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‘3"! first night performance in
1* ” York. a beautiful young
' attracts attention by rising
' urely surveying the audi-
fivough her glasses. Clover-
. newspaper columnist, and
"n, Diuwiddie, are particu-
._ nteresfed. Ik’nu-iddie declar-
‘Mt she is the image of Mary
, a belie of thirty years ago,
If Md married :3 Count Zaftiuny
lived abroad. lie is convinced
“38 this is Mary's daughter. But
elm-ts to establish her identity
. We battle.
a laboring, determined to find out
Y" “e is, follows her home from
Jheatre one night. Luck is
’It’m, for she has forgotten her
imam! he helps her get into the
She ash..- lu'm in and finally
him she is the Countess Josef
up. a cousin of Mary Og-
I: that she had married a rela-
. of Mary’s husband: that Mary
at in a eaniturium in. Vienna.
fitting is skeptical. »
? Though maintaining a strict
. was from society. Madame
ny continues to attend all
stmights. Clot-(ring meets
there one night and she invites
Que]: to her house after the
t‘re. He tells her frankly that
does not believe her story and
,. its to being half in to)“ with
’b XI (continued)
“Photo are a good many women
your class here now."
’ “Yes, with avowed chica'ts, is it
‘f And they do not happen to
"on the combination of quali-
on that commands your interest."
_ E'Thst is true enough. Perhaps
»‘ [our explanation is the real one.
M is certainly smoothing in it.
wen. rn go now. i have kept you
Q) long enough."
-_ 33‘ was ubuu' to raise her band
, to his lips when she surprised h‘m
‘5‘ by shaking his wurufiy.
,1 “i must get over that habit. it is
m." absurd in this country
whom you lmvc nnt thr‘ custom. But
you will Como again?"
“Oh, yes, 1'“ come again."
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”deams Zatimny adjusted the
. chain on the front door and re-
; 'ul'ned vary slowly to the library.
mt broad pl.1('id brow. not the
:net of her physical charms, was
town in a puzzind frown. instead
Of turning out ti" Lghts she sat
lamp and Stdl‘t‘d into the dying
”to... Sutlziunly shn burnt to laugh.
:Lhugh of 1n'vnso and iron'('
hilllcnl;
but it Mapped in mid
loco-moonin-
1,
,_ ‘33)": out down and stared into
stile dying tire"
I
icon?" and her eyes expanded with
Puiuprcssion of consternation. al-
to“ of panic.
was not alarmed for the
no of mind of the man who was
on in love with her than he bod
' . {or sdmitted to himself. She
., - been loved by too many men
. ”had regarded their henrtacbes
M'bslked desires with too pro-
d on indifference to worry
:the possible harm she might
‘Tnnictlug upon the Million end
i bitious young man who had pre-
' Dilated himself into her life.
t might‘come later. but not st
4 44 moment wifeu she was shaken
“optioned. .
the had dismissed from her
9 .long ego the hope or the do-
thlt she could ever again feel
ythlng but I keen mental re-
use to the most provocative of
No woman hss ever lived
i ~ was more thoroughly disillu-
- ed. more satisted. more scorn-
» of that sge-old dream of human
piston, which. stripped to its
, wss merely the blind in-
of the nee to survive. Civ-
. .- had heaped its actions
., the lure feet of usture's origi-
‘ .~ ~-~ --so. imagination lashing
~ eexusl impulse to impossi-
demands for the consummate
. of mlnd and soul and body.
tyt _When man who essen-
reyagrs Whack bgmm'mt “MW
“@LACK
t.- GERI'RUDE ‘ArHEisz
with Associated First Nation-l
Watch for the screen version produced by Front.
Lloyd with Corinne Griffith u Countess Zettisny.
Gerunds Athengn
tislly polygsmous end woman on-
seutialiy the vehicle of the race.
When the individual soul had been
decreed by the embittered godl
eternally to dwell alone and never
yet had been tricked beyond an
moment of nervous excitation into
the belief that it bad fused into
its mete. Life itself was futile
enough. but that dream of the per-
fect love between two beings in:-
memorlally paired was the most fu-
tile andruvaging of :11 the dreams
civilization bad imposed upon man-
kind. The curse of imagination.
Only the savages and the ignorant
masses understood "love" for the
transitory functional thing it m
and were undisturbed by spiritual
unrest . by dreams .
mad longings. .
No one had ever surrendered to
the illusion more completely than
she. No one had ever hunted with
a more passionate determination
for that correlative soul that
would submerge, exalt, and com-
plete her own aspiring soul. And
what had she found? Men. Mero-
ly men. Satiety or disaster. Weari-
ness and disgust. She had not an
illusion lc't.
behind her long since.
it seemed to her as she sat there
staring into the last flickering: of
the charred log that it had been
countless years since any man had
had the power to send a thrill
along her nerves. to stir even the
ghost of those old fierce desires. .
No woman had ever bud more
cause to feel immune. Too con-
temptuous of life and the spurioul
illusions man had created for him-
self. while destroying the even
balance between matter and mind.
even to be rebellious. she had felt
a profound gratitude for her com-
plete freedom from the thrall of
sex when she had realized that
with her gifts of mind and fortuno
she still had a work to do in the
world that would resign her to the
supreme boredom of living. Our-
in the war man had been but s
broken thing to be anrirlm“ or
eased out of life: and sh, -‘HZW
that there was no bottpr _... in
Europe; it had always tv- her
pride to do nothing by .‘w‘x Ind
before that sho bad on" mk
upon men with n cor! -ivo
tolorntlon when their rare
responsive to bar own vver
sex charm they pnss-ww- 'u‘uht
better have been wasicd nil the
Venus in the Louvre.
And tonight she had realized
that this youni: man. so unlike any
she had ever known in her Euro-
pean experience. had been more
or less in her thoughts since the
night be had followed her out of
the theatre and stood covertly ob-
serving her as she waited for her
cur. She had boon conscious dur-
ing subsequent nights at tho play
f his powerful gaze as he sat
"rhing for a turn of the band
would give him a glimpse of
nthing more than the bark of
’ neck: or as she had passed
vn on her way to her seat. Rho
‘Wd been evenvmore acutely con-
srious of him as he left hi.- uwn
scat while the lights Were «rill
down and followed her up 'bo
aisle. But she had felt merely
amusement at the time. possibly I
thrill of gratified vanity. accuso
tamed us she was to admiration
and homage.
But on the night when he bed
hastened up to her in the deserted
street and offered his assistance.
standing with his hat in his hand
and looking at her with e boyish
.nd dimdent gallantry iu amusing
contrast with his stern and cynical
countenance. and she had realized
that be bad impulsively followed
her. something had stirred within
her that she had attributed to I
superficial recrudescence of be!
old love of adventure. of her keen
desire for novelty at any cost.
Amused at both herself and him.
she had suddenly decided. while he
was efl'ecting an entrance to her
house. to invite him into the li-
brury and take sdvsntnge of this
break in the monotonous life sbu
had decreed should be her portion
while she remained in New York.
She had found him more person-
ally attractive than she had ex-
pected. . Judge Trent. whom she
had deftlrdrawn out. had told her
that be was I. young man of whom.
according to Dinwiddle. great
things were expected in the lit-
ersry world; his newspaper career.
brilliant Is it was. being regsrded
merely no phase in his progress:
he had not yet “found himself."
After that she had read his col-
umn ettentively.
But she had not been prepared
for a. powerful and sympathetic
personality. tint curious mixture
of points and herd sophistication.
end she had ucribed her interest
in him to curiosity in exploring
what to her was I completely for-
eign type. In her own nslvete it
had never occurred to her thnt
men outside her class were gen-
tlemen as she understood the term.
end she still supposed Cloverlng
to be exceptions! owing to his
birth sud breeding. it had given
her n distinct satisfaction. the
night of the dinner. to observe thst
he lost nothing by contsct with|
men who were ludubltsbly of her ‘
own world.
,(To Be Continued),
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STAMFORD, Dec. 5.—
In a. deed filed in the omce of :‘tho
Town Clerk. the recent sale of six
acres of land by
Realty Company in recorded.
buyer of the property is the Rippe-
vram Development Company. which
to controlled ins-gent by ‘the~ {ale
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Connecticut Company. on‘the iorth‘
by Richmond Hill Avenue and 'on
the west by Mill River.
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ment of the property are now in the
course of proxies-anon. M. is hoped
by the company that the erection of
a. number of houses on the tract will
nouns now existing in Stamford;
Ld-o much to relieve the boo-11.x 31:4 ..
concern are:- Frederick C. Taylor.
president: John C. Darcy. viccprcs-
ldent: Clarence “7.. Bell. secrttary.
and Joseph Horne. treasurer.
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To test the wear or different com-
pounds; the Bureau of Standards
wlll have tires manufactured out of
reclaimed rubber. which will then be
put on trucks or the Post Office De—
partment. running over different
types of roads.
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web-footed mole is not an aquatic
animal.
ground. f 1..-
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vutlon and is probably a. native of the .
Median-rm can region.’ ‘ . ‘
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Several American
Firms Will Get
Awards AgainstGer—
man Government.
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:awardsmatgrega‘tipgi 31.9'9 900 -
tho , .1- ‘ '
late yesterday by the German-Amor-
lcan Mixed Claims Commission. In-
terest of five per cent. was allowed
on a. claim of $1,660,000 as of Aug—
ust. 1. 1918, and a like rate was
granted for a. claim of $140,000 dat-
ing from Sept. 1, of that year.
_ The Security Eyelet Company
war awarded $700,000 with interest
from March 1. 1918, and the Rouss-
ler and Hasslacher Chemical Com-
pany was allowed a claim 'of :g00.-
000 with interest from January 1,
1917. ,
The commission agreed on 14
awards totalling $2,950,240. growing
out of claims or American firms and
individuals Iqudnst the German
Sovernment for‘ losses suffered dur-
in: the war. In each case the Amer-
ican 'COMOIxer, Chandler P.
Anderson. and the. German com-
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American and G. r ......
their siaicmrnt: t: ‘.
upon each othrr.
Other awards v.» r- :
Kelly. ct :ti. 52o?
$6.000; 521”]le \M l.\‘
Gas Enginv- can:
Sterling Varnish co
Henry erski $1.25»; 1
low $1.000; Mann»! :ztt.
company SIJ'W:
company $8126.70. 3.
Barman $250.
ington to be repaired
employec fixing them-
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on while perchin‘
del, operating as Chico:-
the mail equipment she:
year, because postal lil‘;\.. . L
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