The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-10-31
CHAPTER II-continued.

MAKE me some pretty speeches
Senior Billy" she laughed softly. 'They
float up to me here through the moon
light like the perfume from red roses r
She had drawn her mantilla closely
about her for no other reason in the
world but to tantalize the man below
her by hiding herself from him, and
there was only her voice and the vague
outline Of her young body through the
vines to tell him that she was there.
But to her his face, uplifted in the
moonlight, flushed and eager, was I'M
hidden.
"You are f1irt r. he cried, seeking
to make his voice savage and angry,
and succeeding admirably in filing 1t
with alteration.
"But no." she answered him from
the dusk about her. "That is to be
cruel And II am so soft-hearted
that to make one suffer would distress
me-"
IF you roll your RS at me like that
again." Stairway told her very posi-
lively, 81 am going right in and tell
the old gentleman that I am going to
marry your
She laughed gayly at his Impetuous
declaration.
"It would be like a play" she said
nfter little as though she were think
ing seriously of what he had said he
would do. at would interest me to
aoo Dopo <vvopda rvo,,ld no VOW, M,
lite and would ask Senior Billy to have
glass of wine and a cigarita.
"And then'-the laughter yelling up
again in the eyes he could not see,
trilling in the voice which dropped
down to him-"he would call Pedro
and old Juan to take you outside and
shoot you with their gunsw
"And you find that funny" demand
cd Stairway.
as 1t not? 1t is like the opera r.
you are dying for an operati
sceneT His voice still rang with the
eagerness within him, his hand was
upon the vines which clambered about
her balcony. Let me climb up to |
you"
You must not r. she cried quickly.
And then. seeing that he hesitated, |
she added lightly, again settling her
sell comfortably upon her cushioned
seat. "That would be only musical
comedy. And I should have to go in
side and shut my window and run
downstairs to papa grande. And
Rhl"
He could make out the gesture as
she laid her fingers across her red lips,
.ould see that she turned toward the
open window behind her.
"Quien EST" she called carelessly.
"Yo, Pedro" came Pedro's answer
tag voice. "Senor Dempton has gone.
The master says that in half an hour
he will be glad to see the Senorita
Teresa"
"Bueno," she answered lightly. Il
bear, Pedro" And then when she also
heard Pedro's light tread on the stair
way, descending, she turned again
toward the man below her. Il must
Co." she said softly. Papa grande
wishes me-"
mot for half an hour" he said
quickly. Il heard that"
.Buf." as though she were hesitat-
ing, II should go now. 1t is very I'M
paidenly of me to be here with you.
II had known that you were coming
I should certainly not have come out
10 look at my stars"
you are little 'humbug, Teresita,"
- laughed at her. you did know that
I would be here, and you were glad Of
It, and you came out just to see me-
ITO see your And he could mag
lne the arching Of the brows above her
great eyes.
sAnd to tease me. But look here"
II am looking, senior. Mama mia,
but you are handsome In the moon
l1xht. More 30 than by dayp'
Il did not come here tonight to
make Jon pretty speeches" said STAN
way stubbornly after his way. Il came
y tan you
1MF ~xpectantly. She clasped
~ k4nds and leaned 4 little farther
~ over Min, allowing him I glimpse
Y ~ lnuehing face. Of white arms
- thfuat frem which the mantilla
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