TWIN TALES
Are All Men Alike
and
The Lost Titian
By
ARTHUR STRINGER
McCLELLAND & STEWART
PUBLISHERS TORONTO
Copyright 1920
McClure’s Magazine, Inc.
Copyright 1920
The Curtis Publishing Company
Copyright 1921
The Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Company
Printed in the United States of America
TWIN TALES
| Contents |
| Are All Men Alike |
| The Lost Titian |
TWIN TALES
CHAPTER ONE
Her name was Theodora, which means,of course, “the gift of God,” as her sad-eyedUncle Chandler was in the habit ofreminding her. In full, it was TheodoraLydia Lorillard Hayden. But she wasusually called Teddie.
She was the kind of girl you couldn’tquite keep from calling Teddie, if youchanced to know her. And even thoughher frustrated male parent had countedon her being a boy, and even though therewere times when Teddie herself wishedthat she had been a boy, and even thoughher own Aunt Tryphena—who still reverentiallyreferred to Ward McAllister andstill sedulously locked up the manor gatesat Piping Rock when that modern atrocityyclept the Horse Show was on—solemnlyaverred that no nice girl ever had a boy’sname attached to her without just cause,Teddie, you must remember, was not masculine.God bless her adorable little body,she was anything but that! She wasmerely a poor little rich girl who’d longedall her life for freedom and had only succeededin bruising, if not exactly her wings,a