The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-06-07
CHAPTER XXVll.-Continued.

She made him take a table in the
corner, where she sat in the shadow
on the sofa, overlooking the brilliant
room. Maxim's was no new scene to
either of them nc novelty. Ponio-
towsky scarcely glanced at the crowd,
preferrlng to feast his eyes on his
companion, whose Indifference to him
made his abstraction easy. She was
his property He would give her his
title; she had demanded it from the
FIRST. The Hungarian was little over
dressed, with his ieweled buttons, his
large boutonniere his faultless
clothes, his single eye-glass through
which he stared at Lefty Lane, whose
delicate beauty was in fine play; her
cheeks family pink, her starry eyes
humid with a dew whose luster is OF
the most precious qualit-. Her I'M
shed tears had nothing to do with
Poniotowsky-they were for the boy.
Her heart sickened thinking where
he might be; and more than that. 1t
cried out for him. She wanted him.
oh, she would have been far better
for Dan than anything he could find
in this mad city. than anything to
which in his despair he could go for
consolation. She had kept her word,
however to that old man, Mr. Rug
giles; she had got out of the business
with fatal result as far as the boy
was concerned She thought Dan
would drift here probably as most
Americans on their wild nights do for
a part Of the time, and she had come
to see.
She wore a dress of coral pink,
tightly fitting, high to her little chin,
and seemed herself like a coral strand
from neck to toe, clad in the color she
affected, and which had become cele-
brated as the Lefty Lane pink. Her
feathered hat hid her face, and she
was completely shielded as she bent
down drawing pictures with her bare
Singer on the cloth. After a little
while she said to Poniotowsky with
out glancing at him:
IF you stare any longer like that,
Frederigo, you'll break your eye-glass.
You know how ! hate 1t.
Used as be was to her sharpness,
4, he nevertheless flushed and sat back
and looked across the room, where, to
their right, protected from them as
they were from him by the great door,
q young man sat alone. Whether or
not he had come to Maxim's intending
to join cOngeniNl party, should he
Ind one, or to choose for companion
Come one of the women who, at the
Entrance of the tall blond boy, stirred
and invited him with their raised
Iorgnons ard their SMILES, will not be
Known. Dan Blair was alone, pale as
The pictures Lefty Lans had drawn on
the CLOTH and he, too, Ieasted his eyes
on the Gaiety girl.
by Jove!" said the Hungarian
tnder his breath, and she eagerly
asked: What? Whom? Whom do
you see?"
Turning his back sharply he evaded
Der question and she did not pursue
he idea and as physical weakness
overwhelmed her when PoliotOWsky
liter a second said: Come. cnerie.
Tor heavens sake, let's So"--she me-
Financially rose and passed out.
Several young men suppinE together
came over eagerly to speak to her
md claim acquaintance with the Cal
ety girl, and walked along out to the
motor. There Lefty Lane discovered
he had dropped her handkerchief,
md sent the prince back for It.
AS though he had been waiting for
he temperance of Poniotowsky, Dan
Blatr stood close to the little table
which Lefty Lane had left, her hand
kerchief in his hand. AS Poniotowsky
pane up Dan thrust the small tritle
OF sheer linen into his waistcoat
pocket
Il will trouble you for Miss Lanes
handkerchief" said Poniotowsky, his
eyes cold.
You may" said Dan as quietly, his
blue eyes like sparks from a star,
trouble me for hell" And lifting
from the table Poniotowsky's own
half-emptied glass of champagne, the
boy flung the contents full in the
Hungarian's face.
The wine dashed against Ponitowsky's
lips and in his eyes. Blair laughed
out loud. his hands in his pockets.
The insult was low and noiseless; the
little glass shattered as it fell so soft