The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-07
WHITE AND UNMARRIED
BY JOHN D. SWAIN

length. trif1e out of breath and weary of thigh, he stood on the top- most landing; and obeying Vlctor's instructions he knocked at the heav- fly paneled door with it's antique laAeh.
 10 his relief. faint light shone from beneath, although no sounds came from within. He knocked second time before his ears caught the padding of small, bare feet on the floor. accompanied by whisper ing. He realized that Andree might have returned and gone to bed; and ment rose in him. Then the door opened an inch or two, and he caught a gleam of white, one very black eye and small mouth which demanded: What is it ?''
 He managed to convey to the girl on the other side of the door that | he was come to call on Andree. hav- | ing been directed by one Victor, of l the Mill of the Half-Gods- In turn | he learned that he was addressing Henriette, who informed him that Andree was not yet returned, though 1 expected momentarily. After which | the door closed and Kane retraced his steps flight by flight to await | Andree's arrival.
 l Twenty minutes later she appeared. When he spoke to her from the sable pit of the hallway, she gave little | moan and collapsed. He had just time to catch her in his arms. In a few seconds Andree recovered 1 from the shock of astonishment al 1 finding him there.
 I've been hunting for you every night" you know. Bet I've been into two hundred joints since you ran away! Didn't learn where you hang out till an hour ago, over at the old l mill Victor told me-said you lived with his kid sisters. I justed waited long enough to write the address or
 my cuff, and hiksd right over."
 Andree laughed cheerfully. It was a curious sound to rise from thai squalid court three o'clock in the | morning. To Andree his cheerful i'm. pulsiveness was highly amusing; nol did she fail to be pleased by his
 statement that he had looked for hel constantly since their first encounter
 She had thought often enough of him but she had not dreamed that he | would remember her any more thar
 a day or so,
 His finding her, of course undid al
 her efforts to keep him from Chicoq'. vengeance. The latter had long ags
 made up his mind that there wa
 nothing between Andree and the
 American stranger. His animosit,
 toward Kane was based wholly upor 1 the humiliation he had suffered iron
 being knocked down and out in pub
 lie. Bitter his resentment was
 Andree knew that it lacked the abid
 ing sting of jealousy; and as Chicoqu't
 time was pretty we'll occupied, h,
 might forget the whole affair.
 Now that Kane had found her
 however, all was changed. She knev
 well enough that he would com,
 again and again. and the very urrnos
 that she could hope for was that h, would not visit the cabaret wher
 she was dancing, and where he cer
 tainly would encounter Chicoq
 She was relieved that he did no
 ask to come upstairs with her. No
 that she would have been shocked, O.
 even that the little midinettes woul<
 have been. But Andree knew tha , Kane was an American, and that i
 he asked to come up, 1t would show at once that he did not care Tor ne at all in the right way. She was pleased and touched , therefore, when he told her, after very few minutes of difficult conver l sation, that he knew how tired sh must be, and that he would not stay She was touched that he did not offe | to kiss her-a little disappointed per haps, Out pleased. And by teII1n him that if he was a good boy an
 would keep away from the Monkey 3 Cage, where she now exercised he t talents, she would let him call on he here, she won his promise to refra1
 from visiting that select resort 3 It was settled that she would com ' home early-by ten o'clock the fol t lowing Friday, that he might mee
 her, and That they would spend a nic ? long evening together.
 Kane laughed. He leaned over patted Andree ever so gently on he 3 smooth cheek, whispered "Goo
 niht," and was gone.