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BY MORRIS MARKEY
COPYHlOHT. 104.
MEA SERVICE, INC
TIIH BTORTi Vkim fa lh mtory
"off the "perfect rtmc the mnr.
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wrther la thfi library of him Lonjr
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left din ai to It. V bare met
the wealthy Colonel' ttntetlv
danirhtrr Cynlhlm nenry lVrts,
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CHAPTER II
AS tuual, the huge, pals green
stands surrounding the Broken
Hill Club polo field were empty
and a little desolate even in the
bright sunshine. That was not a
polo year, and even In the best
of polo years It required Inter
national matches, or at least the
East-West games, to bring out the
crowds.
. Members' games were put to it
to attract mothers, fathers who
grumbled that the game had gone
to pieces since their day, and a
thin sprinkling of debutantes.
And, of course, a bored press pho
tographer or two, hoping against
hope for a spill bad enough to
make a good picture. - -
Henry Prentiss helped Toby
Parker and Fred West to unload
their gear, and then went off to
chat with his teammates. His right
arm hung in a white linen sling,
and there were bandages around
the hand. He gave assurances that
no bones were broken, that he
had suffered only a bad sprain,
and he spoke earnestly with the
youthful Mike, who this day would
ride In his place.
His admonitions were cheerful,
but exact which pony to play in
each period what moves to make
when Parker got on the ball with
bis fast mounts what precautions
to take against the same Parker's
Inherent weakness in the matter
of fouling.
Then girths were brought up
tight. The men began climbing
into their saddles. And Henry
Prentiss walked with Cynthia
Merrlwether .over the soft grass
to her box in the clubhouse en
closure. "THEN they were in their seats
they were surrounded by per
haps a hundred other spectators,
who nodded at them, or waved
and called greetings. The players
rode out upon the field. Captain
Pugh took his place in front oi
them as they lined up. He blew
his whistle, and bowled the ball
fairly among the legs of the
horses.
...Mrs. Porter West, who sat some
distance behind and above Cyn
thia and Prentiss, gave no very
sharp attention to the opening
moments of the play. It was true
that her Fred was out on the turf
and the horses were thundering
off in their first long run. But he
could -take -care of himself, and
probably would win. He had the
habit of winning in all concerns
saving those pertaining to Cynthia
Merrlwether.
She stared at Cynthia and Pren
tiss, her face without expression,
but her eyes were drawn slightly
together, and the poisons of frus
tration and resentment and anger
- brewed within her heart It looked
like a match. That was that But
this meant that her own thought
fully contrived plans were to be
ignored, cast whimsically aside,
and the family of West profoundly
injured thereby.
Mrs. Porter West was, as the
saying goes, of the old school; the
pld Long Island school which had
carefully forgot that the family
, (fortunes got their primordial start
in paper bags or imitation velvet
forgot such uncouth affairs
omid the sweet smells of the
stable, the gentle languor of the
beach. In that neatly ordered
school, such trifling though neces
sary interludes as romance were
guided by rules that were splen
did in their simplicity.
Neither passions of the grand
order, the perpetuation of blue
blood, nor the sustenance of social
prestige were the desiderata. The
young were supposed to fall in
lovo where it would do the most
gocd. In such forthright fashion,
'those sinews which took their first
nourishment from paper bags or
limitation velvet were nurtured
.and renewed.
If a Beacham family fell upon
troubled times, for example, it
iwas the decent and proper thing
lor a Crandau family (currently
able to increase its string of Irish
Hunters and even pay its tailors'
bills) to send forth a youth or a
maiden, as the case might be, and
by the perfectly ordinary process
f matrimony bring the situation
into a seemly balance. When,
betimes, the arrangement grew
our in the souls of the youthful
individuals involved, there was
always Reno, and a reshuffling of
the marital cards easily to be ef
fected. ...
fTHE youths and the maidens
had a deplorable word for this
state of things. The word was:
Icky. But it was difficult for them
to be too selfish or stubborn when
roast prime ribs for the family
and No. 1 crushed oats for the
mangers were at stake.
Not to put too fine a point upon
it Mrs. Porter West had reached
the considered conclusion that
iCynthia Merrlwether was a suit
lablo wife for Frederick Hallibur
ton West not merely Yale '37,
but captain of Yale's polo team,
and by no means neglected in the
photographic art of either sport
ing page or rotogravure reports oi
bunt balls and kindred fetes.
That her son, Fred, had turned
out to be really an amusing, and
friendly, and unpretentious sort of
young man did not enter into her
calculations at all. Those calcu
lations, on the contrary, were
based in sound, realistic fashion
upon the absurd things which all
this excitement silly wars and
depressions and such had done
to the trust funds left behind
when Porter Gordon West sound
horseman and furthermore an en
viable judge of hounds, bad gone
to his ultimate peace.
To his eternal praise, let It be
said that Fred West was neither
deceived nor a deceiver. When
he moved dutifully beneath his
mother's goad and broached the
matter to Cynthia, he was direct
if something less than subtle.
"To open it out" he said, "I'm
nuts about you and want to marry
you. To close it off, I suppose,
I've got to tell you my family
needs dough. You've got it or
your old man has. I'm just put
ting it straight on the line for you.
There's no use my saying take
it or leave it because I know
damn well you're going to leave
it But I've got the right to say
that no matter how obvious it is,
this money business hasn't any
thing to do with the way I go for
you. Oh, hell you're already
bored with the whole idea. , . ."
She had not laughed. Which
was something. She bad taken
his reluctant hand.
"You're sweet," she said. "That's
the sweetest nicest thing I ever
heard anybody say. Listen, Fred.
Just let's see a lot of each other
this summer. What say? Wouldn't
we be a couple of chumps to go
off and quit speaking and having
people sorry for us?"
"Oh, you mean that kid stuff."
"Certainly I do. Men have an
awful time making any sense out
of it when a girl says, 'I haven't
got marriage in the back of my
HOLD EVERYTHING!
twinnisnwcummm,.,.
Nothing today, thank youW
Marines Use a
New Rubber Stamp
PORTLAND, Jan. 8 (A3) The
navy s mailmen are bearing
down these days on stamp can
cellations. The old, familiar can
cellation marks are gone from
letters arriving here from ma
rines overseas, and in their stead
are these . rubber-stamped le
gends;. "Tojo is a bum, Hitler a heel,"
and "Praise D' Lord, Pass de
Ammu."
, If it's a "frozen" article you
need, advertise (or a used one
in the classified
bean.' But they mean it some
times. I mean it now, Fred."
"You're O. K.," he said. "How
about something that comes in a
glass with a lot of Ice?"
- Which was the extent of the
wooing, and Fred got some deep,
inner satisfaction out of it be
cause she had called him a man.
(To Be Continued)
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
By William
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