New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

her in b, or what became of
them, or what became of any of the
others who had pursued her since. All
she wanted was to be danced attend
ance on, to be happy, free, never bored.
The other fellow never counted with
ldelle much. In this case the wife of the
younger lover, j C, had been in
formed, the conservatives of the city
appealed to, as it were. j
g, seeing the storm and being
infatuated with his conquest, suc
gested Paris or a few years on the
Riviera, but, strangely enough, Idelle
would have none of it, or him, then.
She wouldn't agree to be tied down
for SO long! She suffered a reversal
of mood-conscience-went to a priest.
went into retirement here in G.,
having fed her various evil pursuers.
Hoic impressive the outlying slopes
Of these mountains they ,oere gust enter
ing!
He could understand that-the one
decent thing in her life really,
timely revolt against a too great and
unbroken excess. But she wasn't
ready to go abroad yet, to leave her
mother, to do anything but stay here,
and things were becoming rather
complicated, too. But life had won her
back, depend on that. Her beauty,
her disposition, youth and age pursu-
ing her-one slight concession to in
diligence or pleasure after another
and the new mood or bent toward re-
Ggiosity was entirely done away with
J. c. had hunted her up,
found her again. He had renewed his
attentions, his proffers of money
That little cabin on that slope, shoso-
ing a lone lamp IN the dark
Then-then---
Morning, BY George' Ten o'cIockt
He had been asleep all this timei He
loould haze to hurry and dress notu!
But where was he in regard to
Idelle? Oh yes. How she
haunted him all the time these days,
j C. angered at her refusal to
come with him again (she could not
bring herself to do that, for all her
religiosity, she said, not caring for him
so much any more), but frightened by
the presence of others, had eventually
transferred all his interests from
B to G., and at this very time,
to-day, was all but convincing his dull
wife on th1 ground of some form of
virtue or duty-God only knows what -
that she ought to give him divorce in
order to permit him to legitimize
Idelle's child by marrying her! Think
of that! And he, Garrison, already
married to Idellel And this was sup
posed to be sane world! The sub
tlety Of mankind,
He must be hu,rytng through his
breakfast: they would soon be nearing
G. notc and he mast not
forget to stop IN at KiruIfy's 1Uhen he
reached G. and buy some fowers
for her'
But Idele was not to be taken
that way. Nothing would cure her
then as now but age, apparently,
but who was going to wait for age to
overtake her? Not he, anyhow. Why,
the very event that threw her into his
arms-couldn't he have judged by that
if he had had any sense? Wasn't that
just such another affair as that of
j c. and old Gambia, only in
this case it concerned much younger
men-wasters in their way, too-one
Of whom, at least, was plainly madly
in love with her, while the other was
Just intensely interested. Why was 1t
that Idelle's affairs always had to be .
complex of two or more contending
parties?
The condition Of these tcashrooms in
the morning'
According TO her own story, she had
frst fallen in love, or thought she had,
with the younger of the two, Gather
/ Browne, of the Harwood Brownies here
in C and then while he was still
! dancing attendance on her (and all the
while j C was in the back
/ ground, not entirely pushed out of her
! life) young Gatchard Keene had come
along with his motor cars, his yacht
his stable of horses, and she had be-
gun to firt with him also. Only, by
| then-and she didn't care particularly
/ for him, either
What crotoded breakfast car-aN the
people OF last night, and more from
other cars attached since, proboblyf