Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1925, Page 14

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The whole world seemed to him suddenly golden; the sky was diffused with a mellow light; Paris was again the mad desire to laugh idlotically into the face of every passerby. Well he assured himself after a few steps, this stroke of fortune was not quite un- deserved. Loutre was really not a half-bad invention. One could do something effective with that plot; he was almost tempted to write the story down. But, then, who wants to work with 100 francs in his pocket, who wants to write when he can live? And he would live now—he would en- joy himself gorgeously and forget the lean weeks. Aristide, who usually slouched a bit, stretched himself to his full height and looked the world triumphantly in the face. And in this somewhat op g atio attitude of a con- quering hero iie met M. Fabian Felix, the great illustrator, who was evi- dently bound for La Revue Illustree. Aristide had not much love for Fa- blan Felix, who was small, slim, dark, very Orlental and unbearably sue cessful. There was not an editor who would not congratulate himself when he could display In his magazine one of Felix’s distinctive drawings, and to be illustrated one day by F. F. was something every inspiring young au- thor dreamed of. wAll this irritated Aristide, and whenever he met Felix he showed clearly that he despised some one who earned so outrageously much money. But today he felt no grudge against Felix. Today he him- self had 100 francs in his pocket. To- day he was a fellow capltalist. He waved a friendly greeting to the little man, and strode on into the flickering lights of the darkening November day. Felix went really to La Revue Illus- tree and was at once respectfully ush- ered into the office of M. de Kersac. And while the two looked over the proofs of some illustrations, Felix said casually: “I met young Tritou downstairs. He seemed in a very genial mood. He was almost polite to me, and usually he treats me with marked displeas- ure.” Kersac laughed. “Oh, well,” he de- clared, “Tritou is a fool, and yet I'll tell you, Felix, that boy has some talent. If he only were not so damn- ably lazy, I could make something out of him. He's doing a fine story for us now. Loutre’s the name of it. Tells of some apache who becomes an actor and plays the virtuous hero so long that he is utterly spoiled for the life of vice. The thing sounded great when he told it to me—it has atmos. phere, background. It's deep, pro- found. He works in modern psychol- ogy, Coue, and so on; and in addition to it anclent beliefs, imitative magic, childhood of mankind, and so forth. It's popular and scientific at the same time, and usually that goes big. If it turns out all right, I might ask you to {llustrate it, and we'll feature it in the New Year's number. Perhaps we can stretch it through two issues. T'll see how the thing looks. No harm in giving that fellow a show.” “Certainly, why certainly,” agreed Felix, who was a kindhearted little man, “I'll be glad to help along. And 1 am really pleased that that young chap has found himself. We need young talent, Kersac. The old mas- ters are all well and good for today, but tomorrow belongs to youth.” And very delighted with this epigram, which he fondly believed to be first rate, he trotted on. It was foggy but the threatening rain hung still in the skies, and as Felix felt that he needed some exer- clse he sent away his car, which had called for him, and walked to his apartment near the Parc Monceau: On his way he met Berthe Morissey, who once had been a sharpwitted, slim young girl, and was now a sharp. tongued, thin young wife of a most unsuccessful Neo-Catholic playwright. She greeted Felix very effusively—she adored and envied successes—and at once began to tell him her woes. The managers were all unjust, the actors all unreasonable and Charles deplor- ably lacking in ambition. Always writing mystical things that did not &0 or were not accepted, always sitting in the cafes instead of visiting the right kind of people, always wasting his time instead of working and making connections. Felix listened sympathetically, but he felt decidedly bored and, after a while, just to get away, he petted her hand and said: “Never mind, Berthe, never mind. Charles will find himself. They all do in the end. Now, there is that Aris- tide iTilou; you know him, he is a friend of your husband, isn’t he?” “Yes,” said Berthe acidly. “A lazy good-for-nothing. He owes us b Trancs. “Well,” sald Fellx, smiling, “he’s making his way now. He's doing a fine thing for La Revue Illustree. The name of it is Loutre, and Kersac was most impresskd by it. He tells me that it is a combination of a very effective popular story and a very profound treatise on modern and anclent psychology. Coue, you know, and so on, and then imitative magic, primitive beliefs out of the childhood of mankind. Utterly interesting. Something like the things Lafitte pub- lishes. Kersac wants me to {llus- trate it, and perhaps he'll run it through several issues. So, you see, Berthe, if Tritou made the grade, Charles surely will. Don't worry.” Felix meant well, but he did not un- derstand women. Berthe was neither heartened nor encouraged by Tritou's success; she was utterly enraged by it. And while she hurried home her inflamed Imagination magnified this success, and the more she magnified it the greater became her rage. She was absolutely burning with indigna- tion when she opened the door of her little apartment, and as soon as she found Charles she emptied over his head the vials of her wrath. “Here you're sitting and smoking and doing nothing, and everybody else “Even that Aristide Tritou, that fool, that nobody, gets somewhere, becom something; only you are a failure.” Charles was so accustomed to her reproaches that usually he hardly answered, but when she mentioned Tritou he became intergsted. “Aristide,” he asked, “what hap- pened to him?" “Happened,” sneered Berthe, “noth- ing happened. Things never happen. He did something. He wrote a most wonderful book. I met Fabian Felix on the street and he told me all about it.. He illustrated it, La Revue II- lustree ran.it serially, and Lafitte published it. The name of it is Loutre, and it is something stupen- dous. Not only popular but sclen- tific. Full of psychology, and Coue, and imitative magic, and primitive beliefs, and all such things. He is bound to get the Prix Goncourt for u “Well, well,” sald Charles, “that's I am surprised and I am glad, too. So old Aristide is a made man. A book illustrated by Felix, that means something. And Lafitte as a publisher is not so bad, either. And did you say it was mentioned for the Prix Goncourt? If I had his address I'd write the old boy & word of con- gratulation. Well, don't be so furlous about it, Berthe.! His luck does not make us any poorer.” S > But Berthe was not In @ mood to =4 reason. She banged the door, crashed her dishes into the kitchen sink, and cried bitter tears of envy and resent- ment in her disappointment and lone- liness Aristide could have lived quietly for a month on his 100 francs; com- fortably for two weeks; luxuriously for a few days. But he preferred to spend them gloriously in one night. So that the next morning he was almost as poor as ever before, only that now there was no more Kersac out of whom one could get some money. With Kersac, Aristide was done.” He would not dare to show his face to the editor for at least six months. In the meantime Winter would come and his needs would in crease. There was today already a sharp tang in the air and Aristide shivered in his threadbare clothes. With infinite disgust he decided that he would have to look out for some work. . Fate was merciful to Aristide and the work was found. A small, old- fashioned publisher—an Alsatian by birth, M. Frederick Mondell, whose specialty was text books for primary schools, books on domestic needlework, applied arts ration, and, as a hobby, poetry—needed a reader and office as- sistant, and Aristide secured the po sition. His happiness was not un- alloyed; the salary was small, the hours rather long, and M. Mondell Insisted annoyingly on punctual at- tendance. But the income was se- cure, and Aristide felt that now he could face the chill blasts of the coming frost with a certain degree of comfort and confidence. Thus, Aristide tramped every morn- ing to the office, wrote business let- ters in which the subtle excellencies of his style were utterly wasted, read mantscripts which bored him beyond measure, and corrected proofs whose main mistake in his eves were that they were printed at all. § he discussed literature with M del., both smoking like chimneys, both declalming their own poetry, both quarreling violently and being, in con- sequence, infinitely pleased with each other. Supper the two usually had to- gether in a little Alsatian restaurant, where: the cooking was so good that the waitress could ‘be unattractive, and after supper Aristide trudged home and read. He had always been a voraclous reader, the fellowship of books meaning more to him than any other relation, and this Winter, having just enough for the immediate neces- sities of life and no extra money to spend in cafes and cabarets, he read more than ever before. His former haunts knew him no more. Sometimes he thought sleepily and lazily of going to the Trols Couronnes, the special rendezvous of all the budding litterati, but he had to be at the office 50 very early in the morning and his purse was so damnably lean. It was better to postpone the visit. So the weeks went by. At the Trols Couronnes the regular guests were usually so taken up with their own interests that they did not glve much thought to those who, for one reason or another, dropped out. But Aristide had been quite popular: his facile wit and his amus- ing cynicism, combined with a certain personal charm, had won him many triends, and when one week after the other passed aid no Tritou was to be seen, his comrades began to wonder. “What the devil happened to that Aristide?” they sald. “Is he {ll? One does not see him any more.” One evening Charles Morissey was present when that question was asked again, and he laughed, half amused, half bitterly. “Ot course one does mnot see him any more. 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