The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28

Gordon Galorey, the print-frocked,
bonneted type, the ideal girl that Dan
would like to marry and to spoil, had
not crossed his path. The Duchess of
Breakwater did not suggest her, nor
did any of the London beauties. Dams
first ideal was beginning to fade.
He left Osdene Park on protest and
returned the same night to London,
and I'll the way back to town tried to
register in his mind, unused to analy-
sis, his experience with the Duchess
IF Breakwater on this last visit.
He had experienced his first dis
appointment IL the sex, and this di--
appointment had been OF an unusual
Lind. 1t was not that he had been
turned down or given the m:t,en, but
be had seen one woman tarn another
down. A woman had becn mean, so
&c put it, and the fact that the Ouch
ess of Breakwater had refused to
lend moral hand to the singer at
The Gaiety hurt Dams feelings. Then,
as soon as his enthusiasm had Gained,
ne saw what stupid ass he had been.
A duchess couldn't mix up with a
comic opera singer, of course. Still,
he unused, 'she might have been lit
lie nicer about it,"
The education his father had given
him about them was put to the test
now; the girl he had dreamed of, "the
nice girl" well, she would have had
a tenderer way with her in a case
such as this! Back of Dams hurt feel
lngs, there was a great deal on the
Duchess of Breakwater's side. She
had not done for herself yet She
hadn't fetched him nearly up to the
altar for nothing, and back of his dis
approval, there was long list of ad-
vibrations and looks, memories of
many tete-a-tetes and of more fervent
kisses which scored good deal in the
favor of Dams first woman. The Ouch
ess of Breakwater had gone boldly on
with Dams unfinished education, and
he really thought he loved her, and
that he was in honor bound to see the
thing through.
That evening, once more in the
box he had taken all to himself, he
listened to "Mandalay," carried away
with the charm of the music and car
ried away by the singer He was in
the box nearest the stage and seemed
close to her, and he imagined that
under her paint he could see her
pallor and how thin she was. Moth
ing, however, in her acting or in her
voice revealed the least fatigue Blair
had obtained card of entrance to
the theater, which permitted him to
circulate freely behind the scenes,
and although as yet the run of his
visits had not been clear, this night
he had a purpose. Dan stood not far
from the corridor that led to Lefty
Lanes room, and saw her after her
act hurriedly cross the stage, a big
white shawl wrapping her slender
form closely. She was as thin as a
candle. Her woman Higgins followed
closely after her, and as they passed
Dan, Lefty Lane called to him gaily:
Hello, you! What are you hanging
around here for?"
And Dan returned: Don't stand
here in the draft. 1t is beastly cold"
Eyes, Miss" her woman urged,
| don't stand here"
But the actress waited nevertheless
and said to Dan: Who's the girl?"
What girl?"
why, the girl you come here every
night to see and are too shy to speak
to. Everybody is crazy to know"
Lefty Lane looked like little girl
herself in the crocheted garment her
small hands held across her breast.
Dan put his arm on her shoulder
without realizing the familiarity of his
gesture:
Get out of this draft-get out of it
quick, say" and pushed her toward
her room.
Gracious, but you are strong" She
felt the muscular touch, and his hand
fiat against her shoulder was warm
through the wool.
81 wish you were strong. You work
too darned hard
! Her head was covered with the
coral cap and feather. Dan saw her
! billowy skirt, her silken hose, her lit
tie coral shoes. She f1uttered at the
door which Higgins opened
why haven't you been to see me?"
! she asked him. you are not very
polite"
II am coming in now"
mot a bit of it. I'm too busy, and
| it is a short entr'acte. Go and see the
| girl you came here to see."
Dan thought that the reason she
| forbade him to come in was because
Prince Poniotowsky waited for her in
her dressing-room. 1t was his first
| jealous moment, and the feeling fell
/ on him with swoop, and its fangs
! fastened in him with a singing pain.
! He stammered:
Il didn't come to see any girl here
but you. l came to see you"
Come tomorrow at two, at the Sa'
voy."
Before Dan realized his own pre-
cipitation, he had seized the door.
handle as Lefty Lane went within and
was about to close her room against
him, and said quickly:
"I'm coming right in now"