The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-01

can DO what like In Il. rm not.
anyway, doing anything wrong I'm
doing something more right than i've
ever done In my iife. and yet every.
body's got the right 10 question mo
and every body's got the right 20 be
answered and IIapsood. It's tho
most bewildering state OF affairs
that can possibly be Imagined. I'm
up against a code OF social eonven.
tons. and by Jove I'm absolutely
down and out I'm absolutely tied
up hand and foot and chueked away.
Do you know what am. Hap.
good
Tie give a laugh. He wasn't talk.
ing a bit sayaEeiy. and he never did
talk like that all thru what he told
me. He was Just talking in a tone
% sheer. hopeless. extremely inter.
ested puzzlement - hafflement -
amusement; Just as man might talk
TO YOU OF some absolutely battling
conjuring trick he'd seen. In fact.
he used that very expression. DO
you know what arm. Hapgoodf and
he gave a laugh. as I've said. I'm
what they call social outcnst. A
social outcast. Beyond The pale. Tn.
speakahle. ostraeiEed Blackhalled.
Excommunicatcd' lie got up and
began TO stump about tho room.
hands In his pockets. chin ON his col
lar. wrestling with it--and wrestling.
mind you, just In profoundly inter
estcd baffiemcnt.
'Unspeakabie.' he said Excom.
inundated. by Jove. us astounding.
ft's amazing. It's like stupcndous
conjurlng trick. I've done something
that isn't done--not . msthing that's
wrong. something that : incontestab.
~ right But II Isn't done. People
don't do q. and I've done II and
therefore hey. presto. I'm turned into
lepcr. pariah. an outlaw. AmaL'
ing. astoundingr
Then he settled down and told
me. And this Is what he told mo"
IL
when he was out In France this
Egfie, as he called her. Effie Bright
had come TO live as companion 20
his wife. IL appears he more or less
got her the Job He'd seen her at
the office with her father and he'd
taken tremendous fancy 10 her, "A
Jolly kid that was tho expression
he used. and he said he was awfuiiy
fond OF her Just as he might DO OF
jolly little sister. lie got her some
other JOB previously with some
friend. or other. and then the old
lady there died and the girl came TO
his place while he was away. Some
thing like that. Anyway, she came.
She came somewhere about October,
rs. and She left early in March FOL.
lowing. Just over year ago. HIS
wife got fed up with her and got rid
OF har-that's what Sabre says-got
fed up with her and got rid OF her.
And sabre was At home at the time.
Mark that. old man. because It's I'm.
portant- Sabre was al homo at the
ume--about three weeks-on leave.
Very well. The Girl got the sack
and 10 went back TO Franc. She
got another Job somewhere as com
panion again. He doesn't quite know
where. lie thinks AZ Bouruemouth.
Anyway. that's nothing 10 do with u.
Wei. he got wounded and discharged
from the Army, as you know. and
In February he was living at home
again with his wife In the conditions
described 10 you when ! began. He
said nothing 20 me about the condi.
tlons--about the terms they we're on;
but I've told you what l saw. It's
important because Il was exactly Into
the situation As I then saw u that
came 10 pass the thing that came
TO pass. This:
The very week after Ia been
down there. his wife. reading let.
ter at breakfast enc morning. gave
a kind OF a snort tas can imagine
III and chucked the letter over 70
him and said. 'Ha, There's your won.
derful Miss Bright for youi What
did tell your what do you think
Of thatT HaF
Those we're her very words and
her very snorts and what they meant
what Your wonderful Miss Bright
for YOU meant--was. as he explained
to me. that when he was home on
leave. with the girl IN the house, they
were frequently having words about
her. because he thought his wife was
bit sharp with her. and hts wife.
for her part. said he vas forever
sticking up for her.
what do you think % thst1 Her
and she chucked the letter over 70
him. and from what ] know OF her
you can imagine her sitting bolt w.
right. bridIing with virtuous pre-.
science confirmed. watching him.
while he read II.
While he read r. Sabre said
the letter was the most frightfnlly
pathetic document he could ever have
imagined. smudged. he said. and
stained and badly expressed rs II the
writer-th is--girl--this Effie Bright
was crying and incoherent with
distress when she wrote Il. And she