Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1925, Page 23

THE WRATH TO COME e e e iery Mories By, E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Copyright. by Littie, Brewn & Ce.) sssesessssstsisntsrese 1 | pretend to. That was entirely my Slat. | affair—entirely my cunning scheme, Slat- | which went wrong. Some idiot once wrote that ‘love begets love! I thought that with my arms around vour neck 1 could have brought a sort transfusion, forced a little of what was in my heart into yours—and you “ontinued from Yesterday's Star.) Your memory is excellent, Mr. ry.” Blunn admitted. “To tell you the truth, I do now more rom a sense duty than with the ex pectation of any pleasure. The whole world knows that my father hated | VH..MI‘HV\ and. in a milder form, T |l 0t Fonrt 0 N orning 1 (, inherited hix disiike. But, in|inew. You were very dutiful. Your d0? What £ood dees 1t a0 ta | lips were there for me if I wanted Feelves or (o the searid t Kear o ey | them. Your arms were ready for my = 1 sorest 1 havorld to keep oben | body if I had been content to come. caitn at have been asked 10| yoy were prepared to take advantage ol e guniveit Ainner | o641 the nice and_proper- little ar- 1 fo celebrate the reopeninz of rungements which the circumstances e German banks in London. 1 must | [oa8TEents which e o ocnme e that at first I refused, but|joye there was not a scrap. 1 had N ”:,”t b i lll|(’ has poe“ ',’r"" it 10 | made my venture and lost.” Dear Spon mw. | Lhibve Sheton e “Gertrude, this is terrible,” lly my presence on such an oc- { o 580 ing forever | =iy iq terrible because it is the truth,” she continued. “We have that much in common, we too. We both love the truth. 1 have prayed for this moment, that it might come about just as it has done, that these few | plain words might be spoken, and that | for the rest of our lives we should Lut- | now?” “I was a brute,” tried. Gertrude.” “What a horrible condemnation,” | she laughed bitterly. “And so true—| | so damnably true. You did try. I} watched you trying hour by hour. I watched you drink champagne at night. You tried to pretend. It was I who had to make the excuses—be- cause 1 knew. I who had to pretend not to see vour look of relief. You never deceived me for a_single mo- 4o |meNt. Grant, It was I who gambled the | ; preside confess he of ill will, I think vou are quite right,” remarke do 1, nce there Hod So '8 achoed. “Your will be of great sig- nce. By the wa are you re turni to the State T am not sure. recht, who is coming over to repre- | us on the limitation of arma- | ments conference, is very anxious that | ¥ should be here, but, personally, I Yhink it exceedingly doubtful. My af- fairs in Germany require my pres- | ce, and I have promised to visi Hamburg within the next few week 1 will only say ‘au revoir,’ gentle- | men. Mr attery and I, at any | vate, are citizens of the world, and | re likely to meet in most unex- | ted places.” He returned to his table men exchanged a_ smile Kven Cornelius Blunn 1. “has a knack ruth sometimes.” pr nific My friend ent he muttered. “I and Hodson be sorry,” she enjoined. | telling | Now, I will tell you something. Not- | withstanding the great humiliation CHAPTER XV. | through which I have passed, I am tr in the inevitable meeting be. [veen ¢ ornelius *Blunn and Grant on ne Katalonia. On the morning after their departure while prom enad feeble tap- ping losed the enade of one of the | magnificent private suites, for which | the vessel was famot Inside Mr Cornelius Blunn, almost unrec nizable, swathed in rugs, with a hof water bottle at his feet and a servant by his side, was gazing out at the world with lack-luster eyes. Grant oheyed his summons, pushed back the | #liding door and stepped inside you are here, my young Cornellus Blunn said weak!: “What does it matter? I am sick in the | stomach. I do not think that I shall glive till we reach Southampton.” Not so bad as that, 1 hope, ventured. It is worse,” Blunn groaned, ‘be cause I am beginning to hope that I hall not. Go away now. Iam going to be ill. I wanted to be sure that 1 was not already seeing ghosts. If this were only your yacht!” Grant hurried out with a word of sympathy. “An object lesson in proportionate values,” he reflected, as he walked down ‘the deck, and then. his little effort at philosophy deserted him. He himself found great events dwarfed by small ones. His heart was pound- ing against his ri He face 10 face with Gertrude von Diss! His first impulse was Iludic conventional. He hastened relieve | her of the rug she was carrying. Be- hind h came a maid with coat, pil lows and other impedimenta of travel e S ity | emons Tighten #tood with the rug upon is arm 2 4 : Hrom? 1 Wrinkled Skin “Where have you come from? Whers ueeze the juice have vou been? of two lemons in a Stateroom number eigh yhe replied, “and T am on way to bottle containing three ounces of That chair, and please don't ask me Orchard White, whether I have “been ill. Come and tuck me up as a well meaning fellow which any druggist will supply for a few passenger shoul He obeyed at once. The maid as- cents, shake weli and you have the very sisted his efforts, a deck steward sup- plemented them. Presently Gertrude mildest anti-wrinkle lotion to tighten re- declared herself comfortable and her entourage faded away. Grant sat by her side. I am going to break orders.” he | said gently. “I am afraid that you R " Y4 laxed skin, erase fine lines and eradi- | cate crows-feet. Massage this sweetly fragrant [1emon lotion into the skin at night. | By morning most of the tell-tale There MR. 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It leaves the skin velvety ind to say about it. I might have |soft, clear and fresh. y fped his diagnosi | Beauty experts use this astringent iDont, Gertrude™ he begged. = |lotion for enlarged pores, also to y dear man, don’t be afraid tha . . T am going to break ints reproaches |blcach and whiten sallow, tanned There is nothing more illogical in the | SKin. : world than the position of the woman| Mix_this harmless lotion yourseli who complains of a man because he |since it acts best immediately after ¥ doesn’t care for her. It iz no sin of | prepared. yours that yon don't love me, Grant. | 't { that, for a few hours, I made youl rC dr 1 C contest, now’s the time to begin. Stare jotting down uses of Premier Salad Dressing foday—then write us = friendly note—a description of all the practical things you havedone with one bottle of Premier. It may mean easy money earned. Therecipeattherightwill helpyou et 5 st Aodivee Hiwend rala siiie) tle book of other recipes on request. 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U5 PAT, Salad DRESSING oA Perfect Mayonnaise " I —_—— When this pain is lightened, I shall be more glad still. T was restless and unhappy whilst I believed that I could reawaken your love. Now, I am every da'r more rested, more content. And here is the wickedness of me, Grant—T am glad about it. I do not regret for a single moment my exper- iment. ‘The only regret I have ig that 1 failed.” “You know why?" he ventured. “You were very frank about it she admitted, “but somehow or other 1 couldn’t believe that you knew, your- self. You are a man of parts, even a little older than your years, and Susan STAR, _—— - . Yeovil, for all her charm, is young. I used my brain upon the matter—tool- ishly—the one thing brain has nothing to do with. Finished, my dear Grant! That rug a little more closely round my left foot, please. And don’t im- agine for a moment that I am going to offer vou my eternal friendship. Absut some matters my sentimental- isra is not of the sloppy order. There's a jagged edge about our relations and always must be. But that's no reason why you shouldn't make the deck steward bring me some of that de- licious bouillon “Where have you been and where WASHINGTON, D. €., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER T, 1925. are you going?” Grant asked, as soon as he had ministered to her wants, “I've been in New Hampshire,” she told him,” staying with one of the neglected aunts of my family. A won- derful spot amongst the hills. Inel- dentally, 1 was {ll there.” “And now?" “Well—I have plans but they are not included. My book, please, and then you can continue that swinging walk of yours. Afterwards pay me the little attentions one fellow pas- senger_may offer to another, i you like. But rest assured that your Hb- eration is complete.” Grant chose another deck for his promenade. The magnificent = and primitive selfishness of his sex had as- serted ifseif. He found nothing but relief in this meeting with Gertrude. He could, at least, go to Susan with his hands free, so far as he ever could be free. The trouhle of it was that, for all her worldliness, he feared her standards, feared that vein of idealism which he had qnee or twice detected in her. Of course, there was sope- thing artificial abont the whole out- look. A thing which she knew, that everybody else knew, ranked a little differently to that nebulous past which, by common consent, was some- where locked away in the back cham- bers of & man’s life. Yet, with it all, Susan’s common sense was admirable. There was her father to guide her. Later in the day he revisited Cor- nelius Blunn and found little improve- ment in his condition. The only mo- ment when a spark ot his old spirit showed itself was when,~with a pitiful groan, he murmured: “Ard to think that I must return!” “You are coming back to the States, then?” Grant asked quickly. 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