I Rough-Hewn Dorothy Canfield \
(Continued from Veuterdm'.l
Norsis.
Neale Crittenden, (epical American
xminc man. has crown lip in I niontown.
a village near New York city, has been
it rad noted from Columbia untxersitv and
* b»»* taken a position with a lumber firm.
At college lie fell in love with Martha
Wentworth, who declined III* proposal to
wed. Martha Is spending a year in tier
many with her father. Neale accepts
hi* disappointment philosophically and
bends his efforts toward success in busi
ness In Frame. Marise Allen, about
Neales age, lit cm with her American
father who Is foreign agent for ail Amer
ican firm. She is an accomplished lin
nuist ami pianist. Marise and her father
visit I’aris. where Marise meets an Amer
ican girl. Eugenia Mille, from Arkansas.
They go together to M. \andover. Eu
genia's instructor in F’rench. A rather
*tormy scene takes place when Eugenia
expresses dissatisfaction xvith the instruc
tion she is rcceixing. and M. Vandover
tells her he will find another Instructor
for her. Marise's piano teacher. Mme.
de la Cnevt* urges her to spend a year
studying in Koine with an old music mas
ter. Neale is in Italv on a business and
pleasure trip and plans to sail for Amer
ica soon. In a Koman roof garden he
meets Marise and Is struck bv her oeauty
and grace of manner. Tliev learn that as
riiiidren In America they had known many
of the same scenes In the country near
1 niontown. Neale tells Marise that lie
expects to lca\e for China soon after his
return to America.
They were standing now near a
low wall, under some thick dark ilex
trees, a fountain dripping musically
before them. Mechanically they sat
down, looking earnestly at each other.
“You see,” began Neale, “I'm trying
to find m.v wsCJ’. I was in business
in the states, and getting along all
right . . . 'getting on,’ I.mean, as
they say. And then 1 got to wonder
ing. It seemed as though, aa though
... I wasn’t sure it was what I
wanted to do with my life, just to buy
low and sell high, all my life long.
Perhaps there was more to it than I
could make it. It certainly seemed
to suit a lot. of folks. Hnp. But. I
couldn’t seem to see it. I was ail
right. Nothing the matter. Only 1
couldn't . . . why, I tell you, I felt
like a perfectly good torch that
wouldn't catch on tire. I couldn’t
seem to care enough about it to make
it worth while to really tear in and
do it. And I thoughf maybe if I got
off a little way from it . . . sometimes
you do see the sense of things better
that way. So I went away. I took
a year off. I'd saved a little money,
enough for that. And I've been try
ing to figure something -out. Of
course, I've been enjoying the travel
ing around, too. Perhaps that’s the
real reason why I want to go to
China, Just to keep going, see new
things, get away, keep free. But I
think about the other a good deal
... what can I do with my life . .
that's sort of worth while, you know,
if only In a very small way. I'm an
ordinary man, no gifts, no talents,
but I have lots of energy and health.
It seems as though there ought to be
something . . . doesn't it?”
He had stumbled On. breathlessly,
involuntarily, hardly aware that he
was speaking at all, aware onljr that
she was listening. With her head
bent, her eyes fixed on the ground,
the pure pale olive of. her fare like
a pearl In the shadow of her hat, she
was listening Intently. He knew, as
he had never known anything else,
that she was listening te what he
really meant, not to what he was say
ing in those poor, plain broken
words.
And yet, how could he go on?
The sudden plunge he had made,
deep Into aw element new to him, the
utter strangeness of his having thus
spoken out what he had before but
shyly glanced at, the awfulness of
having opened his heart to the day,
i - r - - — —..i
hi* shut, shut heart. . . , Good God,
what was lie doing?
At his silence, she raised her face
towards him. To his amazement her
eye* were shining wet. with tears.
And yet there was no sadness In
her face. She was smiling at him,
a wavering, misty smile.
She stood up, made a little flexible,
eloquent gesture with her hands and
arms and shoulders, ns it to explain
to him that she could not trust her
self to speak, and, still smiling at
him, the tears still in her eyes, walked
rapidly aw’ay.
CHAPTER XI,IV.
After dinner that evening Miss
Allen came up to where Mr. Living
stone and Air. Crittenden stood to
gether n&ar the window and said to
them. “Would it interest you at all
to go to the soiree at Donna Anto-,
nia's tomorrow? She has been kind
enough to offer me some cards of
invitation, and it occurred to me—
if you haven't anythin*!: better to do
that evening—?”
Livingstone rarried one hand to his
heart, the other to his brow, and
professed inability to recover from
the shock. “Aly dear young lady, It's
inhuman to shatter my nerves with
a bombshell like that without a word
of warning! Vou know well enough
I'd gladly givejone of my ears for an
invitation to Donna Antonia's. Why
then the false modesty, as who should
say, ‘If you've nothing more interest
ing on hand just step up and let me
make you a duke, do!”
Miss Allen acknowledged the face
tious Intention of this with a suitable
laugh and looked at Neale. He said,
"Oh, of course, I shall be glad to
go.’’
"That's good then. I shall hope to
see both of you.”
The soiree was horrible to Neale, a
nightmare, a glittering wall through
which he could by no means break to
reach her, over which he could scarce
ly see at an immense distance her slim
figure, dressed in yellow, a thin gold
fillet binding her pmooth dark head.
She was talking?' smiling, animated,
at ease; and after she had played,
much acclaimed. There was nothing
surprising about that, thought Neale,
applauding with all his might. Heav
ens, how beautifully she made music,
how beautifully, how Intelligently,
with such a clear, sure certainty of
her pwn powers! Of course, every
body' there admired her, paid court
to her, made her the center of one
group after another—always except
the group where he stood! He felt
heart sick to he so cut off from her.
As a matter of fact he was not in
the least literally cut off from her.
She kept relentlessly introducing him
to one person after another whom
he did not wish to meet. She kept
coming up to him every time he had
succeeded In shaking off a tiresome
companion and wt#s standing alone at
last in a corner, looking everywhere
over the curled, powdered, bobbing,
restless, grinning crowd to catch a
glimpse of her. There she would he
at hla elbow, gliding up from nowhere.
He restrained an Impulse to snatch
at hpr and hold her there, beoause
each time she melted away after she
had said. "Won't you let me take you
to Donna Antonia. Plerleonl," or “to
Miss Mills," or "to Signor Amhrngi,"
or to somebody or other with whom
it was necessary to talk and on whom
it was necessary to try to keep those
wandering, seeking eyes of his.
Miss Mills—oh, yes, this must he
the girl blvlngstone had been yarn
ing about. Of course, after praise
from Hivingstone it was to he ex
pected that she’d look like a very
high priced wax image in a hair
dresser’s window; and yet Neale’s at
tentlon was caught for a moment by
her pronunciation of a French phrase.
Her inflection reminded him of
Marise Allen’s, neid he hung about
her for some time In the hope of
hearing It again. Kvery time she
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repeated it. which she often did, he
smiled down broadly on her. She
was a pretfy little thing. She was
really quite an object of art. If that
was what you called them.
As Neale walked home with Liv
ingstone at midnight he had made up
his mind to take the first train to
Naples the next morning.
But he made no move whatever to
do this, when the morning came.
Dumb ifhd stupid as a aheep, he made
his way doggedly to the dining room
at the earliest hour, to see Miss Allen
take her cafe-au-lait. As he wpnt in
at tho door, he realized that his cal
culations were all wrong, that she
had heen up late the night before and
would certainly sleep late that morn
ing. But Livingstone had already
seen him and hailed him. It was too
late to go hack and wait. He sat
down, gloomily stirred the sugar into
hts rnffee and listened to Livingstone
ttzz all over the place about the even
ing's entertainment which had uplift
ed him to exaltation. "You don't real
ize, Crittenden, what an opportunity
that was to see exclusive Roman so
ciety. the kind that foreigners like
us never meet, not the flashy, big
hotel, off-color crowd. Why, I was
introduced to name after name that
sounded like a page out of Roman
history."
Neale thought with a passing grim
irony that Livingstone's phrase was
accurately turned—'introduced to
names"—yea, verily. Well, names
were what Livingstone was after.
"Oh. you up already. Miss AII$n,”
said Livingstone, springing to seat
her with an agility for which Neale
hated him. He himself sat like a
lump. Incapable because of the sudden
rush of blood to his head, of any
thing hut a silent answej- to her
greeting.
Livingstone needed no helfi In keep
ing up the conversation. He flowed
on, delightedly passing in review ev
ery detail of the evening of which
he had net missed a single one, ap
parently, from the way Donna An
tonias maid did her hair to the dand
ruff on the coat collar of the old
Visconti. "Of course I know he's a
great musician arid all that, but really
if you will let your hair grow so long,
you ought t» have a pocket clothes
brush, and use It, oughtn’t you? Why
don't you do It for him, Miss Allen?
Everyone 'says he is absolutely gone
on you, lhat you could do anything
w^tli him!" He passed from this with
out transition to Miss Mills’ toilette
which had been, so It seemed, a veri
table triumph,
"Yes, yes, wasn’t it beautiful! Eu
genia's clothes are simply wonderful.”
Miss Allen broke In to say enthusi
astically, “She has the most never
falling taste.”
“A never falling pocketbook,” cor
rented Livingstone. "You don't get
far with mere taste dans ce bas
monde.”
Miss Allen finished her coffee, and,
setting down her cup, remarked, "You
two Americans seem to have a most
agreeable impression last evening.
Donna Antonia called me back to say
that Signor Ambrogi would he glad
to see more of you. She wished me
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as fitted by our system are a
joy to wear. (Lenses only)
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Sheltex Spectacle* or Eye
glaaaea for near work only
56.00
Same service in our South
Side store. 24th and N Sts.
MA rjcet 0784.
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13th Floor l»t Nat’I Bank
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New Cameo Records 39c
"Louiville Lou," sung by Martha Pryor.
"Dirty Hands—Dirty Face," Walter Leslie.
"Oh, Harold," Fox Trot.
“Long Lost Mamma."
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