Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-11-29

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She has laughed as softly as she has
sighed.
She has counted six and over,
With a purse well filed and heart
well tried.
0. each worthy loveri
E 3. Browning.
The warm. fragrant SUMMER night
had closed down with a long line OF
silver rirnllng across the lake and
glitter OF stars in he purple sky, But
the gay crowd in the great dance pAvil-
ion Of the most fashionable summer re-
sort on the Michigan coast apparently
cared little for the external lovel;ness
encompassing them
The music rose and fell, quite drown
ing the gentle FLASHING of the waters
on the beach. The place was ahiaze
with electricity. Young women in the
airiest Of summer gowns. men In the
rigid monotony Of masculine attire,
whirled and eiroled and revolved in the
kAleidoscopie convolutions Of two
step" and waltz.
Perhaps Of them all not one expert
enced the same fresh and enthusiastic
enjoyment that flushed rose-pink the
soft cheeks Of lisa verden. She was
only Is She had just graduated. She
had not yet been introduced in the
world OF leisure and Of pleasure. But
already she was sought. hattered. ad-
mired.
Jack Lindsay, leaning against a pill |
lar and following with gloomy eyes Of |
Jealous concentration the bewitching
young figure in the girlish. beribboned |
gown. felt his heart grow hot with |
wrath toward the man with whom she |
wss dancing.
Halo, Hamlet" cried a hearty |
voice, A hand came down on his
shoulder with a friendly slap. Been |
seeing your fathers spirit this even
ing? You look as though you had"
Lindsay Strengthened up. turned, |
looked into the ugly. cheerful face Of
lisa Yerdep's brother
See here. Sam-this things a |
deuced shamei"
"Comrads of my boyhood days
what thing?"
lisa Is dancing with that-that cad.
Second time tonight"
mo? Is she?" The twinkle went |
out of Sans merry little eyes. and he |
looked anxioasly around the room.
"Sure enough"
For Just then Isa foated by them a
bewildering vision of youth and beau
ty. Her dress Of silver gauze was cut /
to shoy the full throat-the slender,
hAif-bared arms. There was a love
knot Of baby-blue ribbon at her bosom
and cluster of field daisies in her
brown hair. She nodded to her broth
er and Jack Lindsay-her red lips
smiling, her eyes like blue stars. Then
she was swept away In the firm guild
ing grasp Of the best dancer and most
disliked man at the hotel
''If she only knew the kind Of a chap
he Isl" groaned Lindsay. He's moth
ing but an adventurer-a card sharper.
He has boasted that he would marry
the daughter Of millionaire. know
two rich girls who have thrown him
over"
Hes widower. isn't he?"
Yes. Gambled his wife's money and
broke her heart in the bargain. Tell
you what. we've got to think up some
scheme to stop this intimacy"
Bet your life" said Sam. He
Strengthened his big. awkward body
and looked determined He was fond
OF his innocent little sister-prord Of
her. too.
Once out of the heated, glaring hall
they walked towards the lake, went
down the flight Of steps leading to the
beach, paced there side by side in the
pleasant silence possible only between
cloSe and tried friends.
Guess who's here-came to-day"
said Jack Lindsay at last. Garment"
Carmen? Who's Garment"
Don't you remember that handsome
cashier in the Clark street restaurant
when you and were cubs clerking in
the Monadnock-before your father
maoe MS Die IN HhedtI
"of course do. The Castilian beau
t.. The one for sake OF whose smile
we ate steaks like shoe leather and
underdone piel Six or seven years ago,
isn't It? And she's here. Did you
speak to the old girl? Has any one
left her a fortune?"
Il spoke to her-yes. She's mighty
handsome yet. Rouges, though. She
used not need to do that. She's at the
same old plaee-same old work. She
was rather embarrassed at meeting me-
Asked me not to say anything about
the cashier business. Said she had
always wanted to get in with a swell
crowd and fly as high as the best Of
kheu. Think Of it, She's been saving
for four years-saying on her beggarly
salary-to buy clothes and make a
splurge! She says she has three
trunks! Poor seull" Mndsays aristc-
cratic face was gentle with compassion
in the moonlight '-The shabby little
ambition was pathette as she told it,"
'She needn't fear wen blab. I'll see
she has a rafting good time. Sam
verden had heart of golc, Let's
give the impression that she's & for
eigner Of position. Let's pretend-O,
say. Jack. I've got IT, BY lingo, I've
got IT now!"
He stopped short, chuckling with de-
light He cut pigeon wing with ele-
phantine grace. II his proportions
were less ponderous he might have at
tempted to stand on his head.
"Jack-listen!" He ratified on his
plan, doubling up in ecstatie eonvuI-
sions, shaking with laughter. "She's
game! She's just the girl for I'll She
Will have all the attention she Graves,
and II the festive scamp who is max
ing love 10 lisa doesn't walk into the
iran call me a Turk"