The Washington herald., 1913-05-11

After the first intense moment of
eXaltation, both began to fear a. posi-
BILE search. Grace apparently dreaded
discovery as shrinkingly as if her con-
science were not clear. and Gregory,
in the midst of his own perturbation,
found it incongruous that she who was
always right, wanted to hide. Ashley
breasted the pillows of Jollity which in
its, vocal stress became almost mate
rallied, there grew up within him a
feeling uneasily akin to the shame OF
his past. Old days seemed rising from
their graves to chill him with their
CHASTITY show of skeletons of dead de-
lights
But Grace's hand was upon his arm,
and the crowd pressed them close to-
gether-and she was always beautiful
and divinely formed. The prospect of
complete possession filled him with
ectasy, while Grace herself yielded to
the love that had outgrown all other
principles of conduct.
Grace could deceive herself about
this love, could reassure her conscience
with specious logic, but she never lost
her GOODNESS of judgment concerning
Hamilton Gregory. His lapses from
conventionality did not come from de-
liberate choice, and she realizes the
danger of letting his feverish impulse
grow cold. Even the prospect of wait
ing one hour at the station frightened
her. She must save him from that
Fran who. it appeared, was his daugh-
ter-and from the worldly woman who
was not his wife--and lie must be
saved at once, or the happiness of
their lives would suffer shipwreck.
They gained the street before the
courthouse which by courtesy passed
under the name of the city square:
Grace's hand grew tense on Gregory's
arm-"Look"
Her whisper was lost in the wind,
but Gregory, following her frightened
glance, saw Robert Clinton elbowing
his way through the crowd, forcing
his progress bluntly, or jovially, &C
cording to the nature of obstruction
He did not see them and, by lodging,
they escaped.
The nearness of danger had paled
Grace's cheeks. Gregory accepted his
own trembling as natural, but Grace 5
evident fear acted upon his nebulous
state of mind in a way 10 condense
iumbled emotions and deceptive long
ings into something like real thought
If they were in the right. why did they
feel such expansive relief when the
crowd swept them from the sidewalk
to bear them far away from Robert
Clinton?
The merry-go-round, its very music
travelling in a circle, clashed its steam
whistlings and organ-wailings against
rum-and-trombone band, while these
distinct strata of sound were cut across
by an outcropping of graphophoneS and
megaphoneS. Upon an open-aIr plat
form, a minstrel troupe, by dint of fall
setto inarticulateness, futile banJoes
and convulsive dancing. demonstrated
how little of art one might obtain for
dime Always out of sympathy with
such displays. but now more than ever
repealed by them. Grace and Gregory
hurried away to find themselves penned
in court. surrounded on all sides by
strident cries of ''barkers," cracking re-
ports from target-practice, fusilladei
at the "doll-babics," Changing jars from
strength-testcrs and the like; while
from this horrid field of misguided
energy there was no outlet save the
narrow entrance they had unwittingly
used
"Horriblew exclaimed Grace, half
stumbling over the tent-ropes that en-
tangled the ground. We must get
| out of this.
1t was not easy to turn about. Sc
dense was the crowd.