Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 237, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1924 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Colonel Holies, soldier and adventurer. returns to Ensrlund. the land of Ids birth, when war is declared with Holland. He comes to lod?e with M art ha Quinn, hostess of the Paul's Head, in Haul s Yard. London. The colonel asks his old friend, His Grace of Albemarle, to secure for him a place in the army. Albemarle warns him that the name of Randal Holies, father of the colonel, is on the warrant for the execution of the late king. Therefore It is dangerous for the colonel to secure a commission. A friend named Tucker asks Holies to enter a conspiracy to over throw the government. The dread pestilence is rapidly spreading- in London. His Grace of Buckingham falls victim to the charms -of Sylvia Farquharson. actress. He offers to write a play for her. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ‘‘ls not a part, indeed, a sort of garment for the soul? Nay. now. if I am to continue I must have your assistance as I say. I must know how this first act appears to you, how far my Laura does justice to your powers: and I trust discuss with you the lines which the remainder of the play shall follow. Therefore again I ask you—and in the sacred cause of art I defy you to deny me—when will you hear what I have written?” "Why, since your grace docs me so much honor, when you will.” It was intoxicating, this homage to her talent from one of his gifts and station, the intimate of princes, the close associate of kings, and it stifled temporarily at least, the last qualm of her intuitior. s which had warned her against this radiant gentleman. They had become so friendly and in- | BUCKINGHAM SPRANG UP TO WELCOME THE BELATED GUEST. timate in this week, ar.d yet his conduct had been so respectful and circumspect throughout, that clearly her instincts had misled her at that first meeting. “When I will,” sold he. "That is to honor me. Indeed. Shall it be tomorrow, then?” “If your frace pleases, and you will bring the act.” “Bring it?” IJe raised his eyebrows. His lip curled a little as he lcoked round the dingy green room. “You do not propose, child, that I should read it here? ” lie laughed in dismissal of the notion. “But where else, then?” she asked, a little bewildered. “Where elso but in my own house? What other place were proper?” “But ... at your house . . Why, what would be said of me, your grace? To come there alone.” “Child! Child:” he Interrupted her. his tone laden with gentle reproach. “Can you think that I should so lightly expose you to the lewd tongues of the town? Alone? Give your mind peace. I shall have some friends to keep you in countenance and to join

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you as audience to hear wliat 1 have written. There shall be one or two ladies from the King's House: perhaps : Miss Seymour from the Duke’s here I will Join us; there Is a small part for her in the play; and there shall be some friends of my own; maybe even Ills Majesty will honor us. We shall make a merry party at supper, and after supper you shall pronounce upon my Laura whom you are to incarnate. Is your hesitancy conquered?” It was, Indeed. Her mind was In a whirl. A supper party at WoUngford House, at which In a sense she was to j be the guest of honor, and which the King himself would attend! She would have been mad to hesitate. It was to enter the great world at a stride. Other actresses had done it—Moll Davis and little Nelly from the King's House; but they had done it upon passports other than those of histrionic talent. She would have preferred that Miss Seymour should not have been included. She had no great opinion of Miss Seymour’s conduct. But there was a small part for her. and that was perhaps a sufficient justification. And so she cast aside her hesitation and gladdened his grace by consenting to be present. CHAPTER VII The Prude On the evening of the day that had seen the meeting between Holies and Tucker, at about the same hour that Sir John Lawrence was vainly representing at Whitehall the expediency of closing the theaters and other places of congregation in view of the outbreak of plague within the city itself. His Grace of Buckingham was sitting down to supper with a merry company in the great dining room of Wallingford House. Eleven sat down to a table that was laid for twelve. The chair on the Duke’s right stood empty. The guest of honor, Miss Farquharson. had not yet arrived. At the last moment she had sent a message that she was unavoidably detained for some little time at home, and that, if on this account it should happen that she must deny herself the honor of sitting down to ! supper at his grace's table, at least : she would reach Wallingford House 1 m time for the reading with which his ; grace was to delight the company. It was In part a fiction. There was ; nothing to detain Miss Farquharson : beyond a revival of her uneasy intui- ; tions, which warned her against the j increase of Intimacy that would attend her inclusion in the Duke's supper party. The play, however, was another affair. Therefore she would so time her arrival that she would find supper at an end and the reading about to begin. His grace found her message vexatious, and he would have postponed supper until her arrival but that his guests did not permit him to have his own way in the matter. As the truth was that there was no first act in existence, for the Duke had not yet written a line of it and probably never would, and that supper was to provide the whole entertainment, it follows that this would be protracted, and that however late she came she was likely still to find the party at table. They were a very merry company, and as time passed they grew merrier. There was Etheredge, of course, the real promoter of the whole affair, and this elegant, talented libertine who was ultimately—and at a still early age—to kill himself with drinking, was doing the fullest justice to the reputation which the winecup had already earned him. There was Sedley, that other gifted profligate, whoso slim, graceful person gave little indication of the roistering soul within. Young Rochester should have been of the party, but he was at that moment in the Tower, whither ho had been sent as a consequence of his utterly foolish and unnecessary attempt to abduct Miss Mallett two nights ago. But Fir Harry Stanhope filled his vacant place—or, at least, half-filled it, for whilst Rochester was both wit and libertine, young Stanhope was a libertine only. And, of course, there was Sir Thomas Ogle, that boon companion of Sedley’s, and two other gentlemen whose names have not survived. The ladies were of less distinguished lineage. There was the ravishingly fair little Anne Seymour from the Duke's house, her white shoulders displayed in a decolletage that outraged even the during fashion of the day. There was Moll Davis from the King’s house seated on the Duke’s left, with Etheredge immediately below her and entirely engrossing her, and there was that dark, statuesque, insolent-eyed Jane llowden, languidly spreading her nets for Sir Charles Sedley, who showed himself willing and eager to be taken in them. A fourth lady on Ogle’s left was making desperate but futile attempts to draw Sir Thomas’ attention from Miss Seymour. Supper was done, and still they kept tho table, over their wine, waiting for that belated guest whose seat continued vacant. Above that empty place sat the Duke —a dazzling figure in a suit of shimmering white satin with diamond buttons that looked like drops of water. Alone of all that company he did not abuse the wine. Again and again he waved away the velvet-footed lackeys that approached to pour for him. From the chilly heights of his own unusual sobriety he found them gross and tiresome; their laughter jarred on him. He strained his ears to catch some rumble of wheels in the courtyard. Sedley in a maudlin voice began to sing a very questionable song of his own writing, whilst Miss llowden made a comedy of pretending to silence him. He was still singing it, when Stanhope sprang up and mounted his chair, holding aloft a dainty shoe of which he had stripped Miss Seymour, and calling loudly for wine. Pretty little Anne would have snatched back her footgear but that she was restrained by Ogle, who not only held her firmly, but had pulled her into his lap, where she writhed and screamed and giggled all in one. Solemnly, as if It were the most ordinary and natural of things, a lackey poured wine into the shoe, as

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Stanhope bade him. And Stanhope, standing above them, gay and flushed, proposed a toast the terms of which I have no Intention of repeating. He was midway through when the twin doors behind the Duke were thrown open by a chamberlain, whose voice rang solemnly aoove the general din. “Miss Sylvia Marquharson, may It please your grace." There was a momentary pause as of surprise; then louder than ever rose tlioir voices in hilarioius acclamation of the annoiyicement. Buckingham sprang up and round, and several others rose with him to give a proper welcome to the belated guest. Stanhope, ono foot on his chair, the other on the table, bowed to her with a flourish of the slipper from which he had just drunk. She stood at gaze, breathless and suddenly pale, on the summit of the three steps that led down to the lovel of the chamber, her startled, dilating eyes pondering fearfully that scene of abandonment.. She saw little Anne Seymour, whom she knew, struggling and laughing In the arms of Sir Thomas Ogle. She saw Etheredge, whom she also knew, sitting wtih flushed face and leering eyes, an arm about the statuesque bare neck of Miss Howden, her lovely dark head upon his shoulder; she saw Stanhope on high, capering absurdly, his wig awpy, speech halting and Indecorous; and she saw some others in attitudes that even more boldly proclaimed the license presiding over this orgy to which she had been bidden. (Continued in Our Next Issue)

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