The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-30

TOGETHER THEY EXTRACTED THE SKIRT.
and leaning her cheek down to one
of the Gloire de Dion triumphs. "Oh
tomorrow. please come quicklyw
A thorn caught her skirt as she was
In the act OF moving on.
MAY / help?" asked Burton TEN.
pie, advancing. Unknown to her he
had been reading in the little vine GOV.
cred pagoda opposite, Cato at his feet
Together they extracted the skirt. a
fragile texture transparent with lace
a faint perfume in 1t. He noticed that
she wore porte bonheur on her arm
with turquoise in it. 1t made the
skin look white, or the skin made II
look blue. The petty common service
| broke the spell of formality which
usually existed between them in the
library.
Are you going farther down tho
path? May l walk with your? he
asked, and, having received the assent
of her head and nonchalant 'If you
WISH" he began:
''Do you know what 1 was thinking
about, Miss Dale, as l sat there in the
pagoda? l was wondering where l
had met you before. Since the very
first day you came / have often Won
dered that. i have seen you before
oh. no, there is no doubt about it-but
where / can't recall"
''In some other incarnation, I dare
say" laughed she. 'Was it when we
were swinging from trees or not so
long ago rs that? Could it"-yes. she
would tempt the fates and be down.
right courageous-'could it have been
in the days when / was in the
Exchange building. One meets SO
many
"The Exchange building? All. pre-
cisely! / recall it all now. and how
used to find myself unwittingly look
ing for you after that first day. But
l was called south, and when i came
back you had vanished" He spoke
reminiscently.
1.-The first day? don't quite under
stand queried she.
Il was coming down in the elevator,
harried to death, my mind in n fright
full state of turmoil. j found you
watching me from some crowded cor
ner, and / looked directly into your
eyes" He studied her now with
smile serious and tender. III looked,
and it was like bathing ones face in
a pool of spring water after a hot
Journey" he ended simply.
- a..
BILE vividness to Anna that she spoke
spontaneously:
You did look worried"
ooh, you remember, too?" he cried.
81 can't tell you how glad that makes
me. couldn't get you out of my mind
somehow. You see, never did get
you out of my mind. Some faces stay
with us. Yours stayed"
The woman beside him had become
very grave. feeling the beat OF her
pulse quicken with the distant surge
Of strange joy, a joy indistinct as
the tremor Of an unrisen sun, yet all
pervasive. Realizing her danger, dcft-
ly she veered her mood.
"Yes, l passed our old elevator boy
on the street few months ago." she
remarked casually, STOPPING to pat the
mastiffs head. 81 remembered his face,
too, though it had been over decade
since saw him."
The mans face was rueful as he nod
ed appreciation of her tactics.
Below them was the broad expanse
Of the Hudson, scintilating as sap
phire in the glow of the summer after
noon. A yachting party steaming up
river waved hats and handkerchiefs mt
them in pure good fellowship. 1t SEEM
ed good to be alive. Temple pulled
two chairs under the shade of the
trees, and they sat down. In the dis
lance the cliffs Of the Palisades rose
and beckoned alluringly.
do you know what I used to call
them, those cliffs?" said he, seeing his
companion's eyes upon them. my
enchanted palaces. when I was a |
child the palace of cnchantment meant
The future, the mysterious, ineffable |
future when / should be grown up,
when should be a man, when the |
world would be my garden. the world |
ana life and all their riches mine TO |
explore. to adventure in. And, oh. the
people by whom the world and the fu-
ture were inhabited, the cavalcading
the lovely princesses! Love
ind glory and all manner of romance.
had them for the wishing. Did you
'yer have such an enchanted palace,
Mss Dale?" asked he whimsically.
YES" acquiesced she softly, falling
n with his mood. the sympathetic
'ond which always asserted itself
when she was not on guard. drawing
Ter once again. "Oh. yes; I, too.
lad my enchanted palace. a many pin.
Iacled palace built of gold and silver.
worry, alabaster and mother of pearl:
ne fountains In Its courts ran with
waters Her voice trailcd
n dreamily. and Temple thrilled with
he music OF II. And its pleasaunce
Fas an orchard OF pomegranates. One
al no need to spare ones colors, you
now" She turned to, him with nm
dorable smile.
Il know" He was M ono with bar