Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-22

self to labor for constitutional Greece
and to risk his life in conspiracy for
freedom.
Mary Vaughn, as her name had been
before her marriage, knew something
of insurrection herself; she had had
the i'll fortune to be the daughter of
the famous Tom Vaughn who was
forced to flee Ireland with his family
after the unsuccessful and forgotten
Secession Plot" of the SOS. Mary,
from the time she was child, sang
like bird. She might have become
q famous eontralto, for her voice had
that same warm. rich quality inherited
by her bewitched daughter, but like a
bird her true home was upon the open
moors with their free spaces and the
shadows of the clouds passing over the
grass New York, of adamant and rec
tangles, was as good for the joy of her
voice as it would have been for that
of wild nightingale. She never spoke
harshly of that "turrible Babylon"
however, without adding, But twas
lHSIe IlCI yOuI ldlnCis DICAlcs anu L ~
speak no i'll of it."
SO, with some of her sparkling self
dimmed, she gave all her expression of
loyalty to her husband; her fight upon
gauzy, unsubstantial wings was al
ways a circle about his head, as if she
the top of grim mountain which al
ways quivered, threatening volcanic
disasters. Something had died within
her when they took her from the moors
and the open places, and that which
was left was an Irish beauty and bot
tomless well of affection for her man
and her Brena.
"It is from her that l have a leg
acy" said Brena 1T is storehouse
of unspent passion and tenderness.
And it is still mine-to do with as
please"
She did not go on to say that those
to whom it would be opened might
enter to be destroyed.
Brena could not recall the details
of her mothers accounts of the part
her father had played in the disturbed
period of Greece. There were vague
impressions of secret organization
under the Council of Twelve" to
which he had sworn devotion, of
problem of honor which he had decid-
ed by following course of conduct
that had brought down upon him the
penalty of assassination. sharply
defined portrait of this young patriot,
member of the Salamis deputation
of 1862 informing King Ohio, the last
of the Bavarian alien monarchs that
the throne of Greece was vacant, re-
NAMED in Brena's mind. She confessed
to thrill of pride that upon an occa-
sion, historic and momentous, her ia
Their, then only twenty-eight, had been
present in a major role. This had
been the top moment of his life; those
whom he had aided turned upon him.
The strength of powerful secret or
ganization, gradually falling into I'M
scrupulous hands after its true func-
lions were over, had been turned
against him. His name became a ira
ditional center of Oaths of vengeance;
with knife wounds upon his great
arms and thighs and an unremoved
bullet in his shoulder he came to
America. He was man who had
lived one life, and expected the world
to recognize him as an important be-
ing. 1t saw In him only silent.
learned man, inventing a thousand am
billions and from them choosing no
fixed purpose, disregarding money in a
land where money, for the time. was
the fetish, careless of poverty but hui
inflated periodically by debt, discourse
ing upon biological chemistry years be-
fore the scientific world had the
Imagination to listen-a giant, with
dark haunting eyes, long Homeric hair
and beard, always brushed back as If
he were eternally facing a hurricane,
and a voice and presence as mysteri-
ously impressive as that of some Eli
iah. Even Brena remembered his af-
lection for her, profound as 1t was, as
being like the affection of some god of
mythology directed down upon beau
tiful but mortal child
bttWSSH tue lllNCiouS SUNLIGHT VI
her mother and the magnificent sha-
dow of her father, Brena grew, acquir-
ing from one whimsical humor and
from the other calm Of high cliffs
and of Parthenon.
According to Brena's own phrase,
she had no childhood and all child
hood She had none because her ia
Their. after month or two of concen-
trated application of his mind upon
studies of similarities in the architec-
ture of ancient Mexico and prehistoric
Greece, would find the butcher, land
lord and grocer at his door, and then,
as If awakened. he would take his lit
tie family and board the train for some
minor university where he would teach
himself out of debt and into period
of bitterness of heart because neither
his learning nor his important place
f,. n toe <x;x ton