The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-03-05

~ strolling gypsy band up at
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 glad rag and don't
keep me waiting"
TOM | gasped.
''Oh. be sport, Mol. and don't take
this town. and now do it. 1t seems
twenty instead Of six years since
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 it. couldn't let Wis
iting girl be danced to death OF course
had planned to make dignified de-
but under my own roof. backed up by
the presence of ancestral and marital
rosewood. silver and mahogany. as q
widow should. but duty called me to
deweed myself amid the informality
Of en- impromptu dance at the little
town hotel. And in the fifteen min
ute] Tom gave me deweeded to some
purpose and flowered out to still more.
! never do anything by halves
In that-that-tr0usseau old Rene
had made me there was one. what she
called simple lingerie frock. And it
looked Just as simple as the check 1t
called for. Il one and two ciphers back
Of it. 1t was of linen as sheer as a
cobweb real lace and tiny, delicious
! incrustations of embroidery. 1t fitted
| in lines that melted into curves, had
enticements in the shape of long sash
and a dangerous breast knot of shin.
merry blue. the color of my eyes. and
looked newborn in it.
rm glad that poor Mr.. Carter was
so stern with me about rats and things
In my hair. now that they are out oil
style, for I've got lots of my own lef1
in consequence of not wearing othel
peoples 1t clings and coils to my
head just any old way that looks as II
had spent an hour on it, That made
me able to be ready to go down to Ton
in only ten minutes over the time h'
gave me.
i stcpped on next to the bottom steI
in the wide old hall and called Ton
to turn out the light for me. as Jud!
had gone.
4 have turned out that light lots o
times, but felt it best to let Tom Sc
me in full light when we were alone
1t is well | did. At first it stunne'
him. and it is compliment to an
woman to stun Tom Pollard. But Tor
doesn't stay stunned long. and onl
succeeded in suppressing him after h
had landed two kisses on my shoulder
one ON my hair and one on the back
my neck.
Molly" he said. standing off an
looking at me with shining eyes. "yo
are one lovely dream. Your shoulder
are flushed velvet. your cheeks al
: peaches under cream. your eyes ar
! blue absinth and your mouth re
devil. Come on before get drum
looking at you" didn't know whetl
er liked that or not and turned dow
the light quickly myself and went
the gate hurriedly. Tom laughed an
| behaved himself
Everybody In town was up to II
! hotel and everybody was nice to m
girls and all. There is a bunch
lovely posy girls in this town and the
we're all In full flower Most of II
men were college boys home for vac
Fl ton, and while they are few yea
younger than |. have been frien'
with them for always and they kno
!, how dance didn't even get ne
enough to the wall to know 1t W;
there. though was conscious OF An
Bette and Mrs johnson sitting on
at one end of the room. and every tin
! passed them fiirted with them TN
Il won a smile from them both wi
/ could be sure Of hearing Mrs job
: son tell Aunt Adeline all about It.
And 1t was well did come to sa
n Ruth Chester from dancing deaf
e for she is as light as feather a
= sails on the air like thistiedown. I,
sorry for Tom, for when be danced vi