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Show as all words “So am I, I mean, the pleasure was all mine,” he said, seemed to leave him. shyly, “Tam certainly glad I met that mouse yesterday,” she said, as she toyel with her corsage bouquet of fragrant violets. “T am too—Well, good night.” fast friends. So time went on, and Stanley and Georgia became beginning One day in early spring when the whole world was a small grove, to live again, Stanley and Georgia were walking in opened their and Georgia found some tiny violets that had just blue eyes to greet the world. “T love them,” she said softly, as she looked down into their golden hearts, “violets are my favorite flowers.” odd name,” “Perhaps that accounts for your negro mammy’s teased Stanley. It is quite a contrast—negroes and “Do you think it odd, too? how she happened violets, at least, some negroes. But I will tell you there are so many to be called Violet. Her real name is Dinah, but as my Dinah, Dinah’s in this world and not one of them is halt as good have a different so when I was a little girl, I thought she ought to I could think name and a pretty one, so I gave her the prettiest name of Violet.” When “sitting” they reached home, Violet ushered them into the room, where she served them served, she talked. raisin cakes and lemonade, and as she what suits. “Ah sho’ is glad mah li’l lamb has found a friend was so dissatisLawdy, Mars’r Gerahd, down deah in Georgia she to bring her up fied wif de plantation dat dis heah old niggah had Heah, have some moah ob dis cake. norf to lib wif her granddaddy. honey.” ——io = ——— ; Meanwhile Stanley was debating in his room whether he should or shouldn’t. “Gee, I am glad I met her, she sure 1s some girl. I wonder I will, she looks stunning in that costume Oh, I don’t see why not and it’s just the thing.” He went as far as the door and turned back. Stanley Gerard, you are letting your “Aw shucks, what’s the use? the heart run away with your head, settle down to study and forget . . . Oh, I can’t forget, I am going to the party and Georgia. So he decided, and when party and Georgia is going with me.” Stanley decided, nothing could change him. So it happened that the following evening, Miss Georgia Livingston dressed in the clothes of her grandmother’s girlhood, was the partner of Stanley Gerard at the old-fashioned ball. When they had returned home from the party and were saying ” “sood night” in the hall, Stanley said, “Did you have a good time? “A good time! You don’t know how I appreciate your inviting me; I am very happy.” = Page Nine 1921 ——— JANUARY, |