The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-03

GRACE WAS SO SHY
And She Was Dark and Mys-
terfOus-Miss Darling.
Won and Broke Hearts OF De-
trOit Business Men.
A WEE BIT OF SILKEN HOSE
1t Peeped Out From Beneath a
Fluffy Dress.
From Hotel to Hotel She Went
From Hotel to Hotel She Went
Then Police Entered!

Detroit, May 3.-She was dark and
mysterious
Also she was pretty, and she wore
fluffy clothes with silken nose ana
picture hat and her gray eyes We're
as wistful and wondering as a child s
She spoke-and speaks-a dear little
style of English in which she uses
"glawss'' and ''bawth'' as II she dldh
know any better, and still she mas
wonderful taste in gastronomlc De
lights and can order a dinner that Is
a dream-all but the check
She first appeared in Detroit a
month ago and registered at one OF
the leading hotels as Grace Darling
She stayed there a week and then
moved to another leading hotel and
then to third and fourth Behlnd
her she left a trail of broken hearts
And she was so mysterious.
To those who met her she muir
INJURED of her friends, who seemed to
include any number of notableS all the
way from Blossom Seeley to Eva Tan
quay, and to this list she shortly added
the names of Detroit business men.
Oh. Shyness!
Sitting in one of the great chairs in
a hotel lobby with her child's face up
lifted and her eyes downcast-oh
shyness, thy name is Grace-and wee
bit of silken hose peeping out and a
little tremble to her ripe red lips she
was a picture that stirred the hearts of
many.
To the horrid men who went up to
her she looked askance for a moment
and anyone could see she just hated to
be addressed by strangers, and truly
she wasn't the sort of girl that flirted.
No, indeed
All in Her Little System.
Some way the Detroit business men
found themselves wandering to the
cafe and there. although she didn't
have bit of wish Tor food, she
would manage feebly to hoist some
IS to $12 worth of caviar and lobster
and Strawberries inside her little self
in half an hour.
After this the waiter brought the
wine list and Grace would point a lit
tie pink finger tip at 'Cliquot, and ex-
claim, "Oh, what is that? 1t sounds
nice doesn't it? Let's have some of
81 a bottle the business man who hap
pened to be along sighed regretfully,
but Grace got her wish.
Her Eyes Grew Bright.
She slipped it little and made wry
face and laughed a funny little giggle
and her eyes grew bright. and she be-
came so confiding that the business
man got some more of that, and be-
fore the evening was over he had lit
tie left but his watch and the remem-
brance of a warm little hand snug
Cling into his and two ruby, if alcohol
&c, lips murmur1ng sleepy goodnight
This went on and on for days and
days and every once in while a rude
hotel detective would take her aside
and say things and Grace would sniff
file little and then go pack her grip
and go away. One day she wandered
into the Hotel Pontchartrain, where
from she had been invited to go some
time before. A horried man just nat
urally bounced on her before she
could sit down and thrust his unwel-
come attention on her. She had just
finished explaining she was here from
boarding school, and her mamma
didn't allow her to talk to men, but
he was so like her.brother she thought
maybe mamma wouldn't mind so
much. and she was so thirsty, could
she please have a little drink of water
or something and
Then-Thc Police.
Detectives from the hotel stepped
around the corner and Grace was
escorted carefully and tenderly to Jail
and the next morning she stood before
Justice and paid fine of $25 and
wept silently.
She was escorted to police head
quarters a little later and earnestly
and cordially invited to go back t.
boarding school, and in the mean
time Detroit business men who mel
her are shaking in their shoes She
has so many signatures to love notes
and things.
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