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“THE GOLDEN BED” ' By W ALLACE IRWIN. Produced u a Paramount Picture by Cecile B. DeMille From a Screen Adaptation by Jeanle Maepberaon. (Coerriebt 1M4) l (Continued from Yesterday.! "Just look at mu and Jo." he went on. "Jo's got nothing but children. No brains, no ambition. But he's got four children, and the oldest Is going to college." "Who's paying his way?" asked Margaret. "That ain’t the point. What I’m thinking Is. Jo hasn't made much of himself, hut lie's got a boy he's mighty proud of. And I'll never have—" As If to give scientific verification to this broken sentence Calvin an nounced Hr. Furnisa. Young Hr. Kumiss was a brisk, neat, well-con ditioned man of fifty. "Good evenin’, Miss Margaret,” be began briskly. “And how are you, Mr. Holts? What weather for June!” "Good rain for the farmers." agreed Admail. It was as though they had met by appointment to discuss the weather. "She hasn't waked since you left," said Margaret. "Oh, yes. She'll be drowsy for a while,” Dr. Furnlss announced pleasantly. ‘‘May I go up?” At Flora Lee’s door the trained nurse was waiting to let the physi cian In; the husband was left outside to pace the hall runner and quarrel with his conjectures. A half hour passed, in Admah's estimation; when l,e looked nt his watch he found that It was only eleven minutes. He could hear Flora Lee's sweet voice dron ing on, then the doctor's response. He was laughing! That was a good sign. Again Admail fell tu pacing the hall runner, measuring his steps as though he had been a prisoner inside four narrow walls. That afternoon when be had come borne and seen her bring drugged and bloodless, her body perfectly still, her half-closed eyes nti lecognlzing. he had grown faint with a fear that she was going to die. going to leave lilm without a look or a word. All the vanity of the father prospective had been shrouded in one black thought. He didn't care for children, for money, for anything, but the one great love that had come to New York -•Day by Day ---' By 0. 0. M’INTYRE New York, Feb. 4 —There are—an optical association reports—some 803 men In New- York who wear mon ocles. These are home plucked speci mens and not visiting authors and actors from British shores. Out of these about 100 have physical defects In one eye. The rest have adopted the monocle as a bit of swank. Now a monocle may not inspire three whoops or even a faint geewhlz from most folk but to me It Is one .of the sartorial miracles. Just an ordinary- piece of glass—the size of a wrist watch crys stal. dowdiest plebeian and y-ou feel as dowdiest plebian and you feel as though you should coll him count. You would no more think of Joshing a monocle wearer than you would Mr. C'oolldge. Nothing in the world so completely- suffocates familiarity. You may smile the cynical smile behind the back of the man who wears the monocle, hut secretly most of ns rather admire hint. If for noth ing more, t lie sheer jauntiness of holding a piece of glass so firmly tlint not even a fall off a horse will dislodge it. it requires long and secret prac tice before l lie mirror lo accomplish ail this. The monocle wearer must f . el confident of his ability. If be makes a slip his dignity is gone. I o drop a monocle accidentally will bring him no sympathy, just laugh ter. » The monocle, like the wrist watch, has met with early opposition. It *ls regarded ns the lcadge of the fop the cane sucking dtlde of the comic Hirips. In Europe It needs no defend ers. It Is worn by men who have received the highest decorations for bravery in action. it is worn by the duke, lord and proletariat. 1 may he wrong but I do not think an’- article a man wears drpsaes him tip so magnificently. I possibly may- never wear a monocle. But I wish I had the courage. One thing is certain If 1 ever adopt (he monocle I II never wear It in a certain hardware store hack home. The proprietor is a gruff red faced old fellow who speaks his mind. I have a memory of dropping In there one day during my callow youth In white pants for a pound of B. B. bird shot, lie yvas behind the stove enoozlng when I opened the door. He came down toward me, looked quiz zically at my trousers and then shouted so they could hear him clear up t«> the courthouse: “Get out of here, you durn dude!” I suppose If 1 went In wearing a monocle he would ten k me with an anvil. And I know one man who would be In entire accord and say: "You got what you deserved.” The gen tleman is my father. , I once played penny-ante with a Russian prince who wore a monocle. As T recall, there were also In the same Clare Rrlggs, H. T. Webster, Harry Staton, Ray Rohn. Doctor ft. A. Dorsey and Arthur Somers liorhe. In this rather Intimate week ly gathering the choice of epithets applied to one another was, to any the least, brusque. Hut that monocle tonod up our language so It might have been used In a perftlmed boil dolr Instead of the water front. How ever, it wasn’t very much fun snd It was a nested afterward thsl we would confine royally In our game to the royal flush. My barber tells me of a rather amusing Incident with a monocle wearer, JTIs patron was a. Metropoll tan singer and went to sleep while shaving with the monocle In Ids e.ve. Finally the muscles relaxed and the monocle atnrted to slip off to the floor. The Itarher had a rannr In one linnd and a lathered brush In ths other. Me thought first of dropping them and saving the monoclft hut didn’t. It so happened that the nion O'-1 a dropped In the cuff of his t roue Si’S. An hour’s search of the barber shop failed to find It And the real mystery was not made clear until be undressed to retire. This con eludes the evening's enlei-tslnment on monocles Tomorrow- I should take up something rough like flea hopping or the charleston, ^ (Copyright. ' him like a miracle out of heaven. In the depths of hts irreligious heart he had made a bargain with God and prayed that she should be restored to him. He had tried so hard to live up to her requirements In a husband. He knew how often he had failed and how his awkwardness must have an noyed, her. But she had taught him bo much, overlooked so many things Gosh! What a hick ho must havo been ten years ago the night she rode home with him In liis Ford. . . . The bedroom dooP opened, young Dr. Furnlss came out and gave the worried husband a friendly pat. "There* bound to be a little tempera ture for a day or bo. Two weeks in bed,'i should say. That's going to lie something of a Job for Flora Dee!” He chuckled at his own joke. "There won't be any—I mean, no serious consequences?” "There shouldn't be." replied Dr. Furnlss, growing serious. "Only one thing—" He paused for a choice of expression, then made a poor show of his humorous bedside manner as he said, "You know the sign that’s up In the modern apartment house? No children admitted." "You mean?" The doctor was mere ly saying what Admah had suspected. “]'mv afraid that's the case, my dear Mr. Holtz,” he smiled, then gave him a brisk professional handshake. "Now go to bed and have a decent night’s sleep.” If .Margaret Peake came to her brother-in-law's house with a view to simplifying a so nation she reckoned without Flora Lee In which atmos phere nothing could be simple. Kite was what Miss Sullivan called "a nervous patient." She slept poorly and chose the hours lietween midnight and dawn for telephoning; the night nurse disapproved, of course; only Miss Sullivan remained and even she, mechanically soothing person though she was, rushed from the sick room to sob on Margaret’s shoulder. "1 worked for two years In the State Insane Asylum, but never before have I been called such—such things— boo-Jjoo!" Margaret seldom appeared in Flora Lee's room for the very good reason that Flora Lee chose to regard h*r as an uninvited guest; sometimes she would relent, whimsically, suddenly and send Miss Sullivan out in search of her. Then there would be brief reconciliations to be followed by other flares of temper Flora Lee would even accuse Margaret of trying to avoid Iter. On the fifth day Margaret tactfully suggested to 'Admah that Flora Lee was out of danger. But he would not hear of Margaret’s going. Flora Lee was hard to get along with, he admitted, but she'd had a terrible shock, and people ought to put up with her; he said this with a gruff, scolding sir that to Margaret was Ineffably pathetic. He was looking old. she thought, and the gray was beginning to show through his vigorous hair. Only the night before he had talked bo opt! mistlcally about his future at the Works. She wondered If he was being quits frank with her or with him self. ... t Then came the eighth day. Admah was called upon to act ns referee In one of those feminine quarrels which every man dreads because there Is something demoniac In the rage of even the gentlest woman. He had breakfasted with Margaret and gone upstairs to say good morning for Miss Sullivan, disregarding oonse quences, always aroused her patient at an early hour. He found her sit ting up in bed, a long Ivory mirror in her hand. A. pretty picture of anln she made, coquetting with her lnmge. criticizing the effect of fresh rouge upon her Up*. • How like the devil I look, she soliloquized. "If Charlie Furnlss keep. me in lied another week—oh. Miss Sullivan: Where’s that leathery old fool?” • .. , . « ■ I'll fetch her, honey, volunteered ''"Never mind. I’m going to chuck her anyway. I’d a thousand time* rather have a good nigger like Linda than one of those poor whites with a set of hospital manners.” ••T wish Margaret would stop thumping away at that piano, she complained. __ .1 • But she ain’t playin no*■ ’ T\e said. “It was only last night for "Oh. You've got to have music to “TVaTfor you, dearie. Tou .aid y°"I '^’.“hk. dead marches .,1 suppose ah# w#nts me to die and— .. • I ll t»ll *her not to play any more • You’ll tell her? You'll do nothing of tty king. O, Peg: '|ah*ar''f Flora Lee « voice, normally .0 •*« and drawling, could «row .hrllI .nd harsh as a locomotive whistle, ire* cntlv Margaret cams upstairs anl stood Stiff, cool, smiling at the of the bed. She wore her coat and h*’Old you call me, Flora Lee?" ehe ■Wd I rail you?" her Hated mocked ••p«g, why are you always »o damn« afferted’’ ‘Where ate you going "I thought I'd better go back to town. You see—'' T .. ■go suddenly?'1 asked Flora I.«« with on unfriendly smile. "She's got a lot of work plied P at th« office." was Admah'e poor con tribution. #»»rh "indeed? I'm aura you could fetch it out here, couldn t you. Adman. Flora £?fi carefully plucked ^eye brows went up to a sharp angU wouldn't wan. Margaret and leave you Just for her work, W"i'd b«Umighty glad to have her Flora T.ee trlum phantly. "Admah wants you to atey^ "Well 1 didn't exactly say that I just said—Why, of course I want her '“••Admah will have everything ar ranged for you," «h. went on spark; llnglv. “Maybe he can fix din In the gnrage so you wont e have to go to town." Margaret flushed suddenly, a ho Insulted red. She opened her mouth to speak and Admah In the thank Isas rule of peacemaker, found him scir Interrupting with n feeble ... like, "please don I Pi™.s don't whet?" asked Flora f.ee. "Please don t go? la that what you mean?” „ "No I didn't. I meant "Hoodby," e«ld Margaret very gen tly anil went out of the room. Dumb and somehow outraged, he watched ber go down the stairs. Then turn lug I., Flora l.ee he aaw her eye. woo ing him, her arms outstretched. Oh*" dbMitlv her puppet, he knelt wltll. a entwined his neck and passed ner fingers through his hair. "Taka har to town," aha b-gged “I can't have her In my house How does she dare stand there end l.lk to me like that?" Margaret hud said six word, and as Admah recoiled them, 'hey ware not of an Inflammatory nature According to Admah a ,-elands: everything waa dated forward t" June 15th and the snnuul elections biota l.ee had quarreled with IF uo the 13th, aj>4 that wee hut three day* before two Important meet ings, to be held in the offices of the Principality Trust Company. In the morning the stockholder* would elect a new board of directors for the T. A P.; In the afternoon the director* would elect officers. Since FJoTtt Fee's sudden Illness Admail had lived lit turmoil, affairs at home and affairs at the Works warring one againt the other. Bentley plotting for Ills throne; Flora Bee was disregarding her doctor's orders: Colonel Attevlmry had made himself Inaccessible; so had Margaret Peake. During those dtiys he missed Margaret and wondered vaguely. That morning when he had taken her Into town she had said a queer thing aa he hade her goodby In the lobby of her apartment lions* ' Poor A dumb! ’ she had whiepered land covered his hand with her own. \Y4hat had she meant by that? Poor Admah he might have been at j home, but certainly not in ids office. He had found his enemies now and ! their methods; he had »ounted his friends rind his own devices. The I new directors would he Atterbury I dummies, controlled just as Admah was controlled. They would sit in meeting watching Jim Atterbury * thumbs; If they twiddled up. an'ofll cer would be retained: If they twld died down, off with his head; And Admah Holt* had no Intention of los ing his head on the afternoon of June 15th. If some go about talking their heads off there are others who, upon Occasion, can talk ihem on. In spit. J of Sim Canfield's bus} lattlings and the gesticulations which General Bent ley called an "Intenaive campaign" Admali knew that Atterbury readied how little these men had to offer. Holti understood the T. * P. lie had lifted It from the muck once, he could do it again; and since Alter bury did not make or break men for sentiment’* sake. Admah saw hi* wav (•leal-. He had but !•■ appear ill )«■ son at the meeting on the IT,th snd Klva Ms reasons why he should con tlnue as president of the T. a P. 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