Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-07
WHO'S WHO IN TEE STORY

WINS WIN In tAE SEOhx
ARCHIE LAVEROCK. the "arrant
Rover" who is through with girls
in his mid-twenties! This mood
prevails until he "rescues," as he
thinks, from some brutal villains
LUCY JOY. good looking. piquant,
poised, She has won Il big prize in
the 'prettiest English giri" contest
and is a noted film actress. Archie
haS merely saved her from some
cinema rutfianS.
A Rag" or "a Frost,
But there's his bed here if that's
any good to you" Young Lave
rock had told the stranger. Who
had replied. "Oh, thanks very
much; Ill have it for tonight, if you
don't really mind. Very hard to find
anywhere to put up at, at home
these days =" and who had
there remained for the last ten days
attaching himself to Archie after
the fashion of a lost dog taken into
pleasant family, sharing the even
ing life of the camp, stunning on
an old banjo found in the pavilion,
helping Parkin, the groundsman. to
roll the pitch during the day, and
finding this Eve-less Eden good
enough. Indeed, it remains a moot
point whether Love itself does much
to modify the basic fact that the
sexes are happier-but for love
when living apart.
This morning it was the young J.
\. Captain Who had brewed early
tea for the others, had fetched the
Referee and the Observer, and who
had now for the third time invaded
Arches lair, demanding. How
much longer are YOU going to lie
~, I
old devil you-D'you know it's about
twenty-five to ten? Those others
have been on the river an hour.
Get up. Tumble up: I've got
your shower ready for YOU"
Archie flung pillow at his head,
followed Il dog-fght: laughing yells
of "Shurrup. and CHUCK it, you silly
ass'-more SCut1iing, Mr.. Laverocli
holcd from his couch, and, trailing
blue and scarlet blankets. dragged
struggling out of the tent and to-
ward the open hut where they kept
the roller and the hose. Here
Captain Smith, still bully-ragginc,
wrestled the other young man out
of his pajamas and flung them far;
next turning the hose full on to him
as he stood.
Inevitable. here, to avoid mention
ing yet once again people who
went down leaving in stone their
monument to bodily beauty. Beauty
not yet surpassed. but often yet. at
tanned, as may be seen in swim
ming baths, on football ground or
games pavilion today Those
ancient Greeks QUOTED to the
ultimate cliche, but still the stand
ardD would have found little fault
with the shape of one young ex-
soldier of later empire: for each of
Archie's lines as he leaned, crouch
ed, braced himself against the jet
or icy bright water, was borrowed
centuries ago to express some quot
thrower. some gladiator, some god
The marble chersheS these in
every museum in Europe. but does
not give us the coloring that Archie
Laverock must have shared with
those Grecian lads. For, before the
splashing wet made of him q statue
OF glass, a-gleam, rejecting from
hundred planes the blue and
white morning. he showed n glow
ing tan that ceased, abrupt as q
garment, at collarbone and forearm;
showing for the rest of the flesh the
even cream. touched with sepia-
pink of q arose.
Lost upon Archie or his COM
panions would have been any such
smile: they had no painter, sculptor
or any of a self-conscious breed
among them. 1t was just two aver
age wholesome young men in the
full enjoyment of life to whom
Parkin, appearing round the corner
of the shed from the dressing rooms,