The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-07-06
10
The Advice OF the Siren
by Elinor Glyn
illustrated by Edmund Frederick


merry dinner party-beforc going on to- the
Hundred Years Ago Ball" He was twenty-tnree'
and she was just nineteen, and they had peen
married for over year, and mad dear nt. nc
son and heir upstairs In . sumptuous nursery TO
inherit his fathers splendid title, and Whatever
estates the radicals might leave him. They nad
married for as much of love as they knew. Tney
had danced and skated, and stayed IN G"! ;n,..
houses and assisted in screaming practical Jokes
together; they had played golf and tennis ana
neither had q thought Of responsibility or o care
in the world. They were q good-looking, dash.
ing, jolly young pair, ike dozens oi o'nefs Vi
their state and race.
twhat IL making the Ardenbrooks SO tnun.
derous?" Lady Hoverton asked ner neignoor ~
dinner. "Susan looks like little cross white
kitten, and Gerald an ill-tempered, grown-uP
man-it il perfectly ridiculous for such pair OF
infants. Can you account for N?
sHayen't en- idea," Charlie Wharton answered.
sunless It is that Ardenbrook has met the ram
GUS Madame Grimordi lately, and Is attracted ny
her siren smile"
sThat is an extraordinary person. do hope
she will be there tonight that may have good
look at her." Lady Hoverton said. I'm these days
one does not often get the chance OF seeing
woman who has made history and who Is yet
an enigma to all the world. Who is she? Where
did she come from? Why is she SO rich? None
Vienna and Paris like this and there Is stir
of excitement, and then she disappears for sew
eral years." c,u. w.,
with All the airs Of Queen-which / suppose
she ia more or less, from the power she has.
don't understand much about books-but some
one gave me thing Of q vampire IN Venice IN
the Cento Cirque time written by some French
fellow, and pom my word, believe It is she. She
never gets any older, you see. My father knew
of her in BUDAPEST twenty-five years ago."
think II. win g sey. tonshs and G"dy ao
erton refused the Ice. "But when did Gerald
meet her, and where~
II can tell you that" Mr.: Wharton answered
eagerly, he loved to give informat ion WAS WAS
shire-when all the Ambassadors went, and any
society people who could secure an invitation; l
was there" and he drew himself up with pride,
"and she in queer temper and would only
talk to two old ladies' and Wiltshire was mad
and then Ardenbrook was introduced, and her
eyes got narrow like panther's and they went
of and sat on a sofa alone"
poor, dear little Susanw Lady Hoverton said.
aAh!Lwell, now we must go-and later, perhaps,
we shall what we shall sect!
So the ladies rose and left the room.
who saw II will admit that. The massng Of
many fair women and brave men, glory to any
Country that could produce such magnificent
specimens Of humanity And among them there
moved tall figure In Q perfect Empire Dress
only It was sombre, o dark almost back-green-
but from the superb diamond crown which might
have graced the head of Josephine herself at the
time of her zenith, to the sandalled feet there
keeping. The jewels were the most glorious In
that vast assembly, and so were the eyes and
skin of the woman who wore them. She was pale
and dark and stately, and her orbs were two bits
Of unfathomable night sky. No could have
told her age; she might have been thousand
years old or only twenty-five. She moved with
that undulating grace Of wild anmal-and yet,
splendid and broadly-ldded as are Etruscan ewes