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CHAPTER v

Brena Selcoss had been born on
American soil.
One of her most vivid memories was
that of her father, an austere man.
who all his life long had carried about
In the great and muscular body with
its slow movements and its suggestion
of latent giant power, a restless soul,
ever seeking to find Its way hither and
thither like strong giant ant of UNI
ceaslng activity looking for eew work.
She could remember dimly that her
mother, whose hair never lost the red
gold Celtic glory until she and her sec
ond child died together when she was
forty-two, had referred with whispered
awe to the turbulent career of her hus-
band, Demetrius. There were vague
recollections of the mothers pride in
the fact that he had risked and lost his
career, begun so early in life and so
brilliantly HI chemical research and in
Il professorsllip in Athens, that he had
tossed aside all consideration for him
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CHAPTER Iv-Continued

Eyes, dear, / understand. l can re-
sist you, Peter. 1t would be hard, but
/ could do it. ! do not want to do it.
The promise was for your sake, Peter.
Not for mine alone
1--WE asked you nothing-no ques-
tions," he said. putting his hands upon
each of her shoulders and holding her
at arms length.
mo, Peter, none"
Because did not care" said he.
mo matter what might come?"
mo matter what might come"
He drew her toward him and took a
breath of the unperfumed fragrance of
Brena Selcoss And then, with eager,
hungry yearning, expressed only
through the restraints of tenderness
and profound respect, as if indeed he
had some ancient deity in his arms, he
kissed her lips, he pressed his cheek
into her hair, he touched the back of
her neck with his fingers.
II love you,' he said. Can you un-
derstand all / mean by those plain
words love your
II love you, Peter"
"You must never leave me now"
She sprang back, tearing herself
from him as If he had treacherously
plunged a knife into her.
mot that, Peter. Not that /
thought you knew. l thought this was
--good-by."
Like one in great pain which must
be borne in silence, she threw back
her head and stood quivering and
tense.
you can't have misunderstood 7"
she said in breaking voice. is this
my punishment-that you have misun-
derstood?"
II want you, Brena-forever. l
could have sworn never would want
anyone-like this"
Peter, it cannot be"
She seized his hand and, leaning
over pressed her wet cheek upon his
wrist.
1T cannot be, Peter. 1t happened
when / was no more myself-the one
you know-than / am Muriel Benham.
1t happened when was less than
eighteen-seven years ago. l am mar
ried.''
'Married?" he gasped, putting his
other hand lightly upon her cheek.
Where, then, is he? How long ago
did he"
"Go?"
YES"
Three years. l loathed him.
loathed his eternal fright"
'And where is he now?" he asked
II do not know"
She shuddered.
"He-"
vanished"
Peter was white. Breathing hard, he
said, Breua-will you tell me
everything?"
Eyes. Peter-before go. will tell
you everything. 1t will show you why
/ am afraid--for you'
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night long on the porch of their cot
tage in Dallas, Texas. in rocker
which squeaked a little as his bulk
moved He had come up at dawn to
find his wife, with the first rays of
summer sun thrown through the shut
tiers and onto the happy, lifeless fig
ure in bars of gold. 1t shimmered on
her lovely hair in all the red-gold
mass there was not one strand of
gray.
ssrhis is the time for great calm, "
he had said to Brena, as he woke her
with his giants hand upon her shout
der 1.-THE life has gone from your
mothers beautiful body, my daughter,
but she will live always with us be-
cause she was brave and tender soul
which endures forever"
81 thought that she had endless
life," he said after a pause. burying
his beared face in his sun-browned
hands. ut is the way with me always
II am unprepared- always unpre-
pared"
This was the only fiinching brought
out in him by the death of the Irish
girl he had adored so completely, to
whose songs he had listened while his
life went askew and in whose smiles
he had warmed the chills of bitterness
and whose arms had stilled the rest
lessness behind his great dark glowing
eyes. He went on his way unchanged,
but no doubt making new attempts to
reach across the chasm which sepa-
rated him from the yearning heart of
his daughter.
These attempts were failures. Be
side each other, when he was home,
they were as persons alone the one
reminiscent, living in past where
great figures of history stalked ma
jestically; the other expectant, with
the eyes of youth turned away from
the shadows aud toward the glints of
the future.
For three or more years before Mary
Vaughn Selcoss had died, she had
been alarmed by new characteristic
OF her husband. In Dallas when he,
who once had known the tang of great
deeds done in setting of romantic
grandeur, came ont through the hot
streets on common electric car and
walked up suburban avenue with its
cheap bungalows and Its monographs.
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some new application of his heroic, Inn
practical head In consequence, the
little girl, red of cheeks, with spin
ding legs and great wondering brown
eyes, never stayed long enough any
where for acquaintance with children
and for play. Tutored by her mother
and by the booming, terrifying voice of
Demetrius Selcoss when he, as he said,
could spare time for it, she learned a
taste for books aud consumed them,
according to her own story, like a
hungry little pig regardless of the wis
dom Of diet and eating all that was
within reach" The books served to
give her fake veneer of experience
and maturity.
This outer covering was fake be-
cause it failed to represent the truth
that Brena had reached sixteen, with
physical attributes which made men
turn as she passed but without any
consciousness of having approached
womanbood Without contacts with
childhood, ever on the move, living in
hotels, in boarding houses, in suburban
cottages, ever dependent upon one rick
ETY. patched old trunk and her two
parents, she had acquired the habits
of childlike dependence. Like child
she found that life was shaped without
Intervention of her own. She allowed
herself TO be dragged along with her
mixed load of conceptions drawn from
helter-skelter reading. Among other
conceptions was that eternal fiction of
the gallant and perfect fairy story
prince whose bride she would one day
be. To be a bride meant little more
in terms of real life than to become an
angel.
"If / ever have a daughter" said
Brena Seleoss, Il will never allow her
to have this dangerous dream Of a
foundation upon which girls throw
sensible Judgment to the four winds
and come to critical moments with
out thought of the flowing years of
real life which are to come. 1t might
have wrecked me when l was seven
teen"
While Brena was seventeen, indeed.
many landmarks had been set up in
her development. Her mother had
died quietly in bed the year before
without gasp of warning, without a
murmur, smile upon her engaging
lips. Brena had been asleep in the
next room, and Demetrius, having one
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SYNOPSIS

out OF uniform, at the end of
the World war, with the rank
of major, Peter DeWolfe, young
American of wealth and family,
is urged by an English comrade
in arms, Everby Benham, to visit
the Benham home and meet the
Eng1ishman's mother and sister,
and, incidentally, Brena Selcoss,
young woman about whom there
is an air of mystery. Muriel Ben
ham, Eversby's sister, becomes
infatuated with Peter, but he Is
Interested only in the mysterious
Brena Selcoss, of whom he has
had only glimpse. Muriel urges
him to forget her, warning him
that If she (Brena) should like
him he is in danger of vanish
ing-like the others" Peter gets
a phone message from Brena to
meet her. Peter meets Brena in
a tea room and the meeting re-
suits in the formation of strong
bond of friendship.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-22

Gustave Flaubert, leader OF the
French realistic school of writer's
spent six years In writing his novel
Madame Bovery." Its publication In
1857 laid him open to accusations Of
immortality, from which he was
cleared
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ia pair 1S-FatheH
2O-PeriOdic rise and fall of the ocean
23-COarse woven fabric
2S-TO court
27--FOrm of published literary work
2S-Things ht to eat
28-PlOt of land
31-FictitiOus show of strength
33-One who adjusts musical instru-
ments
36-Fabrics of woven Irvine
37-Curse
4O-Famous Irish order 0nitiaD
41-DeIayed Eliminated 10Y
45--TO increase by effort
47-TO experiment
4S-DOmestic animal
5O-Repast 6&-DistriDute"
b3-Amber-colored substance used BY
viOlinists
54--A particular extent of surface
65-Man's nickname SS-To Trim
5e-Feminine Christian name
Discrimination ga Color
04-The mother of "Peer Gynt"
65-JTO fasten by stitches
6S--A proposition
The soiution will appear in next issue
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4-ff+
HOW SOLVE A CROSSWORD PUZZLE
the In the whit
which will
Gated I'm the
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Horizontal.
z--ArtioIe of furniture
4-Directed
1O--Poetic personal prOnoun
13-Perfume 15-One who devours
16-Group of three
17-COmpensntiOns
1o-Preposition of intermediate rela-
ton
21--Wise men
22--Large Australian bird
24-EIectrihed particles In chemical
dissertation theory
26--Al1ied by blood
8O-Yielded to authority
32-Spanish explorer of America
84-Ancient 35-Prepositi0n
37--Prefx meaning "twice"
8s--Hard-shelled, dry fruit
S9---Incapable of being held
4O-Townrd the rear
42-PronOun
4S-North latitude (abbr.)
Alan insect 48-Italian river
49--To board n vessel
61--TO sanction
B4-Academfcal branches of learning
b6-Self
B7-Firzt name of prominent Russian
actress
6O--Diminutive melody
63-Extfnct convivial centers
66-Exigency
67-Sacred grove where Olympic games
were held
60-Kind of JOhnnycake
7O--Familiar title for head of family
71--Chanted
Vertical.
ITO cut short
2--JacOb's brother
8--Presented
E-SmalI artificial elevation used in a
popular game
8--Painter's frame
S--Conjunction meaning sand" (Latin)
S-To repel repulse
0-Adverb meaning before"
10--City I'm New Jersey
11-Hastens
I2--Adverb meaning beyond"
14---Nappy fabric used for floor cover
ing
Evening star., 1925-06-15
At $500

They are made of pre-shrunk linens, which is
fact the majority of women appreciate in buying
a dress. The linen is of excellent quality and
some of the dresses are hand-drawn styles.
Many of them have little touches of hand-em-
broiderv which adds its charm to the hand
drawn work. The styles are all sports effects,
and number have white collars and cuffs, and
pearl buttons to add still further variety The
colors are rust rose, blue, green, orchid, cocoa,
maize and brown Sizes 10 and Is, also So to 40.
Kanns-Second Floor
Evening star., 1925-06-15
1000 MothproOf

These are the ideal bags
to preserve your clothes.
They are the side opening
kind. Will hold three
garments-such as suits
and dresses-are in cedar
and tar odors, dust proof,
moisture proof and air
proof. Get yours tomor-
row, do not wait until the
moths get in your clothes
this is the time of year
in which they do most
damage.
Kann s-Third Floor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-23
WHITE HOUSE IS
BEHIND BORAH
ON DEBTS
State and Treasury Heads
Also Back Up Senator's
View on French
By GEORGE X. HOLMES,
International News Service.

Senator William E. Borah
spoke for the Administration
when he sharply "called" France
for her war debt attitude, and
served notice that the American
Government will not entertain any
propositions aimed at cancellation
or scaling down the $4,000, 200, 900
France borrowed from the United
States Treasury on demand notes
during the war.
Inquiry today at the White
House, State and Treasury De-
partments revealed that the views
so dramatically expressed by the
chairman of the Foreign Relations
Commute are endorsed with an
unanimity almost unparalleled in
matters affecting international re-
lations.
In many quarters the opinion was
expressed that Borah's strong
speech, coming on top of distinct
threat to repudiate the debt, has
served to bring the whole Franco
American controversy to a stage
where showdown cannot much
longer be delayed. Significantly
enough, Borah's speech came, too,
at time when a new French Am
bassadoF Is enroute to Washington
TO face the problem.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-23

The time to begin to watch is
at about 9 o'clock. The first ap-
pearance is on the earth and seems
to have little or nothing to do
with the eclipse. It is gradually
getting darker, and some time
before ten minutes past nine, or
perhaps little after, queer ap-
pearance will be noticed on the
ground.
Fleeing Bands Of Light.
Bands of light and shadow a
foot or so apart will be seen
chasing past any object on the
ground. II there is snow present
they ought to be seen rather
easily. AS the sun is rather low
at the time, it may be better to
look for them on the wall Of a
white house. But the spectator
must not be disappointed if he
does not see them. They do not
always appear. Sometimes they
come ten minutes before the sun
is completely covered, at other
times a minute or only a few
seconds.
. At about ten minutes past nine
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-23

the sun will be reduced to a very
narrow crescent. If this be watch
ed through smoked glass it will be
seen to narrow slowly and in the
course of a minute or two break
up into separate points that seem
to have little relation to the cres-
cent previously seen. These are
known as Bailey's beads.
At this stage IT is advisable to
look towards the west If the coun-
try is visible for half a mile or
more in that direction. The
moment of totality is approaching
and it is heralded by the advent
of a dark shadow which comes
from a little to the north of west,
rushing across the country at
speed of more than fifty miles a
second. The moment it passes
over the observers head totally
begins.
Appearance Of Corona.
Look back up at the sun. It can
now be seen without the aid Of the
smoked glass. All round it appears
Continued OBJ Page z. Colunan ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-23
See T. F. Ryan Riding
Democratic Donkey

That Thomas Fortune Ryan, the distinguished and immense
y wealthy York financial magnate is the dominant
of the national organiza
ton of the Democratic party vehemeny charged here
today by antRyan who burst into speech the
subject the alleged influence exercised in the affairs
of Democratic National Committee by Frank j. Merklng
Ryan and who occupies offices in the
building and The floor With the Democratic National
Committee building here, and who is said to
be the real directing the office work of the committee
during the almost continuous of Glenn Shaver of West
Virginia, the Committees titular chairman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-23
By PROF. ERNEST w. BROWN,

Deparm OF
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Jan 23ln the eastern part of the
country the will little before 1880 tomorrow. Ii
look be taken about o'clock tiny nick in edge
may be noticed Even the low altitude it is not advisable
this rlck without piece of smoked glass
aarkened film AS time goes the nick will gradually
spread circular bite which will and more OF
Nothing special will happen for an hour except this
gradual covering of the face of the SUM-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-23
QUITS MAN
AF TER IS
YEARS
Spouse Weeps as He Tells of
Her InfideIity-Effort Made
to Stop Wedding

By what queer quirk of fate did
May r. 'Dennison, of 1903 North
Capitol street, renounce her COM
mon-Iaw husband and eleven chill
dren born of this union and pub
fish her intention of becoming
the legal bride Of another man?
This question is puzzling Dis
trict officials and clergynen today
In one of the most unusual cases
of alleged marital infidelity that
has come to their attention in
years.
Wed Sixteen Years Ago:
The facts in the case are these:
Sixteen years ago May Dennison
o. alleged to have, entered into n
common law agreement with Harry
L. Hilton, of QHarles STREE and
Eastern avenue. KeniIworth. d.
Previous to this. according - the
story related by Hilton to- officials
Of the woman's bureau of the Po-
lice Department, she had been the
wife of Carroll G. Grove to whom
she was said TO have been wed July
1, 1902.
Conflicting stories as to whether
or not she and Grove were divorced
have stirred the police officials to
action. The woman IS said to have
told Hilton that she was divorced
although UP to the present time no
record has been found to cOrrobor-
ate it.
Gets Wedding License.
On January 1. the woman left
Hilton and their children. A few
DAYS ago, to Hilton's CONSERVATION,
the marriage license of Mrs. DENIM
son and Lloyd Prather appeared in
th6 newspapers.
Woman Gives Age as 80.
In obtaining the license Prather
woman said she was thirtyeigFt
Both gave 1908 North Capitol street
as their home address. The couple
said the Reverend T. r. McCaIlister,
one of the assistant priests at st.
Dominic's Roman Catholic Church.
was to marry them.
Over the telephone Father Nc
Cailister said he had not married
them and declined to comment fur
Their.
1t is pointed out that if the
woman was divorced from her first
husband, the canons of the Catholic
Church would forbid a priest mar
rying a divorced person.
Hilton wept today as he related
the action Of his common-law wife.
although we have never been
united by clergyman, we are man
and wife in Gods sight" said Hill
ton. "She cannot be married again
legally.
Try To Stop Wedding.
T5eutenant Nina G. Van Wrinkle,
head of the Woman's Bureau, con-
farred today with the District At
torney's office in an effort to OBJ
tain some legal instrument to
nreyent the wedding scheduled for
today. Inasmuch as hilton and
AZ nennison woman lived in
MARYLAND. Mrs. Van Wrinkle was
informed there was little the Dis
.rtct authorities could do.
A. the North Capitol street ad-
a~nssa neither Prather nor the
S,,on1an were found. According to
+ba proprietor of the apartment
house Prather never lived at this
o5dress The woman, however
lived there for about two weeks.
Yesterday Mrs. Dennison went
away from this place" said the
apartment house proprietor. Sht
had a baby with her. She said she
was going to get married today al
ST Dominic's 1hurch. No j don
know where yti. could locate hei
now. She didn't take any OF heI
effects with her, so / guess she
will be back to claim them later
on"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-23
| LANDLORDS
ASK FOR
TIME
House Committee Told Rent
Problem Will Be Solved by
Law of Economics

Three important developments
in the campaign to place remedial
rent legislation on the statute
books featured today's hearing be-
fore the Senate and House District
Committee, which was devoted to
opponents of the proposed Whaley
rent bill.
They follosv:
Am appeal by Robert L. Nc
Keever, president of the Builders
and Owners Association of Wash
ington, to put the real estate men
and landlords "on trial" without
'shampering legislation until the
next session of Congress.
2-Introduction by Senator Cope
land of New York of a joint reso-
luton which would place the de-
termining of fair rents in the
hands of the Municipal Court.
3-Introduction in the Senate
by Chairman L. Heisler Ball, of
Delaware, of a bill he today re-
ceived from the Department of
Justice, designed to eradicate the
so-called evil Of pyramiding
trusts.
McKeever's Views
President Mckeever told the joint
committee that the natural law
of supply and demand, If permitted
to operate in the District for a
period Of one year without lobbying
and pickering by the members of
the Rent Commission and profess
sional tenants, that when Congress
reassembled next December they
will find no cause to worry about
! the rent situation here.
I Senator Copeland countered Nc
/ Keever's proposition by the intro
duction of a joint resolution which
so favorably impressed the Joint
| committee that it was ordered
! printed for further consideration.
The resolution cites the fact
that it is the duty of Congress
to govern the health, comfort and
general welfare of Government EN-
ployes: that shelter is of vital con-
sequence to their welfare. and there
fore rental property Is affected
with a public interest.
1t further outlines that the pow
vested in the municipal courts OF
the District subject to- appeal and
the failure to obey the orders and
decisions of the court, can be
punishable by 1900 fine Or ons
year in Jail or both.
1t further provides that money
be appropriated for an additional
Municipal Court Judge.
Justice Bill Drastic.
The Department of Justice pyra-
miding bill introduced would make
1t a penitentiary offense to load a
property with more trust than 1t
is worth or to represent a false
! value to the public
President McKeever took up prac-
tically all of the time of today's
hearing during the course of which
he made an illuminating survey
OF the situation here.
At the outset Mr.. Mckeever told
the joint committee that he would
prove the following:
/. That rental conditions in the
District are not dangerous to the
public health, comfort or morals of
the District residents.
2. That increased rents are the
Continued on Page Q, Column 81
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denounced what they called this
maIign Wall Street influence"
Backed Underwood.
Mr.. Ryan Is in California enjoy
ing the climate and mis- retirement
from business. He retired many
years ago from being an officer or
director in more than thirty cor
porations. He has been interested
Continued on Page 2. Column ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-23

MT. lHtTkIIlB, II Is said, OVeTsees
much correspondence for the com.
mittee and through his ASSOCIATIVE,
with Mr.. Ryan is able to come
into touch with financial sources
out of which the well-known larr"
deficit of the Democratic national
committee is being handsomely re.
duced.
Anti-Ryan Democrats claim TO
see in Mr.. Ryan now the paymaster
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-23
Ho1u to Get Best Wen
ofEclipse TOMORROW

Visible the northern sections
of the United States the fOO~i" article eminent
described
phenomena that UH be Visible to the naked Of the