Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1929, Page 37

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ! SYNOPSIS. After the murder of Celia Ballfon, elr- ceumstances point” 1o her husband 'as the slayer. At drst ne denies guilt. Later the ©OMciais investigating the crime receive a ®onfession signed by him. He also says he is committing suieide, and shortly after his Dbody is found. Carl, his brother, has be- lieved him innocent and Norse, & police of- ficlal, has taken the same view. Dr. Ames, \d of Eleanor Graham, the murdered woman's siste) as been convinced from the first of Ballion's guilt Miss Graham's 'quest he remains at the Ballion home. Greghouse. to attend an old servant, is {ll. There he suffers @ blow to his own h arns_that Eleanor and Carl married. He comes to the con- clugion that Hasta. the butler, knows some- thing about the crime. Norse becomes con- vinced that it is unsafe for the doctor to remain at Greyhouse. but his warning is unheeded. One night Ames narrowly escapes death when his car goes over an embank- ki { the way thinks he sces Francis Ballion's face peer- dng in at = window. He relates this experi- ence to Norse. who is no* impressed, but roduces an anonvmous letter in a feminine and that Burports to establish an alibi for Francis Rallion. Norse also tells Ames that. s & resuit of his handling of the case, he is being dismissed from his post, (Continue EIGHTEENTH INSTALLMENT. AIN had set in steadily as I drove back that night to Greyhouse— steel-like splinters pecking at | the windshield. It gave prom- ise of holding on, a cold, No- vember sleet. The chauffeur predicted @ siege of it as he nosed our,car along the black, winding road. Our head- lights gave an effect of striking bluntly against a wall 2 yards in front and fall- ing dead. What sailors call ‘“thick Wweather.” “If any one has it in for you,” re- marked the chauffeur, “here’s his chance. We can’t make speed. Easy to stretch a cable across the road—we wouldn’t see it; or to swing upon the running board. But he'd get his belly full,” and, following a jerk of his thumb I saw a revolver on his knees. “Still, you'd better keep your eyes open,” hg added. I followed his advice. What a strange v, 1 thought, hung over every g connected with Grey- if surrounded by in- | visible outworks; once past them, you entered a zone of fear, passion, mortal- ity. And I remembered having this sensation from the first. Normal life ‘underwent a sort of obscuration, as if | only certain rays of thought penetrated there. But they were vivid rays. T recalled u sentence of Andre Gide's to the effect that & life has value only in 50 far as it has burned more ardent- 1y ‘than other lives; and it was this ardor of life, as distinct from the com- mon round, that drew apd held me to Gréyhouse. There 1 had learned the joy, bitter or sweet, of intense emotion. It had become & craving, as for some forbidden drug. What mattered the change wrought in me, surrender of ideals, the attrac- tion even of crime; what mattered it that life burned itself out quickly? In the blast of desire, whether of hate or love, scruples are dead leaves—only its fulfilment matters; and, if, conscience has not kept the spark from the powder, it goes up in the explosion. These and similar thoughts, incisive as the rain, pelted at my mind during that drive. Moreover, there remained constant the uncertainty, with its vague impfication, which had’ resuited from the afternoon's discovery. It was to a place still haunted by unsolved crime that T was returning: and-over three persons whom I saw daily. with whom | T agsociated, there hung a'like suspicior” To the equivocal shadow attending this group I was now adding my own, hardly less equivocal. A fine company, I thought, in that wide hall of Grey- house, four of us breathing the same poisoned air. But what did it matter any lgnger? I would not exchange that world and its fever for the tame come- and-go of other life, even because the ‘wine there was of fire. . And, of a sudden, our headlights shone on the granite pillars of the gate- way. We had made the drive without incident. “I'm beginning to think,” said the chauffeur, in a tone of disappointment, “that whoever was after you once has given up the job, because this was surely his king chance.” A _moment later we drew up before the lighted entrance, and on foot by the steaming radiator I gave some directions for next day. “Good night,” 1 called, as the car backed for a turn. I little knew .what experiences were destined to occur before morning; but the. scene, as unimportant things will, stamped & vivid impression on my mind The Door of Death l By John Esteven { UGhoveight, 1999, North' American Newspaper Alliance and Metopoltan Sgdor: g 0 A Revepaver Borvice)’ —the haze of rain, the car with its streaming headlights, the sense of the great carved doorway at which I stood. It was as if an obscure prophetic sense ; marked a conclusion here and the be- ginning of another phase. ! Although it was after 10, I expected to find Eleanor and Carl about; but, when Hasta opened the door for me, I and the hall empty. “Mr. Ballion went back early tonight,” said the butler, “and Miss Graham has retired. She left a bite of supper for you and this note, sir.” He handed me a note and pointed to a small table in front of the hearth, where some logs were smoldering. “Very thoughtful of her,” I answered, and glanced at the note which read: “We both sorry you missed din- ner- least, with us,” Carl suggested you might be hungry, and I'm leaving sandwiches for you, made with my own fair hands” Reading, I pictured her hands, shapely and strong; their image recalled the evening we had sat together before the, fire. “Carl contributed a glass of his Barbera. I'm tired and am going to bed early. Good night.” I was not hungry, but politeness de- manded that I take something. Be- sides, as I looked down at the neat ar- ray on the little table, the thought re- |curred of her” hands and the night, when, for once, I had pressed them to my lips. Their touch, I fancied, still clung to this bread, just as for me her presence lingered in the hall. It would be good for a time to sit before the fire dreaming of her, building the future around her, warmed more by the thought of her than by the glowing hearth. There also stood a glass of crimson-black wine. He had left it for me, had he—he who smiled and patronized, holding me up before her in his serene ridicule! The day’s temp- tations recurrad with a new force. would dream of him as well, and sip his wine. Which was more potent a cordial, the thought of her or of him? And meanwhile over me would lean the dynamic, brooding spirit of the house. “Have you need of anything, Doc- tor?”, inquired Hasta. “Oh, nc—of mnothing,” I sald, already installing myself in the great chair. 1 heard his good night and murmured a reply. The glass of wine fascinated ! me. If he sat here now, how easy in the half light to let a certain atom fall in his glass beside mine . . I fancied myself with her when May had come, perhaps in the gardens out- side, which would be in blossom. Even in their Winter desolation it was not difficult to imagine their Springtime beauty—the shaded walks, the spice of early roses. We would speak of | carl Ballion, his brilliance and promise, | his ease and zest in living. I could well |afford to praise him, because I lived. | |- And it was the mopth of roses, the |month when earth stretches her arms |out to the sun. Exhalations of the | ground, sweeter, more languid here | than elsewhere, I divined, would cling to the garden. And, remembering him, she would remember chiefly her self— | desire unsatisfied, the call of earth | and- air, -the compelling spirit of this place. How appropriate, I smiled to | myself, looking at the embers through the wine, if in May she and I, together at Greyhouse . . . It had, indeed, an- imperial color, this vintage, a color -in itself symbolic | of life at its quintessential. I drank, and | even the sweet bitterness of taste seemed eloquent of experience. My thought sardonically pledged Eleanor in Ballion’s wine. That I drank it appeared to me also symbolic and of good omen. Not being thirsty, I set the glass aside half-finished, and, having tasted a cigarette, I remained luxuriously re- laxed, my eyes on the fire. What a glorious thing life was, after all, if one only chos: to live; and that meant insisting on yourself, getting rid of what had been drummed into your ears and was repeated by every one un- til it became a code of ethics. It meant disregarding this modern bug- bear called society, except as the latter could be made useful to you. This actually; though, of course, in ap- pearance one flattered the tyrant with lip service and kept it.affable. Our obligations to society! The individual merged in soclety! Idea of a beehive, an ant-heap. What balderdash! One of the charms of Greyhouse was that here these formulas were reversed; one thirsted and drank, if not from one’s own cup, then—and I smiled— from that of another. One desired and took, for there were neither fair means nor foul—there were only means. Responsibility ended with the gratifica- tion of each faculty, the fulfillment of each desire at any cost save to one's self. It was the law of nature; it was saw that the lights were partially off |7 the upward thrust to the air and sun; it was life. Strange how clear it all seemed to- night, with what eagerness I looked forward to the years, what peace crept over me. From outside could be heard e distant stirring of the rain, but within was a vast silence. 1 found that I could put my thoughts and plans. before me, detaching them from myself, looking at them, enjoying the idea of their fruition, without shar- ing their unrest. A pity only that so much of Hfe had been wasted until now! I looked back at the past as an- tiquated lumber, covered h cobwebs. It séemed better to count my years un- til 40; there were 6 of them, and after- ward 6 more—12 years of undiminished power, things to be accomplished, leasure to be tasted—13 years of burn- before the flame drooped. Or why set the limit so close—perhaps 20, 30 years, - R In expanding fancy I saw them spent at Greyhouse—in part. I devised Paradise for Eleanor and myself. I saw her stand before me, wing ever into something more bril t, more tempting,. even more cruel and more beautiful. Sometimes we would laugh together about a night when Carl Baly lion drained a glass with a certain flake of death in it—and no one knew except she and I. ‘What did she care, what did she care, with that beauty of hers, who lived or died? He'had striven for her, he had lost, 1 had gained. That was the story. I could afford to praise him, his talent, P e 3 ¥ SN his spirit. And, as she stood before me, radiant in a vague dream-light, I pitied him, because I lived. 3 It was pleasant, and yet curlous how C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929. that T 'was paralysed from the waist| YQUNG PLAN DENOUNCED BY PARADERS IN BERLIN (To be coontinued.) 60 Years; We Wopn't Pay.” In the West End Square’ several speakers addressed the crowds stressing the maxim that “Honor Forbids Us to Pledge the Earn- drowsy one became. . Indeed, her figure | Mqi] Plane, Carying Six, Missing. | Large Crowd of Demonstrators De- | ings of had grown so distinct in this movement of projected thought that I could have almost fancied myself asleep, were it not that I was aware continually of the embers in the hearth, consclous also of | the pilot, 8 mechanic and four puubx: PARIS, September 20 (#).—A regular mail and passenger airplane from Toulouse to Casablanca, Morocco, with the rain outside and of the silent hall. | 8rs aboard, is reported m! 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