The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-07-20

many rings, reaCucu out across tho
table, and the mans hand took pos
session Of it. closed about II. and re-
tained H.
II was love scene. but ] could
find nothing .dyllic about No. II had
In some way. "a SAVIOR NJ wild life
about lt u made me mink OF pur-
suit and capture The trap was
sprung The web was woven about
the moth But who can feel sorry
for the downicst captive when shu
wears q smllo uf sleepy cOnteuturuJ
closes the incldcu, by sulppiuE a
fortune shut In lowered handbag,
and lmpcrlAly cunsui,s "A menu card
printed In green and gold Yet as
they played uut their version Of that
sordid old drama 1t suddenly be-
came so TepuEuaut to me that 1 WAS
glad 10 turn away to another quarter
Of that midnight restaurant
As / did 90 my gaze fell ON what
Tooscy Was iu The habit OF calling %
'tIngO-rat,' a white faced man thUr
paid TO caprr while other people
ate. giving an exhibition dance on
the highly polished floor. lie was
doing this with what must have been
ms professional partner. About the
pair too, there seemed somethiuE
abnormal, something hectic and un
healthy something which left "a
vague ache for the sanlties OF open
air and sunlight.
The face OF that two-lcgTcd dan
cling rodent was almost CadayOrous
In It's leInness. his waist looked as
though II we're cDrscted, and his
mouse colored hair, Aicked straight
back from his high and narrow fore
head, made mo think OF grass that
had beon trying to grow up under
board. His face, bleached out by
too many midnights In smokc-po.
soned air, was the color OF a billiard
ball-whlte, family tinEod with ypI.
low. His feet. In their narrow turI
patent leather pumps. looked min.
cling and undersizcd. His hands. too
were white. white As a BARRIERS. and
Az ne posed ana gyrated and pranccd
ne smiled down at his partner m
.hifton with a smile SO fixed that IL
became "A lcer.
prlded myself on knowing the
type, and | further prided myself on
loathing and abhorring it. 1 alb
horred. IN fact. the whole scene.
They called It The byzantine
Room" | remembered. And IL was
| was on the point OF making an cf
fort TO escape from Byzantum back
into modern New York by migrnt-
ing into the Annex whose simpler
walls n white and green could see
throulp the open windows beside
me, when a movement In another
part OF the room caught and held my
attention
A uniformed page pushed his way
through TO the table whore ChpplS
cairns sat watching the bare should
ors OF the woman across the table
from him. l could see that the man
had been called to tho telephone
lie camo back, In "A minute or two.
looking serious. / could see as plain
as print, that having been called
away, lac was adjusting himself to
a hope deferred, that he WAS ex-
planning and cNpOstulatlug and doing
his best to soften a misfortune which
gave no promise Of crushing the lady
confronting him
once he had passed out OF the
room. | noticed. NerIyn Nachcll went
on with her meal She went on with
II industriously and abstractcdly.
putting her handbag up on tho widn
window ledge beside hor when the
waiter with the eyes as expression
less as amulet brought In her tray,
with a steaminE casserole enclosed
iu silver. CIsscrol" which shc con-
templatcd with still abstructrd gaze.
Then | noticed something which
promptly took my thoughts away
from that pictorial lady and her ap-
petite What 1 saw was merely "A
V.hIIg hand ,lV DC sF|u ,,rt.f|..