Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-14

And an artist, Of cOurSe-Dut lSn IL Il trif1e ouixotc, Peter. to idealiZe them because they are having q good time: There's no virtue ill it. 1t is conceiva- ble that they might have to work just as hard and have just as many little children to look after and yet not have these dances you praise them for conl- ing to-
 I'm afraid you find us and our amusements little crude. Evidently the spirit of OUT dances does not 'ar- peal to you But 1 did not suppose it necessary to remind you that they should not be judged by the standard of conventional evening parties,' said Peter, hurt and angry ill his turn.
 .Ss, our amusements, our dances: So you are quite identified With these people. my dear Peter. and had thought you an ornament of cotillons and country clubs. I can only infer that it is somebody in particular Wb9 has brought about your change of heart
 Peter flushed little, and Kitty kept on: "s:e3ae O. the native beles are quite wonderful. believe. Mamie Wetmofe tells of d half breed who is very hand some
 Peter set his lips "At the expense of spelling sSslnnie's pretty romance must tel Nsu that the lady she refers to is Dot only the most beautiful of women, but she would be at ease in any drawing room.' Peter spoke with out calculating the conviction that his words carried. He was angry, and his manner, voice, intonation. showed it.
 Kitty. now that her most unworthy SusI.icions had been confirmed by pe- ter's ardent eham45ioning of Judith. lost her discretion ill the pang that gnawed her little soul: "I beg your pardon, Pe- ter When spoke did not, of course. know that this young woman was any thing to YOU.
 Anything to me? My dear Kitts. I've never had q better friend than Ju- dith EoGHey''
 ihe dance was; at it's flood tide. The eXhilaralion had grown With each sweep of the fiddle bow, with the sor- eeiS of sinuous, swaEing bodies. with the song of the dancers as they joined in the calling out of the figures. with the rhythmic shuttle of feet with tine hum Of the plIlses with the leaping of blood to cheek and heart till the dan cers whirled as leaves circling toward the eddieS of whirlpool The danc- ing Mrs. Dax split her favors into in- finites,. mai fragments, for each meas ure of which her long list of waiting gallants stood ready to pick quarrel if need be- Her dancing, ill the splen- dor of its spontaneity. had something of the surge of the west wind sweep ing over field of grain. Sometimes she waved back her partner and alone danced a figure. putting to the music her own interpretation-barb pas sionate, rude, but magnificently vivid. And the dancers would stop and crowd about her, clapping hands and stamp ing feet to the rhyming movement of her body, while against the wall her hostile sfster-inlaw, Mrs. Leander. stood and glared in a fury of disap- proval, Leander himself smiling broad ly meanwhile and exercising the ut most restraint to keep from joining Mrs. Johnnie's train.
 The XXX men, who had remained alOof from the dancers and the merri- nlent, keeping faithful vigil in the bunk room. where the hospitable bot ties were to be found, seemed to awaken from the spell that had bound thelu all day Henderson, the fore man, whose face had not lost it's tai low paleness despite the number of hi; potations. put his head through the door to have look at the dancing. Was caught ill the outernost eddy of the whriing tlrong and was soon dancing IS madly as the others. The rest of the XXX party still hugged the bunk room. where the bottles gleamea hos pitably The, were still dusty from their long r;de Of the carly monin@ and more than once their feal-qui@.,' enel ima&.nat,ons had been haunte, by tine specter of tue dead cottonWonls from ', .ic!l s1;.. thing he>is J aud .i5ai .hl warm had ben s"a ing Mhn. iler left it Nen'c"soii had scrare ..e d..nt..s,:e. Mrs itlX for | pa .t..e xs nc 'calHf out st:tioned between t.le TWO ran,-lS. vs.tTnl:.i to his genial tas& He inn trov ,sea. he put a wealtl, ot ;ln:s....s tlasioa and personality into his 1os::,1, he showered compartments on 'Ee niasb!enesS GI Mrs :saNiS feet. ht i'-ri II n:.e..son on his palior, he at.
 IL: .,! q !olid venture at Kitty ,Ju: ..n stood for d moment in tn sint y enyeloI fig darkness. and bel i.aart c.ia! out in rrot@s;t at the thi! she must ,lo. it vas the utmost sfs'ai of fntn that forced her l.era to daae' 3ll {! e cve5iiH. of the cay that 'hef ta l,i,es! hiis.s nut she ln4sst do t fhat | children iai-#t a9a9.e the .tis,Rla n "cat;la thief. -slat tie saa;'oy- of t,ie galla#s itee might Eoi fa'. fefe8s f'ie: young | es tlHt t.3e ne. .e'thor. nis-' give cre.lei.-e tu ;l.e tade of IiHl'> = cape fr rans his eieuse=, Sat Hi :; ail,' s.c lft..es.4..i ,afa tie tl(lee that w.;uid