| Show THE BALCONY GIRL a 1 a dy MOLLIE MATHER 0 1922 if 22 western newspaper union stacy ib napped out the tile light in la his lonely hotel room and took the ele ator vator downstairs As he lie passed through the gleat gloat hall he heard music coming from the direction dire cion clon of the bal bat coaled dining room and knew that as usual the evening guests dane ing presently a low ejaculation attract ed his attention he had not noticed in his 1113 absorbed entrance a young woman already seated far back in the small balcony now with nith her low exclamation she diew back the rose colored curtains and stood atory to depart the young woman reached tor for her soft boyish hat and was nas slipping into hy 1111 r long gray coat she go gathered somewhat confusedly a number of Al mitten litten pages from tie elsar which she evidently had recently occupied stacy arose detaining please IP P said do not allow me to drive you away assay from your corner I 1 can find another secluded spot it Is necessary tl ti at I 1 remain here for or a time she said perhaps if you too are comfortable in the bal bat cony neither need disturb the other thank you stacy agreed tl TI e oung young woman ifft if ft the rose curtains slightly 01 en on the 11 light ht does not disturb you oe tt e asked I 1 too look tool down into the dancing hall occasion ally not at all stacy pleasantly as her when she angot his gaze once or twice the tile girl smiled uncertainly uncertainty at last ste y turned in his chair tou you must my ing hig he said I 1 I 1 cannot I 1 elp but be interested in bour our strange strang choice of writing room the music the dancers n whirling hirling Is it not all and ani now my interrupting kut but I 1 im in infernally ton lonely do you tou krow what that means to be al polut ly abay auay aw ay from every ev ery one aou on I 1 now in a big cold I 1 otel na win in stacy laughed it has hns been a sort of camf i t to sit bealle basi ae you vou here bore willo wl ife you worked human corn coal even if given unconscious ly IY now non I 1 suppose Ose i 3 ou will run away I 1 do know what nhat it means to be amon among qt grangers rangers in a big cita she answered answered gravely and ind I 1 ss wish isit that I 1 might be more companionable but I 1 must write at the strike of twelve I 1 leave I 1 said the girl twelve sounded sooner than either anticipated promptly stacy s corn com arose good t sl e said he thought of her a great deal deil on the fol follow loning ing day wl v had she been there among all pit those beautifully be garbed women in her plain white hite col lared frock why had she kept hid den in tie t e interior of an nn observation aaion balcony 3 busy wl wi it pencil A society reporter that s the tion he told it myself but when tanes P barney decided that the conference must wait another day stacy defiled again to spend his solitary evenn watching the d dancer dincer incer from the balcony he ile bal formed during the dav dilli an with 0 o the hotel manager mr holcomb who escorted I 1 11 Is ruest genially to the bal bat cony steps expect excitement here this evening he lie confided our detectives are after a jihei j 1 thief been entering our rich rooms stacy was uns unaccountably perturbed ab he took tool his seat in the tiny gallery s 9 id looked quid ly y toward the interior hie girl was there but this time she sins sewing sess ing sewing in a gay place of amusement tl TI e society re the cheray y vanished the girl re his crave bow and continued her task bat but on this occasion she appeared not ao so composed her anxious interest in the affair below was nas plain ly IY I 1 rom time to time elie she parted t he curtains nervously to look down cm the dancers then at it slight crowding in a bretain part of 0 tle hall ijo girl girt snatched a hat and cloak fiam te chair near by and in a moment viii a down tl tie e stairs and I 1 almost lost to la the almott stacy caught up lip with her as she waa nits joined by a v ion of a alil in rose tulle blogett fr pr the three leached the street then stacy spoke 1 I thought from your mad haste be he said tat cat you must be in trouble cn I 1 be of I 1 elp to you if you woul I 1 the balcony girl breathlessly requested call a taxi we are lodging in cardim street wondering still stacy 0 obeyed e aed we lie n ete elger to td get away my sis sl ter and L I 1 c r ie to explained bebau mr holcomb tl ti ought there might be a disturbance on the floor because at 0 tic tie arrest of some jewel thief mr holcomb is an old friend of our fain ily s lie came from our village he invited daphne and me to stop at the hotel but WB we preferred to stay where we could afford to pay our way he ile I 1 as been kind mad in asking daphne to the dances she teaches school in lyndhurst Lyn durst and hrs bps been saving some time for our outing I 1 am just our but she would have me with her good night and thank you 1 I I too said stacy hastily am a friend of mr Itol holcomb comb s the taxi went on its way nay stacy sought at once the hotel man ser ager I 1 have been he lie told him escort young friends of yours to a daxl could aea make it possible for me to meet her formally mr hoi comb smiled I 1 guess you mean con COD tance stance I 1 will see that you meet her ft bo akl t |
