Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-09

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citron-colored sunglasses Now she allowed
herself to be pulled to her feet, while the one
! man in her life looked at her in candid ap-
proval. That's getting to be one swell sun
tan" he said.
Audrey glanced complacently at her coffee
colored legs. "Oh, but I've barely started
We'll, you keep it up and you'll have as
good burn as Marie has"
'Oh!'' said Audrey. "Oh, don't know if
Iwant to be that brown Do you like anybody
to be as brown as all that"
Sure" he said easily. AT least it looks
pretty swell on Marie.'
There was weighty pause. "Oh, well.
maybe it wouldn't look so swell on me.
Audrey said Maybe I'm not the type"
They walked along then in what he errone-
ously thought was companionable silence.
They had not far to walk, for the Reynolds
cottage was no more than good stones
throw from the communal boathouse. They
parted at the Reynolds steps with the usual
lack of formality - he had not noticed the
subtle change in Audrey's attitude 49,.
The sad thing was that the summer had
started off so we'll More than twenty men,
bers of Medville's younger set had settled
happily with their parents on the shores OF
Chandler Lake. The little cottages were
placed within easy yelling distance of one
another 1t was like living, Audrey's father
had remarked morosely, in sort of CO.
educational boarding school. For the young
people themselves it was ideal or rather it
had been ideal until the unheralded arrival of
Miss Marie Holbrook.
This young person had come from an
Eastern city to visit her grandparents - who
had the most imposing house on the lake.
They had Immediately given party for her,
to introduce her to the other young people in
the colony They had no idea that an odd girl.
at this particular time and place, presented
social problem of formidable proportions.
They thought, in their naive way, that
young people were just young people, tum-
bling around like kittens in a basket - that
one more young person. or one less, would
not matter in the least This was bad mis-
take on their part. There was really no place
for their good looking and rather arrogant
granddaughter or in other words. there
was no available man for her. The only extra
man in the whole colony could hardly have
been considered man at all. although lately
he had been making heroic efforts in that d.
rection This individual was Norma Ramsay's
brother, Tom, who - less than year ago -
had been sneaking rides on the rear ends of
trucks. Naturally Marie Holbrook's eyes had
passed over him to rest, in speculative way.
on Scoop Armstrong and Bill Newman and
Gene Walton a.. She was menace - from
the very beginning she had been menace =.
Audrey, still brooding little, walked into
the cottage. She pulled on Stacks and short
sleeved pink sweater. She was before her mir
ror trying the effect of a new evening snood
when Norma Ramsay and Clara Dodd, after
brief hammering on the door, burst into the
room with bag of popcorn.
my dear!'' said Norma What do you
suppose? They're letting US have the boat
house for Saturday night"
But actually" added Clara. And they're
going to get Buddy Noble and the Swing
Nobility"
Isn't that something. my DEAR" cried
Norma.
"Ye-es," Audrey said. slowly Yes. But
wonder -"
Norma crammed more popcorn into her
mouth. Wonder what" she demanded, in
muffled tones.