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intervals-of beer-bottle corks. Thus
punctuated, life in the genial hostel
scans easily-the commia being the fa-
whrite mark, semicolons frowned upon,
1and periods barred.
Miss D'Armande's room was a small
one. There was room for her rocker
between the dresser and the wash-stand
if it were placed longitudinally. On the
dresser wcrc its u-ual accouterments,
phls the ex-leading lady's collected sou-
Vc iir of road ilgagemecnts and photo-
raIphsi of her dearest and best profes-
si .nal friends.
.\t ,one of thee photographs she
II.Iked( twice or thrice as she darned,
anl smiled friendlily.
"I'd liiL to kinow where Lee is just
this minute," she said, half-aloud, with
a pall-like snle..
if vyo had b1ecn privileged to view
the pihotogralph thus flattered, you
would have tlmuplht at the first glance
that vou saw the pictunrc of a many-
petalcd white flower. b l.wn through the
air by a storml. liut the floral king-
dmll was not responsible for that swirl
of pietalnus whiteness.
You saw the filmy, brief skirt of Miss
Rosalie Ray as she made a complete
heels-over-head turn in her wistaria-
citxincd sxing, far out fromll the stage,
hIigh alove the heads of the audience.
Y,1 saw the camera's inadequate repre-
sentation of the graceful, strong kick,
with which she, at this exciting moment,
sent flying, high and far, the yellow silkl
garter that each evening spun from her
a' ile toe mIud descended upon the de-
lilghted audience blow.
You saw, too, amid the bliacl-clothed,
i1;aily masculine patrons of select vanu-
dev ille a hundred hands raised with the
linpe of staying the flight of the bril-
liant aerial tolken.
Forty weeks of the best circuits this
acet had brought Miss Rosalie Ray, for
cach of two years. She did other things
iriIn her twelvh-e iiinutes-a song and
dance, imitatioIns of two or three actors
wlho are but imitations nf themselves,
and a halanlcing feat wih a step-laidder
and fcather-dustlr: but when the hlns-
s-m l-dockcd 1' i 'i ' xxn< d1 I n fouii
ling into thc scat, it i the glen cir-
clet conspicuous in the liace whence ii
was soon to slide and become a soaring
and co veted gucrdion-then it was that
the audience rose in its scat as a single
man-or presumably so-and indohrse
the specialty that made liss Rax
name a favorite in the booking-officc
At the end of the two years Mi
Ray suddenly announced to her dea'
friend, Miss D'Armande, that she wa-
goini to spend the sulmmner at an ant,.-
diluvian village oni the north shore o-
Long Island, and that the stage wouol
see her no more.
Seventeen minutes after Miss Lyn-
nette D'_\rmande had expressed her
wish to know the whereabouts of hr
old chum, there were sharp raps at her
door.
Doubt not that it was Rosalie Ra.
At the shrill command to enter she di
so, with something of a tired flutter,
and dropped a heavy hand-bag on the
floor. Upon my word, it was Rosalie,
in a Inoe, travel-stained automolbillehs-
coat, clisely tied brown veil with vard-
long, flying ends, gray walking-suit an
tan oxfords with lavender overgaiters.
W\:hen she threw off her veil and hat,
you saw a pretty enough face, now
flushed and disturbed by some unusual
emotion, and restless, large eyes with
discontent marring their brightness.
heavy pile of dull auburn hair, hastily
put up. was escaping in crinkly, w
strands and curling small loch s.-
the confining comhis and pins.
The meeting of the ,two ,: ,
marked by the effusion vocal. :5--
tical, osculatory and catechctical thia
distinguishes the greetings of their un-
professional sisters in society. There
was a brief clinch, two simultaneous la-
bial dabs and they- stood on the sanil
footing of the old dlays. Very much lil:
the short salutations of soldiers or of
travelers in foreign wills are the wel-
comes he xeenll the strollers at the cor-
ners of their criss-cross roads.
"I've got the hall-ronm two flight
up above yours," sail oi lie, "btit I
came straight to see you before going
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