Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-06-06
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significant, that there should be 30
many men nj Green Fancy.
Much TO his disappointment he was
not placed near Miss Cameron NJ
tnble. Indeed she was seated MS far
away from him as possible. There was
a place set between him and De Soto.
for symmctry's sake. Barnes con-
cluded. In this he was mistaken
they had barely seated themselves
when Mrs. Collier remarked:
"Mr. Curtis secretary usually Joins
us here for coffee. lie has his dinner
with my brother, and then, poor man,
comes In for a brief period of relaxa-
tlon. When my brother Is In one Of
his bad spells poor MFR. Loeb doesn't
have much time to himself"
Loeb. the private secretary. came In
for coffee. lie was n tall. spare man
OF thirty, nailIdly handsome, with
dark, studlOus eyes and features OF nm
Enthusiastically Hebrnlc cast, MS his
name might have foretold. His teeth
were mnrvclously white and his slow
smile attractive. More than once dur
Ing the hour TINT Loeb spent with
them Barnes formed and dismissed n
stubborn ever-recurrlng opinion that
the man wns not a jew. Certainly he
was not an American Jew. His voice,
his manner OF speech. his every action
stamped him ms one born and bred In
n land far from Broadway and lts
counterpnrts. II n jew he was Of the
east as It Is measured from Rome
the Jew OF the carnnl Orient.
And as the evening wore on there
came to Barnes the singular fancy
that this nan was the master and not
the servant Of the housed He could
not put the ridiculous idea out of his
mind.
He was TO depart at ten. The hour
drew near and he had had no opportu-
nifty for detached conversation with
Miss Cameron. He had listened to her
bright retorts to O'Dowd's %sallies. and
marveled at the ense and composure
with which she met the Witty Irish
man on even terms
Not until the very close OF the eve
ming, and when he had resigned him
self to hopelessness, did the opportu'
nifty come for him to speak with her
alone. She caught his eye, and, to his
nmnzement, made n slight movement
Of her head. unobserved by the Others
but curlously imperative to him. There
was no mlstnking the meaning Of the
direct, intense look that she gave him
She was appealing to him as .
frlend-as one on whom she could de
pend
The spirit Of chlvalry took posses
sion OF him. His blood leaped to thu
call. She needed him and he woult
not fall her. And II was with din
Guilty that he contrived to hide tn
e~xaltation that might have ruined CIV
erythlngl
While he was trying TO invent n pre-
text for drawing her apart from tn
others she calmly ordered Van Dyk
to %rellnqulsh his place on the coucI
beside her 10 Barnes.
Come and sit beside me, Mi
Barnes" she called out gayly. II wi
not bite you or scratch you or hnrr
you In any way, Ask Mr. o'Dowt
and he will tell you that I am quit
docile. I don't bite, do |, Mr.. O'Dowdf
"You do" seid O'Dowd prompt!
"you do more than that. You devou'
Bednd | have to look In n mirror I
convince meself that you haven't swa
n lowed me whole. That's another wa
u of telling you, Barnes, that she'n al
, sorb you entirely"
For Il few minutes she chided hi
< for his unseemly aversion. He WI
Y beginning to think that he had bee
: mistaken In her motive, and that aft'
u all she was merely satisfying her VA
lty. Suddenly. and rs she smiled inl
= his eyes, she said, lowering her volt
slightly
~ "Do not appear surprised at nm,
! thing l may say 10 you. Smile as
Y we were uttering the silllest nonsens
~ Go much denends upon II, Mr.. Bnrnes