The Washington herald., 1921-06-05
Being the SprightIy Adventure
Of q Sububu, Siren and a. ~
Citizen Without q Vice. ~

menseiy respectable suburbs In West
~ chester. between the Bronx and White
Plains 1t " literally a town without slum-
HurIbut was one of the immensely respecta-
BILE citizen Of scarborough. He was Liter.
ally q man without q vice
HwThut was In charge Of the credit ds-
prtment Of great wholesale house. and
what is more reputable than q credit nanf
Batng . credit man b IKE being something
IA bank HurTbut was 30 correct that b
reelected . kind Of righteousness on ths
credit nanS Job instead Of Tho Jobs rejecting
- On him He was correct that nobody
eaIsd him Bfn, although his nrst name was
Wmam- He was often pointed eat - Q
medal To other husbands
Tho HuIbuts had lived IN Scarborough for
i've years William was chairman Of the
green's committee Of the scarborough Coun-
try club and Margaret was president Of the
scarborough Improvement association They
had twins, q white house In the Colonial
manner, and q Rankin sedan. There Is
something as inherently respectable in twins
as there Is In a Rankin sedan, and everybody
knows what the Rankin sedan $50 well
made so economical, and not In the least
sporting
Margaret HurIout was a Bryn Mawr girl
An Bryn hawr girls nice but Margaret
was extremely nice. She was extremely pa
tient also. She did not believe in corporal
punishment, and she had brought up her
twin boys to the age of nve without ever
once spanking either of them.
Now there Is probably no reason in the na,
trs Of things why William HurIbut should
not have gone on exemplifying all the vir-
tues to the very end Of a long and useful
Life But the fact is. he didn't
On the last Saturday in April. William
HuIbut took his friend. Arthur Tompson,
to scarborough for the week end Arthur
was q bachelor who expected soon to be mar.
ried, and he was earnestly considering the
purchase Of a house in the suburbs William
had volunteered, after the fashion of sub
urbanites. to show him scarborough
After lunch at the HurIbut's-one should
Of course. say luncheon in speaking Of the
HurTbuts-they visited the SCARBOROUGH
Country club. They were standing on the
NcranoA VI inc CiuO mouse, from Wh1Ch one
has almost a birdseye view of the course.
when Matsie Blaze drove up in the yellow
speedster she affected Maisfe parked the
car and nodded to William as she walked into
the club.
who's that7- Arthur asked
Man who didn't know Maisie Blaze In
variably asked who's that?" when she
went by. Maisie was slim. dark, and fun of
the elan pttGL
That's Mrs Blaisden-otherwise Maists
Blaze William said
-Yes7- said Arthur raising his eyebrows
after the fashion Of q man who wants more
Information and doesn't want to ask for II
tn so many words.
She's the local SIREN" William explained
He did not mean to be insinuatins; his tone
quite unconsciousIy expressed his disapprov-
n Of Maisie Blaze She was rather the lead
or Of the younger set IN the town and In the
club This set irritatsd William, though 1t
would have puzzled him to say precisely why.
II pressed he would have said that they were
irresponsible, or that they lived only for a
good tme. or something equally damning
and equally general
what d,yu mean, sirenr- Arthur asked
%. she's perfectly NICE William an
swered But she's Just like any young
wtdov-iookins for trouble
6uch = speech was really not like William
HurIbut- He was little astonished at him
seH for making II. And when he turned to
Lad the way into the house to show Arthur
hA md hat Aotv
stopped almost in the doorway and was
standing there talking to Mrs Green, he was
. rtleworried for fear she might have over.
heard Hs-vould not have liked her to over
hear . remark mkind- But william i'm
meftxtesy reflected that Maisie had been at
least . DOZEN feet away when he had made
the remark and that he had spoken IN rather
. low tone, and that At wasn't in reason to
suppose that she could have overheard VIII
reason or 50 he believed
William showed Arthur the cups. and
played . round with him. and introduced him
to the people he ought to know. Arthur spent
Sunday with a real estate agent and went IN .
with William on Monday morning quite com.
pistely sold to scarborough. William was
pleased He felt that Arthur would make a
solid addition to scarborough. He was the
sort Of man william sometimes wished there
were more of-a man Of thirty, a business
man. man who wasn't light minded Spar
borough was. he would have admitted, chief
b populated by solid. respectable citizens.
But there were people like Maisie Blaze and
her crowd-the Greens and the Medways and
Phil Barker and Ann Follett-who were per-
hans too YOUNG tn feel the serjousnes. -, nta