Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-08-15

press to you the charming, whimsical
picture that your coming to me as you
did has flung on my mind would fail.
Fancy telling you how more than
happy l am that you are having tea
with me-a perfect stranger in Amer
lca."
1t was Eve now who laughed.
You don't do It badly at ali,
though" She vouched him the very
first Of her yelled glances. Her eyes
had been openly frank, her manner
chummy and even boyish. Now the
woman had come forward to challenge
the man.
Travers sensed the change, but stood
his ground even as the British army
was wont to stand its ground though
the enemy outnumbered 1t by many
thousands Of men.
Eve looked deep and long into the
young correspondents eyes as II she
would imprint therein some kind of
memory of herself. She felt In part
quite inadequate to enter any arena
when John Travers was already there.
A soft, gentle sigh escaped her lips.
do you fancy dance" Travers
asked her suddenly. tits many day
since did any dancing, but fancy
we can drag through"
II am sure we can" Eve laughed
and rose.
A moment later they were among
the dancers, but 1t was all dream to
Eve. She could not realize that John
Travers' arm was In reality touching
the back Of her Poiret costume and
that her own hand lay In his. 1t must
be dream, and she would wake to
find that she did not even know him.
However. Travers made 1t more than
apparent that he was actually there.
He kept up light conversation at
/ quite alarming extent for him. 1t was
almost as If he were trying to erase
for a few wonderful moments the trag-
&c scenes that had crowded themselves
before his tired brain during four long
years Of war. He was fighting the
awful reality of war as he had seen
1t, but, too, the British In him was
fighting to remain sensible.
There was something very, very
compelling In the charming Eve, and
he wanted not to become entirely at
the mercy Of the first attractive girl
with whom he had danced In four
years Yet there was no denying
the tremor that her hand was sending
up his arm nor the delightful content
ment her presence near him was pro-
duclng.
"Are you going to be In our country
very long" he found Eve to be ask
ing.
Travers swiftly calculated the num-
Der Of weeks his lectures would take
him, and to that he added week or
so for the advancement of his court
ship Of Eve. He made up his mind
that the latter would not take over
long II he had all the sayso, and an
swered Eve when 1t was oil thought
out.
"There are one or two things l must
attend to when my lectures are fin
ished. You American girls are tre-
mendously clever at giving strangers
the right of way In New York-sO per-
haps may call on you to help me de-
eide my course. If you assist, will
be back In England before three
months have passed"
Eve pondered for a long time on
Travers' words and found them food
for refectlon-qulte, quite romantic re-
Elections
II have so enjoyed assisting you this
afternoon that am positive when you
ask a great favor I will be there to
help you" she said. Her voice was
wonderfully soft and Travers sensed a
warmth as well in Its depths.
At least he knew he would not re-
turn to England without Eve some
where on the steamer, and she would
be there not as Eve-single.