Evening star., 1933-01-18

ss dra in a manner that made
Michael want to turn up MS
A coat collar
I'VE can't CO." he said with
equal frigidity, his aunt's obvious DOUBT
in him having flecked a raw spot.
Gable, the writer of that unpleasantiy
sordid gossip column in the Wlue
/ World, is two tables away and hes peen
watching this seance like haWk. IL
we go he will imply something unpleaS-
ant about my past relations will Jersey
and well be lucky, anyway, if he doesn't
describe your reception of her"
"Oh. why did we Gomez" moaned
Miss Cassandra.
"Becauze you wanted to-" Michael
! thought, but he managed to suppress
the thought with hard set OF MS
/ square jaws.
He said, If you don't mind, Ill sum-
mon Jersey to us again so that you may
pretend a little cordiality; it Llay help.
He knew how his aunt would feel
about a personal mention in the Iar-
famed column. His resentment at nus
aunt's suspicion died as he studied her;
she held small bottle OF smelling
salts beneath her aquiline nose and
she was obviously suffering as she could
not suffer from the most severe physical
pain.
Il presume you're wondering about
how I came to know jersey" said
Michael who now wanted to do all he
could for his stricken aunt.
Il ask no confidence, Miss Cassan-
ORA replied.
my dear, 1 know" he said, "but
you care for me, assume"
"Yes, Michael, II care for your
she admitted and her voice shook.
Nd oviY1
said, "and it was this way: Malcolm
Wetheran was sophomore in Prince
ton when went in; you know entered
at a ridiculously juvenile age"
Eyes, yes; I recall" Miss CaSsandra
! put in, bit heartened; she had always
been proud of Michaels record.
| st never brag of it." Michael paused
! in his story to interject, because I'm
/ like one of those farm animals that
mature early to amount to about two
cents on the dollar, if that. But any
way, Malcolm Weherall made point
of taking me up. I know now it was
because he was uneasy with his own
age and l, being youngster, made him
| feel superior His mother and sisters
held him in criminally, you see, and
| when he was beyond the reach OF
their check reins it was natural that
he would feel uneasy with crowd and
| go the pace. And he did that lasti' "
! Michael paused and he shook his head.
Il never knew a more curiously un-
happy victim of the urge Of impulse.
| Treated like a crown prince to certain
| age; tutors, mentors; then freedom, full
| freedom of course, he went Wild
Miss Cassandra said that people OF
| true breeding never forgot their obl-
cation to less favored world, nor the
4 I11 fnr
| with less favored lineage.
Michael did not dispute this; he
knew dispute was futile. He also knew
| that Malcolm Wetherall had forgotten
every obligation, and most successfully.
| He went on with his tale. About the
time Malcolm was feeling decidedly
soiled," Michael explained, land with
reason, Jersey O'Grady appeared In the
chorus of a musical comedy that was
running in New York. She had a
finenesS then that has been faded by
| time and she can, with effort, speak
mongrel sort of decent English.
Something about her appealed to NAL
colm he met her, and fell"
@Fell?" Miss Cassandra prompted.
Michael defined "fell' for his aunt
! and as he told her the story he stepped
back to a younger day. 1t was in no
way a new pattern in stories. Shelley
began it with Harriet who killed her
self when her lure was lost and her
speech was heard. But it was a per-
sonal story to Michael and he told it
we'll and as he told it he heard NAL
colin raving as he had when he said he
was going to marry Jersey, even if he
were cut off by doing it; that she had
a fine mind: that she was capable of
every refinement, that he loved her.
Hs,141 IL f1t@ n lnrf han HnI
colin, had repeated, repeated, repeated:
You'll be sorry and what's worse,
Malcolm, she will be sorry, too"
Malcolm had not believed this OF
course, few men or women do.
Three months after marriage Nal
COIN had firmly fixed In his mind the
fact that Jersey spoke execrable Eng