Evening journal., 1922-04-05
CHAPTER VII
whoss llts was Mona Ilvlnsl


"Narko. I think Tony's the most
wonderful person that ever was. He
docs everything that men do and he
does everything best. And every
body admires him and everybody
likes him. You've no iden. You've
no idea how he wins everybody he
meets People viii do anything for
him. They love him. Well you've
only got to look at him. haven't your
or hear him talk? I think there's
never been any one so utterly capt-
waiting as Tony is to look at and to
hear"
Most engagingly. with such words,
she had presented him; one that
passed through life airily, exquisite
iv: much fairy-glfted az his cradle
with gifts OF beauty. charm, pre-
rnlinence in all he touched: knowing
no care. knowing no difficulty, know
Ing no obstacle. or danger. or fear,
or Illness, or fatigue. or anything in
life but gay and singing things,
which touching, no made more
bright, more tuneful yet; meeting no
one. OF whatever age or degree, but
his charm was 20 that age or degree
exactly touched; captivating all.
leading all. by all desired in leader
ship. Fortunes darlingi
And. Marko." she at last had
come TO. And Marko-this is the
word graceless. Utterly. utterly
graceless. without heart. Marko,
without conscience. without morals,
without the smallest scrap OF an ap-
proach TO any moral principle. Mar
ko, that's an awful, a wicked, an
abominable thing for a wife 10 say
Of her husband, But he wouldn't
mind a bit my telling you. Not a
bit. He'd love IT, He'd laugh. He'd
utterly love to know he had stung
me so much. And he'd utterly love
TO know he'd driven me to tell you.
He'd think-he'd love like anything
to drive mo 10 do awful things. He's
tried-especially these two years.
He'd love TO be able 10 point a finger
At me and laugh and say, 'Ahl Ha-
hal Ali You know, he hasn't got
any feelings at all--love or hate OF
anything else; and It simply amuse'
him beyond anything 20 arouse feel
ing in anybody else. There have
been women all the time we've beer
married and he simply amuses him
self with them until he's tired OF
them, and until the next one takes
his fancy and he does II quite open
iy befort me. in my house, and
tells me what I can't see before my
own eyes Just for the love OF seeing
the suffering Il gives me. You saw
that Mrs. Winfred. He's done with
her now. And he's as shameless
about me with them as he is about
them with me. And what he loves
above all is the way take II; and
I can't take II in no other way. You
see ] won't. I simply will not, Marko
let these women OF his see--or lei
anyone in the world suspect-that
that I suffer So when we are to-
gether before people I keep up the
gay way we always show together
He loves III it's delicious TO him
because it's game player over the
torture underneath. And won't dc
any other way, Marko. win keer
my face to the world won't have
anyone pity me-
Il pity you" he had said.
"Ah you -
PART THREE
EFFIE
CHAPTER
But life goes on without the small
est regard for Individual preoccupa.
tons You may take up what at.
titude you like towards Il or. with
the majority. you may take up no at
fitude towards IL but immerse your
self in the stupendous importance o
your own affairs and disclaim an,
connection with life. II doesn'
matter tuppence 20 life.
The year 1913 was magnifcen'
il was a dehciously thrilling an
emotional year A terrific an
sfupendous year. Many well-know
people died
II was naturally a year Of stron
partisanship. A year OF violent fee
ings violently expressed; and amtdl
them. and because of them, Sahl
found with new certainly that I
had no violent feelings.
II much affected his relations wit
those nearest TO him-with Mabt
with Mr.. Fortune. and with Twyi
ing. In those months and in Il
months following. the year changir
and advancing In equal excitemen
and strong opinions through whit
into spring. he found himself Il
creasingiy out OF favor at The Pr
clncts and increasingly estranged
HE home.
Like two living in two emp
houses empty this end; empty tn
end. More frequently. for the
estrangements. appealed TO him Il
places OF his refuge; the room OF I
mind. that private chamber wherei
retired, he assembled the parts OF I
puzzles; that familiar garment
which. invested, he sat among Z
fraternity OF his thoughts: the eS
nings with Young Perch and old M
Perch; the evenings with Mr.. Fs
Sur.
Most strongly OF all called anotf
refuge: and this. because Il called
strongly, he kept locked. Mona.
He said one day. "You see. ther
shis. Mona Life's got one. We
In tho thing. All the time you
got TO so on. You can't 20 ba