Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-11-05
copyr,ent 1920 by the AVthe,'


Ing brazenly the brightest glare. com
ing and going without rest, In uncouth |
carnival: kind and brutal, cunning
and naive, wicked and innocent, |
swarthy, fair, unique, commonplace;
faces that disguised. faces that al
lured. faces that meant nothing, that |
were mere empty mouthing masks; |
faces Of oriental cast, yellow and red
and brown negro faces in every shade
of quarterlng.
She knew them all they all knew |
her. The sense of strangeness ebbed; |
with every step, with every look
around, with every breath she drew,
she was losing touch with her other
Self which had so singularly renounced
It's authority and faded into impotence
ut the Dark Corner, but which still
kept step with her. chung to her more
closely than her shadow. and like a
wrath of the living, watched, noted
and compared while taking part In &C
tons wholly foreign to Its nature and
experiencing reactions obscure to II
and unintelligible.
Now the girl moved swiftly. with
ease and holiness. even with hint
Of arrogance: giving the Faces look
for look, smile for smile, frown for
frown; laughing impishly up at tall
policeman who knitted black brows
over indulgent blue eyes; fiinging racy
retorts to the banter OF knot OF
men emerging from gin-mill: chill
ing with glance and word the ad-
vances Of those who should have
known better; chatting hucksters who
bawled In her ears the tawdry virtues
of their wares; pausing now and
again to exchange more kindly per
slflage with folk who held title to her
liking; cutting an impudent figure, as
confident and unabashed as a colt
turned loose in home pastures.
Her sharp perceptions took In every
thing; not one considerable detail es-
capped their remark. And she liked II.
she liked It all, she was curiously per-
meated to her very marrow with de-
light In sounds and sights and smells
familiar to her senses since time be-
yond their earliest record.
The Street, never wide, was the mar
rover for its double rank Of pushcarts.
Between these an occasional automo-
bile or horse-drawn vehicle went gin
gerly TO spare the multitude Of
urchins, half dressed and less than
half washed, OF every age and almost
every nationality, that swarmed upon
the asphaltum. Tenement houses
their fire escapes converted into bal
comics lavishly draped with candid
bedding and still more candid women
, drew confidential heads together on
high. leaving visible only slender
ribbon of cobalt sky. In between the
air was sluggish, thick with unnat.
ural haze. and rank with many odors
an unholy alliance of garlic, fried fish
: boiled cabbage and stale beer main.
tanning debatable ascendency over the
native aroma of stratum of society
which holds soap less necessity thar
luxury. And the night was tumultuous
, with screams of children at crud,
!, play, bowls OF babies wallowing Ir
neglect, bawling OF street vendors
y each striving to outyell his neares
:, competitor clatter of tlnny pianos
!. blare and whine of jaded phono
, graphs all relieved against who'll!
!. normal undertone Of incessant GOSSIP
:. and pickering.
The girl Rugged to herself the 10.
u of living; this was to her the breatl
. OF life; even more, II was enterprise
r adventure, the very stun of Romance
O She went her way smiling. with
a conscious smile bred of knowledg
n that she was dressed In her best, 4
Q her very newest best at that, garment
= of cut and cost and quality such a
,. the Street seldom saw.
"a Nevertheless, her show of nonch,
is lance cloaked circumspection II he
m looks were free and rowing they wer
" likewise keen and watchful. Thong
D. the width OF the Street was betwee
them. she was well aware OF tw
r. plain-clothes men who turned TO star
N when she had gone by and conferre
re together concerning her craftily, aftG
u. the absurd manner OF their kind. OF
4. OF the corners OF their mouths.
IN But that was minor circumstanc
So more fun than reason for worry. The
I'd couldn't jug a girl for wearing GOO
e clothes, even II they didn't kno
al where she had got them or how.
The stress OF her attention was d.
TO considerations far more weight!
and when. OF sudden, at a crossin
n. she deserted Its cause she checked
ny unfeigned dismay. with startl'
u pulses
OF
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