The Photo-Play Journal (May-Dec 1917)

PAGE 52. THE PHOTO-PLAY JOURNAL FOR JULY, 1917 His act of patting Debora consolingly on the cheek caused Berenice to burst into fresh tears and to kneel beside her mother, burying her head in her lap. Debora stroked the girl's hair tenderly with one hand and covered her eyes in shame with the other one. Her visit to Washington had become the keenest regret of her life. She had permitted the passion to rule to lead her too far. CHAPTER IX Back to far-away Iona the royal family went. They were crestfallen and discouraged. Each was fearful of the immediate future. They anticipated scandal would pursue them. As a matter of fact, it preceded them, for Sherman Tearle had read of the whole sensational affair in an American newspaper which found its way to his desk a few days prior to the return of the dejected trio. The fact that Berenice had so easily forgotten her betrothal to him proved a bitter disappointment, and it shook his confidence in her seemingly irreparably. He was chagrined. He felt sure he could never forgive her. Moreover, he held a serious grievance against Debora. She appeared before him now as a creature of monstrous immorality — a vampire to be avoided. Finally, this worthy young man who had won his spurs by sheer, undefiled merit and unswerving probity, became convinced that his life had lost most of its bright prospects and all of its sweetness. Inevitably when Wesley, Debora and Berenice reached the royal palace, they found Tearle cold and resentful. He scarcely acknowledged their salutations. He seemed anxious to get away from them the minute he laid eyes on them. His attitude had a most disconcerting effect on all three. For an embarrassing two minutes everyone was speechless. Then Debora summoned all the courage in her being and she determined to arise to the emergency confronting her family if it took the last breath of life she possessed. Despite Tearle's act of turning his face away from her, she forced him to submit to her appealing embrace. Then in desperation she begged reconsideration. "Save me the awful sorrow of blightinethe lives of both my children," she pleaded. "Forgive Berenice for her moment of childish aberration. Take her as your own and you will never regret it. The throne of Iona is yours and hers just for that one favor." Debora's plea was so earnest and her gaze so sadly dependent, and his love for Berenice was so undying that Tearle could not long resist. His manliness arose in its might. He must help those he loved when they needed his help most! So, after a full minute of deep study he slowly gathered Berenice into his arms and kissed her pretty pink cheek. "I take her because I love her," he finally told Debora. "I don't want your throne. Knowing your tragic experiences I find myself fearing the pitfalls of the passion to rule." And so shall end the story with Debora free to pursue her life of repentance while still she ruled supreme in her own sphere though she always bowed humbly in gratitude to Sherman Tearle, whose heroism had mitigated her sorrows and saved her the ignominy of seeing all her castles crushed irrevocably. "I shall always fear my immorality has not been justified even by the fulsome aggravation to which I was subjected by Herbert Force, but always shall I hope that what seems wrongwill eventuate itself into right," she murmured to the loyal Wesley. (THE END) ALLEN HOLUBAR— THREE IN ONE An Interview With Captain Nemo By CARL STEARNS CLANCY AZ-I-EN-ZA Trade-mark registered, U. S. 1'atent Office, Not. 17, 1908— No. 41488 " The Medicinal Cream " For Pimples and the Complexion Relieves burning and itching. Price, 25c, 50c, $1,00 in jars. Trial size, 5c, Sent postpaid to any address. E. H. BALL CO., 330 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 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In a few seconds more some valuable addition to the script occurred to him, and he automatically resumed the role of a scenario writer, only to change back into a director an instant later. Talent and versatility always appealed to me, and when I learned that Allen Holubar was none other than the human and mysterious "Captain Nemo," with whom I had sympathized so deeply when viewing the screen edition of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," I determined to get acquainted with this man who excelled as a writer, director, or undersea actor in a diving-suit. It was in his dressing-room at Universal City that I finally cornered the living Captain Nemo, and I will wager that a more modest and reticent hero has seldom been interviewed. No, he had not hesitated to accept the role, when cast for "Capt. Nemo," and while he had felt a "bit squeamish" about the "under water stuff," he had refused to let a professional diver double for him. 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