Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-23


servant closely Did Mrs Sumner
leave no message for me- You are
positive
The negro shook his kinky white head
She got note. sah and she done pass me
~ in de hall like was de door post
\ sense of disaster which Charles knew to
be utterly absurd, completely unwarranted by
the mere breaking of an engagement by Alice,
brought groan to his lips. He turned into the
drawing room, the new drawing room. He
and Alice were really only bride and groom.
scarcely out of the honeymoon And Alice had
broken an engagement with him. Stay He
mustn't be unfair. play the lovesick fool. He
looked in his notebook: Thursday Alice
$3.50. Engravings.
She may have thought she was to meet him
in the exhibition rooms on fremont Street
She would think he had broken the engage
ment with her. OF course she had forgotten!
Yet yet
He strobe into the hall. clapt on his hat,
and went out into the street. Most of Boston
knew Charles Sumner by sight His SIX feet
four Of studied elegance his magnificent head.
chestnut hair made one of Boston's most adj
mired public sights. But few had ever seen
sumner in hurry. as he was now. He ran up
the steps to the art gallery and into the main
exhibition room.
1t was deserted except for one or two whose
attention Immediately turned from the
Titians to the great statesman He could not
h.sly bai A. ~ md no
INTO a side gallery where the Rubens copies
were hung. Where was Alice?
These side galleries were mere canvas
booths People in the next booth were talking
softly
"Eut he'll follow you here" protested a
man. And people already are talking It's
most indiscreet''
ELL do nothing undignliled.' II WdS
Mice! - He's very vain, and vain people have
no sense OF humor
1t was not only her words but her tone
which shattered Charles. Brilliant cheeks now
dead white, he walked in upon them.
But am just that undgntedr'
Alice, in one of her trousSeau silks it
was pale green her lovely curls under a
little green velvet hat, her wide eyes Alice
looked frightened. Sumner didn't know the
man. He thought he belonged to one of the
embassies He was young and handsome
No one spoke after Charles remark. All the
distrust of himself that he d felt before mar
rlage. all his unbelief in his own chance for
happiness but most of all the sense that here
for him was stark disaster swept over Charles
He looked from one young frightened face to
the other. walked out of the booth and the
art gallery and So home
For the next hour or two, he did not think;
ne only suffered After long time. the servant
came in uneasly and told him that Mrs
Sumner was in the garden. He went heavily
into the garden where Alice was shivering on
marble bench. He sat down beside her and
took her hand. 1t was faccid in his.
But. Yesterday he exclaimed. lit was
warm and Clinging What is it. Alice? Are we
jim nightmare"
She looked up into his face. Oh. lovely.
slovely Alice! II don't lore Won. Charles. Now
Il know. | want you to let me go. Youth to
youth He kissed me and knew"
q Kissed you!" Charles voice was very low.
EThe cub had kissed her, and then she knew she
Hid not love the man with whom she had Just
Spent her honeymoon! He could not under
tand. His pride or his vanity, he thought
With dull agony. would not let him question
Ter, He laid her hand down and went out of
he garden to the stable, mounted his horse