The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE EQUINOX “Then you believe in the Brothers?“ ”As I revel in the kisses of your mouth,” said the boy, crushing her face against his. A rich gladness filled her eyes, moist gladness; one might say the first gush of an artesian well amid the seas of sand. " Well,” quoth she, cheerful and brisk, to let the mask fall on her blushing soul, “ we have got through six dozen oysters and a devil of a lot of Burgundy. . . . I wonder if I am hungry! " She looked him between the eyes. "Hors d’oeuvresl” said Edgar. “I have a box for the Sam Hall fight" “ Oh do take me,” she panted. “Will he beat Joe Marie?" she added, with a touch of anxiety, “He has the weight, and the experience, and the record.” “Fools are betting he will. My money is on the man with three years younger, six inches taller, and twelve inches longer reach to his credit. And a twenty—four times harder skull.” “ It’s his skin I love." " The only thing a woman ever can love." “ And his activity” " Exactly. You cannot understand Being, which is Peace.” “ Don’t! You are near my secret, now." “ Wait till the grey hours I " She dropped three napoleons on the plate, and disdaining to wait for the change, took Edgar’s arm in hers‘ They hailed a fiacre. "By the way, I don’t know your name," he began, as they clattered down the Boul’ Mich’. 120