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I Si«»i» o i ''iiii i tier, / i o i m m r r . H i . m m uni! I n n ;t ,tl\
• C*»utU'u#\i Horn p*«
Si
fc<vn wrong
D a rt i k and mixchtet
wer* then* n.'vv
A n d beauty.
And
the sw ift fluctuations oi a colour
that could come and to Then* vva>
a d i-tiu c t an ot woi M ilne. > ubou hei
that was ii: w to S a n n m the women
that he mot
Even in that Mist
casu al ‘iiom eat ot in e v .iiK . lie know
that she wa> d o lin ite ly m otivated
T h a t she would Know
quite
well
what she wanted
He responded to
that w ith an in stin ctiv e ma>oulmc
w ithdraw al
Then he met the m is-
luef in her sm ile a g a in and forgot
¿o be a fra id
M a y l sec your card'* he asked
* 1 should like trem endously to hav*
th e pleasure.*'
H e found a numb» 1 ot blanks Sh*
h ad not met anyone
Suddenly be
h in d the sim les of the little group
he saw a ctual distress T h e y did not
know that rescue wa-> sure to come
that guests on that ballroom floor
were never left to then own re-
teurccs
The> were standing then
C m iling quite steadily without the
least Idea of what to do next
A glance over h is shoulder a s
sured h im that P o lly was labouring
a m id an em barrassm ent of riches
lie could catch glim pses of her
b lig h t young head th io u g h the m ill
in g circle of evening suits
Rnpidlv
he scribbled h is nam e twice on the
card that he held then asked 11 In
m ight present some of hi» m end*
H is task was not a difln ult one
V a le rie L an d was a lig h t that, u n
der no circum stances, could
Ion
have rem ained obscured
Soon she
was h a vin g to snnle h e r regrets and
exh ib it her com pleted card to new
a rriv a ls
Th e m en who had secured
dances thanked S a in t
Hi
M kin
sons beamed upon h im
He had * \ -
e ral dances for h im se lf
H ein* a
gentlem an was becom ing interesting
a fte r a ’l
At least there was some
th in g to be said for it.
B e h in d its banked palm s the band
crashed into a Sousa m arch
S ain t
hastened to h is m other and led het
into the lin e that was form ing for
the co tillio n
E v e n where about him
couples were m eeting, young men
w ith w h ite -h a ire d women on then
arm s, gay old gentlem en p la cin g the
g a lla n t to the debutantes a ll of ai
age tonight, w ith the first-y e a r boy»
ey<log thc»r sea «
ners for f ia r th at they m ight miss
somo fine point in the old-w orld
courtesy that s till p revailed upon u
s r C e c ilia floor
T h e re were thing»
that ladies and gentlem en s till re
fra in e d from doing an d saying here
’ h a t would be both done and said
at tomorrow nig h t's in fo rm a l hop
T h e d ances—a sad ly In hib ite d fox
trot a flapper dance tucked p n m lv
back into petticoat*? fo r the night
But the w altz!
Yo u could give your
body to th re e-q u arte r time, it would
■ gem, w ithout v io la tin g the niceties
Sam» tO"k V a le ria ;nt » the curve hf
h is arm and launched her w ithout n
word upon the broad lim p id tide 01
the B lue Danube T h e floor was just
crowded enough to require perfect
g u id ing in the m an and in stinctive
\’ «.v.-mlwr !•,
gagixl picked h is way between them
and returned to ih e g n a t dootwav
the old Negro, a r d the little lambent
flames
to eunv u n it liq u o r . like
.1 gentlem an
th e p h i M vcaa a
com m onplace worn th in
bs
Mktig
usage
it dn i not re a lly m atter liow
im ie li one got away w ith
It was
know ing your lim it and
stopping
lust on the safe side of It It meant
becoming more and more and mot«
id a m ntlejm U i w ith each d u n k u n
til one emerged the suprem e and
effulgent per »uni Heat Ion of a ll g en
tility
Hut u n til tonight the que* -
turn had been e n tire ly a h yix M h e li
cal
one
to the bov
In youth, d rin k
i
ltig is a h a b il ol the gregarious and
S a in t had alw nvs been a solitaiv
soul
It lu u l never iH fu rre tl t»> bin*
to so to the sid' board in tfie llit»i
U hureh street house and help h im -
d iv in a tio n ot h is iu ih h I and teirip»
in his p a rtn rr
T h e surge and Hr.
of the peerless old w a ll/, m ul th
g irl in his arm s, subm issive to hi
.-tightest su g estion. yc( m > separate
h passionately in d iv id u a l worked on
W entw ortii like a drug
l ‘he sm all
brown head lay against his shoulder
and the g irl never irl.sed her face tt
hi*
Beiore his eyes colour* swam
and wove as they drifted between tin
couples
C olour ulw ays moved him
deeplv and now the
m a n y-tin te d . .1 troro 1 lie it*cantei that 1 .»• al
Now. as he down
dresse*
w h irlin g
and
tream inv ways kept there
d h is tn ird M ien v in* ex|H*intued
a< rasa hi 1 islon Dim rad Into one an
other, area'in g an effect like* a ru in that expansic'n toward h i' own kind
;>«'vv w ith .» fries* or faces slidin g that comes from sh a rin g a co n v ivial
T h e bent old N i , io was an
along its upper edge
W hen tie ■ ■ 'la>s
m usic slopped it was as though the a rchan ge l of reve re n tial p rsutfslve
O lh e t m en were In the group
rainbow had fa lle n about them tn a ness
llu iric 1-- of r« s e rv - and
thousutid gleam ing ! ravinent.- Thev m ound h im
drew apart slowly
T h e g irl press restrain t were cru m b lin g
Now the
•xi S a in t's hand then she raised het
iCimtliiii'd 0
11 p«|r S
i
face and gave h im a long u; d pro-
tc riia tu ru llv solemn gaze
r iit > did
not jo in the prom enade of couples 1
but turned nvvav a m i h gin d a coi
ner under the palm s by the band
A n old bent Negro appealed tn
the doorwav w ith 11 truv in Ins hand
Upon the truv gleam ed n row of d i
m in utive wedges of yellow lire Thev
looked la fh r r like the illu stra tio n m i
S a in t's old IP b lr story btn>k * * f ht
com ing of the H oly Oho.sf
H* 1 « h
cd up and saw them there
I P 1.
he broke u tenet of the society by
going and b rin gin g « ne to a tl buinnt.-
on the ballroom fl«H>r H r felt that
he must do so u u th ln g spectaeulai
substitute some m em orable sym bol
tor th** inadequacy of specth
sh e
took the gla.vs by its sfend« r stem
and touched h is own gtuvrlv w ith it
then they drain ed them vwthoul .1
word and put them clown
T h e touch nf g Kiss on W‘ **d te rm
ed to break the spell Thev laughoi
into each other's faces.
tin* g irl
d a rin g ly
the boy u little sh a m e
faced
"SUlv a re n ’t w e?” h* suid
“D ivnielv
"W e ll if it 1» sentim ental and all
»hat. I
d o n t cure.* he defended 1
"One docs not have to w polop-e for ,
being sentlm* n»al a» a Ft
( ’rvtlia
b all
If
is u part of the show' like
the old silver
and
the sixteenth
dance
B v the way whom did you
give the sixteenth to
s h e extended her program m e, and
h er escort fr >wncd h e av ily over It
T h is w ill never do,* he assured her
M r JtMv.vi is one of the n u ir a ger*
and everyone w ill th in k that you
were stra uled and he had to come
to your r- scue Y o u m ust give »t to
me and let me tell h im tnat ther*
wa a m istake "
'No. she told h im firm ly
I un
derstand that the sixteenth 1* avec!
for wives and sweethearts
I am
not going to let vou be g a lla n t to rt
stranger and break some C h arle sto n
g irl s h eart.”
Fe e lin g verv m asterful. F a u lt wrote
h is nam e boldly down for the data«
and handed rhe card back w ith u
bow lust as the band crashed Into u
m arch
'H ie couples were fo rm in g for the j
m arch , and S a in t, who was un e n -
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