Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

CLASSIC The Career of Katherine Bush | (Continued from page 30) gave her rapid, brilliant biographies of ' the men of the hour; he spoke specifi ' cally of Lord Mordryn — and all the ' time a love of her kept growing in his breast which had known only the coun i terfeits of love ... i There is nothing in life, nothing in ^ humanity, which does not have a limitation that some day must be reached, j Love is no exception to the rule. Pain goes so far, patience goes so far, balked desire goes so far, love turned in upon | itself goes so far . . . then a limitation is reached and there is a breakage, a j cleavage, or, mercifully, a healing . . . Gerald Strobridge reached his limitation, which seemed to him to comprise | every element of pain and patience, on the night of one of Sarah, Lady Garribardine’s dinners. Katherine had remained above stairs. The dinner had been deadly dull. The wine had tasted flat to him, the flowers had been heavy, the music had been uninspiring. The women, as he let his cold, sick eyes wander over them, were like the flowers, scentless. There was no sweetness anywhere. There was no pulse. Spring had gone out of the world, out of his heart, unless the woman with the level eyes and the hands-that-did-things would stoop from her immutable heights and give it back to him. She alone had the power to restore his lost romancing. He had been staled by gold, staled by lust, staled by the demands of women who were puppets dancing, mincing on ribbons that had tripped his feet. All of his knowledge had availed him nothing. He had had a glory before him, a glory and a vision, and he had closed his eyes to it, his ears, his heart which was now awake . . . awake and making imperious demands. What if they were not to be met, these demands? What if this hunger which this woman had created within him was never to be appeased? Well, he wanted life, tho it meant desolation. Perhaps he would have it — the desolation . . . After dinner he wandered into a small, unoccupied smoking-room. He wanted solitude, almost fiercely. Wanted to be alone. He thought of the Indian jungles and a nostalgia swept over him. To be alone . . . with her eyes upon his, in dreams — oh, in dreams, of course, with her hands in his, with her mouth on his . . . God! how we are racked and tormented and twisted and thumbscrewed and jeered at and reviled and ; cast aside . . . to rot . . , I Upstairs he heard the pacing of feet, ; steady feet, to and fro, to and fro , . . He was minded of the female tigress in ii the deep, far jungle-land, infinitely pa'' tient, infinitely tenacious and also infif nitely cruel , , . His mind inventoried i the house. The room above was KathI erine’s room. Of course. The pacing of those feet was Katherine pacing. Of what was she thinking in her resistless : way? Of whom? What was she plan f Seventy-three) The Man Who Wouldtd. St£^ Downp He was putting in long hours at monotonous unskilled work. 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