Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-17
THE NIGHT OF THE BALL

The excitement and the swift motion OF
| the dance had sent warm, rich flush
to her cheeks.
Of the many admiring eyes that fol
| lowed her in and out of the may waltz
two pairs, each bent upon her from
different parts of the room, showed more
than ordinary zeal in the persistence Of
their surveillance. The music stopped.
Sybil Moore on her way to a sorbet
au kirsch passed the possessor of one
eff those pairs of interested eyes.
'Will you excuse me just moment
Mr.. Wright" she asked her partner
Il shall join you shortly at the palm
settee in the red ROOM"
Sybil turned and held out her hand tc
the possessor of the eyes. Il saw you
arrive. How d'you do?"
'Sybil, you look lovely tonight"
! Don't talk nonsense. Percy"
you know l mean what / say"
| aren't you tired of rolling out the
same pretty speeches to every pretty
woman you meet 2"
| s''You are unjust, Sybil. You know
dear, that | love you"
"And if | so far forgot myself as to
| yield, where, think you, would your love
lead me?" she looked across the room
and encountered another pair of eyes
Those were eyes of fire-and purroseful
Something was going to happen She told
herself, and that shortly.
"Sybil, can't you be serious?''
"Methinks the times be strangely
the tempter, not the tempted"
Now you know very well how stupid
it is to talk like that You know that
Eve is still the temptress."
Percy, you're growing sententious.
But | must leave you. Mr. Wright will
be coming to look for me-"
Cad she's a peach" muttered Percy
NARROW as he moved toward the smoke
room, "and, hang me, if l let her slip.
She's grown on me too much for that
now
Ten minutes later he had thrown his
half smoked cigarette into the fire The
hot atmosphere of the room seemed
antagonistic to his nerves, so he passed
on to the lobby and thence out into the
cool, refreshing evening air.
Another man, who had been deepIs
interested watcher of Percys move
ments, also stepped into the evening air.
Sybil was a witness of these silent de-
partures and grew apprehensive, but she
could not break up the set, however
great was her desire that way.
Percy NARROW leaned an elbow on the
balustrade of the veranda and gave him.
self over to contemplation and putting
smoke wrcaths.
Suddenly footstep upon the gravel
Just behind reused him from dreamland.
But before he had time to turn or to
speak a man stood at his side
DELIGHTFULLY."- cool out here, Mr. Mar
low" commented the newcomer
0yoa want me to argue the point %
mo / want to say something on
quite different matter. D'you mind
having n stroll round the lake? It's
pleasanter than here and we're less like
ly to be interrupted"
What is it you want to say? Moth
ing serious. l hope. | make a rule never
to talk seriously at ball"
so | imagined?"
What do you mean?"
''What | say. My names John Deane.
Am quite plain?"
"Very!" assented Percy meaningly.
Let that stand Will you walk round
the lake?''
NO need Say what you've got to say
here can spare you just five minutes"
you may be induced to spare me
longer than that, though l reckon five
minutes will just be about enough to
say what I've got to say
MAKE it less if you can
You return to London this morning,
| believer" 1t was now approaching
! ? a. m.
Not if I know it." replied Percy.
Who told you that story2'
| 1--WE needn't discuss that. | think.
however, You win consent to leave
Levenworth by the $3.50 express
"Then you think this conversation is
! likely to interest me; permit me to wish
you good morning.
| Deane held up his hand you allowed
me five minutes, NARROW; they are not
yet up"
well, what is it you want to say"
Are you going to marry Miss Moore -
What the devil is that to your"
"Much-very much. VIII you answer
the question:"
Certainly not I decline to discuss
1 MASS NiNttt WIN NpNls lftt hit pass
Not yet, Mr. MARROW, You've been
contriving to see a good deal of Miss
Moore for some months past You met
her. / believe, in London; you seem to
| take a great interest in hec. and now
You come here towel, you know best
what"
Go on; 60 on
Again l ask, do you intend to marry
| Sybil Moore 60
! Does man marry every girl he rays
compliments or attentions ro?"
Don't try to pass it off that way. /
ask "a straight question"
And what right have you to ask a
question at all2'
"Sybil Moore is more to me than she
Is to You, Now do You understands"
Then why the deuce don't you marry
the girI!' At last NARROW had struck
his opponent in weak spot.
John Deane could be masterful enough
with other men: he could play as GOOD
| a game of polo as any in the couptry- he