The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-02-10
tCISSIE AND CARRY.

every one expected him to take higl
place among the cleyerest men Of Iii,
year when he went iii for his tripos
But young Gladbrook was no book
worm and owed his superiority in knowl
edge more to the brilliancy Of his intel
1ect than to studious application. Al
the age Of twenty-one he found himself
his own master, with an income sufii
Gent to keep q bachelor in every luxury
This would have led many young mer
into excuses. but Gladbrook was steady
as q rock, and above all things prided
himself upon being adamant to the fair
sex--a fatal mistake in most cases, and
suggestive of the Scriptural warning
''Let him who thinketh he standeth be-
ware lest he fall On the night Of the
university boat race, in the year 49,
Gladbrook was sitting In d certain stall
at the Vampire Music hall. In the
next stall to him sat his greatest friend
Horace Morton. On the stage the Sis.
tiers Pool were delighting their many
admirers with their most fascinating
dance.
by Jove, said young Morton, whose
head was slightly swimming, "by Jove,
how those two poor girls whirli"
Eyes" replied Gladbrook, ssthey're
perfect whirlpools. In fact they ought
to be christened .Scylla and Charybdis,
for they are whirlpools in which many q
craft has gone to destruction
Morton was not too drunk to remember
this and not so dishonorable as to try and
palm it OF as his own joke. Consequent
1y next day all Seymour Gladbrook's
friends were talking about his latest wit
ticism.
Now Gladbrook was perhaps the only
man Of his set who was not more or
less intimately acquainted with Cissie
and Garry Pool, SO the whole story was
carried direct to them, together with the
name OF the originator
Henceforth Cissie and Garry were
known far and wide only as Scylla and
Charybdis. and they pretended tc appre-
ciate the jest, but in their innermost
souls they Especially the elder) cherished
= longing for revenge against their in
!. Gdious defamer.
Cissie (Scylla) expressed a strong de-
sire to meet the young wag who had
given her this Homeric nickname, and
As her lightest wish was law to her ad-
mirers the meeting soon took place.
After this Gladbrook seemed to find
these sisters everywhere he went. If he
was on race course they were sure to
be the guests of friend of his. Ii he
went out to supper they were always
invited. until he quite unconsciously
drifted into the friendliest relations with
them.
II was quite evident to every one but
Gladbrook that he was under very heavy
fire from the batteries Of Scylla. q fire
which no man had withstood for long.
She was then in the first flush of youth,
faultlessly beautiful in form and feature
charming IN manner and such master
OF the arts of fascination that they ap-
peared to be part of her nature. Glad
brooks friends first chaffed and then
warned him. He laughed at them and
called himself misogynist At first ii
seemed as if he would prove invulner-
able to the fusillade to which the lady
continually subjected him. He trusted
to his armor of indifference and was too
proud to retreat from danger His pride
led to his fall He fell as only brave
men do, utterly and hopelessly defeated.
The capitalization of young Seymour
Gladbrook, which caused so much diver
sion and amusement to his friends, was
sad to behold. The fact of his having
been indifferent to other women all his
life made him give himself heart and
soul to this one. Cissie Pg6 was jubi-
LIANT. She paraded her tame lover on
every possible OCCASION lin order that all
men and women might see how COM
plete her victory had been. He lavished
presents and jewels upon her until she
sparkled from brow to waist with dia-
monds, and people wondered how much
longer young Gladbrook's money would
hold out But in proportion as the
spirits of the elder Miss Pool rose those
OF her sister seemed to give out. She
became depressed and dull. The few
admirers she had dropped of one by one,
seeing that it was as hopeless for them
TO try and win her affections as it was
for her to expect ONE tender glance from
the man she worshlped. Seymour Glad
brook is not the only man who has de-
serted the substance to pursue the
shadow, and, blinded by the beauty of
the form. has ignored the purity of the
soul. Carry's nature was as perfect as
her sisters figure, while in Scylla's
character there was scarcely redeem
ing feature. All men who make this
fatal error suffer for it either in fortune
.,r self respect.
The day of reckoning came at last.
The jeunesse doree Of London was
thrown into the depths Of despair by the
news that the divinities at whose shrines
it had worshiped SO long were going To
seek fresh deyotees in America, and
would make q lengthy tour through the
Statea This blow fell like thunder.
bolt ON young Gladbrook. He was dis.
tracted. She was far away, and he had
not the means Of following her. Every