The Thirteenth
Commandment
DUANE AGAIN COMES TO RESCUE AS DAPHNE SEES HER
CHANCE TO BECOME A STAR SLIPPING AWAY,
Synopsis.—Clay Wimburn, a young New Yorker on a visit to Cleve-
land, meets pretty Daphne Kip, whose brother is In the same office with
Clay In Wall street. After a whirlwind courtship they become engaged,
Clay buys an engagement ring on credit and returns to New York.
Daphne agrees to an early marriage, and after extracting from her
money-worried father what she regards as a sufficient sum of money
for the purpose she goes to New York with her mother to buy her trous.
sean. Daphne's brother, Bayard, has just married and left for Europe
with his bride, Leila. Daphne and her mother install themselves in
Bayard's flat. Wimburn introduces Daphne and her mother to luxurious
New York life. Daphne meets Tom Duane, mwan-about-town, who seems
greatly attracted to her. Daphne accidentally discovers that Clay is
penniless, except for his salary. Baynard and his wife return to New
York unexpectedly. The three women set out on a shopping excursion
and the two younger women buy expensive gowns, having them charged
to Bayard. Bayard is furious over the expense, seeing hard times
ahead. Daphne, indignant, declares she will earn her own living and
breaks her engagement with Clay. Through an introdaction by Duane,
Daphne induces Reben, a theatrical lnagaate, to give her a position in
one of his companies,
CHAPTER X-—Continued,
we 7 ce
Miss Kemble
asked Dag
Miss Kemble went forward to | while she
Daphne and took hes hand and petted | she was SO unnerved that
it and said: “I'm so glad to see you. ther own lines and had to refer to the
You must meet my aunt, Mrs. Vining. | ms script, while Eldon waited In
She won't object to your playing hér i acute distress and Daphne, looking on
parts, I'm sure” | said: “Oh, I see. I think I understand
Mrs. Vining, who had played all!it now.” Then she forgot is all again
manner of roles for half a century, | at the repetition. the re
and Was now established as a famous j hearsal was rough to the
Player of hateful old grandes dames, | end and Batterson di the com-
spared Daphne her ready vinegar and | pany Then he
chose to mother her, ven eber } a
Mr. Reben had come down from his |
office to make up his own mind. Hel
led with a kind of challe
tried to
whine to step aside
went through the
help. She
and watch
scene, But
she forgot
Somehow
worried
smissed
with
substl-
Daphne went home, dren
but not kr i
She felt
nging cor- |
and murmured: “So onr little
business woman is going to open the
shop. Well, all you've got lo is
to deliver the goods and I'll buy ‘en
it your own price.”
di
of
guilty
to Yas worn out wit!
Eatterson rapped
that stood on
er a naked bunch
brilliance,
m
lease, for the
« Eldon”
noble matinee
table
idol put
sat
two
walked on, dow i
ivan composed f ed Danhne with
iil FTTH i Of aan 34 BE
read
naffens
#3 and insisted on hearin
of her progross, She
iS possible ficcount of h
He would have none of he
eciation.
verythi
and an imaginary n
“Doorbell! Buzzz |
whom
Batterson said:
A well-dressed :
Daphne Yecognized as the elderly
ler, w
»
but.
ng's got to hepin ™
‘Some of the greatest netors
3 Kemble's | at rehearsal.
famous “How do You do?” Some of the
a fare at their worst on
watched for! a.
> iance., Yq
have beauty find
lence, | . ’
crewed to | magnetism no end. Don't
id make
poss 6 Roboen or
glued to the roof Speak to Heb i RI
We'll make a star
apened
{Wo £
an
aairs, |
and
greatest a
never
frig
Eve rybody walter
the newecome
the new
Dapha gtood
the floor and tongue
of her month,
“All ri
with
io
world, Then
rey
Ty.
eo with heels he
i restrain
Batterson, of you
yet."
There was
| word “we” In 1
of impudence.
id Batterson
“ee ®t fin
Come on,
e reassurance in that
te of its plen
Or
Come
It gave her sires eth to
and call up Rehen
despair and col
thes Daphne
1d choked. “I'm awfully sty-
ve forgotten the line"
unlighted ef-
Jado! How-
£0 to the te
She
le phe
came back in
lapsed on the divan.
Tom Duane w
I¥y. “You're iit
in I do?”
lieitude pleased
“Mr. Rebon
was afraid I'd better give up
at hor
In
14 glide
heave n's
what eo;
His
stn iled palely :
I'm
t
ke
solicit hor,
win 1
Wii i
. ie io
dered to r ilize that Yu oh
ed through a solid wall,
ignored, but there |
ignoring the ped }
note she struck
butler ar
fuent
to the
“How are you?
A sigh went through
found apd void of the empty th
Instinct told even the
Daphne did not belong and never could |
belong. Batter on groaned,
to’ the butler, ple
‘How are you? to
Don't say ‘How are you?
please, 8 ript says ‘How Ray
‘Howjado? to Mr. Eldon there, Ray |
‘How indo’ to Mr. Eldon there” |
“Now you do?" said Daphne, |
bowing to Eldon and speaking with a |
soullessness of a squeezed doll, }
Eldon rose, folded up his imaginary
paper, and came forward with a pity
Ing desire to belp her. He hoped that |
the scared little Kip woman would win |
through the same bitter trials to the
Same perilous and always endangered
success, But he had a fear,
He delivered her his line with be.
nevolent gentleness, fle waited, then
gave her her line with exquisite tact,
She did not repeat it after him, He
said to her:
“Don’t be afraid;
He gave her the
parroted
the vast pro
eater,
that |
ops
SC 0s
tragically.
Don't |
butler, |
to anybody, |
Lig
)
gay the
fado?
do
you're all right»
line again and she
it after him. She leaped
then to a speech several minutes fap.
ther on. He drew her back to the cue:
“Pardon me, but 1 think I have a line
before that”
The rehearsal blundered on, It was
not Daphne's fright that disturbed
the rest. It wns her complete fatlure
to suggest the character, or any char.
ucter,
But Batterson found nothing to
amuse him, end Reben tasted that
dust and ashes of disappointment
with which theatrical managers are
80 miling when they bite ca the
Deng) “ea frult of beauty without deg.
mats toler, J
He Gave Her a Hand-Grip of Perfect
Good Fellowship.
He was very polite and awfully sorry,
but he sald he didn’t think 1 was quite
Suited to the work. He sald that later,
perhaps, there might be another
chance, but—oh—oh-~oh 1"
She was crying with all her might.
Gradually she realized that Duane's
hands were on ber shoulders, Ite was
Squeezing them as If to keep her from
sobbing herself to pleces. His face
was close to hers, and he was mur.
muring :
“You poor little thing, You mustn't
grieve. You've to fine and too beau.
tful for such work.”
RUPERT HUGHES
Copyright by Harper & Brothers
She flung herself free, “No, no: I'm
an imbecile—I'm no good—that's all.”
Those big hands were at her shoul-
ders again, That soothing voice was
ministering courage and praise:
“You are not no good, You shall
succeed! * I'l make Reben take you
back,
was In trouble. I've lent him money
and I'll make him give you your
chance. I promise that, on my word 1”
She stared at him through her tears.
They blurred him in dancing flashes
of light as If he were a sun god. She
caught his hands from her shoulders,
but she had to hold them in hers.
was drowning, and she must cling to
whatever arms stretched down to her.
She must not question whose they
were till she was safe again on the
solid earth.
Duane was laughing now
ting her on the back as if she were a
frightened child, She felt no
to rebuke his caresses, They
| Such as a brother might give
| rade, sustaining another in a battle,
He was the only one in the world
who offered her courage and praise
{and help fn her need.
Duane sald, with a matter-of-fact
No, I'l go see him"
“But you put me under such obliga-
tions. I'm afraid-—-"
“Never be afraid of a
“I'm afraid I can never repay it”
“Then you're one ahead. But y«
Can repay me and you will”
“How
“1et's wi
n obligation”
it and see. Qoodi ¥. Don't
but what
you had kept
0 good for such
A person could
hed
You
a2 wicked life,
without
and my little g
now you
a"
artor ng
t insincere
pretender,
out [0
with mm
“No, thank yon. mamma.”
Mrs, Kip gathered herself together
for a vigorous assuult when the tele.
phone rang and the maid brought word
that a gent
Miss Daphne,
It was Duane, and she braced her.
| golf for another blow. But his voice
was clarion with success,
“I've seen Reben. It's all right. He's
irl iz too hon-
along hoe
Come
a chance,
iat the theater at seven-thirty tonight.”
i And now
{afraid of her success, such as It was,
{ than of her failure. Put It was pleas.
ant to carry the news to her mother
and Leila.
It disgusted them both. They were
still trying to dissuade her from con-
tinuing on the downward path when
a telegram from her father came for
| her mother :
“Taking beaver arrive Grand Cen.
tral tomorrow don't meet me love,
“WES.”
Bayard was late, a8 usual, #nd
Lelia's teroper had just begun to sim.
mer when the door was opened stealth
fly and a hand was thrust in. It prof.
fered a small box of Jeweler's size and
waved it like a flag of truce,
Leila rushed forward with a ery of
delight, seized the packet and then
the hand, and drew Bayard into the
room and tnto her arms,
“This is your apology, I suppose”
the sald,
“Yes, the apology for being late, and
that's what made me late” .
Leila was enraptured. She adored
gifts and she had the knack of Inspire.
Ing them. ‘The little squara parcel
provoked her curiosity. She opened
it 80 exeitedly a the contents fell
to the floor. Swooped for them
and brought up a platioum chain with
a delleate plaque of hi diamonds and
pearls on a device atinom,
‘Leila ran to Mra, Kip and Daphne,
exclaiming” - “Aren't they benutifal?
they wonderful? Aren't they
Aren't .
glorious LR rs Ey FB a i gr :
Mrs, Kip and Daphue tried to keep
the pace, but once Tre they gould ot
forget w & was that wae wining
down on this greedy stranger
Their alarm was not ®minished
Bayard said to Lelia:
BRL
» CENTRE HALL, Pa.
“You're not the only one who can
open accounts. I started one for
those.”
He took from his pocket a pale
brochure and sald to Leila: “That al
lowance we agreed on, you know?”
“Yes, I know.”
“Well, instead of paying it to you
week by week I decided to open a
bank account for you; so I ran over to
this bank at the lunch hour and made
a deposit to your credit—five hundred
dollars 1"
Leila forgot her Jewelry for a mo-
ment In this new pride, She strutted
nbout with mock hauteur, waving Mrs.
Kip and Daphne aside and saying:
“Don’t speak to me. I am a lady with
a bank account.”
Mre, Kip sighed in dreary earnest,
“That's more than I ever was."
Leila was poring over her bunk hook,
the blank pages in which so many dra-
mas, tragedies and life histories could
be codified in bald numerals,
Her first question was ominous : “Do
I have to go an the way down to
every time I want to
draw out some money 7"
Her first thought was already to at-
tack the integrity of her store,
“No, dearest” said Bayard, “there
Is an uptown branch, right around the
corner. But I hope your visits there
more for no
Every time 1
wnnt
I
Ma)
yhe
put-in than take
give you anything
You to put some of it aside.
some I'l want to borrow
5 ¥
day
Q iarreling 'W
th
es 1 i RE - i. orm
v
looking 044 and wareal in their pate.
They seemed to be murprised that
Daphne was still in existence, Eldon
gave her a curious smile of greeting,
8he heard the call boy erying “Over.
ture” about the corridors. She heard
the orchestra playing “the king's
plece” Then ft struck up a march
that sounded remote and irrelevant.
There was a lond swish which ghe sup-
posed to be the curtain going up. An
actor and an actress in white
with tennis rackets under their arms
Hnked hands and skipped Into the well
of light, They bandied repartee for
a time,
Eldon,
Vining,
ly. He laughed louder
then plunged into the light,
A little later Eldon came
stage laughing. He dropped his laugh.
ter as he crossed the border and re.
sumed his anecdote, “As I was gay-
ing—*
“But Mrs, Vining
“There comes my cue,
tonight ¥
“Rather cold” sald El
hot.”
Speaking earnestly to Mrs,
and louder and
Interrupted :
How are They
“igs
on; 8 80
she shook out her skirts,
up and swept through the door like
downger sw an,
One of the box lights bee
ter,
an to sput.
and Batterson dashed round from
the other Wing to curse the
He ran Into Daphne,
h rshily : “You nes
in {
charge. glared
and spoke du't walt
[ar ¥
Daphne
| slunk
longer.”
pride
out.
CHAPTER XL
early next morning.
She remembered
rriving in
it would
the
}
a Broken Vase,
spent,
that,
Whe
fs =
sy ws #
fo be the i
“What
minimum o
“Thou
t.” sald yr “It »
Con
unincky one
it 1
ers of the
all thou earn.
ns—well
tly
og
Lirtronth
fuess——q
The
They've been
even while
Lella shrugged her handsome
studied the g .
not talk abon it tonight.
sotewh to the
my new
mu
Jows 1}
hty
ave Kept
bank
they were i
wretty
the world
reecuted.”
ghoul
ems
“1 .ot's
20
I want to s F off
i
“Fine 1”
away his forebodings and lift
by his own boot straps,
himself
“1 can’t go." said Daphne,
at the fun factory at hal!
seven and I've hardly
thing.”
While Leila ana Bayard and Mrs
Kip were putting on their festal robes
Daphne was eating alone a hasty meal
brought up tardily from the
rant,
Before they were dregped she had to
march out in what she called her
working clothes. The hallman ran to
call her a taxicab, but she shook her
head. Her humble twenty-five dollars
a week would not Justify a chariot to
and from the shop.
She walked rapidly along Fifty.
ninth street, but not rapidiy enough to
escape one or two murmurous gal-
lants, w
She found Batterson quarreling with
a property man over the responsibility
for a broken vase. He ignored her till
at length she ventured to stammer:
“Here I am, Mr, Batterson.”
“So 1 see. Well, sit down some-
where”
Finding a seat was no eany task.
Every plece of furniture she selected
me at once the object of the
Scene shifter's attack and she had to
take flight,
Members of the company strolled In,
paused at the mailbox and went te
their various cells,
Eventually Bstcerson found that an
the company was on hand and in good
health, fe said to Daphne, “Every
body «8 here and nobody sick, so you
Feodn’t stay after the curtain goes
up.
" But she wanted to learn her trade,
#0 she loltered about, feeling like an
uninvited poor relation. The members
past
time fo eat any-
gs veal } 1
3a SLHDOK
his
an by saying vou
y1” maid Wesle
ented at the table
ordered,
* ie something about h
disagreement with
fies
Pea
you.
better run on to see if 1
of smooth things ox
I'm glad you came to meet me.
can talk without int: rrupt!
Tell me all about rR
She tol
an
i
inl
i
to Join the great soc revs |
slavery of enslaving the men.
peroration w
“1 don’t we
from you” !
“Why, honey,” he protested, “I love
to give it to you. 1 only wish I had i
ten tities as much, I couldn't dream |
of letting you work. You're too pirty, |
What's that young Wimburn cub mean
by letting you work »
“Oh, he's bitterly oppos
I gave him his ring.”
a8 her new watchword ; |
at to take any more money |
”
ed to It, so
At last Daphne gets the
chance that she has hoped for
and at the same time has dread.
ed-the chance to fain a place
that will give her the independ.
ence she seeks, What Daphne
did with the great chance when
it came is told in the next in.
staiiment,
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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