The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-11-01
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bu HAZEL LIVINGSTON
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felt strangely light, like . balloon.
Happy too, awfully happy. Except
for the little heavy place in her
heart. that would always hurt .
always. -.
"When did you come here with
them!"
"one night-when you were in
Il wouldn't do it again. They're
not your kind, Joan. And let's
break this up as early as we de-
Gently can. l should have had more
sense than TO ask them. Fuzzy-head
is too terrible. GOSH suppose I
have to dance with it too-pity me!''
They laughed. The music flowed
over them, lifting them into its
warm, pulsing cadence. The lights
faded, turned amber and rosy and
dim. The other dancers were shad-
ows, only they were real again,
alone in q crowded room.
love met" he smiled.
"Sort of"
He laughed again, gently, conf
IDENTIFY. Wharf.-The musie's
stopped"
She was laughing too, happily, SO
glad Of Curtis love 80 glad ,
Maisie and Curtis !. so different,
50. alike both loving her. and
she loving them. :.
In the dressing room, being
helped into their coats by ! sleepy
maid, Ruth turned to Joan with {
curious expression in her round.
bright eyes. "Why-why in the
devil did You have to drag in Will
um-or Bill-as you call him? Rol-
10 did pull an awful boner but Cur
tbs would never have noticed It If
you hadn't made it worse. Now
you're in for it."
Il don't see why"
Ruth was deliberately roueinr her
lips. She watched Joan from the
mirror. s
"It's no crime to 70 to dinner
with you and Rollo and Bill. is e.?
It was nice Of you to try to help.
Ruth, but heavens-it doesn't mat.
Ruth's lipstick was held in mid
AIR for = moment. Then she dropped
it into her vanity case, and sharply
clicked it shut.
ooh, all right" she said. "if Won
feel that way about it."
When the fourth TELEGRAM from
home arrived, Rollo groaned and
reached Tor the telephone. "Get ne
= lower on the Owl, will you? Yeh
tonight. Pasadena. Well. a crm,
partment, drawing rocm-I,m no,
iussy. Say, what's I've matter WITH
the service? Oh, weli-upper then.
gotta get out on taat train"
he was going to call Western
Union and send . wire too. hut "a
remembered that tho hotel steno a,s
rapher had Irish eyes and I dimnis
50 ne went downstairs and dictafHd
ii instead: ssu
Emmett Reyes.
dena. e
Kill the fatted calf your dar.
ing boy is coming home ston
leu Bill to meet the Owl TO-
morrow morning. Rollo."
Send it collect" he rrinned. ana
tipped the girl . dollar. -''e
Vh, Rollo. You pig. % - av.v
and leave mel" Ruthie cried. ~
he stopped to gay roodbvs ""en
49,, Dont you think you can bear
"cDon't sc-stay : !! while LONGER
"Ohl"
Yep. ! gotta % home and max.
mmysen square with the old man
t ;Eoa old man ct that. You vs;t
-; :. =. ne meets you, Ruthie, he'll mil
IT you don't watch out Mat,
s WV % squaring himself at yo Sar
~. T thought you liked w;ll,,,
Dont worry about him donhia'
it, vsslne me, squarest kid that eve,
!iveo. And say-to tan -, e Is
ruth ] thought you wer ne, y r;aa me e
EYE on him, Ruthie, / felt nr.+t =.
t t,cx oyer r. It for = while. its II.
"Sillyw
s No. honest, ! thought you wer. !.
.;s one smiled. and leaning over
KISSED him anna rol,, VvcIs
Foolish boy!" :" the mouth.
ali put I'LL the pit Of common sense that
to h; ms g. Reyes s. had handed down sNn,
n y nss son. oaa with which the boys flin.
ke enty Ro dno t laziness was threaded.
inr 10. .o' % from completely beI;ev'
hsr. ny sYe snoq -. s his heart sched for
4 Lemons ,nsi H.. h ,.r,. back. Failing for4
ln9 Rhouldars sspsn on MS slop-