New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1928, Page 6

o 7 —5 ~N— —— A . THIS HAS HAPPENED | “Yor Ashtoreth Ashe, @& beautifu | grink stenographer from Boston, 1s hav- | ing an exciting time on shipboard. Jack Smythe, an Engpshman whom she meets abroad, makes im- | mediate love, and kisses her duriig the first five minutes of their ac- | mojiselie. “Meester Swinburne s | quaintance. | better scompany for me than She snubs him afte that — but| Minythe. He e et he warns her, just the same, against her roommate—AMonu de Mussct, u glorious and luysterious lady. Mona has been very good to Asuatoreth, presenting her nulnber of brautitul gitts. Suythe tells Ashtoreth that respectable women on board will have nothing to do with her it siie continuvs o be intimate with Mona. You mean,” she demands, &he is notoriously unmoral Smythe inclines his head gravely. Bug Ashtorcth is becomung Jeak customed to accepting gifts fromn foaied b women of doublm!‘ morals. There | o you've made love to Made- 18, for instance, littie Sadic Morton, | Mioiselle?” @he remarked. who extorted $10,000 from Hollis| *I could not insult Mademoi- Hart, Ashtoreth’s millionaire celle,” he answered, “by not mak- ployer. And Ashtoreth has taken Ing love” quite a few things from Sadie. “Oh, so you think all women e: NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | pect you to make love to them? CHAPTER XVI | His tone annoyed Ashtoreth. In the morning Mademoiselle had | “Mademolsclle doesn't seem to orange juice and coffce served in | have been exactly slain by your | the stateroom. At 10 the steward- technique. 1 ess drew her bath. And at noon she| Smythe emptied his pipe against appeared on deck. {1he Tl It took Mademoiselle exactly an| “You do not understand that hour to make up. Her perfumed [Woman” he informed her, ‘And rites werc as elaborate as though |1 told you before that you should she prepared each day for marri; . jask to V\‘[w your stateroom Fascinated Ashtoreth watched her. | chanzed. We'll be going ashore Mademoiselle insisted upon shur- | Soon at St. Thomas, and she's pret- Ing her luscious cremes and scent- | 1Y Well known down through the poudres. And mot only her cos-|islands. I.want to advise you very metes, but the services of the stew- | Strongly against being seen with ardess, who had been a lady’s maid | her.’ : and could give a facial like an e Ashtoreth flushed uncomfortably. pert. | She was wearing, at the moment, Ashtoreth reveled it all, fall- } an ornament of Chinese jade on an ing easily into the of her|©0ld gold chain about her neck. roommate. Mademoiselle’'s jade. She was “I never thought of it hefofe,” |Vearing, also, & little green hat she confessed, “but I do believe I'm | that matched the jade. ~Mademoi- sensuous to my very finger tips. selie’s hat. And bracelets, that Mademoiselle buffed her shining 1gled with small jade elephants mails indolently. |with ruby eyes. Mademoisclle’s “Beautiful women, know 1 don't care about he affirmed. lime squash then,” he sug- gested. “We'll be at St. Thomas | in a few hours, and 1 want to talk | to you before you go ashore.” | “Run along,” admonished Made- is Smythe smiled. “You like taunted. with any oo tard st profundity she retorted, “to | e come now. loughed uncomfortably. really think I am banal, selle Smythe “You don't Mademoi- ou make love so stupid,” she | him, and returned, unconm- | 1y, to her bock. | oreth waited until they were “that e to1a in habits she observed, | brace *are made for luxury, ma cherie,” | Mademoiselle had given her any Ashtoreth sighed. She was he- | number of glfts. Several of thei ginning to think the same thing, | Were valuable. The scarlet ev “But T can’tdafford it she 1la. DINg wrap, for instance, embroid mented. “This is a regular orgy | ered with threads of gold. And all el | the little French night gowns. Mademoiselle shrugged cloquent. | She faced Smythe indignantly. Iy and raised her penciled brows. fona has been very kind “Mon Dieu!" she exclaimed. | me” she told him. *“And eve “ mean,” explained Ashtorcth, | other woman on the hoat has been considerably embarrassed. “I have | SImply wretched.” Yo Wk or A Dving: | “That’s because you seem to pre- % loier Ifer Mademoisclle’s society to The French woman sut " he interrupted. “And oh- humorously. Mer eyebrows had you cannot Tave both. pretty little mannerisms all their have been decent enough own. Now the left one assumecd & ¥oU hadn't been intimate with her & aulativa archy | from the beginning. Naturally “So 1 do,” said Mademoiselle. they oullaw De Musset.” hey had not exchanged confl-| “Why?" demanded Ashtoreth. dences. Ashtoreth was consumed | “Because she's heautiful, of course with curiosity about Jack Smythe, | —a1d they're absolutely consumed hut Mademoiselle had volunteered | With jealousy. They're simply pet laesiidiaanliia rified to have their husbands as Y iy )55 on much as look at her!” girls made their appe and Mademoiselle for- inal courtesies. It seemed to Ash- toreth that the Englishman was de- cidedly il at ease in the presence of the French woman. And that Mademoiselle enjoyed his apparent | discomfort. She flirted with him cutrageously. But once, when he tried to capture her hand under cover of a steamer rug, Ashtoreth saw her slap him smartly across the face. to | en the | and he | Ashtoreth tossed grily. her head an- e was gool enough.” pointed out, “for you to make love to.” “Weil, naturally. Mademciselle is a delightfil person to love. But that hardly alters her social status. In fact” — Smythe smiled — “one might almest say that account for her social status.” Suddenly De became very serious. There is something,” he said, “greatly pathetic about Mona de Musset. Jor desire is agsad thing, and love is all we know to lighten it. Mademoiselle obsessed with Smythe had devoted himself to an mmorous siege. And Ashtoreth, excit- edly convinced that she was playing with fire, lent herself half-heartedly | it to his importunities. They danced SI™ for gratification, to beautifully together. Jiaen And love, ingely, is Once to Mademoiselle she said, | 5211 to be a wicked thing.” "1 feel awfully mean being with| At heart Ashtoreth was some- Mr. Smythe A0. much, because x|”lmx of a Puritan. Theoretically, know you'lont Mke htm. And, be-|She Wwas extremely broadminded. sides, we jeave you quite alone.” | Actually, she was as provincial as The French woman smiled a daz- | Maizie. ¥ sling smile. ‘You mean,” “I am used to being alone,” she | sald. “But you must remember, | ma cherle — Monsieur Smythe is a bad mans.” Then, curfous beyond all repres- | #fon, Ashtoreth drew her chair| gloser. “Tell me, Mademoiselle,” she Pegged. “Frankly, it wouldn't make | sny difference. I mean, I know he's probably just dreadfully unmoral end all that. But it's sort of fun, you know, keeping bhim at arm’s length. He's 50 sure, besides, th g American girls pet. And that I 0 e simply Janguish for tie) SLmipson Als drinks and things. He knows z Miss Ashe, that Jooks like the Prince of Wales, and | Pirds of a feather flock together. that's given him a regular superi- And ‘vou can tell a woman by the ority complex. So that it's great, (COTPany she keeps. pramping his style.” walked for a minute in si- Ashtoreth lowered ce. Ashtoreth w completely the Simpson sisters pa swildercd. She had realized, of “He kissed ms oner course, that Mademoise mo ed. “The first might have been more or less d talked to him bious. But to learn that the girl T've been sort of getting 1s actnally notorious! That so- bim ever since.” called decent had drawn Maderoiscllo " virtuous aside, lest she verse lio roonied Mademoisell slipped her —should noli'nr sanetity Ppages. “Me — I punizh him alse said. “I very had “But why?” demanded Ashtorcth. | ! “What did he ever do to you? If he's treated you badly, Mona, 1 shan’t have a thing to do with him. Honestly. I wouldn’t want to be|® * nice to anyone who hadn't been 1 to you.” The French band. “Eh, bien!” can take carec cf Have a good time 8mythe.” He joined them just then. And | bowing ceremontously to Mademoi- nelle, held out his hands to Ashtor- eth. Come have a drink,” he invite “Mademoizelle had rather read hes poetry uninterrupted Fetiv But Ashtoreth shook her head. heart of gold. turns, st she gasped, “that d his head gravely. why everybody rrid to me? has e Englishman was solemn All the ladies on board,” he said, “the fat onis.and the lean and all the stupid, ugly ones 1wve been tearing you and Made- moiselle apart vou ap- the first evening ever since her voice as ad she confid- Before T'd 8 And back at wome closed r sha had been finger the book of and the reading batween Ashtoreth Ashe—had > henevolences nan beyond the pale! elle’ jade ornament against the buttons on her cater, . . Mona's jewelry? « What should she do? woman patte she exclaimed. myself, ma cherie from his WA she flared mean about Mademoisclle de et he persisted. “Tt fen't Yo thing for me to tell you, bt agreed “I un- 1 Ashitoreth nk it is. Mona. et to me, €he 1 And T don't know i< ’ if | <he | at dinner | 5 mimicked | of a wo- | S — 305 T T =S USHPEINORSER =S Ashtoreth turned on her heel, “Y ou're knew,” she told him {that T'm part | about her mor: of my business, “But you the rudest ularly concerned pest, at least, They're not e women, mean; . s !:md evasions. don't want the holier- [ delicacies. |than-thou sisterhood arraved ainst you,” lie imterrupted. | set got that jade? Women have.to run fogether. The [ wouldn't pay. . . pack makes it too tough for thos “Is that so?" who don't. You can't afford instance, to antagonize every re- | spectable woman on this hoat in | order to take up the cudgels for a | girl like Mona de ot It sim- | ply isn't done, that jut Mona any with didn't K or her j “And you didn’t wasn't all \ my friend!” | cried Ashtoreth. “And what do 1 |ed care about these other women— | tion wretched old cats!™ | “Mona leaves the boat at Guade- | ing to loupe,” he reminded her, %and the | hep 1 wretched old cats are making the| Ashtor round trip. You won't have even | me to fall back on. T:go. as you | know, to Antit Tt will be more than a week before T rejoin the | ship. You'll he dreadfully alone.” Ashforeth tilted her chin defi- |antly. I “I don't th laug gave them to her “o; mnol” never “You he Mona wouldn' Tim rudely, ! what you think truth, Mayhe I she's care. T guess T can ! can stand it. T'm ceglainly not going |don't kuow wha back on Mona!" | s why T ke “And youn niean {o go ashore with | s it, that 1 do her this afternoon fta r he ‘If she'll go.” Tn her heart Ashtoreth hegan fo hope that Mona might indis- | posed. It was fearfully hot, and she had complained at luncheon of a leadache. They had stopped to lean against the rail. ¥lying fish raced alonz the side of the boat, like white | flame dancing the sunshine, ' | When they had disappeared, n[ | sehool of porpoises came, turning | & somersaults like awkward aguatic clowns. “Oh, look!" Ashtoreth leaned over the side. “Did you ever sec anything so funay in your life!” The jade ornament that she wora about her neck swung ont into the sunshine, She beat her hands ex- citedly on the rail. And the brace- | lets.on her wrists clinked merrily, Smythe took the ornament be-| en his finger: lona’s jade, | marked. | toreth flushed. a, and sajd defiantly. “And ||y, of her hats on. And this sweater is hers. And, in case vou've heen thinking T smell vice, T might add that the perfume fs Mona's. And I use her powder and her bath crystals, and every- thing. T believe I'm even carrying 1 R raa one of her handkerchiefs. : 1 little chiffon thi all lnen. Smell:” flicked it unde “And a gold-digz you in left him st nt 4o join M deck chairs w na's hook, with lav on her th threw hers furic nythe. preposteron e herself, that she could he ti thin o fondled cold as ve she th t if she b lates, | tor cakahlr isn't it?" he wve- v that " she | T have one | ists ouldn' And “You know how ything i 1 off ¢ old cat on hoard can eut me d rather be with her than re cmpt person But all you respecta- ies And your sickening your litt I turned her hack fo the and faced him square- ¢ perfeetly well that 1 about Mona care! “Well, you didn’t think I was go- if she'd come by be otested. anything.” ' Ashtorcth told care Maybe it's the her, be- Leen 50 generons, t difference her. 1t's enough, can and d T don't do like And yon about he hman howed gosted on n retorted, “you're nd ona 1t a hox 1f down. ously angry Hr rai she had ever hink such of her! iade tender- in her han e had 1 1 have A couch, lions to bracelets W to to her shoulders. onderful y- nee Dyer, 't it he ve just eve nted! an ounce. ht o ntial cverythi almost 4 the me dia had | I wonder, or had never given you a | yowa be so fond of her. If, for in- stanee, she was just a common every-day little tramp, withont anv jade, or Irench perfumes, or imported chapeanx — T wonder if you'd be so beautifully loyal then.” > T wonld!"” defer d he everyt gencrous, &iy marvelo and awfull for insta pere: “Of conr; | toreth rself indig- ve it to me iven me any number of her hated accepting them — at irst. Maybe T n't very mucl pride, But telling you anvhow. I'm fourfln And T'm b just ful when T swear that Mor haven't a thing to do with ‘Y feel about her®2 not trosnection Ashtoreth Smythe smiled cynically. “Well, it's hard tr o vou thin vhow. Jut times if ith ther anybody else. T'pon my don’t think so, “I think they've Friendship, Loyalty, Fvarvthin Courtesan sell their hod — and bargain with them. women sell oy g0t e a hare Thay're hon-| Tam a woman, a f Sadie little ng Sadie, she w . too. on 15 1 those She he 11denly | vas hink- told the truth? 1 ever Mona de Mus- 1t's a price you he taunt- policy to ask ques- you rded. “I've inso- more profitahle,” her he person 1 ever here and | their nd Mo- of choco- steanrer rug. Ash- with he most | assured | member of the Tailer & Company, known. | utterly | llions anc would live like | iade arm T on Sadie wa had, | and | darling 1it- | had camel’s | hat to | And cverything th of them. e them s bad as he Beauty goes (0. come no more. Talk to me tenderly, take. my hand; v I am a woman, ‘and: understand. 1 am a woman, and must be told Lies to warm me when I am old.” Ashtoreth smiled. She wondered how old Mona was. And if she real- Iy felt that way. Twenty-eight, per- haps. Or 30. It must be awful to know that you were growing old. Everybody was, of course, But 30—~ why, that was sort of getting mid- dle-aged. Maizie always sald if & girl wasn't married by the time she was 30 she never would be. Well, probably Mona didn’t want to get married, anyhow. Why should &he? She had everything in the. world. . . . And love, besides .. , . if Jack Smythe—and all the wretched old cats—knew what they were talking about. Ashtoreth turned the pages of Mona's book. Swinburne. She tried te remember what sort of a poct h: was supposed to be. Was it Swinburne and Keats that everybody thought about together? | Or was it Shelley and Keats? “Some da vowed Ashtoreth, “I'm’ going to read a lot of poetry, and the blographies of all the great poets, One really should,” She had heard something about Swinburne. But she simply. couldn’t place him. That was too . bad, #he'd { had liked to say something casu- ally about him, to sort of impress Mona. You wouldn’t think now that Mona was the sort of girl who'd read poetry. Well, you couldn’t ever tell. Ashtoreth’ turned Here was something penciled. Something probably that Mona liked. She read it slowly: the pages. “From too much love of living( From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving What cver gods may be. That no man lives forever; That dcad men rise up never; That even the, weariest, river Winds somewhare safe to aed.” Ashtoreth closed the book, and shivered. . . . “From too much love of living. il Saint Thomas, the first of the Virgin Islands, lay ahcad. Its feet in the sea. ‘And mists over its mountains. The passengers were flocking to the rail. 'Where was Mona? (TO BE CONTINUED) | Smythe makes more love to Ash- toreth and this time she likes it — {In the next chapter. OUFFERN TAILER DIES SUDDENLY {New York Banker and Sports- man Succumbs in Baltimore Raltimore, Dee. 26 (R—T. Suffern iler, New York banker, futerna- tionally knows sportsman and social leadek, died suddenly here yesterday atter eating Christmas dinner at the | iome of Nis wife's parents. Death was attributed to heart dis- se which Mr. Tailer has suffered | for geveral y He was 61. 1. Active in the social life of New it | York and Newport for two decades, | Mr. Tailer as a young man was a de | iis later years a golf enthusiast. At one time he held an indoor tennis { championship. | In 1892 he established a coaching |record hetween Paris and Troutille, |4 copy of tHe Quickslver: royz | coach of London and which he had christened “Herald” in honor of his accompanied him on drive. his record Builds Ocean Links Abont cight years ago Mr. Tailer built the famous ocean links at New- port, a private golf course, and es- tablished the golf mashie tourna- ment, which became an amateur | zolf classic. His son is a golf star in | Tuis "teens, In business, Mr. Tailer was senior investment bankers. The son of an old American fam- |11y, he was horn at Newport and di- vided his time between there and ew York. He was a graduate of Harvard universit He married twice. was Maude Lorillard, His first wife, daughter of obtained -a divorce in 1902, and in 1909 he married Harriet Stewart Iirown, daughter of Alexander n, of the banking house of ander Brown & Sons of this city. rviving Mr. Tailer, beside his ch ! widow and son, are twe children of | his second marriage, a son, T. Suf- fern, Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. Guer- all of New York; and three sisters. & Tri Trivia, | fa- anted— to Give Jap Tokyo, Dec. P —While Em- a |the diet to a mun sprang from a crowd of spectators and atterapted |to present an appeal direct o the cmperor. The man was arrested be- | fore he reachcd the imperial coach. I'The appeal requested assistance for | tarmers sufferi LABORE Somerville, Mass, Dec. 26 (B— Augus Stewart, and Cornelius Sullivan, both laborers of this city, were found dead beside the Doston and Maine railroad tracks near the west Cambridge station here last night. It is believed that they were struck by an outhound train about 6 o'clock as they were walking the rails. be salutary. found tefu the h, it na's book. on 1 out of fly wrote j A FOX No. 2. for instant relief. : | =heals and soothes ly and inhale deal for children without upset- the door | hanging | {votee of coaching and tennis and in | driving his famius coach, which was | friend, James Gordon Bennett, who | or Hirohito was en route to open | STUDENT SHOT AND HILLED BY coP Redlands Yonth Was Robbing Berkeley, California, Store Berkeley, Cal, Dec..26 (P—Shot by a-policeman while fleeing from a bullding where he had robbed a safe, Thomas Donald Hall, 21, a sopho- more at the University of Redlands, Rediands, Cal, {8 dead and two duniors of the same school face ar- raignment here today on a burglary charge after confessing participation in the robbery. Hall's companicns, William Corne~ well Cooney, 21, and George I. Kel- ler, 28, declared thcy robbed the safe because they needed Christmas money. At Del Rosa, Cal, T. S. Hall, father of the slain student £aid young Hall 'had all the money he needed and expressed the opinion the boy had participated in the rob- bery for a thrill. Nears Noise The police version of the affair, which occurred yesterday was that the patrolman, Thaddeus Ornes, heard a noise in a flowet shop on his beat and encountered the three stu- dents. When Ornes commanded them to throw up their hands Hall drew & gun and commanded him to do likewise, Ornes shot twice and Hall' fell, mortally wounded. Keller threw his gun into an alley and ran after Ornes fired two shots at him. Cooney surrendered. Later Keller was found in a hotel. Police said Keller and Cooney told them they came here last week, ran short of moncy and hatched the plot to rob the flower shop safe while attending a ' motion picture show. # At Redlands, President V. L. Duke of the university declared all three students had good records. He de- scribed Hall as an average student with a very good record. The fami- lies of all three students are said to b~ of moderate means. An inquest into Hall's death has been ordered. ADAMS WILL EXPLAIN STATEMENT T0 COUNCIL Ready to Clarify Remark About “Buying Bascball Action” | " to Aldermen. Boston Dec.26 (A— Charles 1, Adams, vice president of the Boston national league club, declared last night that he was ready to go be- fore the city council and “clarify” the statement he had issued on the city council's attitude toward Sun- | day ‘baschall in this city. In the | course of his statement Adams said | that “it had been suggested that it | probably would be necessary to pay for the concession of early action” | by the council.y . gaone Yesterday: variqus councilmen ex- | pressed indignation ‘at alleged in- sinuations contained in this phrase, councilman ,John F. 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