Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

WTJ^™ The Sins of St. Anthony (Continued from page 44) at your suggestion. I began this bagatelle. Why did you suggest all this, Jane?" The woman at his table smiled at him. Tony got the impression of an immeasurable strength. Then she said : "To help you, Tony. You told me that you loved Persis. I knew her type. I wanted you to have her because you wanted to. That is all." Tony did not immediately answer. All sorts of things welled up within him, but somehow did not formulate. He wanted to say incoherent, strange, unprecedented things . . . and couldn't. He became, for the first time, acutely aware of the woman before him. He knew that he had never been so acutely aware of a woman before. He tried to think of Persis. and she appeared upon his mental horizon as a pale shade, a nebulous figment of his own imagination. She seemed to lack substance and reality. This made him laugh. There was nothing nebulous or unreal about Persis. She was a very obvious little materialist. For a materialist. Persis had a very hard time of it about this time. Her overseas officer turned out to be an impostor who had seen Persis' father listed in Dun and Bradstreet. and had cared for the rating. Persis di>co\ered this in time, and at the same time, that she was, and always had been, madly in love with St. Anthony. Ah. if only he were Saint Anthony again! Why had she ever complained? How gladly now would she welcome the square-toed shoes and the flowing ties and the little test tubes and the abstractions ! All these had spelled love for her, for Persis. This new Anthony . . . only the night before she had passed his studio and had seen, delineated plainly against the blind, the figure of a woman, plying a needle. The figure of Anthony had bent over the woman, with solicitation. Persis suffered up to the limits of her little capabilities. She imagined she was having a very bad time of it. If she had been delicate, she would have developed neurasthenia. If she had been literary, she would have written anonymous novels, entitled, vaguely: "Me. Persis Meade." or something of the kind. Being neither, but just a shallow, pretty, exceedingly spoiled and selfish little girl she sulked and made everybody else as miserable as possible and told her troubles to every friend she had and every acquaintance she made. She ended up by a fit of fury against Jeanette. and in the throes of the fury reported Anthony to the Society for Law and Order. The now famous studio of St. Anthony was raided and the report came back to Persis that the widely disd housekeeper was a wooden manikin, and that everything, so far as th< cicty c^nld ascertain, was quite a> it should be. Mr. Osgood, they said, was apparently a good and law-abiding citizen. Persis then indulged in a fit of acute penitence. She invited Anthony to dinner. The invitation was potent with ise. Persis gurgled over the 'phone. 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