The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-28

~AseIIss yos-apO Ons lovely dream"
 Ghaf if Pet breakhed a- single strain of muzfc cUbF cfs hia arms T didn't see 1t I knew that gones expression on his face and9e made me feel so lonesome that was more gracious to the judge than was exactly safe. He dances just as magn4dcent1y as he exists in life, and it Is a kind of ceremonial to do it with him The boys all wore white hannels and most of-the men, but the judge was assformahy dressed as he would have 'beeR4in ,midw1nter, and wondered if Alfredt could: be half as distinguished to look at I suppose my eyes must have been telling on me about how grand I thought he was looking because she-welI, I was rather relieved when one of the boys took me out of his arms for good, long, swing ing twostep. -
 And how I did enjoy it all, every single minute of iti My heart beat time to the music as if it would never tire uf doing so. Miss Chester and I exchanged little laughs and scraps of conversation fn between times, and I fell deeper andy deeper in love with her Every spOund I have melted and frozen andzstarved off me has brought me nearer to, her, and I just can't eAink about how I am going to hurt her in a few days now. I put the thought from Ame and so let myself swing out s4nto thought1essness with one of theY boys And after that I really didn't know with whom I was dancing, T began to get 80 intoxicated with it an
 never eheaud musicians play better or get n1oretof the spirit of dance in their music than those did tonight. They had just given us the most lovely swinging things, one after another, when suddenly they, all stopped, and the leader sdrew his bow across hIs violin Newer in all my life have I ever heard Sanything like Sthe call of that waltz. frOms sthat gypsy's strings. It lGughedSyou, signal, and you felt yourself follow the first, strain
 Just then / somebody happened to take me .fr0m3whomever I was with, and I caughtkstep and glfded of the universe $ The strongest arms that I had felt that Sevening-or ever-held me, and I. dtdnt have to look up to see who ftswas. 1On't know, why I knew, buttIkd1d-s I wasn't eIasped so very close etoS ShIm, or left to float by myself an inch. I was just a part of him Nike the sarms themselves or the hand that mine nodded into. And while that wonder music teased and caJoled and knocked and rocked and sobbed and fhrobbed laid my cheek against his coat sleeve and gave my self away, didn't care to whom.
 Again that strange sense of some wonderful eternal good came to me, and found, myself hummfng BilIy's Hffffa err7I fr= che doctors sleeve to the tune of that magic waltz. had never danced with him before, of course, but felt as if I had been doing it always, and I melted in his arms as that baby had wilted to his mother out in the cabin a few hours earlier, and I don't see how such happiness as that could stop. But with a soft, enrea1ng vail the music came to an end, and there the doctor was, smiling down. into my face with his whimsical, friendly smile that woke me up all over.
 Somebody has stolen rose from the Carter garden and brought it to the dance,'' he said with a laugh that wns for ms alone
 'sNo," flashed back, Ca string bean" And with that danced of again with the judge, while the doctor disappear cd through the door, and I heard the chug of his car as it whirled away. He had just stopped in for a second to see the fun, and God had given me that gypsy waltz with him because he knew I needed something like that in my life to keep for always.
 This has been a happy night, in which I betrothed myself to Alfred, though he doesn't know it yet. I am going to take it as a sign that life for us is going to be brilliant and gay and &u1 of laughter ana laEa