Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-14

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other?" I managed TO get out to Slim
as We went downstairs to the grill.
knew each other?" he laughed.
"All my girls have to know each 9TH
err, 1 guess. Regular Bond of Union
| am. Only crab about me is that.
Ions as 1 am, there's not quite enough
OF me to go round, So
Yes, hut look here, Seriously"
Seriously will do when we've had
something to eat, Old Horse. That's
all right. Wen have a. little, quiet
explanation when we're at table; that's
the scheme. All! This our
table? Good. Now. darling, you
come and sit here
(This to Phylis!)4 :
You two sit where you like. Good
and close to the band, aren't we?
We're going to have Give me the
Moonlight BY Request, in q minute"
Before we'd dipped y spoons into
the soup, that band Eve were prac-
tically sitting In the storm-center of
it and it included five hugo buck-nig-
gers, a haas-drum with cymbals, sew
oral brass tea-trays n an extra
powered motor-horn) burst into tho
deafcning racket through which we
could hardly hear our own voices.
Cant explain anything with all this
going on, Old Horse" Slim bawled in
my ear Unfortunate, isn't it? /.
Waiter; oh, yes. Say, what
Year will we drink"
! Was l dreaming. or did ] hear my
own little, lady suggest, Eighteen
some joyous little thought Of Ter own.
I couldn't ask her then what it was.
While that storm OF music fairly
ragged about Vi We ate and drank. l
don't know what Slim knew that l
didn't. I heard him advising the
waiter in a below to bring up any
eats that everybody else was giving a
miss, a crowd'em upon hat gentle
man (me.)
AN the left-overs from lunch.
He'll take 'em like a lamb: never no
wouldn't eat"
Slim" protested Phyllis Ode
lighted with him).,
Ives, on plates with splodges OF old.
dry mustard left sticking to EN- since
Wednesday week-hc'll never see. It's
his birthday. too! Fill your glass up,
Old Horse"
Presently the buck-niggers ceascd
their uproar for the time being. but
the applause from all yer the res
taurant made nearly az much noise,
In the middle Of the clipping and
knife-tapptng and shouts Of Encore
Slim cant confidentially forward. I
thought now at last he was going to
stop his nonsense and say something
serious. He spoke seriously enough,
but all he said was. Maybe I haven't
got much of an ear for music. But I
do understand that Band! L feel it,
somehow. Way up here" he ran his
hand up his spine. 1T seems to kind
Of express my sentmentz. tonight.
Pity m cant let off a, couple OF num-
Der 5, Mills grenades into the middle
of the fortiszilno part, isn't ity"
And from the look on the ruffiau's
face I knew just knew that meant
to go on like this for the rest OF the
evening. v bothering to explain
n of it all. Except what he must
have already explained % Phyllis. l
imagined he'd had some sort Of a fate
ful talk with her at 80 that afternoon.
Toto
Well, there I sat, aghast at the fell
conflded in me. that evening In my
rooms! Washing out the way that<he
had according to her sister) behaved
to Phyllis in the past! just butting
IN when he thought he would, to take
possession again and monopoIise the
girl who was still my ftancee! Petting
her hands: smiling into her eyes;.call-
ing her Phil darling and keeping his
boot firmly down on her smart shoes
under the table! Telling me and my
little lady We could 80 and sit on
the chandelier il we ikeds Making
a regular fiesta to celebrate his out
raSoousness, a birthday-dinner with
champagne and the hudest jazz-din
in L0ndonN He was the extreme and
ultimate limit
At last there happened to come .
quarter OF a minute when he was not
talking and the girls mo- ,hslplessly
together to seize the chance,
Took here. siim!" I m4naxed to
set In quite sharply. You said you'd
explain. l must say I should like to
know what all this Is about. To start
Slim cooked his head to one side in
that way he has, then turned . psr-
fettiy sincere stare upon me.
Whats what All about. Old
fine. isn't 1t? Everything Just AZ
right ~ it can be? I'm happy: look
ct me. Phyllis - happy. Aren't you,
phy1lis threw up her bobssd saa4
and, looked away from him, NO"
all0 aaid: her 5eyoo dancing.
sAh, wait till I9est yon out to Nom
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