The sun., 1919-09-14
Little Miss Ashford
Has an Adult Rival

fashioned black mantel as she wistfu1ly
watched the fantastic play Of the flames"
&c.
cts 1t you, PaulT Her voice was "low,"
and Of course 'tineffably sweet"
1t Is Paul, the CDR. Paul' Of Ethel
Penman Hopes story. But Vnginia's
voice is not long, low and ineffably sweet.
After fond first look, or as you might
say exhalation, she will not again Gift
her beautiful face to his" but stands
"erect and proud" "Paul Jamesp In
her voice now is chat note Of Nelson
pride inherited from generations Of
Nelson's before her." Paul pleads for
forgiveness, but Virginia will not yield,
while 'the old Nelson pride spoke up
within her."
"You broke your word to me, Paul
can never trust you again."
Paul who is great surgeon and has
had trying day at the hospital, has
evidently forgotten the Glove. But the
@dignity of the House of James" now
gets into action, and we read that "pride
also spoke to Paul." and It is he who
now moves away from Virginia, "while
the dignity of the House of James FOR
centuries back seemed concentrated in
him." as he says:
"Your tone is harsh, Virginia, and your
words are words of anger. They were
thrust TO pierce my heart and they have
fbasr hox
strengthened me well for tomorrow. What
do / need of added stimulant when you
have filed my soul with the wine Of your
wrath. Where is the love that 1 thought
you bore for me? Poor fool that was
to plead for it. What is woman's trust
What is a woman's love? You do not
love me. She does not understand what
love is who does not know how to forgive
You do not love me, Virginia"
Pauls heart, though "filled with pride"
yet 'throbbed wildly" as it waited for
contradiction. But Virginia throws the
ring into the fireplace, where the flames
are still Enthusiastically leaping, and when
she RECEIVERS it the next day, seven the
Nelson pride could not keep the tears
from filing her eyes, and as they blurred
her vision the diamonds shone clearer and
clearer through their mist, as in their
flow the ashes in the setting were all
washed away"
Virginia's girl friend pleads with her
to forgive Paul. But, Gas she drew her
self up proudly" she says: 81 can't,
Jean-Pm too proud" Virginia, however,
soon calns down a little, and readers
will be betting on "the dignity Of the
House Of James" as against "the Nelson
pride" when she is heard speaking thus
sweetly to her friend:
81 need this quiet for few days.
want to reconstruct bit. want to
look out upon the hills and fields and
get the right perspective, and into the
glory of the evening sunset and keep
that glory in my vision when later the
night shadows creep over it all. I want
to let the sunlight of these beautiful days
burn into my heart" &c.
Oh, well, girl who can talk like
that cannot hold out long with all her
Nelson pride. DIR. Paul. having lost
the use of his right arm through infec-
ton; no doubt brought on by carelessness
due to Virginia's detection, retires to his
beautiful "ancestle hail." as Daisy Ash
ford would call it, hung with "guns,
mats and ancestors" where he becomes a
terrible woman hater,
Frankly, here is story to revel in,
told unsshamedly and with fine roman
tic abandon. The nine year old Miss
Ashford herself could do no better, and
even her famous "proposale" scene, In
which "tal1ing the bull by both horns,
he kissed her violently on her dainty
face" is no match for the closing pages
of DR.. Paul
DR. PAUL. BY ETHEL PENMAN Hope.