New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1928, Page 19

—_——— — ——y —— 3 —— O THIS ‘HAS HAPPENED Ashtoreth Ashe, venturesome lit- tle stenographer, has had a most unpleasant experience on ghipboard Ashtoreth, on a cruise to the West Indies, has been the innocent cduse of a fierce quarrel between her roommate—Mona de Musset, and Jack Sfythe, an Englishman. Ashtoreth goes to the boat deck with Smythe, who has warned her that he proposes to kiss her. Then from the shadows steps Mona de Musset. Mona, in a wild fury, denounces the Englishman. And tells Ashtoreth that he makes love in order to ‘put it in a book— and sell it.” She swears that he made love to her—and then pub- Jished the tate of their amours. The vehemence of her tirade choked her, and she stopped for breath. She put her handker- chief to her mouth, and when she took it away there was blood on it. Ashtoreth persuades her to go down to their stateroom and sends for the ship's doctor. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXI ‘When Ashtoreth came in, Mona had slipped inte a crimson smok- ing jacket and was propped on her elbow, rouging her lips. She had a gold-backed mirror In ene hand, and in the other a little silver pot of ruby paste. “Now Mona, you know the doctor #aid you shouldn’t so much as raise your arms!” scolded Ashtoreth. “Give me that stuff this minute.” Mona dabbed unooncernedly with her long forefinger. “I look ghastly,” “I put on my mouth. to sleep.” Ashtoreth sat by the side of the berth. “Mona,” she said. “I'm awfully worried about you. The doctor says jyou've had a little hemorrhage and he wants you to stay in bed until your temverature goes down If it isn't normal by the time we reach Guadeloupe, he says you shouldn’t try to o ashore. You'l have to stay right in your hertn until we get back to New York. Then you're to have your lungs NX-rayved. I don't want to frighten you, or anything like that, but—~ honestly, Mona—you must be very careful.” “It's so0 hot!" she complained, and tossed the sheet aside. Ashtoreth pulled up the covers. “Re good, Mona,™ ished. “You're to keep absolutely quiet, and stop throwing thingy around!" Mona reached for her hands as she smoothed out the sheet, “You grieve for me, ma cherie sho asked. _ *‘Grieve’? Oh, no” exclaimed Ashtoreth hastily. “There's noth- ing to grieve about. You're not dan- gerously sick or anything like tha “Non?" The Frenchwoman raised her ex- pressive brows. I have tuberculosis of the throa ma cherie. And now. maybe, I ha it of the lungs also. Doctors in they tell me I have nos long she explained. Then 1 go “Oh, Mona!" Ashtoreth caught the man’s hands to her heart. “The doctor did not eh?"” —oh, no!" aybe he does not know.” . . . Mona sighed. “Maybe he is what you call a horse doctor. But the doctors in Paris they know. And they tell me.” Ashtoreth’s heart bheat madly. Ehe was shaking all over, “l don't belicgs {t!" she cried. “It couldn’t be, Mona. You're too beantiful!” The French woman smiled. “I have lived, she rald. “Ana I have loved. I am not going to be oid. She smiled again, and shivered. And they were silent for a while. Then she said, “The fire of my life burns low. It is a light that will go out sometime, like all lights everywhere.” 8he drew Ashtoreth's fingers to her lips. “I am not afraid,” she whispered. “I like the darl Ashtoreth was trembling vio- lently. A horrible fear obhsessed her. Ae if Death had come on stealthy feet across the shining sea, and entered, unbidden, their little calin. She seemed to feel its pres- ence. Mona lay on her back now. There were bright spots on either cheek, burning redly. And her eyes were blazing blue. Her skin was hot, and very dry. Presently she dropped her lids, and remaincd so still that Ashtoreth thought she slept. Ashtoreth stood up then, and went to the porthole. Rhe saw the sick wo- tell you, moon on the water, making it so | magically lovely, that there seemea nothing real anywhere about. The night was full of beauty and mys. ticism. And Asthoreth’s spirit was troubled with vague imaginingw that had never come to her before. . Mona's Bwinburne lay, open, on the couch. Ashtoreth took it in her hands, and saw that It was open to the marked passags she had read the night before: “From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free....* Mona opened her eyes. “You love poetry?” she whisper- | ed. Ashtoreth was almost afraid trust her voice. with tears. “I don’t know very much,” shae confessed. “I—1've been reading this one you've marked. It's awfully ®rave.” Mona seenied to rouse herself. “I found a little poem.” she said, epeaking with slight difficulty. “It 18 called ‘To a Certain Gentls | mans.” T would like to send it to| Meester Smythe. 1t is in the litts | drawer under the mirror.” She motioned toward the wash- #tand. Ashtorcth found it hetween | the sticky pages of a hook of | stamps, under one of Mona's big sonder pulia Il to It was so charged she admon- | P, P — o [ U3 =C= - B s SAUNE “Read It." whispered the sick woman. And Ashtoreth read aloud: “It may be so, good sir, it may be =0, Not all who sin are tempted—thae we know: It may be darker things than this are true, And yet, upon my soul, if I were you— A man, ne longer young, at peace, secured From all that tempting have endured Of poverty and ignorance and fear And joy that make youth terrible and dear, It T were you, before I took my pen And wrote those words to hearten other men, And give them greater moral ease In the long score of common sins like these, It T were vou, I would have held my hand In fire— Ah, well stand woman sense of you would not under- “Did you write it, Mona?" ex- claimed Ashtoreth ingredulously. “Non—non!" Mona shook her head weakly. “I am not clevaire, ma cherie. T cannot write what is in my heart. I find it in a magazine, and copy it. A lady by the name of Madame Alice Duer Miller write it. Read | the last again, s'il vous plait." Ashtoreth repeated slowly “*If 1 were you, I would have hela my hand In fire— you would not under- murmured Mona. would not understand.” Ashtoreth folded the paper. nd you want Jack to have ft?" she asked. Mona nodded. “Put it in an envelope. and ask the steward to give it to him. Day after fomorrow we reach Antigua, and he goes.” e Ashtoreth spoke decisively. “Well, T shan't as much as speak [to nhim again, my dear! T never | licard of such a mean thing in my life. But, Mona, are you absolutely | sure it was you he was writiny |about? You heard him deny 1. Mightn't it have been a sort of @ omposite woman? A conglomera- fon, you know, of all the women he has ever known?" Mona shook her head. “It was 1" she insisted. “I know, ma cherfe. Ashtoreth was iIntensely curious. “T never heard of the book,” she remarked. Was it popular, Mona?" “Popular ?—oul—80-so. Mona's blus eyes flashed. “You will hear of it. It is to be a cinema. I 'ave been asked to pli the part of the bad womans. I tenr them all no.” “Who asked you, Mona?" “A movie mans in Paris. He ‘ear about me, and he ses me also. Re was one of the big fat mens from Hollywood.” Ashtoreth thought that was verg | exciting. | “Mr, Smythe must have sold the !mmie rights then,” she surmised. “And 1 suppose some other giri will have the part. I should think you'd have just loved it, Mon: Have you ever been {n pictures? The effort of conversation had tired the sick woman. She moved restlossly. “In Paris—oul,” she sald..“The movie mans wanted me to have my voice tested for the talkies. He | said T talked like the girl In Meester Smythe’s book." “What was the name of the book, Mona?" Mona looked at her sharply. “You ‘ave not heard,” she ques- Ashtoreth shook her head. tioned, “of ‘Pariah-Girl'?" “‘Pariah-Girl'—no. T don't think 80. . . . Doesn’t ‘pari mean out. cast Mona sat up suddenly in bed. “Outcast!” she screamed. ‘“Mon Dieu!* Asd she beat with her closed fists upon her breast. Her nostrils dilated. And the pupils of her eyes disappeared beneath her lowered lids, #0 that the whites showed frighteningly. She raised her voice in long, sob- bing wails. And tore her hair. CHAPTER XXIT They came, running—two stew- ards and the stewardess. And the chief setward, too, who happened te be passing. Someone dashed a glass of water in Mona's 1lvid face. A steward hurried away for the doctor. Presently her screams ceased, and she fell to sobbing. Great wracking sobs that shook her whole tody. Her head hung Hmply over the side of the berth. Ashtoreth saw a red stain on the pillow, and her heart emed al- most to stop beating with terror, “Iip rouge,” whispered the stew- ardess. “Lord, it gave me a start!” When the doctor came, hs admin- fstered a hypodermic. Then, mixing a redative, he left the stewardess in charge of the sick woraan and mo- tioned Ashtoreth from the room. He was a eurt little man, with quick nervous speech, An ex-army surgeon. and used to plain talking. “‘She's done for,” he announced unfeelingly. “Full of TB, and wear- ing herself completely out with passion and hysteria. 8he has legal residence, 1 understand, in Guadeloupe. T shall make every effort to keep her alive until we rach there. Of course, the captatn may insist that we put her ashore at the next island. Deaths at sea are a confounded nuisance, and he wonuld be quite within his rights in disclaiming all responsibility for her care. Obligations of the line cease immediately a sick person e conveved to port. Tn view, however, of the fact that Madamoiselle has friends at Guadeloupe, he may con. sent to carry her that far.” Ashtoreth leaned weakly against the wall [ ¢ = A T A K \ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1923 entific fact finding has never been| “When I am asked.” he said » ] “There isn't a chance?” she mur- mured. “Not a chance,” he told her curt- | ly. “It is unfortunate that they has murmured, her in with you. A mistake, orit.” course. Yo should have complained “Too bad,” consoled the immediately." i “But those “Complained?"” Ashtoreth was know. puzzled. “'Because she was ill, you mean? But tuberculosis is not con- tagious surely?” | The doctor looked at her quizz:- cally. “That was not what I meant," he said. “No—tuberculosis is not con- | tagious. Mona had fallen asleep. Her| mouth was open, and her lips| seemed blue and thick. | Ashtoreth remembered a line she | had read somewhere—"the reddest and the cruelest lips in town.” She wondered if Mona's lips would ever be like that again. She motioned to the stewardess to go, and drew a chair to Monas berth. Everything was very still. It must, she reflected, be nearly| dawn. She reached for Of all his words, Ashtoretn glimpsed just one dreadful thing. “Then Mona is really dying?” she “I can hardly believe captain. things do happen, you Nothing we can do about it. She's getting every possible atten- tion. Doctor Saunders tells me her resistance is completely gone. A npestuous woman—Madamoiselle. | mething of a cl ‘ter here n the Indies, you know. This happens to be her first trip with me, but I've known her by repute for a good many years. It surprised me | to learn that her name meant noth- ing at all to the purser. I remember last time 1 ris, Mona was hy way of becoming an international s | tion. She'd been in the you know., A few counts started chasing her around, and some mil- lionaire from the Argentine. The papers were full of her. American | entertainers in Paris are always | popular, you know. And, though Mona was born on a French islana, she lived in the States long enough to acquire sufficient Americanisms to put her across. he famous Charlotte Barker never got a hand if Mona was round. Charlotte, as a matter of | fact, was extremely jealous, though the two pretended to be great | friends.” Monars | hand, and when she found it was cold, began to rub it gently. She sat there for hours. Unth, with a start, she realized that morn- ing had come, and the little cabin was flooded with sunshine. Sne turned off the lights, and laid =« towel wrung out in ice Water across Mona’s forehead. The girl stirred | restlessly, and murmured some- thing inaudible. Ashtoreth bent closer. ... It was something about Death. Ashtoreth shivered, and straightened. Ashforeth had seen pictures of Churlotte Barker. She had big | | white teeth, and a dazzling negroid | The doctor came soon, accom- | smile, And she danced in the Fol- panied by the purser. Ashtoreti | jieg Bergerve. | rang then for the stewardess, ana| A friend of Maizie's slipped away for a shower. Her iy to Paris, and brought back a head was throbhing madly, and she | jone, hrown doll that was supposen | ached with uter weariness, |10 look like C'harlotte Barker. This | “A cup of black coffec.,” she told | fricnd said Charlotte had a night | herself doterminedly, “will hrace club fn Montmartre, and was mak- | me right up. [ simply can't gct |ing codles of money. sicK." | she was supposcd most beautiful figure t skin in the | had taken a to have the and the love- world. And she | d countless admirers. It was ru- mored, in fact, that she had mar- ried the titled gentleman who fol- what, the doctor had said. lowed her about carrying a white “I'm sorrier than I can say,” he | pekingese, declared. “It's a perfectly dreadful | g, Mona de Musset was a muste | thing. Mona is an uitarly irrationat | 1oy favorite, like Charlotte Bar. | woman, and uncontrollable hystera | oy B has brought this upon her. The | e was a knock at the cabin whole thing was nothing but a sort | agop. | of phantasy of her diseased minw. | «cona g However, T am profoundly sorrs.” | Anqa™ pr. “But ‘Pariah-Girl!” cried Ashto- room. reth. “Didi’t you write it?" (TO BE CONTINUED) 'Ot course T wrote it!" affirmea | wjony paints her lips for her ren- Smythe, and sccmed annoyed 8t gesvous with Death — and in the the question. | next chapter she dics. “And you didn't o MARKS ADVANCES _ “Well.” he admitted, I suppose-— in writing — a man can never gt Tnstitutions for Training Teach- ers Subjected fo Scrutin very far behind his own vital ex- periences. I wrote, to he sure, of a BY UEL W. LAMKIN Wasliington, Dec. 31 (P—The | woman as I knew her. But that woman was not simply Mona. She most outstanding educational achicvement In 1928 has becn the was a composite. Mona, In her co- lossal conceit, took all credit for {increase of public interest in edu- | cation. | the model.” He smiled. This was particularly noticebale in !the eighth annual observance of American Education Week, Novem- | | btr 5-11, under the joint auspices of the American Legion and the Na- | n the corridor she met Jacn Smythe, on his way to the purser~ office to inquire for Mona. He lis- tened gravely while she told him the captain called. | Saunders entered the | have Mona in he hest added reminis cently, of all possibls sweethearts. Ashtoreth remcmbered Mona's invectives of the night before. ... | Smug. . . . Self-sufficed. She turned quickly from him, and flung & parting taunt shoulder. “Among the eomprnsations dying, T've no doubt,” she claimed, “Mona counts you!" He bowed as in acknowledgment | ! : of & compliment. | tional education association. Ameri- | “And you,” he retorted quickly, Can Education Week in of inesti- | “are to be counted, my dear.|Mable value in acquainting the peo- among the compensations of liv- | PI° © fthe country with the work, ing.” | aims, ideals and needs of the schools. She turned then, and came back | The teac %0 him. responsible for the most of the ad- _*“I never want you to speak to| Vances made in education. The me again,” she commanded. “If you | {ask of guiding the growth of twen- come back on this boat, T hope you will remember that. Tf Mona dics, | T shall feel it you were he over her | or ex- echools belongs to the teacher. Therefors much attention has been murderer.” | given in the past year to raising He flushed uncomfortably. |the standards of teacher “I wish you wouldn't talk that | This movement has been led by the way!" he protested. “I tell you American Association of Teachers Mona i# a victim of her own pas- | Colleges, a department of the Na- sion. She has the most devastating | tional Education association. temper in the world. 1s it my fault | Tast February the it she loses her head. and ruptures | made, for the first timt in the his- her lungs?" tory of American education, a list “The more you told him acldly, “the more I hato' tutione. It is hoped that this will your | have on the teaching profession an | effect similar to the accrediting of ‘When she reached her cabin, she | 4 q500) schools by the American found a steward weaiting at ‘h"" Medical association door. | n ) talk,"” Ashtoreth | ty-eighth million young lives now in | aszoclation | more promising. We are rapidly moving toward the goal of the National Education asso- ciation—*"A fair start in life for ev- ery child.” ENDOCRINE STUDY MAY EXTEND LIFE Will Add 10 fo 15 Years, Says Dr. E. L. Fisk New York, Dec. 31 (®)-T1t simple thing to extend human life 10 or 15 years, and a great extension, reaching beyond 100 , is not | impossible for the future. This analysis of medical achieve- | ment was presented to the American | Association for the Advancement of Science today by Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk of New York, medical director of the Life Extension Institute. is A, Ito the probable duration of human "life in the remote future, T am com- pelled to answer that science has no prosent data on which to deter- mine this, but that the prolongnation of human life far beyond the most present favorable evcle lies within the legitimate bounds of sci- entifie effort. “I am willing to admit that a comparatively liwited of human life, say 10 or 15 {can be attained by simple adjust- ment of personal hygiene and the correction of physical defects. Tt may well he that any great exten- sion of human life, say bevond 100 . must be at only ars, means, espe lof the endocrine glar “The idea of time having an ef- fect on aging and decay is as base- less as the jargon of a voodoo | age. 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He took her warmly between his great palms. “The doctor tells me™ he hegan without preamble, “that Mademor- | selle de Musset is dying. He tells me. also, that vou are rooming fo- gether. T have talked with the pur- ser ahout that, and he assures me that he knew absolutely mnothing ahout Mademoiselle when he as- signed you the same cahin. T regret the matter very much, and extena | my sincere apologies.” The captain paused. “Now abhout Mademoisellse de Musset,” he continued briskly. “We have cabled Guadeloupe, and learn that she has Kkin living on the island. We will carry her ther, and leave her in thelr charge. There is a French physician in Point a Pitre, and we have made arrange- ments to have him meet the boat with a litter, “T have instructed the purser to xive you a suite on A deck, to make amends for the unfortunate accom. modations previously accorded had a 'hmncrr!m("."i “You don't want to = 2 hana | brown you." {to earn money. 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