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SERIAL STORY—

Women

Want Beauty

“By LOUISE HOLMES

CAST OF CHARACTERS

".SUSIE LAMBERT—She served waffles

and dreamed of being beautiful. _ DICK TREMAINE—He liked Susie's waffles but he couldn’t see Susie. ~ JEFF. BOWMAN—His\ chief concern ‘was to make Susie as bea¥ 1 as she wanted to be.

_ Yesterday: Susie’s dream comes true when she sees Dick Tremaine at a night “elub. As she dances the orchestra leader asks to introduce her but she declines. ’ ——————

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

“HE smooth gentleman was mas2 ter of more than ceremonies.

How Susie became separated from Jeff, how she got to the platform,

~ she could never have told., But tnere she was, shaking ‘hands with the colorful orchestra leader, making the best of it. Dancers had gathered around the ‘ stage. Among them Susie saw Jeff, nettled, belligerent, helpless. She smiled at him and he frowned. The master of ceremonies spoke into a microphone as he addressed the guests of the Pump Room. “We have Suzanne with us tonight,” he said with a what-do-you-think-of-that cadence in his smooth, delighted voice. “She needs no other introduction. We know and admire

her as Suzanne, the beauty who ere.” |

dropped from nowhere into He was proud. of that line and showed it. “I'm going to ask Suzanne to talk to you.” : Catching her hand with a deceivingly casual grip he drew her to the microphone. Instantly she was picked out by the wandering spotlight and, for a moment, panic seized her. Then she saw Dick Tremaine. He was rudely making his

way through the dancers, his eyes! :

holding her face intently. : Susie laughed softly, exultant little thrills ran the length of her spine. nam you, Mr. Master of Cereonies,” she said, head a little on one said, eyes on the microphone.

merica and all the ships at sea. The master of ceremonies liked this, he nodded encouragingly. “This is Suzanne talking {o you,” usie went on, her pretty voice natal and easy, “and I only know one thing to talk about. I’ll give you three rules for beauty. Eat - two : unds of candy every day, take absolutely no exercise and never, never get in before 4 in the morning.” She laughed, a musical little trill. “That's silly, isn't it?” she asked confidentially. “It’s the best I can do impromptu. Thank you and good night.” 8 8 =» > LUSHED, she turned from the microphone. Dick was stand-

ing at her feet, laughing up at her. Jeff scowled. beside him. She started for the steps. “Wait a minute,” the orchestra

leader begged, pleased with the bit of entertainment which had brought forth riotous applause from the diners. “What else can you do beside giving beauty hints?” Susie never knew why she said it. - “I can sing,” she told him gravely. She caught Jeff's horrified expression and wished she had been more reticent. Dick led the storm of applause. Well, she could sing. Just because Jeff had never heard her sing was no reason why she couldn't. “Good for you,” the musician clapped his hands. ¥What can you sing?” “What can they play?” Susie countered with a nod toward the orchestra. She was going over big with the audience. Wanting to be amused they were taken with her naive simplicity. They might snub her tomorrow, but tonight she was their darling. “You name it and well play it,” the ‘orchestra leader put in. “All right—I'll sing ‘Day After Day.’ ” ’

After the first few words of Susie’s |

song a hush fell over the room, a sbreathless, incredulous hush. Her voice was beautffully trained, it had stréngth and sweetness and an .appealing, tender quality. And, undoubtedly, she had the ability to put herself over. She swayed to the music while rich melody poured forth. . Singing, she looked straight into Dick Tremaine's eyes. -Dick smiled, it was asf{if they two were alone in the crowded room. With the end of the song Susie leaned down and Dick swung her to _ the floor. They stood alone in a - small, hushed island while waves of applause rose and fell about them. Jt was over in a moment. Jeff, scowling darkly, fought his way to Susie’s side and she jerked herself back to reality. “Jeff,” Dick said,

“how about in-

troducing me to Suzanne? I've had|’

her on my ‘must meet’ list for a long time.” E 3 » ” EFF stiffly made the introduction and none too graciously stepped back to give up his place as Susie's dancing partner. Susie was in a rapturous daze. Her dream had come true. It was better than her dream, better than any dream sn the world. And then she was dancing with Dick, not stumbling or losing the time, like a drifting snowflake in the circle of his arm, sure of herself, exquisitely thrilled. Dick grinned down at her, that dizzying, never-to-be-forgotten grin.

“Snow White and the Seven Charms,” he said. “Name three,” she came back

with a ravishing side glance. He shook his head, wonder in his eyes. “I can only sense your charms, not name them.” “Answer approved,” she laughed, exhilarated with heady power. It

When, Dick took her back to the

| table his friends crowded around,

demanding introductions. Susie was

completely surrounded by admiying

‘young men. Not that Jeff was ad-

miring, he was definitely sullen.

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E arms and cuddle him against | ser. Poor, blundering Jeff. He'd een in love with Susie for weeks. Meanwhile, Susie was having a nderful time with Mr. Harker d Dick and his friends who had wn their chairs to the Harker le. Susie was flirting. Ho ig no mere man could guess,

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‘knew how to flirt tid 1 old dear, bless his heart.

HOLD EVERYTHING

“It was simply beautiful—I never saw sa many people cry at a wedcling before.” :

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