New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1928, Page 18

ND Wml;lm!lx 58 MLéVLEA!OR EARLY THIS HAS HAPPENED Eybil Thorne, social butterfly, finds herself courted on shipboard by a fascinating and dangerous lov- er, Richard Eustis. Subconsciously Sybil is seeking romance, and Rich- ard, with his mad, modern notions, very nearly swaeps her off her feet. | Her own love life has been tragic. When she was 18 she fell desper- ately in love with a young soldier, | John Lawrence, who never return- | ed from France. | Several years later, when all Bos- | ton society is talking of her indis- | cretions, Craig Newhall, most popu- | lar bachelor in the city, asks her to marry him. In order to flease her father, who is very ill, Sybil be- comes engaged to Newhall. But her father Gies. And then Tad, her adored brother, is married to Val- eric West, an inconsequential thing whom Sybil instinctively distrusts.| Hopelessly at sea, Sybil decides to | take a trip with Mabel Blake, a so- | cial worked, admittedly anxious to| get married. | On the boat they meet Richard Eustis, whom Mabel promptly seeks to annex, But Eustis has fallen vio- | lently in love with Sybil. | They talk of marriage and Ricl ard tells Sybil that she wouid make a wretched wife. “You're not stupid enough,” he informs her cheerfully. “And me—I'd make a rotten husband. I'm | too clever for matrimony.” | But their last night at sea he | seems to ferget his cynicism and be- | comes surprisingly tender. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | CHAPTER XIV | “Sybil.” Richard put both hands on her | shoulders, and held her at arms| length, | “Will you marry me, “Richard Eustis!” “Will you, Sybil?"” “But Richard,” she cried. “You don't know what you're saying. You don't believe in marriage.” | “No,” he told her firmly, “I don’t. | But I want you. I want you so much that it seems as though 1 could not live without you.” | “But, Rich . . .” She faltered | helplessly. “You've only known :1e | five days. You—you—you've let emotion sweep you away, Rich. You don't really want to marry me. | Marriage i8 positive anathema to you. You've said so loads of times. You'd hate me if 1 married you. - And—besides—I don’t want to. 1| Tohthe all your ideas about love ard | marriage. I think they're simply | sickening. I—I—wouldn't mairy you for the world. I've told you so hundreds of times.” She was remembering what he had said the night before. Love was a physical thing. And he had shrugged his shoul- ders in that disdainful way he had, indicating that, whatever, it was, it could not by any means interest him. “You make me sick,” Sybil had retorted. *“You're perfectly dread- ful “No, darling.” his head wisely. “Only sane very candid. All men love in the same fashion. The rest are hypo- critical about it.” 8ybil 2" 1 He had shaken Now she faced him solemnly. “I can't understand you, Rich- ard,” she said, and her voice was cool as the moonlight. *You are unalterably opposed to marriage. You nature demands that your life shall be perpetual love. And you believe that you could not love any woman except transiently. How can you then be willing to make a legal contract to love me as long as 1 shall Itve? You don't even believe in fidelity.” “But all that,” he ocried, before I knew you!” She smiled gravely. “Oh, no,” she said. “Five ligle days and a new experience have not changed you at all — not basic- ally. You have an absolute obses- sion regarding marriage. You be- lieve that it murders love. That sonce you fetter romance, you have _killed it. Then why are you ask- ‘ing me to marry you?” “Because,” he told her bluntly, “it's the only way I can get you." “Oh! Oh!" she cried, and beat his chest with her fists. “I hate you. I hate you!" “But you're going to marry me,"” he retorted. The moon shone full on his face His skin was very pale. It seemed almost translucsnt. On one cheek there was a scarlet mark where her lips had brushed it. And his lips, from her kisses, were crimson. His hair had fallen across his forehead. Blond halr, beautiful in the moon- light. “Darling,” he begged, talk like two peopl Don't try to make villain on the stage. “was “let's not book | don't know what Mab will think. I and | like a | cradled his face against her legs. “I should think,” she told him icily, “that you would appreciate the need of keeping your indepen- dence for the sake of other roman- tic adventures. Why write ‘finis’ after this one?” She took his elbows in her hands. “Get up please, Rich. . . . Please. Come sit in our deck chairs.” Once she thought he had gone to sleep. . The watch changed, and men walked past their chairs. A Dbell rang. And, by and by, a little breeze stirred, so that she shivered in her dress of thin stuff. But when she moved, he put Qut his hand to keep her. And presently he got up, and found a robe, and tucked it about her. “It's almpst dawn’” she said. I ought to go." “But I can't let you go” he groaned. “We've got to straighten this thing out.” Fifteen minutes again. “We're going over this from the beginning,” he told her. “And I'm going to try to be truthful with you. Men are never truthful with women, any more than women are absolutely truthful with men. But 1 shall try to be honest. And T want vou to be as fair with me, Sybil. Will you?" es,” she promised meeKly, “I'll later he spoke try.” He leaned back then in his chair, his eyes on the morning star. “See, darling.” He pointed. “How dim it grows as dawn's pale fingers come creeping up the sky. Shall we stay until the sun comes up, and the last star's gone?” “I don't know what Mab will say,” she faltered. “The devil with Mab!" he mut- tered, and throwing back his long blond hair, began his favorite sub- ject. “The trouble with marriage" he proclaimed, “is this — there’s no | sense in physical attraction- no rhyme nor reason. It's blind as bat. People mistake a powertul physical attraction for love, and so they get married, and expect the thing to last. That's idiotic.” “Listen to me” she directed. ‘I've a few ideas on the subject myself. I qutie agree with you on the importance of honesty. I be- lieve that if love could be honestly discussed, there'd be a great deal more happiness. I think that every human relation should be based on decent understanding. There is never any harmony unless there is understanding. “I was going to say that we bring all our little deceptions and pride- ful follies, about which we've builded all our lives, right on to love and marriage. And that, of course, is disastrous. That's Wwhy marriage flounders. Lack of hon- est understanding. “You can’t expect compatibility it you haven't understanding. And incompatibility is back of every divorce. Back of infidelity, and the thing that masquerades as ‘crucl and abusive treatment.’ Back of de- sertion and non-support — back of everything that takes men and women to courts, to throw dirt, and cry for freedom. Men and women who loved each other! When she stopped for breath he laughed at her seriousness. “Darling,” he bragged mockingly. I'm the only man who's ever been perfectly honest with you. I have thrown discretion to the winds, and begged you to marry me, But I'm will be ruined if T cannot make you listen to me. For there are other women as beautiful, and other wo- men as charming. “But yowre here. And I'm here. And, oh, my dear, you'd search the wids world over before you'd find a man who could love you so.” “Richard,” she assured him sol- emnly, “I'1 sure you're crazy.” “Listen, darling,” he besought her. *Did you know the captain rot telling you, Sybil, that my lifeq to be married in the harbor.” “Hello, Sweetheart!"” Eustis came up behind them, suave and smil- ing, long-stemmed roses in his hand. “Hello, Mabel.” With a flourish he bestowed his flowers. “All the way from Boston, and still fresh. The steward says he puts aspirin in the water. Will they do, my darling, for a bridal bou- quet?* Sybil surveyed him humorously, her nose in: their fragrance, her eyes lifted in mocking gayety. “Ym- becile!” she retorted. “Don't pay any attention him, Mab.” Eustis laughed as one humoring a stubborn child. “The captain's shining his brass buttons, darling,” he chided. “You mustn't spoil the party. Youll be Sybil's maid of honor, Mab. And the first mate wants ta be best man.” “Maid of honor nothing!" Mabel turned a scornful back. Richard regarded her soberly. “Jealous!” he sighed, and began ex- ploring his pockets. “I've a little cet somewhere. Ah, here we He held up a pair of long car rings. Little golden discs strung on end. “Oh, they're beautiful!” Sybil | reached for them eagerly, and when she held them in the dazzling light they sparkled like distilled sunsine. “Lovely, lovely things!" she cried. “Where did you get them, Rich?” “Come for a walk “and I'll tell you.” He took her arm possessively. | “We're going up on the boat deck, Mab. See you kere when we come back 2" “See that you come back!" she admonished him curtly. “Mabel's awful upset because I didn't go to bed last night” ex- rplained Sybil as they sauntered off. “I don’t blame her either. She feels sort of responsible, vou see.” “Never mind Mab!" he exclaimed. | “How about getting married this morning?” “Oh, Richard, stop!" They were on the deserted upper deck, and when he tried to take her in his arms, she pushed him petu- lantly away. “For goodness' sake,” she cried, “let's talk about something else!" “But, darlinz,” he insisted, “you love me! And love and marriage are twins in your sweet mind, Child.” “No, I don't elther,” she informed him coolly. “At least I don't think I do. And, anyhow, I didn’t quite finish being honest with you this morning. he {invited, “I left a boy at home,. Rich. I'm sort of engaged to him. He expects to marry me when I go back. When I let you kiss me, I never dreamed you were going to ask me to marry you. Forgive me, Rich. It was a sweet little romance that bloomed on a moonlit sea, and died in the light of dav." “But, Sybil—you love me, ‘Here—I'll show you." “Don't, Rich. ~ That isn't love. Suppose some perfectly wicked creature kissed me—and did it as rice as that. Suppose it was a pitch black night, and I couldn't see him. But I let him make love to me. And then suppose I got him under a big arc light, and dis- covered that he was absolutely vil- lalnous looking and shabby, and dirty and everything. “Then suppose mext morning 1 read * in the papers that he had beaten his wife, and run away from his seven hungry children. I'd hate kim, wouldn't 12 T'd loathe and despise him. But just the same he might have thrilled me with his kisses, and I might have whispered to him, ‘I love you But you COULDN'T call that love, could you, Rich? It's sort of the same, you see.” dear. I'm not absoluteiy viilainous look- ing, am 1? Nor shabby, nor dirty? And 1 haven't ' wife to beat, nor seven hungry chiidren at all.” - “Well, perhaps’ my argument wasn't very good. But I know what I mean, eyen if I can't say it." “Does that man at home thrill you the way I do, Sybil?” “No-0-0." , : “But, darling, don’t you see that's because you don’t love him as you love me.” i ’ “Oh, he's much . nicer than you are, Rich. He hasn't all those hor- rid ideas. “How do you know he hasn't?” just know — that's all. And he’s more patient than you would ever be, apd tenderer, and:more dependable,” “How do you know I'm nmot pa- tient, and tender and depéndable? Oh, Syoll, give me a_chance!" “And break his heart?"” “How about mine?” “You said, yourself, - the werld is full .of girls. that are picer and prettier and smarter than I am. Go' pick yourself a kneckout—and sood luck to you, Rich. You're wonderful at ‘making 1o But you'd make a rotten husband. You even admit it. Now, please—" she regarded him - severely—‘the whole thing’s over—and we won't talk any more about it."” Mabel was coming to join them. “I'm sick and tired,” she com- plained, “of being deserted. The way you two run off! You ought to hear the things people are say- ing about you.” Richard was holding S8ybil's hand, pressing her fingers, one after the other, idly. “Sybil!” he exclaimed, “that sa phire circlet! I never saw it before. “L don't believe I've ever worn it,” she egplained. “I don’t par- ticularly like it. Why—do you?" “It's the very thing,” he an- nounced, “for a wedding ring. Here, dear—Ilet me have it.” “Richard Eustis, are you mad!" “Mad!” he cried. *“Oh, very, very mad, my darling!" And, suddenly—as though®“it were a magic thing — a strangeness was born within her that, coursing through her body, made her tremble. (TO BE CONTINUED) (Richard had his way. In the next chapter Sybil pledges herself and her love—forever and forever.) See Durant’s “LEAPING LENA” Saturday :;ld Sunday C. H. HALL'S, INC. 18 MAIN STREET POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN “Bella’s husband is al- ways talkin’ about how prosperous he is except when it comes time for him to pay for somethin’.” (Copyright, 1928, Publishers Eyndicate) “But, Syhil, you foolish child, could marry us — here in the har- bor?” “Look, Rich!” Shrilly she inter- rupted him. “Morro Castle through the mists. Over there beyond the fog! Oh, Rich, isn’t it thrilling!" *“Thrilling!" * ne snapped “And now,” she told him calmly, “I'm going down and take me a shower, so I won't look like a wreck, And T'll see you on deck in 15 min- ut I'l bring Mab up with me. nd we'll ask John Arnold to go ashore with us—shall we?” . | “Darling,” moaned Richard, and turned his back on Morro Castle, “there are times when I could slap | vour pretty face. But you're going | to marry e today, so I'll hide my | wicked temper.” CHAPTER XV Your asinine conceit,” him scornfully, “is positive ening.” “‘Conceit!" " he cried. it conceit because T dars vant me? Syhil, anything ubout Walt W wrote a poem ‘A Woman Waits for Me! Thers are these lines in it. They've always stood cut in my mind because I believe firmiy in the truth of them vithout shame the man I like ainfl. avows. 1He; deltoio of his sex. Without shame an I iike knows and avows she told ly sick- “You call to say you man? He once. érs Walt Whi scornfully E creature T ever kr ‘The Good e called him.” h capturing her to talk of love hands, began Sweetheart!” he implored, “you know I'm crazy about you. I, can't | make pretty specches tonight But T've done something 1 never meant to do. I've begged something of you no other woman on earth ecould wring from me. I'm on my knee, Svbil, eeching you to Ty me. There's not a concession on earth 1 wouldn't make to you, dearest. ality Respectability. Bah, 1 make myself sick!—Like a lovesick humpkin T erave your hand in hon- orable marriaze. See, Sybil He dropped to his knees, clasping hers with his and arms, 1o you know | ed her, and, | again Mornings are dazzling things in Havana. The sun shone on castles and forts and houses of rainbow hue. Tt sparkled on the azure sea, d the colored boats that rode the the beaity of it. had caught their | , they laughed aloud for very Natives put ont in boats to greet them, and sailors on the lower bled for little white e tossed aboard are they?” asked Sybil pu passing, handed bit of pasteboa | | Ler ndez,” she onomia, Ar- norita Fer: number nine andez lives at Economia street, nup- Una rubia means she is a ate me.” Ma- bel confided always been so darn good, | The | yes open,” voull be fas where | 1l. “He was planning to marry 3 orning.” 1 What do you mean?" | ‘ Rich must have It seems that captains ministers justices, on the sea—no- i or something. Y'SAY Y'KIN ARRANGE IT SO I'LL GET THE TRIP Bl vighis remreed 1928, by Newpaper Feature Servee, Ine. WHILE I'M ”LEAENIN' You SWELL AMERICAN City Items The regular.mesting of Court Ce- lumba. Ne.. 27, :Catholic Deughtsrs ot America, will be held in Red Men's hall at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Initigtion and refreshments will follow the meeting. 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