Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-08-22
"But 1 could DO nothing" she said

persons turned around with sympa-
thetic smile uron their faces.
The next night there was dancing
party at the house of a friend of Marie.
She went to il MS eagerly as if it. had
been her first bail. and she was lovely
sight in her white gown with its sill
yer lilies of the valley woven in the
mesh and her necklace of turquoises.
She carried lilies OF the valley and for
get-me-nots. A daintier maid or a
more joyful one it would have been
hard to have imagined.
Her programme was filled ten min
utes after she had entered the ball
room, and as she danced it seemed to
her that life was never so nearly per-
feet as when the music throbbed, and
everyone was gay-hearted, and the
lights burned and the flowers perfumed
the air, ana she. Marie, cohld lend her.
self to the rhythm and the joy and
dance.
Miss Vanderpool," said one gentle
man, as he led her to her seat, II have
danced with a great many good dane
ers in my life, but have never enjoyed
a waltz so much as the last one. 1t is
the perfection of motion which you
have, and it is chaming gift. Really,
can call it nothing less than gift"
He had expected careless acknowledge
ment of this compliment, and was
amazed when she said, gravely:
"And gifts something which ought
to be used, I suppose. That is what my
sisters would say"
"Then they would approve of you,
surely for have you not been putting
it to the best use possible?"
81 mean that it ought to be used for
Others"
at has been-for as many Others as
could avail themselves of it. ] regret
that it has not been used more for me.
One dance is short allowance it seems
to me-"
The beautiful head was shaken with
yet greater gravity.
"Some time soon I am going to show
you what 1 mean, Mr. Hadley." and
then, smiling and dimpling, she went
away with her next partner.
1t was a month later when Kenneth
Hadley received letter from Miss Van
derpool, asking him to be at the Brown
street settlement on a certain night.
Mr.. Hadley was not interested in set
Elements, but he was in Miss Wander
pool, and he accepted the invitation.
His cab took him along a thronged
street, past tenement houses and sa-
looms and shops and stores till he came
to the brightly lighted tenement house
standing tidy and serene-looking. in
the midst of block. He asked for Miss
Vanderpool, and was shown past the
crowded classrooms and lecture halls
and music rooms to room on the up
per floor. The sound of a piano, violin
and harp came out to salute his ears
with a familiar tune, and he opened
the door and stood within a large room
filled with young men and women.
But it was not a party which he be-
held. He saw that at once. 1t was a
dancing class. The pupils stood in line,
awaiting the directions of their
teacher.
He looked about him for Miss Van
derpooI, but the chairs by the wall
were vacant. Probably he had arrived
too soon. However, he decided to in
quire of the teacher. At that moment he
beheld her-Marie Vanderpool-in her
pretty pink frock with its short dane
ing skirt, standing before the class. 1t
was she who was the teacher. Her eyes
had never seemed brighter. The smiles
which were never willing to leave
her lips played about them be-
witchingly. Her golden head looked
more adorable and unkempt than eyer.
She seemed the incarnated spirit of the
| ioy Of life. She came running toward
him.
Come. comet" she cried. 81 in
weighed you over here with purpose. l
wanted you to show us the mazurka.
You dance it so beautifully" She
called to the musicians to play a ma
zurka, gave the class permission to be
seated, and poised herself delicately.
Come, come" she cried again, 81 in
S st on your dancing the best you know
bow"
Kenneth Hadley. the dignified and
reserved, the man who had thought
himself It little better Than others and
had held himself somewhat haughtily
uloof, bowed to his destiny aud entered
heart and soul upon his task.
Nearly the whole evening was spent
upon this dance.
"We must get it just right" Miss Van
dcrpool insisted. "You see, WE are not
learning in quite the usual way on ac-
count of lack of the knowledge of he
ru,liments on the part of the teacher"
And she laughed. "But we propose to
dance as we'll as those who have learned
| in the regular, old-fash'oned way"
Uadlcy looked about him and saw in
every face, whether it was that of a
Young man or young woman, of Jew
or Christian, of German, bohemian,
Scandinavian, or Italian. of factory
hand or worker in the stock yards, a
look of admiration and respect for Miss
| Vanderpool. Moreover, her infectious
happiness had brought vivacty and
something akin to delight even into
| the heaviest face.
II never liked your dancing so much
Us 1 do at this hour" he said to her,
earnestly. II wish I might help you
now and then"
20 you could, you could! But for
YOU perhaps should not have realized
! that l had one talent. 1t never oc-
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