The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-20
OutWitted c.
HOW A MASQUERADE BALL CAUSED THE COURSE OF ONE
TRUE LOVE AFFAIR TO RUN SMOOTHLY.

.Surcly I ought TO know every girl In
the house by this time" thinks Tom STAN
ton as he stands In n perplexcd soliioquy'
with his eyes fixed upon a charming little
figure dancing a ~quadrille a few yards
away from him and getting into the moss
graceful attitudes with the aid OF her niue
fan. "But. OF course, she might easily pe
an outsider, although the rule was mat
only the boarders should he invited to this
affair.""
A gay and beautiful panorama wal
passing before Tom Stanton's eyes, Tor q
masquerade ball is in full progress Mt
Gratton's hotel, and the large billiard
room and parlors are thronRcd with n
crowd OF merry, bright-dressed maskers.
But the scene is unnoticed by the young
man. who, for the last hour, has only had
his eyes for the dainty little Pier
rette, who is doing such remarkable exe-
cution with her big fan Hcr costume Is
eminently suited to her petite and perfect
figure, and on her coquettish blonde
head rests the most taking OF caps. All
that a be seen under the iail OF lace
that finishes her mask IL the end OF
a rounded chin that sinks I'm the prettiest
Of curves into the loveliest neck That Tom
thinks he has ever seen.
The quadrille comes 20 an end, and he
PUSHES forward To secure, IL possible, the
next uAnfe ITOIn tnt XIII "bo 10 ~
charmed him,
.what, monsieur, another dance 2" h
asks i'm n pretty Frcnch accent, which Ii
so perfect that Tom cannot tell IL II Is
assumed or not. "Eh bicn! ! cannot
refuse you."
She Slipped one white arm through his,
and Ton, loads his nrire Oft 10 a secluded
part OF the conservatory, to when she
seemed nothing loath TO go.
This is their first tete-a-tete, u 10
and answers Mi his remarks only by
nnro."iI.Sia
..I ~. acLnou,.iye Tint I am puz-
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ing the lace closer TO her chin. II must
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