The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-10

cidedy witty She attempted little English occasionally
mounting the words very prely with French accent
liver few rapid incomprehensblc quite deber
atey looking at him through half closed lids and smiling
she turned away. Her eyes wriniled pleasantly as she
did this and her mouth apt become unmanageabe
while her eyebrows went up and downwhat Mademoselle
Parches was thinking of Justin would have given good
deal to know.
The tender meeting the "Obdam" was to leave the cty
at eight o'clock Saturday evening; that afternoon, there
lore was the last time that the two could meet and the
three hours the beach below the Boulevard were we'll
filed with their sports and II seemed rather
cruel to Justin that such an experience as this new friend
ship would come to end without some trace of regret
the part of his newmade friend but nothing he could
do succeeded in drawing from Madenosee Parchesi any
expression OF concern at the approaching separation and
she obviously parried his advances in this direction his
hurt him good deal 1t inconsistent with the esti-
mate he had formed of her character to be unceng
for she had always been frank and sympathetic before in
all their meetings.
He threw off this feeling Of disappointment well as
he could nevertheless ard determined to make the best
OF this last opportunity of seeing her He had had three
days OF unconventional almost primitive, comradeship witt
her, happily without hint of dscord He would spoil
that now by disagreement He was very glad T. have
had no hope of seeing her again. and he gave
himself up to the pleasure of this last time
They walked up the beach quietly than usual and
by FIVE o'clock reached the place where they had first met
The shore deserted and they sat down together with
little embarrassment the tension of their approacinq
nervous attempts railery These she gave up after
while. and sat Quietly gazing at the sea-
was behind her silence II was time before he could
pull himself together enough to goodbye and then tie
old difficulty confronted him. the barrier Of language
with her in the gathering dusk of sky and sea-for the
last time Again the temptation to free his mind
great to be resisted
Il can't stand ii won't stand it I" he said "The idea
of being here with girl like you, whom hal probably
never see again in my life, and not able to talk 70 you
By Jove, H talk to to YOU whether you understand or
not! You're my kind; of the same caste ] know
it by every gesture you make. There ought to be
for T ~ ha ALL
understand what you say, if you spoke Arabic DAY
like tis Ard could make myself worth your While
not afraid to tell the truth about either myself you But
what's the assP You're nT1unmyyoure Ghost
of dissatisfaction through clenched teeth
Madcnoscle Parchesi certainly did look Ike either
aghost mummy, or deaf-mpc, for she up STRAIGHT
capped her hands and cried Encoyei eHeoyet laughing
nervously.
II seemed foolish Justin to go on So talking TO him
self in this ridiculous way but there was something In the
girls attention that encouraged him. he hardly knew why
Of the case awakened in him He went on with he no
logue speaking more to himself than to her
I'D like to know who are! don't mean your name
and residence but who you rccy arewho you me-
and what it means, my meeting you like this"
Mademoisee Parcies did not attempt to reply but
sat back watching his profile outired against the sky
She seemed more serious than she had seemed before
longer said, Vat ess ee9 in broken English Her hands
tightly claped together and her teeth set on
her lower lip Justin gazcd at her as if she
portrait
You've got such funny face" he continued @You'rs
not bit pretty, but you've got what not one woman in
ten has and that's personality No would ever for
get yoK There's something in behind your face sat trns
the lights up and down. and off red and green fire.
and stage-Inanages whole expression Let me see
your hand r ard he reached for it assuredly
She gave him little reluctantly ard ne inspected Il
at his leisure. "Hml" he murmured in manner tbat
palmists What headline You're in no danger
from that two inches Of heart. You'll i've to be-
eighty-six years old. Yes. you'll be married
How would you like to be narried-4o mel
Mademoiselle Parchess hand curled almost inpercep
tby but Justin did release it. He turned it over
felt OF the phalanees tested the density the flesh and
the moothness of the skin There little pads on the
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