The Washington times., 1921-02-07
The Inside OF the Cup
A Great Serial of
LOVE, MYSTERY, ADVENTURE
By Winston Churchill
By Winston Churchill.

gan going TO dinners. house parties.
to recognize that advantages came
that way. IL seemed quite nat
ural. IL was what many others OF
my profession tried to do. and they
snyied me my opportunities.
81 ought to say. In justice TO my
self, that / was not In the least
cynical about II. l believed 1 was
clinging to the ideal OF art. and
that all l wanted was a chance. And
the people l went with had the same
characteristics. only intensified, as
those l had known here.
''Of course. / was actually no bet
ter than the women who were
striving frivolousiy to get away,
from themselves, and the men who
were hghtinE to get money. Only
I didn't know IL.
TERRIBLE THING.
well, my chance came at last: i
had done several little things, when
an elderly man who Is tremendously
rich, whose name you would recog-
nize IL / mentioned II. gave me an
order. For weeks. nearly every day,
he came to my studio for tea, to
talk over the plans.
.I was really unsophisticated
then--but I can see now-wen, that
the garden was secondary con-
sideration. And the fact that
I did II for him gave me stand
ing l should not otherwise have
had. Oh. II is sickening to
look back upon, to think what an
idiot 1 was in how little
That garden launched me, and
! began to have more work than
] could do. / was conscientious
about 1t. i tried to make every
garden better than the last. But
i was young woman, uncon-
ventionally living alone, and by
degrees the handicap of my sex
was brought home to me.
II did not feel the pressure at
first, and then-I am ashamed to
say tit had In 1t an element Of
excitement, a sense of power. The
poison was at work. was
amused. ! thought l could carry
1t through, that the world had
advanced sufficiently for a woman
to do anything II she only had the
courage. And l believed / pos
sessed a true broadness of view
and could impress it, so far as l
was concerned. on others
"As 1 look back upon it all. I
believe my reputation for cold
ness saved me, yet II was that
very reputation which increased
the pressure. and sometimes l was
fairly driven into a corner.
"Of course, it was my fault
don't pretend to say it wasn't.
There were many whom, instinc-
lively, j was on guard against, but
some I thought really nice, whom l
trusted, revealed a side / had not
suspected. That was the terrible
thing! And yet / held to my ideal.
tattered as it was.
HER EARLY ROMANCE.
Alison was silent a moment. still
clinging to his hand, and when she
spoke again 1t was with a tremor
of agitation.
1T is hard to tell you this. but l
wish you to know. At last l met a
man, comparatively young. who was
making his own way in New York,
achieving a reputation as a lawyer.
Shall I tell you that l fell in love
with him? He seemed to bring a
new freshness into my life when I
was beginning to feel the staleness
of 1t. Not that 1 surrendered at
once, but the reservations OF which
! was conscious at the first grail.
ually disappeared, or, rather. 1 tg-
nored them.
'He had charm, magnificent
self-confidence, but l think the lib
erality of the opinions he expressed
in regard to women most appealed
to me. / was weak on that side,
and ! have often wondered whether
he knew it. I believed him noapa-
BILE Of great refusal.
TO He Continued TomQrraul