The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-02-06
.contiHsed from Yesterday.

sCoHtiHEed from Yesterday.
The sidewalks of Fifth avenue
outside the church were thronged
with surious spectators for the
Barstowe-Dare wedding. The side
streets for blocks on either side of
the avenue were lined with smart
motors Thanking the awning
which stretched above velvet car
pet from the church entrance to
the curb was a battery of camera
men waiting to snap the bridal
pair and the notables among the
wedding guests.
The Barstowe limousine which
bore Jeanne and her matron of
honor rolled up to to the curb, and
there came an instant craning OF
neeks and tense activity among
the photographer.
Adele Parkinson descended first,
shielding her face with her bou-
quet against the battery of click
ing cameras. Jeanne had no such
protection, nor did she want it.
The Day Of Triumph.
This was her day of triumph.
She was glad that all the, world
should witness it So she smiled
through her mist of tulle upon the
jostling. gaping throng, and pro-
ceeded leisurely into the church
The next few minutes were cha
otto with confusion.
She realized that she was trem-
bling with excitement and that her
face, set like a flower in its misty
draperies. was flaming with the tu-
multi Of her heartbeats.
ing the wedding procession in the
appropriate order.
She noted absently that the now
er girls basket shook with the
trembling of her hand.
Behind her, she heard the brides
maids giggie.
Adele's cheeks had taken on a
deeper hue than the artificial stain
she effected.
Vera Dayton was contrastingiy
pale Her lips were compressed in
a scarlet line, and she seemed con-
stantly to be biting one. She had
greeted the bride with stony calm.
and thereafter kept her eyes re-
solutely averted.
The low murmur of the organ,
audible through the closed door of
the vestry. ceased suddenly, and,
after a moment, broke into the
beautiful strains of the Lohengrin
wedding march. The door was flung
open, and the procession wendell
its way slowly into the church.
Jeanne lifted her eyes for a mo-
ment from their demure downcasr
regard over her bridal bouquet, and
noted with infinite satisfaction, that
the world and his wife in their
even to crowding the empty space
in the side aisles and back of the
last line of pews.
The music pulsed and trembled
in warm air scented with the
breath of the lilies that marked
each pew and banked the chancel.
AduIatIon.
As Jeanne passed in her exquisite
bridal robes. she caught the we'll
bred murmurs of admiration with
which the assemblage paid tribute
ito her beauty and her sartorial
perfection.
She felt a curious desire to laugh.
It.seemed suddenly the finest joke
in the world that these wealthy and
fashionable people should show
such approval of little Jane Dare.
IL they but knew!s
As his life passes in swift re-
view before the eyes of a drown
z, ing man. So to Jeanne's inner Wis
9 ion. as she walked slowly down the
aisle to the strains of. Lohengrin,
came snatches of her entire ex-
istence in QUICK kaleidoscope re-
view.
She saw herself at going off
for the first time to school, a little
red-knitted woollen figure with a
bonnet tied under her round chin
and tin lunchbox tucked in her
mittened hand. She saw her moth
er, a carelessly untidy figure. hid
ing her tears behind bingham
apron held with red chapped hands.
She saw herself at her first party
in her earlA teens, in her home
made organdy with slicked and
braided hair eating homemade ice
cream and layer cake. and trying
to hide her feet because she had
no party slippers.
She saw her first proposal from
her first beau, Harry Harrison in
a moonlit glen with the noisy,
rowdy, picnic merrymakers behind
them singing trashy songs that had
been popular on Broadway FIVE
years before. She saw Henry's
earnest. embarrassed face and
trembling lips and. aminflgy dis
tinct, was his ill-fitting collar and
/. purple necktie with magenta dots.
She saw Jane Dare, the school
teacher, with admitted golf vest
over a cotton blouse, laboriously
correcting examination papers in a
drafty school room, while two
small boys with dirty ears threw
spitballs at each other to pass
away the period while they were
kept IN"
She saw Jane Dare, the chrysalis,
arriving at Pennsylvania Station.
She saw Jeanne Dare, the butter
ny, emerging from the beauty
shops. the modistes. the milliners
She saw the bride of Victor Bar
stoye in her imported velvet and
priceless pearls. -.
The Bridegroom!
And then. because her foot
touched the chancel steps and she
looked up-she saw her BRIDE
groom,
But to her dreaming eyes. 1t was
not clean, strong. handsome man
who stood there. but a dollar sign,
correct IN afternoon attire,
The ceremony went through
without hitch Adele stepped for
ward and adjusted the bridal veil
, Jeanne had chosen to veil her
facet and the newly-wedded pair
turned to face the vast assem-
blage as the murmuring organ