The Washington herald., 1914-09-21
DAILY SHORT STORY.

be camping on my trail the entire blessed
evening. and if l wear the Killarneys
Don will come to me the very first thing
with that almost possessive smile he
wears when I've been unusually nice to
him before Jimmy's very eyes. I know
what I'll do. I'll wear part of each
corsage. That will keep the boys guess
ing, and, most of all. it will give me
one more evening before 1 decide for
good and ALL Teddy as her intimates
called her, smiled maliciously. To separ-
ate the corsages was the work Of a
few minutes, and once, when she held
the glorious red roses to her face for
an instant, the girl almost wayered in
her decision.
1T is Jimmy she cried to the roses
Il know il, l know it, but I'm going to
have just this one night to myself" She
pinned the roses to her girdle. Mercy"
she exclaimed. what a combination. But
I'll wear it anyway. do hope auntie and
the rest of the chaperon brigade won't
think I'm quite out of my mind. II is
pretty awful. though Occasionally the
A. B. lapsed into decidedly un-Bryn
Mawrish forms of expression. Never
mind, faint heart. on with the dance"
She caught up a bespangled scarf
that Jimmy had once compared to a
diamond-studdcd cloud and as diaphonous
and unattaina5le as the clouds that
floated over the heads OF man.
Teddy had seemed quite as unattain-
able at that time. but since then Jimmy
had had reason to change his mind and
to feel THAT his case was not quite so
hopeless as it once had been. At least
he might win if that fellow Cunning
ham could be eliminated.
Theodore, to use her own expression
collected Auntie. and the two made their
u tn fhn do Vs@Fl
living room. where the orchestra was
playing the first waltz. A masculine form
evidently on the lookout, approached at
once.
May I have the first dance, Teddy -"
asked Donald Cunningham.
Surely" said Teddy. looking up al him
with her sweetest smile. ''Thy not?'
she asked herself. I'm wearing his roses
as well as Jim's."
Il do hope il will be Donald Cunning
ham. His mother was a Van Courtney"
auntie said to herself as she watched
her niece. OF medium height, slender and
the possessor of heavy black hair above
gray eyes veled with long black lashes
and a complexion that was the despair of
the girls her own age and the envy of
those who had passed farther on life's
pathway, Theodore was worthy of any
ones attention. Suddenly auntie sped
Teddy's corsage, in sharp contrast to the
white chiffon frock-
Good gracious" she exclaimed aghast,
what ever possessed the child?' Quite
overcome. she sank into the nearest
rocking chair
In the meantime the wearer of the red
and pink roses was blissfully unconscious
of her relatives CONSERVATION. Teddy was
having the time of her life-with only
one thing to mar the pleasure of being
the belle of the hop. Jimmy had taken
only one dance to Don's eight Not that
Teddy was lacking in partners. but she
wondered not a little at the unusualness
of it all and down in her heart Of hearts
were the Goals of rebellion.
"Wish 1 hadn't worn his roses" she
was thinking. aud at this juncture the
ever self-possessed Jimmy put in an ap-
pearance.
my dance, I think, Teddy. But sup
pose we sit or rather walk il out The
stars are glorious. So is the moon"
Out under that same moon, down a
path that was sufficiently outlined with
trees to afford some privacy, a man took
a girls hand between his own, and in a
voice that trembled just little said:
Teddy, dear, you are wearing my
flowers tonight and doesn't that mean
that you care a little and that there is
some hope for me?'
Was it the moon? Or was it Jimmy ?
Teddy's resolve went a glimmering and
Jim had won.
One night. on their honeymoon, Teddy
asked, apropos of various things:
Jimmy. supp -5e 1 had worn the pink
roses that night?'
Wouldn't have mattered in the least,
dear replied Jimmy between cigar puffs
! sent those, too"