. "Wild women" : the romance of a flapper . Flirting with Strangers! FLIRTING! ! ! Oh, the injustice of it!And thereby hangs the Tale. Instantly, Iknew where the Trouble came from. 46 WILD WOMEN The night before we had been to a Banquetgiven by Fathers Lodge and there had beendancing afterward. A friend of Fathers,Mr. Wright, is related to those wonderfuldancers from New York City, Mr. and As you all know, Mr. and are visiting in town at present. is recovering from a sprained ankle,acquired while dancing at the Orpheum Thea-tre last week, but Mr. Barnes attend
. "Wild women" : the romance of a flapper . Flirting with Strangers! FLIRTING! ! ! Oh, the injustice of it!And thereby hangs the Tale. Instantly, Iknew where the Trouble came from. 46 WILD WOMEN The night before we had been to a Banquetgiven by Fathers Lodge and there had beendancing afterward. A friend of Fathers,Mr. Wright, is related to those wonderfuldancers from New York City, Mr. and As you all know, Mr. and are visiting in town at present. is recovering from a sprained ankle,acquired while dancing at the Orpheum Thea-tre last week, but Mr. Barnes attended theBanquet and we were all introduced to of it! I met the real Mr. Barnes ofNew York! But wait--the surprise of sur-prises is yet to A Last Hope. The dancing started. A mere youth, atwaddling, giggly neighbor of ours insisted WILD WOMEN 47 that I dance with him, and I was about to ac-cept him as a last hope, when Mr. Barnes wasintroduced to our Family. Then--ah, mo-ment of supreme delight!—suddenly turned to mother and asked if he mightbe permitted to DANCE WITH ME!And mother gave her consent! Of course, hedanced with sister May too, but he chose mefirst. Then later, when the Lodge Officersasked him if he would give an exhibition dancefor them, he said he would do so if motherwould allow me to dance with him. Thinkof it! And again mother gave her consentand I danced alone, in public, with the cele-brated Mr. Barnes, and we were lauded withbursts of applause and must dance again, andhe remarked to mother afterward that Idanced as well as his wife. And not only did Mr. Barnes deign to no-tice me, but he had a friend with him—a , also from New York--who askedmother if he might be permitted to danc
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