Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1925, Page 78

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 16, 1925—PART 4 T - : THE POMPOUS OLD COLONEL WENT TO THE BOTTOM OF ANDERTON'S EDUCATION. MOTIVES. AMBI- TIONS AND PREJUDICES -BY HOLWORTHY HALL He Had Always Detested Poor Young Men Who Besieged Rich Men’s Daughters. ROM the very first moment that |into the family; that is, we elected the | because that was the limit of his | fFiend; not otherwise. Don't let's have he was presented to her. An-|colonel a director.” Durse. | any nonsense or any melodrama about derton had felt t he was Anderton mumbled a laudatory | “Oh, but you shouldn't do it!" she |it.” ready to pledge his immortal |phrase which meant nothing. What | sid. buryig her face in the dewy | x o % k¥ i soul for her, whether anything | difference did it make? And what was | fragrance. “You're a perfect goat! SR 3 could be gained by it or mot, It was | the sense In being jealous? Kis prin . no, Um not." said Anderton. | A NDERTON was genuinely pusalad] as though his ultimate ideal had |ciples hadn't changed, and in 10 min- | “If T were, I'd have eaten them my- | by his own immediate reaction. walked straight out of the background | utes he and Elsa were going to part | self.” | Instead of beink crushed, he was re- ) the dreams into the living present. | forever. Why, the only reason he had | “You're an extravagant dumb-bell!” [lieved. A certain tension had been She was thoroughly modern, both in | come at all was to pay social homage | she persisted severely. “And — and |removed, and now they could all pro- lothes and conversation, vet her!to his president. He had now done it rather sweet. In fact, I almost like [ceed on a basls of mutual adjust- sweetness somehow made him think |and he was through. you. But yvou mustn't! | ment. Granted that he had about »f old-fashioned gardens and sprigged | Accordingly he parted foreve But never knew how she galled as little Sehance as three-legged muslin. She was beautiful, she was |within the week he had another cool . For he was well aware that horse in a steeplechase, vet at least ctive, she was considerate; in the |note from her. Her father had heard nchard, who could afford to praise | he was admitted as a competitor un- ballroom she was a feather, and in the | much about him and would be pleased | him to her, could also afford to send |der prevailing odds. Therefore he moonlight she was a fairy philosopher. | to have him dine with them on Thurs- her long-stemmed roses by the armful threw himself into the work of his But it was in the moonlight of the [gay, or if Anderton had w prior en-1and orchids by the basket. Was the |new department with unbounded en- terrace, hardly 48 hours after he had | garement for Thursday, would he | situation equivocal? ergy and called at the Paines’ quite met her., that she destroyed his great- | Kindly indicate what other evening| And then, in March, he was sum- |4 regularly as before he had come est illusion would be convenient? moned by the chief of personmel.|to his understanding with Elsa's In answer to one of Miss Paine Anderton mopped his forehead. A | ‘“Hello, Mr. Second Assistant Man- | father. questions, he said that he was in the | gorinien *y co RS V8 PTG IRHE said the chief, jovially. “How | The Colonel used to say to him Stock ‘! change Trust Company of {merely a nabob, but now he was a do vou thing you're going to struggle | Jocosely “Well, boy, you didn't pick glc Tury : . |member of the board of directors. | along with your new job and your UP any million-doilar bills in the Why e exclaimed, “then you're | (ulq A nderton reply to & member of | new salary?' street today, did you?” But Elsa was a friend of Walter Blanchard's? Isn't | ety 2 LSh it COP T F0 0 TN would | “What?” said Anderton, bewildered. Wonderful. She was so wonderful he a perfect marvel, though? ~I'm|p'p PO8rC TaEt O Bo €t e “Ilow come? Second assistant man. | that whenever he was with her he wd about him. Why, he and my | N eary RSt 0§ T ickel to | ager of what forgot Blanchard entirely. He for- ather are in dozens of things to- | qyar€ LIS Be tocg et or Credit department.” said the chief | £ot the immensity of distance be- gether (o | @ecline. The first time the nickel |of personnel. ‘“And at'the miserable | tween them! Le forgot the Colonel's Anderton goggled. “But then vour oiorChy (0'% cpil Jeg, which obvi- | Dittance of hundred « week. You've requirements. For Llsa said to him: father must be Col. Paine—of Palne | 7N T8 4 S he second time it | jumped over just about thirty heads, | “But why shouldn’t we talk about & Gorde e | bounced, which was manifestly i1l | Bruce. And they insisted on having it, Bruce? It's much better than to| Wh she said casually Of | But the third test was conclusive, and | You. and the sala goes with the |repress everything, isn't it? And if | Anderton yielded to \the verdict. He | title. £o that's t > you should happen to—to do some- | accepted for Thursday, bought himself * ok o thing spectacular, the way father a new pleated shirt, and arrived at the why—" e o raeat | Paines” in such excellent sexson that B coincidence he was dining that t when he was alone in his own e e econd erirgest |he patrolled the sldewalk for fully 15 night at the Paines’, and although | room, and realized In cold blood how oHd And Walter Blanchard, | minutes before he ventured to ring the | €1 route he endeavored to strangle his luinental the odds- against: him nd Wal ehak Iben . exultation—rtor course, even his e, _he. shivered d his recent He | conolsddilmaesls, ‘on way | augmented income wouldn't sound to of relief wasn't quite so|down to the storuge vault. That's an|lose sight of one thing! 1l keep my | that, in view of wh el had , lion dolla le roused himself tar home by the reflection that it hud been | Elsa anything but pocket money—he | prominent | order. And then you put on your hat| word, whether you keep yours or| so often said to him, he h | gil 2 did you dig i ) and who didn't even suspect that An. |Eood business to come to dinner, too, |botched it completely. She had no| And then. in a flash of blue and|and run out in the country some- | not:” o continue. But had he Bruce? Of « I knew we'd take ferton existed—was obviously one of |for he got along famously with old Col, | sooner entered the drawing room than |Sunshine, it was Spring, and on|Where, and don’t show up again until| Anderton looked down at | shatter any more of her beli , or the Pa dlerton existed —was obwiously ione of |i2F e Lt aa | she exclaimed y .., | three memorable occasions, when the | Monday. That's another order. Do !“You—sent Blanchard awa ther’s grande ought an, e me very austere prin. |him when they would play- golf to- Bruce! What's happened?” . | Colonel hadn't commanded him for|¥ou get it She pressed closer to him and saia stood on tiptoe vould ciples concerning poor youns em. |gether. The colonel didn't invite him;, Ie blurted out. and she became golf, Anderton spent a whole Satur-| Anderton got it, and without discus- | nothing. But one of her hands stole ver since I was a baby,” she|Charlie ployes and rich young women. he informed him. And it wouldn't |Most as excited as himself. Forget- day afternoon with Elsa at Piping|sion he obeyed it, although he was upward to touch his cheek hispered. “I've got her's diary. And He gave her a recessive smile. “To | have been altogether diplomatic to an- ting everything except her presence,| Rock. The last of these precious|somewhat astonished to receive as a k% k% I've just I much that | What T said to he said T haven't |tagonize a member of the board, would |near and dear, Lie kissed her. It was|monopolles was in early June, just]mandatory injunction precisely what noth And even now t it? There srton strolling beside her was rue-tied. Col. Paine was a_ com mercial landmark: Paine & Gordon N o w voung president of Ande ton’s bank an who was univer- 1 a financial genius, I've known tell the tru i 3, 3 heen lum-«",u ed to Mr. nchard— | it?—even if the member's daughter unpremeditated and impulsive, |as the Paines were about to leave |he had come prepared to beg as a NDERTON disengaged hims 1 couldn’ you unless he we k—but vou get I'm only a cub in the Trust Depart- | planned in advance to drive out to Pip- | but it was also fatal, for she didn’t re- | for Seaward. favor. “Colonel, you profess to keep|willing. We've been together so long. | i Isn’t that how ment. And about vour father—well, |ing Rock with them and fellow them Sist him. = = “If you've decided that I'm a hope-| He caught the 9:50 train: a dozen | your word. do vou? Well, you always | But go ahead. He needs Her lips | if T hadn’t done B Do e e~ | asouni an i it o A tforird | = ANinnt. satit Col Daine from Sthe 'bad bet,” said Anderton sober- |hours later he was approaching the | claimed you liked me, personally. You | brushed his else could I hav mean. that's what I intend it for, no |No. Business is business doorway ; 1'd rather you'd tell me so now, |desk at the Seaward Inn. Was Col. always said you'd withdraw your one port to—to jox matter how it sounds. Here it is; I e yAnderton braced himeelf for the ex. before you go.” Palne about? Col. Paine was in his | objection if 1 could prove that I could wouldn't have guessed it in a thou osion. . _oddly enough, the colo- | ngs haven't aitered,” st id, | private sitti v Would h | ear v place same way yvou dic et PBUT at Piping Rock, while they were | nel’s voice had never been so gentle. | with some difficulty. T venit e M. B A T e e Pl ik [1ort buitding 1680 Lty el e Coln Her laugh was delicious “And having coffee on the loggia, the| “Bruce” he said, “I'm not blaming |cided anything. Except—that 1 wish The Colonel’s reception of him, how- dence you wanted. I've done exactly I‘““ L1e 00n ; m‘l tion ?uu‘.‘r‘lr Yes. ¥ nothing nicer has been said to me for | colonel said to Elsa in an amiable|S0U: not a particle. I'm blaming my-|you'd write to me." lever, was unpacific. “Hello, Bruce!” | what you did: I've worked like a o, | 1o foels 7€ about $18,000 (includ- ., i ! TUs a most refreshing movelty, | | self. T'd imagined that for once Elsa| Fortunately, at this period, the|he said curtly. “What are you doing | and had the luck of the devil," iaventory of 3. ) ; was suck Tmake vou my grateful reverence. |BrOW : bad a friend who was going to stay |Stock Ixchange Trust absorbed a |here?" “Luck! said the colonel furiously. Sl e - He got sank to the ground in a deep | “I kind of like this boy. Plays golf |frlendly. I'd imagined that you and 1| weakling bank from the Park Row | ~Why, as a matter of fact” said | “Youre an impertinent young pup: 2,000. Iiis average daily bal- | 11€ O ¢ and was up again before he | with his clubs instead o his mouth, | understood each ‘other. But let that | region, so that Anderton’s duties were | Anderton, “I came down to have a | py!” < Fear Wi gether like most of 'em do. What night have | Pass. Only you know, don’t you, that :enumrnrn.\ doubled. He blessed the | private session with Col. Paine. Anderton took @ manuscript from £ credit up |ying evious ardor, his |we got free next week—Tuesday?" 1 his sort of progeeding Is absolutely | burden—it diminished his leisure and, | The old man glowered at hirm pis sk e e Lot ready been re- 4 Xt few days wa Well, hang it! Col. Paine was a |impossible - herefore. his fntrospection Ariderton inspected him npa ound Elsa. “Colonel, I'm going to |i¢Cted b¥ r nd has she presently | member of the board. Ande Anderton cleared his throat. | In mid-July” his aepartment head |thetically. “Why—I don't honestly ' read you a credit report from the crawedstrom loem: & countered him on the veranda, she !gyineq and said that he would be de- 3ut, colonel,” he said, audaciously, | drew a breath of satisfaction. *Well, | think you're feeling in a mood to go Park Row Bank, dated 1589." ‘As a banker, 1 wouldn’t lend this iccused him pointblank of neglecting |lighted. But he firmly resolved that | I* that really for cither one of us to| Bruce, he said, “that cleans up the finto It tonight, Colonel. I'm afraid | The colonel came to a standstill. 'man a dollar. He is insolvent, and| ~Andertor her 8 B ” on Tuesday he and Elsa would part = ¥ 'fl‘?d isn't Elsa in it, too?| Park Row stuff, all but those old [I've bothered you. Why don't we “What?" he said. “What's the point?"” | hie has no perspective perfumes Anderton hadn't a smile in his S¥s- | forever. They must! He owed it to | YoU see, T—I've just been ralsed to | credit reports from 1870 to 1890. And |wait until tomorrow’ Anderton began to read frigidly are no better than any others of the tem. “Why, I don't know that I'd 80 | hie principles and his self reapoct {five thousand a vear. Maybe that|they're so stale.they aren't even| The Colonel was peremptory. “No,| -p, il same cost. 1 absolu recornmend so far as o say that. But 1 do hute| " on Tuesday the pompous old colonel | 0€sn't seem to you like such a lot, but | worth classifying. Just have 'em |if you've got ansthing fo sav, Bruce, | mene qroeao C hiartumer. For- | that his application be refused to be a four-flusher. And I don't|gnened with precision-fire. In shert,| dOWD at the bank it's broken a record. | stored.” for heaven's sake, say it!™ "| Hasrt enongh tmagination to sequine | _“But he has recently married one!just v t . I gues belong o this crowd: I'm only & SPec- | gruff questions he went to the bottom |It'8 taken me out of the rut. And—| “If you don't mind,” said Anderton, | After an instants hesitation, An- | heg® napie Sl amagination to acauire |, pis clerks, the daughter of a bottle | 1 i . e tator. s | Anfiesbar's aducation, metiies, ara: |SHE 1T shbia wall? : “T'd rather like to go through them, |derton burned his bridges: “Well—| fume, cheap but pewerfal, and apten Manufacturer, and she has persuac casurer, o She regarded him soberly. “Take | pjtjons and prejudices | The colonel turned to his daughter, |evenings, first.” But when he was|do you remember how often You've| faillug to cell 1t 1o evers oihor eon|him to put ; r row. But me to walk along the cliffs,” she said. | 5oy “'id the colonel, witheringly, | “WeH. dear? Don't you think we'd | praised for his coneclentiousness he | told" me hat it | eamnad my phoe iy | (CINE to cell It to evers other fancy bottles and dout o. | con - e, Bruce Ive got something to tell you “your angles are all wrong! You're too | Petter have this out | became warm with gullt. He was|the world the same way you did—"| Drothers Department Stoe, whe aieg | ThIS is a real Soy."” 1 ¢ et anxious to get ahead. Think you're in | Elsa went to him, but her eyes were | merely seeking solace in labor. To |' “Oh good Hencens boon i the | Brothers Department Store, who also (% ' ETTUE oy Wl hen T aas vua: |tor Aviderton. Hasstive: Elsh Wat sarltte it nine ] oy 0l u groaned the | (eclined to handle it. On his way out, |} pate ; THEY went together to a little|3 e S L RS, yOnr Srwas ASAAS Y. she mall Bdned | ana her Iatter: s Mim— | Colonel, and put both hands to his| however, Paire fell down stairs, Leve it will catch 1 1! 2 M€ age I was a clerk in a cutrate drug|, ‘Yes, da sh id, subdued. and her letters were adorable, even | gorehend 3 SO And th erta does 2 hancel of pines, dominating the | giore on Third Avenue. Wasn't. that | “It® either Bruce or—or somebody |if vaguely impersonal—but It was | “x°Heoe opened from one of the ad. | CTCAKINE two-quart bottles of said per | L%, e, ick. And maybe e door ehind harbor. There Miss Paine dropped |, pyy “hey? Well, how did I get out else. 1 don't know—I only vesterday that Blanchard had ok ey fe-sonadlggnbert - "m ‘e‘u’(;d | fume, \\h’:v-h were under his arm. | {17C FU0 0 uck he ever|ton held out i down to the moss; Anderton, leaning | g¢'it+ eSume way you I worked, | know started on his vacation. He had gone | \fninE bedrooms, and Elsa appeared. | Crowd _gathered, and seeing that ol o el oo ~<I zainst a tree, surveved the blue | uir and I learned what was in my own ‘.‘\ud»rhvn cleared his throat repeat- | to,Seaward ¥ et e e il ke S Lot ;‘,“;9‘;Lr‘;\i‘;:;““ o i banker 1 wouldn't | There's g You've got to vater | back yard befor: inning | edly rough a merclless Summer An. | Ward: and 1 froze, for her face manded name of new o Aa ; s a bank wouldn't | The thi ve got to sa manded. “Where did you i soaps and perfumes kept moving;|SIx solid months. -But it's bigger than | flles. It was primarily to drug his | JFAWR features relaxed, and with a | proposition, and Paine finaily w aturday, to go with him. Ive got |Dose vou mean about Blanchar &illy inferiority complex? s | aradied em: then studied chemistre, |Tam. And down at the bank I've hit | tentiments, but at the same time it |¢ ng cry she fled straight into his with a thousand-dollar order.” 95,0007 0f miy own 0 G E° 1" “That isnt it! It's something that any reason for you to have been | Earned every step I took, sir, by plain, |y stride. I know it! And with that | Was wighty interesting o analyze |“TH& = = . Anderton paused briefly, while E 2 Y . told me a vear ago. Here in § Sl e o L | these old reports, for they were prac.| ~Oh! I knew vouwd come! T knew and her father sank into the| There was ed stillness, | 101d me a vear ag He glanced down at her, stoHdly. | telligence: | ... ‘Luck” saidthe colonel, impatiently. ! tically nothing but prophecies. There | F0'd come!" she sobbed. *T willed chair. while Anderton held Eisa to him and {5 yg o e “I haven't been rude to you. But I| “I know, colomel, but banking is|'You count on luck™ He threw back | Was one investigator In particular— | 70U 10 come! T knew you would ‘Bruce!” he said. “Let me—see|\wondered. For the man who sat be- " 0y can't afford fo know you. It would | aifferent. It | his head. “Boy, you disgust me" his signature was simply the initials | Anderton was far more shaken by | that.” Instead, Anderton went on e them was an old, old ana g | only make me unhappy. It is all| “Different? Of course it's different!| “I'm sorry aid Anderton, and | 'C. G."—who had been nearly an|her emotlon than his own. All self- | reading: proud | both hands were ov heart. - owr Anderton went on reading ‘Paine has a small factory in a| Perfumer. For v well in Seaward, but in New |So's everything else! But I tell you, |there was a prolonged silence. | oracle. ishness was distilled out of him, and ‘Paine promptly opened a small| “That was Charlie Gordon Who | iij vou didn't ¢ York T've got about the income of a|boy, you work overtime and study| The colonel broke it. In addition. “C. G.” was dramatic.|her father ceased to be; Anderton|shop in Union Square, ordering all | wrot at,” said the colonel, broken- | jove + That 5 holl plumber’s apprentice. W t would | what's right in front of your nose “Bruce, 1 suppose you're counting He rarely quoted statistics: he set|Was too wholly occupied with a|fittings from department stores. As Iy partner. My par s e cost me more than a day's pay|whether it's soap or silver or salera.|on luck because you've never had any. down impressions. Anderton. dog-|miracle. He held her close to him: | soon as installation was complete he [ner and my friend. The best friend Smply (o take, you to lunch! And|tus — and you won't go far wrong. |But I never had any, either, and that's Eedly refusing to think of Ela and|he soothed and petted her until she | explained to creditors that he had no |I ever had. Quit the bank and put I'm not a tame cat and ['ve got|Look at Walter Blanchard? He |why I don't believe in i arned my | Blanchard under the Seaward stars,|Was quiet. Then, at length. he lifted | cash assets, and offered perfume in up every cent he owned. And we my own epinions about things. So|yawned expansively. “Well, I'm go. |place in the world, boy! Earn yours, counted his evening a multiple gain|his eves to meet the gaze of Col.| settlement of bills. They all accepted, |used it up, too, but then those de |, T'd rather met it over with—and the |ing to bed. But you stay and gabble | the same way I did, or show me a lot | if one of “C. G.'s” memoranda turned | Paine and obviously had to push Paine's|luxe bottles began to go like he s with Elsa. Oh, Elsa! Come here a |stronger evidence than this that you're UpP to whet his imagination. And so| The Colonel laughed sratingly. goods in order‘“to get their money cakes. I remember I couldn't believe | She was tearing bits of moss into | minute.” going to, and I'll have nothing to say. he continued, far into August, until|“Yes, he said with infinite sarcasm. back. This was what created the first |it was true. Paine & Gordon D e R ik eraimiona ) Ariaes | OF ety e fpon MM TG 6o el suddenly he sat back and caught his|“This makes it the end of a perfect | popular demand.” was. Then we incorporated. He was ihe ‘said, under her bredth, | ton nerved himselt for the final part- | touched his daughter's hair. “Are you breath involuntarily at the supreme|day! Both for me and for Walter = The president of the Paine & a great man, Charlie was. The hest “You make me out so mercenary!|ing. At any rate, it was made easier |capable of it, dear?” illustration of “C. G.s” foresight.|Blknchard.” He' began to pace the!Gordon Co.—which was a colossal friend I ever had. Charlie and your It's perfectly horrid of you'! I don't by the colonel’s flat indictment of him.| “You know I'm not.” she said just Indeed. the report was such a star-|floor hea “Walter!—a man like | industry—drew himself upright and 'mother worked out the soap scheme. e A BaE She had veich ote iy 'ds by the amount of | ‘“Well,” he said tentatively, “I guess audibly ng document that Anderton pro-| Walter! —thrown overhoard 1s | tried to cloak himself with thunder. too. That was in 1884. And tk s inged B Bafor s e yten Battn I'm in Dutch with your father, all | ‘That makes two of us, then,” said | ceeded to copy it, verbatim, in long- |though he'd been a spoony sopho- | “That's—that's all right, Bruce,” he |taloums. And the sha e ed B befote D £a1d Anderton; “you' den't|cight™ Anderton. *“So maybe we do under- | hand more! Chased back to New York.|said, “I know_who wrote that. You |l was just the chemist g w‘,i ',’;"‘v",‘:'“"”"'.‘ " have to. But vou don't know what it | IElsa stared at hi ‘Why, do you |stand each other, after all, colonel.”! And then—this'" He halted don’t need to go on. Bring it to me!” |in 1908. The vear before yo b T Aea 5 to be on the other side of the|know what he just told me? He said: | He squared his shoulders. *“And I'll|_ % __“What are you planning to do next,| Anderton glanced uncertainly at died. You were 6 vear s Kenca: And this is all rather | ‘Don't let that boy get discouraged; |collect that evidence just as fast as X the morning, which was Friday.| Eisa? Elope with Bruce? Well, dont ' Elsa. He was morally convinced |was the first vear I ever made a mil s futile anyway, because I'm going | there’s real stuff in him. Have him |possibly can. | # he went to his department head, | — — = = — r O anEa) back to New York tonight.” around often.’ " She put out her hand. | There was another silence. who regarded him critically. “Bruce, , B | “So we're going to be friends, after | “In the.meantime,” said Col. Paine | he said, “enough’s enough, and too does. never got over it. Are wi sure that isn't all T mean to vou s he smiled. “T no tter how wvhen 1 com s was the foundation of the o serious and permanent quarrel 2 but it lasted for \.'\”L,IV:YM..“, 1ck to the tread- |all—aren’t we?” : | y, “‘vou're welcome here, just as | much is plenty. -No more of this s mill. Vaeation's over. And I'd saved| “Yes, darling,” he said uncon-|you've always been; that is, as a|night work. Have those files taken e‘&’ Oal I O I ‘ I OI I I up for three months for it, at that. I ; 3 \ - wanted to see what Seaward was \ \ and even if T don't believe in holiday | Holiday love?" she queried, with a | h frowr | i hum,” said Anderton, as phleg- matically as he could. “So let’s fig- i P Is Principal in Theater Tragedy like. Well, it was worth it, T sup- | pose—even if T have got some ethics, e 3 . BY BELLA COHEN. |stumbling rhythms, his eyes riveted| Menche s now the Leroine of the |ment. who devoted his life to the as this i 3 - ) t % RAGEDY, the eternal phantom |l the box in the third tier where the | Macedonians, a peopje without a coun- | Derities of revolt from a sense of sir e i background of Vienna life, is|man glad to be on time had sat try. She typities the spirit of fiory | °ere batriotism. He was known as e rose. and they started toward % masked by the Viennese with| Two more shots followed, implaca- | revolt that animates these unhappy | S icent horseman and shot, ar she lingered to smile up at him an external hilarity and gay-|ble and precise. Groans, and a single | folk, exiled from their homes, at war | 115, JUrder was most elaborate “You've done vour best to insult me,"” \ : _ ety and abandon. " In the swift, | choked cry of “Hilfe!” drowned out |with their conquerors and with them. | "/0tted. His death was the signal fc he said, “but you haven't quite suc- : superficial joyfulness of this stream of | the mumblings of Peer Gynt, and the | selves. That territory which once was | & Series of assassinations in Be B 0 b yon bt ite life tales of tragedy remain but a mo- | curtain fell, £ ade. Rome.. Milan, Prague, Vienn. : i . Macedoni: now belpngs to Greece, ceeded ol AT ansparent. SW | = = w4 C e fel has not yet c d led. You're transparent. And \ : 3 ment, swept on into forgetfuln In this spectacular manner the man | Serbia and Bulgaria. Several million | the feud has not yet ceased ,\\‘-:‘; .:v\[",, ‘v ~‘x '! :‘H 1“ ‘l“”pl::f:l: A iy 'But “-“le ‘- e persists—the eflacting | who had been glad to be on time w Macedonians were scattered through- Fn A 3 e 1 doiithink you- aré G5 9t & real drama of life in the Burg killed by the unsmiling girl. The fout these countries, and like the lost R s . And this isn't good- 8 z heater that reduced to insignificance |man was Todor Panizza, leader of the |tribes of Israel turn up at odd inter Me vas a Nationalist, a | And sn't & ! v 8 the Ibsen drama, “Peer Gynt,” that] Federalist faction of the revolutionary | vals. In the past fow sears thoy have triot: Panizza was a Federali cause you're coming to see e g was being acted on the stage. | Macedonians, and the girl was Menche | come back to shoot Both groups have Comitajl—which New York ¢ Menche Karniclu had fulfilled her| Karniciu, picked by lot by the Au-| The ceaseless tragedy of the Mace- | " Ity councils of assassination. A > himse however, Anderton ytask. She had slain Todor Panizza,!tonomist wing to kil him. donians lies in the fact that they can. | (hese meetings men and women ar L e we e 4 4 | leader of the.Kederalist faction of the| Vienna, hearing that a girl, young not unite. They are split in two war. | Picked to Kkill leaders of the opposi had overwhelmed him, but his salary f i S | revolutionary Macedonians. and.- beautiful, had shot and killed a |ring clans: Federalists and Autono- | i00- They are picked by lot. Menche was $200 a month, and he was ex ? N | Two men and two women entered a{man, immediately med that she |mists of F a frail, siek girl,’ a brilliant studer tremely ud and acutely sensitive. ! s box in the third tier of the florid BUrg had been his mistress and had shot | ists are dir it the Sofia University, qulet_voice To be sure, if her father had been 8 it Theater. Another man, who had been ! him out of jealousy their headquarters in a Viennese cafe, | #1d shy, could only be chosen for an endowed with a simple competence, s . E p {sitting in a box on the other side or} But when Vienna heard that both [the Atlantic. The Autonomists assassin by the decree of chance. She he might not have taken himself at v |the house, came to them and asked|the girl and the man were Macedo- | erate from Bulgaria. In their guerrilla | WOUld never have been assigned to such a valuation. After all, he . . permission to join them. The Younger | nians, it shrugged its shoulders and |warfare they contribute to what the task by those who knew her. No. had just turned 25, and his progress woman, without even raising her large, | said: “Another Macedonian assassina- | meager romance is left in Furope, | 0nly Was she averse to violence, b in the bank i’ been consistent. 4 2 | dark eves, refused unsmilingly. The Will they ever stop?” Wars of the clans began 20 yvears |Dler physical condition—she was a vic But was that any excuse for him to 3 . G | others of her party said nothing. this dramatic episode is the |'ago when Alexander Todoroff, known | {im of tuberculosis—would have di make himself look like a sycophant? | Sy \ | ‘The Viennese fashionable folk who | latest in a chain of Macedonian assas- |as “the man of the Mountains," was | Suaded the Comitaji from intrustiing No, and above all men in creation Ry A jhad seen this little incident lifted|sinations that have taken place during | trapped and shot on the Serb border | the bloody assignment to her. he despised the underling who mar- 2 K s o : their eyebrows and whisperingly mar-|the last i | by Macedonian Communists. Todoroff Nevertheless, she accepted stoically ries money. The safest procedure, | 2 - 2y A | veled at.such rudeness, Out of this continuous tragedy [was a truly picturesque leader of re-| She went systematically about her then, was for him never to see her| A o Skl ) 1 i i Just before the curtain went up two | Macedonia has won & Joan of Arc. bellion—a man of culture and refine- | work. She traveled to Vienna and took S iin 2 R 3 é 1 Ry gt |men and a woman hurried into the | a room in the same hotel that housed E * I} 3o R/ 3 v T box next to that of the party of four. | 5 X Panizza —it was one of the out-of-the T he did. In October he had a | 0 g ; Well, SWeTe O TmEs thel alder 3 way hotels, the Marienhilf, little fre B helald. /I Octoher othat | : 9 3 | man said, and smiled. He was swarthy . # 3 Y quented by tourists. She went to the had Just returned from the Coast, and 3 RN SRt P i L % o are. Tt e e s erene B Ao bl ot e n i EOL R ¢ b plots are elaborated than in perhaps she desired him to come to tea, spe- f 3 The unsmiling girl in the next box i any similar gathering place in the cifically to meet Mr. Blanchard.” An- / e {reached for her handbag that had| world. Here, over a cup of coffee, the derton scowled, and wrestled with |, 3 3 | been hanging on the back of her chair, < . 5 5 warring clans discuss their work of his convictions. But convictions | K 34 1 ¥ |and looked at the others. The three o k violence. Only a few feet of space aside, wouldn't it appear distinetly | 3 H shook thelr heads. X ; : . 3 4 separate implacable foes. They do not odd to Mr. Blanchard if Anderton | i | 'Not yet,” was what their eyes said draw at each other There is not refused to meet him socially. ~And| ABE {0 her. 5 . ¢ healthy violence like that. Deaths { ationalists. The Federal cted by Moscow and have was Anderton in any position to risk | The lights went out and the curtain $ J must be planned deliberately, must ffending his president? Well, not rose on the first scene of “Peer Gynt.” | 3 . 2 Ceiile 5uadenly. mnexpecieahy xactly! Plague take the woman,| wyopn T SR For two hours Ibsen's hero posed and o & i it anyhow! YOURE AN EXTRAVAGANT H 2 & postured and whispered and shouted 5 : For weeks the frafl girl student with to tea, and found Miss Paine upset-| __ SEVERELY. ; ? mountain tops and ocean- bottoms. : : g learned he was going to the theater tingly elusive. ~ Blanchard, however, ¥ The audience, immersed in the calm She obtained the number of his box was unreservedly cordial. sciously. “But I've really got to trot 3 : that classics and airless auditorfums! {7nian; acoompexisd by pueiBers of the “Up to now,” he said, “I've really | along, Miss Paine.” : jordate, folicwed Ther Syns wiih oniy Comitaji, she went to the theater, or been too busy to get acquainted with o ; g Sow i mild interest. The evening was warm, By i dered a box from which she could my own stafl. But I've heard about| The situation, no matter how equi- and this was not a firstnight ver-| |8 : ) shoot straight and true—and did so. you, though. They tell me you're|vocal, had gone beyond his power of § " formance. 3 - | She was arrested rather burning up the track.” | resistance. Sentiment had rinsed out Now the ship that was to bear Peer X “I have done my du Iam willing Yes, it had probably been good busi- | pride, and he was the tacit rival of E Gynt home rose and Peer Gynt step- Th 9 E to die for my country,” she said in an ness to come to tea, but at the same | the president of his own bank! |ped into it. The audience hardly | interview with the writer's informant time it was a pretty sore strain, | Was the situation equivocal? Colonel sighed as the ship began to sink. The} % 2 3 “I would gladly die for our cause. One Jargely because Elsa was on such ultra- | Paine had taken a fancy to him, and night was too sultry. b by one those of our race who wish to familiar terms with Blanchard. But|would scarcely let him out of sight. b AW ; deliver us to Moscow must be elimi Blanchard was already a millionaire, | Elsa was unaffectedly familiar; indeed, 1 W nated. M ia for the Macedontans and he was Anderton’s commanding | she treated him exactly as she did UDDENLY four shots rang out— not for the Russians, The Federalists general and he wasn't yet 40. Blast | Blanchard, with two exceptions. She Rqflu; regularly, deadly. : are traitors.” him, anyhow! wouldn't let him take her to lunc ous rom its lethargy, the au- V In Bulgaria, where 500,000 Macedo- B ou ltnow what happened this aft:| more .than once a month (and even dience stirred and searched each oth- é TODOR PANIZZA, SLAIN LEAD. | .0 "3 Ue found refuge, the sickiy ernoon, don't vou, Anderton?” asked |then her appetite was negligible) and er'’s face in the gloom. Was this an| MENCHE KARNICIU, THE MACE- ER OF THE FEDERALIST FAC- | ;ir nas become a second Joan of Axc. Mr. Blanchard affably. *“In a manner | she reproached him when he sent her innovation for stage effect? But Peer DONIAN GIRL STUDENT WHO TION OF THE REVOLUTIO Her mother was showered with gifts of speaking, we adopted Miss Painelviolets. He always sent her violets, Gynt was mouthing his farewell in ASSASSINATED PANIZZA. - ARY MACEDONIANS. to bring to her daughter in prison.