The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-03
6 The Greater Glory"

George Griffin always thought HIM
self smart anyhow and what could
you expect if he took it into his head
to show off, and Uncle Joe Fodder
remarked that all the cast appeared
to lack was memory, concentration
and self-conidence; outside of that
they were all right and the play was
d riot.
Then as per the advertising, the
boys cleared the auditorium of seats
and Grace Rawlins and Uncle Joe
Fodder took their places; she before
the piano; he besides her with his
famous old violin and we held the
dance.
Mr.. Man, have you forgotten the
night in the long, long ago when
you danced for the first time with
the girl you loved? Have you for
gotten the soft delirious rythmn of
the music, the choking of your
throat and the lightning of your col
lar when you approached her and
asked ner to be your partner? Have
you forgotten the heat about your
ears, the hurt in your chest, the
s'gone" feeling in your limbs, as you
placed your arm about her and felt
her arm in turn about your neck and
the sweat of her palm against yours
and the tickle of her hair in your
mouth and the pressure of her soft
body yielding to your guiding-have
you forgotten the feeling of dancing
for the first time with the. girl you
once loved, Mr.. Man? Because if
you have, you have forgotten very
much indeed that helps make your
after years mellow with memories
and that supplies much of the bitter
sweet to the philosophy that is the
! great heritage of this added thing
called life.
Mary Wood danced with Jack
Purse that night. She danced more
/ than once with him. And by the
strange ethical telepathy which ex-
lists between youth, it was accepted
| that the new Jack Purse was the
Mary Woods "fellow" and the new
i Mary Wood was Jack Purses "girl. y
And the elders smiled, for they were
a pretty pair-Jack and the Wood
girl. And the boys shrugged their
shoulders; and the girls pretended
not to mind. Round and round in a
dreamy waltz Jack swung her, her
body bending into his own, her eyes
half-closed, her heart beating rythma-
tically to the young printers who
held her close.
She laughed bit sadly as they sat
down along the side of the hall be-
tween dances and she famed herself
with her handkerchief.
"I'm sorry it's over" she said. "Its
been a lot of fun; I'll always have it
to think of this little local-talent
play. Somehow my good times in
Paris seem to have begun since you
came here, Jack"
| Jack sat silently. A strange pain
ached in him for the feel of her
kisses was still hot upon his lips and
the press of her soft yielding body
in the waltzes was still in his senses.
"Look at Jackw laughed Sam Hold.
"Clean off his ballast in love! If
ever there was case of love at first
sight it was that pair. And the girls
as added over the boy as the boy is
over the girl. just look!Llook at
his hands, his necktie, his knees, his
feet! Cad, what wreck love makes
of man! And in that new suit he
probably has mental picture of him.
self resembling the sleek young mer
in the clothing advertisements
Jack left the girl by the wall while
he went to bring her glass of water,
And Mary Wood suddenly felt 6
pluck at her sleeve. She turned 10
fEd Herb Tfumann.
81 wanner see you, Mary!" he said
th;ckly 81 JUS got to see you aloneP
"What's the matter, HERBERT"
"I JUS got to see you alone.
mean it"
Herbert, you're ill!'
Cant I see you alone-rnost any.
where's?"
! She arose and followed him out
side.