Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-08

I've given you the first time looked in the glass.
"oh but it's very atraetlye SMILE Sara 5 hasten ned
lust as if my hair had turned black"
Damon lifted his glass. THAT it may!' he said
calamity and then felt sorry for the words Angelas
hair black and he considered the soft, sweeping
wings of it far more beautiful than Sara blond
Your same fatterng ways; she mrr1nured d, -
IL think his voice seems different" said Wallace
This soup is rotten'
a had no voice at all for awhile explained Damon
glby. "NIy neck gashed and wrenched, and some
thing got wrong with the vocal cords My own tones
will come back some day. l wish that the
end of my mouth would stay in place and that the scar
on my cheek would vanish.
IL am all like you just as you are, said Sara.
SWe are so glad you didn't dle!"
"Looks to me like rather old scar" remarked Wal
lace when did you fall, Larrabee and where? Tell
US all your adventures"
"That would be pretty large order said Damon,
conscious of uneasiness in Henderson's eyes. "Far
play you know. Tell what you've been doing, all
of you, since saw you.
CARA plunged into animated account of teas and
- luncheons, and dinners yachting and horse shows,
and house parties Every now and then she would DIS
turb the impression of huge enjoyment by implying
that she had missed Damon so much that she had had
no heart for anything He gathered that, for all the
melting devotion she expressing for him. she had
been able to pet along comfortably without him. He
shrewdly suspected that she loved Larrabee Danons
millions quite as much as she liked Larrabee Damon.
She certainly trying 10 convey lHc IdCI TIC
meant great deal to her. especially at those moments
when Wallace had his mind most absorbedy on his
food and drink
Damon took some pleasure in analyzng her she
talked She had evidently been well enough bred:
anyone could see that the quiet little mother was
ady But she was shabby little lady, evidently used
to all sorts of economies and given to that painful self
depreciation that lack of money sometimes causes in
tmid souls when the souls are thoroughbred
Damon could read the story clearly enough Sara had
40 money; but she gave the world her beauty and
III and he
IN a house party the back seat in opera box, the
poorest mount in hunting field, and it expected her,
because of these opportunities to make good mar
rage. The Larrabee Damon millions constituted
good marriage and Sara to do her justice, face,
clinging girl, who could love anybody she meant to
marry.
Her beauty was the sort that certainly grew
He could see easily enough why would fall in love
with her-and he thought, cynically why they would
fall out again. She the kind of girl with whom an
engagement would last about three months therefore
man should marry her about six weeks after he had
been engaged to her. She the sort OF girl who would
last better wife than sweetheart He wondered
curiousy if the real Damon had been very deeply in
love with her. Evidently from the first remarks she
had made to him, there had been some kind of misun
Outstanding between them, for which she was sorry.
Meantime he and Henderson listened gratefully to
her mOnologue; for by means OF her do you remem
bers?' they able to construct fairly fully DaOns
social life just before he had gone his cruise to the
Pacific islands He learned that what introductions he
had had in New York were due chiefly to Wallace. He
heard the names of few of his acquantances and knew
that Henderson was also registering them.
"A confident. Wallace drank good deal, and became
increasingly When Damon tried to get him to
talk about what he had been doing for the last year. he
muttered something about the "same old treadm.
Several times as Sara talked he tried to interrupt her.
not too skilfuy, in order to make Damon talk. Both
Damon and Henderson noticed that he kept asking
Damon leading questions.
Exactly what date was 1t when you left New York
for the Pacific COaSt!" he asked.