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strong. Tom, this is my little sister I was always talking about."
Miss Elizabeth was dazed. Was this tall, handsome fellow the
same as that dirt besmeared warrior who had torn and struggled
and battered that November afternoon, and was his that that soft
cultured and well modulated voice that was saying: " I am very
glad to meet you, Miss Graham. Really I am very pleasantly
disappointed, I had heard your brother talk so much about his
Wile sister' that I had expected to find you quite petite. May
I find a place on your card? Thank you. Why here are two
two steps. May I have this one or may Ibe real selfish and take
both ? I hope you will forgive me for wanting everything on
sight; but I feel almost like an old friend, for Jack was always
talking of you when he was at the 'Varsity—No, Jack, don't try
to get out of it. I may have the dances? Thank you. You are
very kind, Miss Graham."
He did not appear to notice that the conversation was all one
sided; but Miss Elizabeth could not for the life of her say a thing.
This was the man she had called a brute. This was the man she
had made up her mind to hate, and now she imagined he could
look right into her and read her every thought. Oh, how thank
ful she was that the music then commenced and Jack led her
toward the ballroom. What was the matter she asked herself.
No human being had ever caused her so much confusion before.
Why her self-control and perfect poise had always been her pride
and now a mere introduction had utterly upset her calm front,
and she had behaved like a bashful school girl. She was morti
fied at being unable to even make a remark, and she wondered
what Mr. Armstrong thought of her behavior. It was a very
much puzzled and confused girl that glided through that waltz on
Jack's arm; but the rythmic motion and the strains of " Nordica "
acted as a much needed tonic, and when they had circled once
around the room and sat down to rest she was herself again and
merely wondering what could have caused her bewilderment.
For the same reason she could not take her thoughts away from
the incident and its principal figure, nor could the best efforts of
her succeeding partners break up the preoccupation that settled
upon her
They one and all set it down'to her independence and advanced
ideas, and' mentally anathematized the new woman and all her
As the dance wore on she got to thinking more and more of
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