New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-06

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Cauu FL. up her fingers pleadingly. Don't speak.
torr. and rising. she took up her gloves and
crop firm %. table. Besides, my dear Trend she
sad - ---.v 81 have d suspicion that YOU are try
ire O. Stir ~ D. tempest IN teapot.
I'D. ... mean YOU haven Z noticed. he INSISTED
@.c 20. .-.e-s III the Warrngtons last night at
$50. replied c4relessy, 81 hadnt noticed.
Curt. ---ar who had been moving fussly from
one -- M On mother. came forward as he saw Camilla
rs .... hoping we might still get another short
nm. ... ...u0se YOU re too tired Mrs Wray;
Il --. but don let me interfere. think can
f.. t his watch Hello. Its time we were
If a-.-s.. The other guests will be eating all our
r~-a- &c. Come Cort. Gretchen Mrs. Cheyne-you
know q. my guest still And 50 on, strolIng from
g-.r- --e1 and rlthesslv breaking up the tete-a-
,--.- ss-ally that Rita Cheyne rebeled.
-[ very disagreeable person, Mr.. Janney. Ivy
wild 70. You're trying % form the hospil>iAIy
Il Gil. .--- into one II those horr1C trusts. livery
-.-r. ..-- throws the hunt my way YOU INSIST on
.-ae--. - u Q. Braebank 1t ism talr. 81 course
v.. .....--- And then. crossing 70 Camilla, Dear
Mrs. #-.. u borrowing your husband ior aWnle.
feel --. tired. So be promised % luncn WIN me
here --. gu Oh o. Braelank later. gu Don ihlIU'
-N.- r the least. my dear Mrs Cheyne. m 50
s.-- ... badly Perhaps YOU shouldn't have nd
den - And then 20 her husband Remember
Jeff ..- ..-uev expects YOU later.
s- efusvelv the tips Of their fingers Just
..-... Then Mrs Chevne followed her visitors 10
Out coach horn was blowing, and as they
rma- cr.r the porch the Janney brake arrived
.o...# tic coachman and bearing alott Mrs. Kun
SEN A.. .-.- Bent and GLADYS, who had arrived from
-wc -.. morning train. But they would not geU
down the c4valcade soon wound It's way along the
t--. ,-g left and Mrs. Cheyne waving them
good. the steps
Cs...-a took the road -houghtfuly. 1t was the
- time ~ their brief social career thaJ JeH l.au
not ted her before he made his own plans one
l.t -. --- aim altogether; Tor she Kle" Ilat JeII
l-e.. made him sIngularlv vulnerable % Cle dII9
of Il the tvye If Mrs. Cheyne who tor want
q. -. .-r occupation in lie, had come 10 CoIsluel
ar nf,l prev. Camilla knew that mild tlrta-
t..r the rule rather than the exception III tlS gay
w.- .-a idle people caught at anything that put
O. the irsstent demon Of WEAKNESS and boredom:
An. discovered that IL was part OI the diversion oI
t.. ...- married couples 70 lend and Dorro" nus
t.--. wives o. satisfy the light fancy Cl Jhe nGuI:
All - WAS part If the fabric in which she ana zen
we- .-e and endangered society only When the
W.-..- q. weak and the men vicious.
B.. s.~ebCg. didn't seem 10 fit into the picture
His -.lcv She had learned % associate with sig
a-. ..e,ements His faults as well as his virtues
Eer and he had habit Of scorlI-g $50 81 20
The II a mild Irritation such as ms DIoOi'GI ~
Gid. m ,,f-. INDULGE In for the mere delight Of the
Society . woman would offer nothing to jeff, VINO was
not - habit II doing anything mildly OF ny l91'09'
C.--.- .-...g him better than Mrs Cheyne dl
.t -. no one thought anything Of hs ne" inJeTeSt.
m N.- .ee.ue All the younger men were Interested
10 ..- raevne at one time or another ana II "aS
c..- ,e.Dle had even noticed his attentions orr
Ian. . tst there was a reason for that Anything
that a-.-st,t left IN her eyes was meat ana drink
.. m But was cruel Of Cortland to take ady4nt,.ge
os r.- .t..r, How could she cut herself OF from
or. .. t- t..st'.7s b,. tine nature Of the situation
bad -.l.. Hers9 completely on his mercles' II seemed
as .g. al the world was conspring to throw i ler
WILL .. .ne man whose image she had PROMISED hfT
Conscience she would wipe from her heart ne -, l1uo
ID. seivr rITfI
u.- ceeutlv the measure OF his appreciajio 81 ,
a-...r She felt that he too was entering Ine L.
% Ia.s,or with the surer step OF da"mIs IIoys
Will. l4lCered on the brink Of the oous" Vi 'D'
THEY had fallen well behind the others and iol.oe5
quiet lane bordered by q Of brch trees VIZ,