleman, a hanC
some, wealthy man from HON
would do.
Guy Halstead,F Lagg was the ma
with whom she could fall IN love