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and slip, and sat down at the dressing table to apply his make-up. He trimmed his eyebrows in as feminine a fashion as he could. Lily was the only one he would see and he doubted if she would notice, as he saw very little of her and she never paid much attention to him.

He was very much pleased with his appearance when he put on the blue dress. He ventured out of his room, and as he wondered through the apartment he felt very much at ease and practiced some of the gestures and mannerisms he had read about. He watched a show on the television set in the living room, and paid more attention to how the female members of the cast sat and moved about than he did the show.

Eddie hated to get out of his feminine finery, and was so pleased with the way the clothes fitted and felt he resolved to keep them. He knew Lily wouldn't miss them, and she never visited his room. He hung the dress in his closet concealed by his own clothes so if anyone did look they would not notice anything strange unless they investigated further. Like a fastidious lady he rinsed out his girdle, underwear, and stockings and hung them in the bathroom to dry and be put away in the morning. He put on his pajamas or Lily's pajamas rather, as he had now formed the habit of sleeping in feminine pajamas each night. He had "borrowed" another pair from Lily and now had a pink pair in addition to the blue ones.

In the next few days Eddie "borrowed" several more dresses and lingerie from Lily's well stocked supply. He put them away in his room and dressed and applied his make-up almost every night.

Lily rarely appeared before noon, and then only for a short time. She would leave the apartment early in the afternoon and not return until midnight or later. She never bothered Eddie when she came in. She had a large col- lection of clippings and pictures of various studio and stage people she had collected over a number of years. She had asked Eddie to sort and arrange them in a sort of scrapbook. With his housework, his correspondence course, and Lily's scrapbook he found himself without much spare time.

One afternoon when he was alone, he borrowed some

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