. Mary Ware in Texas . ngry with herself becauseshe could not chime in with the others, and thoughtwith flaming cheeks that they must think her dread-fully stupid and unresponsive; just a bread-and-butter miss, not yet out of the nursery. Once therecame a place where an anecdote about Hawkinsand a new school-girl would have fitted in beauti-fully if she could only have mustered up courageto tell it. She had a conundrum too, when theothers were propounding them, and had opened hermouth to tell it - - in fact had said Did you everhear- when somebody else who had not heardher tremulous beginning
. Mary Ware in Texas . ngry with herself becauseshe could not chime in with the others, and thoughtwith flaming cheeks that they must think her dread-fully stupid and unresponsive; just a bread-and-butter miss, not yet out of the nursery. Once therecame a place where an anecdote about Hawkinsand a new school-girl would have fitted in beauti-fully if she could only have mustered up courageto tell it. She had a conundrum too, when theothers were propounding them, and had opened hermouth to tell it - - in fact had said Did you everhear- when somebody else who had not heardher tremulous beginning captured the attention ofthe table with one of his own. The sound of hervoice thus suddenly stopped made her blush, choke,take a drink of water and subside into silenceagain. It was not until coffee was being served afterwardin the living-room, that Mary found her did not take coffee, and at the Majors re-quest had gone to the piano to play a dashing fan-tasie that he always called for on such THE NEWPUBLIC LIBRART MT9K, AT FORT SAM HOUSTON 113 The lieutenant, who, as Mary had feared, had classedher as a callow little school-girl who couldnt talkexcept in embarrassed monosyllables, had been won-dering why Gay had made such a point of his meet-ing her. Now as he looked across the room at heranimated face, responsive to every chord of thebrilliantly executed music, he decided that theremight be some reason for Gays interest in herwhich he had not yet fathomed, and he at once. proceeded to find out. He started towards her, stopping to say in anaside to Gay, Whats the little girls name? Iveforgotten. Oh, thank you. Then he deliberatelypulled up a chair, tete-a-tete wise, and seated him-self beside her, coffee-cup in hand. Miss Ware, he began in a flatteringly confi-dential tone, it is an old saying that the shallowsmurmur, but the deeps are dumb. Is that why youare so silent this evening? ! It was easy now, under cover of the music, andin response t
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