Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-25
WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY
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lust how Leslie Ward had drifted
81 into his innocuous affair with the
star of "The Valley" he was not certain
himself. Innocuous it certainly was.
Afterward. looking back. he was to Won
der sometimes IL it had not been pre-
cisely for the purpose It served. But
that was long months after. Not un-
til the pattern was completed and he
was able to recognize his own work
in It.
The truth. was that be was not too
happy at home. Nina's smart little
house on the Ridgely road had at first
kept her busy She had spent unlim-
itcd time with decorators, mad studied
and rejected innumcrable water color
sketches Of interiors. had haunted auc-
ton rooms and bid recklessly on things
she felt at the moment she could not
do without, later on 10 have to wheedle
Leslie into Strengthening her bank bal
ancc.
But what she made, so successfully.
was house rather than home. There
were times, 6ndeed. when Leslie began
to feel that it was not even a house.
but Il small hotel. They almost never
dincd alone, and when they did Nina
would explain that everybody was tied
fup. -,
And he did not like her friends.
Things came to Il point where. when
he knew one of the gay evenings was
on. he would stay III town. playing bill
iiards ut his club, or occasionally wan.
dering into theatre. where he stood
or sat at the back of the house and
Il IiSpnn
tented eyes.
The casual meeting with Gregory
and the introduction to his sister
, brought new interest. Perhaps the
very novelty was what first attracted
him, the oddity of feeling that he was
on terms of friendship, for it amounted
to that with surprising quickness. with
famous woman, whose face smiled
out at him from his morning paper
or. huge and shockingly colored. from
the sheets on the billboards.
He formed the habit Of calling on
her in the afternoons ut her hotel. and
! he saw that she liked it. 1t was often
! lonely, she explained. lie sent her
! flowers and cigarettes, and he found
| her poised and restful. and sometimes,
/ when she was off guard. with the lines
of old suffering in her face.
She sat still She didn't tidget, rs
{ Nina did. She listened. too. She was
not as beautiful ns she appeared on
! the stage. but she was attractive, ana
, he stiled his conscience with the
knowledge that shc' placed 10 undue
emphasis on his visits.
But he wondered about her. some
times. Did she ever think of Judson
! clark. and the wreck he had made or
! her life? What of resentment and
sorrow lay behind her quiet face. or
the voice with its careful intonation'
! which was so unlike Nina's:
Now and then he saw her brother.
| He neither liRed nor disliked Gregory,
! but he suspected him of rather bully
ing Beverly. On the rare occasions
when he saw them together there was
n sort of nervous tension in the air,
and although Leslie was not subtle he
scnscd somr hidden difference between
thc:r. 4 small incident one day al
! most brought this concealed disscnsion
to head. lie said to Gregory
"By the way. saw you in Hav-
crly yesterday afternoon.
Must have been somebody else.
! Haverly? Where's Haverly:'
/ Leslie Ward l h2d been been rather: an.
about the recognition. But he passed
! II OIL WIN that curious sense ol sex
{ loyalty that will actuate a man even
toward his enemies. w
Funny, ne said: 'Chap looked
like. you, Maybe niue heavier:
Nevertheless he had Il conviction
that he had said something better left
unsaid. and that Beverly Carlysle' :
glance at her brother was almost hos
tile. lic had that instantaneous pic
ture Of the two OF them. the man de-
iiant and somehow frightened. and the
WOman's eyes anxious and yet slightly