Middletown transcript., 1911-09-23

tions, and some daredevil
prompting that sought fol
ancestry back Of the grocery
store ambitions OF the two h'
had called father and mother.
She who lifted him with one
glance of her dusktilmed eye:
into the realm of Romance wa
a bit Of the odds and ends of life
which, as if obeying an i'm
mutable law, lay their career il
in the camps. Nightly, she
sang and danced-a dance witt
a wild Zingara movement in it
at the Home of Joy.
Karrick was searching the
eyes for something, he didnt
know what, when the dance
stopped abruptly in the middle
At this hitch in the program
there was an oath, long enough
to have perspective, ripped out
by Rag.Time Rawley, piano
FOUNDER, assistant bouncer anc
part owner of the Home OF Joy
dance hall. Then a coon shoutel
took possession OF the boards.
and the interruption was for
gotten.
But Karrick did not forget
Romance had tossed her allurine
smile his way. No longer was
he q visitor, a mere onlooker
ready to return to his inherited
counter1umping activities witt
the first gust of wind through
his tent. In an instant, ne be
came of the life that grips. The
can't, the hypocrisy, all the ad
ventitious qualities of his former
Snug existence, fell from him
like q worn out coat.
So for a year, two years
nearly three. Then the smile O.
Romance lost some of its lure
It went away. Wrinkles gather
at the corners of the mouth
The eyes grew tired. Some o
the wildness left the ZIngar'
dance. The hips no longer hat
the old supple swing.
Karrick became restless; sh'
of the dusk.filmed eyes, watch
full. The heat which falls on TIL
desert like a breath from hell
the wind that cuts like a sword
had imprinted their mark upol
her. There was resort to rouge
to powder dashed with patchouli
to hide the ravages of time. B.
way of tribute to his earl!
environment, the make.belleV'
of it did not disgust Karrick one
half 50 much as the odor. Tha
brought visions of other days
when he was learning to live
mans life according to The cur
rent standards.
One day Karrick disappeared
Out of the fever that followed
Romance came bedraggled, anc
as obvious as q modern story
with q purpose. The purpose
was there, in spite of the weary
stoop Of the shoulders: the
wrinkles at the corners OF the
mouth that were now gashes
the cheeks as hollow as the
chest. At the Home of Joy, she
helped herself over the higt
notes with her eyebrows; and
ashes were all that remained Of
the fire in the Zingara dance
RaWley and she agreed sim
ultaneously that one week would
do.
The managers letter secured
for her another week at Tonopsh
Here the purpose met with de
lay; for she refused to submit tc
an insult from her new employer
and in the struggle a Colts fell
from the folds of her Zingara
skirt and exploded.
To back up the professional
affidavit men, the manager ex'
hibited to the jury a badly
shattered leg. His exalted
position in the community, as
the owner of the worst dive init
went far to convince the twelve
good men and true-also pro
perty owners-that an attack
had been made by one of theil
natural enemies on member 0.
their sacred guild. For, be il
known, the irrepressible confic
between the economic groups il
a raw, palpitant thing in thu
desert, one that enters intC
every relation of life. For
tunately, the emotions of th'
Judge were more profound thai
his learning in the law, and sh'
escaped with q sentence of tw'
years for attempted murder.
From the gloomy pile that sit
like a crystallized curse on tn
- - 4ho To~r0v sinh oh,