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CHAPTER H
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either, for he's a mighty fine chap."
"He thinks the same of you,"
cooed Julie, putting her left elbow
on the table and cupping her chin in
her hand, the better to gaze soul
fully at him. "He says you're a
regular Napoleon in business, and
everything else that's marvelous!"
"Come, come, now, Miss Julie
Quit your kidding! I'm just a plain
man. hut " swelline out his chest
'I grant you there aren't any flies
on Willie Jtrass ne knows a thing
or two in finance Why wouldn't
he?" .
"You're marvelous," said Julie,
giving the flattered Willie another
long glance, then dropping her eyes
so that she might quickly calculate.
Here was a find, to hand) She
needed money quickly. She must
weave some kind of a spell over
this rough diamond from the West
then use him to the limit.
Henry need never know. She
would lead Henry on at the same
time, if needs must, and Henry was
recolcitrant, "soak" Willie,.,
It pleased her vanity to observe
with what rapidity this undeniably
"rough diamond" from the West
fell for her. "It's like taking can
dy from a baby!" whimsiclly
thought Julie. Clever he might be
in business matters, but he was as
wax In the hands of a beautiful
woman.
Willie ordered champagne. "My
favorite, she sighed ecstatically.'
"Only the very best is good
enough for you," said Willie fatu
ously. He had round, light blue
eyes "the color of a dead codfish,'
thought his vis-a-vis and now they
goggled at her, so that their owner
looked quainter than ever.
But Julie didn't mind a bit about
his looks. She needed cash. She was
up to the ears in debt. CgLrd-debts.
Baccharat debts. Clothes debts.
She even owed her bootlegger two
hundred dollars. When they drop-
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ped in on her, her beaux must have
their highballs and their cocktails.
For wasn't there terrific competi
tion in this town? Didn't every
unattached woman that she knew
the endless array of divorcees, sep
arated young women, bachelor
girls that flooded Park Avenue as
though it were the mecca of soli
tary females looking for mascu
line companionship didn't they all
more or less hold open house?
If you didn't serve drinks, the
men wouldn't come around at all.
Why should they, when they could
drop in on their way home from the
office at a dozen feminine apart
ments where the stuff that cheers
would make them welcome?
Julie sighed. Life was hard, even
if you were comparatively young,
and with the aid of judicious cos
metics and a first-class dressmaker
rather beautiful. The men might
buzz around but she told herself,
a good fifty per cent of them were
nothing but gigolos! The older
women the unhappily married or
unattached older women WITH
MONEY really spoiled the situa
tion for the younger, hard-up ones!
To come, and kiss, and ride away
to someone else's apartment, where
the entertainment was even better
that's what those wretched men
would do and the handsomer men
were, the more difficult and inde
pendent. The other fifty per cent were
either definitely "not the marrying
kind," or they were already mar
ried. On Julie's list of beaux were
at least a dozen alimony-paying
men who were perfectly content to
have a legal separation from their
wives . . . ." because it prevents me
making a fool of myself a second
time!" they would declare when
their interest in Julie had cooled a
little.
"Are you married?" Julie now
asked Willie Krass not that she
cared in the least whether he was
or Wasn't.
"Not so you'd notice it at this
moment," facetiously replied Wil
lie, recklessly splashing champagne
into Julie's glass, and ogling her.
She sipped it daintily. "I adore
this stuff. It makes me forget my
troubles. Makes everything seem
rosy.''
"A girl like you" his pudgy
hand closed on hers "shouldn't
have a care in the world." With
his right hand he lifted his own
glass, and drained straight Scotch.
He poured himself another drink.
Here's to you, Miss Julie."
"And here's to you. I hope we
become friends," she said in a soft
whisper.' She leaned a little for
ward, so that her face that was
translucently pale, with the green
shadows around her eyes, was close
to his. "I do have troubles. But just
to have a good friend one that you
Can talk to, now and again means
such a lot to a girl "
Immensely flattered, for, strange
to say. Willie had long' wanted to
meet a real society girl, he was soon
under Julie's spell. In his very or
dinary little soul, he had sneaking
social ambitions. His plain stout
wife in Denver would have been
amazed to know this of her "family
man." But who of us really knows
another? :
George and Henry returned, and
immediately seeing Julie the only
woman With three men a couple of
her feminine "friends" the girl
nicknamed "Bright Eyes" who had
Spoken sarcastically of Julie on the
floor--and "Precious" Hickson, a
little golden-headed piece of fluff,
swooped down on them. "Precious"
insited on dancing with Henry, and
to humor her for she had cer
tainly looked upon the wine when
it was red Henry swung into a
waltz with her.
Julie was annoyed. But the night
was young yet. She would cultivate
Willie, for this might be her sole
opportunity;
"You're the prettiest girl I've
ever laid eyes on," said Willie dar
ingly, under the influence of added
Scotches. His pale blue eyes were
snapping excitedly. "Come on, let's
celebrate this wonaenui meeunjj.
I've got to hand it to your Van Tyle.
He certainly picks good looKers:
He ordered rounds of drinks for
everybody. Julie worried about
Henry who was apparently taking
as much pleasure in dancing with
that asinine little "Precious" as he
had done with herself to reassure
herself, and get fresh, confidence
and illumination for the next im
portant "move" consumed cham
pagne like water.
"That's right. Let's get plas
tered," said Willie beneficently, his
awe of Julie evaporating under her
smiles and the constant stimulants.
. She danced again witn iienry.
But his mood was changed. Be-
cause tne cnampK"c "u
to her head, she was even more
reckless
"Julie! Careful! People are look
ing at you " he warned her.
"I don't care about the people.
n-'. .a about each other, aren't
we, Henry? Henry, you're in love
with me? Say you love mel
breathed Julie. , .
"Sh-h, Julie. They'll hear you.
Henry was embarrassed. "Come
ordering coffee.
Tommies Enjoy a Laugh
George with a kind of rueful humor.
It was the "morning- after the
night before," and the bright
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in a golden flood through the wide
glass windows served to accentuate
their pallor.
"I've got a head like a balloon,"
said Henry. "What gosh-darned
idiots we are! What's this social
life mean, anyway?"
"An infernal hangover next
morning,' grimly answered George.
"And for what? The same old
stuff!"
At this moment, the 'phone rang.
Julie on the wire! Her tones clear,
carrying, and vivacious.
"Hello, old boy! How do you feel ?
Oh, I'm just grand! I've been up
and out and right round the reser
voir. I just got in." f
Henry made a wry face. It Was
only quarter past eleven, and this
news recollecting Julie's libations
of the night before semed incred
ible. Had television been installed, he
would have had a picture of Julie
at that moment in her bed, her maid
alongside with a tray on which
rested a bottle of bromo-seltzer . . .
a glass half full of water . . . some
aspirin ... a bottle of gin . . . and
another glass with orange juice in
it." .T....-..'
At her mistress's statement on
the 'phone, the maid's face assumed
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a look of comic disgust. While
Julie was cooing into the instru
ment, she handed her a bubbling
bromo, and then a gin-and-orange-
juice. '
(To be Continued)
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grand time." But she took his arm,
and walked a little unsteadily back
to the table in the night-club where
Willie eagerly jumped up to mafce
way for her, and then Beated him
self close to her.
"Telephone call for you, sir," said
a waiter to Henry, who went off
with the man.
"You're a swell girl, Julie, and
I'm crazy about you," said Willie
Krass. "I'd like to give you come
Pil remembrance. Say, can I have
your telephone number? Maybe
we'll have another little party to
morrow? Maybe I can fix it so's I
can stay over another night."
But some shaft of memory seem
ed to hit the exuberant one at this
moment, for he puckered his thick
lips in a rueful whistle.
"Darned if it isn't my missus's an
niversaryour wedding, y'know."
His tone was sheepish. "I'll have
to take her a present. Maybe you'd
help me choose it,'
"So you're married?" said Julie.
Her bright mood had fallen a lit
tle due to Henry's protracted ab
sence. "I suppose you carry a pho
to of your wife and kids around in
your pocketbook," she added sarcas
ticallyfor she was suddenly tired
of Willie and his lack of tact.
The sarcasm was lost on him. He
beamed. "Sure I do." From his
wallet he drew forth several snap
shots. "Here's my old woman.
Here's Junior and Buddy and
Sister and here's the baby all of
'em swell kids."
"I don't doubt it if they take
after their father." Julie's lips
curled. She examined the picture
nf "fViu misaiia." She said, slowly
and disagreeably and not noticing
that Henry had returned ana seai
himself directly opposite her
"She must have been a good-look
ing woman before She Jiad all these
children!"
Willie looked nonplussed.! "But
they're Swell kids," he repeated
rather helplessly.
"You re fond oi themT"
TTi nale blue eves widened
" "Course I am. Say, what would
home be without 'em! Say, I
wouldn't give 'em up for a million
dollars!"
t'Vnr nrhnt in home without a
n,nthr" chanted Julie mockinsrly
"Say, don't you like kids, Miss
Julie? Willie, who was now pretty
tight and near the mauann stage
onVof nnvinlinlv
"No not particularly. And there
isn't anything to weep about in
that!" she answered mm tartiy.
The expression on his face irrl
tota1 twr further
"All this mother-and-child stuff
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that you men pull is ridiculous," she
said angrily. "Look at yourself to
nightout trying to flirt with me or
any other good-looking girl you
come across and then weeping
over the children's pictures. You're
hypocrites-r-do you hear?" She was
annoyed with Willie Krass, and the
champagne was so potent, that she
didn't even notice Henry, who
couldn't help hearing her.
"But you'd Want children your
self when you marry; Every girl
wants 'era-1 mean, every nice
woman does that's what they're
for why, it's nature!"
"Nature nothing! How can you
drag up all that old stuff I Catch
ME going through all that annoy
ance when I marry! Now don't ar
gue with met I tell you I don't
want children. And lots of girls
think like me. I won't have them!
My husband "she tosed her head
"will soon find that out!"
So annoyed was Julie that she
did not see Henry slip away from
the table. How frantic she would
have been had she but known that
her ill-timed speech was the death
knell to Henry's proposing to her!
Henry Van Tyle leaned back in
his swivel chair before his office
desk and regarded his friend
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