Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-10-12


bearing and full Of personality. from
whose lips came some of Gralllot's
most brilliant sayings; Louise. his
wife; and Faraday, a friend of the old
marquis, and obviously the intended
lover of his wife.
81 don't see anything so terrible in
| this" John remarked, as the crutnn
went down once more and thunders
of applause greeted some wonderful
lines of Gralllot's.
ITS wonderful" Sophy declared.
'Try and bear the thread of Ii all in
your mind. For two acts you have
been asked to focus your attention
upon the increasing brutality of the
marquis. Remember that, won't your
"Not likely TO forget IT," John re-
piled. GLOW well they all act
There was quarter of an hours
interval before the curtain rose again.
Rumors concerning the last act had
been floating about for weeks, and the
house was almost tense with excite
ment as the curtain went up. The
scene was the country chateau of the
Marquis de Guy" who brought a
noisy crowd of companions from Paris
without any warning. His wife showed
signs of dsmay at his coming. He
had brought with him women whom
she declined to receive.
The great scene between her hus-
band and herself took place in the
square hall of the chateau, on the first
floor. Louise reafiirms her intention
of leaving the house. Her husband
laughs at her. Her position is hope
less.
"What can you do?" he mocks.
She shrugs her shoulders and passes
into her room. The marquis sinks upon
settcc, and presently Is Joined by
one of the ladies' who have travelled
with him from Paris. lie talks to her
of the pictures upon the WALL She is
impatient to meet the Marquise de
Guy.
The marquis knocks at his wife's
door. Her voice is heard clearly, after
moments pause.
ain few minutes !" she replies.
His companion becomes impatient
the marquis has pledged his word that
she should be received by his wife. An
ancient enmity against the Marquise
de Guy prompts her to insist.
The marquis shrugs his shoulders
his wife's door. She comes out dressed
for travel and is met by Faraday, who
suddenly appears.
"You asked me what / could do"
she says pointing to her lover. "You
see noww
There was moments breathless ST.
lence through the house. The scene in
itself was little beyond anything that
the audience had expected. Sophy,
who had been leaning over the edge of
the box, turned around in no little
anxiety. She heard the door slam.
John had disappeared!
He left the theater with only his hat
in his hand. turning up his coat by in
stinct as he passed through the driving
rain. All his senses seemed tingllng
with some nameless horror. The bril-
lance of the language, the subtlety of
the situation, seemed like some evil
trail drawn across that one horrible
climax 1t was Louise who had come
from that room and pointed TO Fara-
dayl
lie reached his rooms-he scarcely
knew how-and walked upstairs. There
he threw off some of his dripping gar
ments, opened the window wide, and
stood there.
He looked out over the Thames, and
there was n red fare before his eyes.
Stephen was right he told himself.
There was nothing but evil to he found
here, nothing but bitter diSappoint-
ment, nothing but the pain which deep
ems into anguish. Better to remain
like stephen, unloving and unloved, to
draw nearer to the mountains, to find
JOY in the crops and the rain and the
sunshine, to listen stonily to the cry
of human beings as II to some voice
from an unknown world.
He leaned little further from the
window, and gazed into the court at
dizzy depth below. He had cut himself
adrift from the peace which might have
been his. He would never know again
the Joys OF his earlier life. 1t was for
this that he had fought so many bat
ties, chung so tightly To one ideal-for
Louise, who could show herself to any
one who cared to pay his shilling or
his hAlf-guinea, glorying in her dis
honor; worse than glorying in it-fnd-
ing some subtle humor in the little GEES
ture with which she had pointed I'M
ashamed TO her lover
John bent little lower from the
window \ sudden dizziness seemed
10 have come over Kim, Then he was
forced TO turn around. His door had
been quickly opened and shut. 1t was
Saphy who was crossing toward him,
the rain streaming from her ruined
opera cloak.
john she cried. "Oh, Jomr
She led him back to his chair and
knelt by his side. She held his hands
lightly.
you mustn't feel Ike this" she
sobbed; "you muStn't, John, really
Nou don't understand It's all n play.