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DAILY SHORT STOR VITAL SPARK By Hilma Enander. TH.E Lttle res- taurant near F street was crowd- ed to the door. The tables, balanced on precarious legs that threatened immi- | nent downfall, were all filled— even the two un- desirable ones placed in the cor- ner where the floor slanted upward to meet the wall. The proprietor shone complacent, pers- piring. Waiters dodged ahout. The clash of dishes made staccato dents in the orches- tral drone. Smoke hung midair. Con- versation buzzed. Neal had experi- enced scme diffi- culty in getting a table that evening. Only the strength of his weekly patronage had managed to secure one for him. He looked about, lazily triumphant. He liked to be there with his two friends. Pinker was a good sort. Jennings, too. They understood music. Not bad composers, either, although Pin- ker was hopelessly out of date. The orchestra opened with a new theme. “Tschaikowsky,” murmured Neal, his nearsighted eyes peering at the corner where the orchestra sat. Then he faced his friends once more. He knew that it was time to go. Still he did not like to move. ‘These Wednesday nights were a part of his life. He slouched down in his chair and watched Pinker light a cig- arette. Restful sort of man—that Pinker—large. stout, a bit older than he was—maybe 40. Against his se- ‘rene poise Jennings seemed nervous and fidgety. Undersized, too. for Pinker's massiveness could dwarf even a large man. Neal felt a sud- den longing to know Pinker better. The orchestra flared up in a big erescendo. * “WWHY don't they play something else?” asked Jennings impa- tiently. “I'm fed up on Russian music.” “I like the Italians,” said Pinker. | ‘ “Respighi in particular. By the way, | Neal, have you finished that sym- | phony yet?” “Not yet.” “You'd better get a hump on you,” warned Jennings. “You'll be old before you know it.” “Haven't time just now.” “Why don't you take the time2” “A lot you know!" answered Neal | curtly. “You have no idea how long to work out a thing like “I'm no baby in swaddling clothes. I've done some work myself—not like yours, I know—but it's better than that!” He jerked his head in the direction | of the orchestra. Neal flushed darkly. * ok % % “\/IEET me in the moonlight, O, my swe-e-e-tie” sang the woman in the spangled dress. Her large, fat arms were stretched out against the background of artificial | palms. The orchestra vamped an ex- otic accompaniment. “Bet that fellow didn't know the first thing about music!” went on Jennings. “Wrote the melody, per- haps, and some poor devil of a music student scratched in the harmony for a fiver.” Neal turned on him. “Maybe a composer thought that way was easier than being eternally dunned.” “Then he ought to be shot!” said Jennings hotly. “Right!” agreed Pinker. “You can’t get the correct perspective, Neal. You're hampered by your very tal- ent.” ‘“"Talent!"” “That's how we feel about you,” went on Pinker good-humoredly. | Don't you go and waste yourself. young man! Jen- nings and I don't matter. We're only penny whistles. You're different. You have the spark. .« HINK so0?” asked Neal lightly. Then he busied himself with a cigarette. Finally he straightened up in his chair. “I must go. M Where's that waiter?” He stood up. P Then, as his wan- dering glance caught sight of a man moving pon- derously through the doorway, he sat down again. “‘Why don’t you take the time?’™ His face looked yellow-white. Jen= nings looked curiously at him. “What's the matter?” he asked. But Neal did not answer. He was looking at the man who was slowly approaching them. “Sit down, Neal!” urged the boom- ing voice. “I won't stay but a minute. There's a party over there waiting for me.” Pinker looked searchingly at the man. Rosen was exuberant, almost to breeziness. A music publisher, he explained. “Lucky I found him!” he said in a hoarse whisper, nodding toward Neal. “Poor devil!” “Found him, did you?” “Broke! In a hell of a fix, weren't you, Neal?” eyes. * %k k% JENNINGS felt his jaw drop. “Fifty thousand!” he xruped “Not your ‘Scherzo,’ Neal!” Rosen answered for him. “The ‘Moonlight Sweetie’ song, of | course. You must have heard it. It's being played everywhere. Didn't you know he wrote it?” In the silence that followed Neal | spoke. | “No. They didn't know. told them. “You won't be so modest a year from now,” cried Rosen, giving him | a playful dig. “There’s nothing like | money to put real backbone into a | man. Yes, sir,” he went on, turn- |ing to the two friends. ‘Neal's going to do a lot of good stuff for |me. TIve got his contract for five years straight. Exclusive rights, you |know. I bet we'll have a lot of | ‘Moonlight Sweeties’ floating around before we're done—eh, Neal? Well, {50 long. I see they're beckoning to me over there. Glad I met you.” The last remark was addressed to Pinker, who nodded cooly in return. Rosen moved ponderously across the floor to the other table. Jennings sat quite still, staring at | Neal. | “My God!” he said. | * ok % % 'HE words were spoken scarcely above his breath. But Neal was | looking at Pinker. It seemed an eter- nlty before the older man spoke. | “Flesh-pots too alluring?” he said at last. He spoke quite casually, as if he were making some commonplace re- mark about the weather. Neal stood up and muttered some- thing about going. He hoped they would ask him to stay and, for an ! endless moment, he stood there anc I never |until his knuckles whitened. Then | he turned suddenly and left the place. Jennings looked angrily at Pinker. “And you said he had the spark!” he said. “He has,” replied Pinker, lighting another cigarette. { “He’s killing it. That's what hurts. Didn’t you see his face as he went | out? It looked like one damned to hell. Maybe he is. Who knows?” I (Copyright, 1936, TOMORROW AT JULIUS GARFINCKEL & COMPANY Pinker looked at Rosen with calm | waited, grasping the back of his chair | Extraordinary Sales in Many Departments The opportunity to save is un- usual and timely as you know well that our goods are the best. WINTER CLOTH COATS ON SALE FOR WOMEN. .. MISSES, JUNIOR MISSES ON THE THIRD, FOURTH AND SIXTH FLOORS ... DRESSES FOR DAY AND EVENING . . . 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