, 1923-01-19

wired Instructions for eleven thous.
and dollars to be placed to the credit
of his niece.
Then after still another hour OF
troubled thought, he sent n day-letter
off to old Commodore Stillman at the
Nasturtium club explaining h he
had reason to believe that Theodore
was In some sort OF trouble and re-
qucsting him to droo quietly down to
the girls studio and have n look
around to see 'ust what was wrong.
AND the Commodore in question
Il instead of being upset by this ca.
lamitOus intimation Of beauty in DIS.
tress, adjusted his cravat and stopped
In at Thorlpy's for tho insertion of n
Richmond rosebud in the b~utton-hole
Of bis riEkt-hand lapel.
Then he tod5Ied blithelv down 10
the wilds OF Greenwich Village.
where he arrived It Tsd1Ie's studio
Just in time. TO see an urbane old
gentleman pocket. with an air Of
quiet but unqualified satisfaction n
narrow sl'0 OF nanrr which looked
remarkably like a bank check.
The commodore stood side. however
until this trlumDhant-eyed old gentle.
man n bowed himself triumphantly
cut. wHercunon II cnme to his atten-
tl1u that his somewhat a~bstracted
Dung hostess remained undeniably
d vorceC from the customary buoy.
ancios OF youth.
He was so impressed, in fact by
tie shadows OF fatigue about Ted1ie's
starry eye3 and the world-weariness
in Ter forlorn little smile that he con-
cluded the Gravest fears OF his Old
friend and major TO be quite we'll
founded.
But Teddie. accepting him as an
emlssary from Il world Of pomp and
order which had seemed ~eternally
lost to her, was glad enough to en-
sconce him in the brown velvet arm
! chair and make tea for him IN the
Bothered old samovar. It was not par.
tIcularly GOOD tea he soon discovered,
but that in no way dampered his ar.
dor or discouraged him in the object
OF his visitation.
So he hummed and hawed, and
touched lightly on the prerogatives Of.
tho elderly ami ventured the assertion
that New York was an extremely be.
wilderinE city.
Especially for tho young, he said.
and he became naternal and platitu.
dinous over the Derils Of tho wide.
wide world in gencrel. and then with
rather awkward n]nnounc-
ell his hope that Teddle was making
n go OF It.
DUT Teddic wasn't making a go Of
ID Il. MS she ve-y well knew. and
foronc weak moment she wal tempt
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hearted old gentleman into her con.
fldence end sxteriorate her troubles
10y freely and frankly talking them
over with ono OF her own kind.
But a revival OF her old spirit Of
independence nipped this impulse in
tie bud, 80 she merely gave the com
modorc another cup Of tea and some
What psnsively asked II the autumn
ball ut Tuxedo had been n success
This year,
whsreupon the old Commodore ad.
mltted that Il had been a success, II
you could call such things n success
But they weren't like the good old
days Of the PRtrlarchs and the As
semblieH and The Howling Swells
The spirit OF the times had changed
had Iamentnbly changed and the re-
latlonEhip of the sexes in the younger
generation seemed disturbing to the
survivors Of tho older era when a
lady was ucoeptcC ms O LADY and
treated as one.
And from THU diatribe on the de-
generation of the present day Ted
dies counselor glided easily and eio'
! quently into the advantages for the
girl OF today, OF early marriage and
adequate guardianship. Every girl OF
spirit ought to marry.
Even ToddIe herself. he finally ven.
turnoc. ought to marry.
mo young whipperHnnppor. mind
you" discreetly qualified tho old
Commodore, but some older md
] Eteadlcr man who knows the world
and its ways, a man to be relied on
IN TINES Of trouble, = mar who'd be