New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-09-15
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utomatic rise and fall of the pianist's steel
fingers striking out deep octaves in the bass
and wonderful treble runs that shook the piano
like storm. The pianist seemed to take no
notice of the crowd beyond occasional comment
on their individual appearance or character
istics. His whole interest in them he, in fact
summed up to the cornet player during an in
terval in the programme. They never seem
ady to let up, do they%' The cornet player
almost enved him his supreme Indifference. He
questioned with himself whether the pianist had
at any time wished to change places with
them; to dance, for once in his life while others
did the playing. He imagined him man from
whom long hardening had removed all human
feeling
on Saturday evenings the hop WAS open to
outsiders The dancing was then from . to II
The atmosphere in the big room under the
glare of the lights. all but tropical. The
orchestra played with handkerchefs tucked
strategicaly into their collars. Windows were
open to the west veranda outside where the
older people sat cut and listened to the music
Between numbers the dancers crowded out 10
stroll up and down between the closely placed
chairs. the girls with light wraps flung round
their threats in the cooler air. Inside the
emptied room the musicians leaned back and
famed themselves with sheet music. glancins
doWs came mosquitoes and the hum of voices
and. very rarely. 4 breeze.
Between hours their time was degree
their own. They employed these intervals Of
leisure after their own fashion. The vionist
chiefly read police novels the pianist lounged
about the bar with his hat on and perpetual
cigar between his teeth ond occasions
when the hotel clerk of duty played poker
y th him in 4 back bedroom. Through no in
tent on their part of ursociahity. ii happened
that the colnet player found spare time hanging
heavily upon his hands He used to loiter about
the outskirts of the tennis courts and watch
the game. The Harvard student was always
largely in evidenca. He seemed. in fact to lead
everything Tho hotel omnibus journeyed to the
beach and ba K with a load Of guests twice n
day; frequently the Harvard student usurped
the box seat. and drove the dusty team himself
aided by hilarious advice hurled from the rear.
He had banjeaurine, and on hot afternoons
the young people used to gather at one end Of
the veranda ana shout college songs and
choruses. The corEet player. smoking in de-
serted corner of the lawn by the sidewalk fence
could hear their voices distinctly. Many of the
songs were familiar to him
1t was at one of these afternoon gatherings that
he first noticed the girl. She was a newcomer to
the hotel, but it seemed that she knew many of
the people there. Acquaintance were continu-
ally coming up to shake hands with her over the
heads of her circle of COMPANIONS and sh,. hailed
them all delightedly by name. The veranda end
became speedily d little tumult of voices and
laughter
The cornet player looked for her that evening
among the dancers. Presently he her. She
danced exquisitely: he had somehow known that
by instinct Her partner was the Harvard stu
dent, who appeared. the ground Of old ac-
simultaneously. to have annexed her frankly
from the moment of her arrival
She small and bright and charming and