Show exceedingly embarrassing perplexity of a man who lost ilia equilibrium in a street car I 1 took them for a newly married couple certainly if she had been married very long she would have known better they got on a south bound claris street car at goethe street she was slender and graceful and had large fetching dark eyes he was extremely polite he helped her on the car very tenderly and after riding two blocks he jumped up the instant a very fleshy old lady entered the car and offered her his seat with a low bow a cure indication that he was just married and doing it for effect then he hung on a strap and bent down and kept up the conversation which seemed largely made up of irrelevant 1 remarks and highly relevant glances presently he discovered that be could stoop lower if he let go the strap he had just availed himself of thia discovery when the train swooped around the curve at illinois street he flung up his arms made one frantic ineffectual grab tor the strap swayed gracefully half around and sprawled out over the fat old ladys lap as the car stopped his pink and white cheeka turned scar lei he scrambled half way to his feet and began 1 I beg just aa he was in the act of re bishins hia equilibrium and bously uttering the apology the car gava the sharp jerk and quick strong pull of starting ho clutched the incorporeal air and went down with the words on his lips flat full length on the beastly muddy floor it waa too bad but everybody laughed yea she laughed she put her elim black gloved hand with a film of scented handkerchief in it up to her mouth and her black ayea danced at ban he got up scowled very darkly at the gentleman who had eaid whoop e er as he went down and washed a patch of mud aff bis coat sleeve then he looked at her laughing eyes for an instant he tried to look amused then he straight ened bia face out severely and went over and looked out of the door As he started into the tunnel he looked around the handkerchief was still a her mouth and her body swayed slightly as from a repressed emotion A deep straight line came into bia forehead and he stepped a little farther away half way through the tunnel he looked around again the instant she met bis eye she dropped tho handkerchief to her month just in time to suppress a ripple of laughter he went out on the piatr form and banged the door behind him at madison street ha opened tho door and stood stiff as a statue until she dalhed out she looked over her shoulder into his face as she passed him but twinkle in her there was an irrepressible eye and he stepped to the ground after her without unbending chicago news |