"Well, so what's what with that bit?" Tom said with a puzzled look as he put the paper back on the desk, "it's a pretty ordinary thing so far, where does it go from here and how does it tie in with your usual head shrinker's pieces. You aren't going to descend to mere love stories are you?"

"No, I'm not," I laughed, "and this does fall into the category of psychological writing that I usually do. But you think the story is pretty ordinary so far, eh?" I replied. "Well, consider four things that are rather unusual. First off, the girl always came out of and returned to the room the man had rented. Secondly, she was obviously not out to get acquainted with men since she avoided the places a woman looking for male companionship would go and she avoided those who showed an interest in her. Thirdly, the man in the story was evidently very happily married, judging by his welcome home he received on his return. And finally he locked some of his luggage in a cabinet in the garage rather than taking it into the house."

"I'll concede that there is a point of mystery as yet unexplained about why the girl came from his motel room," Tom said rather thoughtfully, "but I don't see anything there that couldn't be elucidated later in the story, and certainly girls taking up with lonely men on trips and the husband being welcomed home aren't very unusual."

"I guess you've led a rather sheltered existance, Tom," I replied, "so I'll have to brief you about it. The point is that the girl and the man were one and the same person because the man was a transvestite."

"Oh, I know all about those perverts, those queens," Tom said with a knowing leer. "I've read about them and their carryings on at those drag balls and parties that they have. They're just homosexuals who like to dress up in women's clothes to attract men for sex purposes."

"Ah yes," I replied, "quite so. There are homosexual 'queens' who do just what you said for exactly the reason you said. They dress and act like women to entice men into sexual relations with them. And it is true that they are sometimes referred to in the scandle press as 'trans- vestites'. But do you remember the four peculiar things about the young man in my story? 1) The girl was only seen on his trips and only at night, 2) she made no move to attract men during her trips downtown, and in fact took pains to stay away from them. 3) the luggage was secreted and locked away in the garage on his return, and 4) he was given a loving welcome home, as a husband and a father. None of these things quite fit into your idea that the man was a homosexual queen."

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