The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-27

same girl. He had asked her aunt,
Mrs. Pearson, about her.
ooh, yes, Mary!" Mrs. Pearson
had said. "She is such difficulty.
Her mother and father died when
she was a tot and I've reared her.
I've paid for all her expenses, the
boarding school and then the girls
I school. She just finished and
didn't know what to do with her. Z
had to bring her long. But she'E
keep out of the way. I've always
told her to keep out of the way"
| AS she had come down that snow
slope, so excitedly beautiful, her
eyes flashing their blueness, and
/ her cheeks red, Edward thought it
could not have been possible to
keep a girl like that out of the
way.
OF course there wasn't so much
that he knew about girls. He had
spent half of his thirty years in the
jungles-it had begun while he was
a youth with his father, and since
the accident he went alone. He
knew more about tigers than girls.
| But as Edward met Mary now he
understood well how she could be
kept out of the way. Her hands and
eyes fluttered nervously as she met
him. Her face looked long and pale.
He felt far more uncomfortable
with her than he did with the pet
(, tiger he had just brought back
from Africa with him.
| "How do you do, Miss Borden.
How do you do. / see you're all
ready for the dance. Well. that's
| fine" said Edward. He had asked
her to go, they were all on their
way, there was nothing else to do
but go with her. 1t would be O
long evening, but then it was all in
the life of an adventnrer. Edward
tried to smile. He succeeded fairly
well. Mary tried to smile, too. It
was a total failure.
The evening was long evening.
Everybody knew Mr.. Edward
Brent, and 1t was strange indeed
to see him about with jittery girl
like Mary. It was very trying to
dance with her, but Edward did,
leven more than once. He felt sorry
for her as he saw her standing
against the wall, while he was
l
a very clever language. Well, Ed
ward thought, the evening could
not last forever, and
And just then there was crash.
Through the window had sprung
the little body of tiger. There
were screams. The guests hysteri-
cally damned against one another.
| "Quiet, everybody" Edward
shouted. "It will be all right"
He had seen at glance it was the
pet tiger. II they didn't excite
him, If they remained calm.
But they weren't, the place was
mad with excitement as the guests.
men and women, tumbled over one
another to get to the exits. The
| tiger was beginning to slowly wug
| it's tail.
Edward saw there was one who
stood calmly. She was staring into
the tigers eyes, and fascinated the
tiger stared back at her. And that
| one was Mary. Edward knew her
again. There was again that color
in her cheeks, that flash in her eyes
/ that she had when he first met her.
Edward at a bound was at her side.
He had chair in his hand. The
tiger swayed from side to side and
backed away. Just then the keepers
came in. They led the escaped
| tiger away.
There was no one on the dance
floor now but Edward and Mary.
He turned toward the girl and took.
her hand.
st understand now" Edward
| said and he mt his arn, around
her, and she was not afraid.
Copyright, 1885.
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