Show Slants on Life By ByJ J. J A. A WALDRON CALDRON 7 A Penalty of Punctuality Extra-Punctuality VIA had become a spinster Inthe inthe In Inthe S SYLVIA the worlds world's most most- unfavorable sig sig- sig She was still modish in attire attire attire at at- tire and In various other superficial S details but her efforts to approximate youth served only to emphasize emphasize- herI herloss her herloss I loss of or It She was the legal custodian of or a 0 fortune at nt which many mony a masculine eye had hadeen been een made but her fastidiousness fastidious fastIdious- ness had led her to postpone n n hazardously Too lon long she admitted to herself she had believed that two birds In Inthe Inthe Inthe the bush hush are ure worth more than one bird In hand hund She had not fully realIzed realized realized real real- the truth until she took account of at her social allies nilles All her girl companions companions com coun- had hod disappeared Middle aged and settled women were her familiars The vanity of still having men about her old her old beaus and others not exactly old old had had obscured o for a time the real reason renson for their attentions The only satisfaction left to her was the fact that she was nevertheless rich At last last and and while her case seemed serious serious serious-S Sylvia serious Sylvia Ia I fell In love She was naturally ardent and circumstances led to her complete obsession The rhe Theman Theman man was Perc Percy a a stock stacie broker at present without a paying vocation but still alert to the possibilities of at chance S Sylvia had heard of him Indefinitely indefInitely In in- definitely at nt a period when he owned a yacht and race horses and he did not tell her the times hud had forced him to part with his den dearest rest possessions Perc Percy had worked his enforced leisure to good purpose l His liis acquaintance acquaint acquaint- nn ance e gave Jave him social opportunities that he lie cultivated with all the assiduity assIduity assiduity as as- he would have given to business business business busi busi- ness if It business had not disappeared lie met S Sylvia at nt a n garden party where dancing dancIn of a stately sort was affected to show superiority over the tho craze of the vulgar And he danced his wa way Into her heart Ah I A clever er man I 1 Who would have thought It somewhat obscurely remarked one of S Sylvias Sylvia's friends to I H Hf HI I f- f tI i 1 I The Problem of His Life Now Confronted Confronted Confronted Con Con- fronted Him whom S Sylvia had confided her engagement engagement engage engage- ment to Perc Percy You should see him himIn himIn himin In the less exclusive d dunces You mean the mean the the Yes The more miscellaneous dances that so many persons Indulge In at public places where even more miscellaneous persons look on for a 0 afee fee fee dances dances like the tao Ta-tao and the Tete n and th the the the- But nut those must be exceedingly ly vulgar And what funny names 1 I S Sylvia strangely had never been In Inthe Inthe inthe the White Light region except on her herway herway wn way to the opera Olera Vulgar Is vulgarity confined to dancing these thes da days s 's Excuse me me but but do you sometimes dance these dunces dances l I haven't full fully abandoned the haL habit haLit It And where can I be taught 1 Sylvias Sylvia's friend told her where she could te to taught For Sylvia In n her new happiness s felt actually skittish and was WitS determined to joyously sur surprise bur bur- prise Percy The he marital ante period was busy Perc Percy attended S Sylvia hia as ardently as nS though she were a very vely girl Cut But she stole stoIc time to learn dances es that thrilled her Ali Alii Ah I 1 And she would she have Percy for a partner She was to lo meet Percy at a n more or orles orles orless les less noted note resort at a n given hour on onan onan onan an evening for which she prepared with great care and sonic some trepidation Pen Percy professed won wonder er at nt the engagement engagement en en- but ut had hail learned learnell of or her les les- sons Sylvia was so Intent upon the j event that she traversed nil fill the traditions traditions i lions of her sex's luck of or punctuality h by arriving half an hour ahead of the 1 appointed time I As she glanced through a doorway she saw P Percy cy dancing so Intimately with a stunningly handsome woman woman that It made her heart stand still As th they whirled past post the door loor engrossed en grossed in each ench other so near l' l they almost touched her Sylvia heard Percy Percy Per Per- cy say But lint you know Im I'm to marry her Money my dear clear Percy caught sight of at the white countenance of at S Sylvia as she turned away During a 11 varied experience experIenc with the sex he lie no never or before had hac I known a n. woman to be mend ahead of time dine In a n moment he was by her side She Shei he i had settled weald weakly upon a convenient II divan but hut there was no weakness In her tier face as she turned It u n away Percy 1 had negotiated many a difficult deal I during his career hut but the tern of ot otI his life now confronted him I Did Perc Percy marry Sylvia SI Copyright ht |