The poets have seen fit to
represent young love as a mischievous little archer with a sharp and
penetrating arrow, and now Peter understood what they had meant;
that arrow had pierced him thru, and he had to hold on to the column
to keep himself from falling.
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Presently the couple rose and strolled away to the elevator, and
Peter followed. He did not dare get into the elevator with them, for
he had suddenly become accutely aware of the costume he was wearing
in his role of proletarian anti-militarist! But Peter was certain
that Nell and her escort were not going out of the building, for
they had no hats or wraps; so he went downstairs and hunted thru the
lobby and the dining-room, and then thru the basement, from which he
heard strains of music. Here was another vast room, got up in mystic
oriental fashion, with electric lights hidden in bunches of
imitation flowers on each table. This room was called the "grill,"
and part of it was bare for dancing, and on a little platform sat a
band playing music.
The strangest music that ever assailed human ears! If Peter had
heard it before seeing Nell, he would not have understood it, but
now its weird rhythms fitted exactly to the moods which were
tormenting him.
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