Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-02
,,ov Vulgar He Was!

How Vulgar He Was!
ta,,ELL, you're wrong l IN q
W hunter"
"A hunter?"
y Tm .hum-like your Westerner---
;" Nor biz game. I've a rotten mar
y y ..d life. and I cant escape. because
= iacy doesn't give me loophole' and
h 4. won't get rid of me as long as
n ~ ..,,r,s money holds out-you bet.
y ",r is one grand little spender.'
How insufferably vulgar he was
Il .,o aasellated her own tolerance OF
u IN (. man. And she had so much more
4, ~ ,.o,ously kept Q in his place. Ah'
:. ~ Where are you? How could l ever
NJ .,s believed anything against you! If
=. ou tied up Sophie, it was for some
Ia;culous chivalrous intention that
:. E,rvnenkill could never, of course, in
81 (.rnret wisely. She would write to O.
" rhs would bring him to the manor.
~ Those guarded eyes of his that some
= (iuss opened to show a deep. wild,
q ,r,e beart-she was thirsty for their
Eoolness :.
\, excuse me, Ferdinand. l wasn't
~ ..ening. What did you say then?'
81 said that you're an intelli :
'os ,eut woman and that you know me from
III A TO q, inside and out. You knew l
as wasn't romantic cowboy or gen.
si temonly suitor. You knew that
i" xanted to kiss your lips so that !
M tould forget that they weren't part OF
i by own lips
~ T' Hush. Hush! - She had stood up
Freeing herself from him, for he was on
y. ,%a his knees and had wrapped his arms
lbout her.
ii, mo, you can't run away. It's too
: bate. Why aren't you generous! Any
Il khins so beautiful ought to be free as
[IS A. Gods flowers. -
The words and sentences We're re-
T healing, terrible to her innocence,
(which. even with all her folly on her
p p head, all her half-knowledge. all her
en k,shness, all her nenr-experience. was,
us hitter all, so astonishing thing in con :
-.tasf to Ferdinand's misunderstanding
aSH 1t. The little, breathless, wind
n bower, ide-cyed girl that lives,
IGNORED and secret, in the breasts of Sc
many Of these steel -armored, tlippant
young Bacchantes of ballroom and
N motor ride, now stood frozen with dis
'A nay and heard the worst of love before
he had ever heard its best-if there
III pe in the confused torrent of sex and
~ pplrlt any best or worst, save in our
'"warped interpretations of them. Ger
ainy, for Heloise, there was a worst.
ID With her training. with her back =
q ground, this experience was already a
brand across her mind. What it might
De before she escaped can hardly bear
-lthinking Of. And yet. how could
Ferdinand have looked through the af-
8 eetatlon of Cleopatra to the little
IL slde.eyed, wind flower girl? Only such
lnoeWlldered eyes as Q's, used to long
pls!ances, could recognize her. Shy
= and sweet and wavering. she had run
,y sps Put sometimes to look up at him.
II ferdinand, at her growing terror and
n g'alty, began to be angry. He stood
p let her go, went rowing about the
oom' pleading and threatening. coming
soSer to gather her persuasively against
his heart
= sine," he said. i'm ''u ''"' ''Ae
And she screamed piercingly. inst ms
nopsh talons had been buried in her
!. tpstairs Derrek thurst his head under
Ie covers and cursed. Nov. that
u .n wnat ! took the money for" he
on.,. Confound young Fadden!
NIUasnt she looked like a proud one
81, ss s,s nasty big animal" But Dcrrel
In N.Y. Ts us covers wrapped close about his
c,,, t, because the inn had very little
nf NIL k0a nowadays and Fadden's fist had
- n,;S. %'h q - the scream, Grinscoombery s
"a %e snd a. teIi and Heloise raved and wept
ny ~ ,ffqsht, She didn't hear the crash =
81 as, y, shutter, but she did know at
y a Sat mat INA cold air blew upon her and
SSa . h aae tiger had been plucked away.
her, r" nearu y say, yell for your Pop
Ma noW' " fer'dce- nand, like YOU did in
j of vovs voevVsM'camp,' and she saw battle
= from WAS ~k, terrible. beautiful spectacle,
tSss, mnlch she drew away to the far
wstc,oSF ,eJFHer i, OF the room. but which she
M haireS like IKE one of those white. gold :
" and d;ctolHen tMolHen OF German forests, torn
NJ " spenSidI SidIe'e:eh' her eyes phosphCrcscent
III lerdinsr,,w win fury and delight. When
7Georys'sa iay' dead dragon under St.
tel sS.in loot' she crept forward and
" little case s'st take me home" walled the
4 wbitssr srl who would never again be
n 1Iiesons 'e Tind flower, for all O's timely
ba Sitb r,;nsi one was burnt with kisses and
nr n,nrough the dark, shaking, plunc
by o'aineS, n "inS neither Heloise nor @ spoke
him silops'e breath. She lay agains,
hterva,iiee' u, broken. sobbing at irregular
Uo ns IN pis heart broken sobs.
and sba bm''ea a her down at the manor door
I'd be, ;rept across its threshold. and
loom. drons low voices in the other
tod curtai steW her quickly through the
4 fs IuGtlalns and switched on y upbt
ptn AWE AMY room looked astonishinglN
SydneSS Snu gllt and undisturbed, 81, Ii
. d,oonssd smiled. For n minute Uelois,
q tiOw stonc oe'ow him. then she came twr
tomberr' r''pi over to q where he stood
face ami ami r,Iiln', ard white, his bruised
bis neck ne"ck'erIns' She put her arms abou,
offered tba an' ulted back her face, which
= III vnm ,ne reward os victory.
ne, o."'u mink ! am ft-please kiss
be put trUoG, AN with a scared. pale look
3 Ilent his IL l,nu urn carefully about her anG
( Kiss and Ups, ps But she trembled to his
= blood. Sbe 'uns' wn and slowly fired hi,
s.N ''What" "' dn" was, Tor the moment, his.
u Wing me HnuS ~n |, mean, Heloise--youl
z hs ~ !, Kissed her npaIp 'Sn ..Mp, ",