Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-03

the woman in the box. she looks
Irish, doesn't she?"
American, I think. I'll tell you
! in a moment"
The young man who had smiled at
| lilly bent over and selected some
| flowers from the mass on the table.
: From across Tilly watched him So
| berry. First, he held Up II red rose,
| smiling over it at her Then he
added to it q white calnation and
! held both up.
Finally, after much searching, he
found blue violet, and, with little
air of triumph, extended the red,
white and blue cluster. Tilly smiled
again, showing her small teeth, and
nodded vigorously
"She looks like Botticellis spring.. -
said the woman in the box. How
exquistely proportioned she is-and
look at her feet Did you ever see
such beautiful feet?"
The younger man said nothing, but
he bent forward, watching lilly.
'She looks quite-nice, too The
woman again: What horrible place
for her 10 be-
The Older man laughed, ana sig
nailed the waiter for more champagne.
"onc sees those things in Europe"
he said, tolerantly. THESE cabaret
girls are all alille--bad clear through.
But some of them are like that--lit
tic devils with the eyes of saints"
lilly looked across again. The
kindliness in the younger mans eyes
had not faded And now he called
the kelner and pointed out a broken
~ineglass on the dancing floor. The
Eelner bowed and departed. A little
wave of warmth and well-beiug stole
over Tilly,s lonely heart. Some one
was solicltous Tor her-some one who
wished nothing Of her who did not
leer but smiled.
The Cossach dancers had finished.
Their athletic dancing received scant
applause. The crowd, stimulated to
fho highest point, desired an appeal
to its senses, reused with wine. Tilly
padded dovn The steps in her bare
feet and stood with her arms poised,
waiting FOR the music. And as she
stood, the American lung the tiny
red, white and blue nosegay to her.
She stopped and picked 1t up.
WIN the flowers i'm her hand. lilly
danced danced in her thin short skirt
ana her bare legs, To the sensuous
hungarian music Tlly danced again
the virginia. little dance of her early
Gays at the Eal Tdbarin, looking, as
hle uld 4 like cool spring come again
- the midst OF hot voluptuous sum
NOR.
And when she had finished without
4 glance at the man i'm the box, she
gathered her rouge and her broken
mirror from under the bar, and dis
daining Neiniugeg's fury she shook
the dust of the Bal Tabarin from
her feet
Tilly slept late the next morning.
Snc craWled out into her cold room
and put u handful of coal in the tile
stove, lighting it with Ixindlings the
size or matches and u bit of paper
Jhen she Went back to bed until the
ire should make an impression on the
temperature of the cold room, and sit
ting up, with her ulster around her
shoulders, she examined her feet.
They We're covered with scratches
from the rose thorns OF the night
before and one toe had been badly
cut by glass. Not only that. but u
streak of red ran from the toe UP
10 the arch Of Tilly's foot. Tilly
looked at it in dismay.
wouldn't that scald ynu?" she de-
nanded plaintively, aloud.
The flowers and her bad foot. and
not having had her coffe yet, which
is enough to make the strongest soul
pallld got rather on her nerves. She
put the egg inside the stove to cook,
H.
ulster over her nightgown. and looked
the said pallid soul in the face. She
had been fool, and she knew it. II
she had pleased Weininger last night,
he would have looked after her until
her foot got better.
lilly crowded shoe over her ach-
ing foot. plit on her ulster gathered
uD her shabby little Tnuff. and limned
out. She had not a krone to her
name. and she was a vague but
sufficient number of miles--sone-
where in the thousands-fro-n home.
She went to the Prater tnat after
noon and sat on bench. watching
the carriages go hv
At dusk an officer in uniform.
sauntering by. STONED and looked at
her Then he said something in Ger
man: Tillv was glad she did not
understand. She looked past BIN
fr'sidly md nc Went on, Struggling