Dpcember 12, 1923
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It was a lujJurious room, large and
furnished with utmost thought of expense
and dark beauty. It was dark mysteri
ous, terrible! From ceiling to floor it
was twenty feet. Parallel walls circled
this room, and around the w’alls a high
gallery ran. Expensive tapestries hung
from this gallery. Below there was
scant furnishing, but so luxuriously dark
and foreboding looking that a feeling of
dread seemed to grip you as you entered.
\ ten-foot brownstone fire-place reared
it*^elf at the north end of the room. Two
heavy candle sticks and a heavily fram
ed picture of the master of the house
adorned it. A huge fire flamed on the
hearth and ast weird shadows around,
^rwo long, heavy couches, a massive
table with its dark shaded lamp and
oddly contrasting vases of beautiful hot
house products, a few' heavy chairs and
a dark rug of Persian-make upon which
no footfall could he heard and one bronze
statue constituted this sinister room.
The small, slight figure reclining on
ihe couch before the log fire, contrasted
greatly with its surroundings. Cecilia
Bedford, for it was she who lay there,
was one of the most beautiful and most
talented women in Paris just tw'o years
ago! Two years! This last year had
seemed like a century. The first had
been perfect happiness. She had given
up her career as the most popular dancer
in gay Paree to marry George Bedford,
the coal mine king. ITow’ she had loved
him ! But to go back to Cecilia in the
nightmare room, that is what it was—a
Nightmare lloom—it was too terrible
looking, and yet too wonderful to be
true. At first sight Cecilia was the most
beautiful woman imaginable—great, dark
eyes; long curling lashes, straight black
brows, low forehead and lips made to
be as red as blood and perfectly shaped.
Oval cheeks tinted to tlie exact right
shade of pink and a mass of curling black
hair. She was dressed iu black with
only a string of magnificent pearls around
her neck and falling below her waist.
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She toyed with these now and then, and
could you have seen her with that look
of thougkt on her lovely face you, too,
would have fallen in love w’ith her just
as George Bedford had. But on close
examination there could be seen a look,
sinister and serpent’-like in her eyes and
a smile of hate and scheming on her
lips. At this observation you would
shiver. She was just like the room, dark,
beautiful, terrible !
'rhe door opened and a man stood there
looking in at the scene just described.
At sight of the woman his face soften
ed. then, as if on second thought, it
hardened to amazement and anger. A
second look and all changed to just—
hurt. Silently closing the door George
Bedford crossed o\ev to the side of his
young wife. Cecilia looked up and gave
a slight smile; slowly rising she started
ro speak softly as she alw^ays did, but
h(? silenced her with a gesture of com
mand—a gesture unknown to pampered
Jlrs. Bedford. She looked up, startled,
amazed, yet innocontly. She smiled, but
no answering smile or loving word as
usual came from grim-faced Bedford. In
his hand he held a glass bottle and a
crumpled piece of paper.
-Why did you do it?” was all he
said.
‘■How did I do what?” innocently
enough from Cecilia.
“Why did you do it? Oh, how could
you?” he asked again as though he could
think of only one thing, and as if he
were alone, talking to himself. He was
hardly aware of her presence.
She gave an impatient shrug of her
shoulders and walked over to the fire
place where she stood gazing down into
the blazing fire. “My dear boy,” she
said a little too smoothly, considering the
seriousness of the situation, “You must
be more explicit.”
•‘Why did you do this?” he expostulat
ed angrily; aware at last that she was
either serenely unconscious of the knowl
edge of the crumpled paper or a very
good actress. lie hold tlie bottle and
paper in front of him and walked over
to her side.
The door opened again noiselessly,
low voice said, “My friends, what is the
trouble?” It was Pr. Ralph Durant
best friend and physician of the Bed
ford family. He was a tall, grey-eyed
man of thirty. Though he addressed
both his eyes rested on Mrs. Bedford,
aud from her eyes to his a silent mess
aged w’as conveyed. He understood.
“You!” cried Bedford. “You cur!
You. who have-been masquerading as my
friend and confidant, you whom I have
lo^’ed. You have betrayed my confi
dence I"
•'What do you mean, George?” cried
poor Cecilia.
“I mean, and yon know it, that you
deliberately tried to poison me so you
coaid marry Ralph Durant. If I hadn’t
quite by accident found this tiny piece
o£ paper, 1 probably would have com
plied with your wishes and have drunk
it but fate, it seems, decreed that I stay
on this old earth a little longer,” he con
cltided sarcastically.
Cecilia put up her trembling hands to
her face and wept silently. Ralph
Durant walked to the window. Bedford
stood looking into space. Ruined! All
hope gone. And all in this nightmare
room! He had always hated it, but
Cecilia wanted "a retreat,” as she called
it and, of course, she had her way.
The bottle and paper fell unnoticed
to the floor and Bedford sat down, plun;
ing his face hi his hands. Minutes pass
ed. N’ot a sound was heard. Durant
turned. Cecilia wiped her eyes with a
bit of lawn aud lace and went over to
Bedford.
“Dear,” she began. He thrust her
nwny, rose and walked swiftly to the
door, turning quickly he faced them-
white faced but determined. In his hand
he grasped a revolver. Cecilia screamed
and” ran to him, but he did not waver
or take his eyes from Durant who also
held ail automatic.
Suddenly they all became aware of
the presence of another person. He had
been walking quietly around, creeping in
and out, but now faced them. “Eyes
blazing,” he cried, “the act is a failure!
Do it over again,. A little more emotion
at the last, Gloria. Camera!’’—High
Life (Greensboro High School.)
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