Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 27, 1923, Page 16

PAGE FOUR “Souls For Sale” BY RUPERT HUGHES CHAPTER LX (Continued: “I'm no longer fool enough, honey, to try to explain anything that hap- pens to us here. I don’t even won- der about what's going to happen to us hereafter, if anything. As for right and wrong-—-humph! I can't tell ‘em apart When some terrible calamity comes, your father says, ‘It {s God's will; he moves in a mysteri-4 ous way!’ Well, I let it go at that for good luck, too. I neither thank flor blame ‘Anybody for anything, and I don't pray to Anybody to make it come out the way I v it. Accord- ing to one line of thinking, your mis: Step was the divine plan. According to another, good can never come out of evil. Of course we know it does, every day; and evil comes out of good. @he only folks who know things know ‘em because they think that being pig-headed is being knowing. It js too much for the wise ones. So let's let {t alone and make the best of what comes. W after all, so let's be as can, and I guess that's about as d vine as we'll ever get Down Here.” He lea her out to his woeful little tin wagon and they went larruping through the streets, into the cemetery. That at had in: creased in population and some new monuments brightened it, set like pa per weights to hold down poor bo that the wind might else blow A few mourners were moving about planting flow clipping grass, lifting away old scraps of paper, or just brooding ove: the earth had gathered back unto itself. They es away. looked up startled and off at the profaning clatter of Doctor Bretherick’s car. Some of them Mem retognized One or two women, whose grief was s0 old that it was almost comfort- abie, waved to her. She had a sudden fear that if she paused to kneel at Elwood’s mound and worship there she would start a wonder that intul- tion would change to ugly surmise The scandal had died befors its birth, Ike the atill-born child. It would do Mem little harm, for she had been the victim of much barsh talk and was always under that cloud of suspicion that envelops all stage people in the eyes of the conventional. But Elwood in his grave ought to be spared from such a resurrection. ‘The tongues of the busybodies must not dig him up and play the ghoul with him, In a panto of indecision as to h true duty, she recognized old Mrs. Farnaby mourning by a little hillock. Swaying near her was ber husband, ol Falldown Farnaby, still some- how capable of intoxication. The doctor knew better than to pause at all, and Mem’s only rite of atonement was a glance of remorse- ful agony cast toward Elwood’s rest- ing place. It showed her that the founder of her fortunes was honored @mily by a wooden headboard already swerped and sidelong. “One last favor,” she mumbled to Woctor Bretherick. “Get a decent tombetone for the poor boy and let me pay for it.” “AN right, honey,” sai@ the doc- tor. And the car jangled out of the grates again into the secular road. Ané that was that. CHAPTER LXI ‘When she reached home, Mem was | story. the supper table the younger children beset her with questions. Gladys was particularly curfous and search- ing in her inquiries. ‘Then came the hour of the theater- going. Nobody had dared to ask Doc- tor Steddon if he would accompany his family, He had not made up his own mind. He dared not. The family tacitly assumed that his conscience or his pride forbade him to appear in the sink of iniquity he left him, but had hardly reached the had so often denounced, The family bade gate when he came pounding after. He flung his arms about Mem’s shoulders and cast off all his offic except that of a father, chuckling: “Where my daughter goes is good enough for me him good-by and He made almost more of a sensa. tion in the theater than Mem. There was applause and cheering and even a slow and awkward rising to the feet until the whole packed audience | was erect and clamorous. Seats of honor were resrved for the great star and the family that reflect- ed her effulgence. As soon as they were seated young woman who jailed the pi began to batter the keys, and Mem’s latest picture began to flow down the screen. She could feel at her elbow the rigid arm of ber father undergoing martyrdom. She felt it wince as hi first close-up began to glow, her huge | eyes pleading to him in a glisten of superhuman tears. The arm relaxed as he surrencered to the wonder of her beauty. It tightened again when danger threatened her, and she could hear his sigh of relfet when she escaped one peril, his gasp as she encountered another. He was like a child pia: his first toy, hearing first falry He was entranced. Sho heard him laugh with a boyishness she had never associated with him. She heard him blow his nose with a blast that might have shaken a wall in Jericho. A sneaking side glance showed her that his eyes were dripping. And when the applanse broke out at the finish of the picture, she heard his great hands making the loudest thavacks of ail. This was heartbreak- Ing bliss for her. Then the manager appeared on the narrow stage and spoke of the honor f having with them the great star of whom Calverly was sv proud, and he took great pleasure in interdoocing Miss Remember Steddon, “America's sweetheart.” This stolen attribute embarrassed Mem only a moment fn the sea of em. barrassments that swallowed her. She hardly knew how she reached the ge or what happened there. What ever she said, she said to her father, staring down at him as so often from the choir gallery. His eyes we bright with a layman's ecstasy in child's glory She came down and made her way slowly through a phalanx of friends ng with with outthrust fingers, snatching at the hem of her fame, eager to be cable to say, “I shook hands with Re- member Steddon once. The family roce home in state, the children and the mother !oud in com- ment, the father silent. The old par- son had to think it all out. Once at home, he sent the children up to bed and held Mem and her mother so beaten down and frustrated that she begged permissin to rest awhile in bed the night’s ordeal. At JE WETT SIX PAIGE BUILT -|gieir own struggles with temptation. praynig for forgiveness for some: thing, and now his very pride took the form of contrition: “My beloved wife and daughter, I —ahem, ahum! I want to plead for the forgiveness of you both. I have been wrong headed and stiff necked as so often, but now I am humbled before’ you in spite of all my pride. It has just come over me.that when] God sald, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light, he must have had in mind this glorious instrument for portraying the wond work, Our dear Redeamer used the parable for his divine lessons, and {t has come to me that if he should walk the earth again today he would use the motion picture “You have builded better than you knew, perhaps, my chfld—and now I k you to pardon me for being ashamed of you when I should have been proud. You were using the gifts that Heayen sent you as Heaven meant you to use them. Your elo- quence is far greater than mine has ever been. Never have I seen the beauty of purity amid temptation so| jy brought home. I would not presume to criticize you, my darling, but I implore. you to keep your heart and your art 2 not only for your own pre sake, but for the sake of the whom you are helping in people ed and you can't, you God for-} Your art is sa won't sully it in your life: give me for y unbelief and send you happiness and goodness and a long, long usefulness in the path you have elected.” He rose and bent down to kiss Mem on the brow. ‘Then he escaped into his study, leaving the two women to ence upon Mem's soul as his meek surrender before her power as an artist. Nothing has ever made anybody want to be good so much as the re- warda, the praise for having been good. That night Mem knelt again by her old bed and, on knees unaccustomed to prayer, implorec strength to keep her gift like e, a grail of holi- ness. She woke with an early-morn- ing resolve to be the purest woman and the devoutest artist that ever lived. ot hours and other inftuences brow other moods, but consecra- tion was her spirit now. The next day she left the town with all its blessings, no longer a at, sin laden, limping into the but a missionary God into the farthest lands of the seemed that all Calverly was {there to wring her hand and waft jher salutations. The family was woehegone at losing her—all but adys, who wore a mysterious smile that puzzled them. The conductor called “All aboard!” and hasty farewells were taken in clench of hand and awkward kiss. Mem ran to the rear platform and waved’ and waved lengthening sig- nals of love to her dwindling family. with his glittering eye for a long while before he delivered his sermon. It was his nature t forey be She noted the absence of Gladys and wondered at it as she went to her wingroom. There she found thi Mother—“Dear me, I wonder if it will be raining at the lake Father —“*Never mind, dear, we can put up the windows in Frank —"'Yes, and we are sure to get through with a Jewett. s of his handi-| weep in each other's arms with a Joyous « lonment None of father’s thunderings against wi none “of his chantings the divine delights | of self-denial, ever had such influ Che Casper Sunday Worning Cribune girl ensconced in fairy triumph, smil- ing like a pretty witch. “What on earth are you doing here?” Mem cried. “Going to Los Angeles with you. I may never be great like you, but I’m going to have a mighty good time trying. Can you blame me for run- ning away from that graveyard when I see what came to you. How could Mem blame her? How could she fa{l to understand and to promise her help? All the world was filled with runaway girls striking out for freedom and for wealth and re- nown. Mem’s little sister was only another in the multitude and she was so pretty, so desirable, delectable, magnetic, that her future looked all roses. 3 ‘I'm jealous of you,” Mem said. "You'll ruin my chances, you're much better looking, and—and—' “Oh, you!” Gladys laughed in dis-| claimer. There Were many questions to ex cHange and Mem soon learned that her sister had flung off the chains that one or two arcent lovers had tried to fasten about her. She had substituted for the old saws the mod-| ern instances. She had changed tho} old ditty to run, “The boy I left be-| hind me.” Gladys was not begin-| ning her future with the dark grop-! ing fearsomeness of Mem's. Mem had| been like a poneer who fights old wil- erness and makes the path easy for| the followers, | Wie Mem, with a last faltering| reproach, asked her sister if she were wise to toss aside the devotion of a| g00d man, Gladys laughed. { “Let love wait! The men have! kept us waiting for thousands of years, till they were ready. Now let! them wait for us.” There was no gainsaying this, It had been Mem's own feeling when, she left Los Angeles and her lovers there. Consternation must be rife at home! in Calverly where Glady’s elopement was doubtless realized by now, but there would be more consternation in the hearts of countless men when | the fascinations of the Steddon sis-| |ters should shine upon them from the silver sheet. Mem resolved to save her sister} from the anguishes she had known in her own pilgrimage. She felt al- \diploma from the college of life. Her first thought had been a remorseful |feeling that she bad not only gone wrong, but had led her own sister astray as well. Now she felt that she had led her sister out of the dark into the light. She had been somehow rescued from oblivion into the higher oppor- tunities. She would make her name famous and keep it. If she ever got a husband she would still keep her name and not use his, except for the |Sweet purposes of domesticity. Life had not plucked her to fling away or merely to adorn the button- |hole of some lover.. Life had trans- planted her into a garden where the jcholcest flowers bloomed. She would make herself the rosiest rose that she could. She would yearn upward to- ward the sun and spread the incense of her soul as far as the winds of the world would carry it. And when she died she would leave her name and her face in immortal pictures of deathless motion. She had sinned—indeed, her life had been receemed from nullity through her sin at home. She would again and again. But she would sin again—but then everybody sinned make atonement ' by entertainment, purging her soul, not by hiding in the wilderness, but by shining like a little sun around the world, blessing’ the world with sympathy and the no- bility of tears shed for another's sor- rows ready a veteran and a guide with a} head and shrivel in his shadow; but let him bloom his best alongside. She wondered who that fellow of her destiny would be—Tom Holby, maybe—Austin Boas, or still another perhaps; or others, perhaps, incluud- ing him! or them!) In any case he (or they) had better behave and play fair! As for being a mother, let that wait, too. She was going to mother he multitudes and tell them stories to @othe them. There was far more in this dream >in vanity, far more than selfish- ness. ‘The hope of the world lay therein, for the world can never ad- vance farther than its women. She had a soul to sell and it was all her own, and she was going to mar- ket. ‘The dawn was hers for conquest. Mankind was her lover and her be- loved. That one-man passion called love could tarry until at least the late forencon. THE END ABYS COLDS without “dosing” are soon “‘nij BOY SCOUTS ARE GIVEN CHARGE OF SERVICES AT FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH The Boy Scouts of Casper wi!l have charge of a unique program at the First Christian church this evening. according to announcement by the Rev, R. R. 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