The Washington herald., 1922-09-21
The Beautiful
And Damned
By r. Scott Fitzgerald.
0ertsnusd from yesterday.


You'll be the, same then. After
. fashion. We have had our good
time. raised the devil. and we're
IN the state Of paying for It."
Nevertheless. the money kept 60
ing. There would be two days Of
gaity. two days of moroseness-an
endless. almost invarIable round.
The sharp pull-ups. when thev oc
cured, resulted usually In a squirt
Of work for Anthony. while Gloria,
nervous and bored. remained in bed
or else ohewed abstractedly at her
hngsra After . day or so of this,
they would make an engagement.
teri This night, this glow, the
cessation Of anxiety and the sense
that IL living was not purpcsed II
was 1T any rate. essentially roman
tiei Wine gave a sort Of gallantry
10 thsir own failure.
Meanwhile the suit progressed
slowly. with interminable examina-
tions of witnesses and marshalinSs
Of evidence. The preliminary pro-
eeedings of settling the estate were
son why the case should not come
up for trial before summer.
Bloeckman appeared In New York
late in March: he had been In Eng
land for nearly a year on matters
concerned with Films Par Excel
lence.'' The process of general re-
fnement was still in progress-al-
ways he dressed a little better. his
H. pnNl NJ n
his manner there was percsptibly
more assurance that the fne thingr
Of the world were his by a natural
and inaIienable right. He called at
the, apartment, remained only All
hour. during which he talked
chiefly of the war. and left tellinE
them he was coming again On his
second visit Anthony was not at
home, but an absorbed and excited
Gloria greeted her husband later IN
the afternoon
Anthony" she began, would
you still object II 1 went in the
moviesT'
His whole heart hardened against
the idea As she seemed to recede
from him. II only in threat, her
presence became again not so much
precious as desperately necessary.
"Oh. Gloria"
"Blockhead said he'd put me In
only II I'm ever going to do any
thing I'll have TO start now. They
only want young women. Think
OF the money. Anthony"
For you-yes. But how About
me."
Don't you know that anything
/ have Il yours too"
IT'S such q hell of a career" he
burst out. the moral. the infinitely
circumspect Anthony. 'and such
a he'll of a bunch. And I'm so ut
terIy tired Of that fellow Block
man coming here and interfering.
! hate theatrical things"
1T isn't theatrical! It's utterly
different"
What am I supposed to do?"
Chase you all over the country?
Live on your money"
Then make some yourself"
The conversation developed into
one of the most violent quarrels
they had ever had. After the en-
suing reconciliation and the inevit-
able period of moral inertia. she
realized that he had taken the life
ever mentioned the probability that
Bloeckman was by no means dis
interested. but they both knew that
IT lay back OF Anthony's objection.
In April war was declared with
Germany. Wilson and his Cabinet
"a Cabinet that in its lack Of dis
tinction was strangely reminiscent
OF the twelve apostles-let loose
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and the press began to whoop hys-
terically against the sinister
morals. sinister philorophy. and
sinister music produced by the Teu-
tonic temperament Those who
fancied themselves particularly
broad minded made the exquisite
distinction that IL was only the Ger
man government which aroused
them to hysteria: the rest were
worked up to a condition of retch-
ing indecency. Any song which con-
tained the word mother" and the
word kaiser was assured of a tre-
mendous success. At last every one
had something to talk about-and
almost every one fully enjoyed IT,
as though they had been cast for
parts in q somber and romantic
play.
Anthony. Maury and Dick sent in
their applications for officers train
ing camps and the two latter went
about feeling strangely exalted and
reproachless; they chartered to each
other, like college boys, OF wars
being the one excuse for, and justi-
hcation Of, the aristocrat, and con-
tured up an impossible caste of Of
ncers to be composed II appeared
chiefly OF the more attractive
leges. 1t seemed to Gloria that In
this huge red light streaming across
the nation even Anthony took on a
new glamour.
The Tenth Infantry. arriving IN
New York from Panama, were es-
eorted from saloon to saloon by
patriotic citizens, to their great be-
wilderment. West Pointers began
to be noticed for the first time in
years. and the general impression
was that everything was glorious,
but not half so glorious as 1t was
going to be pretty soon. and that
everybody was a hne fellow, and
every race a great race-always ex-
cepting the Germans-and in every
strata OF society outcasts and scape-
goats had but to appear in uniform
to be forgiven. cheered and wept
over by relatives. former friends
and utter strangers
Unfortunately a small and precise
doctor decided that there was some
thing the matter with Anthony's
blood pressure. He could not con-
scientiously pass him for an officers