Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-08
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| herself its chief character. with setting
Of the stage at once adequate and salts
flying.
| He had always been plausible witt
| women and he was playing the situation
| for what It was worth. He could almost
believe In his own sincerity. He was con
| scious that he was managing the affail
| well: he even enjoyed his own speeches
which he uttered SO glibly that he won
dered at his fluency.
The appeal you made to me that first
afternoon did you credit; it was like you
| A man Of iron could not have failed to be
touched by what you said to me. l kne"
as no one else in town ever could know
what you were trying to escape. and how
you had set up my father as splendid
big god to worship. He was to be your
strength and your refuge. and you were
horrorstruck at the thought OF our goins
back to our old basis. / wanted to make
love to you and you would not have it.
felt the scorn you heaped on melt burn
ed me like hot Goals, but l waited:
waited, because / knew the time would
come when you would want and need me.
l knew how 1t would be, because I, too,
had knelt before the same glittering god
I'm going to be honest about all this-at
first ] thought it was your mother who
had cheated him, and l was glad of 1t;
then I saw it was the other way around
that you had been deceived and cheated,
and that you would have to pay for it.
When I saw that that was the way of it,
and that you were trusting him to end
your long campaign against the world.
my sympathy went out to you, and all
my old feeling for you came back. You
We're never so precious to me as you are
today-no one ever meant to me what you
mean. You are dear to me, dearer and
more precious than any words can tell
you, Addie.'
He had spoken rapidly. in low. vibrant
voice. She made no reply, but turned her
touched her hand she suffered him to
hold 1t; it slipped into his palm and rested
there at the tables edge.
II understood that whole matter Of your
changed decision about going to Boston.
1t was SO perfectly plain that it was
funny. Father didn't want you to go to
the Brodericks. To put it plainly, he S
the rankest kind of snob. He was a lit
tie bit afraid you weren't quite up to their
level. He had been crazy for years to be
invited there, and the chance was not to
be missed. He would have thrown over
my own mother In the same fashion If he
had played at being a great reformer In
her day. I remember, when l was a
two dolls we called king and queen. and
we set them up on a throne and wor-
SHIPPED them: but the king sprang a leak
one day and the sawdust came out and
for me. L was about fifteen when be-
gan to find out that father was stuffed
with sawdust 1t came about from his
title Of colonel. lot OF us boys were
Dragging one day about what our fathers
had done in the civil war. and 1 had
silenced the other youngsters by an
nouncing that my father was SO brave
that he had been made colonel, and one
OF the others came back at me the next
day with news he had got at home that
my father had never been In the war at
all-and it was true! And all this phil
anthroric work and these meetings he ad-
dresses so beautifully-it all comes Of the
cheapest kind of vanity. 1t isn't the
thing itself he's interested in; it's his own
name in the newspapers, Inc glory of his
after-dinner speeches at the Waldorf. and
quiet committee meetings at Old Point
Comfort about the time the shad are be-
ginning to run, and when It's nice and
comfortable to meet the spring down
and governors about any old thing. just
so it's far enough away from home.
When they come round and ask father to
go in for reform in Pittsburg he can't
the work, and is annoyed Wen the muck
raker writes us up. but press of other
affairs prevents him. and SO forth. The
fact Is that he's coward when 1t comes
to getting out on the firing line to be shot
at He wants the Indians in Wyoming
to be protected and the negro to be edu-
Gated but he's afraid to go up against
the gang at home. With cowardice and
vanity as the chief elements Of his char
acter-bah. you see it all-you don't need
to go into the case any deeper. You
thought you were solving all your prob
lens by marrying fire. chivalrous gen
tlemar, respected and admired by all the
world. but you have already got a taste
Of his real character. He's begun to leak
sawdust. He likes you because you are
pretty and gentle and biddable, but chief
ly because you listen so charmingly when
he talks.'
Wayne, WAYNE YOU don't know what