The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-11-13


OF sunerfng. she wondered
W.T. W.. iate had broueht them mere
wase neo caused them 70 reun-
auish the world In which Dale ana
'one ana she hnerseif moveos
- choose this coloriess existence
oese,s country.
s.I Nv, 70 n.s o
.sA; put as II he sensed her un.
s spo.sn question. the doctor said
eueuy -
NO doubt you think II odd tnat
10Y snouid run across US heie
ana no doubt you think u ooo
a you snouid run across AsrSoe
niece WIN v
ns IN oitcn at sunrise SAusn-
Gu DIANA
The Lotus Eaters.
Life In filled with curious coin
cidences ana inconsistencies.". said
the doctor. "Your story may be ad-
venturous; mine is sadly .prosaic. I
came here to die a little more easily.
The desert country Is kind TO lung
sufferers. BY a strange irony have
become strong and welT-too late.
For. you see. have eaten of the
lotus and the win 70 20 back and
take my place in the world where
men are struggling and achieving.
has left ma Onoa desfred life
greatly, now Il matters too little to
try to live"
"Ohi moi" Diana flung out her
hands, in the passionate protest Of
thing is possible while we live. It's
only when you're dead that you're
done for"
The smile he gave her was within
sically tender.
You're young yet, child. The gods
have been kind to you. You have
beauty and magnetism and. I'M
doubleday. an army Of men at your
feet. You have only to indicate
your choice and any man will love
you eagerly. gladly" '
Diana turned her head away.
Beyond the expanse OF the little
garden, where shimmering heat
waves rose from the dun-colored
sand. she was seeing q vision Of .
Long Island drawing room, or
stephen Dale. his handsome face
indistinct in the twilight. puttins
Fer from him and saying again:
I am sorry. Diana. but II can
never be-"
She closed her eyes against the
memory and shrugged. away the
vision.
Now you are hattering me. doc
tor! The only men who fall for me
are the ones don't want Just let
me find some one particularly In
teresting and his interest Is i'm
mediately elsewhere. I don't be,
th,rL ,h.v on,v ,oy. tynes"
The doctor rose and pushed back
his chair.
II know only one thing. child;
a man loves in spite of himself.
Diana looked up at him with wide
open eyes.
Did you ever love any one doc
TORI!
He smiled ana patted her nuhy
mead with a kindly mana.
may tell you ABOUT tnat some
Gay. every man likes "oHAn
sympatny
On an innpu sn.
na1o anu pfesseo her eneeh asainse
-, thk you suns
80.
~ ar. vi. ,.na .vsx ou,ck,x
yrads. ~. ,an rn.h h.d arisen
yyttha,t a, .rcus. he went into the
house
Mana ,ookea after him.
In spite of herself, she felt q
thrill OF CONQUEST for she knew, as
we'll as II he had told her, that he
was falling in love with her.
CuAprrR XII
Syh
After the doctor had left her
alone on the veranda, Diana began
to consider what she ought to do.
She was rather amazed at her
own lack Of consideration for her
family's feelings. The fact that she
had spent SO many months away
from home on visits and trips
abroad without feeling answerable
to her mother. or father. or even
Marjorie probably accounted for the
fact that she had come back to the
conscious world after her illness
without feeling any urgent neces-
sity for communicating with them.
Alex Leigh had played too small
a part In her life to demand much
consideration and she looked back
upon her marriage to him and the