The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-29
BY Upton Sinclair
VII


BERTHE came along making one more effort to drag he
play world which by right Of inheritance
gifts belonged had broken off her affair
ways wanting have his There was another affair
on desperate Bunny gathered since his sister e4
posed feelings him. only OF the late
August Norman Steel the boys
Charlie and he was little wild BERTHE sad OH fascinating
land Croesus nobody of him but
rather silly mother who still trying to be young and gddy
dressing like debutante and having surgical operations per-
formed her face keep from saggng They had most
gorgeous yacht the harbor had asked BERTHE bring
could, with his good looks and everything?
Bunny thought his sister indeed be hard hit if she
counting his reluctant social charm But he went and
as they drove the harbor BERTHE coached
mentioned his disgrace at Southern Pacl he must make joke
o Bunny had already learned that that the thing do
and he did it, and found that very easy
was one OF those brilliant persons who found something
funny about everything that came he couldn't do any
ter, he would make bad pun out of your remark.
Here the "Siren" floating mansion white paint
and shining brass finished handcarved mahogany and up
shed and the Filipino boys who fitted trays
full of glasses spc span enough vaudeville
and from there to country club for luncheon the
for an hour two and then be whled away
and then to tennis court and then back to dress
for dinner which served with all the style you would have
expected at ambassadors banquet There would me MANY
coored electric lights the deck and orchestra friends
would come out in launches until dawn while the
Of light along the shore made dim the stars
The people talked about the appearance pecuaes and
dyentures of all their acquaintance was hard to follow
heir conversation unless you one of their set thew
ad slang words OF their and the less possible was for an
outsider to understand hem the funner they seemed to them
selves They talked about clothes what was Going n m %
newest thng They talked about their booeggers and who
vas reabe For the rest of the time they talked about fine m
ing OF little balls about had
Jay ana previous days and the relative abilities various ex
pertS In the art Was the going to hold b
or announcer year? How the American navere
ouG "a was the polo team coming Phiadepbs
ana would they carry off the cup? There were beautiful s
ana plated trophies with engraved inscriptions which bd
10 hypnotze you into thinking the hitting of Ii hall 49,
L held was of major Importance ~
Sitting the deck Of this floating mansion Bunny read
about the famine the Voga The
districts and the peasants slowly starving eating grass and
roots eating their dead babies migrating and srv
nen corpseS along the
he futty OF Communism said the editors and If
Charlie Norman id not take the to do some osbn
or Bunny it only because Charlie
Bunny had talked with Harry Seager and got different
view OF 1amlnes In Russia They
Communism sey had been chronic the dawn of his
tory and their had
ne utility OF Tsarsm Conditions
breakdown OF the railroads But people blamed that on
communism overlooked the fact that the railroads had broken
down before the revolution; that
aton they had had stand the of three wears of civil
war and OF outside invasion tweny-sx fronts Nesnaner
winch nad melted these nvasions
@ Is o inons OF American money promote Them now
la famine! ' - NOPe Win
/ you can understand how young with such boupbts
IN ms MIND would not fit altogether this play marty he d
@ 70 oe IKE the Others but they found that he was
ernt ana presently Charles took To sitting ba5o
m sunny she sad-for you Bunny or Rere or E2ob
To- Deauy 10 Cs crowd as holes
son anu had one drink out of anybody's hppocket
study some" 80 49, '' anu i sure you
Not very much, fear"
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