South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-03
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, tracrdinary You know. il all the
greatest legal minds Of all the ages
/ had laid themselves out TO make
social code they could never have got
anywhere near the rules the people
have built up for themselves And
that's what l like, Nona-that's what
+ I think so interesting and the best
thing In life: the things the people
\ do for themselves without any state
/ interference. That's what I'd en-
/ courage all I knew how if I were a
I politician"
He broke of II say. aren't 1 the
limit, casing away like this?
I hardly ever set off nowadays and
when I do.-Why don't you stop
me?"
She made a little gesture depreca-
tory of his suggestion. Because i
/ like 10 hear you. 1 like TO watch
your funny Old face when you're on
one Of your ideas. II gets red under
meath, Mako. and the red slowly
comes up. Funny old face. co on.
thirk conventions. most o. them. are
Odious, hateful, Mako. I hate them. p.
Y.
/ He had been strangely affected by
the words Of her Interruptions; a
contraction in the throat a witch
ing about the eyes But he was
able. and glad that he was able to
catch eagerly at her opinion. Yes
yes L know, odious, hateful and
much more than that. cruel-con-
ventions can be as cruel. as cruel as
ONE OF HIS FRIENDS. STAY
ING WITH US"
hell. I was just coming to that. But
I they're all absolutely rightly based.
Mona. That's the battling and the
maddening part of them. That's
what interests me in them
Look at this stuff there's been in
the papers lately about what they
call the problem of the unmarried
mother. Now there's a brute OF a
case for you; a girl gets into trouble
and while she sticks to her baby
she's made an Outcast: every door is
shu. TO her; her own people will have
nothing to do with her; no one will
take her in-so long as she's got the
baby with he. That's convention and
you can imagine cases where it's
cruel beyond words. But it's no good
cursing society about it. You can't
help seeing that the convention is
fundamentally right and essential.
Where on earth would you he if girls
with babies could find homes as east
| ly as girls without babies?" He
smiled You'd have babies pouring
out all over the place. See it,"
She nodded. u do think that's
interesting. Mako. Yes, cruel and
hateful and preposterous, many OF
them. but all fundamentally right"
Presently she said. Yes YOU do
still think things, Mako. You haven't
lchanged a bit, you know
He smiled, "Oh. well it's only two
years, you know less than two
Years since you went away"
How many years were you think
ing OFF,
Il wasn't thinking Of two years"
Ten"
They just sat there.
VI.
The insistent shriekinS of a motor
siren in the street below began to
penetrate their silence. What the
devils that?"
An eXtravagantly long motor car
was drawn against the curb Lord
Tybar in a dust coat and a sleek
bowler hat of silver gray, sat i'm the
drivers seat. He was Industrious
~ and without cessation winding the
handle of the siren. An uncommon.
lily pretty woman sat beside him. She
was massed in furs. In her ears she
held the index finger of each hand.
her elbows sticking out on each side
of her head
At Nona's call Lord Tybar ceased
the handle and looked mp with his
enga ging smile; the uncommonly
pretty woman removed her fingers
from her ears and also turned up
wards her uncOmmonly pretty face.
AS they went down Sabre asked
who's that with the carr"
"One of his friends. Staying with
US"
Something in her voice made it,
afterwards-occur to him as odd that
she spoke of one Of his" and not
one of "our" friends, and did not
mention her name.
VII.
Through the day Sabre's thoughts.
as a man sorting through many
documents and coming upon and re-
tanning one, fined down towards a
picture Of himself alone with Mona
alone with her. watching her beauti-
ful face-and saying to her: Look
here there were three things you
said, three expressions YOU used.
Explain them, Mona"
Continued i'm Our Next Issue)
When you say cigars-say Dutch
Masters. 45-tf-Adv.