Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1925, Page 26

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 19% is willing to come to Nancy, the thing BY LISA YSAYE TARLEAU. Copyright, 1825, by the Ridgway Co. can be settled very soon.” The meeting was arranged, the two men liked each other, and the editor- ship of the Revue Du Fayel was of- fered to Aristide. He was loath to accept and made many excuses. “My dear man,” he said to Du Fayel, you are foolhardy. splendid salary, a responsible posi- tion: 1 understand you want to glve me an entire free hand—and vet One of a series of the year’s best short ” Bois. you, stories. T (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) “Madam,” interrupted Aristide, and his voice had a ring of siucerity which pleased the comtesse, “madam, noth- ing could give me greater pleasure than to offer you this book if it were only possible. But, alas, we authors are negligent people. 1 do not pe a single copy. And as to buying he shrugged his shoulders eloguently. “Mademoiselle performed a miracle in getting it. 1 doubt if there is another copy in all Paris.” Constance, who was happy over the turn the affair had taken, corroborat- ed Aristide eagerly. “Yes, madam, she explained, “I had a very hard time getting that work. Brentano's were all out of it. At last I found it in a little book shop in the Palais Royale. Evidently it is out of print.” “Yes,” continued Aristide, “it is out of print, and if I ever regretted that fact I regret it toda “Why, no,” chided the comte: “you should be proud that a work of this type has sold so well. You'll pre- sent to me then the first copy of the second edition.” “The second edition,” sighed Aris- tide. “I wish I could see it already. But you know, madam, how publishers are. And then, again, you canmot blame them. Bookmaking is a costly luxury now: there is m friend Monde “Ah, yes, M. ) * remembered the comtesse. “He was good enough to send me your other books, and I 5 am truly grateful to him. I enjoyed immensely v ‘Fairy Tales for Worldly-Wise.” Do read me ‘Blue Roses’ once more. I think that's my favorite.” The comtesse, who was not far from 50, had no illusions about herself. She knew that she was no longer voung, end she sald sometimes with a wry smile: “I am the most dismal creature in the world. I am a charming woman who does not charm any more " But though she had lost the form and features of vouth, all the eager- ness, the enthusiasm, the quick per- ceptions of a young heart and mind were still hers: and however disagree- able she could be as an enemy, just so delightful and helpful she was as a friend. And to Aristide she became at once a very loyal and devoted | friend. She liked him unreservedly, though she chided him incessantly. “You see,” she explained to him, “there are people who are excellent in every detail. I approve of every trait in them; they have the right opinions, they do the right things, they even have the right manners. Yet, on the whole and taking it all in all, I have no use for them. And then again there are others who constantly irri- ate me; who in every detail of their personality annoy me and make me angry; who never do what I expect them to do, never say what I wish to hear, never even behave as I think it right to behave. And vet, on the whole and taking it all in all, they are the people I care for, the people I want, the ones I am truly fond of. You, Aristide, belong. to this class. You annoy me extremely, vet I like you nevertheless. And because I like you I tell you frankly you waste your time. You are more than a writer; you are a scholar, a scientist. You know the hidden recesses of the hu- man mind, the dim past of the human race. Instead of cynical, playful little things—be they as charming as they may—you ought to write for us works of abiding value. Monumental things. But you are abominably lazy.” Aristide looked up from his teacup with which he was playing and asked with a queer smile: “Whoever told you, chere amie, that I am a scholar and a sclentist? Per- Base youisneimixiaken: b chlmsun, tion. ‘Nonsense!" exclaimed the comtesse sharply. “The author of ‘Loutre’ is a acholar and a scientist. Don't pretend to me. Only, as I say and the more's the pity, you are a negligent creature. But I am going to take care of you; I am going to find for you the right place and the proper career.” Aristide lifted his hands in mock terror. “Have pity,” he groaned, “let me off easy. . Whatever you do, don't make me a professor. I'd balk at that.” “But why?" persisted the comtesse. *You'd make an excellent professor. You look so delightfully pictorial. We could send you as an exchange profes- sor to America and you'd marry an heiress. Wouldn't you like that? ‘“No,” said Aristide decidedly, “‘not at all. But then, I am never permitted to do what I like. I lead a life that is utterly distasteful to me. Well, what's the difference’ ‘None at all,” the comtesse assured him. “If you were leading the life you dream of, you would abhor it equally. Things look pleasant only from afar. The charm of distance lends ,them grace and color and beauty. But when we come near we find the same sor- didness, the same dullness, the same gray and intolerable boredom. I am going to do what is good for you, and not what vou like, for, come to think of it, there is nothing to like in this disenchanted world of ours.” The comtesse was as good as her word. Without consulting Aristide in the least she iooked around to find something really worth while for him, |2 position adequate to his great gitts, n which she belleved implicitly. And the gods were evidently with her. At a Lenten gathering she met M. Du Fayel, a rich industrialist, who, hav- ing retired, had become interested in the more abstruse realms of psychol- ogy and literature, and whose ambi. tion it was to create in Nancy, his birthplace, a very dignified monthly magazine which should bear the name Revue Du Fayel. He confided his plans to the comtesse, who listened to him with delighted interest, and when he added: : “You know, madam, I want it to be something very exquisite. Very lite- rary and vet truly Scientific. A cross, s0 to say, between the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Hibbert Jour- nal.” “Wonderful, wonderful!” she ex- claimed enthusiastically, “and by sheer good luck-I have just the man who will edit to perfection this par- ticular magazine.” “Really?" said M. Du- Fayel,- inter- ested, “and who is he?” “His name,” answered the comtesse, ide Tritou. He writes, as a ery charming little sketches v tales and playlets of quite impeccable style. ~But his real achlevement is ‘Loutre, a work of three large volumes. I should call it the French equivalent of Frazer's “Golden Bough.” Of course it's out of print. All the good things are. Today 1 wanted to buy the Journal des Goncourts. Impossible. I couldn't get a copy for love nor money. So it is with ‘Loutre’ You can't buy it, but Mondell, the publisher—you know him, don’t you? He is a most con- servative man, and so careful in his statements—well Mondell told me it is a masterwork. Grouped around the figure of Loutre, an actor of apache, are all the occult beliefs of primitive mankind: imitative magic, tree-wor- ship, priesthood of kings—or is it kinghood of priests? I am never quite certain—and so on and so forth. And then, developed out of this foun- | dation. the modern psychology in all 'AYBE Pennzoil can’t bring back youth to a worn-out motor—but it does keep motors from growing old too fast. ‘THE PENNZOIL COMPANY OIL CITY, PA. Washington Office, 1018 18th Street Telephone North 147 Noteworthy for Good Appearance COOL SUITS e you do not know the least thing about its intricacies: the subconsclous self,’| me. I mlsht be a fraud, or worse. I have decided that and I know what 4t M. Du Favel Instructed his 1aw-| hag semierad Tote Toe. pelehboehond 5 metempsychosis,autosuggestion, Coue, | Peter 100k out is good for you. This position I8 & |yers to draw up the formal contracts.|of the Trofs Couronnes. |& fLet Colbert cquip your JORS, . *| But Du Fayel merely laughed. godsend, Aristide. It will absolutely |and the Comtense arranged that the |-~ (emrineq To Tomerss L | bath with up-to-date of course—Coue is a Nancy man, 80 | “The Comtesse de Segur vouches|make you. One day vou'll be grateful |actial signing of these contracts, §ConiTnnen ity Ivmovow sBtar) N shower facilities so you ;hm r':mnll‘ lnleredsl ;m[x en{:ec:?lly-—- ;or )‘tam and in speaking to you I u; T:{;r Tfl:::“la'lgg me hear any more \\'hk;(h would be ready in about a| -~ 2 | & can start every day right. aith healing, and what not. vou | formed my own Impressions. That's |Of ¥ - week’s time, should take place in her ! g | 5 - 2 E can get M. Trltou to be Your editor |snoukh. 1 wish you wewld take the| But most vehement was Aristide |sajon. She intended to have a seiect | MINUIIMIIMIMMIMMIIITINGG = G| @ nstasations and repairs you will have a find. If you want |job. Nancy, of course, Is not Paris, | to, Mondell, S gathering for this occasion, and to |8 G nesORC e cor me to, I can arrunge a meeting with |but you'll be compensated by the| “Damn it,” he shouted at him, “I|play for once Maecenas in real style. . =t ] : . him for you. standing you will have in the com- |am not going to be bullled by you|Aristidle—whom the Comtesse treated | riffith oal orporation = aurice J Colbert M. Du Fayel was very well pleased | munity. So better think it over and |and a meddlesome old woman .|quite as a fractious child whom she | Heiting—Plumbing- -Tinni with this idea. let me know in a day or two.” of all places in God's world! had made behave—Aristide did not | ood lean oal ———— J o hone. Mt “I shall be truly grateful to you,| To the comtesse Aristide was even [and to be an editor there! protest at anything any more, but he | L i 621 | Street Phone Main comtesse,” he said. “If this M. Tri. | more outspoken In his refusal, hated editors. Insyfferable lot, all of looked gloomy enough when he left | gy I W) i tou and I take to each other and he “I can't,” he said. ‘“There are al|them. And in addition to all that,|the hotel of the Comtesse, and ‘.mllll.Jl]IIIlIII[Il][HI|]Ill[llll]lllllllllll]l.lllIIl]IIIlllllIIIIHlIl - s : = thousand reaso aboye all, T don't want to leave Paris. Parls 1 my love, my delight, the joy of my heart. the crowds in the street, and the boulevards, the parks and the Come to think of it, too, chere amie. You offer me afl give all this up and bury myself in Nancy?" “To be worth the comtesse. discuss it. why I can’t, but, 1 adore the air here, the quais I adore So why shall|j¢ fen't of ‘Loutre,’” sald “Anyhow, don't let's You are going to accept. editor of such a magazine! What do I know about the subject?”’ Mondell laughed heartil “That's good,” he sald, author of ‘Loutre,’ you ask what you know about the subject. dear boy, what you don’t know about worth _knowing, Du Fayel can’t find any one better for the place. Be sensible and thank your stars.” In the end Aristide had to give fn. A tentative agreement Mondell offered to walk home with him he refused curtly. No, not even a good quarrel with Mondell would cheer him. 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