Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
The Motor Conspires
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started on this trip? Didn't you agree that
| If | came along you wouldn't mention that
| subJect-not even once!
TRENwAY: Yes Ibargained to keep the peace
| while we were motoring. But you don't call
| this motoring. do you? / call it shaving in
| stoke hole, blowing in wilderness of SCOT.
And IN tell you one thing that ism two! I've
got to be paid before go any further with
this. And there's just that answer that
can pay me. It's at least two years since |
began to try to collect: so it S way overdue!
ALICIA (e1'dsively): How can l stop now to
TRENwAY (very firmly; All right! Nix on
taking me-then nix on my being Mr.. Fixit
with this old motor!
The aforementioned center OF disturbance chngS
once more afth sort OF rePressed chnckR. uIrile
Treu5rdy 1ery sio1Uly emerges and deliberately
assumes resttnl position on the side OF the road.
He lights cigarette and stretches gratefully.
ALICIA (hurt1: don't think it at all nice or
kind or chivalrous of you to take advantage
of a bubble
TRENwAY (qniekl1): Is that Black Hole of
Calcutta a bubble, l. should call it preci-
pice, dilemma, monumental obstacle.
gigantic cul-de-sac! Anyhow. | stand on
my rights. Here I've been the living image
of Patience for twenty-four long. heavy
footed months. Why in comparison to me.
old Job was petulant, mpainng. neuras-
thenic bundle of peevish nerve ganglia! And
as for sticking to agreements. how about the
little matter of discouragng that Marble
person? Didn't you say that if | would be
good-as you call t-youd reciprocate by
causing him to fade gently away. politely
evanesce, pass on. or, to be outspoken to
beat it, And have you done that?
ALICIA (apologetiedND: Well
TRENwAY (1pith breezy aejremeuce): Not SO it's
visible to the unaided eyel That attenuated
specimen of the genus chump has been your
alter ego-to express it fantly-for the last
four weeks. And if you have discouraged
him, then it must have been mirage that
saw!
ALICIA (u1A rognish demureness): 1 never
dreamed that you would be jealous of Mr..
MARBLE!
TRENwAY Gnrionsly): I'm not jealous l
never would be jealous of anything like that
wouldn't dignity him by paying the slight
est attention to him. | wouldn't think
twice about him for all the money he pre-
tends to have! He's pinhead, hopeless,
miserable, wizened. dried up simple minded
nconsequential excuse for a taior's bill
He's circle without any rim around it; an
empty balloon, IA
Dark seoarlS obscure the natural Sunniness of
the Irenasdr usage he essays additional COM
plfmentS 10 the absent Marble.
ALICIA (yet more demarely): Oh!
Az tins innctnre ii occnrs to Tren7ray that
Alicia is capitaHy enjoying his rage, rlieh
oddly enough does not precisely dHav it.
lRENW Az (lfrH more Sd1dgerJ Ndu euer): W ell,
isn't it true? Has that insufferable, picayune
blot on the landscape ever done anything in
the world but drawl around. spend the money
his doddering old pater is simple enough to
give him. and annoy every decent fellow
I'm not jealous but do think that-that-
ALICIA (s1peetly): What do you think Dick.
TRENwAy Gin a brief interlnde OF sanity and
edntion): Well. | guess I'd better not say
it, | might get into trouble. But you are
not going to put off the main track by
any such scheme this. III tell you what
| really think that subject some other
time. Just now I've something vastly more
important my mind; something that
can't wait another single second. What is
my answer,
ALICIA (1pibt the queer mixture OF Impotence,
Pleasure regret. concealed expectancy, re-
lnctance. enjoyment. apprehension, frankness,
subtle disfngennousness, and the thousand and
one other things that com prised in the femt-