...
"I can't do it without a violin accompaniment."
"Try it for me ... and I shall dance the Dance of Death for you."
Von Hammer said he would do his best ... after much persuasion and a few
more drinks....
And Nichi Swartzman danced....
We saw, though we did not know it, the origin of modern futurist dancing
there. Nichi danced with his street clothes on ... wearing his hat, in
ghoulish rakishness, tipped down over his eyes ... inter-wreathing his
cane with his long, skeletal, twisting legs and arms ... his eyes
gleaming cat-like through merest slits....
At three o'clock in the morning we were all drunk. Before we parted we
joined in singing shakily but enthusiastically _Down in Bohemia Land_.
* * * * *
Meunier, fulfilling his promise to me, paid my fare to New York. I soon
walked into the office of the _National Magazine_.
Clara Martin was there, and Allsworth Lephil, the managing editor, and
his assistant Galusha Siddon.
As I sat in the office, they gave me a sort of impromptu reception.
Ray Sanford strolled in, as fresh-complexioned as an Englishman. He was,
they said, preparing a series of articles on the negro problem. And I
met a little, bustling, sharp-eyed man, with much of the feminine about
him,--his face lifted as if on an intuitive intellectual scent....
Carruthers Heflin .
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