The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-15

straight had she dozen mothers. AS
she put it cheerfu'ly, "A girl who goes
wrong and then pleads mo mother to
guide her" is like a jockey who pulls a
race and then blames the horse.
Each of the young men Alinc re-
jccted married some one else and, ex-
cept when the name Of Aline Proctor in
the theatrical advertisements or in cleo
trio lights on broadway gave him a
start, forgot that for month her name
and his own had been linked together
from Portland 10 san Francisco But
the girl he married did not forget.
She never understood what the public
saw in Aline Proctor. That Aline was
the queen of musical comedy she at
tributed to the fact that Alinc knew the
right people and got herself written
about in the right way. But that she
could sing. dance, act; that she pos
sessed compelling charm that she got
across" not only to the tired businc ~
man. the wine agent, the college boy,
but also to the children and the old
ladies, was to her never apparent.
Just as Aline could not forgive the
rejected sutton for allowing her to love
him. so the girl he married never for
gave Alinc for having loved her hus-
band. Least of all could Sally Win
throp. who two years after the summer
at Bar Harbor married Herbert Nell
son, forgive her And she let Herbert
know it.
Herbert was properly in love with
Sally Winthrop, but he liked to think
that his engagement to Aline. though
brief and abruptly terminated, had
proved him to be a man fatally attrac-
tive to all women. And though he was
hypnotizing himself into believing that
his feeling for Aline had been the grand
passion. the truth was that ali that kept
her in his thoughts was his own vanity.
He was not disconnected with his lot
his lot being Sally Winthrop. her mill
ions and her estate of 300 acres near
Wcstbury Nor was he stll longing
for \ inc. 1t was only that his vanity
was battered 10y the recollection that one
# the young women most beloved hy
the public had once loved him.
81 once was king in Babylon" he
used to misquotc 20 himself, and she
WIS Christian slave
lie was as young as that
Had he been content in secret to as
sure himself that he once had been a
reigning monarch. Ms vanity would
have harmed no one; but unfortunately,
he possessed certain documentary owl
dcncc Of that fact. And he was sulli
GENTLY foolish not to wish to destroy
It, The evidence consisted of a dozen
photographs he had snapped Of Al.ne
during the happy days at Bar IIarbor
and on which she had written phrases
somewhat eXuberant and sentimental.
From these photographs Nelson was
ioath to part--espcCia,ly with one that
showed Aline seated on IA rock that ran
into the waters of the harhor and on
which she had written: AS long as this
rock lasts" Each time she was in
love Aline believed it would last. That
in the past it never had lasted did not
discourage her
What to do with these photographs
that so viv.dly recalled the most tumul-
tuous period of his life Nelson could
not decide. If he hid them away and
Sally found them Il" knew she would
make his life miserable. If he died and
Sally then found them, when he no
longer was able to explain that they
meant nothing to him, sho would believe
he always had loved the other woman
and it would make her miserable. He
felt he could not safely keep them i'm his
own house: his vanity did not permit
him to burn them. and accordingly he