—— Clay in Wall street. tracted to her. except for his salary. ment with Clay. panies, gives her another chance. soled by Tom Duane. ried, but the following is cut in half and they Daphne, ition In one of his com- She is econ- CHAPTER XIV-—Continued. soe Po It was thus that he had made him- self important enough to advance rapidly in his firm. And he had put a large share of his salary every week into a savings bank. With his extra commissions and bits of unex- pected luck he had bought securities of impregnable value. These he had locked away in a safe-deposit vault. They pald him only four or five per- cent, but they were as sure as any- thing mundane. And twice a year they granted him the lofty emotion of the coupon cutter. He had paid for chandise he bought and special discounts for it. In time the many mickles made a muckle. He had five thousand dollars’ worth of bonds in his safe deposit box. And then he married—pawned him- self at the marriage shop. He kept his hoard a secret from Leila. Now he saw a chance to talents that he had buried in a nap- kin. He filled the ears of Clay and Daphne with his market jargon. He was as unintelligible to Daphaoe as a mad Scot talking “Look at Q. & “sold at Friend who what mer- demanded cash use goifese, 0." he would say: a year bought it. in the kr going up. It ought to have gone up, but it didn't. sickeningly to forty-three. Is forty-six. If 1 had gone market the other day with 6 sand dollars and pped | forty-three I'd have cleaned hundred and a half in no ti “First catch five sald Clay. eighty-five ago of mine were ow sald it Wis Dropped slow ily into the sn t up at up three your dollars.” “I've caught it had it all “You have? Clay groan known that I'd have get married on” “Not in a million years” said Bay- ard. “When I've made a ki £ with this money I'll make you all a pres. ent, but you couldn't pry this out of me with a crowbar. I where to borrow more. raise any money Clay, " sald Bayard. “I've along.” od. borrows d “lt I'4 it wish If you don't spend it in matrimony. A fellow can get married any time, but once in ten years that you can climb aboard a market after a panic and ride in with the tide” He went to his safe deposit vault. took out his bonds, carried them to the vice president of his bank. and borrowed all that he could raise on the securities. The bonds had fallen below par on account of the depres. sion, but Bayard was granted 80 per cent of their face value, minus 30 days’ discount at 5 per cent. Mis anemic bank acount was sud- can eighteen cents. friend whom he could trust, to advise him honestly, They conferred on the stocks to buy. The old dilemma could not be escaped: those that of- fered the most profit offered the most risk. To buy on margins was further danger with promise of further profit, Yet, after .all, Bayard felt. to buy outright, however wise, was tame. Even if he doubled his money he would have only eight thousand in place of his four. And eight thou sand was no fortune, The question of what stocks to bet on was a thrilling one, requiring a long war council, ‘but at length the disposition was made and he gave his broker the command to go forward. The market crept up and up. Bay- ard turned his profits back Into his speculation. He was growing rich. He was planning works of lavish charity, works of art, the purchase of a great reserve fund of securities. Some years before, when President Taft was Inaugurated, every omen was fine. The weather bureau prom- ised fair weather. There was not a hint of storm anywhere upon the con- tinent. And then a blizzard “backed in” from the ocean and played havoc with the throums. So upon the era of and civilized peace the European war backed in from nowhere. A young man from Serbia shot a grand duke of Austria, and the world heard of Sarajevo for the first time, but not the last. The bullet that slew the Austrian heir multiplied itself as by magic into billions of missiles. A young shoemaker from Bavaria, to his a ditch The shoe- strange ap- into still elasping his umbrella. maker moved on with a petite for shooting. Refugees in hordes filled the roads with a new Pharaonic exodus. So many children plodded along in hun- gry flight that Herod might have been hunting down the innocents again. With the moral went a financial earthqua exchanges flung their doors shut. American exchanges tried to their shop windows open, but had to close them down, Bayard Kip was among the first cas- uaities, Before he could put in a stop order his margins were gone. He had sald that having struck bot- tom, could go no lower. Now the bot- cataclysm fom Ty Re, i ae prices, Prices cause of stopped last be- falling at the closing of rium. America established one sentiment. Everybody owed somebody , and everybody gave tolerance be- wwerybody needed it. fell on the commercial world, ined by horrors unknown Bayard's factory could not meet even Its diminished pay roll. The president of could not borrow a penny at the bank of which he was a director. sending the hordes of the unemployed. The office forces were reduced to a mini ie, the concern nl ai further reduced. Clay was thrown § i was put on half-pay. Bayard's sober thoughts concerned with wreckage, debarrass himself of thing. He could not give up his ex- pensive apartment, It was leased for a year and a half more. He could not dismiss his expensive wife: she was leased for ninety-nine years, He could not give up his character, his costly tastes, his zeal for front. the maintenance of a good facade. The instinct of lovable bluff was Seen in his telegram to Leila. He wanted her at home to comfort him, now that he had no business for her to hamper. Besides, he could not af- ford to keep her at Newport. Out of his ominously small funds he tele graphed her a liberal sum to pay her froma the to every. car fare. He met her and found her astonishingly beautiful in her million- alre uniform. He felt like the pauper who received a white elephant for a present. But she was gorgeous in her trappings. They embraced with mutual approval. He laughed: “1 was golng to begin economy by cutting out the taxi business, but I couldn't carry a Cleopatra like you In the subway. You look like all the money in the world. And you're worth it.” In the taxicab he crushed her to him again in a dismal ecstasy and sighed gayly: “You're too grand for me, honey. I'm busted higher than a kite. You didn’t bring home any change, of course.” “Idid better than that,” she beamed, and, being married to him, made no bones about bending and disclosing one entire silk stocking most ele- gantly repleted. It was transbarent, translucent, indeed, like gossamer over marble, and of a sapling sym- metry except for one unsightly knob which she deftly removed and placed in the hand of Bayard. He did not need to glance at his notes, “What's all this? he said, - § And she, prim and proper again, chortled. “That's the money you tele- graphed me to pay my bills with.” “But-—" “This 13 no time to pay bills,” “You're a genius,” he said. And she was, In her way. When they were at home again he told her of his rulnous speculations, She did not reproach him. She was gambler enough to thrill at the high chance, and sportswoman enough not to blame him for losing his stakes, “Don’t you worry!” she sald, from his lap, as from a dais. “We'll be rich yet. You mustn't Imagine any- thing else. There's everything In thinking a thing is going to happen. I'm too sensitive to be a Christian Sci- entist about pain, but I am one about good luck. You must just tell your. self that you're going to come out all right and you will 80 that other people will believe In us, It's the only way, too, to keep your credit good, 1 learned that at Newport. there never pay their bills. That's why they get trusted everywhere, and have plenty of cash. Their creditors don’t dare Insult ‘em or sue 'em. The only people who get sued are the poor little dubs that pay cash most of the they're hard up” Bayard had rebuked Leila spending money on clothes and amusements. Bot she had had for His few bonds were irre deemably in pawn. And on the roads of Belgium and East Prussia myriads of wretches who had kept thrift and the next day's bread. CHAPTER XV. Bayard tried for Leila’s recipe could not charge, and even the wad of money she had smuggled out of New- port did not last long. Other people were no more willing to pay bills than he. Moneys that were owed to him he could not collect. He could not re She Ran to Her Father and Flung Her Arms About Him. spond to the multitudinous appeals for charity. This was a real shame in times of such frantic needs. He could not do any of the honorable, pleasant things that one ean do with money. He had to do many of the dishonor. able, loathsome things one without money must do. In his desperation Bayard's thoughts reverted to his original rescuer, his father. He never appealed to the old man in vain. Bayard had often prom. ised himself the delight of sending home a big check as a subtraction from his venerable debt. Bat it was a promise easy to defer, in the face of all the other temptations and oppor- tunities. His father never pressed him, never expected a return of the money he had been Investing In the For a child is a plece of furni- ture bought on the instalment plan to go into somebody's else house as soon as it is pald for, sat down to the hateful letter. He hated to trouble his poor old dad at such a time (he wrote with truth), but his very life depended on raising some Immediate money. He was young and husky and he would be on his feet In a Jifty. By RUPERT HUGHES ¢ Copyright by Harper & Brothers Kip” could perform his usual miracle and get blood from some of those Cleveland turnips, He was so sure of his father that he ended his letter with an advance pay- ment of thanks. This was the first a long time, He sealed the letter, put a special morning, When he got back to the house there was a telegram from home, “Leaving beaver due tomorrow m, don't meet me but be home must see you important mamma well love. ’ “FATHER.” The next | times to weet his father at the train | And Daphne went to the Grand Cen. | tral station with him. She ran to her father and flung her arms about him, and Bayard hugged him and car- ried his suitcase for him. It was no { time to be tipping a porter. Nor to be making use of taxicabs with the Jit ney subway at hand. Bayard lugged his father's suitcase along Fifty-nint street, The hall boy, tipped for | strict neutrality. pinch, too, When breakfast was ended Wesley inoted that Leila herself carried the {dishes away, with Daphne's help. When the table was clear she closed the door on the two men and said: “We'll leave you two alone to talk business.” The morning h who had not been days, observed a He was feeling the some i two men regarded each other | askance, 48 uneasily as two wrestlers | circling for a hold. Wesley was the | frat to speak. He said: | “Well, my boy? | “I wrote You a long letter last nigh said, What a $ dnd,” Bayar! “You did layard had the ¢ bout 7 situation: f It. He edge with rather crav- guessed the ruel Joke o the “I wrote to ask you to lend me some money. I guess I wasted the “And I guess I we ed the fare over I thought I oughn't have taken a berth in he slog oe ar moth. insisted tid I'd not been feelin | any foo w ' postage. here, » out we | &r a] « { At ICR hair with the old man. ther and put and regretted with a s fa his arm s'out him hils Wall street disaster remorse. He could there a Wesley sighed: “I guess we got then.” That | word. Bayard bent ferocious and before not du speak, wns long mbness to lose the home “then™ was a history In a hiz head in shame his helplessness. As usual, it Wesley who found a shabby comfo in the situstion——found It for his son “Don't you think £ more about it, my boy. I'm kind of relieved.” He giggled with a pitiful senility. “1 been so ashamed at traipsin’ over here at Was oh : anythin to help you like 1 ought to—being | your father—that I'm kind of glad you can’t help me. I got no right to add to your troubles, take care of you” Bayard kept groaning: “To lose your home! you losing your home! {Ing by!” “Why, it's nothing. Bayard all, we're not in Belginm, friends. And relations To think of And me stand- There's no versation while listening in the hail Daphne clung to Leila and buried her frenzied grief. Leila, mond on her finger. It glistened like a great, immortal tear. It inspired her with a new hope. the thought of her jewels as a final refuge, but she had put off the evil day. Now she feit that the time had come. Bhe threw open the door and spoke into the gloom with a voice of seraphic beauty: “I couldn't help hearing what you were saying. You needn't be down. hearted, though, for I've just thought of a way to help daddy out.” He was “daddy” to her also. : Bayard and Wesley turned and stared at her In amazement. She went on in a kind of ecstasy. “My rings!” she cried. “Don’t you see! My diamonds snd rubles! And I've got a necklace or two, and some a lot of money. And you're welcome to ‘em, daddy.” The men were confused with too many emotions to know what to feel, much less what to say. Leila’s mis- slon was 80 divinely meant that it was sacrilege to receive It with reluctance. And yet for Wesley to let this new daughter-in-law pawn her trinkets for psn ssa AA SAN visiting the pawnshop himself, Leila made a heap of her adornments, Last of all she took from her neck the little plaque he had given her with its star- dust of diamonds frosting a platinum filigree, He kissed her mournfully and hur. ried away to the pawnshop. He a Inmp of money. not find cash enough for all. ers were overworked, to Leila her funds. over to her father-in-law, BOrve as a sop to | 8ald he would take the afternoon train { home, CHAPTER XVI. Kips. She felt a normal amount of jealousy, of course, as wom. an woman, but no than a { healthy amount, for she | and she was | other two fo more or » lug able to rescue her father and for It for Leila to strip herself of her last splendor to help an old father-in-law pay Et On a mortgage on A house in another town, Daphne gave of applause for that. What embitter 4 Daphne was that it had to be Leila and not herself that saved her father, Leila had to do the de had not paid Few orn sCWEl the Intere Lella full meed and that ed by sper for h, Rifts, Lella ha from life perhaps three thousand dollars’ worth of jew- els and Daphne had collected a fifty- dollar check, framed—and that check was Ig lieu of work, As soon as she remembered th her room i wall, ripped o back of the frame and rethoved the check from studied it Ollectes pl alyz 24% 1t check she ran up to and took it down from the I the the mat, and “The mwoney and the | Then a vigor and determination clenched all her muscles in a kind of lockjaw. She came out of the spasm lo a tremor of She ught, tho first ast.’ hysterical faith. spoke ber | thought aad | the last, it sha feeblenes ury: “It sha'n’t be ¥ golly ieLive dis powerful Before a resound- img outh that would have pleased good Queen Bess, ~=fponestly ! AB her powder detonation She f¢ i ve The blasphems S| 310 / chair in ho seemed to . $s {A I+ ¢. e 3 i room s28 £ veis ran down the hal sewing, nie, dear? Aro my sald something, hour she had d ag earful hivvis supposed that Wiis some volo went back along the hall 3 as she walked, phne togk the check and down to pt apartment. Bayard was on his wha y to the pawnbroker's. Leila in his room. Old Wesley gat in a chair facing a wall ough it. aphne went to him and put the check in his hand, ex- om = “It's all 1 ever earned, daddy, and 1 want you to have ir" He looked at #2 and smiled and tears fairly shot out of his eyes. He patted | her hand between his and sald: “Why, honey, I! couldn't take your | poor little earnings! in this world." “Please, dad had 5 Mrs. C | had heard street and Le was ed to see thr plaini what if was, ever so happy! “But would kill me! { want to do that, do you? spend it on yourself something nice with it.” fe is Daphne becomes a real “working girl," and she ex periences some of the trials that beset the path of the work. ing girl in a city like New York. Go on with the story in the next issue. (TO BE CONTINUED) Canadian Money Orders. Canadian money orders are issned on blanks of various denominations, each with the amount of money for which the order is issued printed on it. A lady living in Ontario, sending a bunch of 30went money orders to make up a remittance to a Boston firm, apologizes thus: “I apologize for all these post office orders. It seems that the local postmaster got in a stock six Years ago, and the 30-cent orders were the slowest to sell. 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