Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-19

fellows tnaJ don't get the right SLID,
and, of course, any fellow that wants
to ask an outside girl has chance.
was one of the men that missed out
on the slips when we drew for you, SO
I asked girl from home. l oughtnt
to tell you this-eyerything that hap
pens in the frat house is more or
less secret-but | saw that you didn't
understand
What IL a girl refuses the first
man that asks herr.
well, then, of course, she might
be asked by another fellow. That's
permitted. But 1t gives the girl a
black eye. Do you see? Now, after
you had refused DAM knew you did,
and | told him not to say anything
about IL because 1t would give you a
black eye. Do you see? | or some
other fellow might have asked you
and you might have accepted. but ev-
eryone would have known you had
turned Dan Brown down and that
would make you out flirt and fus-
ser. | wouldn't want the men TO
think or you that way.
But don't like to dance with Dan
Brown persisted Julia. Il don't
care for your old rules. / don't care
for your old senior balls, anyway.
Don't touch me, Clark Butler"-Clark
had tried to lay soothing hand on
the girls shoulder when she said
that. I'm just as mad as girl
can get. There, and / am not trying
to pretend I'm not mad, either"
You don't understand, still. You
see, Dan Brown is q perfectly albright
fellow. II he were not he wouldn't
be in our frat, and it is up to every
enc of US to stand by every other one
of US. and IL a girl snubs one of us it
isn't loyal for any other man in the
frat to encourage that girl to go on
snubbing members of the frat. That's
why | asked a girl from home instead
OF asking you. thought maybe you
would go with me, we're such old
friends. But IL you had gone with
Dan you and | could have seen a lot
of each other anyway. We could
have had more dances with each other
than with our own people, thought,
of course, you would know that. 1t
was very rude of you to snub DAN
But Julia was. as she said, angry
through and through and. conciliatory
though Clark was. she refused to be
soothed. AS Clark Butler thought
and as he had predieted-Julia took
the next opportunity she had TO meet
Dan Brown and when Dan Brown,
summoning all his courage, asked her
a second time-Clark Butler had
coached him to this ordeal--she 40
cepted.
When he called for her on the night
of the ball Dan in his clumsy way
tried to express his appreciation for
her kindness.
Il suppose you know how it is about
dance invitations" he said. Il guess
Clark told you. You see, didn't quite
understand when put your name
down. / Just thought we we're TO put
the names down of some girl we
wouldn't mind taking and you were
so sort OF young and natural that |
didn't mind at all. But | didn't know
about drawing lots and really didn't
mean to cut Clark out. l fixed IL up
so you can have a lot OF dances with
him.
But / don't want to have a lot Of
dances with him. Julia protested. Il
didn't want to go with him" Then,
after a pause, rs the girl from home
pretty?"
A broad smile passed over Dan
Browns freckled face. Apparently he
recalled some instructions he had had
from Clark.
Yes, she is a regular queen. The
fellows will be nutty about her
couldn't help it."
Julia's cheeks grew pinker and her
eyes shone with excitement.
Don't talk to me about her. know
I'll hate her. Oh, I'm just miserable.
I'm not going to the horrid old dance
at all. You just asked me because
you didn't mind going with me and
Clark, who has almost been my very
own senior all winter, has got pref
ty girl from home. / know I'm kid
and know | don't dress in grown-up
clothes like some of the other girls,
and know / wear my hair down my
back. l don't blame any of you-bEt
won't go to your horrid old dance.
don't care IL Clark did tell me
must"
She had torn on one white glove
and was tugging at the other.
II wouldn't get SO cross" Dan said,
with a really successful attempt to be
comforting. "Clark's just crazy about
you and the girl from home is his sis
ter. He asked her UP because he said
he wouldn't go to senior dance with
anyone but you and, in a way, that
sister of his is really for me. | guess
he thought maybe 1t would make you
cross enough to agree to go with me-"
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