| Show III UI III I lII III II 1111 II II III II Striking Are Flappers Flapper E c Romance of as Bad Badas 21 Rise Riso and e H f M o 0 un as They're E EIS Painted Fall of IS a an ri a American By GEORGE GIBBS Are m e 3 Family Family- Jazz-Boys Jazz g and Its Author Author of Youth Triumphant and other All Limbs 3 I i Comeback successes Copyright 1922 D. D AP Appleton on le Co of Satan s I III II III II m m n But It was ridiculous hoW hoty easily she sho had vanquished him She grinned complacently at the occupants or ot a passing flivver drove a few miles further and then turned the car and waited thinking Why was It that peril always fascinated fas fas- her her The peril perU of Dicky VII Wll- Danger Dang Excitement Al Always Al- Al Always ways was to go one ono step further without coming a cropper Bruce Cowan had sworn a dozen time that he loved her ber but ho he had never kissed her before His Ills kiss had only left Idt her cold cunning cunning cun cun- ning and resentful She wanted him to be In love with her of ot course more even than she ahe ho had wanted Dicky or Harold or Ted Ted because because he was for for- bidden It was rather gorgeous to be beloved beloved beloved loved by a cave man The sense of her power fascinated her but sh she didn't In the least wish to be In love with him She liked the constant danger of his lils mauling her but she would have died rather than let him do It To tame him him to to ke keep p him tamed that tamed that was waa a a. game worth playIng playing play play- Ing which made the small talk of the dinner table seem a most moat trivial amusement A feather of ot snow came out of or the dusk and moistened her cheek recallIng recalling recall recall- ing InC her to a sense of time and obliga obliga- tion Twenty minutes had pass passed since she had left him So she drove back rapidly spearing the dusk with her searchlight which at last picked out Bruce Cowan sitting on rail smoking a She stopped Well Veil she asked calmly are you jou ou chastened lie Ile climbed down deliberately No he muttered Just chilly Oh then theft perhaps Id I'd better drive off orr again Just as IlS you please he said with witha a shrug She stared at him In silence for a moment her herr fingers on the clutch her toe poised above the accelerator Frankly though she knew that he had won she rather admired his attitude which was true to form form form- Oh get In she said carelessly we cant can't be stopping here all night Thanks he be said throwing his a away way and climbing In But Just keep to your own side of the car will you she Insisted Oh all right he laughed I wasn't going to leave you any- any W way But ButI But you t 3 rI might have av And d then I Ican 1 can get out now and walk If you youw w want me to No IJo es she said ald slowly But please dO dont don't be s silly any more Silly lI When I love you you you- I wish you'd talk about the weather please Its It's snowing He shrugged and laughed Yes I noticed it he said and then settled slowly down making no reply Where are w we now really now really she asked Somewhere In Putnam county I Iguess guess he said vaguely And Ive I've a dinner at eight eightY I Its half halt past six now You could never make It i I. 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II m. m Still angry She shrugged Are you 1 No Yes Yee Which 1 a about No Its It's tJI not Ct J wo worth being angry gry Oh Im I'm glad to hear you say that It isn't really But you dont don't have to go back If It youre you're not angry you youcan youcan ou ca' ca can prove rove It How By taking taking dinner with me me somewhere somewhere some some- w where out here and I going back later Oh I couldn't u B she gasped li rather attracted by the thought nevertheless less There you rou go he muttered Always Always Always Al ways trying to get away from me Im not But a dinner With a lot of ot Dodos Who Vho cares Dont Don't you OU think you jou ou owe me something some some- thing after the way youve you've treated m me leI I thought you cared for me a aI little I I do But But- But How do you show It By trying to make me Ine ridiculous Im I'm not the h kind like d your to stand t little MIo for Willies that fets s sort of ft the of thing ballroom ballroom ball ball- I room room your blue-blooded blue little toddlers from upper Fifth avenue You said you OU liked me because I 1 was different from the rest because I was a full- full grown man Why you wont won't even let me metell tell you I love you jou OU any more I dont don't mind your telling me lt Bruce But I dont don't want you to act tt Well ell Im I'm not a stone atone Image But Ill I'll promise to behave If you'll do what I 1 ask you OU to He Ho straightened In his seat Lets see how hov much you care Come now Well We'll drive down to Peekskill and have dinner Then a 1 lance dance ance at the Red Horse afterward It Its It's s a road house near Tarrytown Tartown Jazz You'll like It Its It's different different different- Oh Bruce I 1 to But the Idea caught In her mind and remained there meshed In In the chaos of half halt educated Impulses It was the the unusual which always alwa's at attracted attracted at- at her and too too there there was Bruce humbled now more threatening threaten threaten- ing even in m his humility You to ask me Bruce Why not Ive I've got some come rights haven't I No none she said frowning ng And then with a quick gasp But Ill I'll go wi with th you You will he cried delighted Oh On Oh 8 say youre you're a good little sport after all They had come to a a. crossroad Cherry Cherr Cher Cher- r ry always alwa's liked crossroads They always al- al I w ways Which seemed hm way i significant Bruce 1 he she asked Right night Well We'll make the river somewhere By da day the Red Horse Tavern nestlIng nes nes- modestly in its clean hills above the river bore the chaste exterior of ofa ofa a a. colonial dwelling But Its appearance appear appeal ance from the front was deceptive for forat forat forat at the rear of ot the house a large building build build- ing Ing- had been added to conform to the Increasing Increasing- patronage e of ot Its Us guests I which were many by day dy many more by night For the dance hall tad ad gained a popularity among persons of ot ofa I a certain class both In city and count country coun coun- t try and for more than a II year the Inn had enjoyed a reputation which other places of ot amusement more elaborate and expensive I might have ve e envied 1 tre Here there was Immunity u of ot a sort i from the restrictions of the the VO I act though whether by collusion or neglect no no- noone one seemed to oare care The proprietor smug with prosperity prosper prosper- ity and flatulent with self assertion had every air of commanding a situ situ- atlon which though Injurious to others others others oth oth oth- ers of ot his hili trade had no terrors for tor himself But his patrons were not of those who eared greatly for tor the consequences consequences consequences con con- sequences of their temerity the temerity the ho hoydens hoydens hoy hoy- dens lens of the towns along the railroad with their swains swains get rICh get get small fry with their or wives wives or other men's mens mens men's from th the city pale dark Jews escorting highly tinted blondes professional professional pro pro- dancers from the Rialto and staid burghers with a twinkle in n the eye ee ye from Harlem or the Bronx It was long after atter 11 o'clock when Bruce Bruca Cowan and Cherry drove Into tho the parking place beside the Inn havIng having having hav hav- ing been held up by bf a blowout They had dined quite comfortably at a alace place lace he knew In Peekskill for tor Bruce Brucey by y some magic had produced cocktails In teacups one of ot which Cherry had demurely sipped They were very bad cocktails but they served e to diminish l the sullenness of her companion pt n who 1 still resented th the Indignity Cherry had put upon around him nd But her she finger had deftly brought at last last t f and him scarcely knowing how she had doneIt done It It Bruce Cowan found himself ready to believe that he was no less adorable adorable ador ador- able ablo than ever The Tho sound of ot the Jazz at the RedHorse RedHorse Red Horse grot got into Cherrys Cherry's foot before she had reached the tho porch for this as she realized at once was the real thing thing thing-no no modern hotel orchestra with its sophisticated rag bu the barbaric barbaric barbaric bar bar- baric Jazz Itself straight from the then Jungle n The piano and violin 11 played a by quick k apish hands were more 0 the vehicle of cadence than time and the thereal thereal thereal real meaning of the music was In the banjos and the drums lineal descendants descendants descendants of gourds g and an tom NOT OUR SORT She was a little dismayed at the appearance of the crowd but Intensely Intense Intense- ly curious about it all like a fox terrier terrier ter ter- rier scenting scenting- mischief Bruce CowAns CowAn's fingers were at her elbow T not our sort rt Bruce Do DoHm you O think hr I Id I'd better r H m. H m. m Youre You're not afraid are you he h laughed If It there was any anyone one phrase more provocative to Cherry to do and dare It was the on one her companion used Afraid She tilted her hez chin at him scorn scornfully tUlly Come on then she muttered The They danced Cowans Cowan's strong arm reassured her and the witch doctor at atthe atthe atthe the drums had already put a a. spell upon her feet Afraid A turn around the floor and she che had caught the infection In Infection Infection In- In of the place She saw rough caricatures of ot people she knew like Uke the dances themselves and the fa familiar familiar fa- fa tunes played so unfamiliarly She couldn't help thinking that this das as what her tier friends in New York fork wanted to do yet et did not dare And yet except for the music the people were like the people who danced In cabarets In New York She ev even n thought she saw faces that were familiar to her Bruce Broce Cowan seemed to be enjoying himself Immen Immensely b and in spite of a feeling of Intense loyalty to her prevIous previous pre pre- bus conceptions of him she couldn't help feeling that he was more at home homer homet In t this atmosphere 0 than at the h supper supper sup sup- 1 per r table at Genie 8 Armitage's dance As she suddenly felt the oppression I of the atmosphere she stopped dancIng dancing I ing and sat for a moment on a chair near the door which had been left I open to let in some of the clean night air Bruce Cowan Wanted to order something to drink but she sho refused It would hAve nave been different from taking cocktails before or orwine wine at dinner at the house of ot a friend To drink here would have seemed to make malte her r definitely n y a II part art of t these people rm ya surer f to m make her a s sharer r In rather e wan tran- wanton ton rites Indeed she Bhe was not quite certain I that she e ought not to be going going- homo honTo at once It was as while debating the matter that she heard her companions companion's name spokes spoken A girl was standing in n f. f Bout ont of ot them A tall girl with hair a too yellow her lips and cheeks tinted with an which came of practise c with t grease greate paint She Shu bobbed b her big hat af partly Hello Heno Bruce Druce she said Bald I It was the tho first time that Cherry had ever seen Bruce r c Cowan n at a dis dis- dis s i 1 advantage a e He lie got up frowning r How are you he mutter mutt muttered And then awkwardly rose and talked biked In a lowered tone completely ev eh excludIng excluding ing Cherry Cherry looked n In n another nother direction m most st uncomfortable t. but she could not help hearing the arting shot of the tho tinted lady over her shoal der meant for Cherrys Cherry's carSay ear car Say Say aint aint that a a. scream Bruce B you'd better take her back bacle to the ina Ritz As Bruce Cowan turned Cherry rose Get my wraps please she sno said Her companion met her glance for a a. moment and then without ut uta a word ord In reply turned and d. Neither of them spoke until they were In the machine Bruce because he didn't know what to say Cherry because If It she Bhe spoke she knew that she would say something she che could coald regret I didn't introduce you OU Cherry She IS Isn't your our u sort Why h explain said Bald Cherr Cherry Nice Ice girl friend of ot a fellow at the theoffice office Really T I Just thought Id I'd tell you OU Thanks Cherry drove with great care over the thin coating seating o of oZ sleet and snow lie spoke again of other things but she only answered In You arent aren't angry are you ou he 8 asked again again ln Why h Oh I Just thought that you might have thought she ehe he was my friend Who coolly The blonde blonde Well Isn't she she she- The word friend as Bruce Cowan understood It meant nothing to CherryWell Cherry Well Weller VeIP er yes In n a wa way But she's not your our B sort rt you know So you said Dont be sore sore Cherry I hardly know knew the girl Cherry merely laughed She meant It to mean unutterable Indifference and succeeded Cherrys Cherry's laugh could be very contemptuous at ate att times e So at last h he topped stopped speaking Il t g and sat eat t In silence which as the moments moments mo mo- ments went on grew set and sullen Cherry occupied with the wheel seemed to have forgotten his existence exist exist- ence They were for the moment as asfar asfar far apart as the poles poles' But for all l Paa l t her placid exterior t the sp spark of conscience conscience con con- o science was waa flaming burning her breast It was that woman She shouldn't have gone with Bruce Cowan Cow Cow- an He shouldn't have taken her to toa toa a a. place like that He should have known better She seemed to have glimpses of shadowy recesses In his spirit And Bruce had kissed her He would have to pay for that It was almost 2 o'clock when she s-he dr drove e Into o Seventy eighth v 0 street t nw With some Rome amazement she noticed the lights in the upstairs windows of the Mohun house and the group O of strange automobiles eb before et the eg door Hurriedly Hurried Hurried- tJ ly she ahe bade her companion good night I and took tool out her latchkey But the and a man hurried hurrle out What Is la It she asked Im Miss Mohun l Oh Miss 1 Mohun I Im I'm Df Dr Heathcote Heath Heath- cote a cote a consultant on this case Your Tour father very father very stroke ill stroke of paralysis CONFESSION John Chichester's r revelations revelation's about I Mohun's affairs affairs so BO Intimately connected connected con con- with his own were were a severe I blow to David Sangree and his subsequent subsequent subsequent sub sub- sequent conversations with George Lycett Ly- Ly y- y provided little comfort to either I man Both of them Textile Mills Mille in small lots but the market continued to fall a and d with the crash of the e Io t o- o er J l' l hun house o a all that remained of Sangree's Sangree's San San- I grees gree's O r respectable in fe cash e and fortune a h was house seab about far I uptown which yielded him a small i sum Bum Tn monthly 1 Sangree c could l rr not find it In his heart t to blame e ec his friend for forthe forthe the position In which he now found himself for many others sounder business men even than Lycett had been caught In the decline In the Mi- Mi Jhun J- J hun shares waiting as Sangree and Lycett had done for tor an upward turn In the market which never came Out of th the confusion contusion which had re resulted resulted re- re suited from the disaster many rumors rumors rumors' emerged many of ot them them dangerous to the tho reputations of ot some of the promoters promoter's promoters promoter's pro pro- i moter's associates but the newspapers I Ie It seemed ii d dJ were b bent on J giving di duo credit e to J James s Mohun himself for I havin having doni dnn all that he hI could do to stem the tide of misfortune for for hay ht- |
