Harold nodded and danced away.
An instant later this clever precaution of the tailor's almost caused Harold heart failure. For as the Freshman and his rather awkwardly dancing consort cavorted quite near to the row of tables, a bell rang out. Harold looked at once toward the curtain concealing Hertz, but all was quiet there. Then "Speedy" gazed cautiously around in other quarters and discovered, to his relief, that Leonard Trask, seated at a near-by table with Delphine, had pushed the bell in the effort to divert their way some of the refreshments that would soon be served.
But as the music stopped and the dancers, disengaging themselves from their partners, started to adjourn to the tables, there came catastrophe for the eager "Speedy."
He had given Grace his arm and, striving to chat with her and apologize for his delay in arriving, had walked with her toward a vacant table. But now she suddenly saw Leonard Trask and Delphine on the other side of the room and wanted to hurry over to them through the crowds still blocking the floor. Abruptly she pulled her arm out from under Harold's. And his right coat-sleeve, already weakened at the shoulder by his strenuous dancing, came with Grace's arm. It
