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Show TITE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNTNO, MAY 23, 1920. Ns IE A - By lQLVOTiHrHALLJ dignity, and he was acting now like a lloii for Information. I was sitting under the was In June that Algernon and I want Slurring comment Hs wasn't actually a broken loose from a menagerie. He bad all when vine shad of the sheltering trumpet woman hater, for this implies both notice down together to tha Uttl river and some-bobefore him, but he didnt see how to freedom end as unexpectedly materialised she ) lightly woman end dread; he was a ignorer. As Kiss got ourselves, without tha aid of a use of it. Tb lion, suddenly released, make was as a humming bird. At on Instant I soon expect lit. Anthony to become. In a ahoa horn. Into tha cottage hi greataunt had to frolio like a cub in tho open, end wanted on there waa next she in the altting elons; lightning flash, susceptible and 17. I oould left him two year ago. Apart from Ua size It ) know didn't how, and mouth with beside me. the lawn so sometimes smiling that delicate owed to you reticcuce ' not credit my cara her memory. very little adulation Was rather a decent little cottage, low and That No one had ever taught him to conceal hit eyes, and enjoying my astonishment Look here. Henry" began to doubt its very existence, the Knowing Algernon as I did, it was almost gray and bio roofed, with trim line, like a was all right; X could get a thousand times had. It wasn't shyness, she feelings. There were half a dozen other girls look anywhere! Wonder If that to believe his wera emotions I won't that realty Impossible thoughts eatboat, and a big lawn, and a healthy trummore enjoyment from looking at her than eh in the set. but I doubt If he could tell them it wasn't affectation. It wasn't sven the old old fool of a housekeeper has carted off all lively enough to bold warmth anyway. Yst pet vine over tha veranda Tha only jarring oould ever get from looking at me-- . Ha lived for Bhirley. He used to sit waa circumstantial evidence as old a fashioned measure of demureneso I didn't hero towels." bath the apart not waa a painted algn over tha front door, mad.1" ah had . tan feet distant from her, and even nt that It was I discovered later that It what know then that time. Of didn't No man course I such could Why. suspect you're Henry, develop painful at Algernon ripped thl down - At that he whirled on me. was simply an innate horror of sentimentalcom for Information; as a matter of fact, I resentment, such unfair resentment, against disadvantage visually embrace her In publio. pnee, but beeauve ha waa a conscientioua " Of course I'm mad. Bhe called me Algerfollowed her relentlessly, and clumsily, mental note a But a of mad were In afterward. I It n He unless he of at rata, the until didn't any it verge ity girt long suspect being men and remembered that bl great aunt bad love with her; yet bow oould Algernon have for use when I described her to Algernon. and unashamed, Xt was funny, but it waa non. And, by gosh, I hope the next time eh somehow I found myself talking about Algerbeen a sweet, banal old lady who liked to also pathetic, to see her dance away from non. And Instinctively (I can't Imagine for got that far when he bad merely seen her goes off that float she dives bead first into a In his anger he had lied like a pirate when have everything labeled, ha presently put up once or twice at long range? It occurred out Uks to anchor on out there blurted account I It whose I'd him, and to see him, lately so confident of treachery. was) to dwell wes she fat. Jellyfish! Not he said that upon a fresh name plate, somewhat jnore original to me. after some thought, that perhaps his bet presence, turn a dead stare of utter helpmyself." It, she was what X should call delectable; Yon know he's married, don't yonT" and certainly more deaorlptlva It waa Tha lessness upon the neighborhood. Jt was hard for me to realise that my old profession shortened distances for him. Anyshe had the pretty curve Which mean health Most nice men am" said Shirley. Bhe Vacuum. You created one every time you ' friend was speaking. As far as I knew be body who can feet chummy with the Chal) and abounding vigor and cheer the soul of had a habit of raising her eyebrows as shs elusive; eh In conversation she wae no less drew a long breath Indoors. r deans may, after all, be quite capable of stir bad never been thg least sensitive about hie ,any man who hates to dance with a lath. talked; it kept one's attention from wanhad poor Algernon, who could talk archajol-The river was practically in our front yard. ring up a passion through a telescope. Bhe wasnt exactly beautiful, but she was appearance or his failure of the social accomdering. First, however, there we a macadam highogy in five languages, stumped in his mother " Well," I said, " hes bad a meet extraoradorable. Chance had denied her the meanNeedless to say, he did meet her; but It plishments; Indeed, he had often prided himway (known locally as the fitun Rud), and epeech for th proper answer to the simplest self upon bis permanent indifference toward ' ingless features of an out and out beauty and wasn't on the float. I don't know how Jt then there waa a strip of grass with no gardinary life. U was a professor when he was question. He realized that hie repartee wus tho ruhlic. born. His parents had It all figured out that dener to tove It; a crumbling bulkhead, a thin given her instead a personality and a mag-happened, hut whan I earn hack, from Ibo elephantine, and it galled him; he Used to netlsra which took your breath away. Tho tennis courts th) following afternoon (which slice of beach, and tidewater. Diagonally opHenry," I said, "there's been a mystery com home and curs at the mirror for what anything be wanted to do was wrong. Hs was cloudy) I found ,thelh standing on our , wasn't allowed to learn to swim for fear he committed around here. . Tou wouldn't stir ... .wind oould blow her hair six .ways for dun- posite ua. at tha elvers mouth, arose a creneIt showed him of stupidity, and more than bulkhead and looking across at the send lated ridge of yellow aand dunes, and beyond yourself up like this if there weren't a better day with only the effect of making her morn might get drowned; and he mustnt play once be swore that he should never see her reason for It than any youve given yet. dunes. Algernon was explaining the theory adorable yet and thia la a test not meant that, and to the right of It. rested tha sea and rough games because be might rak his again, Tbase resolutions lasted sometimes for tha sunseta. On pleasant daya tha aand as long as half an hour, and then he would dunes stood out as clear and sharp and Araer-- . begin to talk about bar to me. abruptly .lean as you plaasa; but when there were I like those clothe she wear," he said. Clouds overhead and tha river turned silver - What are they calico?" monowhite, with bare and there a splash of I think its gingham, I said. "If you tone Ilka tha tint of old weathered shingles, mean th on eh had on today, especially." thso tha perspective was for all the world Ilka an old Japanese print, wltb Fujiyama' Well, it iooka sort of unsophisticated," afid thats what I like." aid Algernon, (considerably out of drawing) in the background.. That was tha way Algernon Ural Incidentally, Mrs. Spurrier dressed like a saw It and bs never forgot It ' Neither did I. Belgian refugee. Be waa my friend, faithful and just untd It was about this time that conscience me, and I therefore hasten to correct tha began to ait on Algernons soul; and it was that "Algernon" was any part of inevitable that sooner or later he should talk - He hl Maury Banks Spur-- " to me about that, too. Perhaps it was equally wj rier, srehawlogtet Ms knew mors about tha inevitable that big mood should be ferocious. Aztecs than tha Axtaca aver knew themselves "I suppose you think Xm a skunk, he or eared; and bs was never so happy as when blurted. "If you do, eay so.' Get it over be was unearthing soma family skeleton of with. , an ancient people or prying Into tha domestlo No," I said, I dont think you're a skunk dlffloultiaa of a tribe which perished long ' all." at before Ptolemy put on bis first short trousers. Well what?" was tall and lean and dry and studious He It was harder to pick an expression than X a bit of a fatalist tho type of man whos I think youre out of luck," had imagined. apparently predestined to go through life I said. without a nickname, and to derive a great "How do you mean out of luck?" deal of happlnesa out of cheas and the Edln-- It waa harder to explain than it had been Review. manner In of bis dress he burgh to choose the original expression. was late Victorian except for his cravats, It seems to me," I said, that 'every which wsre almost prehistoric; but h had a mans entitled to a certain amount of youtu. sense of humor and a startlingly modern voBorne people get robbed of it th way you cabulary, so that it was easy to forgivt him wer yourself and there Isnt any burglary for being intelligent. insurance thatll cover it And X cant say The trademark of Algernon was hung upon that theree anything Very culpable in your him by a girl he bad never met. He came being fascinated by youth wben you aee it. up from the beach one morning looking Everybody is. I was myself." . rather elckly; passed me without saying a Hs looked at me sidewise. Do you really word (I had Just come In from the postoffice, believe that?" too) end went Into hie oss room and closed tho door. The water was still pretty cold and There only one emotion thatll keep a 1 bad already warned him against staying In man young or make him young," I' said, too long, so that my Intuition was prompt and aa long aa you behave yourself, I dont and Incorrect. I went after him to adminissee that It's anybody elses business what you ter aspirin, and found him dripping generdo, or what you think." ously on the floor while be stared at himself Not even her? , Tha littl girlmith tha reJ eep wo tailing me - Algernon. in a crinkly antique mirror. hop th next time h goes off that Moat aha diva e hadd first into jellyfish 1 Whose Shirley's?" Dammit! he said reflectively, as I halted What's th answer another ideal shattered? to be despised. Her disposition was as happy neck; and be couldn't have anything to do of Japanese art to her. and out in tbs midIn the doorway. "When you corn right 01 X said. "Why la the long run, I Emit ten from afar and all that sort of rot?" as the aea when the sunshine and a single with girls because they might interfere with channel the minnows were leaping madly down to it I havent got any chin to speak of, think youre justified ia liking anybody you reef breeze play on Its surface. Her voice his stedies O, be had a peach of a time! Abruptly end most unexpectedly he put on from schools of invisible, pursuing mackerel. now. have It" to like. I think all of us are. And if happen awcoat which wasn't of was made look at her a trifle throaty it He doesnt do anything that anybody rise bright crimson, " Chin! I said. "Chin! Well, who was yon Anybody want to go mackerel fishing? want the plainest sort or speaking, old you she becoming. loves and that" to what he after Hes does, fully and you mouth, T asked. forgot poetry. Algernon speaking of it? I wasnt." man, my private opinion ia that this Is the " Don't be an idiot!" was saying. That she was the sort of a girl the dot, isnt be?" He put on his glasses they were uncomShirley shook her head, and then Algernon, best thing that aver cams into your life. -So there! burn in should did With love was Toull But never Careful, fail axiomatic. I yourself. Shirley anything by halves. Her very much on th trigger, shook bis. monly large end had tortoise shell rims and You've chirked up Uke a robin in the spring-timan know it'a is didn't it? I was do ran down should blush her it affinity, your throat. that IYn I "And said. actually bet Algernon staggering. smoothed back his none too luxuriant hair. Ill Well, going," It's a great stimulus, and it can't do You dont why, what are you saying?" I went back to Algernon and found him astigmatism would let you see that tar. Not even hie mother could have called him money I bring home a dozen. any barm." anybody " to wife. " Mis. his said. I "You're laborious a letter Btop bluffing! said Algernon. No, be said scornfully, I don't suppose right handsome, and I was only a friend, writing Question of skill, "I I hope." hs said, " you giva me credit t I her was tbe and and month know with be'aan you But I wasn't brought up near the bet. won't it, spending Algernon, you did. And you didn't know I'm a human Spurrier for a Uttle more feeUng than that. Why, if know it, and he knows it. Between you and What on earth water! be said protesting!. parents; Algernon didnt like them, and that Shirley was puzzled. being either. "I know I I ever thought why, you don't suppose Im ' him was that's bitten bard. what But had call also made me, That unanimous. it a to of look like a fool In It Or out of It too, for does he mean?" pretty But, Henry," I said, try the effect about whats good for me, do you?" ' bothering him by it to his face, and hell love it. You made it possible for us to have this brief eb m)ht not guess it douche of cold bumor, " youre married! But I cant feel Its my fault ; that matter. Why," I said, ' Arent you? " can man do " a amount tremendous that of vacation together. but Mr. Spurrier's one of tbe prize gamblqr I may be married, be said sulkily, but exactly. Hanged If I can. He started to be but angry, caught himself " You missed it," I said. " She a corker." good If you want to. He never had any of the universe, and the luckiest. Only, he's I went over to see If be bad any symptoms Im damned if I'm blind. I guess I can look and laughed. I dont give a wbdop for your home, and he never had any fun, and he at her if I want to, cant I?" f fever. Algernon made a terrible grimace, but got two theories; he wont bet on anything oplnioa about that, anyway. It isnt youth never bad any playmates He never had any didn't look) up. I saw that it was no time to badger him. What in thunder are you driving at? that isnt pur chance, and be wont bet on j thats got me; its its all I want to know " 1 but he's d the An , even to She' an either, least be There' an said a youth, brat. chance. sud-is Even but getting his entitled He firmly. turned around just archaeologist and laughed, very quite anything I to if Im making a blooming fool of myself." of now. You faint reminder it know hes the little girl with the gray eyes per cent of skill in mackerel fishing, so he unmannerly little brat.' denly. It wasnt bis usual laugh at all. "You are and I envy you.v I said. Gd " " about dont you, lose crazy I Some me told you? won't play." an impersonal smile. bad long since given him, you'll your There were several different Ingredients In day, i to It." Shirley said nothing, but her eyes widened bead and talk sense. They all want us to I admired my friend's taste, even while I O! It and none of them was attractive. I She smiled at Algernon. Thank Yea, we were very good friends. In hto and she looked down. swim with them tomorrow morning. marveled at its existence. couldnt Imagine what had got into thq man. you ever so much for the lecture, Mr. Spurentire life be bad never before enjoyed th " You're putting rose color on a drab wall," " Yea." I said, " you can look at her all yon 1 This time be looked up with a vengeance. Know the girls up In the big house? rier. I understood some of It really." And services of a confidant, nor had be ever posI said. And I hope you arent too much Me? Paddle want to. It might interest you to know that Fat chance!, he said. odfled; I bad surveyed that Joyous bousei then she was gone. Jlrat was the way she sessed any thoughts, or emotions, which bored. .i around up to my ankles with a lot of young I just met mother and father up at the did things. Here one minute, gone the next; party from a distance and envied youth its needed one. But during the subsequent week She me an Instantaneous " gave tinder see me? more at can otters 1 not on: than minutes were went friend I glance ago. myselfl twenty undersnickering buoyancy. My They like a mischievous dryad on tiptoe. be raved to me aa though I bad been-ht- o her eyebrow. " Its funny bow a man like WHats she like? all down on their float Couple of stood her, but Algernons face waa a study. Theyre very nice. They know who you aye, sister. There were moments during this like Mr. ever could to take Bo too. attenhim to call." told Alger I and he listened very Been there half the morning. with em, Spurrier too, and were invited He thought be bad been marooned for cause. week when I went out back of th barn gambling, isn't It? Or wer you Just Joking?" When I went down to took at tho water someHu change of expression was remarkable. he said. We went a few steps tively and didn't interrupt. But I observed Humph! sat in the sun tosmok and think about "and " back-."'-' Afld I'wasnt. "ffo ' that he added only Another line or two to his toward tbe cottage. it isnt funny at all; Then It changed body giggled- - Then they all roared. Then Might as well go beautiful .abstract, virtues auch-a- s loyalty not when you think it over. He took to It when I went down again In my bathing suit letter before he folded it bp and went out to -- Tide's-pretty No, thanks. Leave me out of it." mackereling now.Je grudged. ' and Its rather absorbing to speculate duty. ' You - walk. see. he in never and hopped In where the kids go tby. all . college. be and drank, Rut why should I? low, though." on thee things, especially when they apply roared again. Then I got the point The He elevated bis chin, caught a glimpse at Its high time for & word or two about . "It isnt below th second rock on tbe never smoked, and be always worked Uke a to somebody else. It waa absorbing to wonand and found a Mrs. little girl with the red cep waa calling me: curious dog, own be day not her but It in the mirror, apd Jerked hi bead down. for night I forv beach," objected. sake, furrier; der exactly bow much loyalty or, better, m " sort of relaxation in gambling. He wouldnt .. Algernon. After that? Hardly. I'm not In he habit Algernons. Bhe Was five year older than "For ten dollars?" b suggested subtly, how much deadly conservatism Algernon -- "Well?" was but on be almost poker, me not be was; dryer, thinner, and colder, and wore We peeped over tbe bulkhead, and Algernon anyplay great of having cheap wlttlclsma fired at owed to a wife with whom be had exchanged Bis expression of Injury had deepened. 1 If I can help it. Enough Is enough, and too won by an inch. thing else as long as there wgsn't any queslarger spectacles, glje. too, wa an archaolo- a fair amount of mind, the smallest imagtion of skill and it waa always an even Dont say yon haven't beard the story! much ia plenty." The fish bit fairly well, but Algernon waa gist and one of distinction, and she rued the inable fraction of heart, if any, nnd no aoul About the chap who was brought up like a chance. He got so crzyV about it that he "Nonsense. They're young folks, Henry. day on which she had been born a woman. lacking in enthusiasm and strong on sllenoe. whatsoever. That to. should I have called used to make really Important decisions by The story of their marriage might have sissy and bow shocked he wae on his twenty-After a twenty minute hiatus he burst Into They dont mean anything. Werent yoq ever him disloyal because be had fallen in love ' first told him a when there a been romantic, but it wasnt. Algernon had birthday girl confession. tossing up coin' Well, he'd say, It' an young yourself?" I we sorry for this as with a real person? Or, In other words, dis Isnt any Santa Claus? I never saw anything even chance, isn't It? It the only stimu" There are two things in this world that once been booked for a prolonged expedition soon aa I had said It; It was sure to hurt him. life and worshiped it? covered so blamed funny about that story anyway. " No," be said shortly. Into South America, and she waa already an I wasn't. That's I hate like poison, be said, T and one at lant he ever had. And he's th luckiest man Disloyal to whom, or to what? To his Only if you've heard It you remember bow it alive. He can't lose. Luck Just simply barks wbst makes me so Infernally Jealous when I cm's to bore people." expert in that field and nobody else was availwife, or to the community, or to 8hlrley, or describes Algernon able. He bad to take ber with him, and they nt bis beela Its uncanny." seeem cavorting around there. Thats why What's the other?" to himself? Take them on by one; hie wife I do seem to remem" O, be must lose sometimes. Hm, yes! I said. were both ultra conservatives. So he married it isn't so very humorous to have em pin Algernon snorted. " The other's simply to ear what he did, because ah hadnt didnt ber It. What of It? Sticks and stones 11 true. near the But on so me. evewould come me. over some and he be to th She wants us cut stake off the It's that thing his right Surely. ber, rather mighty bigger a normal emotion In her anyhow; society break my bones, luckier he is. Honestly, you cant beat him, hand than to admit It waa a ghastly mistake. Algernon? " ning and dance. They've got a phonograph." wasnt in at being shocked by any danger "I thought she had manners" he said. be done." , . Don't act O, give It s drink!" I said. Ho laughed raucously. It can't Dance! Wouldnt I Algernons wife ought to have been a antlca which poor old Algernon could ever And I'm not particularly pleased to go " He must have a good deal of money," like that, Henry. I said we'd drop In on 'em mother to him and not a walking musepm of look too sweet for anything? The last time I out there and be a target for merry little perform; Shirley was frankly diverted, and this afternoon. Com on ever end be reason-ablhe said. danced was in Borneo. And It wasnt volunantlqnltlea. A a a matter of fact, she didn't even if hed been free eh wouldnt bar " quips like that, and X don't care a darn care cents two for he him either. as a husband; she No, Im going." hasn't" tary. married him on a bet, nnd Algernon was who knows it" can dance, though," X said. Go ahead, then. I went." wasnt interested in husbands. He was a She shifted the subject then, but It was growing positively radiant under the nsw "The one in the red bathing cap? That And be didn't But I did. and Algernon waa Thats all right. What about me?" permanent endowment fund, and that was plain enough already that Algernon bad beinfluence. He was breaking through hto must be tbe nice plump one, with the gray offended because I said I bad a good time. about all. She had insisted on leaving tbe to amuse Sit out. I said. on and amazgun that his ber, hell; teeing th world with undimmed eye; eye-- " . obey out of tbe wedding service; end she Algernon lifted his bead abarply, aa though ing weakness was interesting, first for its hto first leesou la th bright colors learning He regarded me venomously, on was must her have They are bad were new at a brand That's very nature, and, second, because It pointed Tbe, girl with the gray eyes lingers crossed when she " It conception. of happiness. not gray." he said. theyre green. And said love." It wasn't In her, end they both those immortal paradoxes which keep th to such a curious inconsistency. And to a That's different" different, be said. Theoretically, I suppose that a morahat she isnt plump; she's fat" knew it. It bad simply been a marriage of world from going Htale'with ennui. Bh waa girl of bee age bs must indeed have been a have called him indiscreet; aa a matter might Now, during an acquaintanceship of many now end of vivid neitber with course and them th a was knew In of end convenience, this time a alert, captivatwonderfully after curiosity.. The world would have called him X cf practice, never I him had to known approved highly cf him and notice a years. till a young man, and he was surely destined exactly how to let go. ing sort of blunt boyishness; and yet she picnic or two, and a supper, and two phonoback ef th barn until he bad bad stayed woman, to car for a womans opinion, or Mrs. aa well as seemed s'uavg to be living behind a tenuous I It d!4. to be rather more than a mere celebrity; he Knotting Spurrier graphic dances, and a ride to Oxford to the even to honor the' sex bit. so much as a -am Slucivv """'d Ji that.A'Mia m a"" tfe In "cased a thick veneer of misplaced waj J, riirdfeg. 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