Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

1927 VI oo ~ n ."r ' ,n,n
fUnctory interest in their host. Judge
O'NgH himself, with the eager alertness
Of the rising lawyer yet hardly faded
into the calm, judicial aspect. faced tie
chaperon. who was his best friend. But
just he was hardly aware of Mrs.
Cartons presence. SO absorbed was he
in the pleasure. almost physical. awaken
cd by his nearness 10 the younger and
more lovely women who sat upon his
right and his left.
DIR. Lawrence. with the untempered
zeal of Traveller newly returned, was
dscoursing.
''Of course you may see glaciers and
mountains almost anywhere. he said,
with a little wave of his hand. as though
the city streets. which rumbled dmly in
the distance. were piled with these COM
monplaCC objects. And l confess tn
although. of course. l was much I'M
pressed by their grandeur. it wa little
thing that struck my Imagination more
than ANYTHING else | saw out there among
the Canadian Rockies. You know ii Is
often that way. Here ! stood on slight
rise of ground. a mere hillock. which
could not he for an instant compared with
the great peaks around and yet of in
tinitely more dramatic Importance than
they. | looked directly up the course of
a stream which came dashing straight to-
ward me- but just before it reached me
few stones interrupted its path and the
current was divided almost in the mid
ole. one half of it dashed away to the
right and the other half to the left. ne
curious part of il is that the waters on
one side find their outlet in the Atlantic
and those or the other side in the Pa
cific. l saw visibly before HE the parting
of the ways.
AS far as the east is from the west"
murmured the judge idlN
The good book doesn rtelI US. does it.
where the transSressions to be
found?' asked the chaperon. 1T is only
says they are hemisphere-or is it half
solar system away"
They re always at the other eud.
Mrs. Carlton, answered Judge ONeil.
lightly. IF YOU re a weSterner trans
gressions are found in the east If you're
easterner they are piled up in the
west. AS far as Seattle is from New
York far
or. if you're an European they
with the yellow peril; if you're an Asiatic
they among the Christian dogs. AL
ways conveniently piled on the other
mans shoUlders-eh?" said Mr.. Morris.
But to return to the subject, cut in
DIT. Lawrence, not TO be thus lightly
baked of his conversational prey by friy-
olous neighbors. and oblivious of the ire
which Is always aroused by those who in
sist on telling the tale of their travels.
The fellows in the party would go up
q
of wood and then lay bets as to whether
their chips would end up in Hudson's bay
or in Puget Sound
And what decided it, do you think,
fate or chance asked the girl on the
left.
My dear Mss Eveleth. what a ques-
ton TO ask Lawrence. Don't you know
he's fresh from the train. He thinks
nothing more abstruse than sleeping cars
and cind ers-in-your-eye at present. Wait
Till the crisis is passed-till he stops be-
ing Munchausen and becomes ordinary
cItIZen-before you consult him about the
ruling forces of the universe. If you want
TO talk philosophy, come to me-
Unfold your wisdom them said the
smiling girl.
Well. on the whole. l think chance
rules. l ought to know for I've expert
enced her capricious favor myself. be-
gan a little below the foot OF. the ladder.
as perhaps you know, and 7 can't dis
cover any particular merit on my own
part. so | think it must be that / just
happened TO be pushed along until al last
l became SO fortunate as TO sit at the
You are living refutation of Your
own argument. interrupted Mrs. Her.
res, on his right. You were born. pre-
destined. TO. succeed Fortune herself
couldn't find il in her heart to do you
an ! turn. believe with all my heart
that she is as susceptible a creature as
all the rest of her sex and the combina-
ton OF an lrishman and gentleman is
VIGOROUSLY irresistibie-especially If you
ADD d touch Of American vigor.
He turned toward her with a purely
frenchman, which is a thing of glitter
and OF Wit, but rather the smile of an
lrishnan. which is thu overlooking of
recklessIy prodigal nature.
Il m so glad you think So" he said
with suddenly lowered voice.
y little flush came to her cheeks, and
she bent her head i'll sudden absorption in
her dinner. The chaperon the other
end Of the table grew oolvious of the
further adventures which DR.. Lawrence
ponderously poured into her apparently
listening ears, oblivious of the chatter
of Miss Evreth and Nh Morris on her
other hand, a she watched the Judge and
mis- neighbor.
Mrs. Carlton WAS what smart journal
ism damns by the BRIEF phrase. a So
ciety woman" Yet society during the
many years IN which she had played her
part in its charmed circle. had always
meant Ia her real men and women-ai-
belt whipped mo such shape that they
might meet and mingle. For its tinsel
she Jared little. In the reality, which lay
below, she still believed: and it pleased
her 10 he one of its constructive forces.
So even into worldly middle age she kept
q saving belief in human nature, and man
AGED that impossible combination, Ideals
and shrewd common sense If Judge
q Neil had looked for n visible embod-
ment Of the Lady Chance. whom he de-
Clared to be his patron. he might have
found her at his own board. with her
kindly face. her approaching double chin,
her temples lightly touched with frost,
and all set off by flowing evening
gown lie himself would never realize
LOW, adroity and by small degrees. she
lad made him d part of the world in
which he now lived. There was no sud
den TRUSTING him forward with the
command that society should receive
whom she received. She was too much of
AN artist for that But if you had asked
her concerning his fortune. she would
have told you that the substance all
there when she discovere him. a crude.
ambitious. awkward Irish lad, without
connections. She had ruthlessly cut away
and polished. but she could not create
the diamond
And now he was thu Youngest judge
ON the bench. and the best investment
she had ever made of her time and in
terest. \ panorama of the whole game
pasSfd before her she watched him.
she had moved her pawn up to the king
row and vas about to crown him; and
where was a crown To be compared with
Maroon Eveleth, with her head like
'lyle's and her calm eyes? If she-Mrs.
'arlton-Could have found the fountain
OF youth and spicei its waters with a
fairy wish. she would have drank her
d-aught and heen transformed into such
a Marion.