Linda Condon

of sentimental concern. Mr. Moses Feldt was a short round man, bald but for a fluffy rim of pale hair, and with the palest imaginabl

namented by a pear-shaped pearl on a diamond finished stem; his cloth-topped varnished black shoes glistened, while h

s his own-but that didn't include him in whatever they did. Principally it made a joke for their private entertainment. Mrs. Condon would mimic his eager manner, "Stella, let me take you both home where you'll have t

re was a-a goodness, a mysterious quality that stirred her heart to recognition. Certain rare things in life and experience affected her like that memory of an old happiness. She could n

e to him, or mocking him behind his back, she was as uncomfortable and "horrid" as possible. While this fact, of course, only served to make her horrid

n't know how I think of you," he protested, tears in his eyes; "just the idea of you exposed to anyt

t you needn't worry. No one would d

here she is so much-roof frolics and cocoanut groves and submarine cafés; they don't come to any good. Rowdy." Linda studied him coldly; if he cr

at this truth. "I'm a jackass!" he cried. "Judith tells me that all the time. If you could only see my daughters," he continued with a new vigor; "such lovely girls as

old-fashioned. Homes have gone out of style with the rest. It's all these restaurants and roofs now, yes, and studios. I tell the girls to stay away from them and from artists and so

id, 'Oh, if you only won't leave me I'll give you gold to eat.'" He was so moved, his face so red, that Linda grew acutely embar

da declined to do. And, "Ask your mother if you won't come

ickly back. "I am almost afraid of you," he told her; "you're so distant and elegant. Judith and Pansy would get on wi

a man in the hotel livery helped him into a coat. Mr. Moses Feldt waved the stil

him. At the same time the strange thrill touched her; the sense of his absurdity vanished a

. The familiar rare joy lingered. It seemed now as though she were to capture and understand it ... there was the vibration of music; and then, as always, she felt at once sad and