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The Brussels Post, 1916-8-24, Page 2THE LAPSE OF ENOCH WENTVORTH By ISABEL GORDON cuwris, Author of " The Woman from Wolvertons " CHAPTER X.—(Coot'd). • When he climbed the uneven Stepp of the sidewalk the world had grown sunnier; there was a future before him fame, riches, and the applause of millions. He reached Third Avenue, ran up the stairs to the elevated, and, puffing slowly at a cigar, gazed on the rush of life below. He was deliberat- ing how it was to approach Merry on the subject of changing that second act. Oswald was a keen .critic, and Enoch had seen the necessity of it himself; it was the one weak spot in the play. From the moment when he burned the labor of half a lifetime he realized his own incapacity for play - writing. He himself could do nothing tothe drama, but he felt a chill of terror at the thought of speaking to Merry on the subject. CHAPTER XI. A city's electric lights were begin- ning to blaze through the twlight when Wentworth knocked at the door of Merry's dressing room. "Comel9 cried the actor sharply. As Enoch entered he felt a throb of longing for the old warm friendship. Andrew's face paled for a moment as he looked up at his visitor. He nodded but did not speak. Kelly, who acted as Merry's valet during his prosper- ous seasons, lifted a heap of garments from a chair and set it before Enoch, who book it in silence. Andrew sat staring into a mirror while he ex- perimented with a make-up for the broken-down convict in the third act. He dashed line after line into his face, blending each lightly into the grease paint. Nobody spoke—even Kelly seemed to have fallen under the spell of quiet. He.knelt on the floor polish- ing shoes with stolid industry. Enoch wondered curiously. what the keen old Irishman was thinking. He had known nothing between them but a most fra- ternal friendship.The silence became oppdessive. At last Wentworth spoke "Are you going to be alone soon, Merry? I want to have a talk with you about business." Andrew did not look up while he an- swered carelessly, "I'll be alone in a few minutes. Kelly has an errand to do at the tailor's. You may go now," he added, nodding to the valet; "there's no hurry about the shoes." When the old man shut the door be- • hind him Andrew did not turn his gaze from the mirror. The reflection of Wentworth's face was close beside his own. He could see that his visitor' was ill at ease. "Well?" he said interrogatively. "Can't you turn round and face me while we talk?" asked the elder man impatiently. Andrew wheeled about and his eyes [net Wentworth's calmly. "Certainly, I can face you." The red surged into Enoch's face, then hard lines wrinkled about his mouth. His mood had changed. He spoke with brutal consciseness. "Oswald and I have decided that there ought to be a few changes made In the text of—the play." "Of your play," corrected Merry. "There is one weak point in it," Enoch went on deliberately. "'Mrs. Esterbrook' draws on the sympathy of the audience for a few moments when 'Cordelia' leaves her. A woman of that caliber could have no such feel- ing." "No?" "No." Wentworth repeated the word almost furiously. He began to twist his hands. "I suppose that eel oaght to be re- written." "Not rewritten, eimply elaborated. • Strike out some lines, put in• others." "Why don't you do it?" "Why don't I do it?" Enoch jumped ; pulse of rage. "That's a nice question to his feet shaken by a sudden im- to ask me." "It has never seemed to me there was anything particularly nice in the whole situation." Andrew's tones Were on a calm level. "We'll leave that out of ths ques- tion—altogether," growled Went- worth, "I should. never have intruded upon you but for this reason. You can see the exigencies of the case. You've got to retouch the play." "I will not lay a pen to the play." Andrew turned as if the conversation. were at an end and began to pencil careworn wrinkles on Ms cheeks. Enoch tipped his chair back against • the wall, put his feet on the rungs, and began to think. Nobody knew so • well as he that one faced a barricade with Merry in a doggedly obstinate mood. Inwardly he was at white heat; the blind groping hope for re. conciliatioo was at an end; still he knew if he were to precipitate a germ, Merry was capable of flinging ever his engagement at the Int M011it ent. "Let me explain," began Wont - veer% laboriously, A. tap at the door interrupted him. It was opened and Oswald stepped in, He seated hitn- self en the edge e a trinfic. "Have you mentioned to Mr. Merry the suggestion 1 made about the sec ond act?" he asked, turning to Went worth. "We were discuesing it when you came in." "What do you think of it, Merry?" "I really have nob had time to give it a thought." Andrew looked unin- terested. "Besides, you ynow I do not come into that act, and I have scarcely seen it rehearsed." He pick- ed up a towel and began to wipe the make-up off his faca "It is simply this. 'Mrs. Esterbrook' is an utterly heartless woman. Dead to conscience as she is at the begin- ning, she comes out of her life's trag- edy, calloused beyond all redemption. It strikes a false note to have her re- pent for even a second. She does not know what mother -love or love of any sort means. With her last exit she ought to leave an audience hating and despising her. Now one feels a sud- den touch of sympathy. She must be irredeemably bad. Then, too, it is not only true to the woman's character, but 'Cordelia' shines whiter against it." Merry nodded. "You're right, I fancy, Wentworth has only to change a few lines to throw the whole thing plumb. You can do it in half an hour, old chap." When Oswald turned to Wentworth he caught a look on the man's face that puzzled him, a flash of importent rage, hate, and apprehension. Enoch realized he had revealed his soul for a moment. He picked up his hat and spoke brusquely. "You two finish talking it over, I have a thousand things to tend to." "Is Wentworth—is he,touchy ? Did he feel that I was criticizing his play?" asked Oswald anxiously when the door closed with a hasty rap. "I dont think it's that." Merry spoke slowly, then he dashed to an- other subject. "I want to consult you about changing .one of the people in the cast, little Katie Durham." "Oh, the child in the first act?" "She's a bright enough youngster. She tells me she once got a hundred dollars a week in vaudeville as a toe dancer." Merry laughed. "A toe dancer scarcely fills the bill for the small 'Cordelia' ." "She struck me in rehearsal this morning as lacking in something." "She is lacking in everything. She's a stilted, grown-up, little brat; there's nothing childlike about her. When she clings to my neck shrieking, 'Father,' in that ear-splitting baby pipe of hers, she jars every nerve in my body." "Let her go. Only it is a problem where to find a sweet, natural stage child." I can lay my hands on one Mimed- diately," said Merry quietly. "It's a youngster Who has never been behind the footlights in her life." "Could you do anything with her in ten days?" "I should like to try. She's a gen- tle, refined, sweet -voiced little girl; besides, she has dramatic blood in her —that always tells. Do you rememb- er George Volk?" "George Volk! Why, of course," cried Oswald after a moment's hesita- tion. "What ever became of the man? Did he die?" "Nobody knows." Merry's voice had a bitter tone in it. "Better for some people if he had died. This lit- tle Julie I want a chance for is his child." "Where is Volk?" "I can't tell you. If he's alive he must be far down by this time. He was a wretched sot when I saw hirn last." "By Jove! what an impetuous stage lover he did makel I saw him in a big prodoction the first time I canie to Arnerica, then in London. He was the halo man that ever stepped on the stage." "A handsome piece of beef! Ten years ago he married one of the sweetest, most loyal women I ever knew. She was on the stage, but she never won much notice. Her work was so quiet and delicate that she, ap- pealed bo the few. She was in a company with me for two seasons. How Volk made her suffer] The beast!" "Is she alive ?i' "Yes. I hadn't heard of the Volks for yeara. I was going home last night when a woman touched me on the arm. She was lame and, looked ill. A little girl citing to her, I did not know her. 'I'm Alice Volk,' she said. I put them in a cab and took them up to Harlem, to the best old woman in the world." "Are they in want-" asked Oswald. • "They were starving, in rags and thoeless. The child pulled at my heart string. She isn't, quite seven and small for her age, but the way she cares for the poor, crippled little mOther—" Andrew laid a gray wig upon his Mice and began to bruah it vigorously. desist want to threw this Durham youngster out of a job, though, simply because I can't endure her. She' g donation at dirt, but she For Preserving, Use LILY WHITE CORN SYRUP One-third "Lily White" to two- thirds Sugar, by weight. "Lily White" Qorn Syrup pre- vents fermentation and mold— brings out the natural flavour of fruits and berries—and makes much more delicious Preserves, jams and Jellies than you can make with all sugar. • In 2,5, t 0 and 20 pound tins —at all dealers. THE CANADA STARCH CO. LOWED, MONTREAL. 278 4-0$ •t: , can't help it. Have you seen the mother ?" "Yes," said Oswald gravely. "What feazes me is how we could delude an audience into believing that this sharp -nosed. uncanny -looking shrill -tongued little ape could develop into Miss Wentworth's 'Cordelia.' They're different breeds entirely." "You're right." Oswald's voice was emphatic. "I don't know why I did not see it. Perhaps because the child has little to do except to ,follow her father about." "It's that following the father about which I mean to make the strongest point in the first act" "Engage the child emmediately." "Ill have to do diplomatic work to get her." "How?" "Alice Volk would rather starve than let her child go on the stage. She has been hoping we might find a small part for herself which she could play—crippled." "Poor soul." "I hinted that we might give the lit- tle Julie a chance. She snatched the child away as if she thought I meant to kidnap her. When a woman has seen the seamy side of life as she has —you understand." Oswald nodded gravely. "We must find a way to get around her." Merry sat writing a letter in the manager's office the next afternoon when Oswald entered, accompanied by Dorcas. "I want you to tell Miss Wentworth about the little Volk girl," said the Englishman. "I have enlisted her sympathy. If the mother felt that some woman here would be interested in the child she might change her mind." "I'll do anything I can," said Dorcas heartily. I am glad you are making a change. It will improve the first act wonderfully to have the child sweet and real. Then the girl laugh- ed in a half -embarrassed way, "did you ever look at a picture of yourself when you were at the tadpole age and wonder if it could have possibly been you? That has been my frame of mind. since I laid eyes on the little 'Cordelia'." (To be continued). TORN FROM THEIR HOMES. Inhabitants of Northern France De- ported to Germany. Poignant deails of the deportation at an hour and a half's notice of 25,- 000 citizens from the French towns of Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing by, the Germans last Easter, are given in a French Yellow Book. 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He has been tested by twenty-three months of fighting. He controls, not merely the army of France, but like- wise the army of Great Britain, Ile may not be a great strategist or a great tactician or a successful dip- lomat or any sort of a politician at all. But as the situation stands to- day he is the one big man of France. Heistheobeyman who commands. All others "Joffre," said an officer who knows him well, "is a big, savage man, who knows his own mind." That might give a wrong impres- sion' of Joffre, just as the nickname "Grandpere" the poilus have given him conveys in its turn a deceptive suggestion of softness and amiability, It is quite true that General Joffre likes roses and that he hopes to spend his declining days on a small farm from which he can occasionally go fishing, and that he sometimes gives tired soldiers a lift in his motor car, and that he is ordinaiily good hu- mored and pleasant in the midst of his official family. But the grand- father part of General Joffre is only skin deep. He attends to his business in a brutally efficient way. He sees to it that others attend to their busi- ness. Believes in Winning. No doubt he makes mistakes. He is not infallible. 00 the one hand he has to deal with French politicians, all of whom are supremely patriotic, no doubt, and none of whom would for a moment place their personal de- sires, greediness, or enmities above the country's good; and on the other hand he has to handle the army. Re has been able to do both by dint of keeping his eyes fixed on the single target. He proposes to win this war. Nothing else matters. He is a shit- ple, single-minded man with a mas- sive jaw. He does not disregard op- position. He smashes it. Observers say that neither de Cas- tlenau nor Petain could fill Joffre's shoes. He is not the master of stra- tegy the one is not the master of bat- tle that is the other. But he can drive the team. "Look at him," said an officer. "Ob- serve his force." His cap is down over his eyes. One sees only a great square jaw thrust- ing out beneath the shadow. He walks with heavy, quick steps, shouldering forward in a manner to betray the tremendous physical force of the man. He is k little overweight in front, so that one could not imagine Joffre in a run. But every motion tells of thick, cable -like rolls of muscle and a dominating strength. Upon occasion the death of thousands means nothing to Joffre. In that he is such a general as was Napoleon. If a given end seems desirable he at- tains it atpeaanthy cfoosrtan Inch. "Th officer who gives up an inch of ground shall be courtmartialled," he ordered, when he became aware of ts hat Verdun. runWas issued there vo another inch of ground sur- NeasiAfttieioOrth rendered. Men died in their trenches. They were overswept by stabbing masses of German grey. They were blown to bits my mines. But they died on their grOund. Before that order was issued confusion had reigned. Organizations were in re- treat. Some were cut off, so that they held their little "fortins" in the midst of the enemy. They held them until they died, The French resistance at this point was only possible because of the brilliant courage of the men. There are grim stories which I shall not repeat of the mannein in which certain organizations were held to the 4rh‘evyorsh ,all not pass," was the word of the t daL Tresistance cost thousands of livee, of course. But it saved Verdun. It may be that the officers had a shrewd idea of what General Joffre' meant When he said that the "officer who gave up an inch should be court- martialled." At other times ho has not bothered to court-martial men who failed. He dropped them.. There ie a colony at Limoges of generals "invalided" there for the duration of the war. They failed or they forgot, or they did not think. Joffre takes no excuses. German Parsons. The German Church, like every- thing else German, is admirably or- ganized but the clergy depend on the Government for their daily bread, Tho oath of allegiance which each clergy- man takes binds him to obedience not only to the ICaiser, but also to the "State." The clergy, therefore, can scarcely be considered as anything but a department of the German Civil Service, , When the money market gets tight it ought to bake the gold cure.