Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-09
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The dinner guests who filled Aunt
Ems brightly-lighted rooms that
Saturday night had a rare treat.
For not only did Sally and Ted
dance three times-and they were
really good-but Davy Davidson got
up and sang some Of the songs made
famous By Nick Lucas. Like Most
Welshmen, he had a beautiful, deep
voice, and some Of the senti-
mental diners who had TASKS con
cealed in their nip pockets or under
the edge OF the tablecioth had tears
In their eyes when he finally sat
down.
The last song he sang was the
song that Sally had head John Nye
whistling on that day nearly a year
ago when she had noticed him for
the first time-"High-high-high.
up on the hill"
Her deep, shadowy eyes were visit
full as she watched him come back
to the little table in the private din
ing room. So wistful that Davy-
who couldn't believe that she wasn't
in love with him-wEs sure Of it AZ
last.
He reached for her hand under the
table, and Sally thrust his violently
away from her and got up.
Come on, Ted, let's 20 out and
get a breath Of air." she said to her
red-headed dancing partner, who was
just beginning his dessert Of cherry
pie.
He sprang up, and together they
went out into the cool, darkly green
depths Of Aunt Ems garden.
But Sally knew every inch Of the
pace by heart, and she found some
straw cushions in the backyard
where she and Aunt En- had a do
ing their weekly mending that morn
ing.
II can't stand that Davidson man.
said Sally with a shudder as they
sat down. She put her head back
against the trunk Of the old willow
tree behind her, and looked up at
the moon.
Instantly she felt Ted's arm going
around her shoulders, and he edged
closer to her along the grass.
Hands off" said Sally, crisply.
Il didn't come out here to neck,
Ted"
But plainly Ted had thought hope
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had come for. In his simple and
short experience that was what girls
usually left a brightly -lighted place
and went out into the darkness
with a man for. AS usual, Sally
baffled him by not doing the expect
ed thing.
swell, what did you come for
then?" he asked sulkily, ito look at
the moon?"
He meant that for a mild joke. 1t
was unthinkable TO him that any
one should want to look at a moon.
a good automobile pretty girl
q poppy show-those were the things
that young Mr. Sloan considered
worth looking at. Certainly a moon
was nothing to fire about.
Not in his estimation
yes. to look az the moon-part
ly," answered Sally, cody. "And
partly 10 get away from Miles Dav-
idson. l can't bear him" Her voice
trailed off as she thought Of the
other night when he had kissed her
so impatiently, and with such hard
eagerness.
Then she remembered something
else that had happened that night.
Something that she had been turning
over and over in her mind all week
the thing that Mile had said 70
her: Even Johnny had 20 laugh
about all the funny things you did
for him."
For the thousandth time she Won
dered how he had come to tell Mile
about the sandwiches she had
brought him when he missed his
lunch, the flowers she had put on his
desk one morning, the pencils she
had sharpened fer him. In the
silvered darkness she flushed with
shame and humiliation, remembering
those things. How she wished now
that she never had done them for
him.
After all. Teddy's the only man