Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-16
CHAPTER Iv.-Continucd.

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"Mouldy sort of Way of spending an
evening, isn't it?" said Slim, taking
out a cigarette and 1nocking it against
leaf II nd end o. curly flourishes
and things all ovr- it, girls
idea of a lovely present for a man, I
expect. You ought to be dancing,
man. Pity you don't fsx-trot; I'd
have, taken you along with me now.
Why don't you learn? Go to classes.
Guinea for ten. Well worth it., Jack.
III give yoU. the address of a girl in
Ealing who'd make YOU into the Jazz
king in M week. No? Please your
self you miss a lot. ! tell YOU"
Tastes differ" / said, as offhand-
eddy as l could. and feeling r~ottener
thar ever; left out Of everything. II
don't think I'd care for dancing and 1
don't get on with strangers, Slim. I'm
not like you the lady you're
taking to the dance. fits fair to ask ?'
l went on, trying to pull his leg for a
bit Of change. Els it the one in the
Charteuse colored frock whose name
YOU don't know"
AHA! But 1 do know, as it hap
pens" says Slim with perky little tilt
Of his fair head. Found hat out all
right the day after l met her. You
knows Rinks and I met her at that
subscription dance at the Caliph
Rooms last Friday week. I was dane
ing with Gwladys at the time Drinks
c%ousin) and l saw this b%eauteous bru-
nette sail into the Rooms with her lit
tie crowd. 'Hul-lo,' says I, there's a
pretty girl Gwladys says, Which ?
The one in green? Can't say 1 adj
mire. your taste.'-(You know how
beastly jealous a girl is Of any other
girl having a man look at herb
Perhaps says Miss Gwladys, you'd
like a dance with her?' I should
says I, and the very minute the waltz
was over I marched straight up to the
nymph in green and say, May / have
the next, please?'
l looked at Slim; telling myself how
little I cared how he got to know all
these blessed girls of his who make
such a fuss about him. But at the
sa me time I couldn't help asking him,
who introduced ycu?"
"Ah, get back to the Ark" laughed
Slim. 'She al with several people:
a naval Johnny and an aunt in black
and glitters. and some other girls. I
simply took on as if I knew the lot OF
them from their cradles. There's
nothing like absolute neck to carry
0 through. She just gave me a lit
tie look, and a laugh. She danced
with me all right; danced divinefy,
too. Wouldn't tell, me her name
though. Said. but surely you can't
have forgotten 1t, II you know all Of
us! You'd better get somebody to re-
mind you Some kid"
; His laughing CHEEKY talk seemed<t to
make that of mine drearier ev-
cry. minute. and me. Jack Smith. more
of a. tick-in-the-mNG and hopeless
dud. Me with my dream-tslands and
a make-belicve girl because l didn't
know now to get a real n to look at
me! I confess I was beginning to feel
mad envious of this chap. People nj
ways go on as IL 1t were only girls who
as Slim says are beastly jealous be-
other girls get all, the attention
from men. Lean tell you that a fell
low feels just as hurt and Jealous when
he secs other men getting everything
from girls and himself nothing at Ill.
Funny how l.. felt 1t then; felt It
worse with every word Slim told me
as he sat there smoking, swinging his
legs. waiting because it was still ear
Ivy for the time to go on and call for
this girl. She lived in a big house,
Slim said, Bayswater way.
How / found out was from the girl
in Ealing" he said. "In the after
moons she's in~structressN at those
Rooms with Gwladys's little silk bas
,nf TRICKS she'd given me to hold and
forgotten, with her powder-box and
lip-stick and what not. I showed II to
the. i~nstructress girl and. say !,
Here's this bag belonging TO Miss
ah, what is her name? Ni1-Miss
--- ] snapped my fingers and said
I should think OF 1t in q minute. She
comes to the classes here said.
She's dark. with very black eyes, and
Jets see-ahe wears an evening
frock Just the color, Of Green Char
thn,ses SsAh!SsI know The one you
mean. ays the instructrcss. It's
Miss Carteret. Phyllis Carteret, isn't
1T. That's the one, said. Stamping
my knee. Miss Phyllis Carteret-as
II SHE md I had been paily from the
year nflnus-'ohiy now Two forgotten
the address. So the little instructress
told me. and = rang up and asked if I,
imfgltt CALI, ana-weM, that was that.
Theysre topping people. Give ysu d
.whalt ~ ttueI'flb be getting along