The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-09-05

| couples, maintaining sufficient grace
throughout his widest moments. and
all the while laughing and talking
with his partner. What was most re-
markable to George. and a little irri-
tating, this stranger in the Anderson
mansion had no vestige Of the air of
Difference proper to a stranger in such
place; he seemed thoroughly at
home. He seemed extensively so, In
deed, when, passing the entrance to
the gallery stairway, he disengaged
his hand from Miss Fanny's for an In
stant. and not pausing In the dance,
waved a laughing salutation more
than cordial, then capered lightly out
| Of sight.
George gazed stonily at this mani
festation. responding neither by word
nor sign. Flows that for a bit OF
freshness7" he murmured.
what was" Miss Morgan asked.
"That queer-lookng duck waving
his hand at me like that. Except he's
| the Sharon girls uncle don't know
him from ADAM"
you don't need to-" she said. "He
wasn't waving his hand to you: he
meant me-"
"Oh, he didr" George was not mol
lifted by the explanation. Everyone
seems to mean you! You certainly do
seem to have been pretty busy this
week you've been herel"
She pressed her bouquet to her face
again and laughed into 1t. not dis
pleased. She made no other COM
ment, and for another period neither
spoke.
"well," said George finally, II must
say you don't seem to be much Of a
| prattler. They say it's a great way
to get a reputation for being wise
never saying much. Don't you ever
talk at allT
"When people can understand" she
answered.
| He had been looking moodily out
at the ballroom, but he turned to her
quickly, at this, saw that her eyes
were sunny and content, over the top
of her bouquet. and he consented to
smile.
"Girls are usually pretty r. he
said "They ought to go to a mans
NOhS6S dbo0t "a ySoA ihSy u &C.
taught few things about freshness
What you got to do after two o'clock
tomorrow afternoonT
"a whole lot Of things. Every min
ute filed up"
"All right" said George. 1.-THE
SHOWS fine for sleighing: I'll come for
you in a cutter at ten minutes after
two."
IT can't possibly CO."
"n you DON'T" he said, "I'm going
| to sit in the cutter in front of the
gate, wherever you're visiting, all
afternoon. and If you try to go out
| with anybody else he's got to whip
me before he gets you" And as she
| laughed-though she blushed a little,
| too-he continued, seriously: "H you
think I'm not in earnest you're at lib
erty to make quite big experiment !"
She laughed again. Il don't think
I've often had SO large a compliment
as that" she said, Especially on such
short notice-and yet I don't think
I'll go with you"
"You be ready at ten minutes after
two"
mo, I won't"
"Yes, you will |"
"Yes," she said, "I will" And her
partner for the next dance arrived,
breathless with searching.
Don't forget I've got the third
from now," George called after her.
When "the third from now" came
George presented himself before her
without any greeting. like a brother
or a mannerless old friend. Both
George and Miss Morgan talked much
more to everyone else that evening
than to each other, and they said
nothing at all at this time. Both
looked preoccupied as they began to
dance. and preserved a gravity of ex-
preston to the end of the number.
And their next number they did not
dance, but went back to the gallery
stairway, seeming to have reached
an understanding without any verbal
consultation that this suburb was
again the place for them.
WELL" said George coolly. when
they were seated. "what did you say
your name was?"
Morgan"
Funny namei"
Everybody else's name always is."
'T didn't mean 1t was really funny"
George explained. That's just one
of my crowds bits of horsing at col
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