The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-05-22
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1Thesman I've got in mind to
direct you In your first picture.
Mrs. Lee: that Is. IL yon can get
better, but his salary's> ee-nor-
nous. III give him ring and
ind ont for you.
ssThare'ssn hurry, Mr.. Summer
lad Remember, Mr.. Lontaine has
mot taken the first step toward
forming a company yet.
Well, but I'd hate to nave you
lose chance. Barry's a wonder.
Even Griffith takes back seat
when Barry Nolan picks UP the
megaphone.''@s
Lontaine interposed question
@ofstechnicaI nature and as Sum
$msrlad answered him at length,
attention wandered,
q the speaker. less about what he
was saying. Undeniably most
Satisfying creature, at least to
Hook at Bending over the table
his face glowing as he illustrat-
ed HIS m Gaming with an animated
play OF hands: though his words
were all for Lontaine, Summer
s1ad' IS 8consciousness was constant
ito Lucinda, his quick eyes were
Forever seeking hers Hard
Shitssand making no secret OF it.
Not that it mattered, more
q than for the good it did ones
@self-esteem to be respectfully II
Sopeniy adored by a personable
young man whom one found
aagreeable. Vanity had been sore
Ky sprung by Bellamy's sacrifices
of his wife's love to his appetite
for flirting with women of cheap
emotions. Neither had Daube-
Sney's devotion meant great deal:
being something too familiar
through old acquaintance not to
be misprized. 1t had needed
some new conquest as this to make
Lucinda think well of herself
again; this at least proved her
charms not yet passed.
Lucinda inclined to approve the
gf,3yle In which Summerlad main
tanned himself. The bungalow, Sc
Scluded IN wide and wel1-kempt
grounds. might have served as the
warm-weather retreat of grand
duke.
BY merely turning her head she
could look out through an open
easement +ot lawn where moon
Hight like liquid silver slept be-
IL eensmysterious, dense masses OF
purple shadow. The breath of the
snightHwas bland and fragrant. In
4ChicaEo the THERMOMETERS had
sphiyered in the neighborhood OF
Esro New York, according to
86olegraphic news was digging out
from under a snowfall seSond only
ito at OF its Legendary blizzard:
want to purr," Lucinda con-
sfessed, finding sSLnEsrlad's eyes
upon her. am enslayed by Cali
fornfa.
{ 2I3ssssi'..I must make the most of these
moments, then. Presently Wen.
Both be busy, you in especial far
too busy to give me many eve
nings like this.
u u 5iss.'.I' N not at all afraid of being
doomed to ennui through any lack
5ofgingenuity on your part. -
II Tn not mistaken, that's
dare. 9
ITS as you care to take it,
He accepted with smile the
smiling gage OF her eyes. they
understood each other perfectly
When it was time to return to
the Alexandra, Summerlad insist
ed on driving them home himself
Lucinda fell asleep that night
to dream of coursing a wi1l-o'-the-
Ewisp through a land whose paint
led illusion failed and faded as she
fled till in the end there was no
more beauty, only the bare grin
OF the desert savage and implac-
able.
She started awake with her hus-
bands name trembling on her
lips.
35as XVIII
THE room the IIontaines occupi-
8ed9in the Alexandria adjoined Luz
cinda's and while she was lazing
over breakfast Fanny tapped on
the communicating door and drift
ed in, en- negHgee, with a cigaret
and an airy nonchalance oddly at
war with problematic shadow
that 1urked in her eyes.
Ny amiable first husband"
she announced, has charged me