"When a Girl Marries" By ANN LISLE) A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problem of a Girl Wife CHATTER CCCII (Copyright, 1919, King Feature Syn dicate, Inc.) "So far. Miss Condon, you've liked every one of my pet bits, exclaimed Tom stopping in delight before a crudely colored Tarff rug, at which Daisy was gazing rapturous!;* in her progress through Tom's new uptown studio. "You ought to let me deco rate your apartment for you. I'll wager I'd be able to do it up a bit without a word from you." Daisy lifted her hazel eyes, which had darkened to brown in the dim ness of the studio, and she flung out her hands In a little gesture of pro test. "My apartment! I live in a third floor-back in a boarding house on a side street, Mrs. Mason. I'm nothing but a stenographer—one of Mr. Har rison's poor but honest friends." Her concentrated bitterness star tled me no less than her choice of words. I couldn't help wondering if Daisy called herself honest be cause she wasn't, or hadn't stumbled on the formula as a matter of course. But Tom seemed to derive an in spiration from what she said, for he replied with eagerness of a sort different from any I had ever seen him show: "You're a businesswoman? Fine! Now to cap the climax you have only to tell me you're dissatisfied with your present work and would like nothing better than to come and take charge of my studio during the hours I'm at my place further down town. "If I knew anything about those marvelous things I'd love it," said Daisy with a sincerity and earnest ness I handn't known was in this little grain of dust. "Or if I didn't have a pretty good Job —one that just about fits my abilities. I'm not clever, Mr. Mason." "Maybe not. But you're some thing just as good—or better," he replied. "And that's honest. You have a respect and an admiration for my antiques that would make you easy to train. And, of course. I can't have any one in charge here unless I hve absolute confidence in her integrity. First of all, you're a friend of Anne Harrison's so I'd be inclined just on that evidence to trust you with the priceless things and the big sums of money that pass through this little shop of mine." I have averted my tell-tale face. T could hardly keep silence, and yet not for words would I have spoken and so destroyed what might be Daisy's big chance. "And apart from my being a friend—or acquaintance—of Anne Harrison's," persisted the amazing Daisy. "Apart from that —now please don't think I'm being patronizing or schoolmarmish —but this strikes me so forcibly I've got to say it. When I suggested doing an apart ment for you nine women out of ten going through a shop with a casual acquaintance who happened to be the proprietor would have put me off with some remark about not wanting anything of the sort just now—or letting me know if they decided to have any work done. While you " He stopped suddenly and bent de ferentially over Daisy, who had never seemed smaller and more re tiring than now, measured against Tom's bulk and the heavy insis tence of his forceful, self-indulgont features. In spite of being only a few years older than Jim, Tom ] looks almost middle-aged—a hand some, well-groomed middle age but he has lived so much and so unreservedly that he has a spent and blase appearance. Drab little Daisy accented that. "While I—" prompted Daisy breathlessly. "While you," Tom smiled as he took up his idea again, "you were so honest that you promptly corrected my impression that you were one of the spenders and told me that you are an earner. I think you said you were nothing but a stenogra apher. Don't underrate your job— or your personality." Daisy fairly hung on his words. She brightened and flashed the way a dull stone does sometimes when you scratch away the earth caked on it, and find gleaming quartz un derneath. "Did you mean it when you said you'd put mo in charge here?" she demanded eagerly. "You'd teach me all about these wonderful fia/ e oa>a<v Air destroys your jams, jellies and preserves. You can very easily shut it out! Use Parowax! 1 Parowax is extra refined paraffine. It is pure and tasteless. Melt a cake and dip the top of your jars—or pour some on your jellies. figmgr Parowax costs very little. Your grocer sells it. (Bj ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY £ S. of C. graduates receive the National Seal of Efficiency;, w this is absolutely the Largest, Oldest and Best Business m College, in Harrisburg. I I Enter Oar New Classes Now § Our management, courses, methods, teachers, require -9 ments for graduation, etc., have been examined and approved \by the National Association of Accredited Commercial i £ School of the U. S. ( (School of Commerce % J. H. Troup Building IS S. Market Square £ Bell 485 Dial 4393 THURSDAY EVENING, things? You'd bother to fit me for this Interesting work? I'd try hard to learn —but maybe I'd disappoint you. Maybe I'm not clever enough, or adaptable." "You're clever enough," replied Tom evidently touched by tho tagerness with which she had pounced on the suggestion a more worldly woman would have taken for more polite ehitter-chatter to be heard and forgotton. "Would you really care to give up work where you're probably well started toward success—and begin all over in a musty, dusty antique shop?" "Don't you want me? Didn't you mean me to take you up in earnest?" asked Daisy In an abash ed tone. "By Jingo, I'm getting more in earnest every minute!" cried Tom, and then turned to me defensively, sensing, no doubt, something hostile in my silence. "You know, Anne, from the moment I saw the rever ent way Miss Condon touched that ukly old Ming vase and the Chen i I' u dogs and the almost colorless bit' of old Byzantine tapestry I knew she 1 had the 'flair'—the feeling for old things that people simply have or haven't. She's got it. And with her business training and typing., "When do I start? Oh, when do I start?" cried Daisy, gazing at Tom, as if he were some magic-making Jinn right out of a fairy tale. Her expression was respectful, ad miring, worshipful, yet com pletely impersonal. It displeased mo for all that. It annoyed me to find myself suddenly switching to un easiness for Daisy right in the midst of wondering if I dared let Tom trust her. But. knowing what I did of Tom and his attitude toward women. I hated to see Daisy coming under his influence. Daisy might be a little thief. But she was Kate's sister. So I broke in with a bit of temporizing I knew perfectly well was inadequate: "Daisy, in loyalty to my old friend Mr. Haldane I'm going to insist that you don't leave him with out a decent amount of notice. He may make you a very good offer to stay. One offer brings others, yon know. And anyway this has been most unbusinesslike. We haven't talked terms at all. Mr. Mason must tell you what he is prepared to pay. and then you must see if Haldane won't meet you with new respect and advance you so you can't afford to leave." Daisy's eyes faded to dull green. She stared at me curtly for a mo ment as if she were afraid to meet my questioning glance. Then she turned to Tom and spoke in a flat voice from which all animation had faded: "It was amusing while it lasted, wasn't it? But of course I can't give up a job where I'm tratned almost to the point of being the chief's secretary." "Oh, come now, I can't let you give me the slip like this," pro tested Tom promptly, wanting the unattainable and wanting it badly. But Daisy shook her head. She had become suddenly as hard and as elusive as the charm of a piece of Ming pottery. (To Be Continued) Lackawanna Mines Again in Operation; ; Big Production Lost Scranton, Pa., Sept. 18.—All mines in the Lackawanna Valley, with one exception, operated yesterday follow ing the strikes called over a week ago by employes of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and Dela ware and Hudson Companies. The exception was the Hyde Park Col liery, of the former company, where motor drivers have a special griev ance. It is estimated that the strike caused a loss of 140,000 tons of coal that would otherwise have been mined and marketed. WILL WORK IN BELGIUM. Chnmhersliurg, Pa., Sept. 18.—Miss Kate Boyd, of this place, has signed up for duty with the Y. W. C. A. in Belgium and will sail for that place on Saturday. Miss Boyd had been engaged in this work during the period of the war and recently re turned to this country. She expects to be absent about a year. Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service - By McManus < TAKF^nrT^Jn-r'L J WORRY- j COLLt- HEKJ® I rf f' HELLO-Jt<S4*)J ® W / WOULDN'T J COMES MKKELV S ®" ,C * €£/£ IBs \>\ , WHAT'S ON YOUR v 7Tn" THE LOVE GAMBLER By Virginia Terhune Van de Water CHAPTER LVm (Copyright, 1919, Star Company) While Desiree, in her own room, was interviewing her maid. Samuel Leighton donned his coat and hat and strolled around to Mrs. Duf field's apartment. He was fond of his sister and was sorry for her in her loneliness. Moreover, he had received a tele phone message from her this after noon, saying she would like to have a talk with him when he could come to her. He was comfortably seated in her drawing room and was smoking a good cigar before he asked her what it was she wished to consult him about. She had nothing to consult him about, she replied, only a bit of in formation to impart on a matter about which she felt she should not keep silence. Then, with a great deal of cir cumlocution, she gave him the few facts that Helen Goddard had giv en to her. Her brother drew his brows together. "Who told Helen that Smith was going under an assumed name?" he questioned sternly. "Young Jefferson told her." Mrs. Duffield answered. "Jefferson, eh? Well, I shall de mand from that young man the name of his informant." "Oh no—please do not!" Mrs. Duf field protested. "Mr. Jefferson asked especially that the matter be kept quiet until he has made cer tain investigations. If you say anything about it to him now you may get Helen into trouble." "I cannot help that. She should not have told you anything about it in the first place. She talks too much!" "But. Samuel" —the widow liked Helen and did not want to hear her blamed —"it was only natural that the child should come to me about this—for it did look queer that Desiree's pendant should disappear and the fact of Smith not being Smith come out at nearly the same time. Yet Helen did not believe that the two things were really con nected in any way." Samuel Leighton frightened his companion by the sharp tone in which We asked the next question. "What do you mean? Did Helen know about the disappearance of the pendant?" "Why—yes—she—" Mrs. Duffield began stammeringly. But her brother interrupted her. "How did she know? Who told her about It?" DAILY HINT ON FASHIONS 6918 "■ A COMFORTABLE NIGHT GOWN 2918—This would be pretty in pink silk or crepe, with facings or binding of blue washable ribbon. Hemstitching, embroidered scallops, picot or edging would be nice also. The revers may be omitted. This Pattern is cut in 4 sizes: Small, 32-34; Medium, 36-38; Large, 40-42; Extra Large, 44-46 inches bust measure. Size Medium requires 4 1-2 yards of 36-Inch material. ! A pattern of this Illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10c in silver or lc and 2c stamps. Telegraph Pattern Department For the 10 cents Inclosed p'.eaae send pattern to the following address: Size Pattern No Name Address City and Stats BOtRRISBTJUG TETJXSR-APH "I—l—well, to tell the truth. I mentioned it to her. Surely, Sam uel, it did not harm!" the nervous woman quavered. Samuel L#eighton sprang to his feet and stood in front of her ac cusingly. "No harm!" he exclaimed. "No harm! Not even if It means that a man's reputation may be ruined, or that you have set on foot a story that will warn him of his danger If yi[| | B1 • VImST GARMENTS. GARMENTS 111 §gj OF QUALITY OF QUALITY I® jj Friday aid Saturday J j I According to our custom of former years we announce the formal I 4 % lli ssijp £ I opening of the season of 1919 and 1920 Fall and Winter—for Friday and ] >if §lll | >• } ! Saturday, September nineteen and twenty. ! '$ ■ plfo I® 4 villi jp Wonderful Showing of the i |jj Newest Fall Fashion Creations • j^l including - B ? Coats Suits Dresses \ >1 m p Skirts Blouses ir ;1 f=lp % In opening the coming season, our stocks comprise the largest variety and the \ J iijp greatest volume of better quality outer wearing apparel for the ladies that we have ever wflw HP F==js 5 v carried. As has been the precedent in every other seasomthe prices we will maintain Z *< r will be found lower for the same grade of material than elsewhere. On this feature, as 3> =jj| - „ tf . tion to the ladies of Central Pennsylvania to visit our store and view all the latest Fall ° creations. ' v jlzr^ Buy Here I 1* P Buy Here J IT (fcjj =?= i HH i i and Y ° U I 9ul6S and You B| BuyW,se ' 7 8-10-12 S. FOURTH ST. B y wlMly - ((~/ SS Si ili 111 fes ill in sn! ill il he is not honest.' And you say that is jio harm!" Leighton was not a hard man, but lie was very angry with his sister. He told himself this was because she had made it possible for Smith to learn that he was suspected. But in his heart the employer hoped that these suspicions were without Just foundation. There was one course for him to pursue. Leighton decided as he tramped back toward his house that night. He must, first of all, get into communication with Jefferson and warn him to hold his tongue until he could produce positive proof that Smith was an tmposter. An other course was to hold his own 'tongrue. Smith had promised to stay with him for another week. That would give the time he needed. Stopping at a drug store, he tele phoned to Jefferson's rooms, but was told that Mr. Jefferson had gone to Baltimore for several days. This in formant did not know his address there. On emerging from the telephone booth, Samuel Beighton paused to cogitate for a minute, then retraced his steps to his sister's apartment. "Adelaide," he said abruptly as. unannounced, he entered her draw ing room and met her startled gaze —"I have come all the way back here to tssue an order—not make a request. I "I forbid you to mention to Do- SEPTEMBER 18,1919. siree this story that Jefferson has started. She is •worried enough as it is about losing the pendant. X will not have her perturbed fur ther until I know Just how matters stand. I suppose." he added grimly, "that there is no hope of silencing Helen Goddard's tongue." "I do not think. Samuel," Mrs. Duflleld ventured tremulously, "that there is much danger of Helen's talking any more about the matter just now. She was very mucfh wor ried last night over what she had said." "She ought to be!" the man de clared. "Talk is the devil himself sometimes." When Desiree came into his 11- 1 brary an hour later to kiss her father good-night, he spoke gently. "Try to get a good sleep, little girl," he counseled. "And don't worry." "No, dad." Then, with an effort. "I obeyed you about questioning Annie. She says she knows Norah gave the little box, all wrapped up, to Smith, for she Annie saw Smith put it In his Inside pocket before he got Into the car." "Very well. dear. We'll try to think nothing more of it just now," her father said. It was as if he did not want to hear anything about the matter, tli - girl reflected, puzzled. Which might mean that he did not trust Smith, lor that his suspicions against him were confirmed. To Be Continued 9
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