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A Compelling Narrative of a Flapper’s
Folly Related by a Noted
American Author
Head This First:
On his first day in Manor Park, where he is to M»Ply the business
methods learned in college, Mr. Benjamin , €arrin f to ” of
to observe three of the suburban town’s “ost alluring examples of
femininity. Unnoticed by men, he sees Diana Rand—l 9,
skirted, flippant and charming—enter a jewelry store with her friend,
Beatrice. Beatrice, whose trailing dress is ® f
Nineties—frumpish. he thought-has a rounded, f" 4
Hous face, with lips “made for kisses.” In the store, where Diana
purchases a statuette of a dancing girl, she and, Bea encounter Ann
Evarts, a trim, fairy-like person, petite and kittenish in •{***’?♦£•
and manner. But the innocent face flushes when the proprietor of the
store Informs her he can no longer extend credit for her purchases.
Oiana and Bea, in the Rands’ roadster, drop Ann at the Yacht Club,
where they see her borne away by “Noddy and Toddy and Norman
Gregory.’’ Bea is furious as she and Diana drive* w »£
tn love with Gregory. She returns home only to be admonished by her
father for going out with Diana. Meantime, Ann abuses her mother
for not paying the Jeweler. Norman Gregory hoars about Black being
in Manor Park and looks him up. He locates him Md
the Yacht Club, where ho promises Black he will meet some of the
“nice girls.” He consents to go. Bea and her brother, raddle. pre
pare for the p<ty and before leaving their parents warn them to be
have like “Sheldons.” Freddie calls for Ann, whoso mother had just
told her she must marry soon or go to work. Jhe party is a gay af
fair. Diana is the life of the dance, “Benny” Black
the quiet Ann, who makes believe that she does not like wild bailee.
Diana, after the party, teNs her mother all about “Benny Black. She
meets “Benny” several tones and falls In love with him.
Now Go On With The Story.
CHAPTER XV
• North Lake, together with
Hs iurroundmg shores and
•ven the mountain at the
southern end of the mirror
like sheet of water had been
purchased by the Manor
Park Association —Jeremiah
Sheldon, president, Seymour
Rand, secretary and the
place was maintained in
atyle as an occasional resort
for the fashionable members
of the association and their
families.
A roomy bungalow, built
all of weathered logs,
sprawled almost at the edge
of the shore; in this there
were bedrooms scattered
about a great central lounge
filled with bear skin rugs
and bright Navajo blankets
and deer-heads.
Here Hanna was to be
quartered with the girls
while smaller bungalows,
each boasting a stone fire
place in a living-room which
duplicated the lounge in the
main bath, were assigned
Renoy Black, Freddie, and
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* A bit removed from these build
! Ings were the dining hall, a big
i dormitory for the servants and
’ the house of a resident caretaker
‘ who looked after a string of sad
I die horses, the canoes and a
i motor launch.'
In the excitement of settling
here nobody In Hanna’s party
noticed certain undercurrents of
feeling—her watchfulness reflected
by Ann, Bea’s almost hysterical
relief with the realization tnat
long, dusty miles lay between her
self and Jeremiah’s probing eyes,
Deborah’s toothy smile; Norman
Gregory’s white silence.
Hardly were they grouped in the
main bungalow veranda before Di
ana rushed out, clad in the brief
scarlet trunks and jersey, and an
nounced herself ready for a swim.
Ann. catching Benny’s eye,
blushed and shifted her look from
the other girl’s bronzed legs-
"Mother doesn't like me to go
into the water," she told him in a
little-shocked voice. “It doesn’t
seem quite—well, nice. Don’t you
think?”
He nodded approval. Neverthe
less, when Beatrice had followed
Diana and the other boys had
joined them, Benny grew restless,
and. excusing himself, h_e, too,
went swimming. They spent a
merry afternoon in the water, and
A?n was left alone, squirming,
while Hanna fumed.
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more to the small blonde, dainty
and fragile in clinging, pale chif
fon. Glowing with health and
frolic after her swim, Diana swept
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IF you should happen to be in doubt about the style features of your new
fall frocks just buy flounces. You can’t go wrong. Emily’s dress shows one
type of flounced dress. It’s sheer crepe with flounces of sheer velvet and a
bow of velvet for the bodice trimming. “No,” Emily is telling Andy, “Cherie
isn’t home.” Which, of course, isn’t true- . ,
And Dina is giving the same message to Eustace. This back view of Dina s
dress is a particularly good one. You’ll notice the pointed kerchief tier on
the back of the bodice? There are two just like it on the back of the skirt
and it’s a new way to show that one realizes flounces are smart. Made of
canton crepe in the new burgundy wine shade.
the crowd with laughing high
•plritz, and when aho curled up
on the ructlc bench In * far
corner of the veranda, Benny
Impulsively rose from the step
where he-had been singing, while
Noddy and Toddy thummel
ukuleles and sat down beside her.
She slipped her hand Into his in
a friendly way.
They remained thus while the
songs ranged from popular ones
of the day to college glees, and
tften suddenly Ann gave a Httle
squeal.
"Right out there!” she panted.
GOOD GIRL ROY UFOLEY
“Lets not talk about Ginger
now,” ahe said, “I see you’re a
little prejudiced.”
“Very well,” he said, and then,
aa an afterthought, he said:
“By the way. How would yon
like to help my mother and an
other woman do a little work
next week. They’re giving a
large reception, a sort of pay
back to all their friends for In
vitation received during the
year. They’ll need help in get
ting out invitations and preparing
lists and all the things that
women think necessary in an
affair of this kind. Mother asked
jno if I didn't know some girl
at the office who might like to
help her ”
Impulsively, before Nancy
thought fully what she was say
ing, she said:
”1 think it's be fun. Id love
to help. I’ve read of girls who
did that for a living—social sec
retaries and all kinds of thrill;
Ing things happened to them.
She said these things, so fast,
so joyously, that "Westcott had
to smile.
“My, you’re an enthusiastic
little piece—when you’re not
weeping.”
Nancy pretended she dian t
hear.
“Who Is the other lady giving
the reception with your mother?”
■he asked.
“A woman who lives on our
street. A Mrs. Deane,” Westcott
answered.
CHAPTER XXVI
“A woman who lives •■ °” r
street, a Mrs. Deane!”
Al! the next, morning, all that
night, in fact, Howard Wescotts
words, spoken so casually, kept
pounding through Nancy s brain.
A Mrs. Deane!
Nancy knew Mrs. Deane was
the mother of her own fatl 2® r J
Caroline Glendenping Deane. Did
Wescott know that this was her
grandmother and was he playing a
game with her? Was he setting a
trap for her, so that he could
watch her reaction when she and
Mrs. Deane came face to face for
the’first time?
If that had been true, Nancy felt
mire she would have detected- it in
his speech. If he had no inkling
that Mrs. Deane were her grand
mother, what an experience was in
store for her.
The more she thought about it
the faster her fingers flew through
the great office files of the Wear-
Ever Mills, Inc. She had. cleaned
up the accumulated correspon
dence, papers, and contracts with
such speed that even Harriet
Croeby remarked about it.
“I guess I’m a little excited,”
Nancy said, when Harriet had
asked why she was hurrying.
She knew Harriet suspected she
was excited about the man in the
inner office. Just then Wescott
came out, business like, serious.
What an actor he was, how differ
ent he was now compared to the
evening before, compared to the
moment when he lifted Nancy up
from the floor there in Ginger's
untidy room, and took her in bis
arms to brush her tears away.
“Take a letter, please,” he said
to Harriet, and started dictating
before she had time io reach for
her notebook. Naney listened to
"I saw It—something big and
black —oh, a bear, maybe! It was
going along, sort of ecquchlng—
Mother, where are you? I’m so
frightened!’’
The othegs proclaimed loudly
♦hat there were no bears at North
lake while Hanna gathered her
daughter Into her arms. But
Anna could not be reassured and
In the end Hanna sent the boys
out to search.
"Such a timid baby I’ve got!
Do go and look, Freddie. You.
too. Mr. Black, If you don’t mind?
i I ds re 8»v It’s silly, but of course
the dictation, to Wescott’s quick. *
decisive words, his rather cold
tone.
The letter was to a salesman in
Indiana. Wescott told him that ■
unless his business picked up Im- j
mediately he might as well seek an- |
other job, that the Wear-Ever .
wanted a real salesman, and that j
real salesmen were waiting for the
chance to jump into his job.
The manner fn which he clipped I
out the words, machine like, ;
seemed to give Nancy a new in- (
sight Into a side of his character i
she had known before. He t
sounded almost merciless, and ;
Nancy’s sympathies at once were i
with the salesman. Perhaps he ;
would lose his job. Perhaps he
had a family, worries.
It was easy for Howard Wescott,
son of the president of the firm,
with the advantages of rhe best
education the country afforded, ac
tually pushed into a lucrative posi
tion in his father’s plant, to be
hard on a salesman who wasn’t
making his quota.
Nancy thought of the mow
that Wescott lavished. He prob
ably spent more In three days at ,
his clubs, on hia cars, on enter- j
tainment, than the salesman
earned in a month. For a moment ■
she almost hated the man stand-
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Stralght and simple are the line*
thst lead to smartness, says £hb
tailored afternoon dress, Pati/rn
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there might have been some
thing.”
They carried on a search will
ingly enough with Diana at their
heels. And when they returned,
arm in arm, laughing a great deal,
Benny went back to the bench —
and found Ann in Diana’s place.
If Diana noted this *nd sus
pected Hanna’s smug little flutter
of satisfaction, she gave no sign.
But later, when the excitement
- had died and they had wound up
the college glees and begun on
negro spirituals, she repeated
*nn'» shriek, tore at her hair.
Ing before Harriet Crosby’s desk.
He had his back to her eo that
she could observe him closely, just
aa long as she pleased, as criti
cally *s she pleased. But try as
she would to hate him, she could
not.
How well built Wescott was.
Athletics had done that for him.
How capable in a business way.
Nature had certainly given him
brains, physique, social position,
money, and on top of this, auch
a charm that women were wild
about him.
“A man must know when women
are so crazy about him” Nancy
concluded, “he must, if he has an
ounce of brains."
The adoring manner in which
Harriet, looked at him sometimes,
the flutterlngs of the factory girls
when he walked through the work
rooms, the deference of every wo
man who came near him, all were
so apparent to Nancy, that she
felt Weacott must know he had
but to throw a word to any of
these adorers and their hearts
would flutter all day.
He finished the letter—" we must
see a great improvement in your
sales within the next TO days or
your resignation will be re
quested.”
(Continued tomorrow)
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The several other ways flounces are used are shown on these three dresses.
Dina’s dress has circular flounces attached to a snug-skirt-yoke and split in front.
Emily’s flounces go all the way around the skirt and flare a little more on
the sides than in the front and back. Cherie’s are pleated and pointed. All
three dresses show that the hipline should be smooth and that bodices are def- ♦
initely bloused. The occasion for the packing is that Cherie is flitting—-the
strain of trying to decide Whether it will be Eustace or Andy that she marries
is too much for her. She has to get away and think. Otherwise she might
decide to marry neither of them and that would be just too awful for words.
laid a horror-stricken hand at her
throat.
"Right out there—don’t you see
it? A bear! Save me. somebody!
Where are you, mother? Help!
Help! A bear!”
An accurate imitation of Ann’s
lisp—a clever byrlesque. The
crowd roared with delight, tum
bled down the step and began to
beat the shrubbery with exagger
ated stamping of feet and waving
of arms.
Only Benny did not move. For
at the first yelp the girl at his
side had thrown herself against
him, sobbing:
“Oh, It’s cruel —cruel! I c-can’t
help it b-because I’m a-afrald.
D-dear Diana d-doesn’t care for
a-anythlng and she just l-laughs
at p-poor little m-me ”
He put his arm around the
shivering little figure, whispering:
"Sh! It’s all right—it’s all right.”
He wished to laugh but did not
dare. After all, Diana needn’t
have made fun of the girl’s
fright. This gentle creature—why.
R was cruel to hurt her sol And
with this thought his arm tight
ened a Wt» while Ann cuddled
eloper, pressing her nose against
his coat.
Hanna sent the boys away and
gathered the girla into rhe bungs -
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city.
low, taking no risk of a let-down
to this unexpected and pleasing
turn of affairs. She made « great
show of going about the rooms,
“tucking in my girlies,” and was
surprised that Ann refused her a
moment's gloating.
"Go away, mother! Give me a
little peace, can’t you? I'll take
care of my end of this if you’ll
watch that Rand snip. Go on,
now! I want to sleep.”
But Ann did not sleep—not at
once. No sooner had the door
closed on her mother and the
lights in the lounge snapped out
than she was on her feet and into
her clothes. Moving swiftly and.
without noise sbe lifted the screen
from the window and stepped
upon the veranda, running In the
shadow along rtie side of the
house toward the lake. There a
figure camo to meet her—reached
out and folded her close.
They found a sheltered place
between some rocks and a pair of
cigsrettes were lighted before she
spoke.
"Going te be deadly, Freddie —
sitting around listening to those
ukes all day. O Tx>rd!”
He chuckled. "Never mind the
days, old baby—think of rhe
nights’ Here- -brought you s
snifter. This ain’t so wares, la
it?"
She drank and breathed deeply,
flinging her arms about his neck.
Nor was Ann th* only one
the bungalow who refused slum*
bgr. Diana, too, waited for ths
lights to go out, the etick. of
Hanna’s door.
Then oho drew a chair to the
window, put her elbows on the
sill and her chin in her hands and
fixed her eyes—more wistful than
frank they were now —upon the
bungalow across ths way. Upon
a light burning in tho living room
a shadow which crossed the pulled
down shade; Beany Black’s
shadtow.
"Damr she murmured. "Darn!*'
And presently one stole over the
lawn, stopped within a loot «f her
whispered tensely: "DI? I’ve got
to see her. Important—-you under
stand? I’ll wait here."
Without answering, Diana
crossed to tho farther of tho twin
beds and softly awakened tho sirl
who slept there. She found shoes
end stockings, assisted the be
wildered Beatrice to dress finally
sent her through tho window out
to Norman.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
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