Show 1 ii i ii iii in ii 1 ii ii i iii ii ii 1 i ii iii ii 1 ii ii 1 HI 1 ii ii ill ii ii in ill ii ill ii 1 mi ii 1 linn m ii m ii 1 mil mi 1 ii anin 1 ii ii mil ii 1 mi ii 1 ii ii ii ii i the ne thirteenth TI hir keeneth by RUPERT HUGHES commandment 2 DAPHNE DISCOVERS THAT HER MONEY WILL NOT GO FAR IN BUYING A TROUSSEAU IN NEW YORK byron pei 6 ici i CI clay Y a young new yo time a on a left t to cleveland ev olAnd mens meets pre pretty daphne kip hip whose brother Is in the me office with clay in wall street after A whirlwind courtship they become engaged CHAPTER ill III continued 2 me gassett smiled not net old wesley kips kip a girla H believe I 1 did hear misa kip call he her father wesley well weli id fd use like to help wea was out I 1 suppose I 1 might t take ke a chance do you think you tan can pay for the ring in m ninety days easily 11 I 1 wimburn would mould have promised to re tear or d own the world bud and rebuild it in ID ninety days day 1 I 1 0 shall hall her have to add a little to the for the risk and the tion anything you yon like aid clay mag g 1 firstly I fir etly call it t two hundred dollars it certainly carl raly ill 1 one could hardly bagels over an engagement ring U IH 11 ask you to sign a tittle little docu docia moot meet with p pleasure re 11 be would be have signed AS an agreement to ame surrender embar a pound of his flesh clay hurried out to 0 find daphne and fasten facts on an her bar the fit glittering t bering he be might have taken further alarm from the immense and greedy rapture dap daphne b me revealed at the eight of the petrified dewdrop set in the golden circlet women warren A are all 11 misers ae when it comes a to tile diamonds do wimburn rn noted only the joy jay the bb bauble gave to daphne and the with which she p poked ak ad out her slender 11 der finger and slid it let into the tetter fetter he sit felt that the kiss his of alliance affiance was war worth th years of I 1 hard labor it was hard a and d bitter to I 1 rend end their that cemented bear hearts t 1 in twain but he had bad to too go at last ivl S she he floated him to the station in the ills till little a car and waved him through the fro iron paling I 1 n she was un on d imaginably garer precious opa a and n pitiful ill A I 1 as S she it tc stood stand there a and it he wim wanted it 1 to bf blubber b t c when the vestibule was SI slammed ad an etmo athe re aral and the be truth train slid out of the station tell like a aemil merciless S so socks snake Us be vowed tt that he would work with the strength of ten and pile up a far or tu tune in the bank for her but first he be must VA pile up enough to pay tor for that solitaire clay wrote daphne a fat letter every joy day he usually dmd stoke sneaked it 1 in among his baartz business correspondence and ad took great grant pains that it should dover a mise ads s th the lake shore limited at five thirty in the e aftem afternoon aina A cial delivery stamp put the letter in ia daphis hands bonds every next fraer forenoon ourt but after the letter had gone he usually remembered that be bad omit wit ted to include some message gossag of fright fully important argence so he had to send her c evera night a night letter and frequently of marriage roo he be must fire off a day tell letter the these wit cost only sixty cents cent apiece piece but often he had 1 to send d lafiece La them in double or triple length for occasions where time was yet more unendurable there was the we tele phone a pittance of three dollum dollar and twenty menty five cents tor for the liral first three minutes and a dollar unit and five cents for far each additional minute or fraction cof would bring hla his lips to from the little ruber rubber mouth of the receiver e ar her voice came to him a ax train from a distant star by interplanetary common mehim the sense a ot of reroute at nesa was unbearable she seemed to be dead and walling wailing across eternity atonally cla clay y Wl naburn was to complete pl plot a dis dia t rose his ella health wavered and ad his bis of oce fles work surfaced suffered I 1 till it won was rebukes baxes and it threats troia fr his chiefs and ad corn nn out nt eve even from fear bayard kip who never suspected suit and was a never told of infatuation for his sister with lovers ever ing logic wimburn V imp ca persuaded himself tiam jelt that the j S only an one who he could coal mee eave him from destruction we was dp D daphne p line with her married bad and all 11 son and ensconced in a little neat set I 1 ID new york be could take up his mrs ti t tasks I with a heart bearl so he ha began to write led and to telegraph and to groan wire aire wilder bud and so across the nag hying wilder nice cries tor or help daphne wept apt back wit and repaid his longings I 1 ID kind and suffered buffered heart rending reading sea ecstasies 1 ot of yearning and finally she bhe promised frantically to marry him without within t further delay no with R desire to economize in pain she he broke the double none news t W her two parents parent at the same time III telling h ng them both the that she was awa engaged and that the be was vins to wed they stunned they had never pach A d a clelan sul Pl cloo elan or 1 the me were acute tate state of at daphne fl a heart affairs it Is really u d how me blind parents uwin are am I 1 to A their childrens activities and how much con can so go on an under their now ain without I 1 out retching catching the thrle dmn heaby y eyes daphne easily browbeat her father said ad mother lot into co ha to ber bar early mary marriage ings her ber father unusual groaned at the thought of the wedding ex es kenses but cone consoled rhal himself with a pisgah sight eight of the a canama canaan when the th lait la it of his dear children should b be living at another nines mans cost mrs kip made one me stipulation 1 I 1 won t let daphne sneak away to new york and be married by a jular justice ot f the pence peace or a coroner or wh whoever does such things in new york she must have a church wedding end and a home reception daphne accepted this un unanimously aulmon my with wilh one amendment 1 I must go to new mew york to got get my trousseau absei of course ree said aid mrs kip 7 af at r course S not wl said mr mc kip why ta not aid mrs mr kip the arf expense achas Is the why not dot I 1 ali VS the use se of spending a fortune a on clothes the money that goes out for th these aa honeymoons might bell better r be turned into the wedding fr fund it lord it knows daphne will need dollars dollar more than she needs duds if she Is marries the that t young fellow daphne broke out in a revolt oh but I 1 H be glad to be free tram from this everlasting talk of money y mans money money I 1 I 1 bate it IL I 1 hate to take it from you it if it t for tile the it disgrace is I 1 d bring to you and mamma I 1 accept a cent I 1 id d be mar ned ad in my old bathrobe thank heaven im foo marry marrying lg a man who doom t hang onto am every penny like grim death in her own oun heart she did not realize what a grievous wound she dealt the battered old heart of her father till oil he sighed 1 it I we was 11 like ile him when he 1 I waa 1 his age maybe yb hell bell be like me when chen be hes mine if I 1 had been more mom of a miser maser th then I 1 I 1 SO guess ass I 1 it be less of one me now ite then daphne ealda the flu hunted led f bounded dad I 1 look behind hind his spectacles and ad flung herself 1 in his arms anna weep ing g forgive me daddy I 1 in a little b beast oal to talk to you so I 1 do dou t mean I 1 it I 1 in m just excited 1711 get only the simplest fra thmia things and ad sudan day when ay alny and I 1 are rich III pay you back a ile he patted her and kissed her bar gawkily y and manlike having gained his ats point ahr threw sw it away you get whatever Is best and nicest you re the tha girt girl in ohio and it you re going to b have the finest boca wedding ever was seen in cleveland and zil ill find the money all right never you fear he had just remembered a bit of real estate that bad not yet been earn deco rated with a second mortgage ile he had bould bought it secretly with the proceeds proceed of a windfall that was his double we life instead of spending money upu ta ly on im dissipations when he bad a bit of luck he at sneaked out and invested d it in I 1 something at he could bor row oney money on A in a crisis the casni never have failed him so daphne wrote to her brother that she was coming to new york to a trousseau for her wedding to dearcot boy bay on earth whose name boa she would out not tell him till she ehe saw him her letter crossed a letter fr from bayard who began it with his spot apology for or his hia unavoidable delay in ID writing home borne doumad mother dad and sla received sweet at lett r t from you mother and meant to answer A but been ave very r bull hard times those forced 4 ir as to so I 1 cut at d down we start an and threw three 1 extra 11 1 work on an ra men retained d but has has haa III been BO bad a 1 long se it me cant t get eat my any worse bound to ra set get better so 1 ra as to don dm t drop dead yet I 1 as solas so as to Is or get ra married lisl y hound frad the 1 gel I of at the world wi known a it lor a long time is been engaged I 1 r year waiting to set bet rich ch enough gh to place ideas her where aha belong not net thera yet I 1 but can t stand bachelorhood say any I 1 longer Z wedding date not t a ald yet 11 but pm als ably ara beroe t time I 1 in J june th that at ye alc would 14 mika a imse good son sorna time I 1 in is junel will let 11 so you know exact t date silence followed follow d the document and there them are am few documents documents that ibeal so a much to every family BI that be bear foe As thy me aes sao that ina one can of the children childe A has g gooe late into the world and found a 4 mom mate an and it given up the ancient loyalty for the new nes CHAPTER IV the two old kips bat at brooding over their mystery the fruit ot of their almost lorEo tUa ro re maBLe counce the little squalling equalling squal ling lid ideas baby that had come to them and strangely evolved into a I 1 great grown dmn was now in the tolls of romance ransom in his hin turn he had found I 1 in ID a for far city somebody there that I 1 he be loved better than his family or his hia frieds or his bla daphne wait waa delighted at first and then than she ahe realized reali sed that the raw newa of hla his mar rings would throw her bar own plans plane into disarray she sighed 1 I sup suppose P gas I 1 d better postpone my wedding till old we get bayard off our hands a fine idea I 1 her bar father ex claimed aimed it t was w always a joy to him to defer nn an expense mrs M kip flung him a sure glare and daphne rolled her seen eves la in distress but he renamed redeemed him self belt with an unexpectedly explicitly graceful turn tum it lets us keep daphne with us a little longer daphne wrote ate tills this now new decision to clay he sent back a letter that fairly howled with protest when daphne told her bar parents of if clays anguish they made light of it it was a 10 long 9 long while since they had been young they had bad learned that marriages marriage contain that net may sometimes be postponed without misfortunes misfortune bayard ha yard did not write again for several or at days this time he be wrote to daphne dear sims SI alb toura m S of if no 1 data as 11 us usual al received ead and be beautiful of contents recal noted I 1 ran can hardly bell ve that my little id ala 11 la 11 announcing ucla noun cing lanu lt intention nu to Is III join the procession III get it too you an this bible lhnn I 1 used od to think jbf this la I 1 ml ab thea eject I 1 to revision I 1 when ban I 1 know who no the to I lucky isy sy man a la IS atho to Is hel some clave land appolo or however you apell it I 1 suppose u before I 1 could write you a bombshell exploded blod in the office heads of orm decided that since we can t sell any goods in amer lea ice might try england bagnis they want sat me to go as over at once ond I 1 see as what can as be done do io about out a a billing act agenar is in door dear old lunnon ln doncher dm otic know and BO now w I 1 into intend d to combine his busl nesB S fr trip vacation t to and h honeymoon 1 in same voyage so we go get rm married d thursday mad and set sail S saturday at u do just time to get settled in our it dove cote is before leaving was waa s worrying sybig over r not bal being AS able I 1 to be so ac cort y your kind kid offer onias to pay me a va allt 11 th then the blessed darll ugly nely me BUK t aeed that her ajeet me slater in I 1 taw te to be I 1 should cons come to new york va and make our ear apartment barnt me her home while she ehe shops bi we won t get b back from none honeymoon aa bias hike for far alx 1 weeks lu at h T ton and ajl sd main mother jut settle down th there until you hv have finished shopping ym will leave key and instructions Instruct iona with superintendent 1 the letter ended it with ith the I 1 usual oceans a of love iad and kisses and the usual A met haste baste it set act the family to pondering old wesley was the the first to speak peak and his hia train of thought startled to filed the women am so hes bes going to get married tomor row mor that wll awful sudden add I 1 saves saes us baig a wedding present though j when he had recovered from the am us pact of his wife Is as s look he saved him elf again with a quick pleading sug smile what I 1 was ufa thinking k AS w was it leaves leave more aaa money ey or daphnes tr eumea th the a poor wretch had grown us used d to as seeing eing unexpected expected gifts of f fortune ama float into view like soap bubbles drift tala Apin close claim in iridescent loveliness and then than b ZI I 1 wink oat leaving ring hardly a dump damp spot at As soon man as be had bravely added what he had saved from his 0 son s wed ibn oy wf ding to what he find already voted ed to his bis daugh daughters teres trouse trousseau au la be a was doo doomed ad to in jaectin arn that daphne could not act start chief east to buy clothes to get married in until she ehe had bought some i in clothes to start east in and besides that she could not go east alone and her mother another could not go with her un 71 I 1 I 1 4 1 I 1 that a fine idea he her father ex claimed less fee her bar other mother had bad also alao mine now new clothes to tide her mother over till her mother could get to new york and ad ba bev borne clothes to am atay y married marid in 11 wesley W kip hip went at forth to peddle that second mortgage into was a commodity not easy to dispose of and it took him a week weak or two to find a purchaser por chaser and then than be paid ao an ingen began lonely disguised usury miary for far it but bat he got eat the cash when he mine came home he proudly an pounced that daphne and her mother could start for far new york as sam oon as they it a mind to they had a mind to as man boon a as their clothes clot lies were ready he accompanied them to the train he was not am eten to be have the doleful luxury of seeing them spend pond his money but bot he put a brov bravo treat front on an his touy tally and ad 14 last words word to daphne were ware have a good time honey boney and if you see anything you absolutely got to have just y you A get tt it and if the money you got can isn t enough why 11 get more mom imme somehow how you can usually depend on OB your old dad to do his bis best ho he felt repaid when h his a beautiful child cried acted 1 I it know I 1 the can I 1 you angel and reached high and drew draw his head down dm 1 l like a faithful camels he never told lur that she was squeezing his eyeglasses as into his nose he managed ronn aEed not it cosne to e at the exquisite agony of her face curls his bis fie nostrils stells an and she feasted his bis hungry ear or with eager gratitude daphne slept little that night |