Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-02

public occasions, the beautifully gowned.
jeweled, caparisoned little lady of longish face
bullying brow, deeply intent eyes and clear
brown skin ever more than passingly snagged
his attention. Oh yes, his reaction, il any.
might have been: Martins daughter! Said
to be clever; but . solemn young lady with
that dark brown look. Good enough fellow.
Martin, If he knew enough to keep ont Of
politics. Pretty little wife with scapsuds for
brains.
NHARcRII.AS reactions, secret as her own
secretive-looking eyes, were not IN line
with the Senator's. There resided in the make.
UP Of this aggressive, massive-jawed rough
haired member Of the liberal wing of politics.
qualities that were stirring within Marcelia
keen, new and exciting thrills.
The most interesting man in all Washington,
the most interesting man IN America, the most
interesting man she had ever met. was the
Senator. Secret as were these deep-seated
emotions. and imperturbable as her brown eyes
continued to remain, that fact grew with the
months Secretly. Marcella was in love with
Senator Morris.
That it was unrequited caused her neither
bitterness nor undue pain. One just went on
alone-caring-hoping for the glimpse Of him
here and there. picking up crumbs Of Informal
tionS of his comings and goings, and OUT
wardly reconciled to defeat.
After q while even the Martins became half
reconciled to it. At ~ Marcella simply had
not made her dent. Her generation Of deb
utantes had come and gone. Practically all Of
the girls who had made their bows the Winter
that the Marcella Martin coming out ball
was the crowning event Of an eventful social
season were married now-rightly.
At IS, something latent in Marcella rose and
asserted itself. Against the resistance Of her
parents, which she wore down with . high
handedness uneharacteristic of her. she en-
rolled in a school Of social research, and after
two winters Of intensive work became allied
with . settlement house IN New York known
Is Mulberry Center.
Then began the happiest, most interested
years Of her life. When she was az Marcella
was first assistant head Of this large institu-
ton and an outstanding figure in her chosen
neld
The Martins, in their way. were proud Of this
success OF course, it was miles and miles
removed from what had been their dreams for
her, but-well, it takes all kinds of people to
make a world. Poor Marcella. OF course, one
appreciated her brains and her distinction, but,
Just the same, the heart Of the mother Of this
daughter seemed to beat to the rhythm: Poor
Marcella.
1T was when she was 30, considerably heavier
and with streaks Of faint gray In her strong
dark hair, that Marce1la Martin, appointed by
her government as first woman member of an
international conference on housing conditions
to be held In Geneva, again encountered Edgar
Morris, now Gov. Morris He, too, gray now.
heavier now, found himself sitting beside her
ut a political luncheon at Geneva where he
was in attendance at q conference.
Life, tides, affairs had flowed swiftly for
him in the years which had interviewed since
his previous meeting with her. 1t Is doubtful
II he recalled her at all. He knew only that
suddenly he was meeting woman whose talk,
whose point Of view, whose deeply quiet eyes
and q certain unworldliness were giving him
the first serious pause he had ever in his life
felt where the other sex was concerned.
1t occurred to him even, as he sat there
beside her IN the first hour OF that lunch in
Geneva, that he seemed TO be developing symp-
toms Of . man on the verge Of falling in love.