Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1925, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D, C, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1925. The Dancer of Pari BY MICHAEL ARLEN. Copyright, 1925, by the Ridgway Co. _(Continued frum Yesterday's Star.) “And it's time for bed,” sald Roy Martel. “Off with you, boy! I'm so busy these days trying to find some light in this reparations m that I need all the sleep I can get.” As young Anson went, muttering against the ineivility of his host, which he described as lavish and lethal, all the clocks of Paris began the lengthy business of making it midnight. But Roy Mar so needed sleep to rest a brain that a battlefield of figures, did not go bed, for he knew it would be no v Slowly, slowly, he paced dim, wide rooms, the rooms who liked fine, simple things, old woods, ancient golds and so carpets that stole away the noise footfalls The narrow hours struck, and still he paced, a gaunt dow among dancing specters, for the draft through open windows and doors played furi- ously with the little candle flames. And from above, from the 2 and a the rustling whisper of sliding feet, ever and again came the shri of the sk 4 g to : the drum, violin, the plaved Roy silence to0. And d, it played and , oh God mutteres for he longed for the would wrap him in sleep But silence did not come, and his tired brain grew livid with the noise of folly that sobbed and droned and velled " and wailed; and then, like| lightning against tortured sky flashed a voice, a voice that waved | and laughed, syncopating, syncopat-| xophone “Oh Martel, that v don't you but dancing— then to die? s, don't you | and then ‘the | g—the Deluge! And so we dan And sw they danced, parquet lon. sn and like thev danced. And the saxophone played suelo, hair like an ivory face, Jaughter, Co; senz her grace. She sang with long white arms white snakes, and on the shining all great cit And Consuelo danced. with violet | 1elo s | v 2 he body obbed with | arms outstretched, that swayed she s phone throbbing between his li And suddenly the voice of swaying white arms was still though cut by a knife, and the white arms fluttered irresolute, and the 3 silly wail and wailed v, as on the threshold him was lean fig- of carnival who: boredom, stood a tall, dark, ure, with deep shadows round his| ey He stood there a: lone as a| cypress in a garden. And he looked straightly at the queen of the garden, who stood alone on the sh quet, as alone as a quee her ‘poise and look suddenly something of the calm dignity which poets have found in queens of ol time, so that her motley gue: dered at this Consuelo of meanor and imperious carri they sta usly at the in the and the vat for the rosette of | on of Honor of the first class, which greater among the great distinctions of the world. And he stood there, without a smile, as alone as a cypress in a garden, and he said: “I hope that you will pardon my intrusion.” “I hope gravely. laughed “You see,” explained the tall man, and he spoke as if he and the golden Amer- fcan were quite alone, and he spoke low, as though the sweep of parquet that lay between them was no more than the length of a cigarette. “You see,” he saids"ever since you honored the flat above mine with your pres: ence, some weeks ago, your activities have been such t T have been quite unable to get any sleep. And I thought, Miss Cox, that I would just come up: s and mention that to you.” And the fool somewhere laughed. “Quel dommage!” whispered h voice, Say,” cried the gall! Who the hell Consuelo swept a none is so, too,” said And a fool Consuelo somewhere fool, “tha you very white arm ied softly, “allow me e you to Sir Roy Martel.” The man in the doc v bowed like an absent-minded courie “Please to have you meet us! in came nd the|V - | swept widely to the And Con-| danced her hand ws golden halo round|to press her heart, and One of a series of the | year’s best short stories. ) chuckled the fcol, but the man in the doorway did not even glance at him. Spoke Consuelo, very gravely: “I am so sorry, Sir Roy, to be dis- turbing your rest. Of course, I had not the faintest idea when I came here that you lived in the apartment below me. I assure you that I am sincerely sorry, Sir Roy, But now that I am here, what can I do?" And it was a helpless gesture that she made, but very swiftly the arm of Roy Martel pointed to the saxophone player. ““Need your young friend exercise his ghastly talent cuite so relent- lessly?” And the frozen silence was ended by a protesting babel: “Oh, say, the saxophone! We must have the saxophone! Why, the man’s mad! Who ever heard of dancing without a saxophone?” I am afraid, Sir Roy,” sald Con- suelo, without a smile, “that your sug- gestion does not seem to meet with quite unanimous approval, and I must consider my gues “I was not asking for approvall” “I was fool somewhere laughed. *echoed Consuelo, and her Vo was @ cold as a voice from a cellar, and her very white arms flashed up like a white torch, and she cried to_the saxophone player. “Play, you boy, pla And’ the saxophone played like a silly automaton. Cried Sir Martel, smiling curiously: that is merc Miss Cox!" t is justice, Sir R He looked at her, smiling curiously, |and he went, as suddenly as he had come. The very next night there happened a memorable happening at the Salle Mandragora. The dancer danced, she stood, she fell. a restau- 4 lit, and in the center is a space of marble where. on all dance, except from 10:15 to 10:30 every night, when dances only Con- suelo Cox. But that night as she danced, very golden hair and little white face, a een dress of the crinoline mode that floor, swaying 'ms and enchanted feet in shoes of crimson with a gold device—as she s suddenly seen . she ~ stood trightfully still, and then the golden and as she|hair was spilled upon the marble floor. A press was quickly around the fallen dancer, startled waiters, maitre d’hotel and friends. Very many friends had Consuelo the dancer—very many friends of her face and body. 'hey parted before a voice that said harshiy “If you will allow me— And_they allowed him,and he of the voice lifted the still, slim dancer and carried her toward what a maitre d'hotel indicated was her retiring room. But, even as she was being car- ried, the eyes of the white face open- ad and stared, in the enchantment of weakness, at the face that carried her. There were very deep sh2dows about s of that face. she whispered. “Fancy * he said grimly, ‘to see {you dance—and I thought I saw you die, Consuelo!” And suddenly the mouth of the | dancer laughed. “Oh, dear! Oh, dear!” she laughed. “And how sorry you'd have been, wouldn't you, Sir Roy, kind Sir Roy!” He was quite silent, and she cried wickedly “Put me down now, please. I am quite all right now. Thank you so much for being so—kind to me. Thank sou, thank vou!” To the directeur, who was flutfering by them: “Monsieur Briant. T will continue the dance. Tell stra." mademoiselle—" st you always argue, Monsleur Eriant? 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