The Washington herald., 1922-08-12

had stood by the bed and then sent
In his call of fear.
"oh." she said-snd then: "1m
so sleepy"
For an hour they lay awake side
by side. Gloria with her eyes shut
so tight that blue moons formed
and revolved against backgrounds
Of deepest mauve, Anthony staring
olindly into the darkness overhead.
After many weeks 1t came grad
ually out into the light. to be
laughed and joked at. They made
tradition to At over it-whenever
that overpowering terror of the
night attacked Anthony. she would
put her arms about him and Groom,
soft as a song:
"Ill protect my Anthony. Oh.
nobody's ever going to harm my
Anthony"
He would laugh as though II were
jest they played for their mutual
amusement, but to Gloria It was
never quite a jest. II was, at first,
keen disappointment: later. II was
one of the times when she con-
trolled her temper.
The management of Gloria's tenn
""tNhcA ~ Was aroused DS "A
lack of hot water for her bath or
by a skirmish with her husban nd
became almost the primary duty of
Anthony's day. 1t must be done
just so-by this much silence, By
that much pressure, by this much
yielding, by that much force. 1t
was in her angers with their at
tendant cruelties that her inordi-
nate egotism chiefly displayed
itself. Because she was brave. be-
cause she was spoiled" because OF
her outrageous and CONNIE nda BILE
independence of Judgment. and
nnally because of her arrogant con-
sciousness that she had never seen
girl as beautiful as herself,
Gloria had developed into a con-
sistent. practicing Nietzschean.
This. of course. with overtones of
profound sentiment.
There was, for example, her
stomach. She was used to certain
dishes, and she had a strong con-
viction that she could not possibly
eat anything else. There must be
lemonade and a tomato sandwich
late In the morning. then a light
lunch with a stuffed tomato. Not
only did she require food from
selection of a dozen dishes, but in
addition this food must be prepared
IN just certain way. One of the
most annoying half hours of the
first fortnight occurred in Los An
geies. when an unhappy waiter
brought her a tomato stuffed with
chicken salad instead of celery.
We always serve IT that way.
madame" he quavered to the gray
eyes that regarded him wrathfulIy.
nd 10
the waiter had turned discreetly
away she banged both fists upon
the table until the china and silver
ratified.
Poor Gloriaw laughed Anthony
unwittingly you can't get what
you want ever, can your
II can't eat stuffr' she fiared up.
I'll call back the walter"
Il don't want you to, He doesn't
know anything, the darn foolr
Well. 1t isn't the hotels fault.
Either send it back. forget It, or
be sport and eat it,"
shut up" she said succinctly.
why take it out on me?"
"Oh. I'm not" she walled, but I
simply can't eat it," Anthony sub
sided helplessly.
We'n go somewhere else" he
suggested.
'T don't want to go anywhere
else. I'm tired of being trotted
around to a dozen cafes and not
getting one thing ft to eat
When did we go around to
dozen cafes?"
You'd have to in this town." in
sisted Gloria with ready sophistry.
Anthony. bewildered. tried an
other tack.
why don't you try to eat It? 1t
can't be- as bad as you think"
"Just-because-I- - like
chicken,'
She picked up her fork and began
poking contemptuously at the to-
mato. and Anthony expected her to
begin fiinging the stuffings in all
directions He was sure that she
was approximately as angry as she
had detected a spark of hate di-
rected as much toward him as to-
ward anyone else-and Gloria
angry was, for the present, unap-
proachable.
Then. surprisingly, he saw that
she had tentatively raised the fork
to her lips and tasted the chicken
salad. Her frown had not abated
and he stared at her anxfously,
making no comment and daring
scarcelv to breathe. She tasted an
other forkful-in another moment
she was eating. With difficulty
Anthony restrained chuckle; /;
when at length he spoke his words
had no possible connection with
chicken salad.
Thfs incident. with variations.
ran IKE lugubrious fugue
through the flrst year Of marriage;
always 1t left Anthony baffled. ir-,
ritated and depressed. But another
rough brushing of temperaments.
question of laundry bags, he found
even more annoying as 1t ended in
evitably in a decisive defeat for
him.