Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23

men. Then she fiung herself upon
the sofa. lit a cigarette and took up
novel. The maid threw open the door.
Gen. Maltravers. my lady, she an
nounced.
The general, n short. sturdy man,
with iron gray hair and hronzed com
pie xion entered with some clanking
Of spurs. Lady llannerton gave him
| her hand which he raised yallantly to
his lips. From the moment of his en-
trance. however, she guessed his
errand.
| You haven't come to tell me you
can't dine tomorrow night?" she
asked anNiously.
| cant say that that was the object
uf my visit" he admitted. bringing a
chair up to the side Of her couch
TIM afraid I shant be able to ma mage
il. though"
! Henry" she exclaimed reproach
fully
You sec. it's like this. Mona" he
went on. i've had word or two
with YOU on the subject before. but
! this time ~-cr- we've got to tackle II
! seriously. OF course you married dear
old iiannerton and all that and he
came one of us. so tu speak. and we We
! always treated YOU as such but
/ IN essay the fact that YOU lived in Rus
/ STA when YOU were young rather sets
| 'iese peonle talking considering y"u'
! .heral ideas and that :ort of thing
| She nodded.
! Yes" she confessed Its quite true
that | have liberal ideas. You don't
/ want me to he like these other women.
do YOU. Henry? You always said that
! I interested you because was diff
! f.1,.z l.; In
about. nothing to think about. except
their bridge OF their servants or their
| tennis or the misdemean of the
colonel's wife. or the firtations of
some one else. or the general hard
ships of an army life. You don't want
me To get into that rut?"
Look here" he persisted. and there
was ring Of something unusual in
his tone, you and | are pals. YOU
| know. Mona. but | haven't come to
see you this afternoon as pal. I've
come to see you as the general in
command of the district here, and
tell you that people are talking IN
very queer fashion about you AMI
what seems to he your propaganda. |
think il | were YOU and YOU know
very well how I hate to say it'd
leave the neighborhood for time"
She sat up on the couch. and her
soft fingers stole invitingly toward his
hand. He rose at once 10 his feet and
stood upon the hearth-rug with his
back to the fire.
I've told you In what capacity I'm
here. Mona" he continued. ''and we've
got TO face this thing out There's
great deal of uneasineSs throughout
the camp. They're worrying me at
the War Office about il. It's gone so
far that We practically decided to
chuck our Winter maneuvers Some
fellows putting up placards all over
the place. appealing to the men To
elect their own officers, pool us the
pay and that sort Of tommy rot. The
man who's responsible for those post
ers will he shot on sight when eve
catch him. hut there's no doubt that
lot of harms heen done. This talk
of yours to the women may he ex
actly what YOU mean IL TO be--nofh.
ing but enlightened politics-but it's
tending the same way as this Internal
rropa canda and it's got TO stop from
this moment
Lady Hannerton rose slowly to her
feet To all appearance she was not
discomposed. hut there was a smolder.
ling fire in her eyes.
You're a little dictatorial, aren't