A MOTOR FLIGHT THROUGH FRANCE ARTEMIS TO ACTÆON THE DECORATION OF HOUSES CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS A SON AT THE FRONT EDITH WHARTON Walt Whitman NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS MCMXXIII Copyright, 1922, 1923, by RONALD SIMMONS BOOK I 3 I John Campton, the American portrait-painter, stood in his bare studio in Montmartre at the end of a summer afternoon contemplating a battered calendar that hung against the wall. The calendar marked July 30, 1914. Campton looked at this date with a gaze of unmixed satisfaction. His son, his only boy, who was coming from America, must have landed in England that morning, and after a brief halt in London would join him the next evening in Paris. To bring the moment nearer, Campton, smiling at his weakness, tore off the leaf and uncovered the 31. Then, leaning in the window, he looked out over his
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