Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-08-28

JULIA, ION Salu Ill the most
Iva nonchalant manner tmag-
EW,J Unable. we've got dandy.
~ strolling gypsy band up Mt
the hotel, the dining room floor is all
waxed and I'm asking for the first
dance with the young and radiant Mrs.
Carter. Get into a glad rag and don't
keep me waiting"
Toni" l gasped.
"Oh, be sport, Moll and don't take
water! You said you would wake up
this town, and now do it. 1t seems
twenty instead Of six years since l
had my arms around you to music,
and I'm not going to wait any longer.
Everybody is there and they can't all
dance with Miss Chester"
That settled 1t. / couldn't let Wis
iting girl be danced to death. OF course
l had planned to make dlgnified de-
but under my own roof, backed up by
the presence Of ancestral and marital
rosewood, silver and mahogany, as a
widow should, but duty called me to
deweed myself amid the informally
Of an impromptu dance at the little
town hotel. And in the fifteen min
utes Tom gave me deweeded to some
purpose and Powered out to still more.
never do anything by halves
In that-that-trOusseau old Rene
mad made me there was one, what she
called simple" lingerie frock. And it
looked just as simple as the check 1t
called for, one and two clphers back
of IT, 1t was Of linen as sheer as
cobweb. real lace and tiny, delicious
incrustatlons Of embroidery. 1t fitted
In lines that melted into curves, had
enticements in the shape Of long sash
and dangerous breast knot Of SHIN
merry blue, the color Of my eyes, and I
looked newborn in 1t.
I'm glad that poor Mr.. Carter was
so stern with me about rats and things
In 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. 1t clings and coils TO my
head Just any old way that looks us II
I had spent an hour on 1t. That made
me able to be ready to SO. down to Tom
In only ten minutes over the time he
gave me.
stopped on next to the bottom step
in the wide old hall and called Tom
to turn out the light for me, as Judy
had gone.
/ have turned out that light lots Of
times, but felt 1t best to let Tom see
me In full light when we were alone.
1t Is well did! At first 1t stunned
him, and II is q compliment TO any
woman to stun Tom Pollard. But Tom
doesn't stay stunned long, and only
succeeded in suppresslng him after he
had landed two kisses on my shoulder,
one on my hair and one on the back Of
my neck
MOLLY" he said, standing or and
looking at me with shining eyes, you
are one lovely dream. Your shoulders
are flushed velvet, your cheeks are
peaches under cream, your eyes are
blue abslnth 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 and went to
the gate hurrledly, Tom laughed and
behaved himself
Everybody in town was up to the
hotel and everybody was nice to me
girls and all. There is u bunch OF
lovely posy girls In this town and they
were all In full flower. Most OF the
men were college boys home for yaca
tlon, and while they are few year.
younger than !, | have been friend!
with them for always and they know
how | dance. didn't even get nea,
enough to the wall TO know 1t wal
there, though | was conscious OF Aun
Bette and Mrs. johnson sitting on 1
at one end of the room, and every tim,
passed them ilrtcd with them unit
won Il smile from them both. | wisl
could be sure Of hearing Mrs. John
son tell Aunt Adellne all about 1t.
And 1t was well | did come to saw
Ruth Chester from dancing death
for she is as light as n feather an,
sails on the air like thlstledown. | fel