The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-06-29

on the next day-it was early in Sep
| tember-Sotie AEON made her initial
business trip with Mrs. Sahadi many
OF the ways of Gotham were still new
to her. So far she had picked up a lit
tie English. She knew that the ele-
waited trains and the subways got to
the Battery, near the Syrian quarters.
| She had vague idea that policeman
/ was a panacea for all manner Of evil,
and she was aware that people were
| perfectly lovely to her, though why
she couldn't understand. At any rate,
they beamed pleasantly on her, some
times looking twice, and she liked
them for it. She frequently smiled
back in her half shy. half frank, be-
witching little way.
| 1t was about in the afternoon
when Mrs. Sahadi and Sole were drift
ing along Broadway in the shopping
district Sole was very tired. She
wasn't anywhere nearly as large nor
as robust as her aunt, and her feet
were little and tender. 1t was strange
how much harder the sidewalks were
uptown than they were down on
Washington and Greenwich and Car
isle streets. Then, too, she was hun
CRY and thirsty, and her face was hot
I'VE will go home now. Sole, DEAR"
said her aunt finally.
AS Mrs. Sahadi was stopping and
gathering her wares into her big bas-
ket an imposing automobile chugged
swiftly up to the curb, and a man
sprang from the tonneau. Sole start
ed. The man was young and the very
embodiment of her dreams.
/ He was tall and broad about the
shoulders. His features were fair.
clean cut and smooth shaver. his hair
was blond and ripping, and as his
eyes glimpsed braveIy into hers she
saw that they were blue. He was
elegantly and fashionably dressed, and
she noticed he wore gloves.
For the brief space of moment he
stopped before her, and they stood mo-
tionless. not needing the people who
brushed past them with curious gaze.
Sofle couldn't help looking at him. yet
she had always been told she shouldn't
stare at any one. His eyes smiled,
and hers answered him in childish in
nocence.
Eye GODS" exclaimed Robert May
hew under his breath, '.if here isn't an
exotic gem there isn't such a thing on
earth! | believe she's the prettiest girl
/ ever saw In all my life" Just then
Sofe's red lips parted, and her beauty
was maddening. There was no fur
Their doubt in Mayhew's mind-she was
undeniably the prettiest: she was mar.
velously lovely.
Suddenly Sole felt frightened. She
blushed furiously and bent her eyes on
the still busy figure Of her aunt. The
satisfied look which flickered across the
mans handsome face escaped the girl;
her heart was humping so that she
dared not look up again.
BE here tomorrow afternoon at 5,
won't you. please?" said he in low,
fascinating voice. Remember, Broad
way and Eighteenth street," Then be
stepped briskly across the sidewalk
and disappeared into store. He had
not waited for her answer; he knew
his influence with women.
Sole wanted to tell Mrs. Sahadi all
about It, but the streets were so noisy
and crowded as they trudged along to
the elevated train that she couldn't
talk intelligibly, and as soon as they
were seated In the car Mrs. Sahadi
dropped of into doze and didn't wake
up until they got to Rector street. So
she silently dreamed and pictured the
future, which, for the most part, was
comprised of herself arrayed in fine at
tire, enjoying the thousand and one
expensive appurtenances which rich
women have and of gratifying her de
sires to an inexha ustible extent. Two
or three times she found herself hold
Ing her breath as in her minds eye she
contemplated all this-and be always
beside her. oh, how exquisite!
At 3 the next afternoon Sole emerg-
ed from a side street on to Broadway
near the appointed place. The auto
mobile was waiting, and he was stand
ing beside 1t. Mayhew's pulse thrilled
when he saw her coming. She was all
in white. even to shoes and hat. and
she had put on some gloyes-she re-
membered he wore gloves. To be sure,
her clothes were cheap, but that didn't
matter, she was so tremendously stun
ming. Around her neck she wore a
string of coral beads, and there were
little knobs Of coral in her babyish |
ears
She walked straight over to the mo-
tor as though she were going to her
own from a shopping errand. and with
a broad smile OF greeting Mayhew's
strong hands closed on the sides of her |
slim waist. and be half lifted her
slight but prettily rounded little zig.
ure into the tonneau. Then he sprang
in beside her and they were away.
Sole could scarcely believe she was
awake and on earth. Her dream was
coming true so suddenly that it seemed
unreal Here was she riding in an
thing she had never be-