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Pictures, Inc. Watch for the screen version produced by Franl< ;
Lloyd with Corinne Griffith as Countess Zattiany. • j&L
Copyright 1923 by Gertrude Ath.rtoa gitj. T&ulri 1
SYNOPSIS.
At a first night performance in
Neie York, a beautiful young
woman attracts attention by rising
and leisurely surveying the audi
ence through her glasses. Claver
ing, a newspaper columnist, and
his cousin, Dinwiddie, are particu
larly interested, Dinwiddie declar
ing that she is the image of Mary
Ogden, a belle of thirty years ago,
uho had married a Count Zattiany
and lived abroad. He is convinced
that this is Mary's daughter, but
all efforts to establish her identity
prove futile.
Clavering, determined to find out
who she is, follows her home from
the theatre one night. Luck is
with him, for she has forgotten her
keys and he helps her get into the
house. She asks him in and final
ly tells him she is the Countess
Josef Zattiany, a cousin of Mary
Ogden’s; that she had married a
relative of Mary’s husband; that
Mary is ill in a sanitarium in Vi
enna. She asks him to join a
small dinner party at her home the
next night. Besides himself, the
guests ace Dinwiddie, a My. Os
borne and Judge Trent, Mary Og
den's attorney, t
IX (continued)
"I am delighted that Madame
Zattiany has decided to come out
of her shell at last,” said Judge
Trent, shaking vigorously. “I've
been jurging It for some time. But
she has had a long and harrowing
experience, and seemed to want
only to rest. I think the stir she
made at your first-nights, Claver
ing, had something to do with it.
There was a time, you know, when
she never appeared without mak
ing a sensation —like poor Mary
before her —but young as she is all
that seems almost too remote to
recall. Os course if she had been
able to live In London or Paris
after the war it would have been
different, but she was stuck in
Buda Pesth and Vicnnat-ah!”
Madame Zattiany had entered
the room.* She wore pale greriu,
chiffon with floating sleeves that
left her arms bare. In the subdued
light she looked like a girl playing
at Undine.
Clavering heard Dinwiddie give
a sharp hiss. “Gad! More like
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"Mr, Dinwiddie made a pretense of sipping his cocktail as the three
raised their glasses to their hostess."
Mary than ever. Nile-green was
her favorite color."
She greeted the Judge and Clav
ering with her slight flickering
smile and then turned to the other
two men.
"This must be Mr. Osborne, as
Judge Trent pointed out Mr. Din
widdle to me one day on Fifth Ave
nue. It was kind of you both to
come in this informal manner. I
appreciate it very much.”
Her manner was a little like that
of a princess giving audience, Ciav
ering reflected, a manner enhanced
by her slight accent and profound
repose, the negligent lifting of her
hand to be kissed; and as she
stood graciously accepting their
expressions of unhoped for felicity
she looked lees American, more
European, than ever. But Claver
ing wondered for the first time it
that perfect repose were merely
the expression of a profound indif
ference, almost apathy . . . but
no, she was too young tor that,
however the war may have seared
her; and she was smiling spon
taneously, there .was a genuine
note of pleasure In her voice as she
turned to him.
"It was more than kind of you
to watch my house until the po
liceman came," she said on a lower
key. “I was really alarmed when I
remembered that broken window
and all those dreadful stories in
the newspapers. But you kept
watch beneath my windows like a
preux chevalier and 1 felt safe."
"I felt rather a fool if the truth
be told." Her eyes had a curious
exploring look and Clavering felt
unaccountably Irritated, in sp”e
of all that her words Implied, i d
have done the same if you had
been old and withered. Served me
right.* I should have thought be
fore I left the house to telephone
for a watchman.”
"Ah! Quite so. American men
are famous for their gallantry, are
lhey not? Myself, I have always
lliked them.” The smile rose to
[her wise penetrating and
IClavering colored like a schoolboy.
Then it faded and her face looked <
suddenly rigid. “I wonder,” she ,
imuttered, then turned her back
abruptly. "You must not forget
'your eocktail. And dinner has
been announced.”
Mr. Dinwiddie made a pretext of
sipping his cocktail as the three
raised their glasses simultaneous
|ly to their hostess. She had de
clined to join them, with a little
grimace. "Perhaps In time I may
become American enough to like
.your strange concoctions, but so
far I think cocktails have a really
horrid taste. Shall we go in?”
The Judge offered his arm with
the formal gallant air he could as
sume at will and the other men
followed at a discreet distance:
(her shimmering gown had a long ;
tail. Mr. Dinwiddle’s eyes seemed <
to bore Into that graceful swaying
back, but he was not the man to
discuss his hostess until he had
left her house, and Clavering could
only wonder what conclusions
were forming in that avid cynical j
old brain.
The dining-room, long and nar- 1
row, was at the back of the hall 1
and extended along the entire
width of the large house. Like the
hall, it was panelled and dark, an
imposing room hung with family i
portraits. A small table at the end i
looked like a fairy oasis, it glit- <
tered and gleamed and the flowers 1
were mauve, matching the tall
wand-like candles. i
“I do hope, Madame Zattiany,”
said Mr. Osborne, as he took a seat :
at her left, “that you won't sue- 1
cumb to the prevailing mania for |
white, and paint out this beautiful >
old walnut. Too many of our
houses look entirely too sanitary. <
One feels as if he were about to be <
shown up to a ward, to be received
by a hospital nurse with a warning (
not to speak too loud.” There was i
no chill formality in his mien as he <
bent over his young and beautiful j
hostess. * ;
"Ah, you forget this is Countess ]
Zattiany’s house." she said, smll- ,
Ing. "But 1 will admit that if it ,
were mine I should make few
changes. White was quite a la
mode in London long before the
war, but, myself, I never liked It."
Judge. Trent sat opposite his
hostess at the round table.* She
had placed Mr. Dinwiddle and Mr.
Osborne on either side of her,
smiling at Clavering. "I am sorry
I do not know any young ladies,"
she said graciously, although there
was a twinkle in her eye. "You
look rather lonesome."
"Why should he?" growjed Din
widdie. “He is young and you are
young. The rest of us are the ones
to feel out of it."
“Not a bit of it! Not a bit of
it!” exclaimed Judge Trent. "You
forget that Madame Zattiany has
lived in Europe since infancy.
She s talked to elderly statesmen
all her life.”
“Well, we're not statesmen, the
Lord knows.” could al
ways be relled*on to make the ob
vious retort, thought Clavering, al
though it must be admitted that he
' was seldom with, none at all. “But
I you must, have seen more young
I men than old during the war,
| Madame Zattiany. I understand
I that Mary turned her palace In
I Buda Pcsth into a hospital and
that you were her chief assistant."
"That is quite true, and I had by
no means confined myself before
that to elderly statesmen; but I
had almost forgotten what a young
man on his feet looked like before
the war finished. Or Society, for
that matter. My one temptation to
■ enter Society here would be the
hope of forming a relief organiza-
I tion—drive, do you call it?— tor the
starving children of Austria. Rus
sian children are not the only piti
able objects in Europe, and after
> all, the children of civilized coun
| tries are of more value to the fu
. ture of the world.’’ dXJ
.(To Sa Coatiag|4|; MdHi
Fireman Who GotSlS Wage Retires On S2Ov,OOC
New York Blaze Fighter Tells
You How To Get
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WHITESTONE, N. Y. Oct. 18.—
You’ll never get rich by saving. So
says William J. Weisener, Queens
N. Y. nreman, who retired from
service the other day worth more
than $200,0000.
Yet he never received a salary
of more than $5 a week. And when
he began he received just sls
weekly I
But Wiesener didn’t get that
way by taking $2 out of his week
ly envelope and poking it through
the wicket at a courteous bank
clerk. No, ma'am! When he wasn’t
rescuing lovely blondes from burn
ing third story windows and carry
ing kittens down from telegraph
poles, he was putting in time turn
ing over little odd jobs of real es
tate.
That’s the reason that in addition
to the SI2BO yearly pension which
he will draw hereafter for his 20
years of service in the fire depart
ment, he will have an annual in
come of s9'ooo from his $200,000
investments. He owns a 23-family
apartment dwelling. numerous
small houses and 350 lots.
The neighbors in this little town
where 'he lives say they wouldn’t
be surprised if in another five years
Bill turned out to be a millionaire,
Right now he’s only 45.
I went over to call on Bill to ask
him what he intended doing with
all that money. Bill himself came
out on the norch to greet me.
had on a blue sweater and I could
see he was getting a little bald.
‘‘l suppose,” I said, “that you’re
going to do quite a little fixin’ up
with that $200,000?”
“Not at all,” said Bill. We’ve
been livin’ the same way for 20
years and we don’t intend to change
now. Hey, Kate, put in another
pork chop! There’s company come
to dinner.”
Here, according to Bill, was the
way it happened;
He’d always wanted a little place
in the country with chickens and so
on, and one day, 20 years ago, he
sold out his grocery store, paid up
his debts, pocketed the S2OO that
remained and started looking
around.
The place, when he found it, con
sisted of four-and-a-half acres and
two houses qnd the owner wanted
$5500 for it. Bill borrowed the
money somehow, got a job in the
fire department, moved into one
of the houses and the next month
sold the Other house at SSOO profit.
He’s been selling things at pront
ever since. Along about 1916 Bill
got an idea that there weren’t
enough three and four-room apart
ments for young married people
and old couples. All the bankers
laughed at him, so Bill had to go
out of town to get the money. But
Di.-> dav those apartments were
finished there were 50 families on
the waiting list.
"I sunno-e ” I said to Bill, “that
if yon don’t intend to move into a
new house or anything, maybe
voull put your money in a swell
ti(A” motor car."
"None.” said Bill. “Same old
bus 1915 model.’’
"Well. then. I suppose you have!
some iwetty swell times?”
“Well ” said Bill. “I go fishing
quite a bit an] then sometimes
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we sit in the Balcony. Twenty-five j
dollars a week could cover every
thing we buy."
“But you’ve got an income of
S9OOO a year,’ i wailed. “What're
you going to d<- -nth it?”
“The children can have it,” said
Bill. “If I had a million I wouldn’t
do a bit different.”
Bill’s going to let the neighbro
hood kids have his fireman’s hel
met.
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He says thcy’l] be da dtyn
K'e says they’ll be dandy to go fish
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Miss Della Parker spent Monday
afternoon wiith Mrs. W. C. Grant.
Mrs. M. C. Veal was n visitor at
the nonie of Mrs. W. O. Bray
Monday afternoon
Mr. and Mrs. Willie McNeil, of
Tennessee were visitors at the
home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
R. D. McNeill, last week.
Mrs, W. E. Carter sppent Tues
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
M. C. Veal.
Mrs.A. B. Cray, of Arles spent
Tuesday at the home of her brother,
H. A. Parker.
S. W. Cary of Americus, was a
visitor at the home of his sister,
Mrs. Sham Harden last week.
[ Mrs. J. W. Potter, Mrs. Alva Pot
ter and K'. J. Morris was visitois at
the heme of Mrs. S. M. Parker
Thursday
H, A. Parker, Jr., spent Thurs
day with his grand-parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. P. Parker.
Mrs. Charles Hawley, of Ken- I
tucky is a visitor here at the home |
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B C. j
Hodges.
Mrs. R. P. Parker and little Miss j
Louise Bray spent Saturday after- !
noon with Mrs. H. A. Parker.
Mr. and Mrs. T.,A. Bradley were i
visitors at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Sim Kitchens Thursday even
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Bailey Misses
Dells, Giles, Florrie Bailey and Eva
Hill were visitor at the home of
Mrs. S. M. Parker Saturday afte.r
noon 4
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Bradley spent
Saturday night with their parents
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Veal.
Mr. and Mrs. Otho Cary, of Amer
‘ leus and Mrs. A, B. Cary, of Arles
were visitors at the home of Mr.
! and Mrs. R. P. Parker Sunday aft
ernoon.
' Mr. and Mrs. Alex Harden spent
the week-end with their parents,
s Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Parker.
Mrs. J. P. Gholson, Douglas
. Freman, and young sosfi Douglas
Freeman, ,Jr., of Americus were visi
I tors at the home of the former’s
'mother Mrs. Mary Giles, Sunday af
itenoon.
i Mr. and Mrs. Roland Murphy
spent trie week-end near Thomas
ville with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard! Bradley
■and Wade Bradley spent the week
end near Americus, with Mr. and
Mrs. Barrel.
Mrs. E. W. Parker, Mr. and Mrs.
Tharps Grant, C. C. Harden, Misses
Della Giles and Mollie Harden at-
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Baptist church in Andersonville
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Mr. and Mrs. Tharpe Grant of the
17ttf spent the week-end here with
relatives.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Glover visit
ed triends in Americus Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Dupree of
Andrew Ch’appel were in this com
munity Saturday.
Miss Elizabeth Clark spent Sat
urday night as guest of Miss Lin
nie Logan.
Mr. J. B. Holley, T. E. Smith,
J. W Holley and C. M. Kidd visit
ed relatives in Marion county Sun
day
Mr. J. H. Duppree spent the
day Sunday at the home of John
Hyson.
Mr. and Mrs. Comer of Ameri
cus were Sunday guests of Mr and
Mrs C. J. Daniel.
Mrs.. J. T. Clark and Mrs J. H.
Allen spent Sunday' afternon at the
nome of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Holley
Mr. and Mrs. C. N. K'agei'son
visited Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pred
dy at Friendship Sunday after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Clarke and chil
dren spent Sunday at the home of
itobert Wells at Friendshipp.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Brook and
little daughter, Laura Adel, of
near Buena Vistu spepnt the week
end at the home of John Kidd.
Miss Ruth Clark of Americus
visited her parents Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. Clark recently.
Mr. W. T. Street visited at Par
rott Monday
Mrs. Mattie Womack of Amer
icus is visiting relatives in this
community this week.
FINISH ROADS
WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 18.—
Federal aid roads totalling 8,820
miles were completed during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1923,
bringing the total of federal aid
THURSDAY, OCTOBER I 3„
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highways completed to 26,536 mik j
according to an announcement by”*
tht United States department es
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