Ann Arbor Tales

m on the tennis courts o

rowley noted the swift sweep of his white arm, bare almost to the shoulder, and was thrilled. Florence had slippe

t. The flush on the girl's face gave her beauty a radiance that he could not recall ev

ir; I've been watching

then her lips parted over her strong

ust splendid--" And made a play

playing tennis,

out," Housto

tennis, did they

king for that Rome scholarship-but he'll neve

plained professorily. "And in a court, too. I suppose y

he pastimes of the ancient Greeks. The deep throated bells in the Library Tower

own town, Jack?" he

it. As it was he glanced up at his room-mate and across at Florence whose eyes met his with a look of in

id, quite definitely, though still

rugged his

, Jack?"

o," was the

ted I guess I had bett

f you want to," Flo

ley exclaimed and moved away, calling over his

as the youth's tall figure disappeare

hatically, "only I wish he wer

his coat wrapped about them. At the door

will be cooler. Shall we go in?" She took the coat and flung it o

g along the top of the teak-wood rack fo

s it was, he could not see her face nor t

im, her elbows on her knees, her chin in her two slim hands. They talked commonplaces for a space, and grad

h she glanced over her shoulder a

u rather hav

r a Japanese jar into the depths of which she plunged her hand. She held out

: "Doesn't your mot

and sat on the circ

d. "There's a social at th

he mut

ost dark. Afterward she watched him blow thin, writhing rings; leaning to

ter a few moments, emboldened by the

," she said in

nd dove his own hand into the jar

a match,

ed, "let me ligh

his hand fell upon hers where it lay on the cushion. Nor did she withdraw her hand even as his closed over it. The contact sent his blood tingling to his heart; he leaned nearer her. Their eyes, as now and then they saw in the little light the glowing coals of their cigarettes gave, did not waver. He ceased smoking, and so did she. His ciga

murmured-"de

isper was like the faint movin

ds fall over her fathomless eyes like a curtain, and

trode nervously into the hallway, leaving

eagerly,

ure between the porti

you to forgive me-I know I'v

e felt irresistibly impelled to meet her. Afterward he reca

l, soft arms ag

-Jack," sh

seized her wrists as tho

muttered

nst his shoulder and her voice was

e, and kissed her. He kissed her many times, upon the forehe

last, and rushing into the hallway, snatched

outer door slam, followed by his swift tread upon the walk

passed over her. She went to the window and looked out, but in the darkness of the street she could see n

p her combs from the cushion, she went into the hallway and pressed the button regulating the lights. In the wh

d. It was a little photograph of a young, sweet-faced girl and written across the margin at the bottom she read-the writing

from the hallway

called back. "I went t