A Pair of Patient Lovers

bviously approachable tabby next the chimney-c

n itself the character of ball-room as well as drawing-room. The hop had now begun, and two young girl couples were doing what they could to rebuke the sparse youth of Lower Merritt Inn for their lack of eagerness

ly; the other was more devotedly given to the orchestra, which also claimed both his eyes. While he learned, as with the mind of some one else, that the Desmonds had been very much opposed to Phyllis's playing at the Inn, but had consented partly with their poverty, because they needed everything they could rake and scrape together, and partly with their will, because Miss Axewright was such a nice girl, he was painfully adjusting his con

ator; the delicately arched wrist of the hand that held the bow, and the rhythmical curve and flow of her arm in playing, were means of the spell which wove itself about him, and left him, as it were, bound hand and foot. It was in this helpless condition that he rose at the urgence of a friendly young fellow who had chosen himself master of ceremonies, and took part in the dancing; and at the end of the first half of the programme, while the other dancers streamed out on the verandas and thronged the stairways, he was aware of dangling his cha

e pretty, pathetic face, the gentle brown eyes, the ordinary brown hair, the sentient hands, the slight, graceful figure, the whole undistinguished

id boldly, and he had the pleasure of seeing her pe

habitual state seemed to be intense inattention to whate

ve met

Axewright and I stopped at the S. B. & H. C. freight

don't see what you did to it," Miss Desmon

of ceremonies. "But all's well that end's well. The great thing is to have your piano,

ind of repellent lure with which women know how to leave men the responsibility

r banter took a course that left Miss Axewright and Gaites to themselv

the piano-stool she called to Miss Axewright with an authority of tone wh