The Washington times., 1920-12-05
Fire of Youth


crowned II as a matter OF course.
But the goddess Chance Is curl.
ously immoral In her nature ana
cares for matrimony no more and
no less than she cares for vice or
crime. Twice that Winter An
thongs statements showed substan-
tial profits TO his credit. and twice
he was back to his original capital
the second time at some four nun
dred dollars less than he had start
ed with.
II was a tense and an uneasy Win
ter. The deadlock on the Western
Front remained largely unbroken'
The arrogance OF the German GOV
eminent was increasing until pnally
we broke off diplomatic relations
with It. Americas innate love OF
peace enabled us TO put up Win
much. Western and Middle West
ern citizens mildly declared that In
any case Ii would be difficult Tor
Germany to invade their country.
But when We received the insolent
and pointed instruction how to
mark our weekly ship to Europe,
so that It might not be sunk by
mistake, even the inhabitants or
the prairies and Rocky Mountain
plateaus could no longer bear the
effrontery' OF the most arrogant
government known to the modern
world. One morning In April we
woke up to learn that President
Wilson had declared state OF war
to exist, and for the first time in
more than a hundred years we en-
barked upon the enterprise or
European war-and bodily the ma
ton was lifted into new plane OF
its existence. All was changed and
every individuals fortunes were
affected.
The solicitude with which Adela
had been watching Anthony since
her return, and notably since their
conversation in the park that Sun
day morning. gradually gave way
to a paipable anxiety. His success
sion of contradictory moods at
times positively alarmed her The
phases of speculative fever and
chill he was undergoing were so
that she did not even dream or
them. And Anthony, for his part,
knowing well the cast OF her mind,
as he thought, kept those matters
beneath an exaggerated mantle or
secrecy. Therein lay that one flaw
she found in Anthony-his secre'
tivenesS.
Occasionally, in his ebulllent
moods, when he had registered
handsome profit on the books OF his
broker. he would talk exuberantly
Of their marriage next Summer, OF
the kind OF apartment they were
going to have, Of the sort az fur-
niture and decorations he had In
mind, of riding in the park before
breakfast. Of the beautiful, alert life
they were going to lead together.
Then, another day, Adela
would refer to something he had
said; but that perhaps fell upon a
time when he had suffered loss and
defeat. His eXuberance would be
dead, his responses absent or per-
functory-and Adela's modification
accordingly deep. Whatever his
efforts to disguise his mood, Adela
never failed to read him Alright.
His phases OF depression kept
bringing back to her mind the old
barrier that had lain between them
so long, and she felt herself pro-
foundly troubled.
Was there, perhaps-had there
been another woman in his life?
Judging by analogy, even in her
own pellucid life there were cpl
sodes nothing she would
be afraid to tell Anthony II need
there were, and yet she did not tell
him. She never told him, for In
stance, how assiduous had been the
wooing OF Arthur Clark, now State