The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-02


told. I've had quite a bit of time
in which to prove that. She's in
.daze. She hears a voice she
trusts conveying an order or q
suggestion, and she reacts to that 4
stimulus. She doesn't seem to
have any inner voices to guide
her just now"
'.It's ghastlyr' I cried. Our
Independent, vivid, purposeful, di-
rect Betty reduced to state of
being an-automaton. I wonder
Tony looked at his own right
hand as he spoke. Knowing that
inside the glove he always wears
il piece Of wooden mechanism.
realizing that he has designated
himself again and again as a
hulk" I was the more impressed
by the magnificence Of the man
who could grapple with Betty's
problem as he was doing. His
calling spade a spade isn't easy.
I waited in silence until he
found the courage to go on.
Betty isn't reconciled to being
MANNED. The operation appears
not to have been success. The
handicap Of having only one hand
Is greater than you can imagine.
For Betty there Is also the blow
to her fastidiousness, the marring
OF her beauty. Terry was help
ing her find herself again. And
then, when Terry went-snuffed
out like a candle Betty had
nothing to cling to. She has to
have something to cling to-. There
must be someone on whom she
can absolutely count. think, be-
cause Of my being as manned as
she feels with her useless hand.
she'll want me"
And she can't have your
cried vehemently.
Anne, what do you mean2'
asked Tony.
There's Carlotta,' . muir
INJURED, committed now to the
course on which I had embarked.
There is Carlotta," said Tony, /
proudly. 81 think I was on the
verge of taking advantage of her
generosity and her sympathy.
That girl is about the most glow
ingly magnificent woman I've
ever beheld, Anne, She dazzIes.
No, it's not your turn to speak.
I'm going to speak out and in
return for my breaking over all
the bonds of reticence you must
make no reply. Will you prom s
ise?'
On Deep Waters.
az can'tr 1 cried. 81 saw Car
lotta's face and yours when you
came in from dining together :
that night-the night Betty's
wire came. You both were radi-
ant. Carlotta would know her I
man wherever she found him.
know-she once told me-I'm
sure''-
Tony broke in gravely and
stopped my Laundering attempt
to right matters without betray-
ing Carlotta's confidence.
There's nothing you have q
right to say, my friend. I give
you, however, the right to listen.
confess that if Fate hadn't
stopped me would have gone
on laundering into the garden Of
Carlotta's soul. Or battering at
the gate. But Caarlotta Sturges
has a right to youth and strength
and unmarried and No
hulk IL good enough for her. She
must learn that. / must see that
she comes to realize. Betty's
need of me is providential.
There Is nothing you can say
now If you would, is there, my
dear?"
mo" I said slowly, and gather
ing myself to meet this situation
In the one possible way In which
neither Tony-nor anyone else
would ever expect me to handle
1t. "And now let's go back to
the place where we started. I
told you l had place in view
for Betty-a place in the busi-
ness world. Do you remember"
Something like that" agreed
Tony, trying to adjust himself to
the right-about-face on which
was insisting.
Its in my own business"
said quietly. There's a place
for Betty there. What do you
think of the plan?"
Tony stared at me incredu-
leusly. Both of us were remem-
bering enc thing-the day when
Tony's signature on a bit of
paper had secured me the ten
Thousand dollars capital I needed
for Incorporation. I waited for
Tony's answer, realizing that the
refuge was offering Betty must
seem to him trivial--flimsy.
To be continued tOmerrow.