Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30

Il often offer her as an object lesson to Nina De Witt
Poor Nina IS quite another sort There are really pos
sibilities in Nina. She loves life sou
"And her husband?" he inquired.
oh, Dudley! Dudley is anatomy, patho-
logical specimen. I'm awfully sorry for him; but I'm
eyes, know.
Dudley will really live to be thousand. Dyspep-
tics always do. It's very selfish of him.
You mean De Witt stands for this sort of thing?"
"What can he d. poor man? He accepts Tommy ir-
ritably visitation of Providence just as he accepts
his nervous indigestion. He's had them both long,
suppose he'd be lost without them; but it seems as
though something might be done. Nina isn't nearly so
clever Florrie Vanuxem (she was Mrs. Welby- King
you know She laid trap for Welby-K King, and he
went into it. So she managed to get big slice of his in
come, which she shares with Percy" She stopped
her sprlghtness dropping from her like mask. "Oh
she said scornfuly, we're lovely lott
TT seemed such easy step from cynicism to bitter
Garriott wondered that he had never seen her
take it., and it set him thinking. Which the real
was bitter? And which interested him the more? She
was little different from anything feminine in his
perence and the guise of cheerful pessimsm she habit
rescued him from his own nfestivitv. But the brief
flash he had caught from the clearer depths below the
surface aroused interest that her gay comradeshp
no matter how clever had inspired. There were
moments when she worldly that he gave her up
IN despair moments when she seemed to live only for
the present. so long as it amused her. Even then her
cleverneSS kept the battaliOns on her own side; for
Brooke not without sense of humor She seemed
to have forgotten and, leaning on the gunwale, was
looking aft alongside into the foamng this
the real woman, or only matcralist caught in the
gossamer meshes of Inmateriality?
For time Garriott made reply, but busted himself
with the engine. There was nothing for him to saw
He agreed with her perfectly. They unovely.
You may think me tiresome," he ventured at last,
or provincial if you like but it strikes you people
don't get the worth of your money You spend most of
your lives hunting sensations, inventing expensive
exctenents flirting with danger and enduring vice be-
cause it is the fashion to be vicious. But since I've been
in New York haven't met of you with the nerve to
sin grandy for sins sake You sin you do other
things half heartedly with eye the gallery. Per-
sonllly think it pays best to be decent but if
reached the condition of mind when decency ceased to
be possibility, don't think I'd be willing to stop at
half measures.
Perhaps we're wiser than you, she smiled. "Un-
less whole measures succeed, they wholly fail. think
Id rather be half hearted than broken hearted"
There's no excuse for you to be either You have
everything in the world wish for; but
think the best gift you have is conscience
His reading of her character pleased her. not much
because it true because it showed her what he
thought of her His drawl had seemed more in
genuous, his admiration candid His voice sounded
like echo from the far Arcadia she had forgotten. So
sweet it was that the coquette in her couldn't resist
appeal for more.
"You WISE Brooke Garriott, wise! There's
no wisdom like the intuition of inexperence Am so
to read?"