The evening world. Newspaper, October 10, 1908, Page 9

. ——— $ ; | The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday pits 5 Pe hea 3 October 10, 1908. ‘ ie LSI GEE IDIEIS SIGE III IGISIICIGIOI IORI feof teat aie te ate abot RRR ACR RAE TEETH ME AH RR RH HAE a May Irwin Says an Actress Must |lave a Special License i to Drink on the Stage and Above All Know When to Stop -_ | [pera pes iS | | promote the temperance cause, Now, U Chauffeur Charlie Starts Out to) Make Myrtle Jealous, and Does Fs % } It, but He Isn’t So Chuckly:** Over His Success. By Charles Darnton. | O place that prohibition he other side of the case: On€ n sent me a letter eaying shé t understand how any woman, especially the mother of two bdoya could deliberately ridicule so sertous & thing as the liquor question, Still ans other woman had the nerve to ask mé, whether I had galned my knowledge of the effect of whiskey through experif ence or observation,” ‘The building shook with Miss Irwin’ las ter, | “So you see,” she pointed out, “gets ting a stage jag is a very serious mat ter. It must be purely accidental. Then no one can blame you. It's awful to be under suspicion. And fust |tween ourselves, I'm a bit self-con# \ectous these days. Why? I live in the same building as the president of the |w. C. T. U. And they tell me thy | bonnet I wear in the play 1s just like the one—but enough, enougl Getling, a SlAge Jag 15a VETY Seer SEFfoUS MallEr* ; Sen cre In-no-conce and—aare 1 aay at2—| 18 the Silk Hat Going?, stupidity. Nearly every young person cue fresh from the convent 1s supposed to ‘Ow about the high silk bet in the, prove her white musiin purity by | WEE ae ' giggling fatuously or reeling ridic- “Things must have come to ‘# ulously when she has tasted just one |Strange pass in the British Empire, Uttle glass of champagne. Even Anna | declared a well-kmown hatter, “if they. Held gets woozy after a sip or two~|S0 to dress affairs wearing derbles. on the stage. But Miss Billie Burke in| Why, that must be as bad as the Boe ‘Love Watches,’ does it beautifully—| War. there 4s merely a dainty suggestion of | “Even King Edward wears a derby exhilaration, Both give you the French [on swell occasions, when he once wore article, but you can't forget advanced |the high silk hat,” was the reply. English Prossy's fall from the tem-| “Incredible! | perance cart in ‘Candida.’ Prossy {n- mee l ie By Clarence L, Cullen, author of “Tales of Bx-Tanks. party Miss May Irwin on record in her campaign at ma y b 6|inacouple of weeks, why, maybo, she'd the Garrick Theatre, I put they're not | be at home. the question squarely: there hub a “I was pretty hungry to call her up| “Do you believe that work is the comes to saying next afternoon and still hungrier to 0 things and then havea peck at her that evening, but, says | CUTSe of the drinking classes?’ wriggling out of| 1 to myself, “There ain't any usoetart-| “I certainly do,” she declared, com- what they've sald) tng anything that you can't go through |!ng down solidly on the platform. “I at the show | with, and eo I didn’t ‘phone that after- ” (ji y am glad to meet the issue. I am glad down; observed | noon nor call that evening, end, say, 35 cee Chauffour Charlle| if] wasn't the lonesome son of «| ‘0 Meet you. Let us get together 0: to bis garage pal. | recouse oook on a eorghum schooner |this question. Many great thinkers, OST ANE Mee | TUL eat your hat and be glad to get perchance, have turned thie matter GaP SEA Cb 'GRS, We Lonesome isn't the name for It, but | over in their minds, but I don’t be- chum,” was the re- leve they have ever turned {t loose. | ply. ‘ay, you don't learn very fast, do) ‘The time has come for us to deal with LA lee atk Aeeinl {t fairly, fearlessly and intelligently. eae BS i enen | Look about you, and what do you) gre wrote me that $20) was more than) you can have a bet down,” said Chaut- see? I repeat, What do you see? I/| the piece was worth and begged me to will tell you: Everywhere you see| accept his heartfelt symp | the working habit interfering with] “At you've been saving it all this feuy Charlie, “I put @ near-win over | this last time, but these near-wins don’t | et you anything, Y'see, I started out eae to tanke 35 3 the drinking habit. One 4s antagon- Yes; this Give hard | istic to the other. The man who|had to play York, It | to make Myrtle Jealous. Say, quit that chessy-catting till I get through, won't) you? It's nothing to grin about. nll works is compelled to neglect his furmediott ul COM Cae Bal ie would ‘ Ww yhow, when a matey of mine | Mrs a y it she ca: Coat aeaey into my wagon and duties at the bar. This is the his-| + ting back, dear old soul, bringing | asked me to ride her around the block | tory of our great commonwealth, and) me a rose and telling me that I was the @ few times, why I whizzed her past | history is repeating itself with great] funniest intoxicated woman she had regulerity. But now we arrive at| ever seenon the stage. another view of the case. In fact, I IOWA SINE Your ever earn ton aojitt ad reat I happened to drop around that way eI —~ ager a a, | Shive inthe same burlding as the President of the wc.T.u.” om oie ag where Myrt lives at the evening hour when I knew Myrt ‘ud be rubbering out of the window, and Myrt was tn her so weil?’ she asked, patting her hands, | window and saw us all right. My matey’s steady !s a looker, too, and I} knew that ‘ud help a lot in my scheme | of making Myrtle jealous. When I saw Myrtle an hour or so later she was there with the olty-toity indifferent fr, but she had to get it out of her system of course, and when she asked me who the doll was I'd had in-my cart, why me to gaze at the ceiling and to stake ber to the slow grin, and I told her that some folks were doomed to die a-gues and out of the tall of my eye I saw her lamps blaze at that, but she would- n't let on to me. Next afternoon I didn’t call Myrt up on the ‘phone as usual, and when she called me up an hour or so after my regular time for ‘phoning her I told her that I wouldn't be able to hang on to | “i began to make bug motions.” I noticed that Myrt wasn't calling me up enough to burn any insulation off he ‘phone wires and that was some consolation, anyhow, for {t showed that she was jealous right out to the tips |of her ears, and that's what I was |trying to put over, wasn't 1t? Sure! . somehow or another, I didn't feel huckly over that as I might 've. ‘ary a call-up from Myrtle the next afternoon nor evening, either, and then, jor rather, the case of ‘Mrs. Peck- ham’s Carouse.’ May I be permitted) might say, with characteristic mod- esty, that we arrive at my own case, | to say what I think about that?” “You may,” I consented. Irs. Peckham the Solution. ‘Well, then," proceeded Miss Irwin, ‘Mt strikes me that ‘Mrs. Peckham’s Ca-| ‘ouse’ solves the problem to my satis- faction at least. To make myself clear, let me explain that {t eliminates the question of work completely. In other words, and in all seriousness, playing ‘Mrs. Peckham’s Carouse’ isn't a bit like work—it's just a lot of fun. I enjoy it immensely. Now, ‘Mrs. Wilson’ was nothing but work. It was like trying to ““By watohing you in ‘Cordelia’s As- pirations,’ 1 told her. Chattks to Mrs. Yeamans, “And that's the truth, I shall r forget her in the scene where she found a note signed ‘Julia’ in her husband's pocket and decided to take carbolic acid. I can see her now patting on her wedding dress and her wreath and set- tling herself in a chair with the bottle in her hand. But she had got hold of the wrong bottle, and In a few minut she was beautifully soused.”” : Miss Irwin seemed to have her doubts about “soused” for publication, but she let it go at that, and continued to recall | the Intoxicated glories of Mrs. Yea- mans. “The fintshing touch,” she laughed, “was the loose e ver | { | t | sists that she 1s a teetotaler, but she| hastens to udd: ‘I'm only a beer tee-| totaler, not a champagne teetotale “And other members of the royal fam+ ly wear felt hats and caps.” f One of the reasons for the passing of ‘ the high silk hat in London is sald to What's the Matter with Beer? ve te automobile. What revolutions the automobile has effected! It kills children, chickens and established cus- jtoms with equal uncuncern, High sil hats blow off easily; in fact, they be- come quite uncomfortable on an auto ride. Bes!d when one autos he can’t very well change his dress until evens of course, for Billle Burke. She ts de-|'"S, and so in London many afternoon Mclous in her little tipsy scene. She “fairs have become decidedly informab., handles {t in Just the proper way, ..{And the crowning loss ts the silk hat. acene of that sort 1s a very deli “In this country,” watd an American maxter in the hands of a young actress, |hatter, acconling to the Philadelphia’ An older actress who simulates intox!- North American, “the high silk hat cation has more leeway. She'cah afford steadily decreased until about three to broaden the humor of the scene, but| years ago. The sales since then have “Why not beer?” asked Miss Irwin, “Surely it {9 much less harmless thi champagne. But it 1s nevertheless a fact t perfect stage ladies never | drink beer. Perhaps they drink cham- pagne because they regard it as t Umit of deviltry. It's just the thing, te | @ young woman has to be very careful heen stationary. The styles in the hat For that matter ony actress has to/nave changed little. But if they are have a spectal license to drink on the | giving it up in London I do not think stage, and she must know when to stop iit jikely that Americans will soon aiopt —where to draw the line, There 1s al-|11, geray to go to the opera or purely waya danger of going a step too far 4.44. functions. Undoubtedly the hat and spoiling everything, You never can the receiver very long, because, sald I, oe Bete break through a stone wall. I used to of that funny old ¥ I was going ae, chow Rivers: Hie ea leaner ee eresking se See seal feel like apologizing to the audience be- pea dangling, over her eye. Other} u A and things to a little girl friend of mine| motions in the air with my mitts. pes fore I started in every night. I wanted Tener aco eued line pene sort of | 2 is ~ ifiee getting pickled, but flagged that |t eax: “My dear friend, I am very sorry | (M08 since lock of hatr or a| | because ft only makes things worse the | to glve you this, but it's all that I havo | fetther, put none of them has ever ap. | next day. Good thing I had that antl-| 08 hand.’ I kept shortening the play| tached the incomparable humor of | Hl . " ‘ = and putting in songs until it sounded| "nie Yeamans in ‘Cordelia's Aspira- | geseseeeaes ag B t | for daily use {s passing, But tt rem: | Pickle hunch too, for ‘long “bout nine | 17) EU Clme opera. Then it finally | tons.’ The old dear in her wedding | is tell what the people out in front are) pcrdnery eal aie ight Myrtle sung me up A ' saat . |the proper hat for dress—the only prop= o'clock that night Myrt! occurred to me to shorten the play still| "Mery didn't know what she was doin; ue SE going to think about you. erine ta ¢ on the ‘phone E more and piece out the evening with| ‘© herself—that's what made it so de-| see +H “T have letters from women commend- | 4 “Oh, it's you, {8 it?” ehe sald when| ‘Mrs, Peckham's Carouse.’ I tried the| #&htfully innocent. ‘ “Ht ing the stand I take against drinking! So London, according to reports, tm, I reached ‘phone, and her voice experiment fn Boston, and it worked} “Drink, pretty creature, drink!’ may = + +H if in Mrs, Peckham's Carouse. These becoming improper—oh! dreadfully, . |scunded {ike fetcles rolling Co ati But I made one mistake, I]® 600d advice to your pet 1amb, but| , + Tot i" letters are written In all serlousness shockingly {mproper! The silk hat re= jeaves. "Then you're Boe Ha kell gave George Ade's little play first, qnd|!t seems to be a very dangerous sug- Pet Ht and without the faintest appreciation of vival fails! Hat dealers are in despair! [ieent zeae aah Neloetevale what it did to ‘Mrs. Wilson’ was more|Sestion to the pretty creature in the Piet ttt ty tit Mr. Ade's humor. Other women have Straws and caps are the rage! In this Harmer, ; ur 2 omen, It's too bad you werent, |than plenty! To save ‘Mrs. Wilson’|P/ay Who resembles the lamb in her ‘i a invited me to join clubs designed to country—what? Will it also pass? she chopped, Just Ike that,| from utter annthilation I switched ‘Mrs, FR : — - wed hun tuo the roselver, I hopped | Peckham's Carouse’ and gave it at the| $@¢eO? 2090000055604 into the car and was around where ehe|end. And let me say right here that I Iives tn less than three minute didn't get the Ade piece from my sister { “Well, she must been glad to see| Flo.” |me or something, for she began to dab| She looked at me reproachfully and at her eyes with a little wad of a|then went on: handkerchief hi I showed up, and sae ehe aparke were dartine out ot her | George Ade’s First Attempt. S2O8O848 90096 06640-00006 0500000 IDOW .°. ChATS ON THE “LOVE PANIC.” By Helen Rowland " Jeered the Widow with a snap of |!s too flattering to her. It shows her Oe 6000. 3 well, every man gets the;run! “ce ASN'T) “Tho feeling you have," explained the)! I? I—o thebride- | Bachelor, "Just before doing anything | ‘love panic’ at least once when he| her chatelaine. ‘that you are afraid of her. It's as fool Es | as lunging rf, or loop- | wakes up sudJen horror to dis-| “When you talk like that,” declared |jsh and disastrous as getting nervous eves at the same time "I bought the play fourteen years ago tunny. = 500M! rash, like plunging in the surf, | P ‘ ane ra your ae : ey ‘Say, baby-doll,’ says I to her, f! anf merely let Flo have it when she ae surgled | ing the loop, or signing a contract, or! cover that somo girl {8 beginning to he jeegnelor, a eerORS UY Der oF pads turning bas when you are hait 4 ught you told me that you wouldn't! needed a sketch for vaudeville. ‘Mrs. Widow, as sh Hing a lie, or proposing, or getting mean more to him than a mere pastime, Pp! ie Rom rane way across the street. pe Jealous of the best man that ever| peckhcm's Carouse’ was Ade's first at- strolied up Fifth | married, or’— [Ht usually heppens tn the oarly stages | de” he added, “a chap can't help it. “Yea,” elghed the Bachelor, “and you ner RHA lo 1 Exe fyenue beside the beg your pardon, Mr. Travers?” | when he finds himself saying things| He doesn’t fall in love like @ woman, /are sure to get caught or to end in @ | her would L° sala Myrtle, give Le onP LAS Bachelor after the} won weil.” retort the Bachelor that are foolish and losing his appetite | With malice aforethought, and his mind smashup—or a breach of promise sult, * “Me to gaze at the ceiling.” : |eabenst the tinesand pheardljahoutalt wedding My di : | at the altar and his wedding clothes all - g ecelling.”. | ing a final da at her eyes and putting| ry ning: | nonchalant! ven't you ever d and n tng his business and reading at ” / | through a girl friend. She told me ot “What vou | Ronchalantly Pe aa et an tater ya a arn st leave you here, Mr. Travers,’ from P) Iphia that I'@ known for a hen handkercidet, ‘But I haventt|/ 7 oe ceaty: clever sketch that had Bs cet ye | half an hour on the beach shivering the Rubatyat and buying fancy neck | Picke eee ate STE EA in the Widow fel! i e : him yet. Who's been te! see funny,” de- He Rane aadeal Ire ae sees As a su e, E ‘ t Bey eee ay Jong time; and then T asked Myrtle HS Jou were the best man inet ser, been written by a young man on the Mnended the’ Bach: [3% YOAr Dathing sult and envying the| tes and tuming on the was when he) Ae f eumele Te Os saan’ ate isleiye. leavolims 2 slaved taal she'd called me'upifon anyihing in per |i vea—or did you doam it? I wouldnt | Record, and I errangedl to have! her elor reproachfully, | People out breakers, but dread | ineant to turn on the water a ‘in the dark, and his only thought 1s how isp i j 1 Heular a Welle covet have sheep 1 to be jealous of the best man) bring Ade to dinner. He was so modest dinvia lamb being) oe to take. then tinal nlunge and “I know!" broke in the Bachelor |i get away—but he always comes back nit geo any point, Miremarked) the: i anything so durned particular, for she'd | "0 ed, for he wouldn't give! that I couldn't get him to talk about his RetenRewtaND led to the slaugh- Wisting a big wave would come along quickly, “I've had it ugaint” i “explained the Bachelor, £ hung up the receiver before I'd finished A ee ripe ; Nel aittie play. All be would say was that rot and drag you in? That's the way a) ‘qjad—what?’ The Widow nearly| “When tt {8 too late,” rejoined tho {+ eta te eae me ay jon to be, but if ever Mttle play. y | ter n i "9 BIRD gIAA vention and, says I to ny Jaxnin I catch you riding around with|{t was trash and that I couldn't possi-| He aid look _rather—sheepieh,""| chap feels when jhe's on the brink of | dropped her chatelaine. Widow, waving her chatelaine. | claimed the Widow. velf, ‘I've got Myrt winging on thal silly faced, stringy haired, 3 eit. But I managed t t hola! a ain ra) atrimony and"— twp, sit feell explained | “its too late to—marry,’” a ito os Y i Cre gills faced. stringy hi sappy | Dly use tt. anaged to get hold agreed the Widow with a ripple of The waking-up feeling," explain ; i | AP a CPI }ealousy thing all right, and I win for |looking softie of a'~ rene All ike that, /of tt and asked him what he would laughter | “And a girl has got to come along! the achelor, “It's like suddenly finding | quoted the Bachelor lightly. elaine tantalisingly a4 AgHANY NOW: roid, alluding to the steady of ~eny| take for ft, ‘He wrote me several let-| “The poor chap had the ‘panic!’ de-|itke a wave and dras him in," ¢x- yourself on the of a precipice with | “But it's alw too late to mend t 1 toward the shop door, 3 When H sraprad round teiase Myrtfemend that Wd taken out for the Ifttle| ters advising mo to save my mone jpiared the or feelingly. claimed the Widow disgustedly, “or un insane desire to Jump over; you feel) web of love," declared the Widow, sighed the Bachelor pite- shat ning, though, she sent own nd lock spin. hy % ” y " * 7 » n ” a 1 seri y | “once it 1s broken, or woman's confi- 1 but finally I sent hime check for $200, “The—wha’ The Widow stopped| he'd never take the plu all! chilly and hot and miserable and happy nce 1 4 a wom : Spy ae They can always tind - . t rs BY | i word that she was busy manteuring her} gig’ our can't they especialy, Wie, | saying that I would keep the sketch | jingling her chatelaine and wrinkled her fow did you know Inqutred | and scared all at once, and”— dence once it has been shattered. And, I've got the ‘panic!"* ana he | halls and washing her hair, and that itlthey puli that weep gag on you?” "| and walt for him to set his own price. /nose questioninly ‘the Bachelor in mock astonishm | “and then you shut your eyes and enyway, running away from a woman! turned hastily down the avenue. ; 0-00 m PEEP RGR OES NPEPOG Is i POESEIDS POSOOE BBBBEPCOELECDD IPED IDO VO VHECGHHE-90 98-09. O0029900O-06-0-6> 4 000004 f B { AA Revelation of 'y Robert W. Chambers 2. ? ’ ry ’ = 4 coe » ” “ ; ° = -— : Y ‘@) N G R -—- = Author oi ‘‘7The Firing Line’’ and “A / etw York Society “= = Se) Ee S = . Fighting Chance.” \ (Copyright, 1907, by Robert W. Chambers.) jing him squirming at arm's length. for you to worry. However, it 1s only, suspicions. ‘This was the beginning of | culpability. Perhaps after al! a Ittleyapparent to me. Nor can it occur {f) I've got to bring up another matter—|marrying Alixe Varian, But how covl@ TREVIOUS INeTArLMenTs, |. Mmurderii” stammered Mr, Ruth-)proper that you should know this—|my failure to understand you; I was) more was due from you than what you| your personal attitude toward the world | something not very pleasant to me or|1 know you would meet her ou: there 7 NOPEA OF EV IOHe LET a, | VT ‘ wiioh {s my only excuse for writin; | sensible enough that we were unhappy, | brought to our partnership—a little more | js correct. Discretion and ctrcumspec- | to you, May I begin?" Inlithavorlent {ett erase youn aaniaies iy; hae resigned from, the army because) “No.” said Selwyn, “not this time, |you a letter that requires no acknowl-| yet could not see any reason for {t= | patience, a little more appreciation of | tion, @ happy, confident confronting of | “What ta tt, P. she asked, her|us was ike a thunderbolt, © © * And ee a NGulon leader “Roturning to | “But be very careful after this.” edgment. Very truly yours, Could ee no reason for the increasing |my own inexperience and of my efforts|iife, these, end a wise recognition of | quick, curious eyes intent on his trou-|when she—she left you 9 suddeniy lew York, Selwyn frequently meet te |" And he let him go with an involun- | “PHILIP SELWYN." restlessness and discontent which came|to make you happy. You were, per-| conditions, constitute sufficient safe- | bled tace Phil, dear—I feared the true reason—~ eihyen “te luring youn Fro fo| tary shudder, and wiped his hands on; To this letter she wrote an excited over you like successive waves follow- | | » Unwittingly exacting—even a@ Iit-| guard for a woman in your delicately “It 1s about—A *: the fonia possible reason that could be | Gamble at bia house. Pe he a alster, his handkerchief. and somewhat incoherent reply; and re- ing some brief happy interval when tle bit selfish. And those sudden, im- anced position. “What about her?” returned his 819° | responsible Ponisi anianiinnade taht ttre Al ita Nina Gerard, | HuUthven stood quite still; and after a roading it in troubled surprise, he be-| you gay i, beauty and wit fairly | puisive caprices for a change of en- And now, one thing more, You ask | tem calmly. | "What was the truth about her fath= F rare, ester, toile er, prother that, Eileen | moment the livid terror died out tn hig |SAn to gecognize In tt something of the dazzled me and everybody who came| vironment—an escape from the familis! |mo to meot you at Sherry's for a cone |_ "YOU knew her tn school—years ago.| oro” ne suid dogeatin, “He ean ses falling 1p love with bln soi jury | face and a rushing flush spread over it |Strange, illogical, impulsive attitude near you. And then, always hateful|—were they not rather hard on me wi \terence. I don't care to, Alixe. There |¥ou have always known her'— mantriniiaraethntavacinoraalenante bate ) Souuse, fer husband fears of thie|—a strange, dreadful shade, euriously| Moh had confronted him in the first, and (rresistiole, followed the days of} cculd who had no choice in |, A 4 ‘ "Yes," \Dacaryote s ‘end threatens Allxe into allowing Gerald | O° 00 en ON DAS ah | asalcoa ii ialimenaaanh ice | 124. the 1% Awe bal is nothing to bo sald except what can 4 h was that he became mene © gamble prain at the Ruthven house. | Bel paque; any he half turned, dizzily, rm zy + | depression, of Incomprehensihie {mpui the ‘ Of obedience to MY 6U-|ne written on letter paper. And I can “You—did you ever visit her?—stay ct responsible before his death.” Serpe, buslhieas, partne:, | Neorkard, bans a | hands outstretched for self-support. lere was the same minor undertone of that strange unreasoning resentment | periors aae neither the necessity won thei wies |thelVasians’ housot? ree MECH E} Be fyem the firm, “Neergard uses Gerald! Selwyn coolly watened him as he sank |Of Unrest sounding ominously through toward me, “Again and again I asked you to 60/401, of Gur writing any more lerter res.”" Pat ease ieee Aas var fort to force hime! , 5 ‘ ‘ i ; ‘ ’ , tte e tc A oet= id's dimtpation becomes notorious,” Bel-| OD. to the couch and sat hudded to-| every Hnei the samo illogical, unhappy | “what could I dot 1 don't for a|t0 some decent climate and watt for me|""yo, q tow daya no reply came; then nin her home in Westchester?” | girls. And for days she was haunted ) yp, warns Ruthven not to let Gerald) gether and leaning forward, his soft, ied Which implied so much ant! moment say that there was nothing 1|¥htl I could get leave, I stood ready |. received such o strange, unhappy, ew with the fear of what might one day + ile te jy home, | Buchven, retelietes mma | FID ged fingers covering his impurpled aald ¢o ttle, leaving hin uneasy ond! might have done. Certainly there must | 44 willing to make any arrangement | ora ses trate letter, that astonisied, | ‘There was a ellence; his eyes shifted |e rer meat OF WAaE might, oF ae h~ know what. And ofien in my confu- i ‘ ommand | tite iis ain ry MY. “Then you knew her~father? Saat At CHAPTER VII. of utter loathing; but after he had|dragsing him back from the present sion and bewilderment I was quick tem-|™moved out we had our last distressing |A\TAight to lls sister, who bad Fun wp) 208 fin neces: and £07 a widle Toads Ana (Continued.) gone, and Ruthyen's servants had dis-|*hrough the dead years to confront | pered, impatient to the point of exas-|!iterview. And Jf that night I spoke of a jut a a ARAL AO take | Mr. Varian. RAMAN OE SAK DUS ERT, Biry 4 Errands and Letters, — |°2¥°"°4 2m 9n4 summoned a physician, | once more the old pain, the old bevild- | peration—so utterly unable was I to un+|¥OUF Present husband and asked you to |}N0 Whe Lad telephoned his | "Was there snything uns| eet ae J their master lay heavily amid his paint-| tment at the hopeless misurderstand-| derstand wherein I was falling to make |e # little wiser and use a little more s |usual—about him—in those day: ‘Do ¥ No ta hi vw, ed draperies and cushions, his congest-|!ng between them, | discretion to avoid malicious comment it| Nina appeared very and BEPPY! stave you h etgntethe dsat lee suppose, a ily, OR an instant, now, as he stared at “ you contented, | 4 ani ania 4 HTH you he: th that she was not entirely responsible him, there was murder in his eye. |ed features set, his eyes partly open| He wrote in answer: “Of course I could not shirk or avold|\#8 not because I dreamed of distrust- | 8R4 youthful tn her spring plumage | rine asked his sister. “ ‘ hy E Then the utter hopeless helpless- | 4nd possessing siglt, but the whites of] ‘For the first time in my life I am| field duty or any of the detalls which|!ns You, {t was merely for your own but she excla Unpasieny Ab BI ae. ieoked up. Mie, What ia dt | ae eens cannes este eee Gia Heme of his position overwhelmed him, | (bem had disappeared and the eyes |going to write you some unpleasant | $0 constantly took me away from you, |suidance and because you had so ofte Hid and ay ote pallor) and) shen 8 | MIRAI AIT ’ cael es Ruthven, with danger written all| themselves, save for the pupils, were| truths, I cannot comprehend what yeu| Also I began t Jerstand your {m-|complained of other people's gossip | little later they were rested one. became busy with he ‘But—but—how in God's name eowl@ over him, stood up. his soft, smooth | like two dork slits filled with blood, have written; I cannot interpret what| patience of garrison life, of the monot- | about you. la the megee diningsropm Of @ ROPUIAN| 7 ots pac rigid, patient, 4 that possit She was so brilliaas Gumbe hooked in the glittering sash of | ‘There was no doudt about tt; ihe doo- | you evidently imagine I must divine in| ony of the place, of the climate, of the| “To say 1 was stunned, crushed, when | French restaurant she Dagan resting on his claretegiass. And p “so witty, so charmingly and cage iq Kimono, Sa tors, one and all, knew their business | these pages—yet, ag I read, striving to! peoplé, But all this, wh I could not |! learned of what had happened tn m m 6a 8 pret ‘aie ently she said with #€8: | {ously normal’ ’ meeting he said, backing | when they had #0 often cautioned Mr.|understand, all the old familiar puin! help, did not account for those dread-| absence, is to repeat a wite phra ba Bway ivstinctively, but still nervously | Ruthven to avoid suddons and excessive | returns—the hopeless attempt to realize! ful days together when 1 could see that | What it cost me is of no consequence eded to avert physical disintegration. | Lent Be tat ee | eae cotner aa bil fant and bones Mmpertinent, “and keep your distance. | emotions whereln I failed in what you expected|every minute was widening the breach | now; what it is now costing you I can Ot Is thero to Ua LOM ee alowives'*Phat je whr eel Gb FORE AMA If you've anything further to say to hat night Selwyn wrote briefy to| from me. - ne rn demanded, breaking bis from the | \eMl Sows © seers? : IY often WORe me, write it.” Then, growing/bolder a8 | stirs, Ruthven: “But how can I, now, be held respon-| “Alixe—your letter has brought it all t your letter, In every line, seems to| Sc of crisp bread Tne eae ee on merringe.t ss eater ra ee ion pote at = ) Selwyn made no offensive move.’ Write} «1 saw your husband this afternoon, | sible for your unhappiness and unrest! back, vivid, distressing, exasperating; | imply somo sivange responsibility on my | }8¥@ been clamoring for you day and beet , peter are emperor waa. & to me," he repeated, with a venomous | tte ty at Mberty to inform you of what|—for the malicious attlude, as you call and this time I know that 1 could have part for what you speak of as the de: | M8, and Eileen has been expecting a| VARS Or ; ae) sOMA ee gmirk; “it's safer for you to figyre @5 | passed. But in case he does not, there|{t, of the world toward you? Years done not! ”§ tO render you unhappy, |grading position you now occupy lettes-you promised to write her,| ‘he 9 aan yaks 44 M nies My correspondent than as my wife's lis ong detail which you ought to know:| ago you felt that there existed some oc+, because the time when I was responsi} “Degradation or not, let us leave that |!!! jof the teint i dreadful , | @Orrespondent— L-let go of your husband belleves that you ence| cult coalition against you, and that I ble for sucl matters is pas auide; you cannot now ayold being his I'm going to wr he e said | fathers errath He y so youths ‘What the devil are you d-d-doing'—~ | pyid a pisit to my apartinents. It t| was elther privy to it or indifferent, 1) “And this~forgive me if I aay it-|wite. But as fur any hostile wititude of | impatient wait @ moment, Nina—|than eccentricity befc 4) Pp om PA ae For Selwyn had him fast—one sinewy | unlikely that he will repeat the acou- | was not {ndifferent, but I did not be-' arouses a doubt in me—the first honest |society In your regard, any league or, don't speak of anything pleas: or—} would have told 3 eamed | (remunent « \daama twisted 10 his silken colls, 801d ation, and J think there le mo occasion| eye there existed any reason for your doubt I have hud of my own unshared coalition to discredit you, that la not oF intimate just LOW—because~becaalse ‘that yOu ever could have thought of (To Se Comtineata ‘ ‘ . : ’ ’ the asics inci teen