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Page 1 of 11929 · PDF PAGE 18
…y safe- guard from intrusion the thought that nobody who en- tered would be in a position to throw stones at a fellow- culprit, Theodore Bugg turned over the pages. The book began mildly enough with the winged Vic- tory and only entered the rapids with La Gioconda. Thence, Niagra-like, one plunge to the abyssthe Venus de Milo. The blood flame to his face; his breath came hot and quick. With fumbling fingers that trembled with excitement he withdrew the photograph from its leaf and half showed it to the proprietor with a whispered Comby- ang?…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
HIS SECRET SIN Inscribed admiringly to Alexander Coote. THEODORE BUGG had made England what she is. The last forty-two years had elevated him from errand-boy to biggest retail grocer in the Midlands. Twenty-eight years of wedded happiness had left him with a clear con- science, a five-year old grave to keep in order To the memory of my beloved relict, as he had written until the clerk suggested a trifling alteration, and a strapping daughter just turned twenty. I wish I could stop here. But there is a rough side to every canvas, and Theodore …
1929 · PDF PAGE 19
II. Theodore Bugg, a year later, was paying the price of his fall. He had allowed Gertrude to attend Art Classes, although he knew it to be wrong. But he had grown to fear his daughter, andon such a point especiallyhe was incapable of fighting her. For there were times when he tried to persuade himself that there was nothing wrong in it. A brother church-warden had looked a little askance when the news of Gertrude's advanced ideas had come; but Theodore had stoutly and even a little sternly rebuked him with the original remark: To the pu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…len Bacillus, which he under- stood to be of a grossly immoral tendency. (Nasty filth about free love or something, isn't it?) Theodore Bugg was not a sensitive man; excess of intuitive sympathy had not made his life a hell; but he felt that his domestic relations were strained. Especially since that Mrs. Grahame had evinced a liking for Gertrude. Her husband's colonelcy was the gilding of the pill; but the pill was a bitter one, for Mrs. Grahame went motoring and even golfing on Sunday instead of going to Church, and once or twice had taken…
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…least conquered the great pianist Wlody- wewsky, and it takes her all her time to manage him and keep the baby out of mischief. Theodore Bugg needs no help of hers in his moral sculpture of the destinies of England.
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
…onsieur require? Photographs of Paris, of Fontainebleau, of the Louvre, of Versailles? But English would not serve the turn of Theodore Bugg. He nearly bolted from the shop. An English voiceit was almost Discovery! Kerker shows, he muttered doggedly enough, though his head hung lower than ever. Kelker shows tray sho. Voo savvy?tray tray shopar propre! The shopman, not yet old enough to master his dis- gust at the familiar incident, brought forward several books of photographs.
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…his vile, filthy, lewd, obscene, lustful thing? Damn it! you're as bad as Cousin Jenny! (Cousin Jenny was a blot on the scutcheon of the Buggs). You're a harlot, miss! And then, with an awful change as the truth came home to him: O my God! O my God! Damn it! he screamed, how did you get the keys of my little safe? The girl had frozen colder than the stone, but there was a new light in her eye, and if the curl of a lip could tread a worm into the dust, that lip was hers and that worm the author of her being. She had withdrawn as one who com…
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
I'll give you an address to send my things to, she said, and walked out of the garden. Theodore Bugg sat stunned. Holy things, she had said. She called that lustful French photograph holy! Was this Original Sin; or was it that strange new thing people were talking aboutwhat was it? Ah! heredity. Heredity? His secret sin become her open infamy? Truly the sins of the fathers were visited on the children! By this time he was upstairs and in his bedroom. He must destroy the accursed thing; he must destroyAh! yes. He had contaminated Gertrude …