Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-09

q pale, almost haggard face. lie
smiled good deal, and talked eagerly,
as If anxious to make pleasant i'm
preston. Miss Wilson had observed
that his fingers were stained with nic-
otine, and that every moment that he
WAS actually out on the dancing floor
he was inhaling cigarets. She had also
noted the fact that after a few mo-
ments of his acrobatic dancing he APP
peared exhausted and had some diffl-
Guilty In getting his breath.
Are you interested in this side OF
Paris life" he asked. so palpably
talking up To her that she had TO sup
press a smile.
She admitted that she was
. Funny how you meet all sorts o
| people here" he ran on. Take our
| troupe. for instance. Miss Rainey's
| from Buffalo. I'm from Kansas City.
| You wouldn't expect to find "a Kansas
City boy working on the boulevards-
now would you,"
Suddenly his face clouded. as with
the recurrence of half-forgottch
anxiety. "Say. I'm sort o sorry you
came today. I'm trying out new
tune for this next dance. and there's
no telling how it'll go. They may not
like II at all. YOU know. | been using
/ i -
good tune. You know how II goes"
To make sure, he hummed II
! huskily, oblivious to the fact that the
mandolins were at the moment filling
the air with a quite different melody.
| Plainly. the simplest thing was to moo
knowingly; which Miss Wilson accord
ingly did.
I'm trying out "Tingle, Tingle,"
today It's a good tune, you know.
- t.lI l..
| with the crowd. I've got trunk full
of songs upstairs. though, and I'll try
'em out ill | get the right one. YOU
| come around tomorrow, and II this
thing doesn't work out. I'll so back t.
Under the Car of Yours" That's
safe, anyway. This way, I'm afraid
you won't get much idea of my dane
ing
Fortunately his call came then. Miss
Wilson glanced at Moran to see now
he took this curiously trivial boy But
Moran evidently was taking him in
the same way he appeared to take
| everything else-as matter on
course. 1t amused her further to OBJ
serve that Adele played quite as i'm
portant a part in the dance as the
boys egotistical self. Indeed Adele
seemed really to become herself on the
| dancing floor. She was light and
degree of distinction.
In short time they were back;
| Harper by lighting a cigaret with
gret nonchalancc, endevoring to con-
ceal the fact that for the moment he
simply could not recover his breath
A moment more and he was talking
again, rapidly and at random He
[ asked her advice regarding the wis
dom of accepting a tentative offer to
I IN NJ he
lie confided to her that he and Adele
didn't get on with Etheridge and Gay.
| We're going to break up, anyway,
after this engagement" he whispered
close to her ear. Jimmy takes my
steps as fast as | can invent 'em. He
gets by now because he's got me to
steal from-but you watch him after
he's been going it alone for "a month
or two. He won't have a thing, Wny,
right now he can't even do a wing.
Think Of it! Nothing but this Texas
Twist step and some straight clogging.
And he got the twist from me- Harry
Behman-he was our manager before
he told me just last week that a
man who can dance like cal.
oughtn't to be tied up with n fellow
like Jimmie Etheridge. And Harry
knows my work. you see"
At this point Adele hurried him off
to change his costume.
When he returned, II was with n
fresh idea. Say" he observed, leaning
an elbow on the table "if you enjoy
seeing this side of Paris life. why
don't you make Blink here take YOU
to fight? It's the great thing here
now. you know, next to dancing Al.
Paris is crazy about boxing. They call
1t La Boxe. Funny. isn't it''
This curious suggestion came to
Miss Wilson with quite unexpected
force. 1t was a curious suggestion
yet why not! Ed Johnson would do II
in minute. SO would Joe Homestead
himself, for that matter, II it hap
pened to catch his interest. She biz
her lip; and the gray-blue eyes
lighted.
Moran was looking down at his
empty teacup. moving the grounds
about with his spoon. As nearly as
she could make out. he was struggling
with the courteous impulse to accept
the situation young Harper had thrust
upon him. Perhaps he didn't quite
know what to make Of the idea of TAX
ing lady to fight.
She watched him, suppressing a
smile. She saw the lunches of muscle
on which his jaws move and set She
felt the not unmischievous desire 10
pin him down to 1t and go straight
through with the little adventure
now that she had let herself go so fan
along the way. 1t would be interest
ing to see how he would handle the
situation Then her thoughts flut-
tered. She was certainly being sweep
along at a great rate. And 1t did sound
rather alarming.
He raised his eyes, and met hers
frankly. The Gothic eyebrow seemed
grotesquely conspicuous yet the eye.
were attractively cool and steady and
the face was firm. The color arose
unexpectedly in her cheeks; and again
she bit her lip
There's one tonight. II you'd care
to see It," he said-"at Luna Park, ou,
by the Porte MillOt."
(Continued Next Sunday)