The Washington herald., 1922-09-15
The Beautiful
And Damned
BY F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Continued from Yesterday.

Win q lOnBlnH " DC chiONiO''
undisturbed. This gradual change
had taken place through the past
several years. accelerated by a sue
cessIon of anxieties preying on his
mind. There was. first of all. the
sense of waste. always dormant In
his heart. now awakened by the
circumstances OF his position. lr
his moments Of insecurity he was
haunted by the suggestion that
life might be, after all, significant.
In his early twenties the conVic-
tfon of the futility of effort. of the
wisdom of abnegation. had been
confirmed by the PHILOSOPHERS ne
had admired as well as by his
association with Maury Noble. and
later with his wife. Yet there had
been occasions-just before his
FIRST meeting with Gloria, for ex-
ample, and when his grandfather
had suggested that he should 20
abroad as war correspondent
upon which his dissatisfaction ha'!
driven him almost to a positive
step.
One day just before they iett
Marietta for the last time. in care
lassiy turning over the pages OF
Harvard Alumni Bulletin. he had
found a column which told him
what his contemporaries had been
about in this six years since graz
uation. Most of them were in busi-
ness Il was true. and severa! were
converting the heather of China or
America to a nebulous protestant
ism: but a few. he found. were
working constructively at jobs that
were neither sinecures nor routines.
There was Calvin Boyd. for IN
stance. who. though barely out OF
medical school, had discovered a
new treatment for typhus, had
shipped abroad and was mitigating
some Of the civilization that the
Great Powers had brought to
Servia: there was Eugene bronson
whose articles in the New Democra-
cy were stamping him as a man
with ideas transcending both vulgar
timeliness and popular hysteria'
there was a man named DAILY who
had been suspended from the facul-
" Of a righteous university for
preaching MARKHAM doctrines in tine
classroom; in art. sCierCe. politics.
he saw the authentic personalities
Of his time emerging-there was
even Severance. the quarterback
who had given up his life ratner
neatly and gracefully with the
Foreign Legion N the Aisne.
He laid down the magazine ana
thought for a while about these di-
verse men. In the days OF MS IN
tegrity he would have defended his
ATTITUDE to the last-an EpicuruS II
Nirvana. he would have cried tha'
to struggle was To believe. I" be
Heve was to limit. He would as
7oon have become a ChurCh-soer
because the prospect Of immortality
Eratified him as he would have con-
sidered entering the leather busi-
ness because the intensity Of the
cnmpetition would have kept him
from unhappiness. But at present
he had no such delicate ScrupieS.
This autumn. as his twenty-nlnth
wear began, he was inclined to close
his mind To many things. to aN"'d
prving deeply into motives and hrst
causes and mostly to long passion
areIv for security from the world
and from himself He hated to be
alone with Gloria.
Eccause Of the chasm which his
-randfather's visit had opened be-
fore him. and the consequent reNuI-
sion from his late mode Of life. II
was Inevitable that he should look
around in this suddenly hostile city
for the friends and environments
that had once seemed the warmeSt
and most secure. His first stop was
? desperate attempt to get back his
old apartment.
In the spring Of 1912 he had
signed a fnur-vear lease at seven
teen hundred year. with an option
~ renewal This lease had expired
tho previous May. When he ha
first rented III" rooms they had been
rere pntentiaIities. scarcely to h"
GiScrrned as that. hut Anthony had
..een into these pOtentialitieS ana
srranEed in the lease that he and
ne landlord should each spend
.rrtain amount in Improvements.
tents had gone up in the past four
.sars and last spring when An
sr0ny had waived his option the
landlord. a Mr. Sohenberg. had real
zed that he could get a much big
ger price for what was now pre-
when Anthony approached him on
the subject in Septembo- he was
met with SohcnberE's offer of
three-year lease at twenty-five hum
drcd a wear This. it seemed to
Anthony. was outra Seous. 1t meant
that well over a third Of their in
come would he consumed in rent.
In vain he argued that his own
!,
titioning. had made the rooms at
traCtiVe.
In vain he offered two thou
sand dolIars-twenty-t hundred.
though they could i'll afford it: Mr..
Sohenberg was 0bdurste. II seemed
that two other gentlemen were con-
Iiderirg It: JUS that sort Of an
apartment was in demand for the
moment. and IL would scarcely he
business to give - to Mr.. Patch.
Resides. though he had never men
ri0ned il before. several % the
other tenants had complained Of
noise during the previous winter
singing and dancing late at night.
that sort Of thing.
Internally raging Anthonv hur-
rfed back to the Ritz to report his
discontinue to Gloria.
Il can Just see you" she stormed.
letting him back YOU down."
What could 7 saw"
You could have told him what
he was wouldn't have stood IT,.
No other man in the world would
have stood IL. You just let people
order vow around and cheat YOU and
bully YOU and take advantage OF
YOU as II YOU were a silly little