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was a virgin and was very kind and gentle, almost apologetic. But she felt none of the ecstasy she had ex-pected lying in his arms on the chauffeur's bed; it was almost as if it had al happened before. Afterwards they lay on the bed talking a long time in low intimate voices. His manner had changed; he treated her gravely and indulgently, like a child. He said he hated things to be se-cret and sordid like that, it was brutalizing to them both. He would find a place where they could meet in the open, in the sun and air, not like criminals this way. He wanted to draw her, the beautiful slenderness of her body would be the inspiration of his painting and her lovely little round breasts. Then he looked her over careful y to see if her dress looked mussed and told her to run over to the house and go to bed; and to take precautions if she didn't want to have a baby, though he would be proud to have her bear a child of his, particularly as she was rich enough to sup-port it. The idea horrified her and she felt it was coarse and unfeeling of him to talk about it lightly that way. They met al that winter a couple of times a week in a little deserted cabin that lay off the trail in the basin of a smal stony cañon back of the town. She would ride over and he would walk by a different road. They cal ed it their desert island. Then one day Lola looked in his portfolios and found hundreds of drawings of the same naked girl;

-125-she came up to the Hutchins' house shaking and screaming with the hair streaming down her face, looking for Eveline and crying that she was going to kil her. Dr. Hutchins was thunderstruck; but though she was terribly frightened in-side, Eveline managed to keep cool and tel her father that she had let O'Riely do drawings of her but that there'd been nothing else between them, and that his wife was a stupid ignorant Mexican and couldn't imagine a man and a woman being alone in a studio together without thinking something disgusting. Although he scolded her for being so imprudent Dad believed her and they managed to keep the whole thing from Mother, but she only managed to see Pepe once more after that. He shrugged his shoulders and said what could he do, he couldn't abandon his wife and children to starve, poor as he was he had to live with them, and a man had to have a woman to work for him and cook; he couldn't live on romantic lifeclasses, he had to eat, and Lola was a good woman but stupid and untidy and had made him promise not to see Eveline again. Eveline turned on her heel and left him before he was through talking. She was glad she had a horse she could jump on and ride away.

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a matrass covered with something from Vantine's

makes a divan in the ladyphotographer's studio we

sit on the divan and on cushions on the floor and the long-necked English actor reads the Song of Songs in rhythms and the ladyphotographer in breastplates and silk bloomers dances the Song of Songs in rhythms

-126-the little girl in pink is a classical dancer with pan-pipes but the hennahaired ladyphotographer dances the Song of Songs in rhythms with winking bel ybutton and clash of breastplates in more oriental style

stay muh with flahgons comfort muh with ahpples for I am sick of loeuve his left hand is under muh head and his rahght hand cloth embrace muh the semiretired actress who lived upstairs let out a yel and then another Burglars secondstory men

Good God she's being attacked we men run up the

stairs poor woman she's in hysterics Its the wrong flat the stairs are ful of dicks outside they're backing up the waggon Al right men on one side girls on

the other what the hel kind of place is this anyway? Dicks coming in al the windows dicks coming out of the kitchen-ette the hennahaired ladyphotographer holds them at bay draped in a portiere waving the telephone Is this

Mr. Wickersham's office? District Attorney trying

experience a few friends a little dance recital

in the most brutal manner prominent actress upstairs in hysterics al right officer talk to the District Attor-ney he'l tel you who I am