Show 6 L The The Cat S rl S S I By CYNTHIA CYNTHI GREY GREY J Whoever r named Kitty was a a prophet She Bhe surel surely is i. what hat we women call catt catty But you'd never I 1 guess uess it unless you happened to see her when some something something some some- thing had angered her Then she shows her claws I Ordinarily she has the softest sweetest manners In the world And she's as beautiful as a big satiny house cat with her sleepy topaz-colored topaz eyes ees and her slow grace I I never knew that Kitty was jealous until a couple I of If years ears ago when she had a house guest ruest from the South Laurel Lee was a girl whom 1 Kitty had met I n- n one winter I j i I i I I I I j I I I I She wasn't pretty prett but she had the charm l arm of a southern girl of ot good tam family I Her lIer one el claim lm to beauty was a mass of ot curly red-gold red hair hall that she wore in a great gleaming puff putt on the crown of her head It gave her distinction when every other girl in sight was shingled and Toward TO the end of ot Laurels Laurel's visit Kitty gave a n big party part for her The house houseas was as filled with flowers flowers flow- flow ers eis and canvas was vas stretched over th the carpets for danIng And Kitty was the belle of her own party But I noticed that Dan Collyer wasn't paying her much attention that night He danced every other danes donos with little Laurel and between times s he s strolled trolled out on to the porch for a and I w watch watched d her through the open windows window s. s Ever Eer since Kitt Kitty had been 15 Dan Collyer Coller hadeen hadl had b bh been een her particular knight She ragged rag and bullied h him im but lIe he apparently a liked it Every Everyone one of ot us l' l wondered why they hadn't married long ago Presently I noticed that Kilt Kitty was sitting on the s stairs w watching Dan Dan- Danas as ho hG watched Laurel Her HerI I b black lack er eyebrows brows were drawn together in iii a frown I The supper dance came and Dan and Laurel danced d dd it together Kittys Kitty's jealous eyes followed his j ij d dark ark head and her her shining one as they whirled I a around round the bIg room roomS I The supper tables were little ones each each- set for I Ilour four f lour our people Kitty and Ned Brady followed Laurel hand and Dan to theirs It happe happed jd to be next to thene the theOne theone o one ne where I was sitting Ned Ked Brady thinks hes he's a wit I heard him sa say t that hat he wished all the gyls gils weren't nf bobbed It mado made t them hem all look alike from rom a distance and it was as so h hard ard to find ones one's dancing partner unless she had freckles fr f or a a- squint he declared I My 1 girl doesn't look like anybody else even f from 1011 a distance said Dan looking hooking at Laurel with a amile s smile mile in his eyes ees And she's no bottle blonde either Is that so That's all you ou know about It it sale salli J Kitty with a nasty nast- laugh Laurel Laure looked at her With ith h hurt urt surprise You Tou know e Ive never my hair hall Kitty its Hs H's i ts t's always alwa's been this corer she cried Is rs that s so Kitty lepe repeated ted with that cruel t s smile mile on her face It looks a a a. lot redder to me than it i t used to td a few years ears ago But why worry about i It it t Girls henna their hair these days das if they want wanto t to o movie actresses and everybody Laurel slowly put one hand up and nd smoothed I h her er bright t hair hall back from her forehead I You can see for yourself elf that my hair hall isn't d dyed ed she said to Dan I If it had been the roots would have have grown out darker than the tho rest of it it Of course its it's not hot dyed That's absurd and Kitty I k know now s it said Dan rising He and Laurel didn't wait watt for coffee but left the dining room together The Tho n next morning Laurel Lame went ent home After Atter t that hat Kitty made several attempts to recapture Dan And the other day she tol toM tOl me nie with a It disappointed dis- dis appointed smile on her face that ha Din and Laurel a ar are r to be married next June and that Laurel has a asked her to be maid of honor |