Show RICHARD HILL WILKINSON TIllS DANCE save for the fact 1 that there were a number of new men present due to the annual winter mid-winter vacation at the university university university uni uni- was not unlike a dozen others Amalla Amalia had attended at the country club If anything she was more popular Men cut in on her before she had taken 10 steps with each new partner She was used to it She loved it She had acquired a poise polso that kept men wondering encouraged them yet was as tin As the evening wore on she began be began be be- gan to notice the good looking blond who dal danced ced continuously with Beulah Deulah lIeu Beu- lah lab Wyman Not that she begrudged Beulah the Ute attentions of a good good- looking man The poor thing deserved deserved de do served it But Dut It struck Amalia Amalla as queer that the blond hadn't cut In Inon Inon inon on her At first he had been merely merely mere mere- ly 17 one of a dozen dozen a youths whom she abe didn't know By fly 11 o'clock he stood out from the rest He hadn't asked her to dance he hadn't sought an introduction he hadn't even looked at her In that way to which Amalia AmaUa was so 50 Uli used d. d t r AMALIA FOUND HERSELF beIng being beng be be- ing ng annoye annoyed She was accustomed to 10 having strange young men s seeker seek et her er r out When Vinton swung her away In the next dance she said Vho's your looking good boy Vint She had seen the blond talking to Vint Vint looked down at her one one he asked and just then the tha the blond slid sUd by with V and and she toward him Oh him himi Why that's Winthrop AlterA Alter Alter- A nice boy bOf He's Hes down with Jim Oliver for the week Me Met him Who Vho Amalia Amaila evaded Jim 0 or I Mr Akers She had seen Dave Turner coming taw toward rd them and I timed her an answer Dave cut in in time to spare her the explanation Vints Vint's expression was demanding When Then 12 o'clock came and there was a pause for supper Amalia's Amelias annoyance had reached a point of resentment Winthrop Akers was pay paying ing her less attention than ever if It that were possible She wanted to meet neet him She was determined to contrive It somehow She wanted him to know w that she was the most popular girl present WHEN WUEN THEY RETURNED to the ballroom at I 1 o'clock Amalia Amelia got Tom Burdon Durdon one tide lide and suggested sug a Paul Jones Tom thought the idea a good one and immediately immediate immediate- ly put iut ut it into execution But they swung wung to the music three times before be tore lore Amalia's AmaUa's efforts to negotiate being at the right place plate at the right time were successful She discovered that Winthrop Akers danced divinely She expected expect expect- ed him to say something but he didn't She was afraid the music would stop before he decided to talk A Abruptly he be stopped dancing and suggested that they sit and talk for or awhile Amalla AmaUa was surprised She was more surprised a at her own acquiescence Certainly thin things I. I weren't working out as a. she bad had I planned Im Winthrop Akers be he ex- ex We haven't been Introduced Introduced Intro Intro- have hava we It was a blow to her pride that he didn't know who she was She knew a 11 quick anger but smothered it No she said Im Amalia Yea Yea- ton And waited But the name had no effect on him He lie said Well what's in a name anyhow anyhow any any- how Im I'm fed up with this dance Lets Let's drive somewhere re AMALIA WAS OVERWHELMED lie He was so casual about it Didn't he know that every man there was dying to take her home Vint Coburn Coburn Co Co- burn ca e up tip and asked her to dance but she shook her head hend Vint stared at her queerly and stared at Winthrop Akers Akes She expected him to park and and was determined to resent any advances he might make But Dut she didn't get the chance They had hot chocolate at ata a country roadhouse and then drove home Winthrop didn't try to kiss her good night Amalia AmaUa felt that the evening wasn't entirely victorious The next day Winthrop called up and asked her to have dinner with him She agreed He lie arrived wearIng wear wear- Ing glasses The glasses didn't Improve Inv Im prove his looks any but rh she forgo forgot them before belore the evening had begun They wont to a theater heater alter after dinner The nazI day and the next Win Winthrop Winthrop Winthrop called and took her OLt ort Ama AmaUa Amalia lia Ua was amazed at herself She Shu can dates right and left lett S SI 51 found hers herself forward to b bin be bl blIn In with Winthrop Sha Sie wart want us use to this sort of ot thin thing It was a II wee bf re she she was in III lov Iov lovIt love It was a u iu delightful THAT NIGHT V ashe her to marry marr him b I I cation ends Im I'm going colna back to college col col- col lege 1 Im I'm m an English or there you know Pretty soon loon 1 I expect expect ex ex- Ill I'll be an associate professor then a B full professor Would you consider being the wile wife of a college professor protessor darling A week ago Amelia Amalla wouldn't have considered being the wife of ot anything anything anything any- any thing short of at a millionaire But that was before shed she'd met Win Win- Instead of giving her usual callous reply to such a proposal propos a she said Id even consider being th the wife wite of at an English instructor if U he were yeu yu When Then Winthrop left her that night 1 it was onI only after they'd sat before I the house parked in his roadster for foran foran an hour Presently she he said Im I tulI In La a dream Why that first I Inight night at the country club you Iou didn't I notice me at all aiL You didn't even see me He lie nodded Literally I didn't Im I'm near Cant Can't see lee a thing i without my glasses The only one OM I could see plainly was Beulah Wyman It seemed she was always alwa's in my way hen PM after atter the first hands hand around the tile Paul Jones Jone JonesI I 1 saw law you and almost broke my neck trying to arrange it so sq 0 wed we'd wedI dance together Thank heavens for Mr Paul Jones breathed AmaUa Amalla |