EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEK PHILADELPHIA', MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1919
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A DAUGHTER of TWO WORLDS
A Storv 0 Ncvs YorU Lit
tty LBltOY SCOTT
Author of "No. is WaaMnaion floware," "ilarv Rtoan." ele.
Fruited by Bpeclat Arrnemwit with
Houshton. Mlfntn Co.
Copyright, 1U10. by Lcroy Scott
JK-VrOTHINO, I guess. And what
''you' vo spoken about doesn't seem
remarkable- to mo. I just happen to like
to do tbosa things that's all there Is
bbout it"
i They were now n considerable dis
tance from the house. "Tou can't ex
plain It nwajr you can't mnlc your
tffllf commonplace you're simply won
jderful!" Ho halted, and laid a hand
Upon tho hand routine on his arm. "I
think you are simply wonderful 1"
-,"And do you know what I think
about you? ' sho asked in a grave
voice.
"What?"
"I think tou are hoidinc mi hand."
Ho started at this directness, then
laughed softly. "Why, I rather
thought that same thine myself."
"Docs that mean that you arc about
10 oroposo to mo?"
W6 . Again ho started. "Why?"
i I just learned that you were en
gaged to Gloria. I wondered if two
engagements u day was your regular
allowance.
Tho moonlight showed him n mis
chievous elenm in her face. "You look
ncniuro, but I always said there was
a iittlo devil in you, no exclaimed in
a wry nut pleased tone "a sharp lit
. tie devil a nice rlevcr littlp devil."
"Tho little devil niks me to thank
yon. But before von co ahead and
really proposo to me, I want to con
grntulato you about Gloria. I hope
you will both bo very happy."
"And I hope that you and Gloria arc
going to bo very good friends."
"I'm willing to bo friends with
Gloria, Hut it all depends upon Gloria.
And whether Gloria wants to bo real
friends, that rather depends upon
whether you make it known to Gloria
that you'd like things that way."
"Oh, I'll make that clear to Gloria.
Tou'ro Sue's best friend we should all
be good friends and you know I like
you n lot."
"There'll not bo much chanco of our
ever being friends if we stay out here
any longer on the first day of Gloria's
engagement." Sho gently freed her
hartd. "I think we'd better go in."
Inside, Kenneth advanced to Gloria.
".Tennio was just congratulating us,"
he sedd. "I told her that I hoped that
you and she all of us in fact were
always going to bo tho best of friends."
Jennie v seemed frank -cjed, modest,
waiting for Gloria to make tho advance.
With n control that was attained
wfth difficulty Gloria replied :
'"I'm sure wo shall be." ,
But later, nlone on' the stairway as
they went to bed, sho glowered furiously
at Jennie.
Jennio inquired in a taunting whis
per I
J. "Did you order Mrs. Harrison to in
vito me to leave?"
Choking, Gloria hurried by her with
out an answer.
Tho following evening there was a
similar procedure. Never beforo bad
Jennie consciously tried to win the at
tention of a man. and the noelty of the
experience added piquancy to the more
6erious purposes which were involved in
hor plan. And it seemed to her that
she was partially succeeding : it seemed
that Kenneth was admiring her more
and more.
' And then a new clement entered this
affair. Sho was glad when Kenneth
' came home at the end of tho duy, she
gladdened, at tho touch of his hand,
bho.was trembling happy when swing
ing in-his arms lu the dance. Sho awoke
Middenly to this uncalculalcd interest,
and a question asked itself shuiply of
her: was this relationship, which she
had plunged into almost as a matter of
cold-blooded business, was this inti
macy begetting u result she had never
di earned of? was sho beginning really
to care? Sho did not let herself an
swer; she put tho question from her.
Nevertheless, this change iu her,
whatever its nature or degree, intensi
fied and justified her intention. Ken
neth was, indeed, altogether too fine:
any course wus righteous that would
sai .him.
After a few days Jennie percohed
that tho course she bad been following
could not, unaided by other plans,
quickly end matters between an en
gaged couple when the girl had so many
substantial worldly attributes us Gloria.
There must be nn additions plan. She
began to consider, and her mind fixed
upon one remark Sue had made against
Gloria. In this remark her rapidly
working mind Saw the germ of an idea.
Tho idea grew it had the potentialities
of a big plan, an effective plan, if the
could only put it into execution.
On the following Suuday Slim Jack
son came out to stay over until Monday.
Tha appearance of Slim upon tho scene
suggested a new tnougnc wmru uu,eu
in,, .with her" growing plan; and she fjo
wapeqvered that she 'got Slim alone out
tipori the end of tho stone, pier.
"What's tho bis Idea, Jeu?" he
asked.
;, "Of course yon1 know about Kenneth
and-Gloria Hayniond?"
"Sure." Kenneth told mo the news ns
a' dead secret tho other day. What's
the matter?"
"JJis mother doesn't llko the engage-
DREAMLAND ADVENTURES
' Br DADDX
"THE CHRISTMAS TREASURE"
tn Uit loeeVs $tarv, Peggy, Billy
''and Judge OtaJ, made tiny' by going
through a megaphone, tell into a
rabbit nest. Where they tcere taKen
.as toys $y the young rabbits. They
fared the poung rabbits from hunting
fopi and tcero promised hidden
Jteafure as a retcard.)
The'J'atcIiy.PatcIi Children.
JOHNNI RABBIT, Bunny Babbit
and Pinky Rabbit stood in a Hue be
fore Peggy, Blly and Judge Owl nnd
began to recite as if speaking a piece iu
school. This is what they said :
''Wo know where treasure is buried
deep,
Down whero the roots of tho flowers
sleep ;
Silver and gold, pled up in a heap.
All shall be yours to liao and to
keep."
Teggy apd Billy looked nt each other
in. delight. This was to bo their re
ward for saving tli'o rabbits from Johnny
Bull and Rover, the hound.
"Whero is tho silver and gold?" asked
Blllv.
'In the bank of tho Underground
City," answered Johnny Rabbit. ''Jump
on our backs ana wo win tune you
there."
Avvay they sped hoppity-hop over the
moonlit snow until thev camo to a patch
of cabbage stumps. Hero they paused
at the entrance of a hole.
"Is this the way to tho hidden treas
ure of silver and gold?" usked Billy.
The rnbblts shrieked. "No: this is
tho way to our own bidden treasure of
cabbages and carrots," replied Pinkey
Rabbit. "This Is our secret hole into
the cellar or toe i'atcny-patcn lamiiy,
Would you Ilka a nibble?"
"No, thank you," promptly answered
Peggy. "It's wrong to take what doesn't
belong U) you."
"Well, we don't belong to the
Patchy -patch family, yet they try to
take us by shooting us or trapping us.
Why shouldn't we get even by taking
(KejwbbfMr',"! ?oanny Rab
'Bunny lUkMt Ugd ifeir tlk wltk
a
ment, nor docs his sister. So I'm try
ing to break it off."
"For their saKes?" demanded Slim
keenly.
"lVs and for rav own." Almost un
consciously sho dropped into the in
formal phraseology or tne tiajs wnen
she and Slim had bad tho Pcklu as their
habitat. "Gloria and I don't loo each
other, and I'd like to jar her on ner
pedestal." . , ,
"You're a selfish, calculating, pretty
little animal, but the idea is strictly
all right. Why not step in nnd win
him away from her? I've been watch
ing mn nnd Kenneth. It's ns plain as
four aces that he already cares a lot
fnr vntl."
"I've been trying that; it's too slow
and uncertain. I've thought of a way
that will be quick and sure-fire, if it
can only be put across. And it's some
thiug jou might help me in it you
waut to."
"You've got me sitting on the edge
of my orchestra cliatr ana noiuing ray
breath. What happens next?"
"They say Gloria has liked an awful
lot of men she's been engaged four
times that I .know of and her being en
gaged to one man doesn't prevent her
liking several others at the same time.
That may not bo the case at the present
moment, but, anyhow, that's the kind
Gloria Is. She's crazy about men
always plural."
"I get jou so far. Where do I
fit in?"
"Hiri.'n mv iAfn If she's doing now
tvliiit nho'M iiinp he.fnrn. then while she's
engaged to Kenneth, she's nlt.o privately
flirting with some other man. uui
telling Kenneth this will have no effect;
he s got to see things with nis own
eyes. It 1 could lind out who tnc oiucr
man is, and if affairs could bo so
handled that Kenueth could be brought
in upon a sccno of surreptitious love
making that would smash things right
then nnd there. Now, you know n lot
about the smart and gay Iifo of New
York and ou know its gossip; you
either know, or can find out, who this
second man is If there is such a man.
And you can find out where and how
they meet. That's whero you fit in."
He regarded her steadily for a long
space. His narrow gray eyes were just
now expressionless bciond showing keen
thought. When ho finally did speak,
he nasscd over all sho had said.
''Have ou thought any moic about
the proposition I made sou on the
Astor roof about our teaming un?"
"That's never going to happen, Slim
neer." she answered impatiently.
Ho lifted his shoulders philosophi
cally. "I guess it's up to me to keep
on waiting, Jennies and I'm a good
waiter,"
"But will jou help me?" sho dc
mantled.
Agalu he regarded her thoughtfully
for a long space; and though he tried
to control his expression, ho could not
mask tho air of one who is swiftly look
ing far, far ahead, and balancing pos
sibility against possibility.
"Sorry, Jennie wish I could," he at
length said. "But there's nothing I
can do absolutely nothing. And there's
no use talking about it."
Jennio was quite taken aback and
was bitterly disappointed by this un
expected refusal.
But disconcerted though she was, she
caught the glint of a smile which sud
denly broke through the sober regret of
Sllm's face. For some reason that
smile awoke in her a aguc suspicion,
but not until long, long after was she
to learn all which lHy behind that
brief smile on tho pale, keen face of
Slim Jarksou.
How a Plan Worked Out
JIjNNIK went quietly about, watch
ful, thinking, planning and plan
ning all tho harder because Slim Jack
sou, on whom she had counted for aid.
or at least for information, had just
declared himself unable to give her
cither. But us the day passed her de
sign, effective thouih it had seemed nn
first tpntemplating it, began to seem
ircmcnaousiy nimquit, even unwork
able, because of her inability to got a
concrete starting point. And then cir
cumstances very promptly camo to her
aid, or appeared to, and simplified and
quickened what she bad thought would
be nt the best both slow and compli
cated. That evening while all were dancing
a number of vaung people had mo
toied over to Silter Bluffs to join in
this, a few to stay over the night
Jennie caught n covert but significant
glance pass between Gloria and Slim
when the two'secmed to believe, no tycs
were upon them. That look fairly stag
gered Jennie. Was it possible what
sho had not even thought of before
that Slim himself was one of the men
with whom Gloria had flirted us far
as a mere flirtation dared go?
It was indeed possible! She recalled
how admired, how sought after Slim
was by the young wonlen of the smarter
nnd more daring social set. And she
recalled Sllm's unwillingness to help
her against Gloria. Here was full ex
planation of that unwillingness.
(CONTINUED TOMORROW)
a.?"icU .Mush I" Sho pointed to a
cottage which up to this moment Peggy
and Billy had not notked. At the 'win
dow were u. boy uud girl looking out.
their thin faces pressed rloso to tho
giabs. It took but a glance to sco that
they were -very, ery poor.
"They are Harry nnd Minnie Patchy,
patch, whispered Bunny. "See the
putched clothes they w ear. That is why
we call them Patchy. patch."
But Peggy and Billy wcro listening to
tho words of the little girl. B
"Do you think Santa Glaus will come
to our koubc" sho asked her brother.
"Well, if he doesn't come this year
mnjbo he will next year," he answered
bravely, putting his arm around her
"lou know the rabbits have eaten so
many of our cabbages that we are cry
cry poor, uud sometimes Santa Clous
cannot lind the iittlo homes of the cn
erypoor,"
"Humph! Of course we've eaten your
cabbages, and we will cat mora next
ycar.urtaube we wm no bigger then,"
said Johnny Rabbit saucily. And he
sut up to mako faces at the children in
the window.
"Oh, see tho rabbits. They are mnk.
ing faces at us," exclaimed Minnie
i'uicny-paicn.
"Tho rascals. I'll bet they've been
at our cabbages again," cried Harry
Patchy-patch. "I'll go hunting for
them tomorrow and nerhnnM wn ulll
havo fried rabbit for Christmas dinner
ana jou win nave a new rabbit-fur
muff."
"Come away. Quick 1" cxclaimc
Johnny Rabbit. "You see now why we
cat their cabbages." But whilo they
hpeu towaru mo unacrgrouna Ulty
Keggy's thoughts were on the two wist
ful Patchy-patch children who were
looking so vainly for Santa Claus.
"If we get that treasure, tho first
thing I'll do will be to play Santa Claus
to them," she. said to herself.
Just then the rabbits dived Into a big
bole nnd for a moment all wbjj dark
(Tdmarrw will ta tU A ate tyey
pna is trtamr. y k'
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