Evening star., 1911-07-30
CURTIS JANNEY was alread
~ come the arrivals.

"Billy-Dorothy welcome! OF you had to
bring your buzz wagon suppose II be driven to build
garage day. but 1t will be well down by the East
Lodge Do you expect to follow in that thing? Rita!
Awuly glad. Your hunter last night He
looks fit as fiddle Aren't you coldo Gretchen dear
ring for tea
priated wraps and hand baggage, and departed
ave timed it nicely" said Havand looking at his
watch, forty from the ferry. We passed your
wagons moment ago. Gretchen, who's the red haired
girl with the Runsens?'
at IT, Brnte3 That's Mrs Wray. None of us has
chance when she's around. Here they are now
The station wagons drew up at the terrace, and
the guests dsmounted, Mr. and Mrs. Rumsen with
the Wrays in the station wagon, and Baroness Charny
the Warringtons Jack Perot, and Lawrence Berkely
"Well, Worthy got here, after all. Caroline Mrs
Wray would you like to go right up, will you wait
for tea Wray, there's something stronger just inside
Show him. won't you Billy"
Wray entered the big hall with renewed appreciation
of the utility of wealth The houses in New York that
he had seen were OF course built upon more moderate
scale. He had still to discover that men OF wealth
learning to make their week-ends out of town
longer and that the real home life of many of them had
been transferred to the country where broad and
mitless enabled her crafty their tastes in de-
veloping great estates which would hand down their
in the architectural history of the country
when their city houses should be overwhelmed and lost
in the march of commerce.
Curtis anney for all his great respons blties,
open air man. and he took real delight in his great
Tudor house and stables. The wide entrance hall that
that distinguished the later work of the great
lingo Jones. This lofty the keynote of the
buildnga double cube shape, the staircase led from
the opposite the door ornate character purely
classic, the doorWayS to the other the
floor masteru in structural arrangement and elegant
in their grace and simplicity 1t almost seemed as
though the room had been designed framework
for the wonderful Vandykes placed at each side of
the stairway.
left smiled as he walked into the smoking room, the
smile of possession He -ealized as never before that
taSt cOu1d he
with money would buy stock piece of real
The only differenc between Curtis anney and
himself was that his host I'd an ancestor or two, while
Jeff had none.
Miss Janney had quietly and cleverly appropriated
Lawrence Berkely, and already her way to the
conservatory Jack Perot who painted the portraits
of fashionable women had taken the Baroness to the
Long Room where the English pictures were hung.
Camilla, after few polite comments on the dignity
of the house, sat little aside in silence Cortland
Bent, after glance toward the door through which
Miss Janney had vanished dropped into the vacant
chair beside her.
know the magnifcence is rather bewildering." She
paused and lowered her voice. at if hadn't
you for ages.
"Yes7 he murnured. "I'm expecting wings any day
now. I'm almost too good to be true
you're angel" she smiled. a want you to be
good, and I'm sure want YOU to be true. And yet,"
She paused "ths the only the world where
to be true is to be bad"
"You can't make the sun stop shining"
81 don't think want it to stop shining altogether.
You I'm selfish. | want it under cloud that's
ALL"
There pause, significant to them both.
al am trying, Camilla. | am doing my best. You
appreciate that"
aYes; but it shouldn't be hard. l don't think it
would be hard for me in your place.
His eyes questioned.
miss Janney-she is adorable She looked over
the rim of her cup at him she finished her tea. "My
dear Cort," she laughed she handed it him. "the
best say for you is that you have the
boo,
can't see what you could have been thinking Of"