Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 81, 14 February 1916 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, FEB. 14, 1916.

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UrW fl" The Story of iLUJC a Great Love A' Thrilling Serial of Devotion and Mystery

Crawley ceased in his work, and for a moment held his destructive hand as lie surveyed the holocaust of some of the finest work he or any of bla contemporaries had accomplished. "Mutton," said he moodily, "oblige me by saying nothing whatever about this. You understand?" . "Certainly, sir; but surely" "Not a word, Hutton. 1 have my own reasons good reasons. Get me a chisel." "Yes, sir." The man obeyed in a dazed, half comprehending fashion. His master frightened hiin by his strange manner. He sincerely hoped that the great Noel Crawley had not gone mad. He had heard that genius was akin to madness and ell the world knew that Crawley was a genius. "You can go now, Hutton," said the artist when the man had brought the chisel. "I shall be ready for lunch in about five minutes." Hutton left reluctantly. He did not at all like the look of things, and the thought of all that valuable work be ing burnt was very irritating. As for Crawley, he wasted no further time. He did not allow himself to think. The thing had to be done, and the sooner it was done the better. He took the canvas of "Circe" from its frame and slit it into strips and threw them on the fire. He destroyed the "Sleeping Venus" in the same way, and, Indeed, every picture oil, study or sketch of Zoe. When he had completed his work he went into his dining room. Hutton was awaiting him. He thought -his-master looked very white and ill, and suggested some brandy. Crawley gulped down a large glass. - "Circa" la to be Shown In Public Exhibition. "You need not trouble to wait, Hutton," he said wearily. "Just bring me my letters and go clear up the mess I have made in the studio." Hutton returned with the unopened letters and retired. Crawley drew a deep, shuddering breath of relief. "Thank Heaven that's done!" he said to himse'f. And he took up a postcard from the pile of letters Hutton had laid beside him. It was an advertisement. He glanced at it absent-mindedly; then a startled exclamation burst from his lips. "Heaven," lie gasped, "I must be mad! I had fo? gotten!" He read the printed matter on the back of tUe postcard. !t ran as follows: "Leverede Calh-ry, ' ,"'.knd -.trcet, W. "Messrs. LeveridEe and Materley beg to announce that Mr. Noel Crawley's famous picture 'Circe' is now on exhibition at the gallery. "Admission Is. Your patronage is respectfully invited." And Brooke and his wife might be in Bond street at that very moment. The priptedv. words danced before the artist's eyes. Something seemed to snap in his brain All power of coherent thought and action left him. It was fate. There was no fighting against fate. Or a surely Noel Craw ley's norves had all gone to pieces. Of what use h.'id been -he work of the lust hour the work of destruction tne holocaust' of his drawings and paintings? 'Here, advertised freely, open to anyone with the inclination and a ahilliug to spare, was "Circe," the portrait of Zoe, of Mrs. Godfrey Hrooke. Thousands of people would be bound to see the picture. It was on that as sumption, of course .that Messrs. L.veredge and Maberley had paid him a thousand pounds for the picture. And among the thousands of people who would visit the Leveredge Gallery during the next two or three months it was inevitable that there would be Godfrey Brooke. Children Hate Pills, Calomel And Castor Oil If cross, feverish, constipated, give "California Syrup of Figs." Look back at your childhood days. Remember the "dose" mother insisted on castor oil, calomel, cathartics. How you hated them, how you fought against taking them. With our children it's different. Mothers who cling to the old form of physic simply don't realize what tby no. Tne rhiidrens revolt is wellfounded. Their tender little "insldes" arj injured by them. If your child's stomach, liver and bowels need cleansing, give only deli cious "California Syrup of Figs." Its action is positive, but gentle. Millions of mothers keep this harmless "fruit laxative" handy; they know children love to take It; that it never fails to clean the liver and bowels and sweeten tho stomach, and that a teaspoonful plven today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for a 0-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs." which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on each bottle.' Beware of counterfeits sold here. See that it is nado by 'California Fig Syrup Company." Refuse any othw kind with contempt. Adv. Richmond People Good Dressers Very few cities la the United States ran show as many well-dressed people M Rl:hmond. a large psr cent of thea having their clothes made to order. You can tell a w oarer of Emmons T-'loring It is classy an-" rp-to-datw We make fine suits $15.00 to $30.00 Main end Ninth Streets Emmons Adv. I

And then? ; Crawley's brain reeled. He felt sud-. denly almost physically sick. To the world the picture was Circe, the symbol of the classic myth, CTree, daughter of the Sol and Perseus, who with magic potion of venomous herbs turned Ulysses and the Trojan warriors into swiue Circe, the Nymph of Aeea. To Crawley she had been the incarnation of the myth, the symbol, even as Zoe had been to him the incarnation of many things. But to Brooke, her husband? What would it be to him? It was before this question that he dared not ansv er that Crawley bowed his head with a fear that could not be measured, a shame that was unnameable. for in the last few hours the artist had become the man. Zoe, but the wife of his old friend and benefactor, and Circe was no longer the Sorceress of Aeea, but Mr3. Godfrey Brooke. But that was not all, although, Heaven knew, that was bad enough, since the portrait was startling and lifelike, despite the spirit of sin and

the symbolism of the Hellenic legend he had Infused into the painting, which gave it its subtle, if somewhat morbid fascination. , Anyone who knew Mrs. Godfrey Brooke would have recognized Crawley's Circe. That, as he realized, was bad enough, but it was the other thing that was so damning. It was the fact that Brooke knew that Circe was Zoe. and knew the story of Zoe. Crawley might have painted Zoe's portrait in the most conventional manner, painted her as a saint or as Madonna of the Lilies, as, indeed, he had done, but it would make no difference, because if Brooke saw the picture he would recognize hLi wife, and in the same instant realize that she was Zoe, the woman who lived Crawley. Whether Zoe had ever loved her husband Crawley could not say, and his thoughts were much too occupied to trouble about that question One thing, however, was very certain, and that was that Brooke firmly believed she loved him now, that as she was all his life so was he all hers. Brooke was the sort of man who would have defended that thesis with his life, the sort of man who, did he know the ghastly truth, would have killed her without mercy. Crawley knew it, and quailed as a man may quail before the wrath of God, for Brooke was no ordinary man. There was something very grim about Brooke, something terrible and primitive. He had lived his life among stern realities facing death so often that he and death were almost good friends. His life and experience had imbued him with a savage's disregard of human life. Brooke feared principles and worshipped ideals. He looked into the future and did his level best to make realities of his dreams. Life was a rreat thing to Brooke life as a whole but he had little care for the life of tho human unit. t ..- i . " He had shit men down , by the score in free and fair fight. He had judicially sent offending natives to executiot without so much as a thought beyond the broken law and the nec jssity of stern and impartial justice. Crawley knew all this none better. And as Brooke was in his impersonal and more rr less official side, so was he when affairs touched him closely. There was no sentiment in the making of the man; at least, Crawley had never suspected it until yesterday, when the arim! weather-tannprl nionppr hart snnlten rt hnmo nnH -.vlfo ! Perhaps that made it all the more terrible. And Brooke was rather terrible. He was a power, a giant among his fellows. Men had learned long ago not to get in Brooke's way, because when a man got in Brooke's way Brooke soon removed the obstacle, and the manner of its removal was as swift as it was efficacious. To be up against Brooke was to be ft and many others in our big

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promptly broken. Everyone knew that. When Brooke said a thing no onesave a madman,, gainsaid; when Brooke set his mind on a certain thing men found it wiser to aid him in his schemes than to set up In opposition It was, in fact, the working out of

the law of self preservation. It enabled many quite incapable and insignificant people to come to the front, to make fortunes and to gain fame. So long as they worked with Brooke, Brooke grudged them nothing. Opposition was all he resented, - and so many a little man proved the truth of Herbert's words: "A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on." Deceit and treachery were the other two anathema to the great pioneer. Opposition, deceit, treachery; either was to Brooke an unpardonable offense. Several grim stories had come through time after time of how Brooke had dealt with traitors. Crawley remembered not so very long ago a violent agitation in the newspapers over some so-called atrocity story in connection with one of Brooke's expeditions and he shuddered. There, had been a question in the house of commons, letters in the Times and semiofficial denials. TJltimately had come a cablegram from Brooke himself couched in the following terms: "Report quite true. I take all responsibility. I executed the woman myself. I know what I am doing. "BROOKE." (To Be Continued.) WAR BULLETINS POLAND NEEDS AID - AMSTERDAM, Feb. 13. That $1,000,000 monthly will be needed to provided relief for the inhabitants of Poland is the assertion in an article republished here from the North German Gazette, official organ of the Berlin government. ORDER CARDINAL'S ARREST ROME, Feb. 13. Reports, reached Rome from Geneva today that the German government had ordered the arrest of Cardinal Mercier, of Belgium, and that the prelate had deferred his departure from Rome in order to escape detention at the German frontier. VISIT ITALIAN KING ROME, Feb. 13. Premier Briand of France and M. Albert Thomas, minister of munitions in the French cabinet, will leave for the Austro-ltalian front tonight to be the guest of King Victor Emmanuel. WEBS i PALACE TODAY The Most Famous Art Model in in the World, AUDREY MUNSON In the Most Daring of PhotoPlays "Inspiration" The Romance of an Artist's Model. Miss Munson posed for the majority of the statues at the an Francisco exposition, and is considered the most perfect built women in the world. TOMORROW The International Star, EMMY WEHLEN In"Her Reckoning" The Story of a Woman Who Paid. display of the new Spring Westcott -

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- Boulevard drives from the west approach of the proposed South G street bridge,,, north to the National, road along the west bank of the--Whitewater, will be petitioned for in the near future. The opportunities offered for making a boulevard of this kind were considered by the board of county commissioners before definitely deciding upon the G street site. John Nie"woehner and John Reed, members of the joint committee representing the Southwest Richmond Improvement association, told the commissioners Saturday that steps would be taken in petitioning for a road along the west bank. The scenery viewed from the west end of the proposed bridge surpasses that of any places in this community. The west bank at this place is approximately eighty feet above the river level and affords a view down the deep Whitewater gorge of over a mile. "Action should be taken to prevent

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