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‘ Pictures. Inc. Watch for the screen version produced by Frank
ieyd with Corinne Griffith as Countess Zattlany.
" Copyright use by Gertrude Atherton
slvely from the first. seemed. al-
though they were quiet. subtly to
lack the repo? of her body.
Once whils'he was.gazing into
the fire he felt sure that she was
examining his profile. He made no
pretensio‘ns to handsomeness. but
be rather prided himself on his
nose. the long fine straight nose of
the Cloverings. His brow was also
good. but although his hair was
black. his eyes were blue. and he
would have preferred to have black
eyes. as he liked consistent typed.
Otherwise he was one of the “black
Claverlngs." Northumbrian in oriu
gin and claiming descent from the
Bretwaldes. overiords of Britain.
the Cleverings were almost as fair
as their Anglican ancestors. but
once in every two or three gen-
erations a completely dark member
appeared, resurgence of the an-
cient Briton: sometimes associated
with the high stature of the strong-
er Nordic race. occasionally—par-
ticularly among, the women—sl-
most squat. Clavering had been
spared the small stature and the
small too narrow head. but saving.
his steel blue eyes—trained to look -
keen and hard—he was as dark as
any Mediterranean. His mouth
was well shaped and Closely set.
but capable of relaxation and look-
ed as if it might once have been
itvm (Continued)
7 ,‘I think this could not have been
1’“: cloud. on. emphatically said
N am afraid -of being horribly
fines—4' .
“AM" For the first time since
had known her the color flooded
her face; then it receded. leaving
Is: more pale than white. “i an-
”round."
“Of course. it may be another
countess Loyos. Like the Zoo
“says. it may be a large family."
As it happens there is no other.”
Silence. He swore to himself.
View ,.
* He had no desire to skate within a
”lie of her confounded mysteries.
‘ it now like a fool he had precipi-
tated himself into their midst
again. Butif she wouldn talk. . . .
”Suppose we talk of something
else." he snid hurriedly. "l assure
you that I have deliberately sup-
sod all curiosity. I am only
, thankful to know you on any
.‘ terms."
. “But you think i am in danger
. item?"
“Yes. I do. That is. if you wish
to keep your identity a secret—for
or own good reasons. Of course,
harm can come to you. i as«
We that you are not a political
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“He was replete and comfortable and almost happy. The occasional
‘ 'siiencea were now merely agreeable."
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full and sensitive. it too had been
coverely trained. The long face
was narrower than the long ad-
mirably proportioned head. It was
by no means as disharmonic a. type
as Gora Dwight’s; the blending oi
the races was far more subtle. and
when making one of his brief visit:
to Europe he was generally takes
for an Englishman. never for l
member of the Latin peoples: ex,
cept possibly in the north' oi
France, where his type. among
those Norman descendants oi
Norse and Dunes, was not nncom»
mon. Nevertheless. although hii
northern inheritance predominated.
he was conscious at times of a
certain afllnity with the race thai
two thousand years ago had moi
and mingled with his own.
He turned his eyes swiftly and
met here. She colored faintly an!
dropped her lids. Had she lowered
those broad lids over a warn
glow?
"I'ow i know what you loot
like!" he exclaimed,'and was sur
prised to find that his voice war
not quite steady. "A Nordic prin
cess." .
“Ohi That is the very mosi
charming compliment ever paid
me.”
.. refugee-in danger of assassins.-
lion!"
"l mu not. What is Mr. Dlnwid-
die'u inference?" She was looking
'It him engrrrly.
" “That you really are a friend of
'ICountess Zattlany, but for some
"motive or other you are using her
”name instead of your own. That-—
that—you had your own reasons
(or escapng from Austria—"
”Escaping?"
.... "One was that you might have
“‘tot into some political mess-
restoration of Charles. or some-
. ,thing "
She laughed outright.
0:; “The other was—well—thst you
are hiding from your husband."
. “My husband is dead." she said
‘emphnticaily.
He had never known that clouds.
unless charged with thunder. were
noisy. But he heard a black and
ominous cloud gather itself and
roll off his brain. Had that. after
all been Nevertheless. he
_ was annoyed to feel that he was
" smiling boyishly and that he prob-
" ably looked as saturnine as he felt.
b. "Whatever your little comedy, it
. ...- !s quite within your rights to play
.....- it in your own way." .
“it is not a comedy,” she said
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grimly. “You look a pretty nnadult rotei
7. : 1’01” N” tragedy?" 3' “I" in type for this late date- igdon'i
"" arm. mean in color only, of course: then
"" “No-not yet. Not yeti . . . I
""am beginning to wish that I had
“flyover come to America."
'8 "Now i shall ask you why."
“And i shall not tell you. I have
read your Miss Dwight's novel. by
the way. and think it quite hid-
eous." '
"So do 1. But that is the reason
Shot its success." And the convers»
.. tion mesndered along the safe by-
. ~-~paths of American fiction through
fr_ the ices and coffee. " '
are millions of biondes."
"My mother was a brunette."
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retreated . . .
theNorthBes . . .
[ XIX
' They sat beside the m.- in chairs - - .
that had never felt softer. He
smoked a cigar, she cigarettes in a
‘long topas holder ornamented with
. a tiny crown of diamonds and the
‘ mutter Z. She had given it to him
to examine when he exclaimed at
and possible confirmation. He was
. replete and comfortable and almost
‘ hwy. The occasional silences
were now merely agreeable. She
lay back is her deep chair as re-
laxed as himself. but although she
laid little her alootness had mys-
Vhs’ionsly departed. She looked
companion-labia and serene. Only
one narrow foot in its silvery slip-
LN moved occasionally, and her
white and beautiful hands. whose
- sstion of ruthless power Cisv-
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vism. no doubt. if I‘ were as good
a poet as one of my brother col
umnisls I should have written I
poem to you long since. i can sea
you sweeping northward over tht
steppes of Russia as the ice-caps”
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Brythons. or of a Norse Viking
west into Anglia to appear
once more as a Priestess of the
Druids chsunting in a sacred grove
. . . or ssBoadiceat—owho knows!
But no prose can regenerate um
shadowy time. i see it—prehistory
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multitudes, but always pressing on
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It: beauty. ,
i Z! —on . . . as we shall appear.
But he banished both curiosity no doubt. ten thousandyears hone.
if all histories are destroyed—as
no doubt they will be. If I were.
an epic wt 1 might possibly find
words and rhythm to‘ntthat white
vision. but it is wholly beyond the
practical vocabulary and mental
make-up of a newspaper man of the
twentieth century. Some of us
write very good poets-y indeed. but
it is not precisely inspired. and it
certainly is not epic. One would
have to retire to a cave like Bud-
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tigatiyn. The statute under which"
State's Attorney Alcorn is proceed;
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man to understand“ It gives‘ any
judge the right to order a. grand jury.
summoned to investigate up? unease
over which his court would ’liave
jurisdiction. The“ jurisdiction of the
superior-V court in criminal matters-
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tenant: ,maipraético are within". its ;..
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fruit-.9! ,the investigation." . Before it
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revelatiojnof fraudsin the practice
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