Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-01

by JoEe! Billy, do you see that."
dressed. who was called Billy by his friends
CHIEFLY because that was not his name,
lighting another cigar before he threw
away the last and watched it's little spark
hiss and quench in the water.
That
That" said Billy after a long gaze, "is
a demonstrative dangerous pronoun relat-
Ing in this case to Miss Honoria Hensler.
the best equipped flirt in these or any other
waters.
You know her. then" said Sir Brooke,
turning to look at him, rather Intellectually
through the darkness in that spot
ITO my cost" said Billy, rolling his cigar
between his teeth. That is to say" he
added. after some moments silence and
recollection and decision Il was over here
last year, and made a fool of myself as
every other man does who ever sees her
hont burn your fingers there, Brooke. She
has the beauty of marble statue-and lust
as much heart in her body"
Married." asked Sir Brooke
Single. In the late twenties. Lots Of
rich relatives, but only about a thousand a
year herself Five thousand. they call it
here, with their usual big mouth
You couldn't marry her on that. Billy'
with some mems pleasant way of stating a
No That was the mischief of it., said
Billy, frankly. You can"
Not marrying man. Billy
Il wouldn't trust the statue in trafalgar
square with her. If she chose to turn its
Had it bad, Billy"
ell, II you know when you're in luck.
and you don't want it bad yourself you'll
put on steam and be out of this by day
break tomorrow
Run away from danger, eh?'
BY Jove, there's some dangers a man
had best pass by on the other side
Il don't know but you're right. Gree
turned her men to beasts This damsel
seems to sour the milk of human Kindness
Come, 1t Is rather interesting-and we we're
getting dull. What do you say, Billy? Do
call Off second best in these affairs?'' turn
ing on him.
You've had enough Of them to know
said Billy. sulkily.
And I'm not a heart broken misogynist
yet? And never shall be? One can't always
come on winner There's a pleasure in de-
serving victory. Worthy antagonist. don't
you know, a shiver of danger, a trembling
on the edge of triumph"
something more of the danger"
We'll, I'm feeling fairly fit Suppose we're
set over there tomorrow. Jovei There's an
old woman there 1 know, too, See her?
FROM queen Boadacea in the direct line
y-Denderby-what the-oh, bennett.
yes. AND he looked again for the girl in
the light with the great rose on her breast
But she was lying back in her chair near
the Side, almost out of sight, and letting
the soft cool air blow over her while
Charley Osborne amused her. Perhaps in
the gloom Sir Brooke's fancy magnified ali
the beauty he had seen. and as he leaned
toward it he could not tell whether he saw
or dreamed its loneliness
me great sound steamer went putting and
painting by with emerald and ruby eIints
laying golden organ-pipes down the dark
waters, moving palace of light The
yachts rose and fell In the slow spell of the
slpplng tide; the stars looked family ONT
Dehind a veil of haze: now and then through
tne Wlde spaces long watts of the perfume
OF MOWERS streamed past by way Of the land
now and then by way of the sea came a
strong tanning of its chill salt breath.
From distant deck womans voice rose
and filed the dark hollow of the heaven
with the sparkling deliciousness of Manon's
drinking song. In the following silence onIv
the chimes of the clocks from far-off towers
fell, and the bell of this ship and of that
sounded the hour. and there seemed to be in
all the atmosphere of the summer night and
sea certain waiting and expectancy of
pleasure, If not of joy
PART H.
If Miss Honoria Hensler had not had as
surances to that effect in plenty, she could
hardly have looked in her mirror without
knowing that she was an exceedingly beau
tiful woman. When she stood up In the
full glow of the electric lights, with her
white gown and her red rose, while the
Italian dropped the wrap on her shoulders
she was quite well aware that the fleet was
not 30 widely scattered that she was not
the center of many eyes with or without a
glass in all that circumambient darkness.
And she was not at all surprised when, at