TUESDAY, MAY, 23, 1920. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG By EDITH MORGAN WILLETT (Copyright) The rector of All Souls paused in { the hall to remove his clerical hat and | smooth the ruffled auburn hair beneath | { It; then he pushed back the portiere | ana briskly entered Mrs. Minturn's luxurious drawing room. Half past ten o'clock. He glanced dubiously at the glit timepiece opposite. A trifle early for la morning visit, but he couldn't help that. There was no time to lose. This | matter must be settied without delay, | and his letter written to the bishop and off by the 8:30 train. Dropping with satisfaction into a deep, cool Morris chair, Mr. Marble step he was about to take. It had been a serious problem and hard to decide, especially (as he ac- knowledged) for a man of his whim- sical, over-fastidious tastes. Even now he realized keenly that there were other women in the world--girls even, good looking ones too! (a reminiscent congratulated himself resolutely on the | | soctety, and soprano of the church | choir, besides being a tall, { girl with bright brown eyes and vivid color. ? | "Yes" Mr. Marble returned with en- thusiasm, "I am called to Bhoeting | Rock, Arkansas--a- beautiful, lonel | spot 70 miles from a railroad track. | %"On, it would be glorious!" she ia | | terrupted him eagerly. Her hands were clasped tightly te- "gether and her KIRATINg eyed made Wid | pulses threb exuitantly. "Of course you must take up this great work! We | there was the faintest tremble in her | voice--"but one mustn't think of ome | | self! Those poor people need you! |! It is your duty to go." How beautiful she looked with the | sunlight on her hair, the inspiration in her eyes! "There is only one consideration that | would induce me to go," said the 'Rev, | Ronald with decision. "Janet," he cried, "will you be mine?' Will you make me the happiest of men?' The words pouring from his lips had a strangely familiar sound, and, alas, | it was with a strangely familiar pang that Mr. Marble listened to her answer. When it was all over and he had de- jectedly picked up his hat for the sec- ond time that morning; Janet walked with him to the gate he had opened So hopefully a half-hour ago. "I'm so sorry," she faltered, as he | ------ shall miss you here undoubtedly" -- | | JOALVERT 1s OLDEST ACTRESS. handsome | Records of Ladies Who Helped to Make History on the Stage. The' veteran actress, Miss Dolores | Drummond, who celebrated her ighty-second birthday in London recently, is not' the oldest living | actress. That distinction appears to | belong either to Mrs. Charles Calvert or Miss Genevieve Ward, each af whom was born in 1837, and is in. her eighty-third year. 55 was born in March, but January is understood to be Mrs. Calvert's natal month. Mrs. Calvert is probably the Mother of the stage in age and Mrs. Kendal | | in length of service. 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Mr. Marble told his | hostess boldly after a tactful prologue of banalities. "There is something ex- | ceedingly important I desire to com- | municate te you." | "Te me!" echoed Mrs. Minturn. | She looked at him with innocent, ik | lusive blue eyes and fingered her rings pensively. | "What can it be, I wonder! Mas | that wretched vestry been bothering | you again, or Is it the poor throat? Do you know you're looking very | badly?" She leaned toward him with pretty earnestness. "What you want, my dear friend, is rest--a com- plete rest and change!" | Want it! Of course he did, but the rector of All Souls, being a subtle student of the other sex, "walked deli- | cately' "--like Agog! | "Not much rest for me™ | ed with a tired smile. "The bishop 18 'seriously urging me to accept a call to Shooting Rock, Arkansas." And at her cry of dismay-- "Yes, A's a good way off," he said grimly--"a lonely spot 70 miles from & railroad track. A mission of a thou: sand miners that have never felt a civilizing or refining touch ; pretty des- perate characters, some of them, I un- derstand, but of course it's a splendid eld He paused as Mrs. Minturn laid 8 white, restraining hand on his arm, "Den't say amother word" hegged. "It's even talk of going to that dreadful place. You might think of us!" There she at Wheatley? Oh, Mr. Marble, say that you wen't go!" "There Is only one consideration that would induce me to remain!" sald the | Rev. Ronald with decision. | His moment had come, and he seized | 1t with characteristic promptness; also her unresisting hand. How soft it was, | and how her rings sparkled! "Lydia," he cried, putting the time- | honered guestion with striking origi- | mality. "will you be mine? Will you | make me the happiest of men?" | Twelve o'clock struck, and Mr Mar. | ble rose, somewhat flushed and dis- | hevelled from a kneeling posture. | "Thea it's irrevocable. and you won't | have me!" he queried blankly' | 'The fact, evel now, seemed prepos- | terous, incredible. | Mrs. Minturn nodded and dabbed her | eyes with' a few square inches of real lace. "It's not that I weuldn't have you!" she explained lucidly. "It's Jack! Don't you see--can't you understand that my poer husband wouldn't have liked it if he'd been alive, and isn't it Just the same now--that he's dead and gone--even more so?" Mrs. Miaturn put out her hand. "We can be friends, at least, can't we?" she pleaded. "And you won't go away? "Thé Rev. Ronald Marble turned the knob. "If I do." he sald sternly, "it is because you have made it infpossible for me to remain! Good morning!" And the pertiere swusg to behind him. 3 The rector of All Souls followed Janet Noble into her cosy sitting room. "1 wantad especially te see you this " he said with real emotion, coming to a standstill by the fireplace. "I have Just received an important call, and you ought to be the first te know it." terestedly, as she took up some plain sewing. : She was 'president of the woman's auxiliary, secretary ofthe varish aid and | tejaculat- | | to Shooting Rock, Arkansas, and you too awful! Féw can you | | ing's wrongs hard upon him he gave | an impressible groan. was 'a touching catch in her voice. | "What would J--we-do without you | "A ell!" repeated Janet Noble in- | "You must see for yourself how Impos- | sible it is!" Poor Mr. Marble, looking at her, could net see it at all. "Then, there's no hope for me!" asked gloomily. "I'm afraid not, as far as I'm con- cerned," she responded. "But there's always hope! Mightn't there be some one. else, Mr. Marble--some other | woman better fitted for you?" The rector of All Souls only gave her | a scorchingly reproachful glance and | turned away without a word. As he bent his lonely steps towards | he | his bosding house; Mr. Marble became | { { bods, aware of other steps, feminine ones, approaching behind, and a furtive glance around showed him Miss Cor nelia Wylde, his district visitor and devoted aid, in close pursuit. "What's the matter? she panted, overtaking the flying cleric just as he reached the corner. "You seem to be in a great hurry!" Mr. Marble turned with a dazed smile. "I am." he said, then quite involun- tarily: "There's a letter to the bishop that ought to be written and off by the 3:30 train. I wanted especially to see you this morning." With astonishment he heard himself utter this last state- ment. The well-known formula had rushed unbidden to his lips, and help- lessly, parrot-like, he floundered om: "I've just received an important call and faced her ought to be the first to know it!" Miss Wylde's glance of pleased in- terregation only added to poer Mr. Marble's confusion. "Well, what are you going te & about 1t?" she inquired practically. "De!" ejaculated the Rev. Ronald, and with the recollection of the morh- "What on earth do you expect a man to do, with never a woman to help him!" Afterwards, when he was quite calm again, Mr. Marble saw clearly just how she had taken it--that innecent little speech of his--but in the blackness of the moment all he could realize was that Miss Cornelia Wylde had takem him, "for better for worse" and eatire- ly without his own consent. It was long after luncheon time that the Rev. Ronald turned his steps at last towards his boarding-house--en- gaged, he told himself blankly, to & lady he had never for a moment con- templated in » matrimonial light. This was the result of his morning. Crimson waves of mortification, horror, and actual dread surged up inte his high Shesibupta at the thought of It all. ~ He, the rector of All Souls, effered himself to three women In as many hetirs! | It was scandalous, unpardonable, In | any other man! What would Wheatley | say when it heard, as it must soon its fickle, frivolous rector? 'What would they think of him, these | two whom he had wooed so arently in quick succession--sweet Mrs. Minturn | and Janet Noble? His heart smote him! How he had pleaded with them! Then upon his sombre meditation-- "Mr. Marble!" broke in a voice he knew, and, raising his head, the her: rifled rector beheld at his very elbow | Janet's mother--an exceedingly large woman--coming towards him with or dially outstretched hands. Involuntarily he shrank from or) beaming face. What did it mean? Mrs. Noble's next words enlightened him only only too well. » "I just had to step you!" she was saying warmly. "You do look se blue as with elephantine subtlety. 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