Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-20
Conclusion.

rale blue LIGHT. out al y FAR back
ground. admirably Coniured Ivy skilled
artists. spires md domeS and g&hleh
roofs If - '"n=lomerate city l""mcd.
Illuminated windows Shone duly.
N.-t-turs streets. crooked ana morrow.
'ame down out "f the perspective AMI
'"nverGed upon an open space before
lie invisible footlights-the painted
t..r's market place.
In Ehe center of the square pillar
rose. with rim of water trouShs 1T
it base. Against this column. her
head bowed. shoulders droopcd and
rntionless body limp in a posture oi
dc %pair. leaned an unknown girl. Of
some warm pulsed type, her body
cleaning white through a dlaphanouS
dra Pea girl who was fresh and
Young and lovely. launched before
the youthful figure three old Crones
il the Garb of witches SWayed III
rhythm with the plaintive song OF the
orchestra. In tho hands of each
lantern swung. its flame shedding
OHM, Colored glow.
Even as the audience casped at the
weird symbolism of TIE picture
Vibrant. beautiful, unsullied girl hem
med in by evil wholesome Of the Old
'roneS, one whose lantern glowed III
Sjckly yellow. rose and. still SWaylng
- the music lifted her light so that
-frl. Across the sky over the painted
city in the background great letters
made by invisible lamps manipulated
from behind The stage SLOWLY took
shane and. like a fantastic reflection.
spelled the word misunderstood
The letters died away. The second
witch arose and danced before the
Girl against the pillar. The -limmer
from her lantern bathed the white
form in scarlet and new letters -l0Wed
in the Sly-"Distrust.
The guests Of Joanna stirred in their
seats and settled again into tense.
lreathless silence The third witch
danced and held aloft her light The
h-ure in the market place took on
q hue Of green. New letters formed:
Envy.
Yvonne. who had stared fascinated
c. the unfolding Of the tahleau. sud
,cn,y was conscious Of a breath on
her hare shoulder. She looked around
and peered into the fixed eyes Of
Brandon. Around his forehead
handaCe shone white. He stood beside
the vacant chair into which he had
intended 70 drop quietly. Evonne
watched his lips and "a W them frame
the whisrered words-the words he
remembered as Joanna's plant to
EcSleston. long ago. in the somber
library Of the house on the avenue
NNcn she lCll lNe hdllhPl bl lllt Illltt
things that had haunted her in her
coping with the problems of the girl
hood of today" MiSunderSta nding.
Dietrust and Envy.
randon was so tightly wrapped in
the spell Of his memory and this amaZ-
inc reminder aged by Joanna with
her troupe of actors and actresses
e-uecially brought from Paris. that
Nvonne reached back and touched
hi - nr-i1- him a e3lly3 lion
Of hiG surroundings. He brushed his
band across his eyes A nd dropped into
the vacant chair.
! am Just in time" he remarked.
30 witness the sensation she arranged
s." secretly. / fancy it will be most
intere sting"
Yynnne studied him a moment and
then turned back To the scene on the
stage.
The three witches danced away into
the background. out NJ the crooked
little streets of the make-helieve city
other shap pes we're coming down into
tho open spaCe-fantastiC shapes. with
empty faces pallored white with chalk,
chastity. grotesque. ON the small
stage it seemed as if there was an
army of them, the population of the
city they sprung from.
Brandon stared so violently that
Yvonne and kenilworth shot glance
at him. When they looked back upon
the stage they 50 W why. tnquestion-
7blN he was among those Crotesque
figures for one Of them walked with
oxa ggerated grace and his head was
banda sed'
And Just then. as if common
realization had swept over the men
and women. the puppets and name
rrIinS. the PierrotS and columhineS in
In. audience, there was the sihilant
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