Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-07-01
Wooing
Desden0na
With a Moving Picture
Climax
nv CLARENCE LINDNER

romance in finger mans.
The idea is not so absurd. Stella Will
coroborate me-
Drop into Burtschers tonsorial par
Icrs some day.
90 right through into the little room
,urtained of at the rear.
soated at table, with bowls of
v.m water. jars of red paste and
,,rious delicate instruments set out
hsfore her. you win find Stella placidly
munching caramels.
AZ Won enter she will look you over
,mnersopaly. Sigh II you are tail and
dark and saturnine or smile sadly, but
indy. II you are-what you are: say
something original that she has heard
twenty times day for three years and
offer her your fingers to refine.
When she has massaged them for a
few minutes and you think that your
soft chances have quickened the beat
,ns OF her heart, ask her about this
romance business.
She will gaze silently at you for a
quarter Of minute.
Then a pearly tear will hasten from
beneath a quivering eyelid She will
swallow a sob with her caramel.
And II you are not tall and dark and
sturnlne she may tell you the story.
II isn't much OF story as stories go.
But Judge Of II for yourself:
His entrance was soundless. Stella
was not aware OF him until his shadow
i fell across the page of her book. She
started nervousIy and looked up to find
him seated opposite. gazing at her
gravely. Her heart thumped violently
as she looked into his eyes. She
blushed. Her glance fell. She sighed.
Without looking up again she began
to operate on the hand which he Of
fered for her ministration. Her fingers
trembed Twice she almost stuck him
with the cuticle scissors.
She never could recall with what re-
mark be broke the awful silence. For
the first time In memory she was pow
erless to inject the element OF loquacity
into situation.
She knew before he spoke just what
would be the tonal quality Of his voice:
knew 1t would be soft and low and
compelling. At his first word her gaze
was drawn to his. She peered into his
black eyes timidly, fearfully. en-
tranced
Aayhap Il WIS hours he talked. may
hap only minutes.
"ln Madrid" he murmured absently.
near the Plaza de Toros. lives a soft
eyed maiden whom you remind me of
much"
de tlinched as the scissors point PEN
etrated tender spot. But she was far
away from cuticle and scissors.
And once In Delhi. as the regiment
marched out. saw you waving me
gocuby from the gate OF the town.
From land to land he skipped. He
uaianced the south pole on the tip of
DIS tongue, derided the hemispheres.
twisted the equator In knot and
uipped the top or Mont Blanc. He
nOpped up the Pacific ocean with his
ieit hand and with his right taught
Backgammon to an Eskimo in Green
land.
Tine ard distance were exploded
u'tns 10 him. He was citizen Of
tue universe, address anywhere.
lou must know pretty nearly every
Vae Stella whispered admiringly.
de considered moment while he
necktie.
sion.
que sighed and applied the nail buff
'sr WIN teverish assidulty.
"neh he had gone she wept softly
~ aau Tilted 10 recall what he had looked
nAe' He was tall, she remembered.
saa Slender and dark.
4hat night she cried herself to sleep
suu Dreamed she was Madylaine. the
,,V'ue or Loves Last Word
~ NE came again many times.
4ele We're more tales-tales of hair
~ adventures in the crannies of
~ 49, world. The heroes of them all were
.. uS OF his. nameless men men
~ casually, though she knew all
&C. e ulne that it was he who really
s ., In the leading roles.
,n nue put down his delicacy in omit
shT names to that innate modesty so
rmaataeteristic of heroes. There was
n, LOT instance. who twisted the tail
AM oiood crazed tiger in Bengal and
b,. tue brute to starve in the
ranches an of a tree.
A.. nus visits became more frequent, so
stb, tuent that his nails could not pos
n. nave grown between times.
asa,- 'ea her to talk of herself-of her
llte,a., inspired by the best magazine
plrrss re; of the loveless life of a
NJ ~ manicure lady In a deserted city
F" r9'Ooo'ooO population.
hoo, learned. too. of the $500 she had
N ,o up against the traditional day
aeiement weather.
thar oeiore he left on that occasion
drr,. Kissed furtively across the table,
Of VS. winch process he spilled a bowl