The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-29

faith to the gfaceS OF person as uluth
as they did to it's proves, its achieve
ments In hand to hand conflicts and its
preservation from the legai duress that
constantly mennced it. They viewed.
then. the genuftexions aud alluring
poses of this visitor with their chinS
at a new angle.
"A friend of mine. Mr.. Terry OSui-
livan." was MaggiP's formula of intro
duction. She led him around the room.
presenting him to each pew arriving
Clover Leaf Almost was she pretty
now. with the unique luminosity in
her eyes that comes 10 a girl with her
first sutton and kitten with its first
mouse.
Maggie Toole's got fellow at last.
WAS the word that went around among
the paper box girls. Pip" Mays floor
walker!' Thus tn" Give and Takes
expressed their Indifferent contempt.
Usually at the weekly hops Maggie
kept a spot on the wall warm With her
back. she felt and show ed so much
gratitude whenever self sacrificing
partner invited her to q dance that
his pleasure was cheapened and di-
miniShed.
But tonight TIE pumpkin had turned
to a coach and six Terry O'Sullivan
was a victorious i'rince Charming. and
Maggie Toole winged her first butter
fly fight.
The girls besie"pd her for introduc-
lions to her fellow The Glover Leaf
Young men. after two years of blind
ness. suddenly perceived charms ii,
Miss Tooe. They tlexed their com.
pelling muscles before her and be
spoke her for dance.
Thus she scored, but to Terry O,Sul
Ivan the honors of the evening fei.
thick and fast. He shook his curls. he
smiled and went easily through the
seven motions for acquiring grace IN
YOUR own room before an open window
ten minutes each day. He danced like
faun, he introduced manner and
style and atmosphere, his words came
trippingly upon his tongue, and-he
waltzed twice in succession with the
paper box girl that Dempsey Donovan
| brought.
Dempsey was the leadei Of the as
ISOLATION. He wore a dress suit ano
could chin the bar twice with one
hand. He was one of Big Mike
| O'SuIlivan's lieutenants and was never
troubled by trouble. No cop dared tC
arrest him Whenever he broke
pushcart mans head or shot a mem
Der of the Heinricn 3. sweeney Out
ing and Literary association IN the
kneecap an officer would drop around
and say:
',The capn d like 10 see ye few
minutes round to the Office whin "
have time, Dempsey. me boy
But there would be sundry gentle
men there wi, i large gold fob chains
and black cigars. and somebody would
tell funny story. and then Dempse,
would go back and work half an hou
with the six pound dumbbells. So do
ing a tight rope att on wire stretched
across Niagara was safe terpsich
orean performance compared witt
waltzing twice with Dempsey Done
vans paper box girl, At ID o'clock til
Jolly round face of big Mike" OSulli
van shone at the door for i've minute
upon the scene. He always looked i
for FIVE minutes. smiled III the girl
and handed out perfectos Ia the boys,
Dempsey Donovun was at his elbo'
instantly, talking rapidly. Big Mike
looked carefully at the dancers, smilee
shook his head and departed.
The music stepped. The dancers sea
tered to the chairs along the walls
Terry O'SuIlivan. with his entrancin
bow, relinquishcd a pretty girl in blu
to her partner and started back to nm
Maggie Dempsey intercepted him /
the middle of Ia floor
Some fne instinct that Rome mus
have bequeathed to us caused nearl
every. one to turn and look at then
There was a subtle feeling that I"
gladiators had met in taa arena T7S
or three Give and Tales with til
coat sleeves drew nearer.
zone moment. Mr. O'Sulliyan," sa'
Dempsey. uOpt yON ~ ChJo9 u
yourself. Where did You say ye
lived r
The two gladiators were well mate
ed. Dempsey had perhaps ten poun'
of weight to give away. The O'Sul
van had breadth with quicknes
Dempsey had a glacial eye. domino
ing slit. of a mouth. an indestructib
jaw. a complexion like a bellies al
the GOODNESS of champion. The visit
showed more fire in his contempt al
less control over his conspicuous snet
I They were enemies by the law WRIT
when the rocks were molten. TIL
were each too splendid. too mighty. t
; incompatible. to divide pre-eminent
! One only must survive.
ST live oil Grand" said O'Sulliv
$ insolently. land no trouble TO find I
n at home. Where do you live?''
Dempsey ignored the question,
e "You say your names O'Sulliva1
I he went on. well. Big Mike says
q never saw you before"
e "I.ots of things he never saw" So
the favorite of the hop.
Ie ga. "a r,,Io want on Hano0Snu hi