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THE HOUSE OF MOHUN
By GEORGE GIBBS
Auther of "Youth Triumphant" and Other Xitcctssts
Cepuright, 1011, D. Appleton A Ce.
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SYNOPSIS
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PisS4 (finer spoiled bu wealth anil aitutatlen. Dr.
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Jyjyjr' 2!tt ' melicr tiitcrlfllit let n ciib-
1 1 mriuiii waitiinaruimed. Apparently
V then Wfis nntliliiff for It lint n rlilp
c a ipln in the runabout, nnrt both'
' ef these altpninthn imlpil bwlric tin1
gorgeous fligbt Hint, Ac li.id iiiIjwM. Ititt
vahe hnri nlmet decided en tln horseback
rtdp when lirr tnetbiT peIi.
"I hail n nole from C"!eirji I.ycrtt.
darling, lie's eeminjj nut this nftpr nftpr nftpr
oen "
"Really," fald Cherry ll-tlcely.
"And he's bringing his friend. Dr.
David SatiRree."
"Geed Lord! That settles It. I'm
ff," said thf (tlrl. rlslnc
"But my dear " began Mr. Mehnn,
calmly.
"That freak! Oh. Muzzy."
"What de you mean? Ilnve you
t this T)r. SangreeV"
She nodded. "At the C.eir fluu.
anked him, I don't Istuiw h unless
thought he wouldn't come.'
"Hut he h eeinlni:. my dear. And
e's one of the Sanurenx. 1 looked him
n In the 'Scvinl ltelter ' ,uite nil
light. Ver, tine old family and vnine
money. I)Ntingulkhed. tee. Harvard
Foundation Keseareh man and one of
the next known ethnegra "
"Ethnolegi-f-." siiid Cherry. n he
remembered. "He leeks the part. Muz
ay clear thin, with gettc'ie.s." And then,
M an after thought "He annoys me."
"In what way?"
"Oh. 1 don't knew. said Cherry
With a frown. "He iulnted out of
his glares sldewa.i" n though 1 were
a (specimen and he talked like a book.
I hate stedgv people. They make me
furious. I want te shock them. I
alwns fej like saying emething Inde-
"I've no doubt ou did. my dear."
Cherry llahted a ci.-ai-ette and
ihrugged the topic out et existence as
hex mother went en : ...
"Hut a Snngree: I de wiMi you d
tay. It does help me out uch a let.
Bcnidee. Cherry, jeu knew. Mr. l.yci-tt
la In some of your father" rempanle
and t think be'd wnnt ou te be pe-
"Oh. ye. of course. The girl, who
had paused en her way te the deer.
ew turned toward her mother.
"Uy the way. Muzzj," she nked. i
Vhnt's the matter with Tad latelj?"
"I'm sure I don't knew. What de
you mean. Cherry?"
"De veu menu that you haven t no
ticed?"" "Noticed what?"
"Hew worried he leeks."
' Alicia Mehun shrugged.
"Thu abstraction of business, my
dear. He has looked that, way for
twenty -five year. It cost? some worry
te be wealthy in New Yerk."
"Yes, I understand," Mild Cherry
quietly, "but I can't remember ever
eecing him i-e gray and tired looking.
X don't think any of us consider Dad
tneugh. Muzzy."
"He dee-n't give us a chance te con
sider him "
"But would we consider him even
If he gave us the chance?" she insisted.
"He hasn't a very important part in
your life or in mine. I feel sorry for
Dad. He ought te take a day off new
and then."
"When he does he's bored te death,
Bay dear." Alicia Mehan's slender fin
gers wove daintily in and out among
the flowers that "he was rearranging.
"Yeu needn't wn-te jour sympathy en
your father. He would rather be in hl
office, with his lingers at the pulse of
business, than doing anything else in
the world. Itulness i.s a part of him.
Its his lifeblood."
"Then all I've get te eav is that it
lan't nourishing him much," said
Cherry. "Are eii sure that everything
is all right, Muzzy?"
"Of course, you foolish child. Teu
Vm't knew your father as 1 de. What
put Mich a notion as that into your
head?"
"Oh, nothing and it Dad doesn't
teniplain, why should we worry? But
J, Sometimes I wonder if we're really as
lien as we think we are."
, "We have enough. Cherry. Of
eeurse, we should have mere. Don't
bother about that, lour father seldom
peaks of his affairs te me. te any one.
But I have a wonderful faith in him.
' X always have- had. I belWe in my
I faith. I flatter myself that without it
we shouldn't have come as far as wc
have."
"But what's the end of It nil?
Haven't we get nil that we need? The
only thins: we Inn en t get i. a jneht.
and you knew ou ger frightfully sen
aick." "But I de want the Wetherbys
place at Newport, di-ar The pricu is
ridiculous. They're really giving it
away."
".Muzzy, dear, I'm afraid you're
spoiled. We've all of u. get Inte the
way of thinking thwt Dad can de won
ders, like n n .isici.i' .iking a rabbit out
of n hni ISur ir in't go en forever. i
".Tack Spem er siri there tnuv be nn
awfulslMinp in eviri thins seen." ,
"Well, 1 m g icl we're well beyond
being affcde.l l that," nid the pretty ,
lady reuni'ing out the discussion, con
fidently, "But I de wMi you'd stay thU
afternoon, cherrj. Mr. l.ycctr. Is se
fend nf jeu."
"De eij rcnllv want nie te. Muzzy?" '
"There's n dear. Yeu can be se
' BfTeenble when you like te be,"
"Oh, all right." sighed Cherry. "I'll ,
' ECt into riding togs ami go Inter But
de put n little 'hooch' en the tea table
and 'sle' Lyd'a Brampton en te the
ethnologist person. lie gives me a
pain."
"Cherry, you're incorrigible." I
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If one snld that the actuating motive
f David Kaugree's visit te Oyster Bay
was curiosity, one would cmue some
where near the truth. As Ocerge Ly
eett had said, some water had run under
the bridge- since he had been home a
Statement which applied as correctly
te David Kangree ns it did te most of
the people that he had known. But
wbile Sangree. had been sobered by the
tragedies that he had witnessed during
the war, .oine of his younger friends, it
eemed, had taken the war aa a kind
of pmiihing ndventure which they re
linquished with regret. His own part
In It had been tee horrible an experience
te be easily forgotten, for he had lived
through three typhus epidemics and
fcadteen mere than his shnie of death
ad starvation. He was wirprlsed at
at signs of Indifference which greeted
at en every ride. Even in England.
whsal be reached there, the pendulum
III already swung wildly and a frenxy
ad gaytty was tbe order of the hour
assnff the people that he knew, This
'.upialned away as tee beginning
a1 holiday , the breaking of the dis-
it or war, an interim or seu-in-
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"Yeu needn't waste our sympathy en jnur father. Business is it part
of him. It's his lifeblood"
classes of society. The eentlal ma
leiiality of the army phllo-eph had led
te a diminution. If net in a destruction.
et e Id i en H. tn an unconcern ter ui'
Milne of human life and a ta-te for i th
rcckles-liP's and crime, offered ln evi
dence every dav In the pases of the
newspapers. The study of ancient civ
ilizations had given him a historical
perspective which he applied te the
present Munitien for his own interest
and amusement. Every way the re
patriated traveler looked he saw signs
of decadence which amazed hitn. Te
Ueerge I.ycett, who acted for the pres- ,
mt as his mentor and guide (as lcelt
expressed it. "like Virgil conducting'
Dante through the nethermost depths
of the iiiferii.il regions"), it seemed that
David Sangree was taking the mnnnern
and customs of the d.iy tee seriously.
After all, they merely reflieted a pass
ing phase in the natiennl life. Sturdy
optimist thai he wa. he believed that
the Innate geed In the great majority
of people must ultimately gain the as
cendancy. But David Sangree wagged his head
and blinked through his glassc. 11 is
reading had made him believe that lu
ury and vice were the legacj of lc lc lc
lofleu.s peoples. Of one thing lie was
certain, tlmt his own people were living
tee fast especially the young people
who were burning up their. spiritual po
tential!. ies in ii mad pursuit ei pleas-
ure. 1.. which their elder, were net far
behind them. At every hotel, every
cafe, rh"re were sounds of ja;:. music
and people hopping or whirling perpetu
al! in antics which suggested the
prancing of the Denlsh or the sinuous
motions of the Oeled Nail, the one of
which is fanatic and the ether sexual.
Particular Instances of recklessness In
members of the nunger set had been
Indicated te him, nnd, though he had
never been Inclined te listen te gossip
evidence was tee delinlle in be
Iithtly regarded. The habits of Miss
Cherry Mehun. who had seemed In him
a ver splendid sort of a creultire, were
net beyond criticism, for Mrs. l.cett,
who did net shurc the blithe optimism
of her husband, made the definite state
rncnt thnt she smoked, drank, gambled,
kept late hours, refused te submit te
the conventions nml wnx. in short, ns
careless of public opinion as a chipping 1
sparrow.
And. without seeking It, David San
gree had stumbled upon evidence thnt
at least a part of Mrs. I.ycett's charges
were true, for one night, returning te
the l.ycetts' from a meter I rip te l'ert
.Jeffersen, where he had consulted
rather late with n fellow scientist, he
had come upon n car In trouble upon
the read. There was a broken fence
and a damaged fender together with in
ternal injuries te the machine tee s,..
i .els for immediate diagnosis. Sangree
had succeeded In towing the damage!
tar and its occupants te u garage a
few miles awny. where the derelicts, a
man and a girl, declining his further
assistance, obtained another cur and
followed him toward town at two in the
morning.
The girl of the joy ride was Cherr
Mehun. the wan, one of the parly San
gree had seen at the CJelf Club: but as
the darkness had made excusable bel
ief usal te recognize him he made no
attempt te remind her of their ac
quaintance. That her companion was
ver slightly diiink might have escaped
his notice had net the causes of the
Hill i
accident provoked a Justllahle curiosity.
Of this chance meeting Sangree had
said nothing in (leerge Lycctt, nor te
any one ebe, but he hud n feeling that
by Ids silence Miss Cherry Mehun was
being laid tinder a very dellullu obliga
tion. A stronger motive impelling bis wish
te meet the ether members of the Mo Me
hun family was the knowledge, Intelj
ceullded. thnt a considerable part et his
private fortune, administered in his nb nb
sence by tlrerge Lycett, had been In
vested in some of .Tim Mehun's com
panics.
(leerge t.jcett, te whom had been In
trusted the management of Snngrce's
business r.tTnlrs during his absence In
the East, was n firm believer in the star
nf .lamrs K. Mehun, nml had invested
most. If net nil, of David Sangree's
fortune with n great deal of his own.
In the Mehun enterprises, '
I'eihnps the Investments bad net been
niilte conservative, but they had been
successful, and mi the end justified the
means. The talks that David Sangree
mm nml wnn .urn .Aienun since his re
turn had been unite satisfactory nnd
In a few months, it seemed, there would
be enough of a return nn his holdings
te iniike him a very wealthy man se
ceil Unit he could nlrnrd In spend
mm r or ins lire III the ciilli va-
the scientific projects which
vvete iieai est Ms hearl. The time te
sell was net et, lie was told. Cen
dltlens were .still a little uncertain. But
the assurances of growing value in
his shares gave Siingrcc n pleasant
sene of financial security, nnd he had
left t he uMeIiun ellices in n Rolls.
factory state of mind which wus shared
bv hii optimistic adviser.
These pleasant business relations
gave D.ivld Sangree n feeling of tier
senal interest in thu Mehun family.
se that the visit which he and (Jeorge
I,.vcett were paying nad n gencrel as
well as n purely social sigtillienilce.
If the daughter hud created a rather
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forbidding InpresalM'wpMiila
consciousness, tbe mother was
eetlipr ehnrniln. Her nerfectlen be
wlldercd him, And he wondered hew
such n charming creature could be the
mother of the joy-riding hoyden; Alicia
alvvnys affected strangers thnt way.
If there were deficiencies In the Mehun
faiullr no one ever carried them te
her tfoer. She always created the 11
luslen of being incapable of mistake.
If her children were rather wild, the
age and net their mother was respon
sible. Te He Continued Tomorrow
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