The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-08-27

The Glance He Bent Upon Her Was
Sharp and Grew i'm Intensity.
The waiter brought fish-a fried
shetland she reused herself and
picked up her fork. She did not no
tice that a man was standing near
her in the archway, the edge Of the
lace curtain in his hand, looking
about the room. He threw a side
glance at her which swept her shout
ders, her hat, and her down-bent pro-
file, and looked away. Then, as If
something in this glimpse had sud-
denly touched a spring Of curiosity.
he looked back again. His second
survey was longer. The glance he
bent upon her was sharp and grew in
intensity. He made no attempt to
enter or to move nearer her, but any
one watching him would have seen
that his interest increased with the
proloEgation of his scrutiny.
AS if afraid of being observed he
cast a quick surreptitious look over
the room, which in its circuit crossed
the mirror. Here, reflected from diff
ferent point of view, Berry was shown
hands moving over her plate. This
man scanned the reflection with i'm
movable intentness. Berry laid down
| her fork and pushed the fish away
| with a petulant movement, and the
| watcher drew back behind the lace
| curtain. Through it's meshes he con-
tinued to stare at the mirror, his lips
| tightly shut, his face becoming rigid
| in the fixity of his observation.
The waiter entered, his arms piled
with dishes, and she made a beckon-
ing gesture to him. He answered with
o jerk of his head, and, going to the
table where the Spanish women sat,
unloaded his cargo there. as he set
it out exchanging remarks with the
women in their own language and
showing no haste to Berny's summons.
She moved in her chair and muttered
angrily. The man behind the lace cur
tain advanced his head and through
| the interstices of the drapery tried
to look directly at her. In this posi-
ton he could only catch a glimpse Of
her, butshe saw her hand stretched
forward to take one of the red beans
from the glass saucer in the middle
of the table. 1t was an elegant hand,
the skin smooth and white, the fingers
covered with rings. She again beck
oned, this time peremptorily, and the
waiter came. The listener could hear
her voice distinctly as he watched her
| reflection in the glass.
why didn't you come when beck
oned?" she said sharply.
Because l had other people to wait
on" said the waiter with equal asper-
tty. They was here before you"
Whats the matter with the dinner
tonight? It's all bad
81 amt cooked it." retorted the
man, growing red with indignation,
his swollen eye glaring flercely at her.
And no else's complained. I guess
it's what's the matter with your"
Berry made an angry movement
sometimes alluded to as 'f1ouncing"-
and turned her head away from him.
Get me an enchilada," she said per-
emptorily, land after that some fri
joles. | don't want anything else"
The waiter moved away and the
man behind the curtain, as If satisfied
by his long survey, also turned back
into the general room. Close to the
opening there was an unoccupied
| table, and at this he sat down, laid
his hat on the chair beside him, and
unfastened his coat. To the servant
| who came for his order, he asked for
q cup of black coffee and a liqueur
| oil nr 10 oil y,
evening paper. With the sheet open
before him he sat slipping the coffee,
the slightest noise from the inner
room causing him to start and lift
the paper before his face.
He sat thus for some fifteen min
utes. The Spanish women and the
child emerged from the archway and
left the restaurant, and a few moments
later he heard the scraping OF chair
legs and Berny's voice as she asked
for her bill. He lifted the paper and
appeared buried in its contents, not
moving as Berry brushed back the
lace curtain and passed him. Her
eyes absently fell on him and she had
vague impression of the dark dome
Of a head emerging from above the
opened sheets of the journal. AS she
rustled by he lowered the paper and
followed her with a keen, watchful
glance. He did not move till the
street door closed behind her, when
he threw the paper aside, snatched up
his hat and fiicked a silver dollar on
to the cloth.
mo change" he said to the waiter,
who came forward.
The surprised servant, unaccus.