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The Girl With a Past
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complimentary, but it was a wretched
failure. He was only unpleasant and
I saw that she resented it. Her an
swers were chill and her manner had
lost all its debonair froth. I was well
aware that she was conscious of my
attention and was trying by some
telepathic signal to ask me to relieve
her of the presence of Thurzo. I rose
and advanced to him with a dollar
bill signifying my desire to pay my
account, and my glance told him that
I realized what had been going on.
He got up rather hectically and
went into the kitchen to get the
change. Bowing to the Girl with the
Past, I took the chair he had vacated
and she looked at me gratefully. I
realized tonight that she seemed to
be the person I had fancied she might
become under proper influence. My
eyes may have expressed this, for she
flushed a little.
"Thank you," she said.
I got my change from Thurzo, took
my stick and hat, and going back I
assumed her escort without saying
anything; for I remembered her pro
hibitive practice of going home alone.
But I could see that she wished me to
leave the place with her.
AS Fate would have it the storm
had grown to a fury. The streets
were ice-coated and before we had
taken five steps she was hanging to
my arm, the wind having taken our
two umbrellas like feathers off into
the darkness. She said she got her
car at the corner.
When we reached there after many
stumbles, we found in the shelter of
my own door way a sleet encrusted
officer who said no cars had been run
ning for an hour or more. It was bit
terly cold and uncomfortable and I
asked her to wait in my place until
we could get some conveyance to take
her home. She consented quite sim
ply, almost eagerly, witnout the
slightest prudery, although the hall-
boy looked with some astonishment
at the drenched feminine person I
ushered into my rooms with such un
accustomed warmth.
I am, as I have stated, a quiet man
and such apparitions are not familiar
ones on my floor. There was a good
coal fire in the old-fashioned grate,
and we sat down before it in quite a
Darby and Joan manner. I made her
put her feet on the nickel bar to dry,
and it was exactly as if we had known
each other all our lives. Her com
radeship returned, she grew happy
again and taking out a silver case she
passed it to me.
I took a cigarette, the first in thirty
years. I am now forty-six, and my
father had broken me of the perni
cious habit, I thought permanently;
but at the first puff the intervening
years fell from me. I was a cub again
and was being admitted to her court. "
I belonged. No longer need I pine in
the outerdark at Thurzo's.
We chatted of him and delicately I
brought the talk round to her odd lik
ing for the restaurant. I spoke of
quieter, better places that I knew of.
She clasped her hands at the back of
her head, leaning against them cush
ioned on my big lounging chair.
"I can't stand quiet!" she shivered.
I must have gaiety, talk, smoke. I
want a place where women can go
alone and meet people. I don't want
to think! Give me the open road!"
'You'll get awfully tired of it!"
I suggested. "It is n't really gay, you
know, or vicious. It 's dreadfully
commonplace, and by and by you '11
long for the excitement of respect
ability. If it were I'aris now "
'Ah!" A tender smile broke in her
eyes anu she waved an imaginary
kiss into the air.
'You have been there, then?" I
asked.
She nodded a bit sadly. "Paris
Vienna Buda Pesth all of them!"
She sighed and then she gave a little
laugh that foreign little laugh of
hers.
'You will go again, maybe?"
"Hardly?" Her lips curled in
scrutably.
"Why?"
"I dare not!"
"Tell me?"
"But why? You would hate me!
am that melodramatic person a
Woman with a Past."
"But the present is all right. You
are happy you have, pardon me,
many admirers "
She, broke into a delicious laugh,
"Those boys!" she exclaimed with
faint derision; "but I 've known real
MEN!"
I gulped somewhat. . I come of
staid old Quaker family. I looked at
her in a confused questioning way as
she crossed one knee over the other
showing an inch of stocking over the
muddy boot, and she flipped some
ashes into the grate with her little
finger. Again that suggestion of the
stage came and rapped upon my
brain.
"I think that I have seen you in
some play," I said slowly. "You are
on the stage?"
"I was for awhile," she admitted
with a frown; "but it's a dreadful
bore. Real life is more exciting.1
"You have few illusions, I judge?"
I remarked.
"None!" She snapped her fingers
in the air. "Oh, once I believed in
things! All girls do at some time.
Truth, honor, even love. Yes, I be
lieved in love honest love! The
man jilted me and since then " she
brought her closed fist down on the
table so that the magazines rattled
"since then, I 've LIVED!"
She looked me so steadily in the
eyes that I winced. Surely she did n't
call Thurzo's living? No it must be
that Past of hers. I began gently to
picture another idea of life to her
while she sent smoke rings up to the
chandelier. I felt the woman had
good in her. She was one of those
drifting barks that needed harbor.
She spoke so freely of what she
believed women should do if they
pleased that I grew warm behind the
ears. In the meantime she seemed to
be having the time of her life. I had
telephoned to two places for cabs, but
owing to the storm there was none
to be had, and I live in an old-fash
ioned out of the way neighborhood
There did n't seem to be anything to
do but wait. And it caused her not the
slightest annoyance, evidently. She
had an odd, boyish way about her
that precluded any suggestion that it
was not quite all right for her to be
sitting there at my fire very near to
midnight.
T)UT according to her talk she was
the most un-moral person I had
ever met. She said she had always
done as she pleased and always would
do so; that she hated conventions
and rules, but that she was not a
sneak and preferred me to know, her
just as she was.
In spite of all this, before the cab
finally came, to my great relief and
to her seeming chagrin, I had asked
her earnestly to marry me and begin
life all over again on a new basis.
She refused flatly, but her eyes grew
soft with tears.
"You would " she cried amazed,
"in spite of everything?"
"I don't believe in one law for a
woman and one for a man," I spouted
somewhat weakly; "I like your frank
ness. But I don't want you to go to
that rowdy place for dinner."
She laughed. "You go there," she
said.
"But I am a man."
She grew thoughtful for a minute.
Then she smiled and gave me her
hand exactly as a boy might do. "Yes,
t hat 's so," she said, "you are."
The elevator boy came to say the
cab from my club was waiting, and
I told him to have it charged to me.
I wished to learn of her living place,
and yet I was a bit afraid then too,
I knew I could get it next day from
the cab starter. (Continued on Page IS )
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