The Mount Holly news., 1919-10-21

mark Of Identification The pin caught
his eyes and he knew it was genuine.
Il won't leave it in the car while go
inside. And yet there's Annette and
Blair and Lord knows how many more
waiting for mep
He stuck the pin in his pocket and
the hat under the seat and went In to
lunch. But after dinner at the club
that night he thought again of the hat.
Certainly he was responsible for its
safe-keeping at least. Surely II would
be advertised for on account of the pin.
He tried to picture the type of girl
who would look wen In such hat and
found he preferred one rather dark,
with hair on the chestnut order, with
large, dark eyes.
At the end of the second day he put
an lad" In the afternoon papers, but
Sue never read the "ads," and the hat
remained white elephant on his
hands. 1t was too large to conceal, so
Barry had placed it for safe-keeping
and constant reminder to his con-
science on bust of LIE Brun that stood
In the place of honor on his book.
shelves. Somehow 1t suited the
piquant, aristocratic face with its sug-
gestion of the Trianon days.
The night of the Art League Valen-
tine dance Sue dressed carefully, try
ing to hide from herself how she
wished to heaven she might have gone
In some dazzling costume instead of as
Good Luck. The costume was becom-
ing but ridiculously cheap, and she
wanted to be sensation. Madeline
was going as Melisande, with her own
lengthy blonde tresses as an excuse.
In green velvet, with gold girdle, she
would be picture. Sue took up her
necklace of amulets and fastened q
wishbone and a tiny horseshoe with
the rest
'All need is a rabbits foot now"
she told herself savagely as she pushed
her circlet of four-leaf clovers down
about her brown curls They had been
her own idea, and she had made them
out Of green satin over cardboard.
'They don't look so bae, either" she
added, critically. before joining Made
line in the taxi below.
-,aIry MAS not intending to stay, but
he always managed to look In at the
dance each year. chatting at the door
with some Of the men he knew. II was
always colorful and interesting and
somehow tonight he found it more
than usually SO, and had accepted the
loan Of a monks domino for dance
or two, when he saw Good Luck pass
by on the arm of Filipino Moro chief
He asked Parker who she was, and
Parker, who knew everybody, told him
she was Sue Daniels. girl who posed
for the angel heads in stained glass
studios.
Got Rosetti chin, hasn't she9 he
added
I'D marry her In three weeks If she
looks as well with the mask off" Barry
remarked seriously. Il want to meet
her."
They were dancing together when
Sue, bit breathless and happy,
CHANGED to glance at the pin which
fastened the top fold of her partners
domino. 1t was with difficulty that she
kept back quick gasp, for there WAS
no mistake. 1t was the Venetian pin
set with rubies.
"A beauty, isn't lt2" he asked.
There's story goes with 1t, too. I'll
tell 1t to you when you come up to my
place. I've got the rest of 1t up there.
''The hat?" exclaimed Sue before she
could check herself Isn't it hurt a
! bit? Oh. you know. it's just too good
to be true, your finding ii. for you did
find it,. didn't your You couldn't have
the pin unless you had the hat, too
''Is it your hat?" questioned Barry.
gazing down at her sternly. How do
/ know if it is becoming unless see
you unmasked, and If 1t isn't you can't
have it. l shall keep it in the interests
Of art"