Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-23
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him counsel MS they strolled together
In the dusk. He turned.
The Englishman waved to him from
the wall and held one arm aloft in n
gesture of farewell; Peter could see
every finger on his hand as if they all
were painted in sepia on the velvety
gold of the sky.
"By the bye," called Benham, "the
strange lady is half n Greek. l sag Can
you hear? Her father was banished
patricia fighting professor of chem
istry or something
Peter smiled and waved his hand.
lie turned the corner of the wall and
stepped into the cobbled street where
the endless wagons of some French ar
tillery maneuver We're rumbling deeper
into the ruts of war worn in the an
cient stones.
Only at nine that evening did he
hear more. Benham called him by the
service wire of the Signal Corps.
=, Saying ,goOd-by, that's ALL" said
the Englishman lying glibly. Good
luck. And forgot to say that her
mother was Irish
Send me that letter to your family
care Of the American port officer at
boulogne,' said Peter calmly after a
moment in which Benham wondered
whether the line had been cut off.
I'm off for England tomorrow"
lie put his cigarette down and al.
lowed 1t to burn the edge of the table.
staring at the wall with its maps and
lue-prints, his eyes full of wonder.
This explains, in part, why the rea
son for his going to London was typical
OF Peter DeWolfe.
Dedicated to Being q Woman
Muriel Benham was savagely a
women. She conceived woman as n
species rs distinct from males as flora
Is distinct from fauna. The acquisition
Dy women OF the right to vote had been
the occasion for mourning, as Peter
found out before Mrs. Austin Benham
mad beamed through two meals first
upon her guest and then upon her lovely
daughter.
The widow Of Austin, as DeWolfe
discovered after week of agreeable
neglect of the calendar, was true
beamer. She did not beam with the
insincere beam of affectation, but with
the beam of an expansive nature oOziny
good will and demonstrativeness through
the creviccs it could find in the walls of
life which was like u vessel of con.
ventionality. containing, according to
all the traditions of her husbands fam.
lily, liquor Of precious quality, not
to be spent freely. She believed i'm new
things and in new world, but she
beamed upon Muriel not because she
agreed with her. but because, not daring
to voice an opinion, she could still love
her daughter for being so healthy and
SO irfeproachable.
Muriel considered herself as dedicated
by duty and adaptability to being a
woman, and being woman meant
that her brown hair must be made at
tractive and stable for tennis-a game
which she executed with a good deal
OF dash, in n costume designed to keen
freckles off milk white skin. Even
her forearms were covered in the game
she took from DeWolfe, who made
rather q botch Of his Impractical play,
because just as it was womanly
woman's duty to be we'll exercised and
In fine condition for tho market, so
also was it her duty to be milk white
in an evening dress. The same thought
made her appear before Peter in the
hedge walled gard en- before breakfast
clad in part wispy and part fluffy
gown with basket of roses hung on
ono cipoW anu ho"er scissorS In the
other hand.
'You do all things so WE'LL" said
Peter with great delight filling his
being. There il a thOroughness in
your method which positively upsets
me. ] looked ut the library in your
study and as far as l can see you have
spent your twenty years collecting,
among others, books on how to do
things--how to ride a horse, how to
play golf, how to knit, how to cast