Show I 1111 II II II I II I II II I Is I 3 Striking Are Flappers s I n Romance o of L as as Bad Badas Badii I Rise and H House of f M Mohun las i s Fall ii of t an an- an n e. e ouse 0 P as Painted i They're I American i By GEORGE GIBBS Aren Are i n Family Family- I Jazz Boys g. g J Jend I and end Its Author of at Youth Triumphant and other ather All Limbs I E I Comeback successes Copyright right 1922 D. D Appleton Co of Satan S I 11 II 1 In 0 r Until she looked again Into the hal hag haer- gard eyes which seemed to be staring unseeing beyond her sho sloe could not believe Then she swayed slightly catching nt at the mantel AH Mt he herd hert her world d t the very floor under her feet I seemed d to be falling away Tell me tell me-tell tell me me- me meshe she heard herself herselt her her- self Wheres Cherry muttered Mohun I t thickly Cherry Cherry Cher Cher He started up one ono hand groping Why ho he e grasped gasped I cant can't i h OAf Af fe stared iad In horror O Alicia Wh whal Wh what Is it it Jim yoUr Jim your face face I r With a a. last effort Mohun trove strove to tc I keep erect Then ho he toppled sideways sideway upon his chair rolling roiling heavily to ta I floor where after atter o. o I. I futile effort of ol r One ono arm he lay motionless The rush of ot calamity had been so ac I swift that thal even now Alicia stood staad helpless helpless help help- less with fright But Bul she ehe dropped at I last to her ber knees beside him touchIng touch touch- Ing his cold hands and calling his Ml I name looking with terror at hi his I twisted face face- while Bob his brain brair I clearing rushed to lo the the- telephone A JOY RIDE HIDE If Ie the girl of today taday s 1 properly r considered in relation 10 to her liar associations associations asso asso- by the Indulgent recorder of social history he will find her he more their victim than l their agent A life after all is merely the sum sun of ones one's collective impressions ms sunI and I when custom conspires to bring DrIng Into the few tew short years of ot adolescence adole- adole cence the excitations of ot a n. whole I lifetime the lifetime the wonder is not nat that thaI S the conduct of the girl of today i la is lanot not nat exemplary but that she ha has hasan I an any sense o of moral obligation whatever what whal- ever It Is doubtful whether Cherry CherryL Mohun or Indeed any other girl gir L of ot her set ever gave Q a i thought in iii any such terms to the provocations which surrounded h her l r. r Indeed it II itis itis S is extremely do doubtful whether she sM thought thought- at all about aboul th the moral loral as aspect aspect as- as of her Indulgences She he took life lite as she found faund it liko uk a- a a humming humming hum hum- ming bird in a garden sipping a as I she pleased from tram flower to flower radiant in the the sunshine sunshine of 01 her own awn delights One couldn't say that Cherry rry was wa L unmoral an any more than one could say that a humming bird was Unmoral un Un- un- un moral If It she was unmoral It was va ns as Dr Johnsons Johnson's dog was WS-J an InfIdel infidel in in'S In- In fidel in that he had never thought S upon pon the subject Cherry had never thought with a a. great deal of ot seriousness about about- anything anc and those brief mom moments of ot self communion com corn munion which David e cornI had I noted with approval seemed merely the of a a. rich vein of o I valuable metal that thal lay far beneath the surface and which to te tobe tobe be hA discovered Ii d even p to Cherry her her- self Alicia Mohun h had d ne er never made math madea I I Ia a practice of seeking the thu consolations consolations consola consola- of religion for tor she guesse guessed l I and rightly ht that to a person o of he her It W b erI n fJ definite n ambitions I could o have nothing to offer her But dressed in her best with nerry byI by her side she always went to church I once onca a year yea on Easter Sunday Sunday Sunday-a. a I. I fashionable Episcopal r ch church h where I there were were- candles and vestments vestment pleasant to the eye Cherry had bad ad I never been confirmed l nod Alicia L Mohun had never ceased to regret t her luk warmness in the the- matter for cr the temporary eff effect t would have been beneficial and anti t the 1 blessing blessIng bless bless- ing of a bishop was of ot course not nol notto notto S to be despised Now it Il t seemed Cherry was quite Indifferent to the attractions tr of the Episcopal c c church or of ll any other th Eff She was a uli fine fint young pagan In fact with the he mere I of ot a conscience tolerably tolerably toler toler- ably respectful of ot the opinions ol of others so long as they did not nol obtrude upon her own and Intensely Intense l ly loyal layal In the few bell beliefs ts in externals externals ex ex- which she ahe had ed from fram I the world It was this kind of devotion taher to tc I her friendships which made her the I center of the group in she I moved moved noved and she was quick t to tr resent a slight or an insult to anyone that she liked She liked Bruce Cowan admired him Intensely He had I hadI been en seen a peach to ta her in Paris and I so when after the war he cameto came canio cameto I to New to live ah h tried to tc tomake tomake make her friends swallow him horns hoof and tall tail It was natan not nat an easy easy task because the older olde crowd was waa trying to egin to be snobbish again What did it mater matter mat mat- ter er where Bruce Cowan came from fran 1 so long as he had event evening clothes I and behaved himself She had to tc I give gIve Genie and one or two of the I others a talking to ta and Genie had I at last agreed to ask him to to her hex dance i an I But Cherry still stin had a a. feeling that her missionary work was not quite successful and that there were those thase even In her own awn set who wha were not prepared to ac accept pt her friend without reservations And so so since Cherry could not nat meet him as often otten a as she fihe liked in peoples people's houses she met him elsewhere That Tha was wag her herway herway herway way Of showing of-showing he her resentment to those who ignored him hIm against against her mother even whose antagonism I was quite the most mast difficult to enI en en- en I I dure Just because he w was wasa wasI s sa I a salesman In the Magnificent Motors company and not a Baron Barton Bar lIar ton on a ChIchester or a Galbraith Muzzy's social ambition was get- get i Ing just a lI little eO en on Cherrys Cherry's nerves rs i Ti Tita Hadn't nt she e gone against ber ler will willo to ta o luncheon with John Demi and the he old Chichester Dodo s submitted to o a i. i lot of ot impertinent questions from rom the old lady about her tastes her talents her health nd a II number num- num her ber jer of t other things that were vere nobodY's nobody's no no- nobody's no- no 0 body's business but her own awn Hadn't she been stifled stodgy magnificence and stuffed with Vie Vic orlan torian maxims Hadn't she sho yielded to o Muzzy's blandishments an and made madea a martyr of at herself durIng th the loveliest loveliest love- love liest iest hours of a sunny winter afternoon after after- afternoon noon And all aU because Muzzy wanted wanted- her to ta marry marty John ter er Well she wouldn't marry him i She ran clown the steps step joyfully I and nd into her roadster which had hadeen been een brought around from the ga- ga rage age She felt like one ono who has nas just just been liberated from fram a prison takIng aking deep cep breaths of the tho keen air air that hat was full of frosty sunshine On the loose she grinned as as she thought hought of the effect of the phrase I on an n poor Muzzy Mussy as she emerged from that hat atmosphere of social cation atlon Muzzy had come down awn the steps Of f the house hause wit With great much t the tho o air lr ot of one who wha has paid a B. visit to toa toa a shrine tie said to ta possess s miraculous healing Dealing powers She had worn on her face tace an expression of o complete beatification and Cherry had told her that she was going on an tho the loose Tears of merriment came cameto cameo to o Cherrys Cherry's eyes in the brisk wind I The he trouble with witti Muzzy was that she he had no sense sens of humor tumor s anone a none one at all aU never had had a C S Poor dear Cherry drove westward through the le park picked up Bruce Cowan nt at t the office of of- the Magnificent Motors company and then made for tor or the spee speedway way and the country which lay beyond Distance meant to Cherry except a as ground which was waa to be covered In a a. given time me and the exactions tf ct the traffic traffic fic Ic policemen having having- been grudgIngly grudgingly met in a short while they were vere bowling along in the general genera 0 of A Albany bany with no par 0 I I object ct in view except to r as many fine tine straight stretches of road as possible and to pass over aver them with the greatest speed cans consistent Is tent with t the tle e bare preserving of life lire and limb liked Among 10 other ather reasons cherry Cherr Bruce Cowan because he knew more about the diseases of or motors than anyone that she had hart ever met mel She liked to talk about aboul motors and their troubles and the relative merits of or different mak makes s of ot f cars These l were the chief topics of discussion dis dis- among the young people peaple that sho she knew unless they were talking about bout one another snottier and Bruce Pruce Cowan more than others spoke with the voice of ot authority H Her e r roadster was a a. Magniri l cent which her companion had sold her and it had lived jp p beautifully beau beau- to ta its expensive reputation She was suro sure tha that t she had made no mistake in it Il or in him for in a way Bruce was QuIto quite as mag mag- as tho the car ha ho sold big Sold ble masterful with an in air all of ot general proficiency which left very little to be desired It was true t that al he was not quite so splendid in mufti as es he had been In In uniform but but then his eyes were lovely and his chin was quite the finest that thal she had seen seen seen-a a strong blue chin shaped like the one on the masque muque of which she had once drawn from at al boarding school And then well then well strength had always appealed to her They had spun off oft the tho last five miles of a lonely road raad in something something some some- I thing less than four tour and Cherry shut off oft the the- power and sank i I back into the low law seat with woth a sigh SIgh of gratification That was great great great a lad lady isn't she ehe he mut mut- tt red triumphantly Handsome every Inch Not Nat even warm If It you could buy good gasoline Sh shed she'd d Jump J the river river Fact Fact I love it Glad I 1 didn't get th the K IC K she aha said Oh say Cherry yo you couldn't have bought baught the It Ii K Ko with me the Magnificent even eves if It it wasn't all I claimed for far it I like that Do you think Id I'd have bought It it Just because ol ot of you Sure thing said Cowan you like me enough to have done dono that thai for me me dont don't you Now Now I 1 You needn't get so pleased with yourself all of a sudden sudden sud sud- den Bruce Cowan Love Iove me love me-love love my dog You love Jove tho the car youve you've got to love me too tao That doesn't follow she said with a laug It ought to It will The road I was quite deserted He bent over her and laid his hand over hers hors herson horson on the wheel el Say Cherry Tell me you'll marry me wont won't you yau 1 Look g out i Cherrys Cherry's r h too ton pressed the accelerator l r and the car lurched violently forward He lie bore hImself himself himself him hIm- self In patience until she reduced ber speed and then with a a. laugh You rou little devill devil What did you do that for he s said eald ld Embarrassment she said ad RAd coolly H R m. m. m Im I'm not going to let you off so easily Arent you yau What are you going going- to do This And he turned of off the witch switch holding her hands bands Now Nawl answer me mel 1 Caveman stuff stuff stutt- sh sho muttered Yes if It you like And he kissed her herLet Let go my han hands s I the she gasped stifled The car had come to a a. stop slowly in the ditch No he said and then more quietly Damn it Ch M Youve You've sot got t to listen I love you You ought to know it by now ROW Im I'm keen for you ou Honest I am And you wouldn't want to come coma out with me ne If it you yau didn't like me a lot Jot Tell me le you'll marry me I dont don't like Uke to be pawed Bruce Druce she said struggling Please Answer me Let me go Ehe Elba struggled and he releases released her content to awalt his time For a a. moment she preened elf takIng tak tak- ing in off one one gauntlet and gauntlet and rubbing her wrist The gauntlet c she neglIgently negligently gently dropped over the side of the car to ta the ground Id never marry a caveman she flashed lashed at him I didn't mean to be rough he said suddenly suddenly- But you were Youve You've bruised my any m wrist Im I sorry He tried to catch u it to nb nis 1119 Ups lips but out she jerked w a-w away y I dont don't like lIlee to be kissed hissed When I deride decide to toe Ibe Ill I'll tell you yau eo so Cherryl Cherry Dont Don't be cruel She made a motion motton of searching for far her gauntlet and then thea peering over Oyer the side of ot the car car gave a slight elight sound of surprise My Iy glove Bruce she said laid calm calm- ly Ive dropped it Completely disarmed bv the tone of her voice and wishIng to ta placate her he got gOl out awkwardly Cherry made marie some same swift motions He was just passing around the rear roar of at the car when whon its polished surface slipped deftly out aut from under tInder his grasping fingers while the roar of tho the exhaust left him gasping gasping- in a blue cloud of vapor Cherry and the car were thirty yards away before be he- he fore he realized the po possibilities of the situation Then sho came to a aStop astop astop stop and grinned at him with dIabolIcal dia dIa- diabolical sweetness Caveman she taunted Ha lIe Ie bent over and picked up the glove deliberating Caveman she repeated more sweetly Oh say aay Cherry ha lie began walking toward her still keeping keeping- I his dignity But Dut Cherry moved I slowly on at the which I she considered a proper one I Come on an Bruce she sho cried I He walked faster Cherry drove I more rapidly I He stopped eo so did Cherry It was I 44 an enjoyable game for far her a most mast I exasperating one for him I Its a a. long walk to I but aut you yau can make it by 10 o'clock if It I you hurry Ill I'll Pace you ou Bruce I You will will wUl- he cried and made mad a a. I fUrious dash toward her covering the I thirty yards in four seconds flat But Cherry had moved farther up the road i and the sound of her laughter was I disconcerting You said this car picked up very I fast ast It does Bruce Bruce adorably But Butt I It t doesn't pick you up I Oh Oh quit kidding Cherry wont won't I you yau I Im not kidding You can see sea for I yourself yourself- And she sent another I cloud of dust In his direction I He looked as crestfallen as she I c hoped toped him to be I Cherry he called let me get In I Wont Won't you yau I No I wont Walk I or run if it you yau I like Ike I vIm Im sorry I wont won't do it aga again I n. n I I 1 know you wont won't Meanwhile MeanwhIle- and she waved a hand hand- hand Ive rYe got a dinner engagement I Putting on an speed she left him standing stand stand- I ing sheepish in the middle of ot the ro road She bad had no intentiOn n of or deserting I him but It amused her to ta drive awa away I and leave him to his six feet teet one 0 of I Injured dignity Besides it would wa I give him time to cool off ott Bruce I Cowan was wall one of the few men whoso whose very presence e provided her with t a 1 |