Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-07-08

But I hadn't come to Deresby for
Soleil Hammington. My concern was
with Marguerite Grey" but I didn't care
to let my hostess know this lest she
should guess the lure which had brought
me down. So / talked to various people
whom I knew, had tea, presently got into
f1annels n took part in a mixed at
tennis.
When the match was over and I was
coming away from the court with my
partner, MurieI Archby, the pretty dark
girl who's SO clever in amateur theatre
Gals. I saw Soleil Huntington again. He
was with Lady Deresby n was just
being introduced to a newcomer, q girl
whom / had never seen before. For
saw him take of his panama hat and
then stretch out a long freckled hand to
a small hand thai met his half way. This
girl was fairly tall and extremely slim.
Her slimness was noticeable even In an
age Of girls slight to attenuation. She
was neither fair nor dark. AS 1 came up
to the group in which she was standing
/ saw thai she had small features, hazel
eyes, and a particularly beautiful fore
head. Her forehead really was lovely,
and yet / could scarcely make you I'M
derstand why. 1t looked marvelously
pure, transparent almost with purity
like alabaster with q light behind 1t
shining through. The ideal seemed seat
GA LllCiCf dll0 Ia tlC L<O CIOo WAiAS3
were arched by long. nearly straight and
very thin eyebrows. dark brown In color,
Her hair, which grew in wavy lines
around her forehead, and which was ar
ranged to show two tiny white ears, was
a good deal fairer than her eyebrows.
Her complexion was pale and her lips
were rather pale. She looked very SIM
pie, very quiet, not shy, not at all self
conscious, but rather reserved. She was
prettily but very simply dressed. She
had lovely hands.
I knew at once that this girl was
Marguerite Grey" As / looked at heI
the very essence of her book seemed
there among the roses of Deresby before
me.
hasl" Miss Archby whispered to me.
Then Lady Deresby, mentioning GU
names to the girl, added: This is my
friend, Miss Marguerite Greyi"
So hat was really her namel / re-
member feeling very glad that it was as
1 took her hand.
Authors of beautiful books, composers
of glorious music. painters Of great pic
lures are, I think, usually SO unlike
their productions that sometimes wher
we are with them, though we know BY
personal acquaintance with their works
what they are. yet we can scarcely be-
lieve our own knowledge. Marguerite
Grey was the wonderful exception to thil
distressing rule. Her exquisite talen-
seemed bound about her forehead, he
mysticism to shine in her eyes. Ever,
one at Deresby thought that. / believe
At any rate, before that evening wa
over I had heard nearly every one say
at one time or another, isn't she jus
like her booker or words Of much thu
same meaning. And she seemed to sub
due to this curious allegiance, apparent
ly quite u~nsought for by her, not onl.
the men but the women, n not onl,
the likely men n women, those VIII
really cared about delicate art n coult
appreciate it with subtlety, but the mos
unlikely.
There was Soleil Huntington, for in
stancel Although l had never met hin
before, I knew, as the phrase goes, al
about him" In appearance he was emf
nently what sporting writer's love to cal
hard bitten" Horsy hardness-so diff
1erent from business, or pugi1i5tic, o
ecclesiastical hardness-was written al
over him. His light eyes looked hard
his tight mouth looked hard, his long
thin, sinewy hands looked as hard and a
tough as whipcOrd. He was clean shaver
but his hair being fair and not growinI
thickly, he looked rather as II he didn'
need to shave at all. He was tremen
dously male though. in the lean, tough
spry, springy way. Light hairs sprinklet
his freck1ed hands. He had q splendid,
agile and well knit figure. At a glanc
one could see what a man he must b.
across country. He looked as II he hat
been born out OF doors n brought u
In a racing stable. And yet, somehow
he didn't look as II he were very strong
outdoor. yesi Active. enterprising, COG
as the devil-yesl But there was.
thought, q sort OF under look AZ of deli
cacy. Probably he had tried his consti
tuition pretty hard.
He was known as q rowdy man. mucl