New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
frorttnued from page t,co)

,robably IN exactly '"e Sp'''' 4" WHY"
:. approached her, if not more so.
r,.t was the worst Of her, her con-
,,.n, wilful, pagan pursuit of pleasure,
-.s.rdless of anybody or anything. and
!, .tjll held her in spite of him. There
somethins revolving about the
.,.er animalty of it, that rushing to-
-..sr of two people, regardless. Still,
= i. had been himself and ldelle
now--
p.u fortunate thot he had been able
10 obtain a seoti0n' At least he ''0ald
ssss air
There had been wild season. &C
.,rding to her own admissions or
,.+;ncs-he could never quite tell
.hieh-extending over SIX or seven
..s during which time Idelle had
pretended to her mother so she sai''
:. r-sfer to live with her girl frieNd
..,hsr than return home. She had had,
..er,ne TO her. her machine, her
.-vonts clothes without end, and
....t.not-a dream world of luxury and
....dom which he had provided and
vh;ch she never expected to wake,
md her mother totally ignorant of it all
=. while, There had been everything
-. wished at her finger tips-hectic
.,+.rnoons. evenings and midnights;
.tfs;rs at country clubs or hotel grllls,
...rs the Young bloods of the city and
,aer girls congregated' wild rides IN
.,.ouobiles; visits to the nearest
.nartest watering places, and the like.
or was she lying? He could scarcely
think SO, Judging by her career with
bim and others since.
All. whct comfort to tr ones self
tbs woy ard rest, looking at the
sAadowy moonlit landscape passing By!
Idelle had often admitted or boasted
that she had been wildly happy-that
was the worst OF it-that she had not
onite realized what she was doing, but
that she had no remorse either, even
now-that she had lived. And why
should she have, perhaps? Weren't all
people really selfish at bottom-or
we're they?) Only, owing to her al
most Unsuitable pagan nature, there
we're other complications right then
and there-think of that. an older
rival millionaire, # you please, richer
by far than j c., and more in
iuential locally and younger
ones, too, who sought her but really
did not win her, she having no time
Or plan for them. AS it happened, the
oder one, having been worsted in the
contest but being partially tolerated
by her, had become frantically jealous
and envious, although "he had no
right" as she said, and had finally set
about making trouble for the real pos
SCISSOR, and succeeded 10 the extent of
exposing him and eventually driving
him out Of the great concern with which
ne was connected and out OF B, too,
l; you please. on moral grounds (?),
although he himself was trying to fol-
iOw in j C-'s footsteps. And
all for the love or possession of q
hineteen-y -year-old girl, a petticoat, q
female ne'er-do-well, How little the
world in general knew of such things
and IT was blessed thing, too, by
george Where would things be If
everybody went on like that?
me rhythmic elack of thess whesls
esd trucks over these sleeper jolnts-
poetic beat, OF sorts!
6ds ldelle was so naive about all
'ais now, or pretended to be, so care
'sss o. what ne or any one else might
'oihk IN case they ever found out.
Sae did not seem to guess how much
ae might suffer by her telling him all
'a's' or how much pain thinking about
Il afterward might cause him. She
vas too selfish intellectually. She
1'onf even guess, apparently, what
"'S mood might be toward all this, low
'ns ner as he did. No-she really
s'an' care for him, or any one else
''uiont, or she couldn't have done
anything like that. She would have
"so TO him rather. She had been
sno was-although now semi-reforme ID
hesrtless, careless wastrel, think.