Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-05

Bartlett bad settled, into gray and
colorless middle.age, worn and daunted
BY small problems, when he might have
oeen able to master great ones. Blk
months ago he wouldn't have thought OF
the fugnacities Of middle age :, indeed he
wouldn't have thought Of middle-agee
at oil. 1t might, in a sense, he said
that he was born middle aged without
knowing 1t. lie rarely thought of time
except as means to n given end and
the years before him had been allotted
one by. one to the accomplishment OF
particular intellectual tasks, made pos.
sible BY the possession of means which
ne had proposed to devote to the great
work that he had set out to do. Now,
nc could see quite clearly he was des-
tined to become a mere classroom
drudge. a hanger. OIL Of universities. the
eventual occupant perhaps of chair
endowed somewhere by contrite and
illtterate millionaire who believed eth.
nology. to be-. perhaps, some sort OF
pietisttc panacea which would aid the
cause at his own redemption.
David Sansree took off his coat and
hat and slowly prepared himself for the
lamp. He was still in his own bachelor
apartment, the lease of which did not
expire until the following summer.
when, as he well foresaw, he would be
Obliged to move into one room some.
where further uptown in accordance
with the cxigencies of his reduced in
come. Having made himself comfort
able, he sat filling his pipe deliberately,
and then, putting sOlemnly, gazed ut the
Whistler etchings on the wall in the
obsccurity beyond the cone Of illumina.
ti0n. 1t was very restful here in this
sanctuary, conducive tonight to rcverie
rather than to accommodating along the
backgrounds of contemporary investi.
CATION. Little the dreamer by nature.
he found himsel { engaged in a retrospect
of his few months Of pilgrimage into the
golden age Of youth which the remark
able Cherry Mohun had renewed. It
was by contrast to this period of his
recrudescence that the years before him
seemed suddenly to have grown i'm.
pressively uninteresting. It wouldn't
have mattered nearly SO much ii he had
lost his money before he had learned to
appreciate it's value in world which
had recently attained for him certain
novel and rather pleasing attributes.
He had never been definitely aware of
the potentialities Of his inheritance
until the present moment when he had
@ msort " ,,r,h;ms > ~ !" sauara. nse.t nua never
a ,,,no,s S ~ ." ,'.h ~ ,at ',ntsres sX:ept a.
mi"ht hc -" ncc"mnl;sh"J " tI,s nne non.is worx WORK
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% m".ime II. % ,aomS nmnoSori,HSau riIS ana eIimt.
s f",nrs o ho i" n,,IS "t az ~ 1. p,uns i"r t.e
au.", ~. me WIZ" HIM mM ~ Hulte eusy 10
~. so., as "t all "' ,Ie .n sh sh,ui sn"ry from ms
h W PUss n;"d " ."e oe ;Ishm h,. inst OF 80 Se"r
"n,'n re'""'"e" vi MS iost fortune.
but ne was not content. lie would
have llkei to help i'herry in her trouble: !:
at least ne would nave liked to he able
to offer help. 1t would have made him
very happy to place himself and his
money at her disposal. Even. at this
moment ne was not convinced that such
an oH'r OF assistance was necessary
soncomitsnt Of an offer Of marriage.
II" would as soon have. thought Of pro-
posing to the Falls Of Niagara as to
Cherry. And the warnings which she
had given him. couchcd In the jargOn
Of good. eilowship p, had been enough
to place him rigidiy on his guard
against the display of any but the most
niatonic Of expressions of good will.
His call upon Cherry. during which she
had poured forth the tribulations of her
conscience, had awakened him to the
dangers which lay in the path Of pity
and reminded him that, after all. il
was the quality of his mission Of friend.
liness upon which she presumed and
upon which she still relied. lie would
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