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QGERTRUDE Ari-lemon

SYNOPSIS

At a first night performance in

New York a beautiful young wo- man attracts attention by rising and ielsurciy surveying the audi- ence through her glasses. Clav- lring, ll newspaper columnist, and .lis cousin, Ulllwidtiie. are particu- urly illicrl-iatvtl. liiilwidliie dl-ciar ug sht- is the Image of Mary OK‘ lell. u llfillie of thiry years ago. who hilp illnrrled a Count Zattiany. Jen-is convinced that this is Mary's laughter, but all efforts to estab lsh hcr idt-iitily prove futile.

(‘lavei-iilg finally manages to

tic-ct tier. aild she tells him she is he (‘tiunte-ss Josef Zattlnlly, a vousiii of Mary t)g\len's and bad liiarricd a relative oi Mary's bus- band. (‘law-ring does not believe ilcr story and tells her so.

As tilllc goes on Clavt-riilg realiz- .-s that he is in lovl- with llh. mys- terious Madaille Zattitlny, whose first ilallle. he learns, is Mary. lie declares his passion and draws frolii hcr the admission of a recip rociil warmth of feeling.

Mrs. Oglethorpe, having offered her box, (‘lavering invites Mary to attend the opera with him one ev- ening. ller appearance llh re in the Oglethorpe box, regally gowned and the syuosure of all eyes, is‘ some- what in the nature of a challenge to that forbidding Society which had the realizes the time has coine to iuestioned her credentials, and near up the mystery. She promises Clavering she will reveal her secret to him the following Saturday night.

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it seemed to (‘lave-ring that he ‘u-ld rlln the glllnut o‘ the emotions while listening to tt at brief biog- raphy; so stcrilely tald, ‘but there hnd illriil been times whcn he had ‘cll as if suspended in a void oven lvhile ltisitetl b_v flashes of acute bnsciouencss that he was being ‘tilled llpolt to kilow himself for ‘he first time in_hii-i life. And in =nch fashion as ilo ‘lllltl had QVPX‘ ‘wt-n culled upon to know himself ieftirc,

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littl realized with a sensation o! ianlc even while she talked that it ,lvti-< doubtful if any one hnd ever lndcrstooti himself since the dawn lif time. Man had ccrtnin stand- ’ trds, fixed beliefs, ideals. above all. iatbits-hovy’ often they scattered t0 l he Winds llllilPl‘ some unheralded or terattigenic stress. He had seen t more than once, and not only in var. livery man hnd at least two >(‘l'S0llllllll0H that he was aware oi, '-nd he dilnly guessed at others. some were frtlnk enough t0 adlllii Flint they llilil not an idcit lvhzll Illlflfl‘ would do in zl totally lllli2lllill~ lill‘ situation. (‘law-ring had sonic- | inim- fJltll)lPll'll7.P'l llillll dlltl his per- pstillillitit-s with the old gziitlo of the ivory llgg. A twist and the outer egg revl-nlcll an inner. Another .lntl ont- ~bchcld it third. Anti so on to the dilllcli illllliltllllllllilflllllt’ ~‘]'ll](‘l‘t‘. which might stand for the lllvaiys inscrutable soul. Like all intelligent nlen, he llllll a fair ltnowlvtige of those two tulle!‘ 1-1)" era ol‘ ])l‘l'l~'l0llflllly, llllil ilc had Hflfllvlllllékfl had it flushing fllllllpfll‘ of others, too elusive to sclzc and put unllcr tho llllcrosctlpil: cyo of Llltl lllilttl.

What. did llt! know of himself? llo linked the question again us lir- sat in his own deep chair in the cilrly morning hours. The heat in the hotel hnd been turned off tlnll ile ltall lit the gas logs in the grate ~eymbol of the zirtificiztlities of civilization that. had played their insidious role in man's outer and more familiar personality. Perhaps they struck (leaps-v. Habit more zlftl-n tluln not dominated origin-lat irililulsc. ills own room, where he was flPllfly zllwtlys alone, with its warm red curtains and rug. the low book- cases built under his direction and

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filled [itli his favorite books. the rcicctory tnble and other pieces of dark, old English oak that he hall brought from home. and SGVETJl luiilily portraits on the wall, re stored his equilibrium and his brain With‘ illllltlrlllilll)’ clear. He wonder- .ell ll‘ he ever would sleep again. Better think it over now.

_\lill‘_\' Zilttiuily its she talked had llcver clningcd her expression. She llllghl have llPPll some ancient or- ilclc reciting her credo, and she svvlllbll to ilave ilorcotizetl that magnetic current that had always vibrated betvvt-eil them. Neverthe- lest-i, he hall been fully all-are that she felt like nothing less than iln orlll-le or the nlilrble llllvit shc looked. iind that his soul was racked llllll possibly fainting. bitt master- cd by hcr formidable will.

l-‘ornlidable. Did that word best express ‘her? ‘vllfl she one of the rill])1~'l‘\)\'()lll(!ll who could iind no mine on earth and mu~=t look for her god on tlnother star‘? He cer- tatinly wits no superman hims-elftn breathe» on hcr plane iind mate thin. incarnate will. Had she any human weakness? Even that subterranean sex-lite ill hcr past htld not been llllt" to weakness. She was fur too arrogant for that. Life hnd burn her footstool. She had kicked it about contemptuonsly. Even her reailjtlalimcnts hnd been the dic- tates of her imperious will. And ill-r pride! She was a female Luz-l- ler lll pride.

No (ioullt the mcn silo iind (lis- mimeti hnd bt-cn secretly relicvetl‘. stung for the only time in their lives perhaps, with 3 sense of in- frioritfv. lt mllst htlve been like re- ceiving the casual favors of ii quot-n on hcr throne. Well, she hnd got it ill the neck once: there was some satisfaction in that. He wish- ed he knew the mantrname. ‘He'd

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discovery as applied to men. ,doubt Dlnwiddie and Osborne would

soon he appearing as guy younll‘ sparks on her doorstep. It might be

the giedtesi discovery of all time, ccrtzlinitly would work both

While its economic value

_-',lll be lllillsllllltlllli-lhtlnil even, as l~hc htld suggested. its spiritutll, it would behilrti on the nlerely young. The mutual liatrcds of capital and labor lvotidl sink into insigni-iicnnce bl-foro the antagonism between alu- illentic youth and tlge inverted. On the utllw lléllltlvll might mean the liiiiiennitim. The threat 0f over-pop ulzititin (for nlaiile architectonic powers were restored if not wom- illlhi] to sny nothing of his prolong- cd sojourn wvould ilt lilst rouaethe

y of cllgcliics, birth control, ster- ilization of the unfit. iind the ex- pulsion of undesirable races. lt might even sllllllllaf! youth to a higher level than stlltislletl it at pre- sent. Humzln nature lillight attain

, perfection.

Holvtver, he was in no nlood fol ibstlalct speculation. His own prob- lem will; absorbing enough.

lie might its well itemize the questions he hild to face and exam- ine [llPlll one b_v one, and dis-pits- slonately. He would never feel more emotionless than now: and that mental state was very rare that cnnbletl n man to think cietlrlyantl see further than tt yurd zllieild of him.

"Her rl-til ago? Could be cvcr for- got it? Should he not always. sec the old face under the new mask tlS the X-ltays revealed man's hide- nul-l interior under its merciful (anv- rrillg of flesh? But he knew that one of’ the most benoilcieiit gills bl» stowed upon mankind is the talent for forgetting. Particularly when one object has, been displaced by

- another. Reitteration dlllla the merm-

ory. He might say to himself every llonrin the day that site was sixty not thirty iind the phrase would soon become as meaningless as rib- Afflll-llllllilidd replies to remark..- Zll)0lll the weather.

And he doubtcd if any man could look tit Mary Ztittiany for three cronsoctitivc minutes and recall that shc hnd ever been old, or inlngitit! that she evt-r could be old again“ liolvllvcr prone man may be to lirctlln, he is, llnltlss one of tho vis- ionaries, dominatcti by tho prcscili. What he Wiiflls ho wants now and he wants what he secs, not what

may be lurking in the futurc. Tllllt is thc secret of the curly and oft-zit imprudent marriage -tllo urge of

“l-le wondered if he would ever sleep aga-ln." -

hunt. hint up ilnd thunk him in be- lltllt‘ of his sex. ‘

For tin hour he cxcorlzttcd hcr, hiltcd hcr, fcitretl her, dissociating h1g1‘ m. m ill.» vtlst army oi womiln- hood, but coilgruttllllting hinlsclf upon llttviilg known hcr. She wtls it ulliutlc if crucifying study.

With restored youth lsuperinlptiei- Btl upon tllili exhaustive knowledge of lifc ~cvery' philse oi itihlitcount- ed ill her rtllculntionli~the rejuven- ation of all her great natural en- dowments. she'd probably go back and rule Europe! What use could she possibly have for any man‘!

l-le made himself a cup of coffee ovcr his electric stove. turned off [lllLmfllOtlOlflllS gas, which affected his head, stood otit on his balcony for it moment, then lit his pipe and felt iil it more mellow tmood.

After llll she had suffered as only a woman so liberally endowed could suffer, und over it inng period of years. She hnd known despair and humiliation and bewilderment, le'h- nrgic hopelessness. and ‘fllitllly '\ complete sacrifice of self. His imag- ination. in spite of his rebellious lsoul. hnd fllfllldllNl the background for that bald recital.

Alid she intist have an indomitable soul. some inner superfine spiritual essence, with which arrogance and even pride had lcsis to do than she imagined. (itlierwilse, after tholife the lliltl led, she would either have become an imperious, llncomfort- libie old woman or one of those faltering nonentitles crowded into the backwaters oi lifll by a. genera lion which inspires them with no- thing hllt tlmidity and disapproval ‘Towering individnnlltlm often go down to defeat in old age.

And nothing could alter the fart that she was the most beautiful nnd the most wholly desirable woman he hnd over known. the one woman who hall fol-asset] every aspiration of his mind. his soul, and his body. He knew he Illllflt ask himself the inevitable question and race it with- aut blinking. Wllfi he appalled by her ronl vigc; could he ever got away from the lnllublouii fact that whatever miracle science may lnlvc effected, hcr litcrltl iige was verg- ing on sixty’! ‘if she were not an old woman she had been one. That beautiful holly hurl withered, undo- sired of all men. thait perfect fill-e h zld been the buttered mirror of .ln ligcll ego, lie did not ask liimscli lf ihr- metamorphosis would Inst, if the nhcll might lllli wither again to- morrow. Hl’ wns ilbreilst of the im- portanl scientific (liscoverles of lils day nnd was not at all astonished that the problem of senescence should be solved. lt was no more remarkable than wirelesipthc Roilt- gen Rlly, tllo properties of radium, or any; one of the beneflclent con- tributions of science to the well- being of mankind that were now too familiar for discussion. He had

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heard a good deal of this particular

tho THU‘. And if :1 nilln is not dc-

'li‘fl‘t‘il by more liniiilcittl consldcrrl-

lions, still less is hn troublt-tl by vidolll." of what. llis inumorttta will look like thirty yl-lirts ilent-e or what she might have looked like hnd disease prematurely witllorctl ltcr. He sees what he aces and lfht- lis siltisiit-tl at nil he is as coniplctlt-

_ ly lvultisllt-ll us il man may be.

lie flitllli‘ no doubt that. Mary Zul- liilily would have, if site chose, as rnilily suitors among mcn of his owlt age ilmong her former contem- poritrics. 'l‘hcy ‘Wflilltl discuss the pllcnolncnoii furiously, joke about it. try to imtiginc hcr zit.- shc hild been, lll|('k \\'lil<‘l', return out of t-uri- osity’, llcsitntc, lil)i"l.‘lllllli."""llllll thcil forget it.

No one would forget. than himself.

it sooner He had no doubt

house tomorrow afternoon he would

remember as long its she kept iiirn

‘waiting nntl'no longer. So that was tilt.

Did he want children? They chiirlnt-tl lllnl——cometimes—litlt he hnd ill-vet‘ been c ‘HSHOUS oftlnv de- sire for a brood of his own. He kilew that. many men felt an oven prnfotlildcr necd of offspring than women. Man's ego is more strident. the desire to perpetuate itself more insistent, his foresight i5 more m‘. tended. Moreover. however subcon- oviullstv. his sense of dllty to the |'.'l(‘t‘ is stronger. But llté doubted if any man would weigh l-hfivfebetition of his ego against his egos demand to mate with a wo- milll like Mary Z-ztttiilny. He cer. tillnly would not. Thill. was flntll.

What was it she demanded in lovc. tlult she had nought so ardent- Iy and ever missed’! Could he give it lto her? Was she merely glamorcd

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law-makers to the imperious neces.

whatever that when he went to her

,all. their collversations, if vital, had-

been few in number. . . Perhaps she had ‘found, with her. mind's trained antennae. some one

No of those hidden layers ofllersonal-

‘ity which she alone could reveal to hints-elf. What was it_'.' She wanted fur lllore than love-making and men-

ltal correspondence. What was itti’.

‘Ho wished he knew. ‘Tenderness?

‘tire. Sentiment? He was no senti- mrllttllist, but he believed that hr lposscsflcll the ‘liner quality. Fideli- ty? ‘hilt was not worth considera- tion, Appreciation of the deepest land best in her. sympathetic under-

‘letandiug of all her mistakes and of ‘all that she had suffered? She knew the answer as well as he did.

‘The ability to meet her in many liinods. ilever to weary her with

monotony’! He. was a man olmany

moods himself. What had saved

h_im from early matrimony was a

icertllin monotony in WOIIIPII, the

‘I t ""1l'“h'l of them.

i bu. .l.-i'9 lilnst be something bl.‘- yond some lutbile, cpirituallklelnnnll. devl-lopctl lhiotigliotit ilearly twice as nulny years as he iind dwelt on earth; born not only of on aspiring souliltlll terrible disenclnintnients. lltit of it \\'lh'(l0|]] lllilt. only yours of

deep nut‘: living experience. no mere intelligence. however brilliant. could hopc to zls-senlblc. He was thirty four. There was no possible quea-

tion that at fifty-eight, if he livl-d saneiy. and his intellectual faculties |had progressed tinlmpaired, he would look bilck upon thirty-foul‘

its the llonnge of lllc-—\vhen the fut- ure lvlls a misty’ abyss of wisdom

WlIOSt‘ brink he had bilrel_v troll. She iiolsclf was nli abyss of wis- dom. llow in God's name could ltc

lover cross it‘? Hcr hotly might be

‘young tlgilin, hut never her mind. Ncver hcr mind! And then he hnd

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“He examined the full-leoflih 95°" tore of her painted shortly before her marriage."

(l illlsh of insight. Pl-rllap-i lle illflli" could rejuvenate that mind.

(‘gflglljlly ht‘. could make lit-r for- got. Men and wolncn would lit- ilgcd tit thirty, but for this llcncfi- UUlll gift of fol-getting. lltj could make the present \'l\'lli enough.

He explored every nook of ihosc personalities of his, determined to discover if he felt any sense of iti- feriorlty to this woman who knew so much more. had lived and thought and felt so iliticli more. than hiinself~ivliom he still vision- oll on a plane above and apart. No woman was ever more erudite in llhp/ most brilliant anti informing llcclenslons of life, ivhatevcr the llltiflllcllflllllllfilllfil, iind for thirty pleura she had known ln varying de- grt-ss of intimacy men in Eltrope. She had been at no pnius to coit- lt-t-tll hcr opinion of their intellec- iuitl superiority over American nil-n. . . /

lie concluded tiispassioiintely that h never could feel inferior to any woman. Women might nr- rest the attention of the llvorld with tlicir talents, change laws and

lie could give her lhol in full nieasq

“m9 "lllle- (‘allglll "P 81min in the wring a better dcill out of life than delusions of youth, with hcr rcvivl- mun hnd accorded them in the fled gm") and "euwuliened sensefi- past, but whatever their gifts and mm “Us “m” “my beclmse the "1"" whatever their achievements they W“ or a type novel l" h" cugllw" always hnd boon nrld tilwltys wnnld “we "l “m” Emile“ l" "1""! "W lit‘, till-llllgil their pltysicfll rnllllilill- wzferlllglgiggqrluéaln “v” w“ ' ' tics, their lack of ratioclnadon, of i)", power Teilzdlagmfil?’ 2191?”: (zonstructive nhillty on the grand IMHMkpIHY m love as mo II-mst “f; scale. the interiors of‘ men. Tho “h, or the“, 515mm Hm‘ hard] a rilro exceptions but proved the woman of Mary Zatiluny-fl éx_haflfl,v_ rule, and no doubt they hnd been lvc experience! She certainly one mmfld and ‘lnlshed l“

should know hcr own rminrl. Her ‘ Ill sheer mllsculino arrogance ho

instincts by this time mllet be com-l ll0llnilf‘(l of technical know-ledge. w“ ‘"0"’ "m" h“ "lillcht Mm?‘ ovcr. lht-ro were other ways of

not the groping inherited flushes

playing about the shallow soil of keellln“ a Womml "lblecl- ynllili ,_ . . lrliai-llllltli-il-lg had m“. Did he love her? Comprehen- trod Dll ililll- liter? lllllai l)? some “lwlv and utterly? vicar thtnkine‘ (lrgppor mooning than Imgeloninr fllid with the lastvof his doubts? BVEI] lntelectllfll homology After - - - ‘- And Qhen a mun de- __ aches himself f tnfthc glloils init- torlal surfnoo of lgb and ‘W ngsvto the realm of tho irltflitintttlon wlieru "he glimpses inlmdrtality. what mat- ter the penalty? Any penalty? Few ‘ ‘had the thrice blessed opportunity. , if he were one of the chosen. the 4 vory tlenii-gotls, Jcerlng llt mortal...

: would hate him. And then abruptly he fell asleep. (To be Continued) -?<o-}—--__ PLOD ON

Show me the inml you lhonor-l knowl by tllnlt 5_,fnlptbm betwi- ,than by the other, what kind of a man you are youmelll’. For you show one Wlhllli. your ideal]. of mon- Q] hood. is, what. ltilnd oi s rnian you long in‘ o -

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vO-O-OO-O-O-O-OO-O A LETTER

Chapter 52

The mother found Amy as indif- ferent as Luther.

"Of course site's unhappy." that young lady remarked, . regardins the tip of a very pinlc and polished nail. “She's in love. Everyone that falls in love is unhappy!‘- '

Having made this sweepinfob- servation, she attacked the next nail with a buffer, until IFCBIYK} forth us pink and perfect as the other.

“That's why l'm not going to fiill in love," she went on. cheerfully mixing tip philosophy and maili- curing. “l'm going to have a hard enough time without getting my emotions into it. Love is n lilx- ury, and l can't afford it. Claire llild l agree on that." -