77i£ Four of Hearts
A Serial of Youth and Rma(*
By Virginia Van Dr AVRtfr I
CHATTER LVIV
Copyright, 1918, by Star Co. I
She could not marry Gerald Stew- :
art.
That was the conviction that im-j
pressed itself upon Cynthia Long's |
mind after she parted from Milton j
YanSaun.
In stead of going directly to her
uncle's house, she crossed Fifth I
avenue into Central Park, walking {
rapidly, as if the exercise would ,
help calm her mental turmoil.
She had always known that a|
loveless marriage was a sin. Yet I
she had promised to enter into such
a union. She had done this because
she was sorry for a man whom she
liked and respected and who. she
believed, loved her. But this after
noon Edward Van Saun, with a i
manner that made her feel as if her I
own father were speaking, through
him, had said things that recalled I
that father's teachings. Then Milton
Van Saun had voiced exactly the j
same sentiments, and her heart had j
echoed them. She remembered now |
the look in his blue eyes.
But she must forget that look, j
That had nothing to do with what |
her conscience was saying to her.
She must not marry a man she did '
not love.
What about Gerald himself? i
Would he not suffer in the break- I
ing of his engagement.
It was the weak part of her na- [
ture that asked this question of
her sterner self. She answered it |
promptly. Even if he did suffer. |
it would be kinder to allow him to
endure that pain than to deceive
him with the prospect of an im- 1
possible happiness.
A fine rain like a Scotch mist had j
begun to fall, but she did not no- I
tice it, until, looking up the Mall. (
she saw the electric lights reflected ;
in the shining pavement. Then, j
with a sudden appreciation that her I
i oat was damp, and that it was late, j
she turned about and retraced her ■
steps quickly.
It was seven o'clock when she j
reached home. The butler who ad- j
mitted her told her that dinner had !
just been announced. At the head ;
of the stairs she met her aunt.
Dora Out of Hearing
"You are late, my dear." Mrs.'
Livingstone remarked. "Why-—you ;
are wet! Had you no umbrella?"
"Xo." Cynthia admitted, "I did !
not notice that it was raining." 1
"Dora has gone to bed with a j
headache," Mrs. Livingstone in- j
formed her. "Please make no noise i
in your room. I have shut Dora's :
doors so that your light will not j
waken her. I hope she is asleep.
Hurry and change your wet things." j
"Don't wait dinner for me. please.
Aunt Amanda." Cynthia urged. "I j
do not want any soup, and will just
begin where the rest of you are
when I get downstairs."
"I will have your soup kept hot i
until you come down," the matron '
rejoined gravely. "You must not
neglect your health, Cynthia. You
will be as tired and worn as poor
Dora is if you do not take better
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, HAJmiSBTTRG TELEGRAPH MAV 15, 1918
Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service *-* ' *m* By McManus
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YOU TO THE DON'T O OTHERWRL/ &A T " ,LL WANT-9 OOTHERYOU HUGH , ASZ 1? - IF / F
( care of yourself. Oh, by the way,
Gerald telephoned a while ago. He
will call this evening unless you
send him word to the contrary. He
said hr did not want to intrude.
But I told him. of course, you would
wish him to come."
"Thank you," Cynthia murmured
turning away and going toward her
room.
She must break the truth to Ger
ald this evening, she realized, with
a sudden sinking of heart. She had
hopi>d he would not call to-night,
and that she might defer the pain
jful scene for twenty-four hours. But
' she would not shirk it now. She
had put her hand to the plough that
must drive a straight, direct furrow.
She dared not look back.
Very softly Cynthia went about
her room, changing her damp
clothes for dry ones. Xo movement
from Dora's apartments.
Only a few minutes had elapsed
when Cynthia Long presented her
self at the dinner table. Mrs. Liv
ingstone regarded her in surprise.
"Well, my dear: you dressed very
quickly!" she approved. "Did you
hear any sound from Dora's room?"
Not Much Satisfaction
"None at all," Cynthia replied as
she took her seat. "I hope she is
sleeping. She seemed tired this
afternoon."
"I noticed that she did not seem
as well as unsual," Cynthia ad
mitted.
"She was very nervous and ex
cited when she came into my room
after leaving you at the Van
Saun's," Mrs. Livingstone declared.
"I do not remember ever having
seen her in quite such a ridiculous
state. I almost lost patience with
her, she was so absurd. But after
I had talked with her, and she had
rested a while, she was more like
herself, although she insisted that
her head ached so badly that she
wanted to go to bed."
Stephen Livingstone spoke his
mind with decision.
"I hope, Cynthia, that if you hap
pen to be with Dora when she is
as hysterical and as unreasonable
as she was this afternoon you will
discourage such nonsense. For that
is what it is—as her mother and I
made her acknowledge at last. I
must ask you to back us up in this."
"I hope she will be much better
in the morning," she said lamely.
And with this response Mr. and
Mrs. Stephen Livingstone had to te
content.
(To Bo Continued)
GOLDEN" EAGLES AT STMH RY
Sunburj'. Pa., May 15. —The open
ing session of the state convention
of the Knights and Ladies' of the
Golden Eagle was held in the Arm
ory here yesterday when Burgess
Charles W. Clement welcomed the
delegates and turned over the keys
of the city to them. A feature of the
convention was the big parade this
afternoon in which cormnanderles
from Erie, Pittsburgh. Philadelphia,
Reading and other cities took part, i
"Outwitting
By Lieutenant Pat O'Brien
(Copyright, 191S, by Pat Alva O'Brien.)
, A Night of Dissipation
I ' ,<*'" 1 The place began
10 ti 1 I up rapidly.
[ J^HLSr°* x N Kvery second per
t <■ son who came in
f ip!P>** f ; the door seemed to
I f ! nie to be a German
; i soldier, but when
■> they were seated at
,• ■ the tables and I
1 ti- K°t a chance later
. s on to make a rough
count. I found that
in all there were
: , not more than a
• I hundred soldiers in the place and
' I there must have been several hun
- I dred civilians.
1 The first people to sit at my table
I were a Belgian and his wife. The
, Belgian sat next to me and his wife
s next to him. was hoping that oth
er civilians would occupy the re
t maining two seats at my table, be
. cause I did not relish the idea of
having to sit through the show with
; German soldiers within a few feet
1 01 me ' That would certainly have
spoiled my pleasure for the even
: ing.
Every uniform that came in the
c.oor gave me cause to worry until
I was sure it was not coming in I
mj direction. I don't suppose there '
was a single soldier who came in
the door whom I didn't follow to his
i seat—with my eyes.
Just before they lowered the
t lights, two German officers entered.
They stood at the door for a mo
ment looking the place over. Then
they made a bee-line in my direc
j tion and I must confess my heart
I .started to beat a little faster. I
I hoped that they would fipd another
j seat before they came to my vicin
, j ity, but they were getting nearer and
| nearer and I realized,with a sicken
j ing sensation that they were headed
I direct!} for the two seats at my
. 1 table, and that was indeed the case,
Germans at Same Table
| These two seats were in front of
i, the table facing the stage and ex
?, cept when the officers would be eat
'l ing or drinking their backs were to
>jward me, and there was consider
! I consolation in that. From my
' seat J could have reache.d right over
Vf ? ne of 'hem on his bald
Ihead. It would have been been more
than a touch, I am afraid, if I could
have gotten away with it safely.
As the officers seated themselves
a waiter came to us with a printed
bill of fare and program. Fortu
nately, he waited on the others tirst
and I listened intently to their or- i
ders. The officers ordered some
light wine, but my Belgian neighbor
ordered "Bock" for himself and his
kwife. which was what I had decided
; to order anyway, as that was the 1
only thing I could say. Heaven
knows X would far rather have or- I
dered something to eat. but the bill ]
of fare meant nothing to me, and I
1 was afraid to take a chance at j
the pronunciation of the dishes it set!
forth. j
j There were a number of drinks I
listed which 1 might safely enough
! have ordered. For instance, I no
ticed "Lemon squash, 1.50," "ginger
beer, 1.—," "Sparkling Dry Ginger
Ale. I.—"Apollinaris, I.—and
"Schweppes soda, 0.80," but it oc
curred to me that the mere fact that
I selected something that was listed
in English might attract attention to
me and something in my pronuncia
tion might give further cause for
suspicion.
It seemed better to parrot the Bel
gian and order "Bock," and that was ;
i what I decided to do. •
Whetted His Appetite
One item on the bill of fare tan
talized me considerably. Although
it was listed among the "Prizzan der
1 drunken," which I took to mean
"Prices of drinks," it sounded very
i much to me like something to eat,
i and Heaven knows 1 would rather
| have had one honest mouthful of
| food than all the drinks in the
; world.
I The item I refer to was "Dubbel
i Gersten de Flesch (.Michaux),'' A
double portion of anything would
have been mighty welcome to nie,
| but 1 would have been contented j
with ii single "Gersten" if I had only
I had the courage to ask for it.
To keep myself as composed as
; possible 1 devoted a lot of attention
I to that bil|y of fare, and 1 think by
the time the waiter came around 1
j almost knew it by heart. One drink
| that almost made me laugh aloud j
! was listed as "Lemonades gazeuses," j
| but 1 might just as well have intro-
Iduced myself to the German officers ;
j by my right name and rank as at- i
i tempt to pronounce it.
A\ hen the waiter came to me,
I therefore, I said "Bock" as casually j
|as 1 could, and 1 felt somewhat re- j
I lieved that 1 had gotten through I
this part of the ordeal so easily.
While the waiter was away I had I
a ohance to examine the bill of fare !
and 1 observed thai glass of beer!
cost 80 centimes. The smallest j
change I had was a two-mark paper i
bill. I
Apparently the German officers
were similarly tixed and when they
offered their bill to the waiter, he
handed it back to them with a re
mark which I took to mean that he
couldn't make change.
Can Tip in Any Language
Right there I was in a quandarv.
To offer him my bill aftei he had
just told the officers he didn t have
change would have seemed strange,
and yet I couldn't explain to him
that I was in the same boat and he !
would have to come to me again I
later. The only thing to do, there-j
fore, was to offer him the bill as
though I hadn't heard or noticed
what had happened with the Ger
mans, and 1 did so.
He said the samq thing to me as
he had said to the officers, perhaps a j
little more sharply, and gave me < 1
back the bill. Later on, he returned i I
to the table with a handful of I
change and we closed the transac-1
tion. I gave him 25 centimes as a
tip—l had never yet been to a place |
where it was necessary to talk to do I
that. i
During my first half hour in that
theater to say 1 was on pins and
needles is to express my feelings
mildly. The truth of the matter is 1
was never so uneasy in my life.
Every minute seemed like an hour,
and a dofcen times I was on the point
of getting up and leaving. There
were altogether too many soldiers in
the place to suit me, and when the
German officers seated themselves
right at my table I thought that >vas
about all 1 could stand. As it was,
however, the lights went out shortly
afterward and in the dark I felt con
siderably easier.
After the tirst picture, when the
lights went up again, 1 had regained
my composure considerably and I
took advantage of the opportunity to
study the various types of people in
the place.
From my seat I had a splendid
chance to see them all. At one table
there was a German Medical Corps
officer with three Red Cross nurses.
That was the only time I had ever
seen -a German nurse, for when 1
was in the hospital J had seen only
men orderlies. Nurses don't work
so near the first line trenches.
Enjoys the Situation
The German soldiers at the differ
ent tables were very quiet and or
derly. They drank bock beer and
conversed among themselves, but
there was no hilarity or rough-hous
ing of any kind.
As I sat there within arm's reach
of those German officers and realized
what a chance they had to capture
an escaped British officer, I could
hardly help smiling to myself, but
when I thought of the big risk I was
taking, more or less unnecessarily, 1
began to wonder whether I had not
acted foolishly in undertaking it.
Nevertheless, the evening passed
off uneventfully and when the show
was over I mixed with the crowd
and disappeared, feeling very proud
of myself and with a good deal more
confidence than I had enjoyed at
the start.
1 had passed a night which will
live in my life as long as I live. The
bill of fare and program and a
"throw-away'" bill advertising the
name of the attraction which was
to be presented the following week,
which was handed to me as I came
out, 1 still have and they are among
the most valued souvenirs of my ad
venture.
(To Be Continued.)
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Wanamaker Mails First
Letter in Air to Capitol
By Associated Press
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Thornton who was followed by Ex-
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