Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-13


i'm is mid-twenties! This mood pre-
links as from some brutal villains
LUCY JOY. good-looking. piauanit T.
the "prettiest English girl contest
and is a noted film actress. Archie
has merely saved her from some Gin
ema rufiians.
SEYMOUR, movie man.. her admirer.
FRANKIE, Lucy's half-grown IRE
pressiblc brother. a naval cadet.
THE ADMIRAL. rubicund, choleric old
officer, who dotes on Lucy.
MRS. JOY, gay, charming. almost as
youthful as her daughter Lucy.
Different From Every Cir! in the
World
1t reminded him. somehow. OF a
| dance he'd been to during the war;
one of those nights when nothing
seemed to matter, because one was
| going back to France again by the
| morning train, and the gloomy vault
OF Victoria Station might quite well
| be ones last glimpse on earth of Eng
| land. Home ana Beauty. Here
| melnbered that with racing pulses,
| as the dance eddied with them for
a moment into an empty anteroom.
| lie, Archie. had stopped as he danced
and had, very quickly. pressed a
! kiss into the warm white throat of
his partner. But this girl with
whom he was dancing at this. mo-
ment was so tiny, she only reached
to the top button of his waistcoat!
| Besides, she was so different, she
was so different! Different from
| every girl in the whole world! I"
| For j space, while his heart could
! have pulsed six beats, he walled in
| silence, and his feelings were a
| strand of three twined and special
| cords, dragging him to her. tying
him TO her. Three cords of feeling;
F! so contradictory.
! That. at least, is what they would
be called by those judges who de-
cree that one sort of person cannot
experience two sorts of emotion. CAS-
! II roses and peoples could not grow
in the same garden! And ut the
| same time.)
So Archie danced zestfully, as II
to the very pipes of Pan. because he
guided on his arm partner young
and sweet and crushable, holding
for him the same lure that had the
| girl whose throat he had kissed, YES.
ond the same attraction would have
been hers had he not known Lucy's
| name or heard her voice-for this
was Desire.
Simultaneously. he glowed with
| that tender protectiveness which a
man feels toward the girl whom,
after consideration, he would make
MS wife. No mistaking this. No
] counterfeit; no substitute, either too
pale or too gaudy, but the identical.
pure passion that she would INSPIRE
in the heart of the most scrupulous
! young man who had never royed
FOR this was what Is known as Red
| Love.
More than these other two, knit
ting them into one, was the third
the key-feeling of this particular ar
ialr 1t was the attraction of n
beauty to which the crowd. that
nNdra- headed beast, is openly at
tracted; it was the stimulation. the
aura surrounding the fact that she
was the Lucy JOY. 1t was the
| battling atmosphere that in turn
| gilds or enshrouds the noted name,
either of Arms or the Stage: il was
the Glamour OF the Pedestal yes,
that was the charm. Glamour.
In lilac time. in lilac time"
sang frankie to the music as he
swung past his sister and her
| partner.
Archie spoke down to her through
the languorous tune. Il say" he de-
gan when are you going to Paris"
| Il don't know, Mr.. Lavcrock. Soon.
l expect Why?"
Archie. circling with her. told herr.
| Il shall be going away soon myself"
Shall you? To Paris?"
! NO. To Wales. I've a Job on.
To teach an old gentleman there to
drive a car
How interesting" said Lucy Jnv.
DO you think 500" said young
Laverotk. anger suddenly flaming
| up in him again. Why. why had lie
! to put up with these Jobs on?
| why couldn't he follow her to Paris
II ne wanted? Why hadn't he got
leisure and unlimited means and n
Preillage Court at the back of him?
ITS rotten job" he said CURLY
into the pretty drawing melody.
but the old boys an uncle or some
thing to my firms people, and he's
got pots of money, too, and he wrote
up yesterday to my firm and said
he'd like them to send down the
best man they had"
$3.50 they're sending you?"
I'm at their beck and call
they're at his beck and call" re-
turned Archie more cheerfully, be
cause they can't afford to dream OF
losing any money. No rich people
can. My firms so well off, you see
Horrible" said the Girl on his
arm. TO be at peoples beck and
call like that"
We'll! You are, aren't your"
Archie reminded her not too kindly.
Tor he was stung: extra sensitive
tonight. "Of course, it pays you
hetter and all that" Here be.
thought 1t was CHASTITY. the thiu1ks
men found themselves saying to
girls. just because they wanted to be
talking of something utterly diff
ferent and mustn't! But your
cinema people and your stage man
ayers and all that, they arrange
what you've got TO do. / sup
pQse?" -
IT'S so different for "a girl" the
miniature Beauty told him defiantly,
as those absured blue kid shoes
glided and "hesitated" in step to his
boots. Quite different-I-f could
stop whenever like, you see"
(Petulantly) Couldn't II" as he
didn't answer. Couldn't II"
Gould your" said Archie Lave
rock, sore-and curt.
She walled silently to the end Of
the turf. then as they turned she
threw at him with q sort of Childish
challenge, with something of the
pride with which she'd announced
That n new perfume was to be given
her name. "A girl can get married
can't she? to somebody WHO'LL
who'll give her wonderful time
and let her do whatever she likes"
Can she?"
Why do you say that like that.
Mr.. I.averock?"
Like WHAT"