Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-08

W LOUIS JOSEPH NANcAG
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she was disposed to hold this a grew
| ance. thoroughgoing mondaine that
| she was, saturate with the spirit OF
a day that was learning to look
| t~olerantly upon intempe-ateness as
a fashionable form of protest against
prohibition. No: IL wasn't that, IL
was the fact. established by long OBJ
servation, hat Bel seldom drank
more than he could manage race
fully unless on the verge of come
new gallantry. Bel assuredly didn't
| terprise. She fancied IL must be be-
| cause alcohol served as a sort of
anesthetic for his conscience.
For a moment Richard Daubeney
was silent. staring at his pate. Then
he reused with a light-hearted shrug
| and smile.
It's like you. Dobbin. to start
making love to me all over again
precisely as IL my being married
! meant nothing, in the first minutes
of our frs. meeting in five years,
without Offering to tell mc a single
thing about yourself"
Nothing much to tell. Everybody
knows, when you engaged yourself
to marry bruce, l rode off to the
wars"
1--WE heard you'd later taken up
ranching in the Argentine. and made
a tidy fortune"
II didn't do badly, that's a fact.
But what is a man profited il he
| shall gain the whole world n lose
his own soul?"
rs one to understand you lost
your soul in the Argentine? 1t
| sounds so amusingly immoral"
Il realized down there my soul
| was in a fair way to prove a total
loss. So 1 sold out and shipped for
home"
Hoping to find me unhappy
| enough with Bel"
That's unworthy of you. Cinda.
No: simply to be in the same world
with you"
After a little Mrs. BelIamy bruce
said severely: "Dobbin. IL you keep
| on that tack, you will make me
cross with you. How does New
York look to an exile OF long stand
ing? Much changed
"Oh, / don't know. Skirts and
morals a bit s.higher. jazz a little
more so. prohibition just what one
| expected. society even more loosely
| constituted-a vast influx of new
people. L don't know half these
people. Astonishing lot of pretty
girls seem to have sprung up since.
my time. Who's the raving beauty
on Bill Sedley's right?"
"Amelie Severn, Amelie Cleves
that was before she married. Surely
you remember her.
Good heavens. she was in long
dresses when l saw her last
pretty creature, cont you
Think"
She had a smile transiently bitter.
Pel's conscience! The most feather
headed, irresponsible of philanderers,
| the most incorrigible; between
] whites the most contrite -.
{ His fits of penitence were terribly
real, when she caught him misbe-
having. Or was that, too, merely
part of the game with Bel? Was II
Just a conventional gambit to make
believe repentance and promise
faithfully never, never to be naughty
again?
She discovered that the car was
already at a standstill. Immersed in
reverie, she hadn't noticed the turn
off from the avenue.
AS always, her home EMBODIED her
in it's comfortable atmosphere of Sc
curity from every assault of adver-
sity by virtue of the solid wealth
Upon which it vas founded, that for
nfdable whose into which two great
fortunes had been fused by her mar
riage with Bellamy.
In the library she fingered a long
minute. purposely by searching the
] rich glooms, her mind coddled by the