Show ort tb Day Jj ill I THE TIlE LUCK OF A MASQUERADE 1 Watts drove To keep the chill chili o off Is to keep the hand In he explained to Roger and Burn me he added but tin Us a cold morning and Sir Harry the deuce of a shot He kept the mare at nt a brisk clatter accordingly PO so that the physician ph behind clun clung to the handrail convulsively and you ou could hear all his instruments shake a in their box Roger Rogel was glad that his cousin was cousin was content to do the driving since for tor his own part he wanted to reflect Never had he felt less Inclined to act second In Ina ina I Ia a duel It t seemed such a poor end to that glorious masquerade of the night b before be before be- be fore tore to be bound bound only only four our hO hours rs later later for for the lower loner fields lelda of Hampstead there to look on two men facing each el other with pistols In the frost ot or the mornIng morning morn- morn Ing and one his cousin It was likely to be a l bloody business too for tor the men were to light until one or other was disabled And though the business of or war near was vas Roger own business yet et this affair was inopportune How should he Ito look forward to the crack of or pistols when for the first time In his life lire the sound of ot a n ladys lady's voice was lingering like music In his heart To be dragged from tram his dream Into the thc deadly scuffle was Intolerable To the beat o of the mares mare's hoots hoofs on the road he went over the whole events of the night First boredom then fascination and lastly a rude waking to the scowls cowls and ond brawling In the those those were the events in to order The boredom began almost at the beginning of the hall all all for Cor Roger Roser being fresh from campaigning In the Low Countries and a life that hat was energetic If IC not very er glorious found himself alien alten from rom the glitter and the heat the dancing In ing and the Inces Incessant violins It seemed all ull tongue and prancing this prancing this mas mas- the the lancing dancing brisk enough the cJ clat t r lively enough but hut to glide and exchange gossip gOl all night long with a musk promised to end In monotony If It the ladles ladies hall hail but discovered cred their faces It Jt would have ha been I better etter Roger began began be be- gan to explain his view blew I w of masquerades s somewhat Ingenuously to a partner whom he was leading through the cotillon She was light as air and blithe- blithe voiced He deman demanded ed sympathy for or himself as one cut off from Crom enjoying mere gayety by disuse and find long months of or harder affairs And these masques are arc abominable he said Oh Oh sir she answered d this is rank sedition Ho How so i iFor For one reason because It Is the dullest thing to say sar and all dullards are traitors at a masquerade And nd for Cor another Roger Hoger asked piqued D Because It H Is not to m my liking Shy had so charming harming a haughtiness that he gave crave In Then I withdraw the statement he said sald I tender m my Y apologies To me only or to all who wear masques To To all unconditionally he said that Is that on condition that you ou tell me a good reason for tor masking ml x Truly she nhe said this Is what hat comes romes of oC soldiering This Is unconditional surrender on your OUr own terms Nevertheless I 1 will tell you ou The masque Is Js good for the old maid mald Dut But you ou me UC young young you you are just from rom school I know It he said unwarily unwar unwar- ily Ib Then sir Ir you OU should have had the kindness t to conceal your our knowledge p- p d dA I pA only onh meant meant- A compliment without doubt For lor the young and bashful maiden malden then plunged suddenly Into tho the midst of ot dl distractions the masque Is la a protection As Dr DI the great reat scholar hath bath It It and Indeed 1 have ha not forgotten It t seeing that liHa lInkton m my late revered re mistress mistress- I knew you ou were from rein school s rne Made rad me repeat It ft she went on without heeding the Interruption on on the f very very day dar of oC leaving lea t n first released from academic care I The rhe Nymph mph attempts the ocean an o of Mayfair May May- v fair Lo n ns as she looks upon that tic sea of oC beaux With joy her heart with hope her bO bosom lm glows slows C Charming arming r- r Nymph mph said Roger Roser taken by the mock-heroic mock of her reciting Walt Wait alt she frowned Crowned on his Interruption through her masque for tor the poem proceeds proceed backed b by the great crent scholars scholar's experience Beaux aux Insincere Sea not at all serene And nd tells how easily casU the Nymph mph may chance on shipwreck ck and wish In I vain aln she were returned To trenchant trenchant trench trench- ant blackboard and Inspiring globe But Dut on the other hand guarded b by her masque she the can look upon these treacherous beaux lI listen ten to their sometimes dull conversation COn and become acquainted with their inevitable Int sincerity She ended with a little peal of oC lau laughter fiU and would have slipped awa away among the dancers If Ie Ro Roger er had not b begun sun But Hut I 1 vow OW t What hat Sir Beau That you OU have but given ghen me a n good reason for your our unmasking Then have I betrayed myself But Bui you will do dW It 7 he hc pleaded i Never She n lied Hed d away and mixed with the throng thron- But the masquerade had a meanIng meaning mean- mean tn Ing for or DUn tanton now By Dr luck he had found her again and yet a n third time and an always his admiration grew Masques now not masquerades are arc an In ah abomination tf he said la later ter v Continued d Monday |