San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-24


like of features, was waiting to
show them to the car.
Not until they were crossing
Oxford street did he speak to her
again: she was sitting back in a
corner of the limousine (there was
quite foot of space between
them) and he startled her with the
sudden inquiry:
'Do you care for dancing. Miss
Anscombe?"
Love it," said Stella, ''if the
company is all that one desires.
Dances are like Rugger scums
these days"
81 like dancing" he said quietly.
Greatest exhilaration I've expert
enced thus far in life was while
dancing one night in cafe in
Montevideo. Glorious Spanish
girl whose lover watched US
through a screen of palms"
"Ready to shoot your
"Good heavens, no. 1t wasn't
film studio. | had bought him a
bottle of wine; he was very proud
of her dancing and might have
chastised her if she hadn't given a
good performance"
Surely, surely you would have
killed him if he had done so?"
Hang it all, it was his sweet
heart, not mine:"
81 thought it was romance you
were going to tell me about
with little laugh of feigned dis
appointment.
Romance" he echoed. There's
deuced little romance in life. Peo-
pie seem to live not for love, but
to cut each others throats."
She was grateful for the shad-
ows in the car for he might be
fitting at her.
GLORIOUS Spanish girl" he went
on medtatively. "Stole my wad
and told my fortune. Quite inter-
esting."
Really She could have told
his fortune there and then. "Did
you believe all she told you?"
81 seldom believe anything
woman tells me-" he said brutalIy.
81 look in her eyes for truth. This
woman, by the way, told me that
many years would pass before /
fell in love and when | did"
"You would find you had made
a mistaken"
"Not exactly" said Swete Sc
riously. "She said I might very
nearly break her heart, but she'd
learn to understand that it was the
type of husband she preferred :
''HOw interesting" she MUIR
INJURED in a bored tone. 81 think
this is the square"
much too soon," said Swete,
without anything like sentiment.
"May ! thank you again for a very
delightful evening? Will Mr.. Ans
combe be at home?"
"Pray don't stand on ceremony"
she said quickly. 81 shall inform
him of your courtesy in driving
me home; that will be enough"
'In the circumstances" said
Swete dryly, 81 suppose it will.
Here we are" He stepped out to
assist her to alight, then, after
waiting till the hall door had been
opened, stepped back into the linn
CUISINE. As he muttered to himself,
he might have been taking a gov
ernness back from cinema, but
then life had become rather caro-
less of etiquette. Just as the car
was moving away he leaned for
ward and glanced back at the open
doorway. In that instant she
turned her head in his direction.
The light within the hall fell full
on her profile.
Beautiful" he said softly and
to himself, "but an Anscombe.
Beautiful, but as insincere as a
yeddah pilgrim on the way home
from salvation"
In the quiet of her fathers
study Stella told of her visit to
the South street house. She was
anxious to convince him that her
avowal of a vendatta was not the
vaporing of a pseudo-romantic
girl; she was determined to go on
with it; she would tolerate no pa
ternal interference. And she told
him of the failure of Sir James
Prune and was surprised rather
than alarmed by the CONSERVATION
created. Surely her fathers old
friend would not let him in for a
loss of five thousand? He would
be able to repay the loan before
the other creditors swooped down
and cut up the body as it were.
It wasn't her idea of honesty, of
course, but "a friend like Sir
James!
"Wine-soaked old IDIOT" growled
Anscombe. Then, "Swete seems
to be kept well informed"
"You can't dust many flies
from him." said Stella.
HAS the luck of the devil"
said Anscombe. "Wish I had been
given an inkling of Prune's posi-
ton. Shall have to get rid of
some of my holdings tomorrow.
Five thousands a rather large sum
to drop these days and | partic-
ularly needed little floating CAPT
tai next month"
Michael. the son. came into the
study. He was already dressed
for dinner, for the punishment of
dinner at home, Judging by his
looks.