The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-31

status in all the subdivisions of the society
that now appealed to her. asked her to marry him,
she wept-she wept she had not since that night
when she stood, tawdry and gawky factory me
chanic heart broken over the shock of seeing half
of $40 cash prize go glimmering In tencent dive
crowded with hoi polloi.
How could she marry Chester Hibben2 True,
her manner and her speech and her tastes had
been refined. until she could walk beside him
live with him and raise no eyebrows. But-he
didn't know; and she did. Confession alone could
not be enough--she might confess her specific mis-
deeds and he might swallow hard and forgive. but
the rest he could never understand. One must live
the criminal vulgarttes to appreciate them.
She tried to mako him realize. hut he svsp4
away all her protests. He didn't want to know OF
what had gone belore--he had fair Idea of what
rising in musical shows meant to some girls who
had to pluck themselves ont of the gutter. lie
wanted her for what she was and she was, not
for anything that had gone before. He
hectic rah rah boy In the pitch of his first enamo
ration-he was a widower, had lived, had seen, had
thought; and he knew just what he was doing
So Elsye said yes, and that night after the the
atre thay went forth TO celebrate at late cabaret
It Yas all right for them to do so. Two years be
fore her presence there open to criticism; she
was skylarking. Now she was Summing The
tablished star, the substantial merchant who was
her affianced, could hit 1t up with dignity. And
when they remained until a M, imblbing judi
cousy and dancing inermittently, no one thought
of 1t than to point them out dscreetly repeat
whothey were, gossip and buzz in respectful tones
Even the choristers who had known her when
and it hadn't been long since-let 1t so at that
O'clock
They rose and walked to the checking stand
and got their wraps.
1t was only step to the door He helped her
on with her downy cloak of fluffy fur that slipped
over her fetching bare shoulders.
man VINO stood cramped against the wall as
though ne didn't want to obtrude sweeping
vision of the walk caught Chesters eye. II seemed
to him the man was scrutnizing Esye with even
more than the pointed admiration that she always
drew from gawkers.
She tceh his arm and they started over the
threshold toward his car.
A fist flew up, Hibben ducked violently Eisye,
whose attention had been afied for an ubstracted
moment stopped and turned The fist wavered
Excuse me-" whispered Esye and disengaged
her arm from Hibben's She crossed him He saw
her draw back her dainty hand and whack the man
with the cap smartly in the face. He crnged and
recoied.
i told you to stay away I'm me, Tony" hlssed
Elsye, in tone Hbben had never heard her use.
"Now-the mex time you come bothern me- III
knock you for goul-an then send you to the
hoosegow. Now get out O. here before / kick Won
In that ugly mug you bum!"
The man turned and skunk eff. Elsye turned the
other way
Now" said Elsye, 81 suppose youn never talk
to me again"
Now" said Hibben, 'I know what you meant
reyersion to type, eh?"
mo, Chester. Not reYersion-rsvealment The
type is only hidden by gown and a little powder"
-, should suggest little more powder" said
Good mighty said Elsye more coolly =.
On tony - take me home will you?"