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disguise"
Red Riding Hoods wolf" Hilary
suggested.
And they laughed together.
Susannah Vane was tall, and she
carried herself, SO Hilary declared fer
vently, like an Andalusian. She had
wide apart gray eyes-like Pallas
Athena remarked Hilary, mixing the
Unities-and a sweet mouth, and brown
hair which was so abundant that it had
to be coiled over each ear and round at
the back of her head. And then her
voice. like my mothers" thought
Hilary, which was a libel on Susannah,
for his mothers had grown mournful
under the trail Of Lawrence's infideli-
ties; whereas Susannah's voice was
tender, but never l%achrymose.
Nor did she droop towards the pro-
tectiye male, in spite of her pretty
habit of appealing to him for advice,
for help, for a final opinion. And she
listened to Hilary-O, for hours! The
others had listened to him, too
for now he called all the visitors at the
Grand hotel "the Others" who we're
not Susannah . but "the others
had listened blindly. whereas Susannah
vas SO intelligent, SO subtle, SO appre-
ciative and stimulating, SO kind, SO
gentle, SO splendid, SO womanly. /.
So understanding.
thing to understand, as yet. She was
the presiding goddess of his temporary
kingdom OF enchantment. The kingdom
would have to dwindle and melt away,
but Susannah perhaps he might
keep Susannah? With a r%apturous
sigh, he pictured her moving about his
lonely flat in South Kensington; ar
ranging flowers in the empty vases:
sitting in front of the fire, her chin
cupped thoughtfully in the palms Of
her hands, while he read aloud 10 her
what he had Just completed-Hilary
was by then SO far gone that he found
it difficult to pull himself out Of the
imaginary tableau in which he read
to her what he had just completed of
THE Slower Judas
She would have to be told. With
every five minutes Of talk with her he
knotted his future into fresh cgmpli-
cations. AS a child will sometimes
hardly believe that there can be so
much rain in the sky, SO Hilary found
it hardly credible that there were so
many lies IN the world as those that
daily battered from some Invisible
source onto Susannah's halo and onto
the ground in front Of her sanetified
feet. Yet his imperSOnatiOns were not
SO sure as they had been before susan
nah arrived. Hilary had begun % wab-
BILE in the creative instinct. lie was nc
longer the master coniurer who could
rely on his wit to produce anything
from flags of all nations to a rabbit
out of his top hat. Was he Lawrence
Clif1e? Was he Christopher? Was he
indeed, anybody at all?
With all that mysterious supply oil
biithe impudent confidence eYag8rated
the old %jealousies trooped back, return
ing seven times multiplied. Lucky
devilsl Lucky old devil Lucky young
devill" And what had he done. the
middle one, to be denied such lucki
His hour of cnchantment was passing,
he would have to tell Susannah.
So. because he was reluctant TO cease
being a hero, he prophesied for himself
a heroic confession. Hilary reaearsec
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lessly. He hoped the former, but feared
the latter.
Dear Hilary. This is an internal
woman! For Gods sake, don't marry
her. You'd be drowned in wallow-
ing sea- of balm and ointment.
Hilary, you're in deadly peril. Imag-
inc what it would be like to be UNI
derstood for the rest of your life!
About as convenient as living in a
service flat in the Crystal palace.
AS for your exploit in passing your
self off as both Christopher and me,
it was magnificent. Accept my ap-
probation and my gratitude. I
haven't laughed SO much since / first
heard of the White Mans Burden.
I've always suspected, of course, that
you had the same graceless streak as
myself. But Hilary, my son, my only
son, my Jonathan, don't surrender to
being pathetic.
Susannah doesn't even see that
your performance was funny or
clever; she thinks it the in%articulate
cry of a strangled ego! Go to her in
a bluff, hearty sort Of way, and just
say to her. "Ha, ha, you slut! So
you saw through mel" Poke her in
the ribs, leave her for dead, get on
the next train, and join me in Rome
for a month or two. I'll teach you
amply and bountifully what a rest
cure ought to be, without milk and
sugar!
And, by the way, 1 don't think
we'll tell Christopher about your es-
capade. He's a good lad, this son of
yours, but / fancy he hasn't quite a
grasp on the more evil and attrac-
tive side of the Cliffe nature. 1--WE
haven't got much conscience, but
what we have is guilty!"-Thank
God! To be quite honest with you,
Hilary, after three days I discovered
the sleeping bore in Christopher.
He'll get into plenty of white hot
ScrapeS, but never a Scrape that1l
raise a smile.
This, however, like your recent
hotel idyll, is, as sentimental Sue
would say, a dear little, tender little,
bluebird secret between you and me!
Come along 0
Your affectionate father,
Lawrence Cliffe.
Hilary stood up He wanted to shout
He felt as though warm light were
streaming through him. He had never
been SO happy before. His double role
as the famous old mar and the famous
young maxwell. that had been in
%toxicating while 1t lasted, but it wa,
foredoomed to be a brief, strange glory
But this sudden new affinity between
his father and himself, this was real
this would go on. And, most subtle
flattery of all ITO be quite honest
with you, Hilary, after three days I dis
covered the sleeping bore in Christie
pher.' 1t was clear to him nov
that he had envied less their fame thar
the imagined kinship between them
borne OF their fame.
NO need to fear now. He, and hi
alone, was going to his father. Hi
father was pleased with him. He hac
managed to amuse his father. Evel
since he was a child he had longed fol-
such a privilege, yet not guessing how
to win it..
AS for Susannah Vane Hilary
remembered her letter and chuckled
irreverently. Heavens, what an escape
Copyright: 1923: BY G. B. Stern)
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with a %shuddering heart, he chose Su-
Sannah's. At least, he would have called
it a shuddering heart; actually he was
feeling rather sick. .
MY Dear st. Lawrence"
So she knew him as well as that!
Then she knew that he, Hilary, was not
Lawrence Cliffe. Who, then, did she
think he was? Christopher, perhaps?
After all, he might still continue to be
Christopher. .
But by the time he had finished the
letter, which began MY Dear st. Law
renee" it wa most ANONYMOUSLY plain
that to her, from the very first moment
of his introduction, he had been neither
the dramatist who wrote THE Devil a
Monk Would Be- C'that was my
father"), nor the poet who wrote mot
at Home to Hannibal C"that is my
SOM. Susannah Vane had met them
both; Christopher only once, it is true;
but she and Lawrence Cliffe were fair
ly intimate. They had been in the
same house party at IN of the Loire
chateaux, and later on they had met
accidentally in Venice.
She knew him we'll enough to beg
him now to conceal their previous &C
quaintance, if C"You see, I'm being
frank with you'll needn't be coy and
m%aidenly, need /, with a mans happl-
ness at stake?")-if Hilary should pre-
sent her to his father as a future
daughter-in-law. She wanted to spare
Hilary, in the divine pity which ran
like a river under the little ave Of
a style that was half merry, half whim-
sical-for could one ever be wholly SER
ious with st. Lawrence?
She related to him the story Of Hill
ary's double metamorphoSis, n told
how he had enjoyed 1t, as a schoolboy
enjoys sweet stolen apples; and how
every one in the hotel had been COM
pletely taken in, except herself. She
had known at once, but had kept her
knowledge a secret, Surmising that
there must be some heartbreaking rea-
son for so good a man to act SO wantOn
a lie. And she had intended never to
betray him, either TO himself, or to the
hotel, or to his father. Only-for what,
again, was the good Of pretending?-
he had fallen in love with her. But
at least he should tell her himself, and
she would be able, out of her chivalrg,
to make confession easy Tor him, he
should be most tenderly shriven and
never again allowed to feel small or
unimportant or unwanted.
80 remember, st. Lawrence, that
this is our conspiracy, yours and mine,
and I trust you. You're a wise old
scoundrel, as far as I can remember;
wiser than all the Elders rolled into
one, SO you will realize what it must
mean to a poor, thirsty fellow who has
drunk tepid water all his life when he
has his first, rushing, fiery taste OF
deep, red wine. SO don't spoil every
thing, Will you, by grudging Hilary his
wine from your cellar, even though he
had to break down the door?"
She signed her letter "Susannah."
Slowly Hilary put it down. He did
not know that it was possible to be SO
shamed; pride lay near his feet like a
dead bird that would never stir again
Then he took up his fathers letter. His
father would be either furious with
him or else mock at him quite merci-
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nibal' and The Devil a Monk Would
Bel"
Two Kingdoms. sire? How do YOU
manage to rule in both?"
He started like a burglar detect
ed at the safe. But one look at her
treasured him. Her remark was Simply
a deliciously whimsical comment on the
immense difference between these two
of his works Just mentioned. She was
perceptive and intelligent. this Miss
Vane; more intelligent than the others.
Much more!
Then he must refine his bluff, for
her.
Il don't pretend to rule my king
doms," he replied to her question.
They rule me- Already his STYLE was
deteriorating. Il believe I must have
a dual personality"
She nodded her head gravely, to
show hat dual personalities were to
her interesting and acceptable. So
Hilary. encouraged, went on expanding
the theme. He made quite a good thing
out OF it. Presently the desire arose /
him that 1T were a triple person
atty. 1t vas hardly enough to be
Lawrence and Christopher. Now that
he had met Susannah, he wanted to be
Hilary as well. He began to insert
Hilary, tentatively, between the two
usurpers.
The Leslie girl had wandered away.
S%usannah, with a roguish glance be-
trayed her: "She told me that I would
find you terribly frightening Poor
little Erica! I expected you to be a
sort of literary ave mani"
Perhaps l ami"
Il wonder? You look benevolent.
But benevolence is sometimes the best
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By
@. B. Stern

1t constantly: First, draw her out
alone with him to where the violets
were crushed together in purple array,
and then: You thought me a great
man and a genius, Susannah. But I'm
only a beggar and a thief. /.
EFT cetera.
She would be amazed at first, and
Mortified. But then the madonna In
her would triumph. She would per-
ceive how he was racked with suffer-
ing. how lonely his life had been, how
beset with disappointments.
I'VE don't know beforehand what
crimes, what violences are wrung out
of us by jealousy. All, Susannah-'
And there probably he would break
down. And she, though still aghast-
he would not forfeit this idea of Sus-
annah stunned. incredulous, appalled,
by his confession, somehow or other he
liked it!-she, u ough still agt ast,
would enfold and lift him in the
heavenly cerulean way of women who
love deeply and forgive even more
deeply and understand more deeply
still 49,.
Hilary's face grew more lush every
sunset.
Until the letter came.
The letter was a fat one, addressed
in his fathers handwriting. Hilary
was surprised; usually the old mar did
not bother himself with much CORE
%spondence. He wandered out on the
terrace, opening it. Folded inside his
fathers was another letter. Hilary
stared at it. puzzled, yet dreading to
be enlightened. For this Enclosure was
in Susannah Vane's fluent writing; he
recognized it at once.
Which should he read first? Then,
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Guide for Travellers amid
Miners Was Written by
Captain Mullam i'm 1865

IT MAY surprise many Montanans to
discover that Captain Mullan, who
= came to this state with the Stevens
expedition, wrote a Guide for Miners
and Travellers" which vas published in
1865. l CHANGED upon a copy of 1t in
the library of Alexander Leggat, in
Butte. The volume is small-of a con-
venient size for the traveller of that day
to carry with him for frequent refer
nee.
A little b~lack-covered book, it con-
tains much which has not lost its in
terest for the reader of today. Con-
tanned in it is the mining law passed by
the first Montana territorial legisla-
ture, signed by its first governor, Sid
ney Edgerton.
Mullan pointed out, in his guide, how
the road from Fort Benton to the Dear
born was rendered available for wagons
by going three to five miles south Of
Bird Tail rock. This road passed
through a fine game country, he said,
and THE largest and richest bodies of
land l have seen east of the noun
tainS. and where timber from the
mountains and rock at hand, will sup
ply all the requisites OF the first set
tiers"
Another good farming district he no.
ticed in this region, was in the Sun
River valley. He also mentions some
patches OF good soil along the Missouri
above Fort Benton"
Over the range on the west side, he
speaks OF possibilities Of farming IN the
Bitter Root, along 'Frenchtown creek, .
and in country tributary to the Big and
Little BlackfOot rivers, and in Deer
Lodge valley. 1t should be borne in
mind by the reader that in 1865 little
thought was given by our pioneers to
arabic sections, and residents Of the
east believed the northwest a desert,
Mullan had seen the attempt of the
missionaries to till the ground at st.
Mary's. He was convinced there was
farming land elsewhere in Montana
territory that settlers would find de-
sirable. Information concerning these,
from SO reliable a source as Captain
Mullan, must have proved to be an i'm
portant factor in bringing settlers here.
Mullan speaks of THE old geograph-
lcal pictured Rocky mountains, as a
right line tending from northwest to
southeast" ! remember how they were
shown on the maps of l859-60, and how
astonlShed Il party was when we
reached the mountains, to find there
were ranges upon ranges extending in
49, Ia IN S1Aitlal YIN
of the whole was apparently in the di-
rection the old Biographies indicated.
The story in the guide of how JEFF
ferson, satisfied there was a great river
on the west side of the Rockies. fur
nishing a water shed corresponding to
that of the Mississippi IN the east, sue
ceeded, while abroad. in ~perSuading
Ledyard, the missionary and explorer
to come over here and investigate
Supplied with letters to Empress Cath
crime, he went TO Russia on his way to
the western Pacific. He experienced
no difficulty in securing a passport
his troubles came later, when the en-
press thought better of what permits
sion had been granted Ledyard, re-
voked his passport and expelled him
from the country. The Russians
claimed he was a spy for the French
and American governments. Ledyard
was destined never to explore the Co.
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ly to create greatness for yourself as
you go along!
Now and then. quite casually, while
entertaining larger and smaller cir
cles Of those who came to adore him,
he threw in some out Of the way in
formation about Ammianus Marcellin-
us, about the Knights Templar and
the knights Hospitaller; and about the
domesticities Of Cowper. 1t tickled him
hugely to do so, and to hear the dis
cipleS eXclaim to each other, and to
him, how wonderful it was that Mr..
Cliffe had also time for these more
trivial studies!
And isn't he getting we'll quickly?
I suppose it's the sun!'
Hilary dWelt SO securely in his glory
that he did not bother about what
would happen when it all came to an
end.
And then Susannah Vane arrived.
BY good fortune, so far, the visitors
at the Grand hotel were of that pleas
ant, we'll to do, well bred type who
know that authors exist, and hear their
names, and see advertised whatever
they have written which has caused
anything of a sensation, but to whom
in any sharper, clearer, more knowing
sense writer's are still mysterious be-
ings, magicians whom n practically
never encounters in the ordinary
world. 1t was a privilege and an ex-
element for them to meet the great
Cliffe, but they were not at all likely
to have known beforehand that there
were three Cliffes, and that only two
Of them were great.
Yet from the way they talked Of
Susannah Vane-and most of them
remembered her from the year before
Hilary fancied that for this cultured
woman of thirty-nine the world of lit
erary personalities might have been
more defined. Erica Leslie, his first
friend ana Pippin's mistress, told him
that Susannah went to first nights and
TO publishers dinner parties 80 /
expect added Erica, with bright visit
fitness, 4 expect you and she will have
a tremendous lot to say to each other.
You must have missed that sort Of
thing!"
Hilary had not missed that sort Of
thing.
He staggered slightly, that addition
al sWagger which arises from a faint
un%easiness, when Erica Leslie intro
duced him to Susannah.
isn't it wonderful having him here
all TO ourselves? We're So thrilled! Be-
cause its the Mr.. Clitle. eusannah. YOU
know, who wrote Not Ell Home to Han
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so she decided to
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Slower Judas
IN TWO PARTS-PART TWO

published by special arrangement with The
Chicago Tribune Syndicate)
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The Story 50 Far

Hilary ChTe is the son Of the famous
Lawrence Clde and is the father OF Chris
topher Chne. also famous. All are writers.
Lawrence and Christopher are together 4
great share of the time and Hilary begins
to think he is but a necessary link between
the two. Hilary Eoes to a French resort
for q rest. When 1t IS found that his name
is Cliffe and that he Is a writer, he lays
claim to the works Of both his father and
his son. He decides TO have the thrill OF
being a famous man instead Of a nonentity
in the writing world. Althoush he has slight
knowledge of their works. with his ready wit
he manassas to pass all questions put to
him regarding them.
And now the story
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TIME Slower Judas? All, well :.
it's about a jester in the fifteenth

century. He im%perSonated a monk
And then made a parody of the monks
faith He improviSed on this theme
of his own betrayal of his son. 1t was
taking a risk, but he had grown to
love risks"
Il think the idea is too marvelous!'
from Erica Leslie.
so do 1. like it.. I'm all for SYM
boliSm."
Rather too late, Hilary remembered
that Christopher had once told him,
after all. what was the theme OF The
Slower Judas" 1t was about st. Paul
He laughed again shrugged his
shoulders. So this was what it felt like
to be On the spree. Not only to be
thought a great man, but spontaneous
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