Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1926, Page 44

Thus 'was her father, Welsh, romantic, in tw‘nty years hav- s ing read “The Last Days of JPompeli” twenty times, justified in the name he had given her. Nydia had: never read the book, She did not know, that her namesake was herole. Nydia had never had time to be rompntic. The only daughter, she had “seen to” her.mother, an aunt, _her father, two uncles, and at last an aunt come to Bucktown guite un- / anticipated out of the West.” She had lighted the. dusk for each of these until the sevening star of another world had risen for them. She had fumbled through a twilight of -her own then. Her evening ' star, in explicably, did not rise. She recov- ered. - Whether her “‘breakdown"” was due to the fitty thousand unexpectedly left her by the last aunt, the aunt from the West, or to the sudden stark emptiness of her hands after this last aunt had .followed the others of her family to the “couch more mag- nificent,” none knew. The old doctor who had watched her for twenty years, sent her to a famous sani- tarflum. There a nurse, a mighty miracle woman, transformed her from a limp trembler of 60 into a healthy, 'T 40 Nydia was commanded by A fate to live up to her name, fresh-skinned woman ready for some | ant. living at 40, looking not 30. What didn’t that nurse know about beauty! Baths and exercise, jars and jars of cold cream, play and books and people and, above all, boldness, that nurse recommended. And Nydia came to be, almost bold. And she came to be strong and hope- ful, interested in people, and, inevi- tably, interesting. She came a little before the “rush” to’ the ocean resort the nurse di- rected her to. She was to spend the Summer there. She could 'not go bagk to Bucktown.. The. nurse would not let her. Indeed, the nurse hardly knew what to do with her just then. She knew Nydia must map out her own course, must Jearn to. She sent her alone to the gayest seaside city in the world to learn, but she thought Nydia would not be lonely. Would there not be clothes to see? And had not Nydia yielded to a latent irresist- ible passidbn for beauty? Nydia fell in love on her first day beside the sea with the first violinist in the orchestra that played on the pier across from her hotel. She fell in love sitting by an open window of the sun parlor. Passionate green waves rolled shoreward by winds from strange far shores and. sea. The ‘music of the sawing, blowing beating orchestra .was at moments inaudible, ‘became delicately audible, whispered, laughed, moaned, an- swered the lovecall of the sea. Nydia, still, wide-eyed, wistful, turned from of the sea curve was the same as the of the seacurve was the same as the essence of beauty in a pair of eyes somberly devouring her face over a moving bow in the orchestra. For the hour of the concert she tried to look at the sea, but, without will ing to, she turned and met the gaze of ‘the eyes over the walling violin. She felt something she had never felt before. Excitement made her hands tremble, made her throat swell, hurt her ears. She felt arms around her moving her to the rhythm of a Wi seductive waltz. For two weeks she came every day to the same chair, sat during the daily concerts, looked, trembled, would have sold her soul for love. One day, she ton ‘too desolated |’ after the men ppeared, She could uot stay. walked to ‘w flight of. lfi!‘ leading, down to the md under' the ‘pier. The | tide was coming in, but:if she hur. jried-she wowid have time to get down :; wnve; up | Nl‘chh and gain the e sand up e bunrdwllk‘g She must be aline. At mn&umw» length -clutehing book, parasol, hu. to she sank doy/r warni, panting de. licicusly = reddy = for = dreaming half asleep of music, of dark eyes, o( ma, of utter h»nlneu of romance. figure running op from tho ves under’d pler as she had? She leaned forward. ‘A slender, tall ‘man carrying a violin case came near. He stopped beside her, Something . in her breast flopped itself ‘over. Her |left, body quivered, sank . closer down against the, warm sand.’ The 'man was ‘young, oh, very voung, 23, perhaps.” He, threw. m- cap on the sand, disposed more’ fully of lis. violin,. sat down hlldl her. He clasped his slim hands about his; knees, sat -looking out at: the sail-specked ocean. Nydia sat in the shadow of the roge parasol. e was happily conscious under her quivering joy at his presence of her own love- liness. But she had no thought only. feeling. Wales. was. in the ascend- “Why dof't you send me away?" He had a deep, serious 'ulee “Tell me I'm absurd’ Mdlau.hush rippled out. He laughed, t ? Life was loh and laughter. Oh, that was all, “Ever since the first day T Have Dbeen trying-to screw up my courage to do this, Now I don’t -know whether I did .it or Wwhether I'm dreaming.” He turned to her qulckl) She drdw a little back among the rose shadow of the parasol. “You know why F've come. His voice shook, his hands on his knees, his sensitive musician hands, shook. She knew that in a moment those hands would seek for hers, find them, grasp them, g’lv them, hurt tHem, that his face, ‘his beloved eyes, his cheeks and his lips would be against hers. - The boy—the wonderful boy. He Was putting off the moment that he might longer revel in its an- ticipation. He-turned with a low lit- tle laugh and loeked again at the sea, a smile curving his beautiful { young lips. Softly -ho pushed the flu-hln. t.r- sol away. - Softly she wiped 'with handkerchief her cheeks so that !hey beumc white, not rose petaled like J:rl'l. She smoothed her .halr a little back of ‘her ears. 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