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TnAUGHTER of TWO WORLDS
A. Storu of ifno rorfc Utt '
Du LEROY SCOTT
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t' - BrtAlA notl" breathed Jennie,
t."l - . rv. ).f. ns you please. But
l B.t8Bk mo up to your old homo
Ht .moke a cigarette or two,
W."? It Poplo la the Pckin out
5?1 'fl"! an old friend. This U a
f Wj lir In tho Tek n, put were n oo
WWi.nor so In there who re
r'vrW. an who will he del gbted
V"ffe 'ICd out of the car and made
vHe 8t)P"' , cutrancc. She re-
!. ibf- 1 flash that although ho had
iucu ,7. v-.n Hot us a smite
i jdoptcd ivcr tried to hldo hU
;:, bchunu that therefore he had
"J'.n fear. Instantly eho was out
( the car. , ,. . ,lllfii,iiv.- siiml'
$ 'u rued back and closed the door
1 He turnLu wouldn't deny
KfCTsbt S wue.V'1 Ef,,d f,tt-
K VnS f "u: "i.i..l !. nrrnsa tllR Ride-
... "B.?i ...t,im Imr across the side-
.& ,),-, the last time we stood
:xT&lr he wVspercd
i,t, Jeui Five yearg ag0
'otrffbum actor Pulling down fifteen
y W from Black Jcrry-and you
iA Jennie Mnlone. And I tried
ins ' "i"T nnd you came dock wun a
rh"- uoSSUu You sure had
glep to the old days, Jen-same ns
in'jerhSck1cdnsoVftly and directed her
if He cUucKico i j At lts ton Lo
'.v rnrllln. . .
f'r.utss tou and Jerry never Knew
m. Si wt hold of a key in the good
fHmM-and I still haxo it."
0,ni .mlocked the door, pressed her
i'ltzl locked it, and lighted the gas
iWf 1 1 tie sitting room was furnished
, of old, only to nor new eyes
ffed unbelievably dingy ana 10.00?,
the eyes of the trained house-
'Sr she say everywhere the careless
' ;V nf the cba-woman, and a sharp
ft live his lonSly life amid such
Tt and inattention,
She was b-ought out of her swift
" ..?. Hilm' rnlro bezlnnlncr to
!IZ- P''Be it ever so humble."
fid you bring me down here?" she do-
"ftok wa.. still bland. "Well.
Itfi a bit like this, Jen," he drawled.
j'I're been wanting to come lq n real
tat tou haven't given mo a fair chance.
It struck me that ou und I might
Vt down to business a little better
loth of us came back to the spot
both started from. Wc might then
bprcciate a little better the place we've
niched, and how unpleasant it would
ftdto return to -what we used to be.
wo nn. tried state device, my dear.
to bring tuo extremes into immediate
contrast. The Park avenue apartment
ud Mrs. Sliiprnan swell tea on the
cm hand on tho other hand, the old
lome above the Pckiu. Always un
fltctlve bit of business, Jennie, one of
the first things I learned about the
stage.
-"I hae been fooling with you long
nWh. Slim." she returned, regard-
bs him squarely. "Wc might ns well
ppe to a real snow-nowa riKiit acre.
i"A thnnr.rfntrn Hint's inst what
IVtbetn wanting, Jen. A real, sure-
eioufh show-down that's why I
brought you here."
i "I'm here, nnd I say you'll get noth-
it; more out of me," she replied bharp.
Ij. "There arc my cards, face up."
. "That's sure a nifty place you and
Kenneth hae uptown," ho reminded
her Eoftly, his narrowed gray eyes very
bland.
' "V'ou could have made your threat
more direct. Sum. in spito of it all,
my answer is the pame. You get noth-
Br more out of me. '
H(s bland repression did not change.
Hlnd telling me why not, Jen?"
"It's not necessary to pay you." she
aid, Now that she had decided to
defy him she felt more substance to
in argument her hurried mind had more
than once urged upon her. "And 3t's
toly because my nerve left me that
I're paid you what I have. As Jennie
Malone, back down here, I'd not be
Vorth a rent to you. As Mrs. Kcn-
lew uarri'on I may do 01 some value
to 70U. By exposing mo you'd be
throwing away a good thing by your
urn act you'd turn me into a dead lois
for yourself. I know you're too wise
1 crook actually to do that. There,
Sim Jackson -that's mv hand !"
Bha Kaltcd. Ho did not speak for a
aonent or more, aud when he did it
jras with the same b'nnd drawl.
"And a good hand it is. too, Jen. I
lad an idea that some day you'd call
He. In fact. I'e rather been wanting
lira to call me. I have only a dinky
tro pairs. 101. take the pot.
Bhe managed to control tho relief she
Ht. "Since you admit thnt to be tho
tue, then I'm going home whether
ion take roe or not.
Ho caught her nrm. "Just u min
ute, Jen. Wo'ro going to open a fresh
deck and there's going to bo n now
deal."
''What's tho idea?", sho demanded.
He was now smiling. "I've already
told you part of the idea. But that
uover was tho real thing. When I
helped stage that little sceuo that cude'd
in your marrying Kenneth, why, of
course, I saw tho chance of getting n
bit of change by ho'ding you up after
you'd really become somebody. I've
picked up tho clianRp and that part of
the show is over. Now for tho second
act; now for the fresh deck I"
His voice, no longer soft, became sud
Ifuly vibrant with intensity, and bis
vords rushed from him with an earnest
less that had in it nothing of acting.
'Jennie, that dancing partner of mine.
Dons Dorralnc, la getting so damned
otten that every uight I'd like to
chuck her over the footlights into the
bunch in tho first rows she's always
'bowing her damned teeth at in what
sho thinks is a smile. Jennie, you've
got to ready yourself for tho part and
come into the show; What with tho
wads of pub'icity you'd bring and what
with tho things you can actually do
tho piece will make n killing 1 And
we'll keep on making killings you and
"Slim!" she broke in, gasping at his
passionate words. "Slim!"
He was such u Slim now as sho had
never known him to be, trcmb'ing, eyes
nb'aw with eagerness. "Jennie," his
words tumbled out, "I've played a long
game. I was willing to wait, for I saw
that to do it in a big way took time.
But the time's over. You're at the top.
Jennie! There's no use my waiting
any longer. Jennie, I love you ! all
the while I've loved you! And now
we're going to team up on stage and
off like I said to you downstairs long
ago. Jennie you're coming with me!"
Sho was so amazed by this quivering,
passion-shaken Slim that for a space
she could command no words at all.
"Well?" he cried. "Well?"
"Slim Jackson I" she breathed. "You
suggest such a thing to me! Why, I
thought you were a friend of Ken
neth?" "So I am!" ho returned, with a half
savage laugh. "I'm a friend of every
body. But the man whose brst friend
I am is called Slim Juckson!"
"You're actually proposiug that I run
away with ou deteit my husband?"
she cried incredulously. Thcu with
vehemence: "Slim, I'll never do it!"
The shock of her vehement declaration
partiallv restored bis control, but ills
eves still glittered with excitement nnd
his words still fame rapidly. "You
don't like the idea of the bcundal?
Well, after all. there needn't be uuy
scandal. I'll wait a little longer. You
can gut a divorce and come to mo
straight. And you needn't worry about
being exposed ns Jennie Malone at u
public trial. The case can be tried by
a referee scaled papers, you under
standand you'll get big alimony. And
there'll bo no difficulty at all about
getting a decree. There's plenty of
cviderce, and I can slip it right into
your hand!" ,
Sho was now looking at his excited,
lean fac, her soul suddenly bick. "Evi
dence of of that kind?" sho whispered.
"Since since we were married? '
"What's wrong, Jen? You're not
trying to muke mo think you really
care for Kenneth? Say, don't try to
put that over I know better!"
"You mean he's you menu evidence
of that kind?" she repeated.
"God, Jen, aro you such n sweet
innocent little boob as all that?" His
incredulity was &o great that his face
relaxed into a smile. "Honest, Jen,
I didn't think you'd ever show your
self such a country kid ns that. What a
wrong with you? Beginning to believe
in that nncient junk the pulpit ballyhoo
artists try to put across? Wake up,
kid! Come back to America and the
twentieth century. Listen it's up to
vou to get wise to your husband. Ken
neth was sure gone on you the first
few months, and he's mighty proud of
you now he sure ought to be, the way
vou're putting yourself and him across.
But when it comes to the girl propo
sition well, he's a smooth article, Ken
neth is, and has never used a press
igcnt but there were a lot of girls iu
Kenneth's life before hid marriage, and
there have been one or two since. I
uuess jou get me, Why, if jou want
evidence. Doris Dorraine herself
"I don't be.lieve you!" Jennie flared
at him. "You nlwoys were a liar, Slim
Tackbon. and you still arc a liar!
You've tried to frighten me by bringing
me back here. "Well, do anvthing you
Uke ! I won't go with you in tho way
our propose! I wouldn't go with ou
even if I were free ! I wouldn't go with
vou oven if jou were the last man
iiUvp! I bote jou loathe you you
crook, you schemer "
(CONTINUED TOMOltnOW)
THE GUMPSA Friend From Somonauk
Copyright, 1010,
by The Trlbuna Co.
Ti
Bu Sidney Smith
DREAMLAND ADVENTURES
BY DADDY
"UP TO THE MOON"
, (The little aU icifefc taleei Peggy.
Bi, Balky Sam, Johnny Bull and
,1 Gool on a trip to the Moon
Ilridinj on her broomstick.)
The Bushing Moustcr
IpEGGY and Billy looked eagerly to
I ward the Moon to seo tho Moon folks
plated out bv tho little old woman.
But bh nntfbW n, thov hnri nnneared
ft Moon folks rtlsnnnpurcd. nnd there
fihi.wa the cold, shiny surface of the
won as de? erted as when they had first
fra It. It was as if they had been
wtioi at shadows.
But now as Ihpv lnnVerl liev saw a
Pwl black form rmililnir nt tllzzv sneed
"trthe hllU nnrt vnlWe nt iVio'Mnnn.
fyhwly leaping from hill to hill. It
? 4 bundiv honH n lnnir TPft nnd a
JJbodr, They could see neither wings
?' W, but the creature moved faster
ffi rtl y evi'r seen upon
V'nee-baw! stop the broomstick!
"Wit M anr ........... ill... J J..l
,.,. - -" wraiLT ur uiut urvuuiui
M.b wi!1 Fbblc "s "P'" braved
"oam. Tin, v. ,:. i tttt.j
e me monster runninc mil- tn mpct
Z If. ft But the witch only tittered
Slau ft11' tts lf ll wro a reftt iVe
! them.
ri"'v"u d,0o't -slop I'm going to get
.? braver run,.. a. ..j 1 "
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M HonmT ",ul,en ami struggled until
nopocd oSE the hrnnmttM A
H V?" th Moon with Peggy,
H tacv Bn?,Tu11 anl Billy Goat on
w't 7, Ur) strange to say, ho
Hid,, !"m'& t",1' but 8low'y ""I
Hi:1 V 'bough held nn hv n BrB.
hMdfr,nntr.'lnrJr stln' tl10 moment
kI He Bon.? lhc br,00n'icl the body
"ed to i. ;us'""g toward them
ftk nd c.T.rute fom lts hcai a
Sfli 1... c?me on none. Pp- n
fiNABenV th'S QUecr baPPcoinB
a-nin ,ri,. :: "cro won ine
fe'N; lftm..!,Lutf bfishtuess or
Wn th I'iyHrt it had been nicht
ltii k'.r "Q left the Earth .
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ir-85T uSo ur dow lh-wn
tick itself, and the body had been
T?alkv Sam aud bis load.
"But why is tho Sun bhining?"
asked Pcggv. looking at her watch.
"It is sti'l night."
"But it is only night on that vide
of tho earth which is turned awav from
the Sun," roplied Blllv. "The Sun is
tfwavs shining somewhere. It shine
nn the Moon and that makes moon
Meht." Peggy didn't have much time to won
der over this before Balkv Sam landed
"cntlv upon the surface of the moon, and
he and tho others tumbled off the mule's
'lack.
"Hee! Hee! Here vou be. On the
Moon and fancv free. Go and see what
vou can see. The eond o'd Earth looks
cood to me!" Chanting this, the little
old woman soared awav on her broom
stick and soon was lost to sisht, sai'ing
in the direction of what looked like n
'aree crescent moon, but what Blllv
declared renllv was the Earth from
which tbey hud just come.
"You see the Moon looks like the
VT,oon from the earth, while the Earth
looks liko a moon from the Moon," be
explained to Peegy in much taneled-up
language that she couldn't nt first fig
ure out just what he m"ant.
The surface of tho Mooc was very
rlht. nnd the rnvs of the Sun were
very dazz'ing. It wan like it briuht
winter's dav when the Sun Is shining
on the snow. The glare hroueht the
tears to Peggy's cycB. and soon sue
found herself almost blind.
"Where shall wo go? What shall
we do?" she cried, groping for tho
hand of Billy Belgium. "I can scarcely
see."
As blip said this n great sliiulng rock
moved to ono side, and through her
ears she looked into what appeared to
he a large glass lens, as if of u tele
scope. Awav down through the glass
ne con 'a oimiy mage out some sort
of a creature studving her and Billv.
"Uai mi lial Hero are queer
sorts or areara roiKs," rumbled a funn?
voice. "Bring them in and let us cet
a better look at them."
Thit glass lens swung open UKe a
door. J Odd creatures swarmed out, and
In u rlomcnt I'cggv Billy nnd the uul
mala rerourronnded, t
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