THE ENEMY —BY— George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester Author of "THE BALIi OF FIRE." etc- Copyright. 1915, Hearst International L-ibrari. Newspaper Rights, International Feature Service. Continued. There was no sleep in Billy, though. When Tommy Tinkle, unable to keep his ears or eyes open any longer, tumbled in for a good long sleep, Billy went to his desk and plunged into work. He'd have to pay stricter attention to business now. It meant something when a fellow was going to be married! And he'd watch that little matter of drink! He had been rather careless of late, but his days of bachelor irresponsibility were °\or. By George, he owed it to Tavy to be come a solid, substantial citizen, like Three-B Benning. Geraldine. His conscience rather hurt him about Geraldine. He hadn't been around to see her for let's see. flow long was it? He'd send her some roses in the morning, and, soon as he found time, he'd run out and tell her the glad news. She'd be tickled, of course. A fellow was might lucky to have a chum like Geraldine. At seven o'clock Billy locked away his work, and called Burke, and en joyed a hearty splash and a healthy breakfast, and, fresh of garment and keen of eye, went down to the Pan nard Building. He accomplished per fect prodigies of labor that morning; and, at noon, he went up on the ave nue to buy a ring! He was so frankly delighted with that task, that the head of the diamond department came over and spent twenty minutes with him in selecting the jewel of the finest cutting and color. Then Billy, with the ring in his pocket, whirled gaily up to the enchanted apartment, and put the ring on Tavy's finger, where it glowed and sparkled and flashed as a symbol of their never ending happiness. Billy had only a minute in the en chanted apartments. He was very busy, oh, tremendously busy; and all four of the dainty little rooms seemed to vibrate and crackle and tingle from the verve of him. He enjoyed a laughing little banter with Mummy Stewart, not quite proud of her hand some big son-in-law-to-be, and he made an engagement with them for the theater that night, and he en joyed an ecstatic five minutes or so alone with Tavy, or was it ten, or maybe fifteen; then he rushed away, like a racing aeroplane, for a plunge into business again. At the club the aeroplane hesitated, hovered, then came down for a few minutes just a brief little run-in, to order tickets. CHAPTER XVI A Mule Gaiety For Tavy "You a,re like sunshine in a par den, child," exclaimed Mrs. Stuart, as she received Geraldine in the dainty pink and gray parlor. She had a keen love of bright color, which had found its expression in the gay tittle court dolls she had made down In Vanheuster Square, and Geraldine's afternoon frocks always delighted her. "I feel like a spring bonnet," laughed Geraldine, looking down at the rose silk, and once more deciding that its becomingness quite excused its brightness. She sat by the window and glanced out at the shimmering river. The trees along the Palisades K were beginning to feather out, and their greenness to-day, for the first time, was visible from this distance. A trace of speculation came into Ger aldine's eyes. "It's a beautiful af ternoon. I thought that perhaps Tavy might care to go for a drive." "I don't know that she has any engagement for the afternoon," con sidered Mrs. Stuart contentedly. "She can't stay out late because we are going to the theater this evening." Geraldine's lashes drooped for the most infinitesimal flash of time. She knew quite well with whom they were going. "I'll bring her hack at four-thirty," she gaily promised. "That will give her time for the nap io make her especially beautiful for the evening; although Tavy doesn't need it." "That's pretty of you." Mrs. Stuart smiled with pleasure. "How ever, I don't believe Tavy will need it to-night." Again that infinitesimal flicker of the lashes. A clumsy river steamer was churning down stream, a broad, glistening white blot on the water, and Geraldine watched its slow progress as interestedly as if it were laden with a life-time of pleasure for her. "How much stronger you are look ing than when I first met you. Mrs. Stuart. The air seems wonderfully good up here." "I don't think it's air so much as just solid happiness," returned Mrs Stuart, and her gaze strayed to the huge basket of white lilacs which hung in the bay window. A little twitch in the trimly gloved wrist of Geraldine, where it lay on the arm of the chair. She knew that type of basket. One of Billy's tricks. There was an ornate box of candy on the table. Geraldine knew everv piece in it; a Billy special. That par ticular assortment was known in the crowd. His imagination did not run I to variations In candy. Billy' Billv' Billy! There were evidences of hfm everrwhere! The hand on the arm of the chair contracted. UD the river : "Hello, Geraldine! T didn't know J?" herp " Tavy; in a quaint, etilT little pompadour taffeta. She was beautiful; stunningly beautiful, with her exquisitely tinted complex ion, and her glowing dark eyes, and her dancing black curls. There was 6 new sparkle about her to-day a V , iVaCit V' Tt was ns if the 'sly little imps had slipped out from those glossy ringlets, and turning de- had taken complete possession of her, glinting and glimmering from the P oin ted toes of J" lltt,e leather slippers, from . There was a sudden flash like crimson fire, as Tavy reached forward her hands in greeting, and ring; Billy's ring! ."How sweet you look!" exclaimed - ? r f J ln 1 e, l .rising to take the out stretched hands, and she kissed Tavy Impulsively. She spoke with exag gerated animation, and her voice was Just the slightest degree sharper and higher in pitch than usual. "I want gMo take you for a drive. Will you *scome? "Indeed I will." Tavy's voice is more animated, too, but it is not a shade sharper or higher in tone If anything it is softer and sweeter. A great happiness has come to Taw and It has made her better in everv way, as happiness must, for only they can be happy who are made better by It. Tavy sat in the bay between her . H N What Is It? Thin, Anaemic Poopla Ought j to Know. | FRIDAY EVENING, This Announcement Will Appear Today In Over 400 Newspapers Throughout the United States. The Leather MarKet is Paralyzed! Prices For Shoes Are Taking Spectacular Advances! Look at the Facts Squarely and Listen W> Reason. Follow Our Advice and You Will Be Money In Pochet Read Evory Word of This Story and You Will Enow WHY. \ ' Europe has stripped America of its leather. With not half \ Take your BOY'S shoe \ for instance, enough for ourselves—the demand from across the water is for Two years ago you cou\tl buy a GOOD pair for him for $2.00. MORE, MORE, MORE! You can appreciate how desperate the sit- Try it NOW! They're $3.5(\ NOW—and soon they'll be $4.00. nation is when we tell you that a foreign government recently laid And WOMEN'S shoes! Four dollars used to buy a shoe accept down FIVE MILLION DOLLARS IN COLD CASH—before one of able to the average woman. '.Voday she must pay TEN dollars a pair < e biggest tanners in the United States and said: "GIVE US AS for them. And unless condit:bns change very materially very soon MUCH SOLE LEATHER FOR THAT AS YOU CAN!" Mind you, —those very ten-dollar shoes Mall cost her FIFTEEN dollars a pair! they didn't specify HOW MUCH they wanted for their money—but What do you thing of th ut? It's got you thinking—hasn't it? as MUCH AS IT WOULD GET FOR THEM! And now they are And you know it's the TRUTIa' because you have ALREADY PAID .trying to DUPLICATE that order—and CAN'T. The quantity is THE PRICE! SIMPLY NOT TO BE HAD. • Now then, see what is takin £ place in the realm of MEN'S shoes. In order to get even HALF enough leather for their OWN Manufacturers and Retailers aqe sfrankly telling you in the magazines needs, American shoe manufacturers have had to pay as HIGH a and newspapers that they can't *asve you at $4.00 what they gave you price for leather to the leather manufacturers as THE NATIONS in the past, and that you have to $5, $6, $7 or more per pair. OF EUROPE WERE WILLING TO PAY! And what they say is TRUEM Shoes that you once paid $4.00 And you see what has happened. for, are now $7.00! And pretty Boon they'll be $8.00! The shoe manufacturer simply HAD to pass the increases in Now follows what is unquestionably the greatest master-stroke price to the wholesaler; the wholesaler in turn passed it on to the of shoe merchandising ever acc®mplished. Statco\n its simplest dealer, and the deal&r passed it on to YOU—the CONSUMER! terms, it means that you may now l\uy for a very short time:— Shoes Worth $4.00 for $2.50 Shoes orth $4.50 for $2.95 Shoes Worth $5.50 for $3.50 No, this is NOT a sale—it is MORE than that. It is giving you So wa say to you—BUY NEWARK SEAOES NOW at $2.50, a chance your chance to buy your shoes at these remarkably low $2.95, or $3.50 —while you have that chance. i\nd buy enough pairs prices, if you act immediately. to last you at least a YEAR. Russia, Germany, France, England, Italy—they all would gladly pay us MORE for them-for that's LESS than the ACTUAL And forget the BoY ~ bu y HIM NEWARK shoes WHOLESALE COST OF THEM TODAY! at ?L75 or * 2 - 50 see him throuh the y ear - We have on hand, made up—and in the process of making—• And tell your -wife to go to HER dealer and t>uy a supply for MORE THAN THREE MILLION PAIRS OF THESE SHOES. HERSELF as well. Think of that—MOßE TIIAN THREE MILLION PAIRS! This is not a scheme on our part to make profitiv—you KNOW e saw is t ing coming long, long ago. If we were running that, for, as previously stated, the warring nations wotuM gladly take a sinfe e s orc, or only a few stores, it would be different. But we these shoes at these prices without us spending a dollar advertising SI ORES in the United States—and when we anticipate, we place gigantic contracts for supplies that run into millions of dollars at a We are simply ins P ired a desire to let our customers in on c .|jp; the ground floor of good value on the theory that it will com ? back to In the latter part of 1915, we contracted for enough to cover US ten " f ° ld in their good wiU and co " tinued su PP ort of thV * * reat ourselves for all of 1916 and half of 1917 OVER ELEVEN MIL- national enterprise, which today is the largest of its kind, in the LION DOLLARS' WORTH OF SHOES! world. When these are gone—UP GO THE PRICES—for you can't Let s urge upon you not to put off your visit a single cfe}\ but pell an article for $2.50 that costs $4 to make; or one for $2.95 that to COME HERE TOMORROW. If you can't buy more that one sair costs $4.50 to make; or one for $3.50 that costs $5.50 to make—can tomorrow, we'll gladly lay aside one or two extra pairs for you you? future delivery. Operating 257 Newark Shoe Storesln The United State*—The Greatest Enterprise of its Kind in The World. —HARRISBURG STORE:— 315 MARKET STREET, Near Dewberry Other Newark Stores Nearby: York, Reading, Altoona, Baltimore, Lancaster Open Saturday nights until 10.30 o'clock to accommodate our customers." When ordering by mail include 10c, parcel post charges. mother and Geraldine, and inspected the new rose silk with frank admira tion. "The country must be wonderful now, with all the trees in blossom," she observed, but that the country was not strong in her mind was evi denced by the fact that, in spite of herself, her eyes strayed to the sparkling diamond on her finger. For the past two hours she had been prac ticing at not being over-conscious of it. Mrs. Stuart's eyes strayed to the ring, in spite of herself. It was such a beautiful stone, so clear, so alive with a thousand Iridescences. Geruldlne's eyes strayed to the ring. There was 110 avoiding the thing! It filled the *-oom! Its radi ance blotted out tfrfe possibility of viewing anything else; its radiance and its illuminative significance! Geraldine laughed, and, reaching over, touched the glittering solitaire, then sho shook her finger playfully at Tavy. "Confess!" she demanded. Tavy blushed furiously. Iler mother laughed happily. "There's no use trying to hide it, Tavy," she counselled. "Billy!" charged Geraldine, and Tavy shyly dropped her eyes; but her head nodded, and every ono of the little black curls danced. "I knew you'd take our Billy away from us," chattered on Geraldine, with that queer little accentuation of pitch and tone in her voice. "Our crowd will never quite forgive you, but they won't blame Billy. I don't seee how he could help himself." "Have some candy," invited little HAIUUSBURG (Biflt TELEGRAPH Tavy demurely, but the imps were dancing in her violet eyes. "A Billy special." Geruldine select ed a confection. "This one has cocoa nut in it, and that one pistache, and the big square one fruit cake. You're very much to bo envied, Tavy. You'll have exactly this assortment of candy all your life." Tavy merely smiled. "Billy always knows how to please." If she had suddenly made up her mind to vary Billy's candy selection, she kept that decision to herself. "Yes, he has excellent taste," agreed Geraldine instantly. "He went with father to help choose these sapphires for my birthday, and he added this littlo purse for his own gift. Isn't it neat?" "Exauisite." Tavy took the purse. and examined it with all the apprecia tion which was expected of her. "I'll slip on my bonnet and be with you in a minute." "Excuse me, please, Geraldine," begged Mrs. Stuart, and with a smile , of hearty friendliness, she trotted out after her daughter. It was such a Joy to expend on Tavy the dainty care she had exercised in the dress ing of the gay little dolls. So Billy had reached his goal at last! His fevered race was run, and now he could pause to hear the voices by the wayside. A young man In love is headstrong. There is no stopping him until he has reached his goal. Geraldine looked out upon the broad river, but the current of her thoughts ran deeper than the stream. Three months she had wuitaa fnr JANUARY 12, 1917. Billy to becomo engaged to this Oc- i tavia Stuart. Tavy! I "If you're to marry Billy, you must become better acquainted with all his | friends," Geraldine chatted, as, with i the primly bonneted and gowned - Tavy by her side, she whirled up - the Drive, and into the back road, < and around the long, sweeping wood- [ ed curves, where the great gray t castles at the modern barons have i raised their stone turrets in frowning I guardianship of the Hudson. "I must arrange parties for you, teas for you CASTORIA For Infants and Children Bears the _*> ~ The Kind You Have Always Bought - BigD^ tare i to meet all the girls, and iMances for the boys." That was an interesting iontersa tion, the planning of all this brilliant incursion into social activity. Tho world seemed to have become very wide and beautiful since Bill had opened the door, and it was a fiiitshed and excited little Tavy who can* back to the enchanted apartments, <,taiite soon after four-thirty, to take, ner beauty nap. (To Be Continued.> 9
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