The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-01

1900
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very sheet whereon he had commenced
his momentous message to the Denver
| schoolma' am.
Shuts was paralyzed.
Now, II Ia pretty art to make cigarette.
He followed her motions curiousiy. HOW
| judicously she sifted the tobacco into the
followed groovei How cleverly her fingers
wound the paper around the weed! How
slim her facile fingers were.
| Suddenly, on her quick moving fingers,
he noticed stain OF yellow. A CALLING
load slipped from his outraged ego. she
was a smoker OF cigarettes. -,
| Then Shultz brought himself back with
q shock. He was puritamcal Inc gri
was impossible.
smoke thoss things ne ''' Seiner yush,
It's a shame for a girl to do thing INK
that. And besides
| But she had raised the cigarette TO her
lips. He had not counted on that. a
queer feeling swelled UP In his bosom.
depressing his heartbeats and breathing:
The girl was looking at him with her
| Swallowed, sea. green eyes swimming with
tears Of pain and astonishment.. Then,
with her lips still parted. she slowly lowered
go on. he implored her. Finish
| 1t up!'
But she shook her head and started
| toward the door.
Il wasn't ni.e,' she murmered shame
Shufts caught her hands.
what Is your name' I want to know
o,,{ let ct. p S.6 by, En- Mamie R0mer0--'hey
Yea ii, S1 let YOU by But finish IT up for
mel want II, the cigarette. l must
have it.
He was quite daft now, was Shultz. and
he placed himself In her way with the reck-
less look which some women witness oftener
in Q lifetime than others. 1t may have
been that he girl had known the look be-
fore, She sighed little and moved again
give IL to me! You will, won't you,
Mamie RI"
She gave It to him and passed out And
Shultz, with a quick, indrawn breath
lifted the cigarette and kissed II, again
and again, on the damp edge where her
lips had touched 1t.
And that afternoon. because she did not
appear again. he broke into the habit OF
years and got his samples from the mine
He had simply forgotten that 1t was sunday
1t was late when he returned. He had
done deal OF thinking, which he Imagined
had profited him. Hut as he deposited
the canvas bags containing his samples
his ear caught the wall OF lone violin
across the street and he knew that the
dance was on
He sat down and prepared to finish his
letter 70 the Denver schoolma am. Through
the open window came laughter and the
| sound OF dancing feet. Mamie X. was
| there, he told himself scornfully, pow
wowiilg Oh the Sabbath night.
He bent his mind to tho written pages
| and tried to shut out the thought of her
but the tune of the fiddle came between
| him and the comprehension OF anything
| that was worded there. Never was sirens
| call as alluring as those fitful strains, and
| he stared at the letter despairingly Ike
| Ulysses OF, the mast.
Shultz seized his pen and dipped into
the ink
will you marry me'' he wrote des-
Then locking il his samples go much
! OF professional caution was left to him stilD.
| he plunged barehcaded down into the
| At rect to mail IL to the Denver school
ma am.
The letterdrop was by the open door
| of the ballroom where the light streamed
! out. When the letter fell he felt anchored
saved. The half-breed doorkeoper touched
! him on the arm
| .Ticket?- he said expectantly. Two
dolla'n half
Shultz paid the money and went inside.
! His moral fibre was weakened: It may have
! been that the late struggle of victory had
| thrown him OF his guard Certainly it
/ was not what he had meant to do.
She WAS dancing with Walt Tevis. the
Young boss Of the mine. Shultz woke up
! 10 the danger Of his position by finding
! himself horribly Jealous
! He noted with a savage feeling that his
rival was young and good-looking, and
that his arm was around her waist. He
decided that he would never buy the fell
| lows mine Then he decided thar he would
| buy il. and make him get away. Then he
ceased TO think OF him at all
In the whole roomfil he had eyes for
only her He could not have told what she
wore, but he knew thar she looked lovely,
! and that the brilliants were still in her hair.
The dance ended and Shulta pressed
! TO her side
-Nannia X. he murmured, "may | have
the next9-
mime" said Walt Tevis. aggrcssively
Her dances are all promised
I'm, abe slipped her arm into the arm OF
Shultz and they were on the floor
His dancing marked him true son OF the
Faiherisnd. He had music ia his coles,
and possessed a religion for pumps and
way. But that nj zht he was not conscious
of rough boards or heavy boots. but only
| of the soft slim thing his arm encircled
| He noted, with a sort Of wonder, how
perfectly her step glided into his. He
| ,hought there was something divine and