Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1925, Page 18

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. The Dancer of Paris MICHAEL ARLEN. 5. by the Ridzway Co. RN ARTARADS strangers would look twice at the tall lean man as he strode from the em- bassy to his flat as indifferently though he were walking in a wilder- ness, and they would “wonder if he were very tired, and they would de. cide that-his were eves that suffered from silence. But whether or not Sir Roy Martel ever suffered from any- thing no one might discover, for he wus a quiet man with a cold look, One of a series of the[ k - year's best shott | ! stories. 5 capital cities | kids in septic circumstances,” young : oints In com-| Anson described the very dark hole. H mon, such as noise, news.| And, in due time, when he had & the uncerworld, ragtime,|traced the flash that had lit it back H Mary Pickford, cocaine,|to Consuelo Cox. he, @ notably fear Poughs and night life, Paris contains | lexs young man in war and peace, every one of these in matvelous|straightway put the facts of the #bundance, vet colors them all with | matter before her in some such way he moured caress of her own il- as this: - i Every one a ahout that,! “By Gad [ & Pspecially women. 1t is the ity | girl, ‘upon _my word! J act o ¥0 straight streets. shining squares. | Whit vou chld, and T don’t mind fueer murders. un-fsaving it to your face §haven police Sretherl “You'd better not say it behind my you may t 1 back, Noel Anson, else vou'll ruin my |* “‘“'"\ A Aok putation!” e But voung Anson here, crooks and gedly on, in & _manly gnd deadheads By Gad, Americans, suelo! And in ‘Oh, shucks!" \merican. But looked into her violet as the set, he saw with of her eyes were marvelous the childish things that are N HEREAS all have many to gir Consuelo, you mad and hot 3 muttered way dog; | lea princes you're a good girl, Con arvis vou may cried when eves sex in a the zolder Noel Anson | which were as thern sun- Nt nd you may heantiful voun and the Amer tell of them they lived | swift feet, hin the tremor! And she laughed at him with tights mocking lips, in a way she had | And why. Noel Anson. and shouldn't I be gzood. if - feel way? Surely, boy, being zood's an | fac indoor sport like another and haven't |kn 1 cacted with the higher aut to try them all. sans bia women from [ Jeas, and you thus and fith laughing eve. the way thev died w of an evelaxh. which Bave. But not of death this tale of life. tellir uelo, the dance for who in i was ever vividly. more magnificently alive il that zolden lady. she who was cal the dancer of Par A notable com pliment understand. in that has were jew Lueen of frat she was hat she an ornament to as lovely : many iepths with why v me. .Consuelo! cried | the boy, with flushed face, eager eves. | , Noel Anson 100 per cent American was a credit to America ane led by the 1 t of your clothes that they | that she ccept. you? so rich that h ‘Consuelo, my God, look here!" exel 1 The two don't togethe boy. 8 w, don’t go exciting vourself! I'm nol_gning to accept you | I wish you would,” sulkily mut young Anson who never | le bet and won never lost thout a laug when he wus not la ing at « And suddenly he took her they were driving in the Bois, suelo’s eur—and he looked pevately with eyes that tried plead overmuch, for it is not ermuch Consuelo Cox, will you ma #1 will not, Noel Anson street | that isn't the seventh time you've these who are|asked me that same question, and | Inured to the pursuit of pleasure. |with no verbal dexterity or lingual | i A girl of quality was Consuelo, lithe | versatility ‘whatsoever! And in broad | Rnd fleet and la a girl like aldaylizht. too! Run, Noel boy, run! tall flower in & that respects|Llse I might go for to accept you, §he poise of a tall flower, for what is|and how much would vour old dad kfe hut a wind, and did mortal eve|back home like that. and he with a gver see shaken the poise of that girl”|crutch in one hand and a packet of A solden girl she was, to be sure, as|Grape Nuts in the other and a coronet im as a fairy: and of her enchanted |on his head, just where the hard and | cet a great poet has written that|soft tennis courts join, all ready to they were as the gold dust that lies|die and leave his son an adequate on the floors of the dungeons of_gay- | barony?” ety " | And she laughed at him with tight 3 And so, classically romantically, | mocking lips, in a way she had which With hair like the mimosa in an|made some men say that they would | ltalian garden. which is vellow, |rather be miserable with Consuelo Cox | #prinkled with fresh gold, she danced |than happy with any one else; but | &t the Salle Mandragora, with honor [then, to be sure, some men will say | 4nd without very much reproach: for |anything. Wwas there ever an age or a country | “You're in love with some fn which beauty could man 1, that's what it is s you « he and she now means of - that men wrist in Con Her dae not to manly H 1 t H ® * ¥ lanced as no on pefore. W so she d with the he Dancer of . me? And_if | wstly i not break promises the more lavishly because of |t the lances that were broken in quest| * an 1 h my wr of it? v voure through with . "But, say, that girl is hard!" some | asked Consuelo, very politely ®f her countrymen said “Grudges me even her wrist!” he | pard as a diamond muttered, but held on grimly enough. | : “And what, dear heaven, do men|“You are in love with some one else know of women?”" would cry Consuelo ren’t vou. Consuel With extraordinary contempt, and her And there was silence awhile in the | voice would float and flutter round a |swift car. a silence of violet eves that | oom like a bird with silver wings,|stared bemused_into the passing sun lor it was the voice that helonged to |lit grasses of the Bois, a silence of the enchanted feet, the voice of a |grim, blue, boyish-hungry eves, #yncopating dancer. with a crv and a|_ “Go on. tell a chap, Consuelo! I'd It and a wave and a laugh in it.|like to congratulate him. By. Gad, I * Consuelo! Oh. Consuelo® would!” ! Now it came to pass, as things will,| And the violet ey that Noel Ansom, a-voung English- |thoughtful. spilled thems pran. who had spent his time since |brooding face. | the war in acquiring an international| “You're a good boy, Noel Anson.| teputation for buying horses that No, I am not in love—not with any | only won races when he had sold|one—not with any one! Hear me,| them again for next to nothing—that boy? Iam not in love. Those are my | foung _Anson, in his wanderings |exact words, Noel Anson. I have been | ahout Paris, one day came upon what | But not again, not on your bhe called a very superior flash of |life—no, si And she could make a | gharity that had lit a very dark hole | sudden laugh flood her eyes like sun- | back of Mont-Parnasse. |light in a crypt, for the confusion of “An almost blind artist, by Gad.|men, and young men in particular. with an incredibly lavish quantity of 'But, even so, youns Anson later swore | RS et e e e e e e t back | =0 larze and Ives over his | |2 W) Head Swim? ' Clear the digestive tract: % . i Youwould relieve dizziness, IN the dark ages of medical knowledge, people didn’t understand that most unpleasant of af- flictions—uncontrolled dizziness, They blamed the heart, the lungs, the brain—everything but the right thing; suffered untold torture as a result. Today, sensible people know that dizziness is simply a symptom. It usually means that con- gested waste matter in the digestive tract is saturating the entire system with its poisons. Whenever your “head swims,” you may be sure that a dose of Pluto Water is in order. This safe, quick-action, water physic goes direct to the root-of the trouble. In 30 min- utes to two hours, the poison is expelled and a normal feeling. of equilibrium returns. - Get relief promptly and thoroughly “with -Pluto Water. Pluto is prescribed by physicians, sold by ;!m;xin:‘:nd bottled at French Lick Springs, ndiana. = were “It was saying that she was a good ‘cumstances that did it! Roy believe there nominations for them of a length not |friendship than of love; und he liked, xceeding one syllable, the |ond_one |snarled the younz man called tears. had got sense. | Tall { Martel—or i Bar that | ish ri- | deep black shadows, so that passing ' and he never confided. They said at the embassy worked hard, too hard. had # mathematical brain as brittle. bright as a searchlight. Noel Anson, who whiled away his spare time as an attache at the embassy, was of the opinion that R brain was like Clapham Ju nd'that without confusion, andalway: Gad, getting somewhere! - | was 1o Roy Martel, long and lean and ardonic, of “whom it was said that |nothing bored him more than women night {except men, that the young man was ter | contiding the burden of his love for Tts a way that girls have,” sald |Consuelo Cox. Not,you would have Martel, “of attracting men. At |said, a sympathetic confidant, Sir Roy; st we will call them men. though I|but Noel Anson was & younz man bet. are more technical de-|ter versed in the merry practices of the fact that the depths of her eves marvelous with the childish re called tears. said young Anson, never ¢ man with a large vecabuiary. that he They sald he 'l about that poor artist in septic Don't tell I'm not uttered Roy m smile: { it these things were his voung friend on the ver er their passage. telling M you tel with t6 talk to a brain mured brain for once in a way %0, m #uch as mug itt, loon. boob or guy." ung Anson. yllables, Noel." option on the sec. bit of backchat.” He was an- ‘mpathy and | the | Ito And he waved a thin white hand. a fencer's hand. toward the ceiling of his dim- candle-it lbrary— for {t was in the immense apartment above his that the~Damcer of Parls I had, a few weeks before, come..to e ah Rovllive’ and laugh and dance. Candle- i Ry Afmvas | light was alwavs favored by Roy Mar. rt.. Financial Adviser to the Brit. | 61 8.1t frequently-is by.thoss who Bmbaser 1n barie an ool | work with their eves in the.night. . not voung, not old, a face like a | Noel Anson falr as his older ife: and black eyes that were set in | friend was dark, flushed “Why do you put it like that? for this ved. He had wanted and lean and ds to he as e all things, was e ;%( 3 %\ SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST! When you see the “Bayer Cross™ on tablets yvou are getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for vears. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets 5 '7 Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists Aspirin s the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacis Ac‘cegt only “Bayer” package which contains proven directions. And it | actually proposed marriage | D. C, MONDAY don’t even know her! “‘I know every one,” smiled the dark eyves from the flickering shadows of the candlelight. nd If you remem- ber, “Noel,-T was’sent to’ New .York on the loan mission_ in 1915 “You met her there!” “Slightly,” - sald~ Sir “Slightly.” “Well, if it's only slightly"~ | “And slightly.” said Roy Martel, | | “was quite enough. Not that she lsn't charming.” | “You're prejudiced!” cried the young man. “Th what vou are, Roy— prejudiced! It's a rotten way of kill- ing time, that—being prejudiced.” “Perhaps 1 am. he “makes too | much noise, that charming Miss Cox. Listen. to that*" And down into the dim night silence of Ray Martel's library, down, from the ceiling to thelr chairs, lashed the shrill music of a saxophone band “She's got a party,” said Noel An- son, and looked miserable. in New York, Roy A1l girls dance, “Yes, but try net t | Professionally, 1 mean?" 2 fgrsgt." ] . Good God, What A man!” e Listen to that!” A tired han waved to the ceiling. whence came a roise as of a batallion of érows in harmony, a noise that sobbed and droned and yelled and wailed. | But it was a nolse very near Noel Anson's heart e never asks me to her parties " said he miserably. “She's ve me of my infatuation, | sajd_Roy:Martel. be an ams! Roy Martel suppose, then.™ said /SIr Roy that she is in love with some | one_else”” 2 Then up rose voung Anson, ke an ing cherub. | Just where you brainy men are wrong, Roy! You're alwaxs wrong | “Bhe has one every night—any way, | #bout human people—by Gad, 3 ! | she has had one every night since| You simply don’t know, old ho: | She took that fiat.” Roy Muartel spoke | SWore to me that she wasn't in love without expression, in an uncomfort- [ With any one. 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