The Washington herald., 1914-11-15

English and American
and to Paris, where she Sc
lected those gowns that on and
of the stage helped TO make her
famous. But this particular summer
she had spent with the Endicotts at Bar
HaTbor, and it was at their house Her
bert Nelson met her After Herbert
met her very few other men enjoyed
that privilege. This was her wish as
well as his
They behaved disgracefully. Every
morning after breakfast they disap-
peared and spent the day at opposite
ends of canoe She, knowing nothing
of a canoe, was happy in stabbing the
waters with her paddle while he told
her how he loved her and at the same
time. with anxious eyes on his own
paddle, Skilfully frustrated her efforts
10 drown them both. While the affair
lasted il was ideal and beautiful, but
unfortunately it lasted only two months.
Then Lord Albany, temporarily IN
America as honorary attache to the
British embassy, his adoring glances,
hrs accent, and the way he brushed his
HAIR, proved too much for the suscep-
tIble heart of Aline, and she chucked
Herbert and asked herself how wom-
an of her age could have seriously con-
sldered marrying a youth just oW of
Harvard! At that time she was a
woman OF nineteen: but, as she had
been before the public ever since she
was eleven, the women declared she
was moi a day under twenty-SiN; and
the men knew she could not possibly
be over sixteen
Aine's own idea OF herself was that
without some one in love with her she
could not exist-that, unless she knew
some man cared for her and for her
alone, she would wither and die As a
matter of fact, whether any one loved
her or not did not in the least interest
her There were several dozen men
who could testify to that. They knew
What she really wanted was to be head
over ears III lOve-to adore some one.
TO worship him, to imagine herself
Starving for him and making sacrifice |
hits for him; but when the moment
came to make the sacrifice hit and |
marry the man. she invariably found
that a greater. truer love had arisen
dor some one else.
Each Of the Young men Aline re-
Jected married some one else and. eN-
Ccpt when the name of Aline Proctor |
IN the theatrical advertisements or in
electric lights on Broadway gave him |
u start. forgot that for month her
name and his own had been linked to- |
yether from Portland to 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 Aline 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 business |
man, the wine agent, the college boy. |
but also to the children and the old !
4adics. was TO her never apparent
lust as Aline could not forgive the |
rejected suitor for allowing her to love
dim. 50 the girl he married never for
gave Aline for having loved her hus-
sband. Least Of all could Sally Win
ithrOp. who two years after the summer
at Bar Harbor married Herbert Mel
son. iOrgave 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 q man fatally at
1ractive 10 all women. And though he
was hyPnotizing himself into believing
Hhat his feeling for AlIne had been the
grand passion, the truth was that all
that kept her in his thoughts was his
own vanity He was not disContented
with his lot-his lot being Sally Win
throp, her millions, and her estate Of
800 acres near Westbury. Nor was he
still longing for Aline 1t was only
that his vanity was fattered by the
that one OF the Young
women most beloved by the public had
once loved him.
Il once was a king in Babylon" he
used to miSquotc to himself, and she
was a Christian slave"
He was as young as that.
Had he been content in secret TO as :
sure himself that he once had been a
Teigning monarch. his vanity would
have harmed no one; but, unfortunate
ly, he possessed certain documentary
to that fact And he was suf-
ficicntly foolish not to wish 10 destroy
II. The evidence consisted of a dozen
he had snapped of Aline
during the happy days at Bar Harbor,
and on which she had written phrases
somewhat eXuberant and sentimental
From these photographs Nelson was !
loath to part-especially with one that
showed Aline seated on a rock that ran {
into the waters OF the harbor, and on 1
which she had written: "AS long as
this rock lasts!' Each time she was {
IN love Aline believed it would last. I
That in the past it never had lasted did
Dot discourage her.
What to do with these photographs '
that SO vividly recalled the most tumul- J
Iuous period of his life Nelson could
not decide. If he hid them away and !
Sally found them, he knew she would /
make his life miserable If he died and 7
Sally then found them. when he no {
longer was able to explain that they {
meant nothing to him, she would be-
Iieve he always had loved the other t
woman, and it would make her miser-
lble. He felt he could not safely '
keep them in his own house; his vanity @
did not permit him TO burn them, and,
he decided to unload them a
On some one else.
The young man to whom he confded "
lis collection was Charles Cochran. r
Cochran was 4 charming person from v
he West He had studied in the t
Beaux Arts and on foot had travelled L
over England and Europe, preparing
himself to try his fortune in New York c
IS an architect. He was now in the f
,fice of the architects Post & Constant | q