| Show er you tota Continued from yesterday You will want your own maid of course COUlse But I haven't engaged one You will want to engage e her yourself I fancy Walker can acne sena I you rou a collection of them he them he has a a. away away way of oC producing them when Wilen theY they've e needed I shall advise a French girl or ot an n English one The first will be more skillful the other more loyal oal Joanna couldn't stifle her laugh have to tell me what to d do I with a maid sho explained Then something like a phantom of tears hovered suddenly ii in the deep brown eyes You know 11 ow I feel I al alone ne she said and terribly tei afraid of of myself I mean Yvonne swept the girls girl's face with witha a quick glance gance She spoke quietly to the maid who fluttered about the room loom The maid went out closing the door behind her To Joanna Yvonne said Come and sit down She indicated the divan beside herIt her If It you'd oud like one there are ciga- ciga In the box on the I Ii think Ill I'll have on one too too Before she spoke again she drew a contemplative contemplative con- con puff and allowed the smoke to curl slowly from her lips Joanna watched her silently Her Herfi first fi st words were abrupt people There are a great many p who enjoy themselves talking about me she said And some of them take an especial delight in talking in whispers What do o you know of me me These were tactics that would not disconcert Joanna She She- was too i accustomed to making sudden at attacks attacks attacks at- at tacks herself or defending them Only what everybody knows she replied frankl frankly We read about o ou oti you Jou know and your our pictures pIcture always are ae in the th newspapers Ive I've thought more of you than I ever did a motion picture re star and that's a lot Why hy was more difficult The girl hesitated faltered Again Yvonne's voice clear like bell clipped the tile theone theone one word ord Why I think Joanna ventured its because you m make ke people talk about you Wherever you go and whatever whatever what what- ever you do people talk about it Its It's being famous and bes besides des be beIng being being be- be ing famous for yourself not for Tor what you yu OU do And you ou have such sucha a a. wonderful round of pleasure Yvonne contemplated her again following the lazy drifting drafting of Its wraith of smoke No Xo she said that is not the reason you have been interested in me lue- lue and it is is' Snot not the reason you OU were s so 00 willing willingto fo to come to me when I Invited In you ou A A. smile suddenly played at her mouth and sie nodded at the girl girlon girlon girlon on the divan beside her Is It she insisted Joanna smile smile-i back at her No KI I dont don't think it is altogether agreed brightly but that Is ls as close as I can put it into words You see all my life that is since Ince Ive I've been alone and making ing my myown myown myown own way Ive I've had t to fight fig hard har to keep up with the crowd Pvc wanted want want- ed things that cos cost ost money mone and Ive I've wanted things that you cant can't have cr or enjoy when youre you're skimped The things you nee need to m make ke a show I ht- ht best Dest I I. I could coull ever d do cia was owe we somebody instalments on a dress dregs or ora ora ora a wrap or ormy my shoes and keep my eyes open for runs In my- my stockings my s Ive I've looked all right and Ive I've laughed a lot but things have al always always always al- al ways happened to make me cry loo oo Again that like bell-like v voice voce c of Ct the theelder cl elder cloer r girl Irl c p d of off a question What for Joanna Ioanna a mO h hj hi j jeyes eyes e looking out into too tho room They were such little tiling thing sh she prot protested sted things YO 4 you yoi wouldn't understand I I think I would unde l' l persisted But you wouldn't Joanna ar ar- ar- ar gued One like you simply would not Ive I've cried my fool e eyes es out often because some man some man some boy I r liked wouldn't stay square And AndIe Ive I've had nobody to talk anything over o with Mostly people who are worth while to talk to make me tired tired tired-I I m mean an they dont don't know When I cut my hair they thought I cut of off my morals and If I go off alone on OI 1 a ty the they think I 1 ought to be In n a lh When n the they tell me I dont don't ct ct like the girls of yesterday I lave to cay zay ty who cares a hang about yesterday wh when n so many and then Im I'm told Im I'm Just plan plau ball bail Once in iii a cl while I get so cut up uj a about ou it that I have to have a a. cry She thought she finished lamely She smiled a lIttle Ittle at the futility y cf f her explanations But Yvonne displayed ed no amu amass i ment She Sho sa said d very quietly And dont don't rou ou 1 0 think that an nl cut up a b bit t now and then when the people who ho are worth while as ns you ou say of them Int Interpret piet me me meas as both plain hid bad and fancy bad bar Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps I am m. Th There te al' al are ars different ways to view 9 everything but butwell butwell butwell but but- well she she broke broke off and was silent for Cor a brief mo moment ent Well ell you ou see ee that I do understand after all she added And then You were glad to come to me because you ou think I am of oC toda today and not yesterday that tha I am the proof of all your little lit littie lit lit- tle tie theories of what wha t a woman o ought to be today isn't today Isn't that it Joannas Joanna's reply was eagerly grateful grateful grate grate- ful Yes That Is Js what I tried to say I want to be abl able to do as I please and not be criticized Yvonne rose Tose rose and crushed the fire fL-c from her all the talk we ve S shall need I think s she said We shall enjoy each oth other r tremendously I Imagine Shall we mye wego wego go down to the winter garden gardei There will be he somebody besides Teddy still there Joanna was conscious of some some- hing having been said sard of some sonic confidence reached out to her by Yvonne which she had not fUll fully understood She was puzzled as if she had been confronted b by some sonic subtle challenge that masked a strategy For an Instant she was at the point of ot breaking away o of running running run run- ning bing away regardless of of the two trunks a shining new one and a shabby old one which hid had be be- ben beu n lifted down clown from froni her taxicab This impulse subsided immediately how how- ever She decided that after a she would understand perfectly J JAnd And after a while a long tong after atter Joanna didin did In Jn the winter garden th tIle g that Yvonne Yonne had left around stone table had broken up Teddy and two remained One of these i wa a swarthy haired dark-haired dark man who might have been olage ol Of t tage age between 25 and 45 He iv was was b by Yvonne as Pendleton anna thought him a very grave gras person The oth other sides was a woma was easily more than 25 bu not possibly have e been 40 Ys Identified her as Mrs Ji M Jove Lord Teddy exclaimed U Yvonne had named Pendleton Mrs Marks for Joanna Joan M thought though I of something eleven er Think it over carefully Te Tel Yvonne Yvonn admonished him Vb Thc b you reveal It Youre You're so often otten taken But this is excellent the thi repressible Lord Teddy Ins irisi Positively ely ripping Pendleton and ancI Doris Doris Dods Marks Marks Marks-don't M ks-don't ks don't dont see 1 I IOnly Only that tha t both are ot Df f a I that alcohol Is better than tea that you OU agree Yvonne him And also that the tea poured for Miss Manners isam ai ing to be passed 3 A thousand pardons Miss ners ners-by ners by the way Is it qu quit tf tc right for me to repeat now w let escape from me a few mTr ago About Abolt youre you're being a a. d dej prett girl you OU know I wa wa wag waging ing Pen h here here here- reAh re- re Ah that that- thing I thought of I must mast tell tel what it was before I forget 1 It H One thing at a time y Yv Insisted What Were ere you ou ti Pen P T 1 j t That Id I'd Just just- seen the the- kin kina a face that no man could ev get after hed he'd once held It cIo him Isn't that what I said old boy bor 1 11 Xou Aou said absolutely noth n the sort or oF spoke of ot any face ever Pendleton gravely ass as him I Perhaps I didn't Tedd m minted But I thought it meant to say it So Miss 1 Mai l will consider that I did 1 1 Here the woman Yvonne Yvonn 4 called Mrs Marks larks Interjected she sees see much of you ou Tedd probably will wilt have enough tc vt te member of what you OU sa say without T being bothered what you ou merely think Dont alarm her please Teddy ex exclaimed No woman woman remembers anything I say to They dont don't dare perhaps observed ed Both you and Doris Doris- Doris DorisT T began and broke off Pend Tend and Doris he lie said again brings me back to my clever clevert f t Listen everyone everyone everyone- Pendleton Dorin DorIa Marks whenever I III J upon Pendleton here at Yvo I come upon Doris Marks marks marks' Isn't that clever marks marks' What It was only Teddy himself who laughed j Joanna wondered wh why CHAPTER XV Joanna Holds Her Own OW It was not long before Lord T Thad Thad Thad had skillfully maneuvered J Jp from the stone tea table in th the th ter tel garden into a tete corner x ol 01 drawing room Never could t Pendleton you know he conto coni conito con coni conito to her when he had l held a f I Ifor for her Cant see seek Doris sees in him or he In her hei hertha that tha t matter Can you J 1 JIs Is that how It is Joanne You see everybody's news news- to me now I have toa to for signs Lord Teddy Tedd eyed her inte late She felt singularly at ease with ith exuberant young man She lau at him brightly when he lie prote Oh really now now You mustn't tend that Im I'm dreadfully when a young woman declares she doesn't know kno everything never true these days you youk ouk V Vand and Its It's a lot Jollier to not believe I j Ill admit she agreed II a anything I dont don't know hurts tried not to miss have a lot So theres there's still a ch for you to do a bit of may start with Mr Pendleton's was it Mrs Ot or Miss Marks 1 was wrong about your Pen mar To be continued 3 |
