The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-13
PARIS
CHAPTER II

Chapter ~
For the next several DAYS, Pan had
little time to worry over herself OF
Gleria either. Gloria kept them all
too busy
Though George had plenty of things
TO keep him in London, he dropped
them and followed Gloria to Paris To
Pan, this was proof positive that he
was in love
George was different too Most of
his cynicism was gone, the little ex-
preston of amused doubt and distrust
that was so Characteristic of his face
in the early days of the winter, was al
most entirely absent. George, when he
looked at Gloria, showed nothing but
affection and pity.
They struck a cold wind on the
Channel and a rough choppy sea- The
train people who had started off Sc
gaily on delightful morning, became
transformed suddenly into pale, be-
draggled looking tourists who huddled
under rugs wherever the deck afforded
shelter, who lay back IN limp attitudes
and seemed the last word in misery
Even Pan, who had not had touch
OF sea sickness on the ocean, retired to
the women's lounge at Georges sug-
Sest1on, where she lay on a cretonne
couch and stared unhappily at a port
mole above her head, whose gay GU
tain Tapped outwards and dropped
back again, with every sidewise roll
ing of the boat
george says the seventh wave is al
ways the worst" frankie reported
coming in to see how she was doing
We went over big one that time
It's Just like being in the road-mend-
ing machine, isn't it, and going over
big Jumps in the road?"
Pan didn't dare answer. She man
aged to nod and lay still, thinking how
useless she was to the world in gener
al and Gloria in particular, and WON
dering whether she would ever be the
same again.
Just then her misery was most acute
the water became calm They were
entering the breakwater at Calais.
And the misery departed as suddenly
and inexplicably as it had come, and
she sat up, feeling very foolish and
very much ashamed. Other passen
gers were doing the same, past unhap-
piness still in their glazed eyes,
Your hair looks funny, frankie OBJ
served. Come along, we're there"
And just as instantly as they had be.
come limp wrecks, the various passen-
gers began to smile and revive, and
when Trey were through the customs,
they went chattering into the station
restaurant and ordered uncheons and
wine
Il never though I'd want anything
10 eat again." Pan remarked as she
ate omelette and asparagus.
Yes, it's the worst thing in the
ache or broken heart" Gloria sal /
lightly. It's worst of all because L
has no element of tragedy. It's only
joke, but dreadful while it lasts"
In Paris. Gloria had one of her sud
den attacks of economy and put them
all in a tiny hotel-one, it happened
where she knew the porprietress, 4
chubby old lady who welcomed Gloria
as a daughter and frankie as a lost
grandchild, telling him in vouabta
French, that she last saw him in his
mothers arms. She would be delight
ed to look after him while the ladies
shopped.
So, sometimes with Gloria who was
now earnestly buying furniture and
hangings and embroideries, and some,
times with frankie, Pan explored
Paris. She found as is the sad fate
of so many Americans in reaching that
city of varied delights, that her schooi
French was perfectly useless. She
could not even understand the chubby
Madame Rollande when that lady
spoke very slowly. As for the CONVEX
sation on the streets, it was a mad
tumble of syllables.
Your mother knows what they're
saying, though" she observed sadly tc
frankie, after asking a policeman the
way to their hotel and not knowing 4
word of his answer
"Oh yes" said frankie cheerfully
Mother knows every language, l sup
pose"
He believed it. For Gloria, if she
was a bad mother according to Norris
City standards, had accomplished one
thing which few mothers achieve, ant
the Norris City type of mothers never
at all-she had made herself a grea