Show Slants on OIl Life e Dy By ByJ J J. J A. A WALDRON 7 Embracing Opportunity unity Is a bereavement I l cried Elinor gayly aIly as aa she ahe stopped her car cor In Elizabeth Elizabeths rrt grounds unda where the latter stood waiting wafting And Elinor laughed a little louder than good lood form would sanction Its embarrassing at least replied re re- replied plied Elizabeth lIzabeth who hid had had to smile to keep bep la In the picture And I suppose you c don dont don't t n t feel exactly ex ax achy like giving them a wed wedding din present I Oh I dont don't know I was a bit fond of ot them both l had phoned that morning early farly that her chauffeur had eloped with her maid And BO so Elinor had come to take lake Elizabeth to the dog dOl show abow where here they both had entries Of ot course Elizabeth might have called railed a taxi but Elinor minor being belna one of ot other her dear dearest t. t friends wouldn't hear to that Or Ollon ion Elinor's chauffeur was one of ot In the fortunate books of the gods lod lie He had a snap suup Elinor drove I her cars care quite as skillfully as all Orson himself could drive them while he sat bark back In the tile with nil all the poise of ot n a personage Elizabeth could no more negotiate a motor than she could make biscuits I Why Elizabeth had once asked I Elinor why wiry do you keep a chauffeur and yourself do most of ot the work dear Oh I love to drive was wal the answer an an- Iwer Then rhen wh why take tale Orson along at ataU atall atall all aU he rather ornamental dear And then It happens that he must sometimes sometime get under the car and fix 61 things To do that one must be a bit acrobatic and have a n lurid vocabulary In fact tact one must be a man Elinor was r reasonably young oung and more than reasonably attractive Ellah Elizabeth Elizabeth Eliz Eliz- abeth was as not exactly old and had never been eligible for the beauty show Yet she had much more mane money than Elinor Ellnor She was os among the very v S t I He Rather Ornamental Dear few tew whose names frequently figure In connection with momentous national speculations as asto to the medium of clr cir Did you hear what has MS happened to Gustave a asked ked Elinor turning companionably to Orson as Elizabeth mounted beside her Orson's face tace had already taken talen on something resembling a smile Ous Ous- tave had been Elizabeths Elizabeth's chauffeur Oh yes yea replied Orson Gustave GustaVA told me about it before It happened And why didn't you jou ou warn me asked askell Elizabeth smiling at Orson can candidly clan crin dilly and almost sweetly although she slip had told Elinor over the phone that she should hereafter hate chauffeurs yon I I you see Bee madam madam ah ah I It It was In In con confidence stammered Orson OrBon who was plainly embarrassed Elinor never never nev er before had bad dreamed that Orson could look that way And they went to 10 the dog show O On Oit the way Elinor and I Elizabeth zabeth chatted and laughed as the dearest friends will chat hat and la and Orson was Ignored That was part of Orson's business Yet he be seemed deep In to thought most of ot the way Orson was missing from the garage the next morning when Elinor called caller for tor her favorite machine lie Ue had bad gone the night before one of at the helpers said sold and Elinor with whom he had Indulged some conversation said she sill had no Idea as to his whereabouts where where- whereabouts Elizabeth dear cried 1 Elinor lInor over oer the phone a few tew minutes later Inter what do you OU think Im I'm almost as unlucky as you are Orson's gore gone I But 11 ul Im I'm not particularly unlucky dearest replied Elizabeth I engaged engaged en en- pred Orson Orion yesterday at the dog I show Copyright I II I |