AMUSEMENTS.
PiQTURES.
“A MIDNIGHT ROMANCE..” MONDAY NIGHT.
She had cotton, abuse, and servility by day, and shimmering silks, love, and roinejncc by night. Then came the dance —the dress that was left behind did it—she had tasted of youth’s romance. "What girl couid resist being in his arms, if only for one short dance ? “Won’t you—please—tell me who you are?” “Yes! I’m the girl you met on the beach.” Tearing the monogram from his handkerchief she folded it and said: “The letter that brings this back to you will bring you news of me”—and that was all. Then’ came discovery, and the deluge of recrimminations from the little adventuress whose dress she was wearing. Silence was forced on her—she could not explain. Ho tried to reconcile his nighttime visions of her soft, velvet hands, her warm, tender smile, and her regal beauty with her daytime garb and toil as a hotel maid. His dream-girl a maid—how could it hep But con\o along and see for yourself.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1920, Page 1
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166AMUSEMENTS. Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1920, Page 1
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