Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1924, Page 35

{Copsriznt 3 and Canada Ly NorthAme Alunce. 1 1 reserved, in England.) CHAPTER 1. One Day in Paris, M zoing o tell @ story It s said, quite often, that cvery man has, within him, one SIOTY to tell. With many men there aie no others—just the one Perhaps it is that this is the one 1 have—the ‘only on At auy rate while 1 have told many others, [ have | reasured this within my soul within my heart for many \nd I think this is the best Uive ever told—and the one wl it more of the things which TY StOY should pOssess— romun ¢ uth, fove, trageds—and u lessor 'L was in Pari that ®Eom Lam going to o was sitting euts.d PUix in the sunshin Fuoon. en I saw, crossing the Place de with v 0 an old 1001 chum of min: f2lishman slio had liv : sreat m, and came right across Lo nion I found tu be a charming and tinguished looking old Frenchman typical boulevardicr, and after th usual introductions théy seated them- celves with One may xit on that corner of the Opera and watch all the world pass by, the lines tratic, the broad|and shelter her. wulevards, with their trees, their unshine #nd their shade, their gay tittle kiosks, the crowded pavements on which oni sees everybody, and yet | »iotic women. those wom- taught the women of ho carry their clothes. but stil preserved for themscives s te scerets undi- ulged Tt may not b ce. but it is Paris ~Paris the wide-Stretehed arms oes that one may learn to laugh: Waris who teach the world the Meaning of 1 An hour went by before Durinz this i wid boulevardie hat celobr vho passed 1hat lizht fingered irony altogether Guilic. It was all delight- Tul. a dawd 1 the edge of life's | m. W L of experience at | ne's el )int out the almest | nnnoticed s beneath the surface of the en ho an in the center of the c direction, ulevard des apucines i n pulled up. Di- rectly opy ere we great pen’ Tiisy uiza had slid to a| ilent stund in the waiting line, £ht aga the « Thy ilevardier glanced to- -wurd it, and for the first time lost Ris air of unused disinterest and be- intrig d qu 3 ar!’ Is she not beauti- 1 looked a uiza Driving it was a smart chanffeur in a lvery of gray with mauve facings hig, poiished steering 1 zloved hands no bigger thap back of the car, How may T tell you what she was | ke to me in those few minutes dur- | & which 1 first gazed at her across tie jostling paveme of the Canu- | cines? Picture a rose leaf of pink and laid sofily on a pile of costly wnd you sce the checks of Elise hey showed above the great cloak ch swathed her. | From bencath the litte hat which wonian could adequately de- her hair showed ilack—blue ck. like the wing of wven. He were soft and full and rosy - in the world. We all of us know = yome girl or other, sweet and fresh, [ Of thoushts free from all tortuous- | cyAPTER 3.—THE LIGHTED WAY. | hor. Ail that Eliae knew to be thic, | but one day-there 1t the Tittle sip: Wwith her feet on the threshold of life, | ness. Her her cves guzing ahead in innocence |touched overmueh with the beau chevalier, the “parfit, ger il | knight.” So when'vou read of Ilise, when vou are disposed to consider| Through ti lier story questionable, think that | there, but for the grace of God, walk- | of ed that girl you know, that girl vou | straight, neither can any of us what the morrow may offer. We can- | Virtue is easy to the virtuous, and for| Dr, 1 ametines s sometimes - | those never tempted ess is|d Mften tru neh, and tinged a gift. * whispered the old boule- | there not a history in it her cves and forgot all were wide and blue. dusky; and yet uot with laughter: d ‘with knowledge, and yet open h innceence: the eyes of youth marked with that restfulness which There was sadness in 1hem, and n vet with it <ontentment. The passage of had scared them, vet left them as a little child’s. To me thé carnated an cternal paradox | I turned to the old boulevardier. My friend withdrew his guze from ¥F:lise and turned to him 0. The Ald gentleman glanc from one to the other of us und chuckled - ! She has caught you, hein?" MHe moved his hands in a gesture which meant more than any words «ould compass.. “You are intrigued. We admitted that we were. He spoke confidentially. T ‘know her. She is of my greatest friends. You would wish for an introduction?” We said, with enthusiasm, that #here was nothing we wanted more, So he took acroes the pavement @nd introduc s to Elise That was some time . I have waid many visits to Paris sinee, and rach time I have met Elise, for to me Traris would be inc plete without Ber She and T are friends now. Our Priendship started and azrew from “hose moments during which we chat- i~d to her as she on the Capucines. recently that T h 5 isarnt all that which was written in hor eyes. | 1y The old boulevardier must have %nown it all the time, but he said mothing, standing by, watching until Iilise should choose to tell me herself, which I am sure he was confident she would do from the fi And one day she told me. The story of Elise interested me @remendously, although not so much as Blise herself. I am going to try Co tell it to You, not as Elise told it, sometimes with halling phrases and a Goep flush, sometimes with. quickened ~words and_shining eves, with little ‘rhite hands moving swiftly in ges- Fures no words can paint because that §s impossible; but plainly, at iength. 0 that you who have not seen lise snight gather something of her from ehat T have set down. For, after all, JMise is her own story. ORIy in one thing I am departing from the truth, and that s in the names of the peo- tple you will encounter in it, of Elise and those others she met during its ©here will be hate in the story, and wassion, love and forbearance, wick- edness and much good. 1t is sot in Paris, on the darkened outskirts ‘where the creatures of shadow cling o Lire's edge and watch for the day’s dawning with wide, frightened eyes. It is set where the night lights gleam ‘white to the skies on the hill at Montmartre, and the butterflies flut- ‘ter in their glare till the flame touches their wings and they sink in agony_to oblivion. T will try to tell you of the men and the women who gathered there about MBlise, and who still gather about her kind; of their rapacity and their just, of their lives and their deaths; but, above all, I will tell you of Ilise herself, of what happened to ber, and Why we saw her that sunny afternoon riding in the bie Hispano on the Boulevard des Capucines, she o had lived in a garret behind the Xi‘.:ny and stared into the eyes of Bmoger. : Somo of you in the reading may ®hink the story incresible: some condemn if becalse Foa, way, touches those things outside the pale]only watch THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO . C. FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1924, her back toward him. He would be, | pity for nim, but with perhaps, forty-five or fifty, a man horror, an instinct to fle Mge &t sixty. He was slight and small, 2 . : She ntrove to speak with rounded, narrow shoulders, and < sorry, docte $ Jovy his hair, thin high up on the temples, 2 ’ ke that. Not 1 was gray above his cars, while his = don’t think it could ever smooth-shaven face was more lined U'm sorry.” than it should have been. Again his mood change His ey kindly and ‘inclined to- fared with a hint of ward retrospection, softened as he . the Lapierre is too | studied the girl in the chair, softened jerre may sc-ve vou und and filled with qulck, eager yearn- Vithout payment, but— | ing which died. He stepped into the ¢ / oy Teden | room, 4] 4 g ng v i “Well, Elise, 1 hope you haven't got y 1 will pay you It is j doctor. The same medicine and the L neat, white paper wrapping across (s cally so. Twice a week she came to this room 2 - what 1 gaid. Certainiy 1 ¢ and fetched medicine for Marthe, and TN i % it” She was walking room the Rue Jacques where / you forgive me Sle cried, erect, quiv an ill-gefined | men—great n. famous the outery men, wealthy men, society parasite with whom vears had dealt’ harshly, ot youth against age. youth's protest |elever men, and fools—all come to for & casual observer might set his against the mating he proposed | worship at the shrine of Loletts evenly. “I'm | whose ameurs cansed even Paris 1 ou; 1o0—but |11t its ey#hrows sometimes and chat e that. I—I [ter e all along the string o be. And— N On the night of that day when Bl «d. iz eyes |heard Dr jierre’s confession, Lo hardness *in [ lette was in one of her moods. which old, eh? La-|meant that she was exceedingly bad 4 your cister |tempered and vicious. She called | perameni She had twice declared ering. hurt would not show d throw that now bottle at Brunel and had tired of ‘Walting?: H 1 | 1 tearn o little. Rut 1 will pay you y ; That you should say |and ehief of her dressers. other She got to her feet. “Not at all, g nce—I will' That you should say ief of her dr r Ishe had sent weeping a ) Aan el and he | Elise.” To her she was cruel | sume dose; | Hiz anger was swept away. and he | Elis 0 He handed the little bottle in its | wa: immediately suppliant, apologet- feremd fashion | They were alone. for old Heloise to her. “Exactly ; Slise, forgive me! [ hardly know |€ars still tingling. had been did not mean [OF to the wardribhe cupboard. toward was standing behind Lolette, brush twice a4’ week Dr. Lapierre visited th door and he was following her. “Elisc, t her ha Before them W |the great dressing table, with and learn, and, in our| Marthe had luin on her buck through 4 She turned to hi Her eyes were |lIEhts, its silver and its a S erIt e el existence, | On | learts, pity. o & three long years of suffering and 3 A misted and her oheeks axl 1 have po red much be- Elise has n fore putting it into Writing. Yet he- [ except for on catso AU Qs @ pue torn from Hfe's | meet in her book, beeause it tells of real happen- | fricnd and my ings 10 0 puor creature CAught innthe | vardier, are n maclstrom of dread unspeakable | and best W wirls Leyond the fringe of all | He and we i ties, I think it is worth the | fore her, knowing her, knowing what felling she has been, ndulge in no argument. It is a plain le, as 1 have d. which endeavors tto point a moral. It tells of a CHAPTER 11, coming to surely the most 4dful _crossroads thai ever could Conceived. On her decision in that alternative | 1¢IEBL Witha with its faded That she suffered we none of us | tints, its disti ndeny. That she paid cent pey eent wll the bappiness she may have = Ched is beyond all argumient Which sat h e of vou may say. when vou |She was like a lily flowering in shad. you | have turned the last page, that the | ow. Her hai stary is a narration of those th Which are tacitly left out of the y intercourse belween ordinary, respec. table people. In this, alone, 1 would | plumage. In ble at which I sat. His com- | #TEUe with you eyes were bl There are many daughters of men purity” toward the day when she | .o all meet the man who will take her | €47 and fres After ail, Blise was only like them | throat, a repo in the beginning. ~She dreamt of | ing angd herita | misfortunes « self in 1i concocting of sister. and, T, that “girl whose eyes have only the sunshine and the roses life. and to whom the other side unknown [ the paths of our lives are neve Ymurmur of t | Boulevard de through the t ¢ judge our neighbors—we dare not | dow, st X ge. if only We stop to think awhile. | of | the old hooses | | For what man knows his own wes back in artained friend and myself | ness, or what woman her 4 | of the spr ith anecd meernin Of luntil the ultimate test is applied? ing Paris pierre 5 | moment on t So that we more fortunate ones can | her s she sa her head, a sweep in the lines of her [ Ways pictured a tigress, sleek Spensary quietly, and stood for u [any salve could make them; now smil- | “That you should come to Paris . g | paticnt hope ! # than ever: her agitatio. pany. riendsnams ok P Qkuanly, after the medicine was 2 ) A were obvious. ¢ olher whom handed over, they chatted for a few ; / \ ; I must forgive yvou e A moments a diversity of common % ? selfs With the old topics, but this morning Elise sensod Butibgred ias ymething about Dr. Lapierre which | hecked her inclination to talk and prompted in her a desire to leave They stood for u second or two awk your saying that. You w now two stand respectful be- way. pose I must go. Au revoir, docto k N5 ' L ) ogether Lopeless You he story of such a wom- | ¥ou) b nlong tomarraw > ! % 13 )t altogether peless? elling o : s B bis S 7 7 4 have no Oug of Marthe hat 1 be telling and the hear- | " She held out her hund and he took / Havs tlo (holight of Maxther d it, ignoring her question and her fare- i Y i S LR L well, and holding her fingers so t & % £E06 ¥ oo menced to X ; Yy go. doctor. Please! she could not release them. His cyes ; > 7 0. dc . were ulight wnolently. y His head drooped. and “Don’t Ko yet, said. “I want to , past him and vanished do talk to you—about yourself Lapierre stood for a f Elise. She was trembling the slightest bit, | /) after the had zone, and th She was slightly above the average | vaguely apprehensive and. vaguely on his fa as unreadable. It might | S ER indefinitely protestant aguinst stay- have indicated despair, wn graceful elegnnee about ing. She guessed what he was going L HE SAID QUIKETLY; “SHE WHO SITS ] it might have shown an I miake no comment. That she qid | BT Which was smooth, like velvet;| to talk ahout and she did not o NOT BEAUTIFUL™ TT 1S ELISE. THE surrender to some suddenly s rizht or wrong is for you to judge | #nd in the sti When all the story is told, 1 quiet of the old room, | 1o hear it, not beeause it would GIVEN A YEAR TO LIVE. HER O3 l 7| temptation. 1o adopt so ¢ = offensive, but because, somehow. | coneeived idea: it might urnishings, its somber she could not r»uy In what way—it merely vacillation and netive odor of medicines | would b distasteiul, not right. none. of there could be Intermingled with the close mustiness| Lapleree broke the silonce’in’which | then., @ aint of hard, white teeth. | letter and finer-—that xou should | Fertainty she aquiesced fo bis wish that she|like the stecl claws of that tigress | nightly consort with that woman, shopld stay. He spoke di | #he resembled, sheathed in the vel- isten to her vile tatk, her—" rio like a man avoidin vet paw. Her'cves matched her hair | Elise interrupted him swiftly. “One r, looped low over her|one thing he wishes to discuss, vellow, amazing eyes, <lofig, with|must live, doctor. Lolette pays m Iy on its atmosphere s anhen |and nightly she attended derful dressing room w |great Theater intern ears, and dressed simply, was blue | Kradually gathering his courage for avy lids drooping ~over them, so|for helping to dress her, and the (Spe4t FREHIET (U black, with the sheen of au raven's its pronouncement at” they stowed like lamps half-|money she gives keeps Marthe AL last he walked quictly back | gimmed, somnolently burning. nd me. What would you? And be- vivid contrast to it, her | into the room and closed the door ise knew she was great. Lon-|cause onc looks at vice one need not lue—wide, frank eyes.| with unconscious curcfulness after|don welcomed her, New York had|be vicious.” nationale, the most theatre in Puris, on the Rue de Clichy, and foik with a steadiness in them which tord | Bim- acclaimed her, Buenos Aires had| He laughed, short and hard. “That [po 0% EChs. and 10! ~ flocked to see her, s worshiped | holds for a time, Elise—for a time; [paq PO 14,00 Joleiie: A lette's directio cheeks were delicate, for Lolette was the premier danseuse |the great temptation.” He spoke sud- | 1€ 5 4! h. There was a poise to Lolette’s position; a wonder she | the seeing, following on the Inspira- | peine an immence sonrdro se, which told of breed- | Yellow and fierce, brooking no guid- | roreotten when = listening to tion, came’fear. sheer terror of what |20 27 ARINELSH TETCTE age of pride no financial | Ance. going ever forward on her own | cminous prediction of Dr. Laplerre's|he himself told. “God! Elise. That |f PIAcr where Tolette ke Rpni e ltterats path. heeding no man's word. The | lip. the great temptation you should ever be like Lolette:” | FATOCr 08 o tio he chink of partly | vision of Lolette dwelt vividly in S ¢ i 5 cces- | fow chairs was of t tile” dispe on the of her : head, down |an Loletic's bullying, and of nursing | tor. You distress yourself unneces- |few chairs w Sl pensgry on s ten ot Iher mmasing flead, L domn L S L s o [y e . e {and the wood of them w adily, a monotone un- 3 wme leapinz high, burning swittly i o hav She would have turned from him, |its shaded iamps raflic from the nearby | flan T = Y. | quality of tremulous passion. have | § oul a | it lichy. Across th, .| Her hair was yellow-golden. and it | groiecied within mysell against 16, that he stopped her once mor gray—plain blue-gr: ilise was one of Lolett great room, pallor, but| J<lette was an artiste. of the world, with the world at her though inspired, as though | maiter, curtained-off aApartments, one i Elise, when looking at Lolette, al- | fcer. Often Elise had wondered what | he clearly that which be Dre-|.i either end, one of which was a and | thrills there must in {dicted and knew it to be true, and in [ya4xroom and other In the way of| through the sinuous lenkih of her. 101 Yoy ar- walking on the narrow cdge | live, and until something better | wis the wood of the lav v y der the otherwise heavy stilln the toes of those feet which had ! a breakdown. | warn vou now.”|comes along, I must with Lo- |table, with its costly and glisten 00d room, she could hear th arned her a fortune, like a living S wathering f aflett. articles de toilette were paler |half dozen mirrors, and across Le n and pain |lette’s head Elise could look into L mirrored evil eves You have watching her heen so kind. Only—that hurt me 1 their gaze a il let me go N te she had herscls position in He held the door open for her. ven- m was not rapidly e turing one lust appeal as she stepped remembering oy what AT Br e e 4 24 out to the bareneis of the passage- These things are and always will [ she is: and our hearts fre hers: wardly; then she said- Well, 1 suy be. There is a lesson in them for| So surely th those who wish to find it; there must | an is worth T at deast b interest for those wh | g Study huminity or. after all, and in spite of all, In" presenting the story to you 1|everything came rght in the end. ng untenable. Lolette was subtly her attitude toward her « time when the dancer had ignored her as o as she ignored the other girls e when in the gri « of her fits of passion, but recently she had com pay her some attention and the t i was vindietiv she walked ¥n the stair. ew moments he expression sall when this new at |titude of te's had made itse fevident, could ser the el v lelong glance her from the strange, heavy-lidded ling eyes. It began that da {When first some of the men who vis me snade ed Lolcite had noticed herself. Fron have ShoWn | then on their advances had becon doubt; bLuL|mgre and more open. until there wer named With | certain of them. she was sure, whe 0 see her as much as her mis ¢s d tress. She admitted this to herselt at the won- | without egotism—rather. in fact, a hich. in the comething (o be deplored, vet true was one | There was the Count Mordac—Lo Brunel, {jettes fas who always found \ZET, SOTTOW ) impu the entrepreneur, had built the Inter- | smile Elise told herself that gnificent | her ¥ with Lolette was rapidl slope of the | shortening said that he | Tolette, having wat in s Certainly he |lence for some time enly saie room at Lo-|“You will find your s here now |too great—nein?” with twol “I'ive on it, madam.’ kncw |at what Lolette was hin T this was not the first time the dancer had oned the quest f her salary obe cupboard, | Lolette sneered. - 105t in pt her pri in one center that always there comes the little | vou should ever come to that! That | men i i o I T n. Its floor “I have watched vou, Elise, long. Elisc’s white teeth bit for a mo- | was covered by a carpet of subtle nger snapped closed door came the subducd tinkle | Elise's brain. | The strain of your work at the thea- [ment at her 1ip; then she smiled |grays and mauve } Dr. Lapierre busied him- She was, thought Elise. from the|ter, of vour endurance of that wom- | wanly. “You are too disturbed, doc- | with hlack. Th u vish dress morrors and wi The walls all, curtain-drawn win- | Finged her pink and white face in a Pand againet the fact the . Something better has come along, [were draped heavily in black velvet to wakefulnes gles (0 her sealp. Her lips made Should what, ‘doctor? Elsie was| He was sircers. His apprehension | them i > opened the door of the lise shudder. full lips. redder than |striving to be calm { for her well being. the simplicity of [ It was a clever | his statement, showed Elise that; and | the yellow, flari he threshold regarding ling. now inviting to a kiss, now loose | and live—exist—amid foulness and | yct—she was filled, not with pain that |lette ke 4 p tin the tall chair with and twisted in ang . behind who were born to something love should be hopeis ot with | through its de she could see the louvre shutters | loud like gurnered sunshine. It was | you, of noble birth and Elisc” he #aid quietly, and with 4 | soft and luscious. darker than night opposite thrown | too shert to dress in the accepted |bringing should—" He stopped. new-found steadi t least, 1|its somberness, unrelieve n eager effort to admit some | fashlon —and was always brushed | though at a loss for words. as though | hope you will consider it better. 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