New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-27

direct conversation; Dut nc would always lapse BACK
as soon as released.
An this was perhaps to be expected, but what did
surprise me was the unconditional surrender of Dex
ter who sat next me- and was commonly regarded
the member of our quartet most impervouS to Sent-
,,cnt He revealed his unwonted state OF mnd by
dividing his attention exclusively between the face of
r hostess and his champagne in which he seemed to
Nc perpctually toasting her in silence The climax of
the little comedy reached after dessert, when rs
ING in his place. he raised his glass on high waved it
toward the lady at the head of the table, and offered
The most charming of novelSts, who can give the
atmosphere of fact to romance, and the glamour of
romance TO autobiography!
Mrs IaSonS Sclf-poSScSSon did not desert her
though the blood mounted to the roots of her hair
Cavin's face darkcned like thundercoud and he
h his lip. Harding shot murderouS look at Dexter,
Ike that 10 which he had treated Calvin an hour be-
fore Berkeley angry, but controlled the express
sion of his feeling was shocked any of them at
The fellows impudence, and pulled him down rather
ruicly AS he dropped into his chair he snapped at
RE soto r0ce:
We'll why not tell the truth and shame the dcvi?"
The party broke up pretty promptly after coffee,
Dexter having given il its death stroke, Indignant
7 was at his misconduct ! walked home with him.
embracing the opportunity TO deliver lecture This
seemed to have effect; for he shook my hand at
-sr,inc and promised to write Mrs Jason apology
.srnng the whole thing off pleasantly uttered
.rc impulse of the moment without thought that it
could be mistaken for earnest.
~lt'saroten lie, old man. said he; "but I'll do it, not
tuSc take any stock in your arguments but because
Won think il will please her! There is that enough2
He kept his word Later he showed me her response
gracefully couched assurance, doubtless quite
-rccrc as his note that she had never imagined any
81, could seriously entertain so prcposerous susp-
.n rs he had limited at and that she hoped he would
..,nk no more about the incident.
- that had actually a friendly footing
~ ,h. woman | believed to be the heroine of her
dramatic serial found myself attacking the Conclud
,- htotcr with zcSt Reading over what had already
written condemned it trash and tore up. 1t was
>...h a web as might have woven about some lay fig
.~, heroine of my creating: not the glowing go-
,,s Fcshand blood woman in whose meodouS voice
Pshaw, | am writing good deal as | wrote
hen on my revised version. Yes there is no use deny
mo f. ! zoo had fallen under the spell that had be-
.. hl my competitors. As reread the earlier chap
... # "Agathas Problem it in the glare of a new
..,,.. and instead of merely following words, my men
"a. vision caught a vivid picture of every situation,
s.l tl, in the center of it. This fiction: this
was the real thing, II was she who asking us i'm
...unouS BohemianS tell her how to give away her
.-,,hons-shc-MrS. Jason, our Mrs Jason-mr Mrs.
Il~un if YOU will
Oh well. that was mere frivohty, idiocy, drive
VIA. was that she should turn her lovely eyes toward
, except as an angel might smile down upon bcggar
...-,t e. the gates of Paradise? | good as the
r,, but what were any of us as companions for such
as She? Besides why should She-how could shc-look
upon any man in that way, tied up as her fortune was
hv ,na will? No. she must continue to stand there
fir lis 20 worship from aar-beautiful, radiant, per-
tg.y poised with her coorful past and her future OF
infinite possibilities
Tut, tut, There 60 again! | am older now, and
har.,ly married 10 these many years; yet the pulses
I'll that period start afrcsh recall the spirit with
which | tackled my task when fully conscious that it
had q real meaning and was leading somewhere.