; SL - Beggars C AN Choose Margaret Weymouth Jackson a a Copyright by Bebbsa-Merrill Co. WNU Service THE STORY lenewing a childhood attach- ment, Ernestine Briceland, of a wealthy family, is attracted by Will Todd, newspaper artist, son of a carpenter, They lunch to- gether and recall their school days. CHAPTER [—Continued an ash blond, and Her eyes were a kind of deep serene calm eyes, and her lips thin bright red, beauti- cut. nose was patri- <ian, her clear milky white, and she just enough rouge to give her a faint rose color and make her eyes more lovely. plunged at into tion of sisters, without end. “I've been to the matinee with Sadie and Juel, Sadie’s show ten times. She's she can be. Imagine with an actor. ters and her.” “She is kind of old for that line,” said Ernestine, perched on the edge of her bed, a silk stocking in hands. “I saw Will Todd today.” “Will Todd? Who is he?” Ernestine reminded her, and Lil- tian admitted that she remembered, “He's charming,” Ernestine said. “I thought I'd ask mamma to invite him here for tea some afternoon, or for dinner, some night when he doesn't work.” Lillian stared, then you want te see him want an affair with mamma,” she advised Ernestine, “or that will be the end of it. A little {ame boy about the house one summer is quite a different matter from an at- tractive grown man, Mamma will make him miserable.” Ernestine considered this. see why,” she said stubbornly. “Certainly you see, darling.” said Lillian. “We are not to have any ir. regular affairs now, We are to marry.” “Well,” said Ernestine, “what of it? You can’t marry unless you're asked. I can be friends with Will anarrying him, can't 17" “I doubt it,” sald calmly. “You always go to extremes, Ernestine. You are always blunder. ing around, taking such awful chances and making wild friends. You've been spoiled and have had your way about lots of things. But this is one thing you can't have” Ernestine pooh-poohed Lillian, but felt at the same time that she would say nothing about Will just now. “Beth's going to be married. going to marry Johnnie Allison.” “I'm not surprised, are you?" asked Ernestine, thinking of Will's gestures ~—the way he moved his hands con- tinually. “No, I'm not Lillian lovely. violet, were fully was very and Her skin a wore The two girls the conversa- beginning or ance seen Delancey’s a8 crazy as falling in love She's written him let- letters. But he won't see her laughed. “If again, If you him, don't tell “1 don't without Lillian such She's surprised. It's just what she wanted. One ought to know what one wants. I do. We talked about it today.” “lI can tell you what you without talking to you about it,” said Ernestine with sisterly decision, “Yon want & house in Hubbard Woods, or else one of those big co-operatively owned apartments on the drive, near downtown. And you want a limo- sine, and a rich handsome husband. You've got it all planned out.” “In detail,” agreed Lillian, unper. turbed. “Pretty much as you named it. I want Loring, for myself—" “Why don't you ask him? exploded Ernestine, her feelings a confusion of resentment that Lillian had showed her the fallacy of her own dream, of hurt for her sister, that Loring should have been such a fool, of scorn for these plotters, “I probably won't need to” Lillian answered, and went on, before Ernes- tine could interrupt her again: “If not Loring, then somebody much like him. I merely mentioned him a8 an example, After I've been married a few years, I want a son, and if 1 get along niceiy, I wouldn't mind a daugh. ter. I want everything right. A man who is already a member of good clubs, so that the money he makes will take us in the right direction, and we won't have to stand and wait, All right, go on and hoot. I know what 1 want, anyhow, and that's more than you know.” She looked at Ernestine with some severity, and added darkly : “What's more, I'll get it. Watch me.” Ernestine could see Lillian as she had planned it all out. A correct house, a correct husband, perhaps even a correct baby or two. The same old business over and over, with correct people coming and going and Loring stalking handsomely about, Not for her. She knew what she wanted, She wanted love! She wanted something not mentioned on Lillinn's list. She wanted passionate, want vrothantle love. She wanted adven- ture, an Inevitable great adventure, Suddenly she stood trembling, her heart beating with great strong strokes, She was terrified with the intensity of her feeling, with the vivid, almost material picture of Will Todd's violent personality before her, One person, one in all the world, and never anybody else, She wanted love, and all her wakening instincts warned her that she had found it. CHAPTER II The Lady Promises Again and again Ernestine resolved to tell mamma all about Will, but again and again her confidences fal. tered before mamma's bright energy, before mamma's staccato bossiness, It was really her first secret from her family, and she did not feel right about it. Of course she was old enough to have a friend if she wanted one, a friend of her own choosing, but Lillian's attitude that she was having an “affair,” a romance on the side, purely for the thrill of it, dismayed her. Yet she couldn't tell mamma, and an incident occurred which sealed her silence, She had called Will on the telephone the next morning after her encounter with him on the street, and that had been the beginning of an absorbing intimacy. He worked in the afternoon and at night six days a week. He had nothing better to do with his fore. p#oons and his luncheon hour than share them with Ernestine, jut the very time of these engagements made “But You Know Just How Papa Would React to Will Todd.” Ernestine safe from curiosity, It was a time of day exclusively the property of women In mamma's world. It would never have occurred to mamma that a love affair could have pro- ceeded during a of fore- noons, And a love affair was what it rap- idly became, Ernestine could pot pro- long the time with Will enough to suit her, and his eagerness soon matched, then outrode, her own. His enthus- iasm, his energy were compelling, and Ernestine felt the rousing and stir- ring of her own personality in touch with his, Within a week she was des- perately in love. She had no room for any thought and feeling but those which concerned Will Todd. Present- ly realized that the termination of their friendship would be a true catastrophe, and with this realization she began to practice secrecy with skill and determination, One blowy, gusty Sunday morning in December she had escaped church and met him and talked, hand in hand, as they always talked, quickly, starvedly. Eventually a little silence fell be- tween them, and in its magic, without speaking a word, they turned and kissed each other, and smiled a little dimly and leaned together. The touch of lips, and then the pressure of cheek to cheek was magic. His arms slipped about her, and for a long, long time they sat In a swing of joy. There was no word spoken, no prom. ise, but Ernestine knew now that she must tell mamma. The family was home from church when she reached the house, sitting In the big lving room, all of them engrossed in gossip. Mamma looked at Ernestine sharply, “Why didn't you come to church?" “1 went for a walk,” evaded Ernes. tine, and her face flamed with color, for they all looked at her, and she felt that Will's love-making was visible upon her, Mamma sald no more, how- ever, and Lillian turned to her with the news, succession she THE CENTRE HALL. PA. “You remember T ¢old you Sadle Hall was in love with the actor, Lon Delancey?” Ernestine nodded, and Lil and they were married Every one was talking church this morning.” Iagt night, ahout it In “She can marry him, can’t she?” ly. “You know it isn’t suitable” a handsome florld face. His brown eyes were warm and kind, but his big nose was acquisitive, his mouth stern and hard, a man of brilliant mind, but limited by prejudices, “It is her money he papa, “and nothing else. fool, and was not erly, or she would such a thing” Loring put In his oar. wants,” sald The girl's a brought up never have done He was al. tine, who tired of around, wis having is a blackguard, and a girl well realize it first as last. man would do such a thing. be honorable.” he sald it, with such meaning Ernestine felt a faint dismay. “But how ridiculous.” “You all know, every one of you, tha if she had told her folks her in- may No real she exclal of off to Europe, or had him forced out of town, They would have separated them instantly.” “But that's why she ought to her people,” sald papa. “No girl can trust her own judgment, gets out of her own class, when she Her people know best, and she should confide In them.” All this while mamma watching Ernestine, Mamma was so pretty, with her violet eyes, smooth fair hair, and her slender vig. orous body. had been “Neither of my girls would do such a thing” sald now In her soft quick voice, but with a meaning that Ernestine and Lillian both sensed. “1 am sure that neither of my little girls would do such a thing to me—have a affalr., Would either of she secret love you?" “Don’t be nutty, mamma." Lillian, and Ermestine was silent. Later, alone, Lillian turned Ernestine eagerly. “You'd better come across, the folks are on to you.” “You haven't told them? “Of course not,” said Lill tiently, advised to “It's your own business. But, fall in love with him, are you? would be furious” Emestine shook Papa the bright certainly, mention. it. Still he may tell. awfully fond of you, Ernestine. always telling me that you like a little sister to him. feel ft his duty to tell you and WIL" “But there's nothing anybody could Ernestine, “I'm not but if 1 should don't see who could and good and gentle, a real man.” Lillian shook her head. “It's your funeral” she sald, with the heartless laissez-faire of her gen- eration, which feared, above all things, that it might become its broth. er's keeper. “But you know just how papa would react to Will Todd. He's the son of papa's old carpenter. He's poor, and he hasn't been to school, and he's not very strong-—there's nothing but objections to such an idea, Ernestine. Anyhow, 1 can't see why you such a thing as getting Imagine taking a chance like that!” » * . » * ® EH will papa about Will that to,” protested engaged to him, become engaged, 1 He's fine He's brave, too, object care, his own vitality, Ernestine’'s beauty and dearness, day, however, when they had gone for their usual walk north slong the lake shore, he seemed oddly silent and thoughtful, and at times he looked at her, as though wondering whether to speak his mind or not. When he left her, he kissed her again and again, though it were farewell. “I'll see you tomorrow,” she whis- pered to him, and turned her fur collar up against the wind. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Humor can be found even in park- ing difficulties, A Brooklyn motor. ist had circled two blocks in an ef- fort to find a place to park the other night, He was taking his family to a neighborhood motion picture show and already was ten minutes late for the feature picture. Finally he sighted an ideal space near the the- ater, Speeding up ahead of other motorists he stopped and started to back into the space. “You ecan't pawk heah, mistah” volunteered a fat negro boy from the curb. Ignoring the negro boy, the motor ist completed backing his car Into the space, then looked out and an. grily demanded: “What's the matter with you? What do you menn, I can't park here?” “Nothin, mistah, nothin’ at all,” replied the lad with a frightened look as he hastily walked away and re vealed a fire plug upon which he had been sitting and which had been con- cealed from the view of the driver.— New York Bun, “Message to Garcia” At the time that Hubbard wrote a foreword for an edition to “The Mes- sage to Garcia” he said that 40,000,000 copies had been distributed and that it had been translated Into Russian, German, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese and Hindu, Famous Homing Pigeon Strains The homing pigeon traces ancestry to three types: The Smerle, a Belgian bird with strong homing Instinct; the English Dragoon, famous for its physique, and the Camulet, which ean fly for hours. Collars Featured on Spring Coats Galyak Takes Lead as Fashionable Fur. The spring coat may be depended on to be tricky about the neckline. great majority have collars en. The cont Not every one can wear fit, It Is the cholce of the slen- for other figures, says a fashion Some coats go so far as to have rule that there are drapery. Women, having become accus. tomed to hogging their about them, still retain a preference for the one-sided or wrap around type. The type Is not, however, insistent. Galyak takes the lead as the spring far. RI in black, where there Is revers or some no soft cnpe collar 80 coats is used beige, « sever eg Egg shell lapin is another approved fur trimming, while, of course, fox Is too flattering be released from service, There coats galore that are fur trimmed, but fur-trimmed models which are charac teristic, Black and all of blue are the color preferences, with, browns, grays, greens and reds In much less proportion. 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A suit, or coat may have a cape as viewed from the back, or a cape as seen from the Capes are so often divided or made to disappear into seams that ope is further fascinated by them, Hose to Match Tweed or Smooth Crepe Costumes Whether it be a tweed costume or you may for silk weaves that simulate these two popular fabrics have been discov ered for hosiery, This problem of matching hose to complexion or to gloves, selecting hose to harmonize with this frock or that one, is made a little more Intricate by this new type but think how much more cleverly one ean be assembled! Net hose to accom- pany the lace evening frock is a dis covery of the past season that has be come even more popular than in its first days (or should we say eve nings?). 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