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THE DAILY
SHORT STORY
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! The Most Wonderful Dance.
BY EARL REED SILVERS
(Copyright. 191G, by the McClure
Newspaper Syndicate)
it "Sure."
!<W/"oaE n,rI are you?"
W "Yours,"
"Are you sure?"
"Positive?"
"Pos-l-tlve."
"Whose eyes are these?"
"Yours."
"Whose lips?"
"Yours."
"Show me."
V A crescent moon pushed itself over
^V. the edge of a silver-tinted cloud, and
peered down upon the porch of the
Sr Country club, It saw two figures nestI
led in the shadows; and then discreetly
withdrew. . Neither of the figures
hp moved. From the dance floor came the
Bound of soft music. Then tho boyhe
was only a boy, twenty-two and Just
out of college?3poke again.
|? "I'm crazy, crazy about you," he
eald.
"Are you sure?"
It was the girl's voice that, answered;
u voice that reminded one of faroff
Hinging in the depths of a dream
forest.
L "Sure."
[*? , "Positive."
i? ' "Positive."
j/. A long moment elapsed.
"And I'm always going to be," he
added. "Always and always."
f- ) The music died away, signifying the
end of the dunce, and footsteps sounded
011 the stone porch. The two people
In the shadows became more distlnctly
two people. A moment, ago
they had resembled one Intedelermlnate
bulk.
"Have you the next dance with any
one?" the hoy asked.
"No."
"Then we can keep on sitting out
here?"
"Yes." She pan- "1 a moment. "I
want to tell vou something,"
"What?"
"Ill let you know in just three minutes."
? The music started again nnd the people
sitting nearby passed through the
doorway. The two were alone again,
BO nobody but the clr! heard what the
boy had to say.
"I love you," he whispered.
A pair of round arms encircled his
neck; cool, white arms which he had
dreamed about for ages.
"I've dreamed of this so often." he
said slowly, "that I must be dreaming
now. Am 1 dear7"
/ "No," she answered, "tlut?it must
ond right this minute?for u time, at
least."
He drew away, surprised.
"Why 7"
The girl was silent for a moment before
she spoko.
"I hate to spoil this wonderful, won?
derful evening." she said, "but I must
do It. 1 simply must tell you something."
"What is itr
"Its about Arth'ur Tlirop," she explained.
Her voice wavered a little.
"He and 1 have?have known each
other all our lives. We've been very,
very good friends, and it's been generally
understood that we would be
married some day."
? "You haven't promised him, have
you 7"
"No. We never said much about
it; but all the time you were away at
, college wo went together steadily, and
?and he's been saving up."
1 CONFESSION
"For a moment," said Paula. "I
could hardly believe my eyes. Margie,
and then 1 felt iny blood grow hot
with anger. Earnest's action seemed
so absolutely sellish.
\ " 'Go back home,' I said curtly.
" '1 am so glad you are Uero,' he
exclaimed somewhat thickly anil 1 saw
ho had been drinking. ' 1 was afraid
something had happened to you.'
~ "As he said this he pushed inside
the door and made for the stairs as
though to go up to my little sitting
room.
"You Mftrcrie. sinro I had boon
bo successful in my part 1 liatl taken a
tiny suite at the boarding house inI
Btead of the cheerless hall bedroom I
first rented.
" 'Here where are you going?' 1
I ssked sharply.
"Ho turned nround insurprise. Be'.
> [ore he could explain I said. 'You canHh
not go up to my room at this hour.'
P* " 'But I want to talk to you.'
" '1 am afraid you will have to wait
until tomorrow. 1 am tired and sleepy
I resent your coming here at this iii"-e
I t ot the night and subjecting me to
suspicion and curiosity. Mrs. Martin
has been so annoyed by you tills everIpg
hat she told me unless I co.ihl
keep tny "gentleman friend" from
I making >a nuisance of himself I'd hare
to leave.'
? ? ,yoll teii iter y0U wm ica^,. )0
V, morrow '
I ^ " IH'do nothing of the kind. Mrs.
I ' Martin has been very hind to me and
v she la perfectly right. Besides.
I will not have you tome here at tills
hour of the night.'
" 'Afraid I'd And you out with that
Hp precious friend of your childhood,'
was Earnest's ugly comment.
H "Silently I started toward the door
for I was so furious I did not dare to
" 'Please don't send m* home.' said
Earnest, almost maudlin. ' I can see
you don't love me any more, but girl.
you must let roe lovo you. Don't send
me home until you at least have told
me you will let me spend the rest of
I my life making you happy."
H.? " 'You might begin now by going
H home and letting me get some Bleep.'
H "I could not help Bmlling. Margie, at
the idea of Earnest I.nwton begging
H, to be allowed to make ino happy while
he was in the very act or annoying and
making life miserable for me with
his jealousy and egotism. He caught
H tt the ghost of a smile that flitted
Bf
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Bright as a June rose is the skating
girl In this soft pink raiment Dame
Fashion has designed for the rink or
hockey field.
With a heavy cheviot skirt she wears
"But you're not engaged to him?"
"No; if I had boon I wouldn't have
done what I did lonight. But he hasn't
gone with any other girl for three
; years.?and he cares for me lots and
j lots."
"But I love you."
"So does he, only he hasn't said so
I because he?ho hasn't enough money
I to marry me yet."
"But if you aren't engaged to him
it's all right." The boy moved forward
impulsively. "I love you," he
said.
"I know, dear." She placed her hand
011 Ills arm. "But dont you nee that I
must tell Arthur lirst? It's only fair
to him; and If he?and if he should
take it in the wrong way, I suppose
that?that I shouldn't become engaged
to you."
The hoy looked wistfully into the
distance.
"I guess It's the only thing to do."
; he said. "When are you going to toil
him?" 1
"During the next dance. 1 have it
with him."
S OF A WIFE |j
; across nty face, and catching me to
hint said. 'There is my baby child now.
She has been away all evening and
now she's going to let her poor Earn|
est talk it over with her.'
* " 'She certainly is not. and tomorrow
when you are perfectly sober site
is going to ask you not to call Iter by
that silly name of baby child again.'
" 'I am not a baby, Earnest, nor even
a child any more, and as you have
i probably contributed more to the grow
' ing up process than anyone else you
j certainly should be aware of the fact.'
"And then, Margie, that terrible
grown-up hoy simply sta down on the
stairs and cried, i was almost crazy
and htlnk I should have batted his
head against the railing, if Mrs Mnr!
tin had not come out from behind
| the drawing room draperies. 'Leave
I him to me, Miss Paula,' she said. 'I
1 did not live with a drunken man for
JO years without learning how to take
I care of them.'
I "With this she hauled Earnest to
| the door and pushed him out.
"Covered with confusion and shame
aim ucon liuit J CUUIUI'U IJie bUili'S LO
bed."
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our dance, miss- ,
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riNG GIRL
I a lightweight but cold-defying sweater
i of brushed wo .1 In warm rose color.
The scarf am! cap match the sweater
In color and they, too, are fluffy wool.
Those heavy knitted gloves are Celtic
green, making a daring combination
of. colors.
I "And how shall I know?"
"You'll i now by watching us. As
j soon as the music starts. I shall toll
j him that I I care for some one else,
j If he held ; me to my half-promise, we
' will go home. If he doesn't and every.
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iu iki ,m t ii ui mm i "in
dance the encore togeth r."
"And if ! sec you dancing with him
I'll know that you are my girl?lor
always?"
| "Yes."
Both wore silent. The lambent moon
had disappeared behind a maze ot
j shifting clouds.
"Well, anyway, you're my girl for
now.' the hoy said so' ly. "Nothing
lean take that awr.v. W:'.nt$ver hap1
pons. I can always have these few minutes
to dream about."
Youth's tragedy is always sincere. 1
I There was a world of wistfulness in J
It!:; tones, and the girl touched his
hand.
| "1 love you," she said. "Things are
sure to < out all right."
I The tuusic ceased, and she arose. j
I "I am going now." J
Through Hie window the hoy sawj
I her nicei tin? other man and smile
into his eyes. Alter what seemed an!
eternity of waiting, the music started
for tlte next dance. As the moments
sped o:t. it /.coined to the one
waiting on tlu* porch that the suspense
was just a little more than he could
bear. And as he waited, the two upon
whom his though1 s were centered sat
1 together in another room.
"Arthur," the girl said slowly, "I
know now that 1 can never care fori
you in the way you want me to. There'*!
I some one else?you know who he is?
and I love him because he says wonderful
things, and because?well, Just
because . .
For a moment the "othT fellow"
dropped his head in his hands. Then
he squared his shoulders.
, "I understand," he said.
After a brief silence, he led hor
. into the main room, and danced the
I very best he knew how.
'i lie hoy on the porch watched them
; for a minute or two. Then h; went
i to the swinging couch, where he listened
with eyes closed to the rhythmic
I notes. And although ho wasi't dancing.
it was the most wonderful dance
i he bad ever known.
When the music died away, the girl
, came t?- v.here he was wailing in ?Lc
I shadows.
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