The Beauty and the Bolshevist

ILLUSTRATIONS

“I beg your pardon. Is this a private raft?”

“Mr. Moreton, the Newport boat leaves at five-thirty”

“I’ll be there in five minutes, in a little blue car”

“Suppose you find you do hate being poor?”

CONTENTS

Chapter I

The editor of that much-abused New York daily, Liberty, pushed back hiseditorial typewriter and opened one letter in the pile which theoffice-boy—no respecter of persons—had just laid upon the deskwhile whistling a piercing tune between his teeth.

The letter said:

DEAR BEN,—I hate to think what your feelings will be on learning that Iam engaged to be married to a daughter of the capitalistic class. Try toovercome your prejudices, however, and judge Eugenia as an individual and notas a member of a class. She has very liberal ideas, reads your paper, and iscontent to go with me to Monroe College and lead the life of an instructor’swife. You will be glad to know that Mr. Cord disapproves as much as you do, andwill not give his daughter a cent, so that our life will be as hard on thephysical side as you in your most affectionate moments could desire. Mr. Cordis under the impression that lack of an income will cool my ardor. You see hecould not think worse of me if he were my own brother.

Yours,

DAVID.

The fine face of the editor darkened. It was the face of an idealist—thedeep-set, slowly changing eyes, the high cheek bones, but the mouth closedfirmly, almost obstinately, and contradicted the rest of the face with a touchof aggressiveness, just as in Lincoln’s face the dreamer was contradicted bythe shrewd, practical mouth. He crossed his arms above the elbow so that onelong hand dangled on one side of his knees and one on the other—afavorite pose of his—and sat thinking.

The editor was often called a Bolshevist—as who is not in these days? Forlanguage is given us not only to conceal thought, but often to prevent it, andevery now and then when the problems of the world become too complex and toovital, some one stops all thought on a subject by inventing a tag, like “witch”in the seventeenth century, or “Bolshevist” in the twenti

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