Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1929, Page 21

Vi78\i/@\ii (8170 /8\1/@\i @1 /8Vi/8) THE EVENING THE VICARION—By Gardner Hunting (Copyright, 1928, by Public Ledger) OBUBOT] (Continued From Yesterday's Star.) INSTALLMENT XXXI. &« OU are changing the very | standards of men on which you are at the same time calculating. How will you control them when you find their whole reckoning of values is al- tered? When everybody's skeleton is | out, you can’t frighten anybody by turning a searchlight on his! In a world full of disgraced men you can't cow a man by threat of disgrace! You'll lose your power. You can’t ruin a man by taking away his wealth in a world where all values are shaken! Men's very motives are changing; their incentives are differant!” He considered this for an instant. Then he smiled slowly. | “Oh, no, Phyl” he said. “When| their incentives chang2 they'll be al- ready in Nirvana. Until the anesthetiz takes effect, the senses will continue to be the five little gods to whom man makes his prayers! My body fits in the world I find myself in—and what fits together was meant to go together. I'll worry about my soul when I get where I need one! I'm for the little old earth, and the earth is for me! The Vicarion has proved that action is the significant thing in life—and the whole world is recognizing it!" “It's proving that action is what re- mains after all that made it significant is gone!” cried Phyllis. "“The Vicarion shows what & man bas done, but it doesn't show the man. A partial view of anything is a warped view—most of all of a human being! You can't com- pute a man by his past actions, because things like aspirations and ideals and remorse can't be translated Into terms of action. You once said that life might be beautiful if we could see it all transparent—but you show us only bits! ‘You compared the Vicarion's records to memory—but memory contains all a man's record! There is where his life is—in the composite of all his records. That is forever beyond you. This liquid life is no elixir—it's a froth!"” He stared at her. Then he laughed again. “Bravo, Phyl! I had no idea you had it in you. After it's all over, why don’t you go on a lecture tour— through Nirvana!” ‘The quip delighted him. Then he grimaced. “You are saying that all drama is an empty thing. It is axio- matic that action is the essence of drama.” “The essence of drama is the thing with which you, the onlooker, endow the action!” “Then you jstify liquid life at a breath!” “Not as a substitute for living!” His eyes suddenly grew hard. “The human race always lives on some sub- stitute for life—and crowns the man king who furnishes it.” He turned away from her without excuse or apology. She stoed still and let him go. Of a sudden all those ideas which she had thought of as con- victions were shaken. all, was not vicarious living a part of life itself? What was this “stuff of the reformer” in her—a mere urge to tilt at some- thing? A coward trait that merely re- fused to live and let live life as it is, fads, foilbles, fancies, frenzies and dis- asters! If it were lived, one life would bz enough for one woman! Why play “anybody else’s cards”? She was stdnding beside a small door. Through it abruptly she seemed to hear her mother’s voice. Curious! She tried ths knob, only half realizing what she did. The door opened and she stepped into a small room in which she found hersclf almost upon her mother and John. & It was an echo of her own thought sh> heard and it held her spell- bound. “Don't try to live my life for me, mother,” John was saying, smiling in- fiulgenfly. but with determined young ips. “I don't want to, son,” said her ‘mother. *“But I can’t help it, in a ‘way, whether you know it or not. I've been watching my own old mother, lately, as she used to live mine. It's & way mothers have had, I guess, since before the Vicarion.” She smiled and stroked his cheek. But he moved restively away from her hand. His gesture went through - Phyllis like a knife; it would hurt her mother so! “Well, then,” he answered her, “get Rad to make some records of me and take it out of them.” And he laughed | forever reaching backward for what present. Now—because life does not pause or step back into its old clothes! She had stepped into one of the Vicarion's very scenes. Then the thing had a normal explanation. Normal! But after the scene was gone, the sound of sobbing continued. The white light from the lens at hand fell out into the darker end of the room, and Phyllis saw her mother seated there, her eyes covered with a handkerchief. She understood; scenes had been made of John for his mother. The girl turned back to the door by which she had intruded here and slip- ped out. She had not been observ She found her own face wet with Dear Mother! The hurt human | tried to take refuge in the past— only lay in the present and in the heart! She slipped through the multiple-unit room and out into the hall. She tried to avoid a group there. She made an unfamiliar turning, and opened a door into an unlighted hall. Seeing that it was short, with another door opposite, she slipped in. But the moment the door behind her swung shut and latched, she became uneasy, for the darkness was complete. She turned at once and tried then to return—but the door she had passed through was locked! She understood after an instant that she must have stepped into a service hall or an ap-| proach to fire-escape stairs. She felt | her way down the short length of hall | and tried the farther door. She was | not surprised to find this also locked. | But presently she found the foot of | an ascending stair. It could lead only | to the private office floor. She ‘started | up. She was making the turning at the first landing when she heard a door close softly in the hallway above her and a voice came quickly down to her | with the hollow distinctness of tones | in a whispering gallery. 3 | “Sh! He didn't see us! Wait!” Phyllis paused involuntarily, warned to silence by the favor of secrecy. For a long moment she heard no more. Then there was a little stir of feet, guarded, soft. “He went into the studio. Lucky we didn't get in there first!” It was a woman’s voice. Phyllis had stumbled upon intrigue. A man answered. “Well, what's the idea? there?” Phyllis recognized this voice. What have you to show me It was Van Winkle’s. “Don’t you see?” returned the woman. “If he has one of those un- labeled bombs left we can get it and find out what it contains! That’s what Jerry Ballard wants to know!” ‘But I don't see what good that will do Ballard.” “Stupid! It's what is in these un- labeled bombs that has got Brainard, don't you see? He knows what the scene is, and wants it—wants it enough nearly to kill himself trying to record it again. But he hasn’t the index. d. | Ballard has the index but doesn't know He wants us to| what the scene is. find out—or get him into possession of a condenser so that he can. When he knows what that scene is he will know how to play with Brainard.” “Why doesn't Ballard give me the index and let me make a new record for him?” “Because thejindex is sealed in an envelope that man Honer left, and Ballard doesn’t dare open it for fear Brainard can read it by condenser when he does!” ‘The man Van Winkle did not reply at once. Phyllis, thrilling at having detected treachery to the man she The “American” GASOLINE RADIANT HEATER cives quick, clean, healthful heat when and where you want it. Makes its own sas; city convenience without city sas SPECIAL PRICE *25 < MUDDIMAN . 709 13th St. N.W. Main 140-6436 Four Great Routes - Southern Pacific Offérs Choice of Fine, Fast Trains ANGELES, San Santa Bar- Francisco beckon you. Spend summer this winter bara, Del Monte and in the Pacific st e; at SUNSET ROUTE an Ari- “Sunset Limited” STAR, WASHINGTON, loved, her loyalty -instantly enlisted to thwart it, no matter what the op- posing forces or causes, tried to still even her breathing to listen. Van Winkle was a fraud then—a spy! But who was this woman who was con- spiring with him? She seemea to be the instigator of conspiracy. “But how do you know,” began the man slowly, “that Brainard wants this thing enough to—to matter “Ballard found him out,” said the other. “And I haven't tched him now for weeks for nothing.” Phyllis' mind leaped to conclusion. This woman had “watched him for a | week!” His secretary? The pretty one? 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She ran hastily up the stairs. She found the upper door locked, as the lower one had been. As she hesitated, she heard ‘steps of some one passing outside. She knocked on the door. It opened, and young Rex Welling looked inquiringly into her face as she stepped past him. “Thank you,” she said. “I locked myself out.” He bowed and went on through the hall and away. She turned to an out- side window and looked out. There was & view from here of the blue Pacific and the bluer arch of the sky. Phyllis looked at them with a sense of not having seen them for weeks. Abruptly A . RS Pure, Fresh Candies! Priced Very Low Salted been Peanuts, Lb. Large, select peanuts that have properly roasted and just enough salt added to make them delicious. Specially priced for this week only. Hershey Kisses, Lb. 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Color and form and scent and sound and warmth and the very stir of sobbing breath! But no substance! Empti- ness! Where her very heart-strings had reached out to enfold a being in- finitely dear she found a blank! She staggered back. With a fright- ful sens: that reality itself had failed, she still watched and heard the sob- a{lng. ‘sobblnz of that figure that was not ere! But presently the scene which she had taken for real dissolved and went out. And Phyllis knew that she had tried to participate in action of yester- day. Past action—as lifeless as the discarded costumes of an old play! Husks—that had once contained life, love, wisdom, power—in the moment when that past was now. Dead in the 4 Testimonial Use GLYCO THYMOLINE as & mouth wash daily. Tastes good—does good. You can identify it by the salmon colored carton and the deep cherry red liquid. 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