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EVENING PUBLIC 'LEDGEl-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY; DECEMBER 0. 1022
?7te Subconscious Courtship
A modern tveman'e extraordinary teheme te keep suitere from Interfer
ing with her Ufa Is told in thie fascinating novel
By BERTA RUCK
Auther of "The Wrong Mr. Wright," "The Arrant never" Ete.
Copyright, 19tS, Dedd, Head A Ce.
WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY
OLQVM nU'lllXSTOXK. charm
Ja mum icWetc. Mho has inherited a
ui En. Harried by relatives and
)nis che want te spend her money,
Wisuiers cAe icant te marry her for
itt he decides te marrya'huibaHd for
mtclttner," te fend off "the harpies,
'ilffnit HARRY CARUWIIAVL,
World H'ur veteran, man of personality,
engineer iche has. Invented a new
mast te finance tchich he agrees te
Clever's 'strictly business," propest-
ROSEMARY MBADOVrtl, Clever's
Jutin, pretty girl of the period.
illtk XtKADOW'8, aunt, who has
Itiriendcd Clever in adverttty and ts
theKtnd irilh favors,
HAS DAI., younger daughter, a
t'Slu' HOLT, big. geed-natured chap,
luhhU'J '" loveieith Rosemary.
Thrlr Wtthllns
ffmHKY won't FP0 uw xMh ,imc if reu
I don't mind," "ilI nrr Han
Hrnily. plowing through the mud nt a
quickened pace. "I ve people I want
te fce mywlf, this evening. Electrical
people, it's my turn, please "
New ou realize hew easily this story
plght go en forever, recording every
rranslf-emr detail et this situation?
When two people arrange te appear
,te live together m that they may in
reality remain completely apart, there
irises at ench moment et the tlaj a
frtsh complication.
n this is the history. "t of a ven-
j.i. w nf a BiitKonscietis courtship
and we can skip n geed many of the
dual dialogues where what wae eald in
word had fe little relation te what
as wordlessly ronbtdercd !
That Clever had things as sdie had
Intended ever the wedding Itself may
Ik, glenncd from this account in the
r4PCr MARRIAGE
MAJOlt II. CUIMICHAKI. AND
MRS. ELriUNSTONE
A lar;e and brilliant gathering at
tended the wedding tit St. Margaret's.
Westminster, of Majer II. Cannichael,
D. S. 0 M. C, late royal engineers,
nd Hever, widow of Jehn ElphJ" ElphJ"
stene.' of Elphlnstenr- Urethcrn. Tin
bride, loekins exquisitely lovely, were
BnnnUh hiee draped ever a gown of
Mack-and-vvbite witin besiite, n blR
Mack i!i ture hat across vvhiHi fell a
long rliMer of foam -win te grape, anil
a ran of black velvet, lace and deep
Hack fringe. She carried a nhewer
leunuet et orange-yellow orchid". She
wn given away by her aunt. Mrs.
Meadows, of the Prospect, Wohmend
Hill, and was attended by her cou ceu
rlns, the Misers Rosemary and San
dal Meadows, in unique toilettes et
orange- cllew ribbon elvet, with hats
ef cream veleurs trimmed with bands
and streamers of geld t Unite ribbon.
The be't man who Mr. James, Henry
Helt, late i-ejnl engineers.
The i-onire was lenduitril by Atcli Atcli
df.ice'i Meadows, assisted by Miner
Canen Helt and the Hev. David
Llewelyn, and was fully choral through
out. During the signing of the n-glslei
the choir sung " Perfect Leve.
After tin- reromeii there wai a rei op
tion nt lhi lld I'aik Hetel, with a
display nf the wedding pichents. vvliieli
vere numerous and handsome, and in
cluderl a silver cigarette bev, inicrlbeil.
the gift of the bridegioein'1 fcurvivins
fellow prisoners fieni Turkey. At the
reception there were present Lord
Caractnetis of IYnnal, Lord and Lady
llnlhennl. Sir Alcen.en and Ladv (.'ex.
Majer (icnernl Heiey (lepreentmg the
Air Ministij . Majer Gencial Such,
C. 1!.. O. M. (J. I representing the
Aeronautical Society), Colonel and
Mrs. Lawrence, Colonel Scott, Majer
hess, Majer Awdas, Captain and Mrs.
Meredith. Mr. Wright (of Klphinsteiu'
llrethers) and Mis. Wright, Mr. and
Mrs. Heward and Master "Teddv"
Heward, Mrs. Helt, the Mi-ves Helt,
Captain Clvnen, Mr. Oaken, Mr. l'on l'en
tana, Mr. Rebert Lieu el n anil iii.iii
ctheis.
The hnppy pair left by iar for
Folkestone en route for Paris, where
the honeymoon will be spent.
Se, as far as the pomp nnd circum
stances of glorious ceremony went, thre
two were married.
l'lame and Brushwood
Majer nnd Mrs. Harry Carmlchael
nt out cards, in March, for a small
dinner party and a large musicalc after
ward, which was also te be the house
farming for their new abode.
Thh was In Green street, one of the
rebuilt heu-.es en the right-hand side n
you go down from the Park. It had
wen lately decorated, and furnished,
and the owners (who were going
abroad) had been willing te let It as It
toeil, for tifty guineas a week.
"An appalling let," Carmlchael had
battered; thinking of his own rooms
Orer that cnrairn In flin Kusten reud.
rer these he paid thlrty-lhe shillings
Jetkly. He had kept en thoie rooms.
ih meant, whatever happened, te nn nn
tiaue te keep them en.
Clever had said, "Of course it would
lave been much dicaper te have done
ts I suggested nt llrst."
what bhe had biiggi-sled at first was
that she tdieuld continue te live, as
Wrs Harry C.irmlehael, under her
Aunt Pesj's reef. Yes; bhe had pro pre
Jwscd te hae a touple of rooms added
Je the ganlen-wing a'i seen as peible
wr her hushand'H use. In the mean
lime, and as he would be out most
c' his time in any case, theie was an
rmPlv mom at the Prospect which
Vnilld ,!,, fP J,),,,,
ariiilclmel nail inslanlly and deli
nlli'ly l),u ied this propes'ir. ("DeV U'
jeurw; nothing of the kind would de,
or a imiment.") He bad been sur
prised that Clever, who hail InsMe.l
Pen that ostcutatieus wedding of theirs
Iuver. who wished te underline (he
t that she was no longer an unat unat
"ceed young widow!), that Clever, of
"l People-, hheuld try te undo eerv
l"lng again by such a madly silly plan.
, "e had net known that Clever, bet'ew
"J wedding, had become- suddenly and
"traerdinarlly unhappy at the thought
' turning out again, permanently, from
i'. RlrlHneil'H home. She had secreth
'rted ver the feeling that she was
Pw uutning her beats and was te ha
" tnnroenod with one unsympathetic
jjjn. en a desert Island of unfauiil-
U'V'I "'is CarmlchneJ had net guessed.
-'" Jiiiil net even known the true reason
or Ms own leleut Insistence that thev
nli" "'" VMy ilui at lUdiuiend
nmenR iu,,. ppejde. that they simply
'"Ust linuich out into a place of their
tel n vrn ,lu'J' teull PPcnP ln 1)"
ewiiier lk any ether married ceu-
nULi.i deep-down instinct of the
"Piilyi'inalii te ruili biM mate oft
" me Mihited cave, bow did this jnuns
-PJ" Mibliiiinte niui conceal jeii, even
"Jte himself, with talk uf the rcintiwi
KVffi nP?. ,,c t'feen Mrcet mid
THE GUMPS Het Off the Bat
March evening was te see them dlne
lx people one of whom was, of nil
ethers, the most Important who could
possibly be met by nnv striving in
ventor in tue Held of aeronautics.
The Carmichaels enme home early;
she from her office, he from his garage
attic where he spent bis daya with his
models nnd calculations,
i They, dressed in geed time; she in her
big bedroom ut one side of the heuse
en the becend Doer, he ln his en the
opuflslte aide. Then, for the first time.
uiai nay. nicy met in one of the two
large reception rooms en the first fleer.
Ft was known as "The Itcd Par Par
eor. Just as Clever's loom at Rich
inend (new occupied openly and of
ficially, attached bathroom and all by
Sandal Meadows) seemed like the in
side of a great golden tulip, se te walk
Inte this parlor was like entering a
Hewer huge nnd rose-colored. Subdued
red wag the carpet; a richer rete glowed
In the upholstery of the bedllkc dies-
tcriiclc . Itugs, curtains, thndes nil
carrieii out a schenie that was, this
lipping evening, warm, cozy and in
y't'ns. .Only Clever felt that It was
wrong for her. Ree-co!or repelled
her, as blue repels some temperaments.
She preferred the "Geld Salen" where
even the piano was painted in blues and
gelds and where the tawny amethyst
brocades seethed her passion for even
shade of yellow; Bhe had chosen it for
nor own living room. Carmlchael, how
ever, coming down first, had gravitated
tewnnl the crimson-padded fonder-steel
M"1 .V10, fl.r ,of elnziS legs In his own,
the Red Parler. Se, as she bad wished
for a word with him befere dinner, she
had been obliged te go in there te find
him.
"It's rather stuffy ln here, could you
open n. wiudew?" was her first and
feminine comment.
Carmlchael, manlike, loved fresh air
out of doers. This soldier, who
hud slept nights enough in the ficezing
open, considered (like Aunt Gertrude
of "Milestones") that there was no
reason for turning a drawing-room
Inte a park.
However, he drew aside a heavv tu-lip-plnk
curtain. Hungup a window an
let in a blast of March air that nistlcd
the sheaves of honesty nnd Cape geese
berry set in the Chinesc-vnse between
the windows. The long j cllew feather
et (.lever s fan waved alie in this gale.
He asked politely, "Is that tee much
for you?"
"Net at nil. I like it. I never feel
drafts."
He looked et her. She was, of course,
In full evening kit; her golden bodice
no scantier than me.-.t bodices of the
epoch, but hew much meic peiltct weie
the arms and sheuldeis, the neck and
back that it displayed! Cannlchuel.
who quite lately had noticed shoulders
and necks, noticed these. He Iimc
looked at them a great deal lately
partly, of course, because it had been
his part te take finni them or te place
about them (he wraps or furs that
Clever had worn when she had been
going about with him in Paris. The
wcie also, as Americans mij , "p-iv te
leek at," these arm, firm and 'lull,
these shoulders of dimpling cre.un. They
were even, sometimes, net easy te look leek
away fiem. Ohie or tube lie li.nl hud
te remind hlm-elf, in the nlcl; of time,
that he mustn't xtnic. Here was a
woman nt whom he mustn't even look leek
much. Se new lie looked away from
her again, lie thought "feel drafts':
Could she cM'r feel jiuythlng?"
A Turning Point
She said, "These people will be here
In twenty minutes. "
"Yes."
".lust tell me quiiklj who it is I
hne te muku iiijsclf specially line te,
this General Uervey or Sir Alger
non?" "Oh," be said. "I am sure you will
be very nUu te both et them. It was
a great stroke et luck our meeting Her
wy In Paris like that. He's paed the
way for me, I knew. A gteat deal
depends upon whether I cnu interest
this ether man in the thing."
"The thing" was, of course, always
and forever, the mast.
"What la he like; Sir Algernon, 1
mean?"
"He glitters rather," said Car
mlchael. "Personally I don't nrc for
him as much as I de for Heney. Hut
he's pretty well get my fate lu bib
bands, when all's said."
"I see," mi id Clever Carmlchael, nnd
she looked down the tortoiseshell han
dle of her fan at her own white hands.
"Yeu mean he's frightfully vain and
shows off Incessantly."
"Oh, Lord, no. I wouldn't go be
far us te say that," protested Car
mlchael with all man's reluctance te
adept woman's hencster speech. "He
isn't as quietly sound as Uervey, per
haps, but he has mere influence. I
hupe te heavens I nianugu te enlist it
en my side. I only had that gllmpse of
him when Hcrvey Jutieduced me at the
club last week. A geed deal depends
upon this evening."
And as he stretched hit long legs
ever the rug tension was te be seen in
evciy line aud movement of his body.
I mler thut mask set by public school,
arm), Uaditien and poverty upon his
face, there was anxiety. Fer, realign,
this was a turning-point indeed. This,
their first official "party" at the Green
street house, was the first party et the
mast itself. This was the Ope of all
these things for which Carmlchael had
get mairied. This was the evening of
the mast; ils own admirably appointed
house, ils llewers, wines, beauty, con cen con
vers.uie'n, hespitnlity. Without these
things te offer, Cannichael would btill
have been cooling his heels in auto
rooms, still being told by underlings
thai tue manor was icccivihk uui-iimm
.mention! and that he would be
infeiuied and advised, and all the rest
of il, ill due utilise. In one stride
C.iruiioli.ie! had parsed that singe, lie
had met Geneial llenej, bimbelf an
inventor, an Idealist, a soldier, a man
of lctteis and a business mini, slaying
at the Mcurlee where the Carmichuels
were putting in their spoof honey
moon. Hcrvey and he had talked
while young Mis Carmlchael had geno
te a fitting; Uervey had heard all
about the mast, had questioned him
searchingly, as te its differences net
only from the previsional pattern new
In us but from any suggested schemes.
Te get Sir Algernon Cox interested
in it, that was the. important thing,
Uervey had said (for whose rank, roc
owl, position, orders and decorations
see the two Imposing columns in Who's
Who). 'Chen had ceme the hnsty In In In
tioductien at the club, and Sir Alger
non's "I've no time, I've no time to te
da.v net a minute! We'll meet anon
-I'd like te meet Mis. Carmlchael.
Yes, I hear eu've mairied one of the
seven loveliest Of course Uervey do de
clans it's- the coming thing Pve no
time we must talk about Itnext
week, perhaps " and then the fix
ing UP of this this evening of evenings.
Cnnnii'hnel giant ed from the clock
l Clever again
She spoke, and in the most human
and gLi'lish tone that he had id heard
addressed by her te him.
CONTINUED MONDAY;
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