The Washington times., 1920-08-19
The Restless Sex
= A Romantic Film Drama With
MARION DA VIES
BY Robert w. Chambers.
BY Robert w. Chambers.

. had made so popular in The Prince
OF Argolis" early I'm the winter;
MRS. Aphrodite
Gave her pretty sonny
Lots of golden curls
But little golden money.
Dressed him In a nightie!-
QListen 10 me, girlsO
Love of golden -curls
Leads the world astray!
(Listen to me, honeyD
Love of golden money
r. Acts the selfsame way"
Breathless with laughter the Gre
clan gods galloped round and round
in dizzy circle. flushed faces
flashed past Stephanie, flying drap-
cries and loosened hair nuttered
and streamed and glimmered in con-
fused sequence before her angry
eyes.
Suddenly the mad dance broke up
and fiew into fragments, scattering
it's reeling, painting devotees INTO
prancing couples in every directioh.
REsCUEs JIM.
And straight into this wild con-
fusion stepped stephanie, her pretty
eyes BRILLIANT with wrath. her face
a trihe pale.
"Jimw &c.,
lie let go of Lady Button-eyes In
astonishment. and turned around.
Stephanie said very coolly:
'If you're going to raise the devil.
raise him with me, please!
Lady Button-eyes was not pleased
and she showed 1t by stamping.
which alone had sufficiently fixed
her level IL she had not also placed
both hands on her hips and laughed
scornfulIy when Cleland took leave
OF her and walked over to Ste
phanie.
"Where are the others." he in
quired, rather red at being dis
covered with such crew. you're
not alone. are you, Steve?'
"Not now." she said sweetly; and
passed her left arm through his
and clasped her right hand over 1t.
Now" she said with an excited
little laugh! II am ready to raise
the devil with you. Take me where
ever you like. JIM"
The insulted gods gazed upon her
with astonishment as she lifted her
small head and sent an Indifferent
l. glance like an arrow at random
among them. Then, not further
noticing them. and absolutely indif-
ferent to the buton-eyed one, she
strolled Ieisurely out of Olympus
with her slightly disconnected cap
tive and disappeared from their
view along the southern corridor.
But once out of their range Of
vision her hot wrath returned.
.It was abominable," she said in
a low, tense voice-"your going off
that way, when I told you the whole
evening would be spoiled for me
without you! am hurt and angry.
jim"
FIGHT FOR HER
But his smouldering wrath also
flickered into flame now.
'You had Grismer, didn't you!" he
said. What do you care whether
1 am with you or not?'
"What do you mean? Yes, OF
course / had him. What has that
to do with you?"
He replied with light insolence:
Nothing. I'm not your husband"
His words fell like a blow; she
caught her breath with the hurt
Of them; then:
SIS that why you have avoided
me-" she demanded in a tone OF
such concentrated passion that the
unexpected flare-up startled him. 1t
surprised her, too; for, all at once,
in her heart something contracted
agonizingly. and a surge of furious
resentment flooded her. almost
strangling speech.
"Why are you Indifferent? Why
are-are you unkind$" she stam-
mered. "I've just found you again
after all these years, haven't I?
What do other people matter us?
Why should Oswald interfere he
tween you and me? You and
haven't had each other for years!
II can't stand ito have you
unkind-indffferen have you
leave me this way when want you
so desperately"
(To he Continued Tonsrrow.)
Copyright, 1917. 1918, by the Iuternationa