Evening star., 1914-09-27
By SEWELL FORD

maid on duty Just inside the door happens to be Sister
Maggie She has the respectful bow all ready when she
gets full face view.
"Aloysius!7 says she scared and husky.
got to hand it to Skeet, though, that he bears up
noble. All he does is try to swallow his throat apple
couple of times and then he at her stern and dis
tant. Also Maggie makes quick recovery.
Gentlemen this way, Sir, says she, and waves Skeet
into the dressin' room.
wanted to follow him up and tip him off that there's
one other why this the wrong house
put any sporty bluff In but as it was I'm over
due in another quarter. You see, Marjorie has been
sttin the side lines usual and Wee has limited
how it would be nice and charitable of to brace her
for SPIEL I'd sort of been workin' myself up to the
sacrifice for you know Marjore's hefty partner
for anybody not in trainn to steer around ballroom
floor; but I'd figured that the longer put it off the
would be- So off trails with my heels draggn
a little heavy.
why, thanks ever much, Torchy," says she, 3but
think have partner for the first four or FIVE After
that, though
Don't mention it" saysI II mean much obliged"
and I backs off hasty before she can change her
mind
l had to kill time while Wee was dividin' couple
dances between young shrimps; so 1 sidles into
corner where Ferde sits behind his shelrmmed glasses
lookn' bored and lonesome.
Now don't you wish you'd gone and had your feet
educated? says 1.
Ferde yawns. Il think it quite sufficient says he
@that of intends making exhibition. Marjorie
has been taking lessons, you know"
so hear, says l. aAnd it's all right if she don't
tackle the maxixe. Hello! There it goes. Now you
will see some stuntsi"
YEP. did! And among the first couples to sail out
the floor, if you'll believe it, other than
Marjorie and our lopeared young hero Skeet Keyser.
AOh GOSH l groans. 3Don't look, Ferde!"
1 meant well too 1t goin to be bad enough to
corn-fed young maron the size of Marjorie who
spin the well up to the hundred and eighty
mark monkey with them twsty evolutions; but to have
her get let in for with roughneck ringer like Skeet
well, that gon' to be real tragedy. How he'd
worked it, what his for bein here at ALL
useless questions to ask then. What was comm
next the thing to watch for.
As for Ferdie he just sits there and binks, follown
EN- through his spare panes. Course could guess he
want hep to any facts about Skeet. He was just
strange young gent to him, and it want up to me
to add any details. So settles back and watches em
too.
And say you know how surprised you'd be to see any
fat friend OF yours buckle pair of ice skates and do
the double grapevine up and down the rink! Well,
that's the identical kind of jar got when Marjorie be-
gins that willowy bendy figure. 1t amt any waddly
carcature of it either It's the real thing. Honest,
she's as light on her feet if her middle
Pavlowa
At the same time it's lucky Skeet has arms long
enough reach way round when he's steerin her. If
they'd been inch shorter, he'd have had to
break his clinch of them whrs and then hered
been big dent in the floor. He just built for the
job. though In and out round and round through the
Parsenne, the rtation and all the other fnlls, he
pilots her safe, bendin and swayn to the music, his
number ten gldn' easy, and kind of sry, salts
fed look that sappy mug of his while Marjorie, she
simply lets herself go for all she's WORTH her eyes spark
lin and the pink and white in her cheeks shown clear
and fresh
Take it from me too it's some swell exhibit! There
four or FIVE other couples at the tme the
girls all slender wispy young things that split
waist in their lives; but Marjorie and her part
had gallery three times