The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-04-21

others acquaintanceste the scandal OF
the car, and getting off together.
Celia was really shocked. though.
one night, when Alfred suggested that
they 60 to a dance hall. Certain
friends Of Celia's, in her former incar-
nation, made it almost their one bust
ness in life to crush out the dance-hall
evil; or if not to crush it out, at least
to step sharply and disconcertingly
on it's toes, and as result Of their re-
| ports of their Summing investiga:
lions, Celia had got the idea that all
dance halls were sinks of unbridled IN
EQUITY. ia
Alfred confessed he didn't know
much about it himself, but he passed
on the remark of friend of his
a man who knew the brightly lighted
iworld very we'll: "The majority Of
people in any of these places are de-
cent. On, at least; they're acting dc,
Gently at any given moment" He said
that was what made all these stage
and moving picture productions OF
fast restaurants and tough dances 50
ridiculously unreal. They probably
weren't, Alfred concluded. so black as
they were painted. Anyhow, he and
| Celia could try and see.
The place they hit upon was, to
the eyes of their innocence at least,
perfectly harmless-they never stay
I. ed very late, it's true-and they en-
joyed occasional evenings there pro-
digiously. It was rather an extrava-
gance, of course.
The best amusement of all came a
! lot ,hn,, $h0 70 or
weather really set in. Alfred came
home. guiltily. one night with two
pairs of roller-skates. Neither of
them had attempted this amusement
since childhood, but, after one expert
mental and rather painful evening,
they got on very well. The park near
by afforded an admirable place for
it. Sometimes they swung along arm
in arm, rythmitically-ron Economically.
Sometimes, in scandulous fashion,
they mixed themselves up in mis-
cellaneous game of tag that, one was
pretty sure to find going on in one
Of the larger squares. All told, there
is no doubt that their standard Of civ
ilizaiton. deteriorated very much. 1t
was surprising how much younger
they got. eSs = LII
This change in her husband was an
astonishing thing to sCelia.
"The man married." she confided
to him one night, leaning on her ell
bows on the back of his chair, and
getting both hands, with good tight
grip, into his hair-he was like big
dog in enjoying the rougher and more
unceremonious sort of carresses-"th
man married, you know, was middle
aged, safe and sane, and awfully dig
nified; always wholly serious the
way Mrs. Humphrey Ward wanted
her uncle Matthew to be. But you,
you're just a big schoolboy-a rather
outrageous sort of schoolboy, too"
And, indeed, it was true that the way
he had been acting all the evening,
ever since he'd come home from
work, warranted the Indictment.
He. puzzled her, though, by turn
ing rather grave and reflective about
it. She leaned down for a better look
at him, then came round and. cu 1Ele
zap in his, lap. "a 4. :.ls .tsJfa boi)
silly. She ,said, don't tyYuPp ,pre-
tend you don't know how / Joke, to
haye you like that!"a h /. II, IA. T5v:t
| He pulled her up in Yoluminous
embrace that was still little absent
minded. N, ..;,;;!- t,,,;3 i; .;6,.si,
"No, it wasn't that he, dsaid,t II
was thinking Of; somethingnostY Your
speaking Of q schoolboy reminded me
OF it. You know, I've been trying, off
and on, ever since this happened
ever since that Saturday night when
l found you here, to think what it
was like. II t was like something, that
had happened once before, knew,
but ! couldn't get, hold Of it. Now
have. ia, d FRI y .a5......,
(To BE tContinued) .
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