Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-04

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"she sighed. you don't COX as
If / had made the slightest i'm
preston on you"
xxx (cOnNnued)
Miss Dwight shrugged her shout
ders. viii you deny that you have
been completely happy while writ
ing that play? So happrs and alb
sorbe9 athat you forgot everything
else on. earth-Rnd eyerybody?'
That's true enough But II It's
a mere question of happiness, that's
not the sort that lasts, and the re
ection is frlghtful ! am beginning
TO feel hiueous sense Of loss and
wish | had it to do all over again"
You Can 90 to work on another.
"ru never feel to another play
rs have to this"
That's what every artis; has
said to himself since the gods
plucked out rib and invented the
breed Even if you do your com
edy next your submergence will be,
precisely the same. It's the crea-
tive pot boiling that does the bust
ness.
81 don't believe IT,"
Wei, donJS then. and don't
wake Up as blue as paint tomorrow
morning Reaction is the price we.
all have to pay for keeping the
brain too long at a pitch SO high
above the normal. It's the down
wash of blood from the organ it
has kept at fever heat. And it's
long sight less commonplace than
reaction from too much loye-mah
ing. Especially when love-making
las begun to pall-which it does
sooner in artists than in ordinary
men. Writers begin life all
over again with each new release
OF the creative faculty; and each
new work is as enthralling as the
last. But love-" She sighed. "tou
don't look as if l had made the
slightest impression on you"
You haven't A man can com
blne both if woman cannot. You
forget that we return here after
two or three months in Austria, and
here We remain for al least two
years" y ~t
Why are you so saFe Of that2
Have YOU her actbal pfomise?"
1T is understood told her we,
should return ana She knew that l
meant what said"
I'll is quite likely that she knew
You meant it! But I'd like you to
promise me that you will ask her
to tell you exactly what she does
intend to do-when the honeymoon
IS over.
What do you mean?" C!ayering
asked sharply
81 mean, that although she told
me nothing of her plans. it was per
fectly evident from her conyersa-
tiou that she intends to live her
life in Europe and play great role
there. | infer that she is in con
slant correspondence with political
friends in Austria. Do you mean
that she has never told you this?"
ClaVering sat forward, frowning.
NO. We-haye had little time to-
gether and have not wasted it on
politics Did she tell you this?"
Not she But l got it. 4 can't
tell you just how, but my intuitlons
are pretty good"
'IntUtions be hanged. Your ere
alive tract is prepared for action
and has been doing a little stunt all
hy itself. Better get to work on it
and pillow up a new book | don't
doubt Mary has political friends in
Austria, and corresponds with them.
Why shouldn't she? But she's not.
committed to any definite date or
action. III swear to that, Shed
have told me so honestly"
Very we'll I've said my say.
But l wish" She fell silent and
sat very still for several moments
regarding the point of her slipper.
Then she looked up and said bright
ly: Don't you think it's time to let
the rest of them know what's going
TO happen? It's hardly fair to your
other friends-and they are your
friends, Clayey. OF course they are
practically certain Of it,"
q don't think she'll mind, partic-
ularly as the first sensation has.
pretty well run its course-sheI
thought she'd spare her own
friends two shocks at once. But r
fancy she intends to go out among
them less and less. III ask her.
and if she agrees, suppose you an
uounce it?"
Miss Dwight bent down and re-
moved a pinch of ashes from her
slipper, "Do-persuade her. 1t
would be a tremendous feather in
my cap III give you both a dinner
and announce it then"
Settled. Well, I'm off. Got my