Life — January 4, 1906 — page 41: what you’re looking at

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n't ‘d behind the coffee urn reading a letter that had just come by special messenger. Her face was pale and her eyes were blazing as she looked up and said in a voice that ke scarcely recognized as her own: “Demas, iething awful has happened. You must have some powerful enemy in Planct office. Lady Muriel is not coming, after all. How can we face Fen, Mrs. Tom and all the rest of them when they come here ¢ pecting to meet Lady Muricl? Oh, the shame and the mortification!” ler voice broke and her handkerchief went up to her eyes. r heaven's sake, what do you mean demanded Bardwell. Sce for yourself,” replied Kitty, as she handed him the Planet, “I had shed reading it when her letter came.” mas read, with feelings of mingled rage and amazement, Mr. Scar- lew’: witty and malicious review of “Lady Clapperclaw’s Transgression.” Ir was well calculated to annoy and madden. The author of the book, a g to Mr. Scarlett, was trying to write about a society in which it evident that she had never played a part of any importance. She could! not even disguise in her work her own hopeless, middle class point of view, and the title which was so industriously exploited by her pub: lishers might as well be a mere pseudonym for all the weight that it car- ric! either in this country or her own. As for her heroine, Lady Clap- percliw, she was British vulgarity personified—the sort of women with whom bagmen strike up successful flirtations in third class railway Do you wonder that Lady Muriel is indignant?” screamed Kitty “Here's her letter saying that she regrets that the infamous attack in this ing’s Planet—of which journal she has been given to understand that Mr, Bardwell is the literary eritic—leaves open to her no other course to decline Mrs. Bardwell’s invitation for Sunday evening. She leaves just one loophole open—Unless Mr. Bardwell should prefer to re- decm himself and his paper in her eyes by printing a complete retraction o-morrow’s paper.’ Demas, you must go this very morning and com- pel them to make her an apology. Then I'll go round to-morrow early, or it—if you can get a proof of it—and tell her that she is fortunate ¢ the friendship of a man powerful enough to prevent her enemies attacking her in the press. Don't lose a minute. Barshfield won't ¢ to refuse you. His wife would never permit it, and you're too strong om an for him to lose!” What is called the “artistic temperament” is a veritable tinderbox in pacity for feeding the flames of anger when they are once aroused; und the more Bardwell thought about the slight that had been put upon him, the angrier he grew, while the recollection of his wiie’s tears and the thought of the mortification that the morrow held in store for them both, fanned his rage to a white heat He found the proprietor of the Planct in close consultation with his editor-in-chief, and he went to the point without a moment's delay, ad- dressing himseli directly to Mr. Gillette but fixing his eye firmly on Barsh- Id as he did so. “I should like to know,” he said, “how you explain the cous attack on Lady Muriel Strathcote in this publication of that outra morning's Planet?” “LT can explain it,” said Barshfield, without giving his advix reply ;“it's there because I particularly wanted it. Don’t you like it spoke ina tone that he had never employed before when addressing his nusical critic, possibly because he had just read a fulsome paragraph in Mrs. Wotherspoon’s prattle about the brilliant society event scheduled for Sunday night, which had, in the language of Park Row, “put him wise to he game.” “No, I don't like it,” retorted Bardwell, “and I am ata loss to imagine’ —here he glared significantly at Gillette—“why Lady Muriel should have been singled out for this venomous attack. I must ask you, sir, to make 1 complete apology and retraction in to-morrow’s paper if you desire to rin my services as musical critic. Meantime, Mr. Gillette, will you kindly let me have the tickets for Monday night's opera?” “Stop,” said Barshfield suddenly as Gillette was about to touch the bell; “Mr. Bardwell does not like the manner in which we are conducting the paper and has offered his resignation, which I have accepted. I should like Mr. Scarlett to have charge of the musi¢ in the future. If I should seem to bring the final scenes in this little drama to too sud- den a close, I beg to remind my readers that, next to the funeral of some one who has made us all laugh and cry, nothing on li tage is sadder than the comedy that curdles in the end into grim, relentless tragedy; and (Concluded on next page.) i} A Fulfillment of Prophecy Si; Produced by a determination to fulfil! NOW the prophecy of ultimate © rupremacy for American Automobiles—the result of deveting one factory (: tor 10 ycars to pertecting one model. We buy material in any country that produces the best; but Americen | machialsts finish it all: they spend over two thousand hours on each car finishing parts otherwise complete. More time and care than any other touring car receives. 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