Show Summer Bachelors f i By WARNER FABIAN WHAT HAS S hO bO I H Derry Berry Thomas an attractive business girl cirl while shopping POl- POl per permits rails mits Tony Landor a young man whom she ih has lias not met met to pay for lor a dress fabric she he cannot al- al alford afford af afford ford Ho lIe lb leaves leans her without her wIthout learn learn- learnIng learn learn-ine tag Ing her name Mr Ostrander O dealer In antiques her hOr employer goes abroad leaving his business In her charge chare on her promise notto not notto I Ito to marry for lor thre three years Bev Dev Bay Deverly erly any Greenway an ati athletic married man takes Derry motor motor-Ine motor motor- motorIng motorIng Ing and anI they Introduce themselves to a country club as ns of ot a mythical M Mr Smith Preston Smith a a New York alderman turns up and addresses Derry Decry as Mrs Greenway until they explain the situation on tee tao way back to town Smith takes them to The Tho Rec a fashionable night nightclub club lb Derry sees Landor Indor I there but lie he makes makel no ot of ever having met her Dick Otley a dilettante begins to pay attention to her bel She Sh also al o meets meela Martin Cole a playwright alJ ad French the leading lady of or most of ot his plays She turns out to be a a girlhood of Berry Derr The Iotte latter has seen Greenway lunching with a girl ITo He calls Derry Perry up tip and bee begs herto her herto herto to let hInt him explain Ho Tic brIngs his shy Proto Prof Walter Valter Blakely ly an expert In psychoanalysis sis Ills Blakely take takes tak's Hiss MIsi French rench to he her theatre and Greenway left Idt alone alono with Ith Derry kisses her and swears he ho Is going colne to marry her herIt 1 if Ie lio ho has to wait forever Wit Wll lean 10 asks Blakely It if he lie can hypnotize her hel and betrays n a interest in him She car car- carrica car carries rica Ills him oft off to The che and dances with him Derry grOWS Brows to like Preston Smith but docs does not trust Otley She reads rends in a so- so so society clety Journal that Landor Lando Is In Inthe Inthe the habit of o riding on top lop of ot the Fifth buses In the even even- evenIng oven Ing WW OW GO CO ON O WITH TIlE THE f TOny STORY CHAPTER 10 Come Como on said sail Derry Derry- holding arm tightly as thebus the thebus thebus bus halted batted struggled In her grip Where ar are you ou going an nn uptown bus I dont don't care Hurry But But were wre duo due at the nt- nt The can cnn walt wait ThIs wont won't Nor or did it They scrambled aboard as It Jt rocked its s way for for- forward forward for forward ward like Ilk a L dory In a 11 highs high seaway climbed desperately to the Iho upper deck and clawed their lurchIng way unde under Derry's leadershIp to a forward seat next behind that of ot a lone hone male mal pas pas- passenger pas senter who appeared lost In prIvate vat vate thought You nut gasped I hate hat ate buc buss bus's s Derry Berry Ignored this expression ot of dIsgust She Sho waited tor jor tho the next block signal when lice her vole voIce olee would slot not be handicapped by the joking and began in the manner JUanne of one narrating a fairy talc tale Then tho the horrid great grat ogre looked at the tho innocent little girl girland girland and sa sat sar that she slie was good to eat So he h pointed to tho the copper col or ored d dress dress- dreas She paused for tOI effect and got 11 it The man In front started halt half turned but stopped his pivoting neck with a moment last check What are ar you raving ravine about murmured The Th story I 1 promised you ou my chee lid So tho the ogre pointed 1 to the copper-colored copper cloth cloths and sale sala In a terrible voice olce Take Toko that one and I will wll pay for It It The little girl was very meek and obedient and always dl did l as he her elders told tolt her so she sho took It and said Thank you kind kind ogre And that's alL alt It If that's all objected Willow- Willow lean dean reasonably I 1 dont don't see seo that It worth was beginning Maybe It wasn't I dont don't like It any better ettor than you ou do Those Thoo things thing dont don't end that way had come corn to perceive a practical application In Inthe inthe the legend though she could not yet judge ludeo Its ita exact bearing How do they end then Why the th copper colored dress ought to be b bewitched and It do- do de delivers livers the Innocent little girl tirl Into the poe po cr of ot the th horrid great ogre ogre- end End and he ho carries her er oft off to his lair and cats cat her alive Th Titi ogro oer was too ed ho bo didn't have have any appetite for lor Innocent little girls Then of ot course he ho wasn't an ogre ogro at all was playing up beautifully now H lie was a fairy laITy pretending tobe to tobe tobe be an ogre and when the Inno Inno- Innocent cent little girl cirl tried on the cop cop cop- per-colored per dress It turned all all sll- very til-very very ery and and sprouted a along alone long white veil and the th band struck up the tho Wedding March larch and so they were married and lived happily eve ever vcr after This ogre was waa already married I And it he h wasn't really rel an ogre I think you may be bo right about I that that-ho ho was waa wa just an illustration out ot of an etiquette book a sort ot of out cut you know Oh ho he was ivas very stilt stiff lift and starched and paste paste- And when he ho saw the Innocent little girl eirl JIS 11 n her pretty colored copper colored dress he h was I so 80 proud and haughty and honorable and all 1111 that that ho- ho he What do you think h lie he did 1 What hat did h ho he do responded In awed anticipation lIe He didn't do a darn thing replied Derry Berry Dorr slowly And I thInk his middle nam name la Js Blah Blab I The Th man In front rose ho ha lieI turned he took oft off his hat bat lie I made mado one on step tp he ho bent he h kiSsed Derry Berry Thomas full and firm upon her ler amazed and unprepared lips he then hon stopped the bus bUI and went wenton wenton on his calm and silent way wy Just what do you ou mean blah t inquired urbanely as the bus renewed Its jolting proc ross less Do 10 you know that dear young man I know hi his name Its It's It Lan Lan Lan-dor dOr I didn't know his habits They're sudden ludden He H certainly certainty does dos obey that Im- Im Im Impulse pulse What Landor Is It How should hould I know I be believe be- be hove lieve hes he's some somo kind ot of f a mogul lii In the Insurance company Thin 11 It Is 11 the Tony Landor I thought Id I'd seen hint him Berry y yawned elaborately Yes Ys ht lie ho famous for lOr Oh Oh 1 dont don't know now lies Hes Just juat I Tony Landor And IncidentallY I hes he's supposed to be lia everything that Is most correct and proper and discreet Ono One of our rising i young yount men In short hort I I Derry Berry shook hook her head Theres Theresa a catch somewhere He bUY buys cop cop- cop per colored lor for unknown young females So flo I would inter infer It J youre you're going to Inter infer I may mayas mayas as well tell you the tho whole sad tale Which sh she did That 1 I is rather rathe a a wow Wil- Wil WilA WI A 4 to gave opinion when Derry Dairy had finished And you haven't seen een him since J Once and then ho he cut me being minded high an I honorable and all that And in in- incidentally in incidentally rather boring But Its It's strictly In the th part What else would you expect of ot au an earnest young young executive Id expect hed he'd be he human enough to find an on excuse to come corn around and view his handiwork and cay eay ay he be likes it and its it's pretty Alter After that he ho cin can cn go so homo home to his wife and bo be ever er aC- aC aCter af at after ter It J hes he's the Tony Landor I didn't suppose ho had a Po wife Oh tes te's got a one As awful as ha lie is lawful Sho She squints and she h stutters stutter and anti she hobbles bobbles and she sho ho belongs belonga to women's omens clubs chubs and uplift and makes Im lm- lm ImprovIng provIng speeches and gogo gog and and and- bo ho about enough pro pro- protested protested tested Where did you meet her h But that's the way Id I'd like hike her to be by way wayt ot of t f Contrast to what demanded To me was as the tho shameless ye re re response Therefore just to be mean she's probably a perfect peach Anyway that is that observed Ue the actress s and were we're still movIng Ine lag Ing northward Me Ie rye Ive seen Grants Grant's Tomb before belore Derry laughed and pressed the button Back on the pavement they took a ta taxi 1 to the As Derry and Will preened themselves In the clubs Deft said Bald ald Please dressing room Derry Berry satisfy my Toy errant curiosity how curiosity much do you suppose it coats costs for tor formen men to throw this kind ot of party to for us Anywhere from a hundred to fifty two fifty was the th careless re- re reply reply re reply ply 1 r And what do th they get In ye re re turn Expectations Do you OU think so A Af decent r- r i- i in an ran n old boy as Smith or- or different Well per per- per perhaps all all liap haps all different con con- con confessed teased lessed the other I suppose you wouldn't find a lot any any- anywhere where than ou our little wifeless cir cir- circle circle cir circle cle Just the tho same men are mono men You cant can't change chango the tho sex Not that I want to If It you cant can't change chance e cm em you TOU a short change I them giggled gI Derry And that's what were we're doing Isn't It It were we're letting em cherish expectations that we w nev never nev- nev neve e er Cr intend intend- intend getting what hat the they pay ro for companionship and fun and the vanity sanity ot of being beine envied for lor be be- be belag be lag Ing with two ot of the prettiest girls In New not York York not hating bating our our- ourselves ourselves ourselves selves or anything It If they want more they've ve always got sot the th privIlege privilege liege of trying Come on The two girls went ent down to the I I ITh main floor The Th occupants of ot the th best hest tale table I on the th floor rose to greet erect them r V as a they entered With alve iv decisiveness otley mano u Derry Into the th seat eat next to him after alter one on look around failing to find Wal Wai- Walter Waiter tSai tSai- ter tee Blakely Biakely slipped In between Cole and Preston Smith Copyright 19 1926 by McClures McClure's MagazIne International Publications Inc Ilic To lIe Be B Continued |