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Show 1 $usrite! Hwrter : ,v TIN OKV ; ,pporl. er H T -ho docs not un- 08ti ' . "". young hrokpr--J r J,:- ' ro "' H nis hr crrpl :r who has had, , ; v. ... Ww vdur-1 91 ' cood iuok-j ''r ' , r, Sh" wonder-1 'd admir- her new) "ew 6llPPcr to,.. i!jC ijra eut of her nTT ' ' "r ' BQ) foollh to 8PM- younS mllllon"l Lnio think about Har-1 Har-1 f ,gitblng about him 99 , rvrhai- It i 1 I 'i t h 1 1 3rta. '"1 ,u C ' M 'ha' bf,5f t r ami afterward ',! jiipAtlon In Taris t4: j J believed k1 -hat t Ik ony reckless be- Ewoo to care, and too m t(j ir-d' ,,r! Jane - tpe- -v mind wa? far .-' i . Th- - :-r : '' t.o : 1 ' ''-' rtt Msit! This day Jane ittj ' 1 ite or even n . ms Just begln- keri r fhortK before tnrei liyj, . V. ' - :' .... v.!' " SM. - - " r: . n! UtCC . - :': n wh( re fhe had 1 hT new frock. I r erf rouce. but today I Mi! en coul'' ' I Eiss from her face, bo HJ n frivolous vanity from M .-.it or, and applied i H pro strange Jane wasi M kl jhhoagh the girl de-Jl de-Jl kb tolled beautiful' " out the snap HJ 'ujgested. j :rru s i .filly couldn t ! I'd a i ' n u or one of OSS :'''4 "'' th'" "'ln-L'"1 I WJc'" the plrl mock- ,, , r : - FlOW I ,J : "r She simply ,2 : r Powder Isi lsilynatlon brought a' V fj which th'- sr,-:r sr,-:r jr accepted as tho ' : r' "' ?orr.e partlnc up a ;&rlch man could ' as the bo?s' No ! I fwrtall dressed up to! j P!" ,'10 was a weakly T ffv hlfrhly I'ollshcd Jl Bn barrelled hair, left 91 i(rt.?Jl ti? door t0 look jl ifl Too good to anything." Jane st.imped hor foot In hilent wrath nft,-r the girl vas gone. How horrible the world was: Everyone Every-one wanting to think the worst! As -'he approached the Hlltmore where she was to keep hr flrsi; cn-Igftfement cn-Igftfement with Harry Roberts. Jane felt th:it a new chapter In her life had bcKun. In Che hotel lobby Jane notlred pcrt I little flappers with turne,l-up tweed ht.ts stuck with gay Quilla flanking the COtTWort. They stared at Jane ,' boldly. Jane was imbarrasso,!. She ; did not come to tea often enough to j know that these Kftnio girls lounged about hotel lobbies every afternoon I after BOhooli They were blase' at fif-l fif-l teen V"jth too short dresses and over-curled bobbed hair, theso tired tittle flappers were too bored to do anything but shake their earrings when a good-looking man passed In the dressing room where Jane' took off her hat to arrange her hair. one of thes,- infant terrlbles mutieredl drolly Carrots!" Jane did not un-l derslann wny rney an iuughe.1 and looked at her after that P'lnally It j dawned ujion her that they meant her red hair! Furiously she left the dressing table. The girl who had made tho flip remark re-mark was smoking a clgaret nonchalantly. non-chalantly. She waa. by this time, dl-1 erting her attention to a passe' nmp! who. with too-long earrings and h.-av-' lly ringed" finders was fea'urlnr her-i self before the mirror as sho applied a scarlet llp-silck to her cynical I mouth Ughl Jan. shivered Why were women wo-men nil striving to be so unreal' Sol In thf corridor Jane looked about! for Harry, but although a number of! ' other mm passed her by with Interest Jnno could not espy the one she had I come to meet, the man she had been thinking about all day Almost bashfully. Jano crept to a' corner dhnn and waited patlenth I ; Back and forth the tea parade passed 1 Some of the women Jane was pleased to observe were aristocratic and con-' ; servatlvely gowned, but tho ones whoi j loitered longest and seemed mrs disposed dis-posed to stare at Jane were the fun- I ny little flappers who could not seem' to 'valk without toddling and dragging1 ! their feet. Aft.-i twenty minutes, Jane became! hopelessly embarrassed A hell-boy had passed a number of times shout-, lng a list of names Each time he I paused to survey Jane, until she won-; dered if there was any rule against sitting so long in one place. A flap-per flap-per who had a rhalr next to Jane,! groaned comically as Jane got up to leave You ditched, too'" Ditched! It wan after four-thlrtv iiarry nan not come. The music was jazzing through a pay fox-trot. Jane wished It would stop. The bell-boy passed again call-ins? call-ins? more names loudl. She wished he would stop too! '.Mus Richards! Miss Richards!" Jane froze to the spot as she heard her name Shu had never been paged In a hotel before. Again the boy paused ii nd looked at her suspiciously "I'm Miss Richards." Jane admitted almost in apologetic tones. "Well why didn't you sav so before be-fore ' The party Is off tho wire nou but he left a message he can't meet you. "Thank you." Jane whispered faintly. faint-ly. Because sho did not tip the bov he looked after her and muttered' un-courteously, un-courteously, "Dumb bell!" Hurt and tired. Jane made her wnv out of the sldo entrancft. The door-man. also accustomed to being tipped, wondered why the young lady who said she did not want a ta.xl had tears In her eyes (Copyright, 1922 by the Bell Syndicate, Syndi-cate, Inc ) nother Fine Installment of this story Tomorrow. 00 |