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A ROSH HASHONA STORY BY KATE FREEDMAN

The girl, carried away by her own
Mrs. .1. Seitner-Meyers dipped
plump, jeweled fingers into the tepid, eloquence did not see the effect of her
lemoned water of the finger bowl, words. Her mother, stunned at the
flirted a dampened corner of a real unexpected outburst, gazed helplessly
Madera napkin deftly over a full- toward her husband, only to meet a
lipped mouth, and even as the maid look of baffled amazement as great as
began, very properly, to remove the her own. Grandma, not quite under-
dessert dishes, had already cieareu standing, smiled and looked with con-
the space bef 're her to lean dimpled, scions pride at her grandchild. A look'
satin elbows on the cloth. of growing anger appeared on the
Which was not strictly according face of the brother. Sanders smiled
to formal rub a of etiquette. But there tolerantly. Only the boy who had al-
were many such irreconcilable things ways adored her was hurt, dumbly.
about Mrs. Meyers. The bulky, yet- poignantly. A pang, sharper than
her mother's the stab of the shrapnel fragment
lowed silver tea Spaans,
bridal gift, beside the impeccable that had left its mark a year or so
Sterling, quaint brass candlesticks, back, shot through his heart.
"What does love mean to you Adel-
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on a teakwood Serviette—the hope. eider Kurt Sander's voice madden-
lessly old-fashion gold wedding band, inglY calm, intentionally soothing,
wholly patronizing, riddled her retie- ,
cowering beside an elaborate dinner
ring, which had never been engraved mice. Dense auburn curls, clustering
closely about the bobbed head, vibra-
with orange blossoms, or dipped in tad with the defiant tilt of the proud
platinum, no demanded by vogue.
,
head.
A plump, correctly corseted bundleead.
The soft line of the tender
mouth became straight, unyielding.
of such happy contradictions was Mrs. There was an uncompromising lift to
Meyers. Now she sighed contentedly.
Her clear brown eyes traveled quickly, the chin. She turned a white face
happily from face to face. A typical toward her smiling interrogator.
"Love means nothing to me now—:
American-Jewish family in an era .. nothing, yet. But sonic day I pray
j og
of normalcy. Three generations
it may come to me—that divine pass-
ging comfortably en"ugh together.
hair OR that is Ileavenborn, that frees as
The father, portly, smug, sparse hail 1 it enslaves, that lifts you from the

• earth-bound world of reality—that
makes you forget all else, forsake all
else—"
In the rose-tinted world of illusion
I
I that her words created for her, the
girl did not see the stricken eyes of
the boy who adored her.
There is no process as arresting as
the bursting of the butterfly, on
strange, brilliant wings, from the
tomb of the dull, groveling caterpillar.
Thus, horrified by the recklessness of
her, they were yet silent before the
fire of her words.
This, then, was Adelaide, close-crop-
ped of hair as she was of the manner-
, isms and artifices of her sex. This,
then, was Adelaide, boyish in form as
she was in manner, enthusiast of ten-
nis and swimming and golf, who pre-
ferred a hike to a stroll, whose brief
years were singularly free of the in-
nocent flirtations and entanglements
of youth.
Of• course there had always been
Felix. She was a freshman with long,
red curls, at high school when he had
been a dignified senior. There had
even been a happy, comrady year to-
gether at the State University. He
j had the happy faculty of suggesting
KATE FREEDMAN
a walk or a ride or just nothing at
without a tinge of grey, a blue-white all at the proper time. He had the
diamond on the crest of a finely- privilege of dropping in without
pleated white silk shirt; Grandmother phoning and of being disappointed
Seitner, a cheerful, wrinkled little to find her out. For Felix, well set
woman of 80 in rustling black silk up and wholesome, liked equally by
hallowed by memories of other fes- , both sexes, there had never been any-
Unities— 'Mama' could view the one else. He worshipped her openly
heartrending cinema triumph "Over and secretly. Ile was chaffed by his
the Hills" without qualms—George, friends. Her parents, his parents,
the married son in business with his nodded understandingly and smiled.
Only Adelaide herself was but dim-
father, showing signs of girth about
He
the waist, with his wife Frances, blond' iy conscious of his adoration.
I and sprightly; Kurt Sanders, the never obtruded it in their friendship.
bachelor lawyer who lived alone in He never found pretexts for luring
a hotel suite and could always count her to the shady side of the porch, of
upon an invitation from his oldest holding her hand, of touching her
client for Rosh Hashona, eve; Adel—accidentally. He was a part of her
aide, with her mother's round brown everyday life. She accepted him
eyes, and her own grave, gay whimsi- I tacitly, gra tefully, without emotion.
cal pertness, Adelaide with the en- Once, only once, as they stopped on
gaging slenderness of youth and the a bridge spanning a tiny, inland lake
self-sufficiency of twenty-two; and to watch the silver reflection of a
Felix Frankel who had always adored virgin moon, did he forget. lie had
h•-r. drawn the slender, lithe body of the
Mr. Meyers breathes! audibly, luxu• girl to him, in all her cool dignity and'
handy. A sense of physical comfort self-sufficiency and had kissed her,
, and well-being prevailed the room. swiftly, silently, and not tenderly.
"Mania," the voice of the head of She did not resist him. For an in-
the house boomed through the conver- slant he had felt the pressure of her
rational lull. That was sure a mug- body and the wonder of her answer-
niticent dinner, even for Rosh Hash- ing kiss, then he released her. Ile!
ono." There was a slight burring of . was fiercely glad, and ashamed. She
the is in his speech, reminiscent of ' did not cry or rant or sulk. That
another regime. ! wasn't Adelaide. She looked at him
Other words of praise fluttered to very directly. How he loved her fur
the diamond-studded ear-lobes of the, that and for the whiteness of her in.
the moonlight. She placed a reassur- ,
h a tless. She flushes! rosily.
"Now, papa, don't flatter an old ing gentle hand on his arm, and
lady. Besides Grandma filled the fish smiled.
You mustn't again, Felix, please.
inil Justine baked the rolls and—"
Ifut the silencing look of her bus-' It would spoil things for us, you
hand, gently reproachful, entirely de- know, and nothing in the world must
' voted, brought a deeper light to the; do that."
'
' She closed her eyes then, perforce,
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interrupted. "It's about Lorene Ber• It left him .happy and hopeful. Noth-
ger, Pollock, now, I believe. She's
' done no well. Lovely girl. He's and ing could ever rob him of that mu-
so young, Mrs. Stern Was telling me ment.
But the voice of this strange, crea-
at the Auxiliary today. Not over 10, tore, glorious in her rhapsody, that
but he's doing so well in the aCCOS- was wafted to him through a world
sorybusiness. Splendid man—he gave of unreality. Words, pagan, reckless,
$250 only yesterday to the Fresh Air, revealing a mind that was unknown
right before the wedding and after to him, floated to his consciousness.
furnishing up a lovely duplex on the
"Love!" The girl's voice caressed
boulevard." the word. She seemed oblivious of all.
. Mrs. Meyers talked easily when she Iler gaze had fastened on a slanting
it
was enthuses!. "Mrs. Stern saw
of sunlight struggling through
when she called to ask if her husband ray
the blue velour hangings. "It is so
was Selig Pollock's son from up wonderful to think about to read
state." Iler voice lowered perceptibly. about—the love of a Marguerite, yes,
"Ile wasn't. "I think he's only been i of a Salome, a Thais, a Cleopatra.
here fifteen years, from Hungary ., What can you know about it? What.
believe. But the duplex! Wonderful!
can 1, here? We are so hemmed in,
Plump hands were infinitely express-
8° stilled."
, ire. "Taupe Chenille rugs, all through
"Adelaide! Enough of this hum-
the house, a Steinway Grand, velour
Iler father's voice rumbled
drapes to the fl.a.r. And you ought bug 1 "
to see her engagement ring. Three threateningly.
Sanders held up a silencing finger.
' carets, if it's a half, in a diamond
"Adelaide," the lawyer broke the
mounting."
. girl's steadfast gaze. "Your view-
She paused for breath. "A splen point is interesting, very interesting
r
did match. We're going to ask he
to me, as it must be to everyone here,
to join the Tuesday Bridge Club. and a bit surprising, if I may be
' Poor Lorene, she was getting on in pardoned. Forgive me if I try to
years, too, hardly invited anywhere. analyze your point of view—a lawyer,
She didn't look old a bit, but Mrs. you know."
Stern said she was corresponding
The girl's eyes blazed.
secretary of the Auxiliary for years.
"That's it. You analyze. You rea-
Comes of a wonderful family, you son. You deduct, then you act. That
know. Abram Berger was one of the' is why you can never know what love
founders of the Temple. Of course is. You can't reason it. You can-
they lost all their money years ago. not analyze it. Love is love.
It is
Too bad."
given, wholly, freely, unasked, often
"Oh well," brightening, "She did
without hope—"
well, though, didn't she?" She di-
The lawyer's voice was mildly in-
rected the purely rhetorical question
sistent.
1 at her blond daughter-in-law. "Don't
"You spoke of a Marguerite, of
you think so, Frances?" The answer .
was as vehement as it was unexpected. Than, of Salome." She listened im-
"She did well, did she, mother? Oh, patiently.
"Their love wan great indeed, but
how I hate that word!" This from their end, what of that? Each had
I Adelaide, of the flashing brown eyes. within her soul that which Was cap-
"How do you know, mother, that able of a great historic love, yet that
she did 'so well'? How could she love very thing wrought love's tragic
' him? She's so fine, and he, ugh— . downfall. Could their love endure?"
' accessories! He must be oily, like that
"No, it couldn't. The girl's retort
She
and reeking of the garage."
I was quick, fearless. That love can-
shuddered.
t endure forever. Love, the love
o
"W hat of her duplex, of anything? n that poet sing of is fleeting as that
How could she love him? She doesn't sunbeam, but as beautiful, as Heaven-''
' know what love is. You don't un• IF. It must be fleeting to remain
A
I derstand, not even you mother.
is what make
ever as glorious. That
1 good match! A had match! Like
Daddy makes a business deal. That's our marriages so sordid. Love does
what it has become. A business, a not endure, but responsibility does,
,
, and they grovel along to the end, un-
'terrible business.
"Love!" There was superb scorn ' happily.
Adelaide little girl." The lawyer
' in the word. "What do I know what dropped his court manner. His eyes I
love means? What do you know, were suspicously bright.
"You do.
Her accusing.
anyone of you?"
not understand. Once, only for ai
She'
eyes lashed her auditors.
there
was
a
girl
in
my life,
!space,
stood up, one slim, tense hand against
,

'the brocaded blue of the dining-room I too. I have never forgotten. Love
The hectic, fleeting
does endure.
chair. Distaste, rebellion was written I
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