The evening world. Newspaper, May 2, 1914, Page 10

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MOTOR-BOAT BUCKS JS ALL ASK The Return—A Little Story of the Greek Quarter ‘Written Kapressly for The Eveming World By Ethel Watts Mumford Copyright, 1916, by The Pres Publubing Oo, (The New York Kvening World.) of Mona Lisa—for she was not de-| ans and the advance of the victorious | stead, she seemed more cheerful every ;country. Do not listen to lies. He ceived, She had always shown him|Greeks, His soul rebelled—he hated | day, and either ignored or failed to] swore to you, Helena, that within the her favor. There had even been a| himself with a furious loathing. His| realize the sneering compassion of her| year you should see him. I believe time, before the coming of Solon, | friend, his partner, was out there in| companions. him--absolutely-and—so must you.” when, had he spoken, she would have|the bloody forefront of the battle, Kilcaides, the candymaker, returned | She turned even paler answered “yes,” And now she slowly |Tisking his life day by day for lib-|from Greece. He, it seemed, bad] “You bid me w realized that Demetrius irked her|erty, for tho freedom of Macedonia, | recognized Solon, or thought he had,| | Ho covers 6 with his hands, with his constant repetition of the| for the honor of civilization Itself,|in a wine shop in Salonica only two for his lips were twitching. She name of Solon—in her heart she was| 4nd he here breathed the perfume of /months before. The man had risen| watched bin with aching, tearless unfaithful, In vain she scolded her-|"owers, and his fingers were grown | hastily and left before Kilcaides could | eyes, TE was down on Demetrius]of roses, pink roses faintly tinged|s#lf, and spent long sleepless nights |#oft In the woman's task of sorting| make pure, ‘This tule was 4 stagger-| “I beg you to wait," he said at when he and his friend and|with bron her 11; in prayer for the safety of the brave; #94 binding blossoms, while in his |ing blow. Jengih. . er ips were red and} oid no far away. Into her thoughts | heart, day by day, grew the love of| Bravely Demetrius stood to bis| ‘Then for you, I will,” she whis- Partner Solon Gorgens, bad) smooth as the cannas; her breath as| would creep a vision of poor, devoted, | Helena—Itelena, the betrothed of his! guns, No one dared mention his part- | pered and turned to Ko. thrown dico to|SWeet as spiced carnations; her teeth | ugly Demetrius, with his love of her | ‘fiend. But Solon had laid his com-/ ner to the erstwhile gentle vendor of | Pemetrins recovered himself. decide which one |ittle and white as the bells of the|eating at bis heart, and his lips 6 mands upon him. He must go. to| blossoms, who over-night had become} “I meant to ask you,” he sald in mat- lilies of the valley, His beautiful! ready in praise of his friend, i {her cheer ber. He must not let her|a fire-eater, Hlians, the proprietor of | ter of tact tor "to come with me should return tOlitelena!—his no sore Even in Rei Pie Sap eT i lane ang | forget him. the Pirtus restaurant, received @ sud-| to-night. Right around the corner Greece and en-|thought she was Solon's. Vicariously, | the tracie comedy and tell her oe hia Sull no letters came. ‘The swift,jden black eye in return for a casual| they show the moving pictures of the list. Fate had she would be “their Helona” | Jove. econ If he must refuse. und | 2leedy campaign drew to its trium-| remark, en the sullen relatives of | Balkan war, the troops in action, It Maciadea. onl of the firm of Vastatos and i ‘Tho Bulgars were driven | th rted damsel sidestepped the} is the first night. I will eall for you," she asked. Gueen send him from her. 5 i) posdeea bristling honor of the little man. So-| “You wish that L shall not forget Solon, Demetrius} "Then came the war Letters came, letters eaxerly read] jonica, in garlands of joy, had re-|lon, he reiterated, had said he would) him,” she said. ou are a good , “ , and passed around among the anxious | ¢, Y her eum ana fe he would. | friend,” bowed fo the de- Tt would have wettied matters so ks, greedy for news, personal | “ved Boe Sune on thelr facurn--and | recnya 4 A Rove bee day Demetrius Prana , , 5 ord a ies 0 November day Demo day Dometrius suffered the tor- cision, though |"IMPIy. If Solon and Helena had {news of the war lon ‘whotesen. /srii no Word. Helens and Demetrius | One obit Nore All day Demetrius suffered the tor: Rage ¢ panned the lists o: f | tood in the aroaway bef married and run the shop together, | thusiastically, - Valngloriously, after | rcunned the Llats of the alain with | atood an the areuway es Ms soul longed | while Demetrius res: 5 4 esponded to the call/the manner of his kind, His. tales | Cees : “y wore to leave the flower shop and find|f duty. But Solon would not have! were epics, his personal prowess nec. | UPpear. The Greek-American yolun- | themums as they were ¢ fteelf part of the great surge of patri- COSY Pesetciue baa Pleadod ond to none, Yet even his hero mis-| ; c almos ol are Otlam that whould force out the Turk |driven to confessing hin unhappy {oneniers Genes Salta ate eevee tis and throw off the malefic influence |love, but he could not bring himself |paim to the silent courage of Deme- @f the Crescent. Quietly and with |{@ the polut. ‘Then they had agreed | trius to let Fate decide. Demetrius re-| "4 Methodical care he had wet about | jojiced, Fate could not help knowing | aie wre his shop | tures of hell. A thousand times he ft eaey cursed himself for a fool. But a M) calmer mood enveloped him as, with ers began to arrive none knew of| the cart backed up before sim. Tt] Helena by his side, he took his’ place urgens. Could it be possible,| Was early in the morning and the/in the little theatre, Ho felt he had etrius wondered, that his partner | chill wind of the east blow down the] dono right. Ho had been true. had decided to r n in Greeve ax|damp street, penetrating bis thin sult)” Before them on the sc they on | - tho simplest method of slipping out|and makings him shiver, gain the bare, bold outlines of the of an engagement that had become| “The wind of the dead,” he said lonian hills; the leap of its tor- irksome because of the coming of! aloud to himself, voicing an old leg- the clear sharpness of its at- |b ere right,” id 1 shoul e aaidin Greek.| , jo ede Byehter§ No Difference. en for a month or more there was ater ih peed q k to let us know—be understands, | [REDDY was six and went planning thelr affairs, so that, alono, how snuch bettey it wan for ian ee auence, The war was over, Pellce WAH gomm other, newer love? “Hut there] end , 20." He signed the re. | With suspended breath | Demetrius.” achat eae eae i oe he might carry on the businoss, It /Ko-. So It was With ‘assurance. that eee eeee aah | was the business and his half inter-|celpt and turned back into the store, | and throbbing pulses, they beheld the — Demetrius looked at her, “If he ¥ had been hard to sny farewell to hin | 0 Hud rattled the bits of bone und (tho reception accorded the victorious] Syl It, Would he ubandon that?| but paused aa 8 voles, Called Mie) Creeks advance the rush of cavalry eid endemiende Rake Saher eran a: uae 5 cordet Os! Solon must kno cast them, nor could he believe his] troop: e had received promotio: 3 how they had pros-|name, It was Helena, Th ‘a friend; it had been hard, too, to wit-/cyes when they decided Maing’ nine: EE ps. He had receiv ad prom vs | pered, Even with the generous gifta| her choked him, as it alw the bursting of bombs and shrapnel; | She nodded gravely. ‘Together,|tom of your class,” hess the grief of Helena Crestatos, | He cursed dreadfully in three lan- ents Ie One Loe Bae oa i but) he had felt called upon to contribute| He threw open the door for her to| the wounded in the hospitals, }you and I will burn candies, many) hen Freddy sald: “Ty Bis flancoe—for Demetrius loved her, | KUtkes. He was broken-hearted, rae P etait yet to the Red Cross, their balance sheet| enter and followed her in with a| Every face in the whole audience! candles, in the church—for I feel makes no op 4 in @ posteript addressed peculiarly to) showed a Yr profit dt red greeting. Opening one of | was strained and white, It was their matter whether I am at the bettom or 00} loved her and had given her up |g ith? care of Helena,” Solon had | jieteni + and things| stamme: eir | sure sight of | the artillery manoeuvring under fire ays di oe “reddy, I hear you are at the bet to him a t : "Don't oF % promised well for the winter, the newly arrived boxes om the long own country, their own people. The) “And [ also,” agreed Demetrius. the top of the 4 Men habAscwoe Bolen. bad eteppad| ner Evieve tot Roth kak hen te oe wy De pot erleve at delays." he wrote. |” Autumn came and sll no word, and| table, No tok from it a bunch of | horrors vf Wat, the ruins of Serres,| Hand in hand they turned frow,tbe| teach pst the Sinem, 4 pol Rd | Mato the game, Who was he, small {out with you to see things, Let ber|the year is outet sweat it now Demetrius raged ut the thought | shell-pin flowers and held them to- | of Negrita, of Doxata, the pitiful,| garish lights of the theatre. ‘The ern Christian Advocate. with ¥ 4 of Solon, Either he was in some| ward her. “Please accept,” he said, piled victims, A picture flashed be-| bleak night engulfed th father and ‘soliiah brothers, “I leave | ,dieh heart fell, “Somehow, she had) camp hospital, unable to make. his| howine. fore them—a rocky trench on a hills “Ain't them wops a queer lot! Helena to be his wife? It seemed! her to you, my Demetrius, Do not | YAkuely pepad hat | Bolonie | newly | whereabouts know ‘Absontly she took the blossoms and | side, in the wake of a charge, A dead| the doorman, "Did ye pipe what a nly natural that she should prefer let her forget me,” and he kissed bis | Aroused Interest in hia native tant) erately intending ner, Their strong color | soldier, gazing upward calmly with|seare they’d had thrown into ‘em? | would wean him from his thes in| Fete ‘There hud Jiance on her pale face, | iia e e Bis tall, broad-shoulderod friend, with fiend on both cheeks thut wore wet! tin new world, even from. her. She | ieee ere ed a : my | Cit shes cor pnehea dente end dark and ugly, to ask the lovely |POt ™ y was delib- the lovely held them to no love lost| cust a rose between the handsome volunteer. ane yemetriu she sald, “can patria,” said the voive o vife, and they got pinched, Gee! I the silken mustache and the white | ear true: to hie trust, had welcomed the long noslect which | the fat father and selfish pte iep eraci sine no longer. All night U1 Fivom the dar eof the wit Mt araat one ok ean eroune the @kin of the highlander, Demetriun never wavered in the devotion he spillage Neue erented ho intended jilting it would be safe) have not slept, nor for many nights, He was on her feet, her eves " @truggic—outward struggle, that ts, peter they Siheaded. the poaries Ay iearned of it through letters trom | is strong in the lelloney idently |qens. 1 tell you, Demetrius, first of caught telona as her body: relaxed, | Well—Isn’t It? for inwardly he suffered torments of saifish brehren, dined at one af tha | womes bat from the patriot himself | to drop out of sigtt coupleely would |All” Shy looked at hia, ‘and her tainting, and amid the tesive silone SCHOOL teacher was reading ® Qealousy. little Greek restaurants of the neih-| "the blaging days of summer | eajthe Cnly, real safety even we v tender, Mit ty not of the gripped audience his lifted her | Demetritis saw black looks 4 ss bes | hurt pri tween the wn ohe,| ‘Phe ttt prom. | heart and pressed there olet her) wounded, Mis eyes ds his have| face with starved long Demetrius. and bore her to the outer door. a story to @ class of very small man's hands flew to bis) ‘There the © yellow glare of the folks and paused at the words fhe werelare lights beat upon them, making | "lay brother” to explain their mean- aul oured her | her look Itke nn inanikin, “Tho | ing "Does any one know what ‘lay | ofthe hided augmach ana ‘yee, eastas ing, but still | attendants © wars to relieve him | brother’ means?" she asked, eo the ay noment A row of perplexed | *toduce a’ healthy mage without 4% | borhood, his talk was ever of bis “ : ne ow ery day as he wu: c i 2 brought slack trace to the flower pl ified packed the cases! rriend—what Solon would havelquarter in, Twenty-eighth street @ fers, before the basement en-| thought of this or that; bow pleased | daca when in the cool, SWeet-reented fance of the little store on West) Solon would be with the e Hent apness of the basement store, D Fwenty-elghth street, he mentally | report he had to make of the progress | metrius sat hours upon hours strug- it corrective of tom x wd to the guns of his loyalty, | of his bi » waved them back| For @ -odi foe Pempared the perfect blossoms to her | Of the business; how much he missed | gling with his fumiliar demon, or upaain| i 0, al ho oriad.” "Do. not say | and nat the’ wall Uttle faces looked up at her. Then |snd- sw Semin? One seer som face. The dark velvet sien | Ri8 Partner; how much she must miss] pored over the columns of Atlantis of the|it! Do not! L must beg, beg of you, y . She opened her|one face brightened suddenly and Box of GO Pilis, 260; & fer 81, ban: him, too. And Helena velled her} with its daily cables of the terrible! young men who came anew to court! Do not do this, Solon, our bravel great oyes wide and staring, and] small voice piped, “Yes, ma’am—it A i Gx ther dreamy ayes; ber tace was dark fawn's oyes and smiled the emile devastation wrought by the Uulgari- ihe beauly of the Greek quartes, lu- Malom, whe went te Gghs fer bie seemed suddenly to atreagth, | soostes!'"—Xouth's | ’ * 4 Rist