The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-07-31
Copyright 1915. by the Newspape,
Enterprise Association

- NeNNls Nu"h jim ana ! have
danced at Elicne's. the others stop.
ped and looked on.
! have never known AS fine a
dancer as Jim aud some way IL
seems like floating on air when |
am dancing With him. All our
friends laugh Mt US aud ask us
when We are going 20 make our
debut professionally.
on dear" ! exclaimed. II wish
DICK danced as we'll as you. Jim"
don't" answered Jim promptly.
Why mott"
because then you would h.
dancing wiih him all tho tim. and
! would not have my splendid dane.
Ing partner at all.
DO you know. Jim. think II ia
rather strange that Dick aud / don't
dance better together" rald in.
nocentiy. he seems TO dance with
Eleanor Fairlow perfectly"
Jim laughed and then said. "Mv
dear Margle. you evidently do not
know that in all their llyea neither
Eleanor Falriow nor Dick has
danced with anyone else but each
other While they were al school
II any other boy looked a, Eleanor
Dick Sas perfectly furious and
Eleanor was quite as jealous Of
Dick.
Eleanor has all tho faults In
dancing that Dick has. but they
suit each other perfectly. as they
have In reality been dancing part.
ners ever since they wtat to the
first children's dancing school"
4 must have been rather n sur.
prise to all OF Dicks friends. Jim.
You were. my dear child. you
we're None OF MS had ever thought
OF him without thinking that he
and Eleanor would marry and act.
tie down some day and then. like
lightning from clear sky. We snw
your bobblng red head and laughing
mouth and were told TO welcome
Mrs. Richard Waverly."
Il must say that under the cir.
cumatanceS you treated me very
nicely. Jim. ! should have thought
YOU would have resented me as an
lnterioper"
Perhaps you took us nil by
storm. Just as you did Dick"
Well. | was the perfectly limo
cent byHtander. | never heard Of
Eleanor Falrlow until after was
married and have never really
heard before that Dick and she
we're always lovers"
-
the always lovers gets TO be an
old story-wlth the man at least--I
have never seen but one woman in
all my life that | thought could
endure for always"
why don't you marry her. Jim.
and keep her for always?"
Because she already belongs to
another man for always
How unfortunate. I'm sorry for
you. Jim. DO ! know herr"
Now. look here. Margie. you are
not going TO make me give up my
LIES great secret I've already told
you more than | ever intended to
tell anyone"
At this. little book, Jim closed his
lips determinedly and turned his
attention TO teaching me a new
tango step.
The more | know OF Dicks boy
hood affair with Eleanor Fairlow.
the more I am In sympathy with
her. I don't think II Is right for a
man to monopolIze not only girls
affections. but her life for years and
then suddenly marry another
woman. No wonder Eleanor Fair.
low does not like me. II must have
been very humIllating for her to
still live here and 20 In the same
crowd and see Dick with me, and
then. little book, think OF her also
losing her money. II ! were she. !
think I'd try to make Master Dick
pay in some way. AS II looks now.
she IL the only one who Is paying.
DO you know. little book. I'd like
Eleanor Fairlow II she would let
me. particularly since she has be-
come a nurse. She has shown me
some splendid traits Of character.
And you can't get over loving some
body all at once. The habit OF low
ing is like every other habit-Thard
to break. Poor girl--poor girl.
L ITO BE Continued Monday