Show slants on life by J A WALDRON w A penalty Y of extra punctuality lind become a spinster in SYLVIA the lie worlds most unfavorable significance ni ance she wits was still modish odist in attire and tn in various other oilier details but her efforts to approximate youth r served only to emphasize tier her loss of it IL she was the legal custodian of a fortune at which many a masculine masculin eyo eye had been made but her fastidiousness had lel her to postpone matrimony hazardously atoo ao long title she admitted to herself a I 1 e had believed that two birds la in the bush are worth more than one bird in hand she hild had not fully realized the truth until she took account of her social allies all tier her girl companions hind had disappeared middle bilged and settled sett ltd women were tier her familiars the vanity of still having men about her old beaus and others not exactly old had obscured for a time the real reason deuso n for their attentions the only satisfaction left to tier her was tile the fact that she was nevertheless rich at last and while tier her case seemed barlous sylvia fell in love sho she was naturally ardent and circumstances led to tier her complete obsess obsession lon the man was percy a stock broker at present without a paying voc vocation atlon but still alert to tile the possibilities oj of chalice sylvia had heard of him in deli definitely leftely tt at a period when lie he owned a yacht and race horses and tie he did not tell tier her the alie times lind had forced him to part with ills dearest possessions percy had worked ills his enforced leisure to good purpose ills acquaintance gave him social boccal opportunities that he 14 cultivated with till nil the assiduity lie he would have given to bustness business it if business had not disappeared lie ile met sydn at a garden party I 1 1 1 where dancing of a stately sort wits rt affected to show superiority r over the craze cr a ze of the vulgar and ile he danced his lit sway way into tier her heart ali ah I 1 A clever man I 1 who would have thought it somewhat abs obscurely aurely remarked one of Sylv sylvias Ids friends to lit the problem problem of his life now confronted him whon whom jsn sylvia ivia had c confided her engage merit to io percy you should see him film ln anthe tess exclusive dunces lymui mean tic the yes the more miscellaneous dantes dances that so inane inan y persons indulge in at public places eliere even more miscellaneous person took look on for a fee dances like abe ta tao and the tete a tete and the iut but those must be exceedingly vulgar and what funny na names niesi i sylvia stan gety had never been in th eWhite light region except on tier her wax way to td the opera vulgar garf I 1 Is vulgarity confined to dancing icse days exise 1 ine mel wit iUt do you sometimes tiance these dunces dances 1 I fully abandoned tile the hat atit it 1 and ad where vh ere can I 1 be taught friend told tier her where sho she could fe faught for sylvia in tier her new felt actually skittish and was determined to joyously joyous ly surprise il lercy the ante marital mar itil period was busy cercy aL attended tended sylvia as ardently ra though she were a veryal cry very girl rl 13 hut lit sho stole tit time n to io tp arn dances that thrilled lier ali ah I 1 and site she would have perey percy for far a partner parth dr she wo wn a to id airet percy at a more or less noted resort at a given hoir on tin an evening for which she prepared with great care and some soine trepidation percy p 0 o sed wonder at tile engagement ga bill had learned of tier her lessons sylvia was so intent upon tile tho event alia t she traversed all the traditions of tier reas lack of punctuality by arriving half an hour ahead of the appointed time As aa alle 4 glanced through a doorway dancing so intimately site she saw percy with 4 u Jun s tinglY handsome woman that it mede tier her heart cart stand still As they whirled vi drIed past the door engrossed gro secil I 1 in no each cadi other so near they almost bouchea louche 1 tier sylvia heard percy day say ut toil on know IM to marry tier lier it mou 0 ra my m d dear cot percy caught F sight ight of the white countenance of sivia as she blie turned away during it varied experience with tile the sai sex ile he never ner before lind had to be alad or of t time line known a woman in it moment lie was by her side sho she had bad e abac ably upon a convenient divan but there here was no weakness in her ber face ns as site she turned it away percy hat had negotiated many n difficult deal during ills his career but the ol of ills his I 1 life n now w conaro confronted anted lihn him did percy warn sylvia Copy |