Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

CLASSIC there be a second meeting it will be bei cause he desires it very greatly — and if [ he does ” 1 Gerald Strobridge bent over the hand ! she abruptly extended to him in dismis' sal. “He will desire it,” he said, simply. When he left the room Katherine watched him with eyes grown shame; lessly humid. “He is an old man now,” ■ she said to herself ; “his youth ... he has left his youth behind him ... in here . . . with me ...” The Duke of Mordryn was a foremost figure in the political and social life of his country, because he had taken what he wanted whether it was supposed to be the thing to do or not. He had, as it were, followed his natural bent and his natural bent had led him to unlimited power. He had never seen a woman he desired for more than an hour after dinner, or an occasional theater. He had seen, talked with, scorned, reluctantly admired a great many. When he saw Katherine Bush an extravagance of thought rushed over him. “There is a mate meet for such as I,” he thought, and he could have laughed aloud. “Senility,” he added ; “wait until I talk to her. She will prattle. She will ask stereotyped questions. She will gush.” She did, of course, none of these things. She was rather still than otherwise, but it was an immense stillness. It was filled, the Duke of Mordryn thought, with the rushing of giant waters, with the invincibility of mountains, with fastnesses unpenetrated, with a vast sense of waiting, with color . . . He left her after Gerald Strobridge’s dinner, and walked home, an unprecedented occurrence with him. “I must have air,” he said to himself; “somehow I feel as tho I have been in the presence of something bigger than myself, bigger ■ than the universe. That woman, with her inscrutable eyes and her efficient, miraculous hands, has remade my world tonight.” He called on her at Lady Garribardine’s three nights later. She received him in a small anteroom, and she wore the simple blackand-white in which she performed her pleasant secretarial duties. “You look ” he began. “I look — suitable,” she told him. “I am Lady Garribardine’s secretary. Please dont interrupt me. You are interested in people, in their processes of thought, : in the working scheme they make of ; their loves. I know that you are. You t have told me. I am going to tell you mine.” I She told him faithfully, nakedly, with i the scorn she felt for it all playing like I fine rapier-thrusts thru her speech. The I rancid Bush villa, the smudgy Bush i brothers and sister, the blaring gramoI phone, the middle-classes . . . then of "" Lord Algy ... of her invincible determination, of her willingness to pay prices {Continued on page 85) ( Seventy-seven ) Remove hair from arms or underarms in the simplest and easiest way by using Evanses Depilatory The outfit is complete for use at your dressing-table. 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