fwvtfwim " '';;V'JppRBlHi V jff'ti.1 w i njhr ' 'V v'i J- , fc ' I - - - nmi . ' i , . EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 1922 5a m t av nw ' l",Y r THE GUMPS-Take a Tip Frem Uncle i-n-vv i 41?.- ' . The Subconscious Courtship WT1C ;w f i By Sidney Smith lylH t mditn ummmn'f tMtrmorJtnarytehemtto Ap mitert from inUrftr- ff Ing with htr Mi U told in thU fatcinating nevtt By BERTA RVCK Auther of "The Wrong Mr. Wright," "The Arrant Kavcr," Vtc. ' Copyright, mi, Dedd, itead d Ge, 1... rnrMNS TUB STORY v,tlrUarru Cermtchael, engineer "'"V She & mrried an one, man- ':.. ra died a jete rnmu'ie u.y ... "LZnl leaving her a big busines. "& out of e Jeb, ' Htmmpned Ctrm ?" , "i ',rfcrr Mever K'WVKTiYharicd by prien, sfflwTT-Vffltfs: Ctrmt WJ "A-. V, keln nend her meneii. Hi iV he muit get a ) tiV fli convenience te fend off iSfert and tchemen, HKREWJJONTINUKB Business Net Remance AT THIS quick exclmngc he was token .kick. He mld net bp expect edfe .i.. it home en Richmond Hill. CiS8 ,"eung woman lth the absurd Mnin net regarded jib "El- jffgUhlSK with a llu.r for Iitlnf ""'"i mcr,.iv n C over-who-Wways vedS.then,, one of her kld.IWBJB " . . .l1.. llmf f'lnvnr '!aTthe nuall Tetchann "en" SU-V" Ike a rtenrn beat In .. railway Irian and that Clever, with charm Tf.e,.."i tmMttvcly unrecognizable SHS KtStown'IueS "2-Hh .he new turiiiil diann Hlifchtly "WS-rlMiv n '' IWlbly he 1" " ... ' i,.e known thai hi in p" . :".... .i V fi,u nld no even nine '""" ..' 7 ,. " . . r .i .ii ... " iimv nn luiiiui !,' w" Ille lew ruffled. (He ten VifHiiK of that violet hct'iit ; r ..I... .. W nelu" P"." "' ,n1 here in n nheiild only Imve Binelt of jT.i lather.) Here raree u rami it a" 1tl1la t.-l.l.. t ....r...i(, u.-uinii rnndy e pounce n neon as the vultiirea (lapped off. Lenving en the dirty telM. rover' n n tip what u you miniu Threepence." Till would have been Clever's re- peri, naa Mie given any account of me ienai at iiemn which, nn n mutter of fact, she didn't, rset without a certain ciini tdeniir. Lnrn.lchael watched Mrs. Klp!ilntnnc'N face as the crun.pled-IoeUIng waiter, cemiiiK up for the order, reeled out the Hiiigie word : 'Honstbccfreastmuttnnhollcdbcefdum plInglllrlstMc wenldliiiA-n v V ' Net rcceirnizlnir Mu tltxli. rin.-n. mildly asked for the hill of fare. That purule-scrawlcd document was nut into ner nami. "I nm afraid, Majer Carir.idiarl." niiu sap in n voice that fought the chit. icr, cianh and jimglp-neifCM of the iimn piacc. unl I plmll have te '"ew myself f,n yenr mercy. What is nil mis, picarc? ' .lust the lunch: quite geed?" he reeled. !.,it,.nrn't f.M(,-v ""J" chicken?" rIip nald. ( Salter, have you any chicken?" ii, r,ry,' ir nn chicken. Hteakaml RiiiicyoineiporiiiiicebitterroastandYotk f-hire?" ClOVCr KllllllllUlnnn .11.1 -. . ..! . . t ' 1 -"..- .1111 IIUl I'Vi'll iiiiivcr lt fllP IV1H. Ille l.wl I. '.. .. Ileal hy hut faitldleus eater, loathing the Vi. V. . ' '"""" oil,, 1'ietVrr us .ilwavs fl.i or fu (l, nP.,. . p!1, I don't want much." she ..niil liriifhtlf. "I ...in i - - . i.t..r i .. """ " "nm enipicr Hid ii Blas i.f Ilarza.:.ind.M)da. water -niiih. anii s.,1,11.. uiuslmMinH. And nn v 'A "uvc ,"u ""' "lee grapesV . Lan t jeu ct reiue grapes? Vlaw Garm chad sat hack. If it ,d been nny ether jeung woman, she would mve hud grapes promptly enough even ii... ",.se 0,lt fnr ,!,em himself. Hut because it was this woman he Mil ..k, snn. y nniiisc.l, and repeating, himself. "Lnch, fifteen shltm ..in .-ii ei irepsias. Seven and six,,,.,,,.,.. h 1 1 " ' ""t l'p' my !.. ... i rcsprmy lie was nble te tinier his own men et lunrli whi.li (l ,.,j n Jjyey" ent. AVe give it In terms of the mil which up paid win, crrtni fl. nelity of scsture. -.. , k. d. tnep , n Boiled n n l'int of bitter (i je Bread e Cheese !.'!'.'.' 0 (T Iliitter . ' " ) T'l ".'.,' () ?j Thev liinelied witbeiit PM'hnncim; K t e 'nucTeared up fain ly Jen below In that foggy rtw. 'lhe wund of a penny whlstU. piercing and toejint ns a lark's hang: "Oh ye'II ak' the high read, ' .. t'ii mlr' tin. low read. An' I'll be In Scotland before e ! Hut 1 nni inj ....- ...... Will never meet again On the bonnie. bennle banks et l,ecu Ijgiuuuu lb the shrill treble of the pipe, n pinno pinne pinno ertan pulsed an accompaniment. "Twe wounded celdlers! They n wit conic round en Fridns, (-aid CIetm Elphlnstene, and she took up tbi Week satin handsack and emptied it of small cnange. rne nuns nmnn. hsmlcd the li tie pile of coppers anil ilipracfs e t!ie boy who entered. "TOKC tUat ilOWll ler nn: nii-n ii" i.. ii1mim New. exi-use my " ,-."- ,.,. .1 - tt'l.n, ...,.u I -... i.i. ..IIIMMIL ..-IIIIIUII1 living oreKcn ou imc luui. ........ ..- speccn. due cannot talk in n rattline mee iruin, nor in a restaurant like The Inferno with iu erWieia of bellewiin; wnitei. clatteilni; cullerj and riinnl .' taps. Once ('ariniclinel raised hi vole, en high le as); Mrs. ICIphiiiMeuc If 'let- I'lnelel wei.. all right, ami sin shouted bark tllit it n wry niee. lie thought of (hove lunches te which she was uci'iistnmed. lie thought of these hotel., where, fu whatsoever pait of the leiiiTe she steed, there ueiib' ''( nhvnM the wiap and the fur "nat behind her. always the nbseipilniib offi cial ready te let It fall upon her shoul ders softly iim n homing bird. He thought he was piebably idnliig for one of these places at this moment, own as she sipped her Barsac-and-seda-wntcr (the unearthly drink) in this city 'uncheen den. hat else was she thinking about behind that arresnntiy cou.pesed little face, he didn't Knew. "Man What a ic." As a matter of fact s!ie was thinking, quite fimply. "Men, what a ,-e. '." In her own mind, ise shrewd In natches, in ether patches chaotically Ignorant, in ethers innocently hwept) this girl who had been pitch -forked by circumstances into a man's position dropped the business-like vernacular of men and had almost a school girl's vocabulary. She vas thinking. "If I'd never met a man in n.y life, I could guev. what they were like from liiulnp seen one of these place, where men eat. i l,oek at these tue hyenas at that t.il.le laugh ing. I wonder what about? Something th.it lienas consider an amusing ster.?i Hew can girls let surli objects make low te them? The idea of one touching one 'puts out m, lta.. " This was Clever's secret jmn.e for what the late Jehn Klphlnstene had summed up as flair.) "I hate them. Se I shall just buy this one man out te marry me and then I shan't have any mere bother from the let of then.. And my Kay will be safe. And then when things leek up again, and prices come down, 1 shall " The llair within her planned bu-ily until the sin rounding noise was but n background te lit- eicc. 1'urtunately The Inferno contained a rather quieter room wlnue, in spite of the rattle of the dominoes u marble, topped tables it was just pe.t.hp te talk. Here, amid fog and tobacco smoke. Car niiihael led her te a weed-settled re cess and turned te call a waiter. "Here," lu told Clmer, "we haw te break the I hitch tieat arrangement. They knew me ami I have le keep up appearance. I'm afraid jmi will have te let me ghe "U coffee." "Anj thing-?" the waiter suggested delicately. "Ne thanks." Carmlchncl's. lunches did net include fnur-shllllng (Srund Mariners. Sitting there by the side of the only woman iu the room, lie fell again into drought. Saage and bitter he fell. Loek at this silly creatine, leek at her lunch just new. Ham and het -house grape., I Loek at the cost. lrjtliing el'e about her I'll the same lines, no doubt. Over cwrj thing she would he robbed right and left. She'd nieiiev te squan der. He, the inwnter of a ncccs-ary and national thing, had te see this thing shelwd for lack of money le push II. Hew damned unfair. She was miide te be plundered: no doubt; all sorts of unstrrri had their hooks Inte her nl- ready. A tog of Kipling's puredlcd Itself in hia head. "Shekels of sllwr or geld. Take her money, m son, praising Allah. The Kid was ordained te bu sold." That, that r.he asked of him, couldn't be done. Ne decent man could takn such a thing en. Net te be thought of. Still, here she sat. He had te talk te her; nnd there might be soma sort of amusement In finding out mere exactly what It wae she proposed. "With regard te this preposition of yours, Mia. Klpblnstqne. Might I trou ble ou te go into it a little mere in detail?" She put her cup down and was all attention. "Well," she said, In that official manner she had learned te im itate, se absurdly wll, even us she'd learned men's tdlmuw. "Is this mast of yeura A very tJtpeMslfe hobby?" OONTINUBtiMMORROW I urine? Oh. les. This se-called nirrlage, Majer Caruiiehael His frmvn hail smoothed out a frac frac teon: lie lis cued less impatiently as sh" MntlnuH quickly, reaseningly. Sup pose it was net called marriage? Would you then have taken it se much intlss? Ciirmicbacl? Supixise it be i(n snd ended In this office " "M'm." he said, doubtfully. With tier words his point of view began just faintly te shift. He was bound te idmit that she had had the honesty te My she didn't want a husband in the usual sense of the word. Cut out Ilia lidscf it. what remained? Convenience; a business arrange runt: something for something. Was it, after all, the Insult that he had at tnt considered it? Call it net marriage, at all, then. Call it a partnership the aims and tnds of which could be drown up iu Msek.and-whi.e in a law.wr's eOiee. The only connection it had with mar riate was the appearance, and the fact that it would prevent either of them from marrying anybody else. She (obviously) didn't want te niarrj aarbedy else; or him. He Lord, he didn't want le marry. She was right, there. All this wftened the "Insult" aspect of it, nl- theuih It mnile nn difference tn what h would de; refuse, unconditionally. The little silver deck chimed from tie monumental mantelpiece. "Mater f 'nrmiehnpl " ..nit! I'M.....- Wphinstene suddenly, nud convention' ally smiling. "I can't expect jeu te ask ra out te lunch, can I? And, after bat I Said te Wll nrinnt these nfliers. and about my always having te pay for ir uincucs in the long run, I can t invite you. Couldn't you come out with nenew as man te man? Kach paying or our own; He said, "I think ou mentioned Jrteen shillings as the price of your lincbes. Mine are half-a-crown." "AH right," said she. '"Where shall i.C Ye" '"Mso "" ,!'herc de you generally go?" . Oh, usually I drive up somewhere th- West End " '.'AJraid I can't manage that. Yeu wUl have te ht me take f somewhere "Mri 'nnw " phiep; rpilte a geed jwipls lunch j ,ou can alwnjs eat the wd there." .i'j.4."0 ,h(,,1Rht " "As man te man,' fire it8") af,!011 f"r Ui Hhc 8h"" Down into the choking fug outside nn went, tlm im,...,.,,,,;.,,. i..,. ,. m the wealthy woman whose very siiggestcd harmoniously decorated 7i ura",tf!' l10lfpct and silent service, M exquisite feed. Out into the street r went and across the teeming man 9s of the city at lunch-time. ni i r' rover of th(! lulck eye nnd iplki ... " ". """s " iiiii lie- in" meal t0 h(,r Klelimeml cons- "M rlonfe' T .... . . Mtiz . "i-ni nm. ie inncn r"a a man tnibv 'My denr.' the .i.., ..i. . i rn.(J .,., . "''""" OKI... I llliw wtertcd, "that's no new thing." n-'Tj18 lunch was. Alse the place. ik. i . m "lwe i "UH 1 have enl. "'.S'Mlest idea. Llterallv. Yeu ,v J"Jd no (os en lierf. ll,U m,.:..n'i i if ?u" J'eu hadn't: it was all ihrre. nn ? I P ac"' Ve" npVP' . "" Mil ... i ""'",";lr se iiu. Alleys "w crocks nnd corners and jnrds with Z .n p,er '"Idnlght ever them all IntaL- n?'0 t0 sort ' sdiute down ell, it was exactly like Hell: f XI a. ..' 1'1 btefl engravings of it wAl AAVe, wi" kw;P n the staircase S..ti,nvl ,nky blnck w'h '-"'I gleams. MnSLii' U'?M0B of tisnrrs half-seen i i21? ,h.reugh the Rrnek(, A "(,k d'at v."e pii' Fl00r bIcl wl i-nw. f thsVZ0 "K wlih lr!e. . Traurrr"V- ' tneir naraen. wMAt.j UBC. IV"8 f 'he tablecloth Dllt m.T.. . Slreatl' get covered with burtlni !u' h,Tfte of smuts from fog ;B?B1net what I iZX. ,m ,'VercMter same, sir .. ?ok for ,he i band was I a. .i.S,,,ttr of knlw "'! 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