Published by arrangement with Associated First National ' Pictures. inc. Watch for the screen version produced by Frank Lloyd with Corinne Griffith so Countess Zsttlany. l. ' XXIX (Continued) "l'hose whom i tried to love would non hays tired of me had 1 not played the game as edroitly as themselves. and if i had per- mitted them to feel sure of me. The last thing any of them wanted was depth of feeling. tragic pas- sion. . . . My most desperate their was 1': last—after e long in- ion-VIII. . . '. i was in my elrly turtles. i had thought myself too utterly d:.1liusioued ever to im- agine myself in love again. Men are gross and ridiculous creatures in the main. and aside from my personal disappointments. i thought it was time for that chapter of my life to finish. 1 was amusing my- self. with diplomatic Intrigue. l was in the Balkans at the time. that breeding ground of war mi- crobes. and l was interested in a Very delicate situation in which i played a certain part. ‘Tho awakening was violent. He was an Austrian. with an important place in the Government: he came in Belgrade on a private mission. He was a very great person In many ways, and 1 think i really loved him. for he seemed to me entirely worthy of it. He certain- ly was mad enough about me for a time—for a year. to be exact. When he returned to Vienna it was not diflicult for me to and an ex- cuse to go also. Although Zat- tinny was a Hungarian. he never visited his Hungarian estates ex- cept for the boar hunting. and spent his time when on leave. or between appointments. in Vienna. where he had inherited a palace— ! must tell you that the city resi- dence of a nobleman in the Dual Empire was always called a palace. however much it might look like a house. "i shall always remember this man with a certain pleasure and re- spect. for he is the only man who ever made me suffer. A woman forgets the lovers she has disc missed as quickly as possible. Their memory is hateful to her. like the memory of all mistakes. But this man made me suffer hor- ribly. (He married a young girl. out of duty to his House. and un- expectedly fell in love with her.) (therefore. although i recovered. and completely, still do I some- [times dwell with a certain cynical pleasure on the memory of him—" "Have you never seen him since?" asked Clavcring sharply. [He had returned to his chair. "How long ago was that?" l "Quite sixteen years ago. 1 did mot visit Vienna again for several ,years: in fact. not until after my lhtisband's death. when I returned lthere to live. But by that time i l‘had lost both youth and beauty. lms Wife had died. but left him an illeir. and he showed no disposition no marry again: certainly he was rs indifferent to me as I to him. .Vi'o often met. and as be. respected my mind and my knowledge of En. p-opoen affairs. we talked politics rtogether. and he sometimes asked :my advice. "But to go back. After that was ’over 1 determined to put love defi- nitely out of my life. i believed l‘tbcn and finally that i had not the iglft of inspiring love: nor would i pvor risk humiliation and suffer- !ug again. I played the great game in! life and politics. I was still iboauflful—for a few years—l had In increasingly great position. all ‘the advantages. obvious and subtle. that money -could procure. My mold was very clever. My gowns. as time went on. were of a mag- nificent simplicity: all frou-frous were renounced. i had no mind to invite the valuation i heard applied to certain American women in Paris: 'eldery and dressy!” Clavering laughed for the first time. “i wonder you ever made a «mistake of any sort. i also won- der if you are a type as well as an individual? I have. I think. fol- lowed intelligently your psychologi- cal lnvolutlons and convolutions so far. I am only hoping you will not get beyond my depth. \Vhat was your attitude toward your past mis- takes—abeyond what you have told me? Did you suffer remorse, as l 'nm told women do when they altim- voluntarily renounce or are 1’1"“"fie‘d to sin no more?" --iiher regarded them as mis- nor did i suffer remorse. human being makes what a.. called mistakes and those hap- pened to be mine. Therefore 1 » dismissed them to the limbo of the ineVitable. . . . As your world. I am told, looks upon you as the coming dramatist. it may appeal to your imagination to visualize that secret and vital and dramatic under-. current of what was on the surface a proud sndsplendid life. . . . iOr. if there are regrets. it is for ‘the weight of memories. the com- pleteness 0d disillusion. the slaying ‘of mental yoath—avhich cannot sur- gvive bridal facts. v i "i think that for women of my type—what may be called the intel- lectual siren—the lover phase is inevitable. We are goeded not only by the imperious demands of manhood and the hope of the perfect companion. but by curiosi- lu, love of adventure. ennui; possi- Copyrigbt "83b, Gerunds Atherton hiy some more obscure complex— vengeance on the husband who has wrecked our first illusions—on Life itself. Bringing up, family and so- cial traditions. have nothing to do with it. Only opportunity counts. Moreover. we are not the process of our immediate forebears: but m- a thousand thousand unknown a.» cestors. . . ." "God! True enoughl" "Unfortunately. these women who have wasted so much time on love never realize the tragic futility utttli Time himself disposes of temptation. and then it is too late for anything but regrets of another sort. The war may have solved the problem for many a desperate spirit. “My own case has assumed an entirely different complexion. With my youth restored l have the world at my feet once more. but safe guarded by the wisdom of experi- ence—in so fares a mortal ever may be. The bare idea of that old game of prowling sex fills me with ennui and disgust. The body me be young again. but my mind. re ner- gized though it is. is packed with memories. a very Book of Life. W'hen i found in; my beauty was restored i thought of nothing less than returnin; to the conquest of men in the old manner. althOugh quite aware of its powerful aid in the work i have made up my mind to do in Austria. Of late. of course. i have thought of little else but What this recrudescence of my youth means to you and to myself. But—please do not interrupt—this i shall not discuss with you again until Monday—if then. "But once more i wish to imo press you with the fact that l in- dulge in nothing so futile as re— grets for my ‘past.’ ‘Sackcloth and. ashes' provokes nothing but a. smile from women of my type and class. Moreover. i believe that my educa- tion would not beicomplete without that experience—mine. understand. 1 am not speaking for women of other temperaments. opportunities. of less intellect. of humbler char- acter. weaker’will. . . . And if I had persisted in virtue at that time 1 should probably make a fool of myself today. an even more complete fool than women do when they feel youth slipping but still are able with the aid of art and arts to fascinate younger men. "That almost standardized chap- ter l renounced percmptorily. lily pride was too great to permit me to be foolish even in the privacy of my mind over men half my ego. Nor (lid 1 make any of the usual frantic attempts to keep looking young. I had seen too muci. of that. laughed at it too often. NeVerthelcss. I hated the approach of age. thr- de- cay of beauty. the death of mag“ netism. as bitterly as the sillicst woman I had ever met. "Some women merely fade: lose their complexions. the brightness of their eyes and hair. Others grow heavy, solid: stout or flabby: the muscles of the fame and neck loosen and sag. the features alter. l seemed slowly to dry up—wither. There was no flesh to hang or loose skin to wrinkle. but it seem- ed to me that Lhad ten thousand lines. I thought it a horrid fate. I could not know that Nature. meaning to be cruel. had given me the best chance for the renewal of the appearance as well as the fact of youth. "i suppose all this seems trivial to you—this mourning over lost youth—” “.\‘ot at all. It must have been hell to a woman like you. As for women in general—they may make more fuss about it. but i fancy they hate it less than men." “Yes. men are vainer than wom- ;n." said Madame Zattiany indif- ferently. “But i have yet to waste any empathy on men. . . . "i suppose i only fully realized that my youth. my beauty. my mag- netic charm. had gone when men ceased to make violent love to me. They will paid court. for l was a very important person. my great prestige was a sort of halo. and i had never neglected my mind. There was nothing of significance 1 had not read. during all these years. i was as profoundly inter- ested in the great political currents of Europe. seen and unseen, as any man—or as any intelligent woman of ,European society. Moreover. I had the art of life down to a fine point. and I had not forgotten that even in friendship men are drawn to the subtle woman who knows how to envelop herself in a certain mystery. And European men are always eager to talk with an ac- complished woman, even if she has no longer the power to stir their facile passlms. "When 1' realized that my sex power had left me i adopted an en- tirely new set of tactics—never- would i provoke a cynical smile on the faces I once had the power to distort! With no evidence of re- gret for my lost enchsutment i re- mained merely the alert and al-' ways interested woman of the world. to whom men. it sufficiently entertaining. were welcome com- panions for the moment, nothing more." ___,. _(To 3. 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'i‘livsc additions and rrxicnsions are more than three times as great :is the increase in prmlucthc capacity 02' l i l b i i l i l 13:12. and nutrly four times the J.- ZETMIJWU kilmx'nll capacity :id-i-wi in l lilL‘l. i The :ixiy-t‘our steam plants will lune a combined ruling of 3.052.559 kilowuiis. and tho filiytwo hydro: 't'iCCiI‘lf: stations will will 1.542.825 .i;\\'. 015 (hr-5n the largest is the 210.- mm horsepower siuliori being added those in operation at Niagara ill‘ulls. “‘lllt‘lt will be put in service lduring 1924. Three other hydro— it-lcclric plnu‘i.. one in Alabama and iiwo in California. will generate more ithun 100.000 horsepower each. The use of electrical energy dur- ing tho present your promises lo ox- reed the estimated record consump- i i (0 lion of 55.000.006.000 kilowatt-hours ' 1 made at the beginning of 1928. Fig~ tires for who first nniuc monthcs lshow an aggregate output of approx- limntcly fiSJlUOJ'UOJHlfi luv. 11.. which lmurks a rise of 23.7 per cent. over ilhe output for the. first threc~qunr- Hers or 192:. itself it record year. i ‘l-‘urcsec Good Business. l NEW YORK, Jail. s.—smci;noia— ‘crs of twenty of the city‘s leading flnunks assembled yesterday for an- lnual meetings and listened to reports ' and addresses by officials who direc- ted their affairs during 1923. “'ithout exception forecasts for the New Year pointed to a continua- tion of favorable business in this country and expressed the hope that European difficulties would be well started on the road to solution dur- ing the year. The bank presidents also were generally agreed that adoption of the Mellon plan for tax reduction would react favorably on business.’ . President Albert H. “'iggllt. of the Chase National Bank. addressing the forty-seventh annual meeting of that bank's shareholders. issued a note of warning against the large volume of tax exempt securities which have been issued. declaring that the sit- uation is affecting the development of the country adversity. creeaingiy tempted to withdraw their capital from the bonds and shares of productive enterprises, in ' order to" larch-ea; "tax,~exenspt securities. non-productive sync-es. a...) 1‘ “Men of means." he said. “are in- ‘ verifies? 0?.wm"m1 issued in» _. , ; . , g m 1', fi “BUSINESS AND lNVliSTMENl \"AR N S CREDIT M l‘. .\' NEW YORK. Jun. ilk—The mood of. reasonable spending is empha- sized in a declaration. made public today by Secretnry-’l‘rcasurcr .1. ii. 'i‘rvgoc. of the ndministr-itivo rom— miitoc of the National Asso-‘zuilon of Credit lion. in: their recommen- dations for the guidance of ircomc must in: used for stander! purchas- es and not too largely diverted into unusual channels: future income must not be mortgaged l’euriessly; there must be a fair return for every dollar expended in costs for ‘nbcr and salaries. say the «ruin m-m. "\\‘c would impose also as St. con- dition of good business." continues the declaration. “lhnt the flow of credit tinist be carefully guarded and used in moderation \viiut dc~ signed for .consumption purposes alone. As our large store of credit liicrouscs. the need of rare'fulncss growa in governing its flow and in preventing its npplicutionto spec- ulative of any kind." Commenting on the cxozllcnt choice of General Charles G. Dawes. former director of the federal bud- got. Owen D. Young. chairmen of the General Electric company and Henry M. Robinson. the Los Ange- .les banker to serve on the Repara- tions commission. the administrative committee of the Credit Men declare that this is “a. step forward or the road to European business stability. American business is deeply con- cerned in the spec retutn to nor- mal of tho cconom e affairs or Eur- ope. No one wants to see his neigh- bors'and liis‘ customers in di'trcss. The credit men note an increas- ing tendency in some directions to return merchandise without consent or justification. “If proper compen- sation to those Who undertake its risks. then nothing ismore indus- pcnsabic than the fulfilment of put- chase contracts. missible or justifiable to return mer- chandise after it is ordered in good faith and upon mutual understand- ing, then the security as well or the compensation of business becomes imperiled and in such a situation the public is just as much concerned as he who Sells and he who buss." It is pointed out how seriously the credit relation and the welfare of." business is in peril when sanctity, of contracts is not preset-v- ed. 1 “The material injury the' injustlfled return of m chen- dise may'fail upon the selling house buyer. and oit..the whole, the latter ' can be rated as more important than ‘ the former)? “Information." p. .- .-' (The-Mouthpiece.) -, x0 tor)-’-P.lea§o ’ phones: be: . _ , Operatic " Ifl‘he initial “B" as in Should it in" per-I the ‘ brough , Subscriber (to information opera? . , c me :Mr. bill‘s we; “Sportsman” The killing of game Will) the all of airplanes and motor ours is call- ing forth rcmonsirnncos from sports- men and conservators of Wild liir: throughout the world. comments the New York Herald. American sports- men have very. generally decried there aids as unsportsmanliite and as lmnling‘ to the extermination of game birds and animals. Their rc- monstrances recently hail the effort of checking the pursuit of Li“!‘f‘ :iml elk by motor cars on and Canadian prairies. :iml cui'lir-r of practically pulling an end to the lie-.- of airplanes along the Atlnniiv coast in the slaughter of game fowl. The present interest in thl- sulij‘ci is due it; 21. large measure to the dc- the “lust crn - from the South African \Thll. and the white rhinoceros is almost .~\~‘--" tinct. Oiggr Wild species are also threatened with extinction. Tun ‘ London Field says: “Forces are of j Work which if not checked may nui— ‘ ltfy the existing system of lo:isl..- lion." The motor car is used to prnelrutr regions where wild animals svvm 2:) have no fear of a car. The 1"".su‘l us that, ‘lhe driscr can take :2. Sim: :zt comparatively close range and utili- out leaving the car. The Field says ' that it received an article “‘liicii tri— ' umpliantly told how two men kili- -i more game in twenty-seven vi.:_\“.\‘ from a car than they hail kilivd in 1 law came too late. The great herds four months of a previous year. Tiw buffalo have vanished from the writer seemed totally unuth to r- :1?- \\‘cstern plains. the countless throngs i ize that sport and tlm >225 of lm: ' '- ot‘ Springbok and blesbok have gone iseldom related. "To a true sports- ' sir'iclho cf‘l‘m‘t flint ilicso modern innovations in hunting are hming ‘ upon big game. Laws have been ef— ;i’cciive in some instances in saying éwild animals from extinction. 'Ihe ; wild viepiliii’lt was in a fair way of being oxivrminuiml twenty years ago by the lusk hunters. when European nations having possessions on the African continent united for its pr.- it-ciion and pron-nation. Colonel Roosevelt highly com- mend-id this international effort in wave tho elephant from extinction. 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