CENTRE HALL, PA.
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Clay in Wall street,
Daphne meets Tom Duane,
tracted to her.
except for his salary.
pectedly.
Bayard is furious over the expense,
with Clay.
ment
panies,
gives her another chance. Sudden
soled by Tom Duane.
who seems greatly at-
Daphne,
seeing hard times ahead,
illness of Miss Kemble, the star,
CHAPTER Xil—Continued.
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Satan or Raphael had whispered to
her an invitation to revisit the scene
of her late humiliation with Clay. With
Duane’s magie purse there would be
no danger of a snub from the waiters;
with his own car there would be no
risk of footing it home.
Then an imp of mischief spoke for
her and said, “All right!”
Duane told the chauffeur and the
car shot like a javelin from the lighted
street into the deep forest-night of
Central park.
What would Clay say?
all, he had failed her in a crisis, Per-
haps he had turned his heart else
where. Men were impatient, vindie-
tive, fickle,
When Claremont was reached and
Duane handed Miss Kip out he noted
that her hand was hotter than his own
and a little quick to escape, her face
wns flushed and her lips parted as if
But, after
with excitement. He assumed that
the speed of the ride and the tang of
ddventure were to blame, i
While the walters were serving the
supper and while was attacking it
with the frank appetite of honest hun-
ger she recounted the evening's dis
aster as calmly as if it were the story
of somebody else. In facet, sh 18
standing off and regarding herself
the an alien. We change so
fast that persons
day are already strangers,
acts the acts of distant relatives,
calm really the
shock. anguish
MOrToOW.
“lI can't understand myself at all” |
Daphne sald. *“l1 went through every
of the but I coulda’t
reach the audience once.
singer 2 bad cold singing in a
foreign language—you don’t know what
the song is all about, but you know
that it never quite gets on the key™
“You mustn't be discouraged.”
“Oh, yes, I must!
actress in a thousand years.
terson told me so himself.”
Duane felt the truth of this, but 1t|
hurt him to have her feel it. It of-
fended his chivalry to realize how im- |
polite fate could be to so pretty a girl.
He hated to see her reduced to the |
hecessity of proving how plucky she |
could be. He tried to find an escape
for her. He said:
“You're far too good for the stage.”
“I don’t believe that for a minute,” |
she protested. “But I've got to find
something I ean do.”
“May I help you to decide?”
“If you only would! But I'm getting
to be a nuisance.”
"You ate a~a--to me you are g—
well, you're not a nuisance.”
He dared not tell her what she was,
especially as the waiter had set the
bill at his elbow and was standing off
in an attitude of illconcealed impa-
tience for the tip, which he knew
would be large. Mr. Duane always
gave the normal ten per cent and a
bit extra. He tipped wisely but not
too well, knowing that an extravagant
tip wins a waiter’s contempt almost
more than none atall, The head walter
falrly cooed “Good night” and almost
gave them a blessing.
The starter had Mr. Duane’s car
waiting for him at the curb and lifted
his hat with one hand as he smuggled
8 quarter away with the other. He
stepped in to lay the linen
over their knees with reverence, closed
the door exquisitely and murmured,
“Good night 1”
The ear waz an aristocrat: it float:
ed from the cmb with a swaanllke
sweep,
Daphne thought of Clay sand herself
plodding homeward. She seemed to
see them or thelr wraiths staggering
disconsolately along, She felt very
sorry for them, Here was a chance to
save one of them-—both of them, in
fact; for In taking her financial bur
den from Clay's shoulders she would
be twice strengthening him. If she
were to accept Duane as her hnshand
then her problems would be solved
and Clay would be free of her,
with
eyes of
the Were yes
their |
Her i
of |
i
to- i
and
Was numbness
The would come
one motions,
with
Mr. Bat- |
* To be Mrs. Tom Duane; to step into
the society of society ; to lift hor fathor
ness in Cleveland to a post of distine-
tion In New York: to solve at once all
the hateful, loathsome, belittling rid-
dles of money ; to be the bejeweled and
feted and idolized wife and mistress of
this young American grand duke: to
buy that impossible trousseau, or bet-
ter; to live in a New York palace in-
stead of a flat; to go about in her own
limousine instead of an occasional tax-
icab; to be fortune's darling instead
of a member of the working classes,
struggling along with bent neck under
& yoke beside a discouraged laboring
man!
When the car reached her bullding
she was resolved to see Duane no
more. She could not tell him so. After
all, he had been everything that was
fii,
courtesy and charity. It would hardly
indifference. Duane got down
and helped her out and took her to
as weed at thia late
hour. While they waited for the door
man to answer the bell she was pay-
ing him his wages:
“You are wonderfully kind. I had a
gorgeous evening. You saved my life”
She had said more than she intend-
ed—if not more than he had earned.
“Then may I call soon?”
“Of course”
“Tomorrow
“I—well, I'll let you know.”
“Fine! Telephone me at— I'll
write it ont for you. I'm not often at
the club where you found me, and my
number isn't in the book.” He wrote
on his card his telephone address and
gave it to her as the doorman ap
peared,
He murmured, “Don’t forget”
murmured, “I won't.” Both
"Good night.” Then the doorman gath-
ered her in and hoisted her to her
lowly eyrie. It was very different
from where she would have gone as
Mrs. Duane,
But when she was In her room she
tore his card to pleces—after she had
looked at it. She stared at her image
in the mirror. She hated what she saw
there,
She vowed to break her promise to
Tom Duane. She vowed to forget his
telephone number, Bat it danced
She
closed her eyes.
The next morning she overslept even
beyond the extra hour the Chivyises
permitted themselves and the stranger
within their gates on Sundays.
When Daphne appeared at break.
fast, trying not to yawn, Mrs. Chiv-
vis greeted her with a vole ag cold
and dry as the toast, and as britile:
“You were rather late getting In
Inst night—or this morning, rather.”
Daphne's answer was not an expla.
nation, but it was better:
“Oh, I know it, Mrs, Chiveis, but 1
lost my position last night. Yes! 1
played the prineigs part and killed it,
and naw I'm not going oo the stage any
more,
Mrs. Chivvis was touched. “You
poor child! It really is—just too bad 1”
She pondered, then she brightened:
“I'm sorry you're disappolnied, but I'm
glad you're not to be In the theater.
It must be very wicked.”
“It's mighty difficult,” said Daphne,
Mrs. Chivvis thought a moment
more, then she sald:
“Did I tell you? No, I don't be-
lieve I did—you were away—but Mr.
Chivvia gets his vacation next week.
He's got to take it when his turn
comes,
Tuesday.
can’t give you your meals. You can
get your breakfasts in the kitchenette.
Of course I'll allow off whatever ig
right.”
“Oh,” Daphne sald,
I guess.”
“I'll be all right,
She was to be left alone at the very
time when she was most in need of
soclety, The whole world was forsak-
ing her.
CHAPTER XII,
When the Chivvises had gone Daph-
ne assailed the task of composing her
letter of resignation from Reben's em-
ploy. It was not easy to resign with
dignity and the necessary haste,
She sent it off by messenger, It was
none too prompt, for Reben had al-
ready dictated a very polite request
for Daphne's head, When he received
letter. In this he expressed his regret
sign; the former understudy had come
back from the road, he sid, and would
resume her work. He begged Daphne
to accept the inclosed check for two
She
She looked again,
ever earned.
ning of her great fortune,
Late in the afternoon, when
western sky was turning into a loom
for cr a tapestries almost as rich
rey
FAM
brother's apartment,
Woman in the throes of finance.
md brought her check book and her
Her af-
hie
bank book to her husband.
fairs were in a knot,
He laughingly offered to help her.
She was hurt by his laughter, but not
ha f sn deeply as he was by his dis
covery of
fice on the altar of love. She had not
cherished it, but scattered it
And money was peculiarly
Ie ssly,
the hard times, when oniy the fittest
of the fittest ‘could survive the last
tests, Credit was the water cask, and
¥
boatload of survivors from a wreck.
Land might be reached if they held
out, but seif-denial was vital,
Bayard gazed at Leila with wonder-
ing love and terror. She was both
divinity and devil in his eyes, He
groaned ;
“Are you trying to wreck me? You
know how hard I'm working and how
much I need money in my business
She told about her failure and her
future and Leila praised her courage
and her optimism. They dined cheer.
fully and Bayard decided that the best
preparation for the hard work ahead
of him would be an evening of gayety.
He invited his wife and his sister to
go with him to the Winter Garden,
where the typical “Sunday concert” of
New York was given.
CHAPTER XIV.
Then the Chivvises came back from
their vacation unexpectedly early. They
had found the hotels expensive nnd
Mr. Chivvis was afrald that his Job
would be snatched from him {I he
were not there to hold it down.
Clay called on Daphne that evening
and the Chivvises retreated to their
own room, Bot as they could be over-
heard it was evident that they could
overhear, and the lovers found no
{ chance to say any of the things that
frightened
their souls,
One evening Daphne sald to Clay In
as low a voice as he could hear: “Mrs,
Chivvis is growing honey,
ahout our being together every
ning. I told her we wore engaged, but
she didn't Perhaps
uneasy,
pr
seem convinced,
engagement ring again.
to give it back to you.
Or—"
Clay blenched in “I—-I'm
afraid I— You see, I hadn't paid
{much on it; and last week 1 had an In-
tter om the jeweler,
threatened
firm, and
| ba k.”
He
swoered wi
tall right,
| After all,
have each «
“But we
| way of living |
2 be
May I have it
| sulting le fr
to &
I—well, I had to send it
Wis = nwneas ifs she
TS
. that
And
all rig
times are ove
commissions 0 «i
wait, Con
Hye on m
“1 co if
He CanEgn
lently that she
arms 80 vio
his - firm
| choice of noe
{i tarning in
really img
{ half of w
one,
Daphne eri
room. Sh : ' 3
« and doliars again and
| cried over that,
There is
test again
into
But the fact |
3
that be
much fool ind futile pro.
the woman who
her
is her business
left the
merely following
i where new conditions
have centralized and
| oes home,
it
it. Her business
sali
home first
it to the plac
and inven:
mechanized it,
New co: have taken her
distaff and her washtub ahd her cook.
ery and gossip into the woolen mills
and steanr laundries and restaurants
and telephone exchanges. She has had
to go thither to do her necessary work.
Even the entertainers, the singers
{ dancers, of who used
to stir the and the castle
{ halls have been gathered into opera
i houses and theaters and into vaude-
ville and moving picture palaces,
Daphne, having no gifts for gpin-
| ning, cooking, or laundry, tried the
| theater. Her old-fashioned lover pro-
ons
litlons
®t coed sid
LeTS stories,
seraglios
ing and burning my poor little earn-
ings. We discharged a stenographer
yesterday because we wanted to save
her salary of fifteen dollars—and
here's a check for a pair of shoes for
you that cost sixteen.
“But tell me one thing more before
I'm carted off to Bloomingdale in a
straitjacket. Why, In heaven's name,
why—admitting yon just had to have
that pitiful little pair of shoes—why,
when you wrote the check, didn’t you
subtract it from your balance instead
of adding it? I ask you!"
“Oh, did I do that?” she asked, look.
ing over hig shoulder, “Bo I did!” and
she put her cheek close to his and
giggled,
arms,
when the maid let her in. She found
Lelia resting in Bayard's lap.
Bayard did not tell Daphne what his
conference with Lella had been. He
simply closed the check book and the
cents and ask ‘em to close thelr ace
count. They'll be mighty glad to
do it.”
“And so will 1.” sald Leila. “It was
awfully hard work keeping track of
every little penny. I'd much rather
have a regular allowance in cash ev-
ery week,”
“All right!” sald Bayard. “We'll try
that-next week.” .
Daphne was not told what all this
talk was about, but she made a fair
guess, though she yretended not to,
“Oh, Did | Do That!” She Asked,
Looking Over His Shoulder,
tested, and shiv went, nnyway. But
the was not sulted to the theater, and
she retreated with nothing to show for
her expedition except her shattered
pride and the fifty<loliar check for
two weeks’ salary.
Daphne began. anew fo hunt for
work; work, the thrice blessing Jhnt
kis time and makes money and tames
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fut the world seemed to be
every other trouble except
passion,
full of
work.
little, since skilled laborers were be-
ing turned off by the thousands.
off by the tens of thousands,
rainy season,
too small for his courtship requisites:
now that his salary was halved his
courtship had to be reduced
minimum of expense,
sayard and Leila had more money
to spend, and they made
voyages. But Daphne and Clay must
swelter with the other
to
two weeks' vacation allotted to him.
Buyard took his, however, and carried
{Leila Had Decided That It Was Better
for Her Health to Stay at Newport
Till the Cooler Weather Came and
Her Summer Wardrobe Had Been
Worn Cut.
And qu
MR &lr
ry tension
nake peace endurable,
¢ back alone
led that It was b
to Newt
weather came
sith
cooler
a rdrob
stay at
had been
the
hushands, the sum
He went back
furlough to spend a Newport
his wife. He became one
Friday-night-to-Monday-morn-
ing excursionists, There was leisure
in his office,
insisted on Daphne's
room his apartment,
evenings he affixed himself
and Clay
crowd. But
chaperon of a sort.
Joined
town-tied
OWers, on
the
enough
He
her in of
and
to
he economized affociously. He
that good times
again. The whole
pot and
come world
sone to
out.
denly the whisper went
hard times were ending.
was growing in commercial
like a young giant, he had regarded
his business with all the warmth of
a poet. His office building was his
Acropolis and his office the peculiar
temple of his muse; and her name
was Profit. He thrilled like a poet
to the epic inspiration of a big sale,
and he knew a joy akin to the poet's
revision of his scansion if he devised
a scheme for reducing overhead
charge or wastage,
ns
se ——
Bayard, led on by the visions
of riches to be won in Wall
street, draws all his savings
from the bank and begins spec.
ulating in stocks. Then at far.
off Sarajevo rang out the shot
that plunged the world into the
frightful. nightmare of war.
Bayard was among the first
casualties, Read about it in the
next instaliment,
{TO BE CONTINURD,,
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In England the male blossoms of the
willows are called "eats and dogs” and
a rainstorra would shake them off and
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FLED per bushel.
Cob Corn—Nearby white on spot at
$8.25 per barrel.
Oats Standard white, 70%¢:
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No. 2 do, 33992950: No.
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