The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-18

CnnIPIN, EOstonD, Oearly loves TO
talk. He runs on with confident ease.
throwing of ~copiously. cayly. with
snerdthrift unconcern, those dialoRical
flowers that 80 delight us in the Eng
l4h uovcis nowadays. "Beastly cad,
aren't ~" says Johnny. Pulling you
about Ike that in public" The lady
disclalmcd any annoyance arising from
.tchnnvs strong habit in dancing.
The story explains ut considerable
length that 1t was natural for Johnny
90 ~ on his feet. II will he found that
fer Twelve PAGES his cousin Violet. a
distinctly persuasive lady. Vas unab.e
10 got him to sit down. He was an
erect animal. with muscles s~ingularly
vel qual. fled to support such an at
,i.udc. The London society painter
Who nut him into paint had the UNDER
silud,is to discern what wac appro-
nj, eto In Johnny's case and painted
him standing up. Thus there were no
-,i,' Ucs' IN this business.
W. have noticed in "A number OF
English moves the expression en-
Moved by Joh~nny--"aren't II" In
o~ues-.onably this is IA euphemism In
tended 10 soften the familiar "ain't
Io' Neverthe ess 1t makes us shud-
dor We seem to see a the future
"Har.n't L." and Il haren't.' The
rospect il appalling. Jolly we'll
also came easily from the mouth Of
Johnny.
We nave not noticed that Johnny
was frightened of" anything. He was
a brave fellow. with a courage proper
tomato 10 his muscle. lie knew. how
eve. that girls were OF an inferior
hardwood and he was properly solicit
'ous ~ their behalf. There Vas the
case IT Helena Falkland, who was out
IN the garden looking at Niolet's baby
when Mr.. Shovel, the baby's father,
abruptly retired with the infant, leav-
.ng Johnny and Miss Falkland by
themselves. How about the girls be-
,ng frightened Of something in such
d contingency? The nice detail hat
Tho novelist employs is illustrated here.
Johnny had entered the garden "smil-
M and smiling the air with content
~ent-real air." II was a Sunday. and
little Miss Falkland in the distance
had looked tit might have been her
Sunday froCk. Obviously she came
from a house where Sunday frOcks
we're common" Then almost as soon
"a Johnny had come in MIR. Shovel
went away with the baby. This was
rrec.pi;ate. The effect was TO 'brus-
quer les chooses considerably more
than Johnny intended. II put him out.
Why. for all Shovel knew. the girl
might have been frightened of him.
loft at his mercy like that" We are
glad 20 say that she was not at all
frightened or him. She d~iscoursed
ahou; the w-hisked of baby calmly.
though enthusiastically. praising its
am.dble disposition. "She is so good.
NJ. 1ngestre. An absolute lamb
Johnny need not have been in the least
DISTURBED on that occasion.
Johnny was "A tyrant. He had the
faul' Of thinking too we'll OF himself.
He Was not nice to his wife, Ursula,
who was handsome and quite good
enough for him. He talked to her
a. tines. of course. since he was not
n person to he silent: he aired his W
thoughts in her company and attended
l''.e 10 her replies. She might have
been anybody or nobody for all the
rea' attention he gave her. and he
looked at her like the furniture. with
IN appearance Of taking her in" II
would have been eXcusable II she had
ro' cared az all. and IL was TO her adj
vantage that although she did care she
could do IL rather calmly. Presumably
johnny preferred Helena Falkland be-
cause Helena made it plain that she
tdored HIM. Men less egotistical than
Johnny like to know beyond perad-
venture that they are adored.
jill! Jacuby-dark, exotic creature,
daughter OF a d.sreputable father, SUI
fsriug furthermore the disadvantage
Of beng lame-could play ROsdlind
rH-h better than Helena could. Helena
" beautiful, but Jill had the divine
if' Thu most compact, direct and in
tr"-'.u- part of the story relates
johnny = search for jill In the great
. IN ~ Yorkshire, when the swollen
an rushing river carried away the
tr..-t Jognny IN generous and APP
proN.md'cly heroic action was vastly
superior 10 Johnny in his pampered
Az conversational hours. Johnny eX-
crossing himself and his easy powers
o. speech in the conventional English
Void may interest the faithfully Curl
o. reader. but matters were really a
good deal more stirring when he rode
o. .n the night and the storm to lind
o.. unhappy jill. II seems good occa-
s"Ua.I" 20 have the unimportant
'aHnr, llown away.
t. lis good at the last to find signs
NJ Outstanding between Johnny and
h. fc Ursula And Ursula came
II" lbs dream, spoke behind him, and
ST. as Helena 9 had done. a
s.a-.v word one syllable, his name
J'H'. size sala' There was magic In
y Johnny was associated with the
Noh'ro, his grandmother had been an
a%'r'ss, the powers Of heredity were
v ju.stdkablc in his case. Now at last
BE- vas moved by his wife, Ursula
such a tone. Never, even OH the
s'a.', bad he heard such a tone upon
q mans voice. Irsula's voice, too
"tilI AS an organ waS weak and i'm
r't"rlsuod, held no sweet or impas'
s"''d range 81 expression
No' = fail, perfected. overpOwerinf
s'apo voice, the sort that compels III
to 90 I'D -.-I lt, 49, A.. uRat