Show T TI I I InUI lr 1 1 w lm I I I h I Zo z o e. e B c 1 e- e y I IS CAST Sl When Claire Clahe and all Whitney got sot back to the office they a n client of thc the oun younS architect waiting Impatient Impatient- Impatiently ly 1 y In tho tito hall halt with one eye ee on the ami anti the theother theother n cl In Ii half hale an hour houi notice other oi on his watch Claire felt elt guilty Jut but Juth Whitney h C bowed bowell the lie man In lU without without without with with- out H a trace of oe embarrassment nn and t e eto to talking o of plans plan and aUlI specifications with vIt gusto Custo I Claire halt half envied halt half scorned her viewpoint Ip to toWard toward to- to I young oung employers employer's ers casual ward life tiCe antI and Its r responsibilities As Ashe she he went about her office duties she mUJe mused on Oil Just t how Whitney hUner regarded her Was Vas siu she Just j a t casual p part Tt of oC his wo wo k which he h faw aw to because l o there was vas no wa way ay to shirk hir It Was as slid she one Ofle of ot many girls ho knew and aul liked and aini was eager caper er to h I lp I and entertain when h 1 hI hla precarious finances permitted per Or Ur Ura was a she sho of oC more mor n Ihl resins passing Interest t tto to him him He lie certainly was taking unusual Tin Tin- usual Interest In her plans plan If Ie he ha hab had b been cn hunting a home for himself or for Cor himself and a wife t ho couldn't have ha assumed the task with keener enthuS enthusIasm S I as m. m A wife Claire flushed as the su su- su sus- sus go g tion of oC a t domestic side to Whitney cro crossed sd her wind mind She had hall sc scarcely thought of or him as having a domestic sIde aide Yet how often orten an and how practicalLy practically cally call they tho had discussed problems of or mon money and homes homes' Ills His very ven profession profession sion slon savored sa of or domesticity And how how- joyous he had been over ovel Claire's Claires little sketch of or a door which Whitney promptly Incorporated Into the plains for old Granny's Grannys house and had ha not notI I ceased praising Claire sl sighed hed perplexedly lr Somehow her thou thoughts about Whitney came back to the same old conclusion I lies He's kind an and generous and attractive e nn and talented I But Jut hes he's flighty flight ht he needs nells a n. MANAGER I Then Claire laughed u ll hc as u she realised i how he had managed ed TIER HER in this re recent recent re- re cent matter of or housing An And started rO 1 all over o again the riddle of how ho he regarded her Come Corne to think I of it It Whitney ha had never uttered a word of o sentiment He lIe had never even asked to call at nt her boar boarding place An AnIt And It If a man were truly interested In a girl Irl beyond mere business f J didn't he always want to see sec ee her in h her r home hours Why hy even cen John Reaves did ten times more In the theay way ay of showing In Interest Interest interest In- In terest than Dillon Whitney did And John Reaves didn't count at all allAs allAs allIs As Is to Whitneys Whitney's own home life tIc Claire knew little She imagined him to ha o ha x a small circle of cronies mostly cronies mostly Irresponsible Irre Irre- spon bachelor artists and antI professional professional professional successes semi-successes tike lUke himself himself- who Inhabited studio apartments like his ils own in that nondescript n neighborhood neighbor neighbor- l hood lood south of oC the Square She re re- re I called calle with a little jolt his speaking sneaking of I five girls at least who lived that way the the cheap free roe and anti happy way Claire wa was l 16 to live Jive lie He hud had ticked ell them rn off ort on his fingers ringers Ono On Ona a law lat clerk I one au an all artist two secretaries and a lif life liCe in agent n a smart t kid kill too Claire Clairo h hop p d ll she site would ouid moot moet them It was vas wa pretty lI ll lonely being a town small girl maln making nor her way uy In III New ew York Sh She glanced In at ul Whitney's Whitneys little private ate vate office where the caller was taking tak tak- i ing lg l leave c avo with ith smiles all and handshakes Ho tic seemed t to like the thc young roun architect In fat fart most people did thought thol ht Claire Clairo with a half haH i half friendly pride plus a feeling of something else that she could not quite analyze Wan Vas aM It sisterly Interest Maternal interest I perhaps She d. She Sho didn't know She She only knew that Dillon Whitney I represented whatever mystery and und ro romance ro- ro mance marice hope and all adventure there ther was In h her r hungry r young oung life liCe Claire rose lose with a ai sigh h to Interview a promising applicant for Cor or the post po t of oC office bo boy loy and anti blotted out her hi mental and ami sentimental speculations with mat- mat fact of tasks foe f e c That evening she walked down don own to the little suite of oC rooms In Macdougal street all and from rom her got recently bunch o of salary paid a months month's rent nUll and or ordered ni- ni de dered cl th the place cleaned up Then she sho went ent home an and told Jane Browning about t It It I I To be continued d |