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Margaret Weymouth
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Copyright by Bebbsa-Merrill Co.
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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
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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. Tweed
remains a tremendous factor In spring
styles for both town and country
wear, Shark skin is one of the
to
not
the
are
even so it Is
shades
of course,
new
Dress or Skirt,
fabrics and a revival of covert one of
the talking Soft, novelty
woolens remain definitely in the style
picture,
Relatively little to the
velveteen separate coat is felt, A
generous employment of pleats is be
coming more and more a feature in
the development of the season's fash
lons. Suits are no exception to the
new ruling that pleats are again de
sirable. Not content with introduc
ing circular peplums, Lelong spon.
sored ruffled ones, and pleated ruffies
are no longer barred from the domain
of the custom tailor,
The subtly suggested high waistline
is cleverly done this spring. One may
points,
response
els, depending on the point of view
from which the costume is seen, This
is also true of capes. 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?).
Floral Designs Are Used
on Fashionable Handbags
Somebody must have been concen.
trating in a big way upon handbags,
for never were these nccessories more
smart and beautiful, There are after
noon and evening bags of satin em-
broidered with chenille’ in floral de
gigns, There are bags. for the tailored
costume of tailored tan antelope with
a tan calf trim; or of black calf, with
an Inset of biack antelope consisting
of two intersecting round disks and
anpther disk posed at a far corner,
Family prayers have practically dis-
appeared, But hymns remain, and
they are one of the best means of
making religion a part of that family
life which is so brief and so dear.
They have probably a stronger hold
on most people than any other re.
ligious form.
Garnishes
but
difference
may be considered friv-
frequently they make the
between a tempting dish
and an uninteresting one,
olous,
In most camps there Is today a
greater emphasis upon cultural as-
pects of living. In one type of girls’
camps esthetic dancing and dramaties
are featured. In boys’ camps, too, dra-
matics, mock Courts, pageants, and ap
preclation of musle are of recogniz-
able value, )
properties
Moreover, the basic social
no longer are absent on
leave from the better regulated camps,
Behavior at table actually im-
fa result of camp standards
good
often
proves as
and the
selor,
example of one's coun-
nagazine smart
unusually
but
style pat-
only
and practical,
with it a delig
feature: a n of
n gEmart,
well-planneq each
one hrings new
from
From
pattern small
fine
more
and
miniature
this
daughter
art of
importa
com
learn not only the
even
aste
style,
The Amie rican HOS
sociation Is Irs its studies
as
and
t ation to
» five t ery sing, and 2
proper Ia rz } =
blankets and
rials
household,
as
used
J idren should have the
tunity find relief
strain In some form of music esx
sion, if It
follow example
Indian
tween his knees,
oppor-
tx
to from emot
ional
nres.
even is no more
Amer
than to
the of
the
who sits
ical tapping drives away th
that disturbs his peace of mine
Is the main object of music study: to
give the child ener.
an outiet for the
gles within him; to give him the com-
fort to
discern beauty, and of expressing, on
some sympathetic
whatever sorrow
feels,
and satisfaction of learning
musical instrument,
or happiness he
Flower Scents Latest
Fashion in Perfumes
Now that one is striving to
keep pace with the mode and appear
ladylike, romantically modern, quaint.
ly smart, or demurely elegant, the ex-
otic types of perfumes just will not
serve,
every
Unquestionably the ankle-length de.
net
puff sleeves calls for
with tis
deli.
cate fragrance, The magnificent opera
gowns of velvet with attendant
blaze of imi diamonds
requires a harmonizing Simi-
larly the feminine formal with
its soft, frilled blouse satin or
crepe, needs a subtle feminine odor.
The skilled simplicity of the more
elegant sports mode exacts a corre.
sponding sweet odor,
What shall these perfumes be?
Floral fragrances and bouquet odors.
With the new silhouette these [ight
oral scents and sweet bouquets create
an allure and further the effect of
femininity. They need not be entirely
unsophisticated, as thé newer odeurs
offered by the best perfumers attest.
miureness of
the gown
a demure,
its
ition or real
scent.
suit,
of
New Silhouette Noted
in Spring Sports Duds
The vogue for brilliant sports
clothes is interpreted in green shan.
tung with black polka dots. The skirt
is pleated in front and fits snugly at
the hipline to achieve the new sil.
houette,
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