The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-22

Cuccf, mluBieo Wlbn gay bnrOuU of laughter, went up from the lawn. Reggie patted the orchestra leader on the back and climbed down.
 "Did I give you a send-off7" he asked Paul and Ardath. People , when I open a party 1t stays open ed" He looked up at Paul solicit iously. My frien', what you need it drink. Come with me an get it."
 Paul followed h.:n to the bar and obedientiy took the glass which was promptly placed in his hand.
 Didn't know about the program we got fixed up, did you2" Reggie asked him. "The countess an l did 1t. Ardath told us to go ahead She gave us carte blanche. An mister, when you zee 1t ." He looked triumphantly at his host and jabbed him solemnly in the waist coat with 8 foreflnger. Young girls have gone to jail an strong men've left home for less than is going to be done here tonight"
 AhASg Eaui NOhlCiuOCu LWV HOlIb later, was no exaggeration. Per- formerB from all the hot spots with in 100-mile radius seemed to have been pressed into service. There were blues singers, torch singers, and singers whose ditties might have brought blushes to the ears of cash customers at a stag smoker. There were fan dancers. muscle dancers, and just plain dancers whose tal- cntS as far as Paul could see, con- sisted solely in an extraordinary willingness to perform without any clothes at all.
 A young man at Pauls elbow looked apareciatively at the scene.
 So this is an orgy" he said slowly. I've always wondered what they did at orgies. Now l know"
 Paul turned away, and walked outside the circle of light and sound to secluded spot among shrubbery that fringed the farther end of the villa. The monotonous burbling wall of it's saXaphones and jungle beat of the orchestra, the burbling wall of its saxophone and It's muted trumpctg, the laughter anC the bursts of applause and the shril voices, came to him faintly here; ht could look away from the lighted lawn, with its color and it's move ment, and See the dark bay under iti canopy of stars.
 AS he looked, 1t seemed az if he looked across the shadowing oi years, al well as across the water and saw his own Kingdom again fair under the summer sky, with it's bustling cities, its neat and smiling countryside. it's great my riad of people weaving the unend- ing pattern of their history.
 And 1t seemed that he could sec the long procession Of his predeces- BOTS. the kings who had reigncd be- fore him, passing in ghostly review.
 And all Of them, it seemed, had this in common-that they served greater thing than themselves, sometimes without knowing 1t, sometimes falteringly and unccr- tainly, but always instinctively and, in the end, faithfully. They had found their freedom in serv- ice, and they stood out now, not 50 much aB individuals but as fig- ures in an unbroken procession, aa men who marched in time to the beat of some drum that could sum- mon men to transcend themselves.
 He rubbed his forehead wearily He had broken that procession he had stepped out of it-for love, for freedom, for the need to fulfill some obscure responsibility to his own soul. Now he could zee that he had made an impossible bargain that freedom was a queer, mocking thing which a man gained by turning away from it, that love could be in- substantial and shifting, with light that failed and glamour that de- ceiyed And he was conscious of a tremendous homcsicknesS for his own land and his own people; 6 great desire come to him to leave thi8 silly, drunken revcl, board his stout little gailboat, steer north around sullen Cape Roman, and get course for his home land--rcturn- ing like some marincr-king of old. from a tour of far countries and strange places to the place that was hig.
 He took stcp forward, impul- givcly, ag if to turn desire into ac- ton. Then he paused & man and a woman, dimly outlined against the lights on the lawn. had Strollcd near him. They did not zee him. They sat down on bench dozen paces away Ardath and Reggie Van TWyne.
 Reggie, who had seemed quite intoxicated two hours ago, must have grown sober AZ the evening progressed. His voice. when he spoke was clear, without the fuz-