The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-08-15
LEAF EIGHTH.
IBlus Absinth.

Is.yCrN Unable. we've got a dandy
@49 Strulling gypsy band up At
the hotel. the dining room door ia All
Waxed and l'm asking for the nrst
dance with the young aud radiant Mrs
Garter Get into II glad rag aud don't
Keep me waiting
Tom gasped
"Oh. be- "A sport. Moll. and don't take
water, iUu said sou would wake up
this town. and now DO II n seems
twenty instead OF six years since !
had my arms around YOU to music.
SUD I'm not going to whit any longer
Everybody Is there ana they can't aIl
dance with Miss Chester
That settled II | couldn't let y Wis
iting girl bc danced 10 death or course
bad planned 70 make a diguited lie
but under my avn roof. hacked up by
the presence Of ancestral and marital
ruseW uod, silver and mahogany ~ q
widow should hut duty called me a.
deweed myself amid the informally
VI an impromptu dance ~ The it'll"
town hote, Aud IN the fifteen min
utes Tom gave me ! dpwerdcd to some
purpose and Powered out "a sui more
] never do anything by halves
In that that rousscau q Rene
had made me there was one. what she
called simple lingerie frU,k And II
locke Just as simple as the check II
called for. a Que aud two ctphers back
Of II II was Of linen as sheer az 4
cobweb. veal lace aud Tiny. delicious
inCrustH tions OF embroidery IL dtted
In lines that melted into curves. had
enticemcnts In the shape ~ 4 long sash
and a dangerous breast knot Of shin.
merry blue. the color OF my ,ves. and !
looked newborn In IL
I'm glad that poor Mr. Carter was
80 stern with me about rats and things
Ia my hair. now that they are out Of
style. for I've got lots OF my own left
IN consequence OF not wearing other
peoples II clinRs and coils TO my
head just any old way that looks as "
had spent an hou on II That made
me able to be ready 20 go down 20 Tom
ia only ten minutes over the time he
gave me.
stopped on next 10 the bottom step
in the wide old hall and called Tom
to turn out the light for me as Judv
had gone
have turned out that light lots Of
times, but | felt II best to let Tom see
me In full light when we we're alone
IL Is well | did, At trst IL stunned
him, and II Is a compliment to any
woman TO stun Tom Pollard But Tom
doesn't stay stunned long, and | only
succeeded ia suppressinR him after be
had landed two kisses Oh my shoulder
one on my hair and one on the back OF
my neck.
Molly" he said. standing Oh and
looking at me with shining eyes. you
are one lovely dream Your shoulders
are flushed velvet. your cheeks are
peaches under cream, you eyes are
blue absinth and your mouth a red
devil Come On before / get drunk
looking at you didn't know wheth
er | liked that or not and turned down
the light quickly myself aud went to
the gate hurriedly Tom lauL he'd and
behaved himself
Everybody Ia town was ny 10 the
hotel aud every body was nice 10 me,
girls and all There Is a bunch ~
lovely pOsy girls in this town and they
were all In full flower Most OF the
men were college boys home FOR vaca
ton, and while they are a few years
younger than |. I have bccH friends
with them for always and they know
how | dance | didn't even get neal
enough H. the wall 10 know n was
there. though was conscious ~ Aunt
BEETLE nud Mrs Johnson sitting On It
at one end OF the room, and every time
| passed them firted with them unril
] won e sm0lc from them both wish
| could be- sure ~ hearing Mrs John
son tell Aunt Adellne all about IL
a. ~ was well did come 10 save
Ruth Chester from a dancing death.
tor she IL ~ light as a feather and
sails on the air like thistledown felt
sorry FOR Tom, for when he danced with
me he could see her, and when he ia ne.
eel with her ! DOuted at him. even over
Judge Wnde's arm. / verify believe Il
WIS from being really ratified that be-
asked little Pet BufOrd to dance with
him-by mtstH ke an IL were. After