Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-04-05
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CHAPTER VII

He had asked her. TELL me about
Vou and Tybar."
sMarko. I think Tony's the most
wonderful person hat yer was. He
does Everything that men do and he
does everything best. And every
body admires him and everybody
likes him. You've no idea. You've
no idea how he wins everybody he
meets. People will do anything for
only got to look at him. haven't you?
Or hear him talk? l think there's
never been any one 80 utterly capti-
waiting as Tony is to look at and TO
Most engagingly, with such words.
she had presented him: that
passed through life airily, exquisite
~: much fairy-gifted at his cradle
with gifts OF beauty. charm. pre-
eninence in all he touched: knowing
no care, knowing no difficulty. know
ing no obstacle. or danger. or fear.
or Illness. or fatigue, or anything in
life but gay and singing things.
which touching. he made
bright, more tuneful yet: meeting
no one of whatever age or degree.
degree exactly touched: captivating
ali. leading all, by all desired in
leadership. Fortunes darling!
"And. Marko." she at last had
come to. and Marko-this is the
word-graceless. Utterly. utterly
~graceless. without heart. Marko,
without conscience. without morals.
without the smallest scrap of an ap-
proach to any moral principle. Mar.
ko. that's an awful. a wicked. an
Abominable thing for a wife to say
of her husband. But he wouldn't
mind a bit my telling you. Not a
bit. He'd owe it.. He'd laugh. He'd
utterly love to know he had stung
me 30 much. And he'd utterly love
to know he'd driven me to tell you.
He'd think-he'd love like anything
to drive me to do awful things. He's
tried-especially these two years.
He'd love to be able to point a finger
at me and laugh and say, All. Ha-
ha! Ah!' You know. he hasn't got
any feelings at all-love or hate or
anything else; and 1t simply muse
him beyond anything to arouse feel
Ing in anybody else. There have
been women all the time we've been
married and he simply amuses him
self with them until he's tired Of
them, and until the next n takes
his fancy. and he does it quite open
~ before me, in my house. and
tells me what ] can't see before my
own eyes just for the love of seeing
the suffering It gives me. You saw
that Mrs. Winfrcd. He's done with
her now. And he's as shameless
about me with them as he is about
them with me. And what he loves
above all is the way I take it; and
/ can take it in no other way. You
see ! won't. I simply will not, Markc.
let these women Of his see-or let
anyone in the world suspect-that !
that / suffer. So when we are to-
gether before people I keep up the
gay way We always show together.
He loves It; it's delicious to him. be-
cause it's a game played over the
Torture underneath. And / won't do
any other way. Mako. I will keep
my face to the world won't have
anyone pity me-"
Il pity YOU" he had said.
PART THREE
EEFIE
CHAPTER I
But life goes on without the
smallest regard for individual pre-
occupations. You may take UT what
attitude you like toward it or. with
the majority, you may take up no
attitude toward 1t but immense your
salt in the stupendous importance of
your own affairs and disclaim any
connection with life. 1t doesn't mat
ter tuppence to life.
The year 1918 was magnificent.
It was q deliciously thrilling and
emotional year. A terrific and
A-~-x~r. vcar Manu- -ku
people died.
It wa naturally a year of strong
partisanship. A year OF violent feel
4nas violently expressed; and amidst
chem. and because Of them. Sabre
found with new certainty that he
had no violent feelings.
1t much affected his relations with
those nearest to him-with Mabel.
with Mr.. Fortune. and with Twyn-
ing. In those months. and In the
months following, the year changing
and advancing in equal excitements
and strong opinions through winter
into spring, he found himself in
'creasingly out ofefavor at The Pre-
clncts and increasingly estranged In
his home.
houses: empty this end; empty thai
end. More frequently, for these
arrangements appealed to him the
places Of his refuge: the room OF his
mind. that private chamber wherein.
retired. he assembled the parts Of his
puzzles: that familiar garment in
which. invested, he sat among the
fraternity OF his thoughts; the even
inxs with Young Perch and old Mrs.
Perch; the evenings with Mr.. Far
gus.