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And
so
are
the
girls
.
They
're
no
slouches
.
Then
we
can
edge
out
afterwards
,
about
ten
,
see
,
and
go
around
to
either
Zella
or
Rita
's
place
.
Rita
has
more
good
records
over
at
her
place
,
but
Zella
has
the
nicest
place
to
dance
.
By
the
way
,
you
did
n't
chance
to
bring
along
your
dress
suit
with
you
,
did
you
?
"
he
inquired
.
For
having
already
inspected
Clyde
's
room
,
which
was
above
his
own
on
the
third
floor
,
in
Clyde
's
absence
and
having
discovered
that
he
had
only
a
dress
suit
case
and
no
trunk
,
and
apparently
no
dress
suit
anywhere
,
he
had
decided
that
in
spite
of
Clyde
's
father
conducting
a
hotel
and
Clyde
having
worked
in
the
Union
League
Club
in
Chicago
,
he
must
be
very
indifferent
to
social
equipment
.
Or
,
if
not
,
must
be
endeavoring
to
make
his
own
way
on
some
character-building
plan
without
help
from
any
one
.
This
was
not
to
his
liking
,
exactly
.
A
man
should
never
neglect
these
social
essentials
.
Nevertheless
,
Clyde
was
a
Griffiths
and
that
was
enough
to
cause
him
to
overlook
nearly
anything
,
for
the
present
anyhow
.
"
No
,
I
did
n't
,
"
replied
Clyde
,
who
was
not
exactly
sure
as
to
the
value
of
this
adventure
--
even
yet
--
in
spite
of
his
own
loneliness
--
"
but
I
intend
to
get
one
.
"
He
had
already
thought
since
coming
here
of
his
lack
in
this
respect
,
and
was
thinking
of
taking
at
least
thirty-five
of
his
more
recently
hard-earned
savings
and
indulging
in
a
suit
of
this
kind
.
Dillard
buzzed
on
about
the
fact
that
while
Zella
Shuman
's
family
was
n't
rich
--
they
owned
the
house
they
lived
in
--
still
she
went
with
a
lot
of
nice
girls
here
,
too
.
So
did
Rita
Dickerman
.
Zella
's
father
owned
a
little
cottage
upon
Eckert
Lake
,
near
Fonda
.
When
next
summer
came
--
and
with
it
the
holidays
and
pleasant
week
-
ends
,
he
and
Clyde
,
supposing
that
Clyde
liked
Rita
,
might
go
up
there
some
time
for
a
visit
,
for
Rita
and
Zella
were
inseparable
almost
.
And
they
were
pretty
,
too
.
"
Zella
's
dark
and
Rita
's
light
,
"
he
added
enthusiastically
.
Clyde
was
interested
by
the
fact
that
the
girls
were
pretty
and
that
out
of
a
clear
sky
and
in
the
face
of
his
present
loneliness
,
he
was
being
made
so
much
of
by
this
Dillard
.
But
,
was
it
wise
for
him
to
become
very
much
involved
with
him
?
That
was
the
question
--
for
,
after
all
,
he
really
knew
nothing
of
him
.
And
he
gathered
from
Dillard
's
manner
,
his
flighty
enthusiasm
for
the
occasion
,
that
he
was
far
more
interested
in
the
girls
as
girls
--
a
certain
freedom
or
concealed
looseness
that
characterized
them
--
than
he
was
in
the
social
phase
of
the
world
which
they
represented
.
And
was
n't
that
what
brought
about
his
downfall
in
Kansas
City
?
Here
in
Lycurgus
,
of
all
places
,
he
was
least
likely
to
forget
it
--
aspiring
to
something
better
as
he
now
did
.
None-the-less
,
at
eight-thirty
on
the
following
Wednesday
evening
--
they
were
off
,
Clyde
full
of
eager
anticipation
.
And
by
nine
o'clock
they
were
in
the
midst
of
one
of
those
semi-religious
,
semi-social
and
semi-emotional
church
affairs
,
the
object
of
which
was
to
raise
money
for
the
church
--
the
general
service
of
which
was
to
furnish
an
occasion
for
gossip
among
the
elders
,
criticism
and
a
certain
amount
of
enthusiastic
,
if
disguised
courtship
and
flirtation
among
the
younger
members
.
There
were
booths
for
the
sale
of
quite
everything
from
pies
,
cakes
and
ice
cream
to
laces
,
dolls
and
knickknacks
of
every
description
,
supplied
by
the
members
and
parted
with
for
the
benefit
of
the
church
.
The
Reverend
Peter
Isreals
,
the
minister
,
and
his
wife
were
present
.
Also
Dillard
's
uncle
and
aunt
,
a
pair
of
brisk
and
yet
uninteresting
people
whom
Clyde
could
sense
were
of
no
importance
socially
here
.
They
were
too
genial
and
altogether
social
in
the
specific
neighborhood
sense
,
although
Grover
Wilson
,
being
a
buyer
for
Stark
and
Company
,
endeavored
to
assume
a
serious
and
important
air
at
times
.
He
was
an
undersized
and
stocky
man
who
did
not
seem
to
know
how
to
dress
very
well
or
could
not
afford
it
.
In
contrast
to
his
nephew
's
almost
immaculate
garb
,
his
own
suit
was
far
from
perfect
-
fitting
.
It
was
unpressed
and
slightly
soiled
.
And
his
tie
the
same
.
He
had
a
habit
of
rubbing
his
hands
in
a
clerkly
fashion
,
of
wrinkling
his
brows
and
scratching
the
back
of
his
head
at
times
,
as
though
something
he
was
about
to
say
had
cost
him
great
thought
and
was
of
the
utmost
importance
.
Whereas
,
nothing
that
he
uttered
,
as
even
Clyde
could
see
,
was
of
the
slightest
importance
.
And
so
,
too
,
with
the
stout
and
large
Mrs.
Wilson
,
who
stood
beside
him
while
he
was
attempting
to
rise
to
the
importance
of
Clyde
.
She
merely
beamed
a
fatty
beam
.
She
was
almost
ponderous
,
and
pink
,
with
a
tendency
to
a
double
chin
.
She
smiled
and
smiled
,
largely
because
she
was
naturally
genial
and
on
her
good
behavior
here
,
but
incidentally
because
Clyde
was
who
he
was
.
For
as
Clyde
himself
could
see
,
Walter
Dillard
had
lost
no
time
in
impressing
his
relatives
with
the
fact
that
he
was
a
Griffiths
.
Also
that
he
had
encountered
and
made
a
friend
of
him
and
that
he
was
now
chaperoning
him
locally
.
"
Walter
has
been
telling
us
that
you
have
just
come
on
here
to
work
for
your
uncle
.
You
're
at
Mrs.
Cuppy
's
now
,
I
understand
.
I
do
n't
know
her
but
I
've
always
heard
she
keeps
such
a
nice
,
refined
place
.
Mr.
Parsley
,
who
lives
here
with
her
,
used
to
go
to
school
with
me
.
But
I
do
n't
see
much
of
him
any
more
.
Did
you
meet
him
yet
?
"
"
No
,
I
did
n't
,
"
said
Clyde
in
return
.
