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?r ??' .? gsg_gag ^mnrrrro oe a g b ^Lfl-g_CJLg_o_a_a anopQQooo oji ooo op_o_o The things that matter happen in I CHo heart. Luhister was conscious of Horaething akin to the old thrill, the, old indefinable souse of completeness, us he looked across the room and saw lier, and ho rather despised himself for the weakness of It. It seemed so paltry, so trivial, this revival of dead Issues, this quickening of dulled pulses at the mere Bight of ' :i women's face. And of all women's faees?hers! It was ns though n war? rior, who had Tared through the bat tie's <lln and havoc, had come, scarred and maimed, from the cannon's mouth into the pleasant places of the world; was. nevertheless, weak enough, fool enough, to be moved by the bursting or n squib and the scent of a spoon? ful of powder. 1 And yet?How well she* looked! How lightly Time had tried her! Not that three years ought to make any per? ceptible difference In a woman of five and twenty, but It rather hurt his sense of self love to find that the separation had told us little outward ly upon her ns It had upon him. Not :i change in her; not a flaw In her! It was as though Time had reversed the rolling of the scroll and brought, bei- back to the springtime and the days or her rose white girlhood. The same sweetly smiling mouth, the same brightly flashing eyes, the same pret? ty, birdlike trick of the never quiet bead. It would have been Irritating in any* other woman, that constant fluttering disquiet, but in her?Ion? isier hesitated for u moment, und then swung nwny from lite throng about, him and made his way across the room to where she stood. Some time he must meet her. he told him? self?that was Inevitable?so, why not now ns well ns any other? Within a yard of where she stood, and now so near that lie could have 'stretched forth his hand and touched ?ier, his hostess burred the way. She w"as one of those amiable social Idiots who label nil their guests at Intro? duction as though the glory of their attainments shed some reflected greatness on themselves. "Mr. Lnnister, permit, me to dot ?in you for n moment." she Interposed. 'T want, to have the pleasure of In? troducing n relative. My nephew, Mr. Fawdrey. Mr. Lanlster. You must bave heard or Mr. Ijinlster even In the West. Philip?Mr. George Lanls? ter. who wrote 'Don Scarpla' nnd 'The Sands of Pactolus.' Everybody has read them1 and talked of them?every? body." Lanlster knew from the sudden ces? sation of sound that she too had heard, and the consciousness Hint she had turned her head nnd was looking at. him brought another vague, Inde? finable thrill. He got through the In? troduction somehow, then lifted his .?jros nnd let them find their way to 'Ircrs. Always, since first he heard of her success, am) knew that the laurel, of attained desire had come to her at last, ho had known that somo day, somewhere, somehow, they two must meet again?that, was inevitable?and always he had wondered what form the words of -greeting would take. Now that the moment bad come.? "Er?How do you do?" she replied with one of her joyous lnughs. "You know 1 always did Doady?it's a way or mine." Doady. The old pet name fell from her lips ns naturally as though it.was only yesterday she used it last, and although the mention of it brought a faint gust, of color to Minister's face, no chnngo came over the smiling love? liness or hers. "T hair fancied 1 should meet you? one meets everybody of importance at Mrs. Montrossor's sometime, you know." she went on in a slightly low? ered voice. . "It Is the tax that. Art has to pay to Commercialism?when Commercialism isin a position to write its check for millions. After all. the call of Mammon pejietrales oven the Temple of the Must's, Doady, nnd a millionairess can lure even Melpo? mene, if she serves strawberries and peaches in midwinter. Yes, I rather thought 1 should meet you here." "Did that influence you at all?" "Influence me?" She gave one. of her sweet, rippling laughs and twitch? ed her bared shoulder in the way Min? ister remembered so wrell. "My dear Doady, why should it?" "Yes, that's it?why should It?" said Lautster a tririe moodily. "We each chose our own path, each cut adrift, and, ns you say. why should a mere meeting again Influence us? ? I. read a great, deal about you In the papers lust winter. That chap tfho writes the 'Musical Matters' In 'The Era' spoke highly of your succosb In Milan and Rome; likened your voice to Pat ti's in her prime, nnd nil that sort of thing." "Yes. they were very kind to nie? public and critics alike. I could have sung nil this winter at La Scala If I chose. They offered me tho engage? ment on my own terms; but 1 pre? ferred to come home." "Why?" "Good gracious! you ask a woman 'Why?' And of nil women?me! The fancy look me. that's all. I never in? dulge in self analysis. It Is too much like performing a surgical operation on a butterfly. You know,' looking at, him archly, "I am a butterfly: Yon j used to say so often, when--when tho honeymoon began to wane." "I said so many things then? things that I meant nnd?things that I didn't." "Yes, I know. It's the way with men and husbands." "And women and wives," ho added a trifle resentfully. ? "And women and wives." she admit? ted sweetly. "One as well he just. . flow droll it seems to think that we were ever that!" * ".lust, do you mean?" "No?husband and wire. We wero always just, you know. It was that that made us part. Suoh sillies as we were!" "To part?" a thin note eagerness In his voice. "Oh. mercy, no! To marry. It wii.s the maddest of our many mad mis -1 -r JLSUUUJLttJLPJUJLOJL^^ takes. Fancy two such devotees to Art?ana Art with a capital A. please] ?as you and I. being absurd enough to think that wo could live n hum? drum life together and give up the roses and lilies for a bundle of dried herbs. Do you remember how I used' to madden you with my practice when you wanted to write? And do you remember how you used to make I me cry?sometimes with remorse add sometimes with?with other feelings ?when I spent tho whole day with Madam ' Lfarge and forgot to order; anything for dinner?" "7es." admitted Lanlster gloomily; "I'm afraid I wasn't very pleuHnnt at those times. And they happened along very frequently. That was the worst of It. You see. It?It's Impossible for Art to be everything In life." "Especially when it isn't one's own particular branch of Art. There's so much in the question of viewpoint. Doady. No wonder we bored each other: ( know you tried honestly, and 1 know that I did. too: but It was all a mistake?nil a wretched; blundering uncomfortable mistake, and there was only one way to right It. and that was to do as we did. Don't you think so?" "I don't know." snid I.aiilster gloom? ily, looking down and toying with his watch chain. "Perhaps, if?if the baby had lived?" She put up her and suddenly, and all the light went out from her spark-1 ling eyes. "Don't!" she said in a whisper. "I can't bear to talk of It even yet. One may treat Marriage as an epigram and Lire as a jest; but Motherhood?Don't speak of It: There are chords which only dend hands may play upon and that even Memo? ry shrinks from touching." There was a moment of silence be? fore Lahister could trust himself to look tip. When he did so. she had recovered her composure. Her Hps were again smiling and her eyes again bright?brighter than over, for the light that, came from them came through a glaze of nndropped tears. "Can't, we go somewhere and get away from this beastly crowd?" said Lanlster. wrinkling his brows and studying his fingernails. "It seems so absurd to be talking like this In n ball room." ''Bverythng we have ever done has been absurd." she nnswered. with a laugh. "Whv shouldn't we continue the practice?" "Does that, mean that you had rath? er remnln Where yon are?" "No; that I had rather do what you suggest. It seems, so dellclously ri? diculous for two sensibly separated persons to sit down and enjoy a quiet tete-a-tete. But?there is so much I want to hear from your own lips." "Is there? Do you really enre?" "About your literary success? Oh. yes!" she Interjected smilingly. 'Af? ter-all, there is something In reflect? ed greatness, ajid one can't hell) feel? ing a little pride In being the wife of a .great literary genius?especially when she remembers that she contri? buted, to that greatness, and, indeed, made It possible, by removing her? self from his march to the Temple of Fame. I want to talk to you about 'The Sands of Pactolus.' It was sim? ply superb?the novel of the yonr. But you must be tired of hearing that." "I am?a little," admitted Lanlster. "I've changed a bit. you see. Onco upon a time?But let that pass- t went to talk of other things tonight. Can't we go somewhere and be alone together for a little while, Peggy-?" She laughed and gave her head an? other bird-like little twitch. "What, here?" she said gaily. "Was ever any? thing so absurd? Who could be alone eyen for one poor instant when Mrs. Montressor holds forth for the bene? fit of her 'dear five hundred'? F.very nook and corner overflows with the ingredients of the 'rich jam.' " "Then somewhere else?" "Somewhere else is indefinite. Un? less?" ''Unless what?" The momentary lull was broken by the band striking up again. She glanced at her program and then out over the filled room. "I am down on the card for Pds with Mr. Halliday," she said, "and bore he comes to claim it. Do you mind if I leave you?" "Have I any right to a choice? But won't you go on with what you were saying? 'Somewhere else is indefi? nite, unless?' " "Unless you care to find out where 'Madame Peggy Lanlsterl' lives, and to play Lochinvar?and carry her off there?to Arcadia?arter this dance is done." she said, with a laugli and a faint rise of color, as she walked by him and went to meet her advancing partner. And ir more was said. I^an Ister lost It In the gush ot the music and the swish of her skirt as she went, circling down the long light room with a coat sleeve around her waist and her eyes shining out over the curve of it man's shoulder. I It was after twelve o'clock, and she had danced five dances without catch? ing any further glimpse of him, al? though she had looked searchlngly 'about the crowded rooms, when she came upon him next. He was stand? ing at the foot of the stairs in the big entrance hall with his hat in his hand and a long white opera cloak over his arm. "Doady!" sho began with a lit? tle surprised laugh. "I had given you up: I?" The cloak was round her shoulders heforo she could finish the sentence and Lanlster was pulliug her hand through his arm. "Come!" he said. "I've been waiting for you for ages. I reit like rushing in and throttling that fellow you were dancing with last." "Whv didn't you? It would have' expediated matters, and I think that I should have, relished It a little." ... \ "Oh don't talk nonsense! As If V hadSdie right?as if I hadn't tor-' felted that! For Cod's sake. Peggy! I what have we two being doing with our lives?" 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They , were out In the frosty, star pierced darkness by this lime, making their way down the steps to where u puff-! ing nnto waited. Lindster lifted her lightly and placed her in it and in an? other moment the great dark hulk swung away from tho curb and went chugging off into the quiet ot the night. "You haven't answered my last finestlon," said Lanlster. breaking the Silence wmch had fallen between - them. She laid a deprecating Viand upon ' his sleeve and looked up at him with troubled eyes. can't just, yet." she. said. "Don't ask mo anything for a time; don't ask mo anything here. I want to bo sure." "Of what? Or whom?" She looked away without answer? ing, and sat for a long time with hands1 loosely folded in her lap. And so she was still sitting when the auto, slowed down and stopped. She looked up at the house before her and then round at Lanlster, and he could see in the faint light that her, face was very pale. "It is my own ' home?tho home of?of the opera singer," she said In a voice out of which all the snap and timbre seem? ed to have gone. "Yon took me at my word, then? And after I mention? ed l/ocldnvnr! You carry nie off and ?bring me to mv own home?" "Because I have none of my own," he nnsworod. "I live at a hotel. I, couldn't respect you and take, you there." She flung him a laugh, wholly sweet, utterly joyous, and, rising, jumped out of the auto before, hej dould help her. "How like a man? how very like a man!" she sa' l. her I faco breaking into smiles, und the wet light in her eyes again. "Come! . It is our own Arcadia again." And how much more like Arcadia | than she Imagined, she realized when j she ran with him to her own bow-er and flung open the door; for all the room was filled with flowers. White roses, white lilies?whole sheaves of them?in vases and urns and lying in drifts of creamy fragrance every? where. And in the midst of the floral confusion stood her maid with arms brimful of blossoms. "Ah. mndanie. whnt shall I do wi/. zom?" she cried, perplexed and des pnirful. as her mistress appeared, "Figure to yourself ze ovtromo diffi? culty. They shall come, not. twenty minutes since, wiz ze compliment, zn commissionaire say, of one Monsieur Lanistalre?and zero is not room for ze half. What shall I do v.lz ssdni nil?" "Throw them down?anywhere?anil go. Kelicie. go!" said her mistress, with a laugh in which the hysteria of hap? piness was clonrlv iraceable. "Oil, yon may listen at the door if you like ?it in uil mio to mo. ho Hint you no. And tliin is why you did not conic for mo at tho end of tlint first dance?1' Blic added, turning to Lanlster as tho: Insulted maid went out and hanged the door behind her. "How nice of you?how tender of you! Yon remem? bered what 1 said all those miserable yours auo?'A successful singer's path should be strewn with flowers, and you shall live to see that happen to nie.' And you still 'remembered!" "It?it was only a little thin-;. Peg? gy." "Only a little thing!V She hud thrown aside her clonk and was rtin? ning her bared arms through the fra? grant heap, piling the things up against her fare and laughing like .1 happy child; then with sudden aban? donment bhe dropped them all and. seating herself, pill her elbows upon the table, made a bridge of her two hands and rested her chin upon them. -Only a little thing! As If all earth, and heaven?yes, and even bell itself?were not made up of little things! Such little things as this mean victory, mean redemption, Oeorge." "Then, if it Is so. may I ask again, Pe.Rgy, What have wo two boon doing with our lives? 1 know yon snld that we had made successes of them; but there's a rue leaf in orrery laurel ! crown, dear, and a rose In every do I feat. Can't we go back, Peggy?hack j to Arcadia and the days Unit were?" He came round the. table and took her hand in his. "We both hnve tasted of the wine of the Victor, but ; to mo Hie lees are bitter," he said gently. "Cnn't wo two go back and begin our real life all over again?" She drew her hand from his and stood off. looking at him with bright, searching eyes. "Let me look at you a moment?let me be sure," she said, a thrill of eager longing In her voice. "To go back! To go back! And you once said. 'There is never any going back in the canons of Art.'" "Hut Isn't there something higher than Art? Isn't there something more to be desired?" "Yes." she answered In a sort of whisper. "Do you think I should have conio back here?to Aniorion? if there had not been? No, don't speak, don't, stop me?let . me go on to tho end. And let me look Into your eyes while I say It. Art! You know how I worshiped It; you know what a slave I was to it. Well. 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