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

A : rule the instant the season
IA closed Alinp Proctor sailed on
I y the first steamer for London
where awaited her many friends
both English and American and to
Paris. where she selected those gowns
that ON and off the stage Helped to make
her famous. But this particular sum
mer she had spent with the Endicotts at
Bar Harhor, and it was at their house
Herbert Nelson met her. After Herbert
met her very few ether men enjoyed
that privilege. This was her wish as
we'll as his
They behaved disgraccfully Every
morning after breakfast they disap-
pearci and spent the day at opposite
ends Of u canoe. She, knowing nothing
of canoe, was happy in stabhing 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
to drown them both. While the affair
lasted II was ideal and beautiful, but
unfortunately 1t lasted only two months.
Then Lord Albany. temporarily in
America as honorary attache to the
British Embassy; his adoring chances,
his accent and the way he brushed his
hair proved too much for the susceptible
heart of Aline and she ChuCked Her
bert and asked herself how a woman
OF her age could have seriously con-
sidered marrying a youth just out 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
not a day under twenty-siX: and the
men knew she could not possibly be
over sixteen
Alne's- own idea of herself was that
-without -s.,it,. -oitt.-in -loV..-Nith- her she
could not eXist--that unless she knew
some man cared for her ana for her
alone She would wither and die. As Il
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 he head
over ears in love-to adore some one.
to worship him. to imagine herself starry
ing for him ana 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 arlsen-for some one
else.
llllS SltdN'l lu'' NV ''"'s -
made her behave abomnably to the
youth she had just Tilted. She wasted
no time on post-mortems. She was so
eager to show her absolute loyalty to
the new monarch that she grudged
every thought she ever had given the
one she had cast into exile. She rr-
eented him bitterly. She could not for
give him for having allowed her to be
desperately in love with him. He should
have known he was not worthy of such
a love as hers. lie should have known
mat the real prince was waiting only
Just round the corner.
As rule, the rejected ones behaved
well Each decided Aline was much too
wonderful creature for him. and con-
tinued to love her cautiously and from
a distance. None of them ever spoke
or thought i'll of her and would gladly
have punched any one who did. 1t was
only the women whose young men Alinc
had temporarily contiscated, and then
returned saddened and chastened, who
were spiteful. And they dared say no
more than that Aline would probably
have known hen mind better If she had
had mother to look after her,
This, coming To the ears of Aline,
caused her to reply that girl who could
not keep straight herself, but needed Il
mother to help her, would not keep