THE MAMMOTH RECORD, MAMMOTH CITY, UTAH ,4 jr . 0T Mrs. Chivvis,, was touched. .You poor child I It really Is just too bad ! She pondered, then she brightened : Im sorry youre disappointed, but Im glad youre not to be In the theater. It must be very wicked. Its mighty difficult, said Daphne. Mrs. Chivvis thought a moment more, then she said : Did I tell you? No, I dont believe I did you were away but Mr. Chivvis gets his vacation next week. Hes got to take It when his turn comes. The man who was going now couldn't be spared, so we have to leave Tuesday. . Im going, of course, so I cant give you your meals. You can get your breakfasts In the kitchenette. Of course Ill allow off whatever Is . right. Oh, Daphne said. Til be all right, I guess. : Daphne had not realized how much she. depended on Mrs. Chivvis till now. She was to be left alone at the very time when she was most in need of society.. The whole world was forsak- ing' her. DAPHNE AGAIN TURNS TO CLAY, BUT AS THEY PLAN FOR THE FUTURE . A NEW BLOW FALLS. , Synopsis -- Clay Wimburn, a young New Yorker on a visit to Cleve land, meets pretty Daphne Kip, whose brother is in the same office with Clay in Wall street. After a whirlwind courtship they become engaged. Daphne goes to New York with her mother to buy her trousseau. Daphnes brother, Bayard, has Just married and left for Europe with his bride, Leila. Daphne and her mother install themselves in Bayards flat. who seems greatly atDaphne meets Tom Duane, tracted to her. Daphne accidentally discovers that Clay is penniless, except for his salary. Baynard and his wife return to New York unexpectedly. The three women set out on a shopping excursion and the two younger women buy expensive gowns, having them charged to Bayard. Bayard is furious over the expense, seeing hard times .ahead. Daphne, indignant, declares she will earn her own living and breaks her engagement with Clay. Through an introduction by Duane,' Daphne induces Reben, a theatrical magnate, to give her a 'position in one of his companies. ' Her first rehearsal is a fiasco, but Reben, at Duanes request, gives her another chance. Sudden illness of Miss Kemble, the star, gives Daphne her chance, but her acting is a dismal failure. She is consoled by Tom Duane. . . - CHAPTER XII Continued. " f . Satan or Raphael had whispered to her an invitation to revisit the scene of her late humiliation with Clay. With Duanes magic purse there would be no danger of a snub from the waiters ; with his own car there would be no footing it home. mischief spoke for Then an imp-e, her and said, All right !" Duane told the chauffeur and the car shot like a Javelin from the lighted of street into the deep forest-nigh- t Central park. What would Clay say? But, after all, he had failed her in a crisis. Perhaps he had turned his heart elsewhere. Jien were impatient, vindic' tive, fickle. When Claremont was reached and Duane handed Miss Kip olit he noted that her hand was' hotter than his own and a little quick to escape, her face was flushed and her lips parted as if He assumed that with excitement. the speed of the ride and the tang of -? adventure were. to blame. . While Rfce Waiters were serving the supper and while he was attacking it with the frank appetite pj hopest hunger she recounted the. evenings disaster as calmly as if it were the story of soipebody else, pi fact; she was standlrife off and regarding herself with the eyes of an alien. We change so fast that the persons we .were, .yesterday are already strangers, and their acts the acts of distant relatives. Her calm was really the numbness of shock. The anguish would come to' morrow. I cant understand myself at all, 1 went through every Daphne said, one of the motions,., but I couldnt' reach the audience once. I was like a singer with a bad cold singing in a foreign language you dont know what the song is all about, but you know that it never quite gets on the key. You mustnt be discouraged.. Oh, yes, I must! I couldnt be an n actress ih a thousand years. Mr. told me sc himself. j Duane felt the truth of this, but jit hurt him to have her feel It. It offended his chivalry to realize how impolite fate could be to so pretty a girl. He hated to see her reduced to the necessity of proving how plucky she could be. He tried to find an escape for her. He said': - ' .Youre far too good for the stage. I dont believe that for ap4npte, But-Iv- e she protested. got ttTfipd t can do.',i; I something , May I help you to decide? If you only would!-- But Im getting to be" a nuisance.. , You are a a to me you are a well,-yournot a nuisance. He dared not tell her what she wasr , especially as the waiter had set the bill at. his elbow and was standing off impain an attitude of tience for the tip, which he knew would be large. Mr. Duane always gave the normal ten per cent and a bit extra. He tipped wisely but not too well, knowing that an extravagant tip wins a waiters contempt almost more than none at all. The head waiter fairly cooed Good night and almost gave them a blessing. The starter had Mr, Duanes car waiting for him at the curb and lifted his hat with one hand as he smuggled a quarter away with the other. He stepped in to lay the linen laprobe over their knees with reverence, closed the door exquisitely and murmured, Good night The car was an aristocrat; It floated from the cuib with a swanlike sweep. Daphne thought of Olay and herself plodding homeward. She seemed to see them 'or their wraiths staggering disconsolately along.' She felt very sorry for them. Here was a chance to save oae of them both of them, in fact; for W taking her financial burden from (Say's shoulders she Would he twice strengthening him. If she were to accept Duane as her husband then her problems would bo solved and Clay would be free of her. T6 be Mrs. Tom Duane ; to step Into the society of society; to lift her father and metfesr frem a position of meek- risk-o- f . ness in Cleveland to a post of distinction In New York ; to solve at once all the hateful, loathsome, belittling riddles of money ; to be the bejeweled and feted and idolized wife and mistress of this young American grand duke; to buy that impossible trousseau,' or better; to live in a New York palace instead of a flat ; to go about in her own limousine instead of an occasional taxicab; to be fortunes darling instead of a member of the working classes, struggling along with bent neck under a yoke beside a discouraged laboring man! When the car reached her building she was resolved to see Duane no more. She could not tell him so. After all, he had been everything that was courtesy and Charity. It would hardly CHAPTER XIII. . ' I, ' She Stared at Her Image in the Mirror. ' have been polite to freat him with absolute indifference. Duane got down and helped her out and took her to the door, which was mcKed at this late hour. While they waited for the doorman to answer the bell she was paying him his wages : You' are wonderfully kind. I had a gorgeous evening. You saved my life... She had said more than she Intend-e- d If not more than he had earned. Then may I call soon? " Of course." Tomorrow? Y, , v I well. Ill let you know. Fine! Telephone me' at Ill write it out for you. Im not often at the club where yon found me, and my He wrote number isnt in the book. on his card his telephone address and gave it to her as the doorman self-deni- ; - . CHAPTER XIV. Then the Chivvises came back from their vacation unexpectedly early. They had founS the hotels expensive and Mr. Chivvis was afraid that his job would be snatched from him Lf he were not there to hold it down. Clay called on Daphne that evening and the Chivvises retreated to their own room. But as they could be overheard it was evident that they could overhear, and the ; lovers found no chance to say any of the things thaj; frightened their souls. j One evening Daphne said to Clay in, as low a voice as he could hear: Mrs. Chivvis is growing uneasy, honey, about our being together every evening. I told her we were engaged, but she didnt seem convinced. Perhaps you would let me wear that beautiful engagement ring again. I was a fool to give it back to you. May I have it or I Im Clay blenched in misery.' You see, I hadnt paid afraid I much on it ; and last week I had an insulting letter from the jeweler. He , threatened to sue me and notify and I well, I had to send it ' ' back." He was so downcast that she answered with mock cheer : Oh, thats all right, honey; it doesnt matter. After all, its only a ring. And we have each other. But we havent each other. This way of living is driving me crazy. Ill be all right as soon as these hard times are over and I can make some commissions. But Its so dismal to wait. Couldnt we get married and live on my salary? I could if you could. He caught her in his arms so violently that she squealed. The next day Clay telephoned to her his firm had just offered him the choice of accepting half his salary or turning in his resignation. It was really Impossible for two to live on half of whaf was hardly enough for J" . one. , Daphne cried a long while in her room. She got out her list of ways to earn fifty thousand dollars again and cried over that. ' There is much foolish and futile protest against the nowadays woman who goes into business outside her home. But the fact Is that it is her business that began it.' Her business left the home first and she is merely following it to the places ' where new conditions and Inventions have centralized and mechanized it. New conditions have taken her distaff and her washtub and her cookery and gossip into the woolen mills and steam laundries and restaurants and telephone exchanges. She has had to go thither to do her necessary work. Even the entertainers, the singers, dancers, tellers of stories, 'who used to stir the seraglios and the castle hallh have been gathered Into' opera housed and theaters and into vaudeville And moving picture palaces. Daphne, having no gifts for spinning, cooking, or laundry, tried the lover pro-1.- theater. Mer -- - 1 He murmured, Dont forget." She Both said I wont. murmured, Good night." Then the doorman gathered her in and hoisted her to her lowly eyrie. It was very different, from where she would have gone as Mrs. Duane. But when she was In her room she tore his card to pieces after she had looked at it. She stared at her image in the mirror. She hated what she saw there. ' She vowed to break her promise to Tom Duane. She vowed to forget his telephone' number. 'But about in the durk long after she had closed her eyes. The hext mornin ; she overslept even beyond the extra 'hour the Chlvvises permitted themselves and the stranger within their gates On Sundays. When Daphne appeared at breakfast, trying not to yawn, Mrs. Chiv-vl- s It. greeted her with a voice as cold And so will L said Leila. t It was atad dry aS the toast, and ns brittle: You were rather late getting In awfully hard work keeping track of last night or this morning, rather. every little penny. I'd much rather Daphne's answer was nnt an expla- have a regular allowance In cash ev-- ! ery week. . . nation, but it was better: All right! said Bayard. Well try Oh, I know it, Mrs. Chlvvls, but I j lost my position last night. Yes! I that next week." played the principal part and killed It, I Daphne was not told what all this and now Im not going on the stage t.ay talk was about, but ahe made a fair more , gueea, though the pretended not to. to-d- , . I 1 passion. But the world seemed to he full of every other trouble except work. Even had slie been skilled,- - as she was not, it would have availed her little, since skilled laborers were being turned off by the thousands. And unskilled laborers were being turned off by the tens of thousands. Clay had saved nothing against the rainy season. He had found his salary too small for his courtship requisites; now that his salary was halved his courtship had to be reduced to the minimum of expense. Bayard and Leila had more money to spend, and they made ambitious voyages. But Daphne and Clay must swelter with toe other millions. Clay denfed himself even the two weeks vacation allotted to him. Bayard took his, however, and carried -- stay-at-hom- e A Question. You must be a woman hater. . . ' , Why?, You've never married. YIiy should a man who lias never married be a woman hater? Wholesome Lesson. . That burglar says be has more spect for (he iatvlbaiThe bad., re- What caused it? The fees be lmd to pay his lawyer and bis bondsman. , . Wanted to Know. Tu, w Why , . hat's kleptomania?., er It, means taking, thing you don't want. Was it kleptomania tile measles?- - some- - ' when I look " ; The Sad Part. You may win a beautiful girl with soft nothings. Well, well! But you can't whisper that .sort of ' stulf to the butcher." ' discouraging'. my-firm- earn-ings.'-- d. ' She told about her faihye and her future and Leila praised her courage and her optimism. They dined cheerfully and Eayard decided that the best preparation for the hard work ahead of him would be an evening of gayety. lie invited his wife and his sister to go with him to the Winter Garden, where the typical Sunday concert of New York was given. When the Chivvises had gone Daphne assailed the task of composing her letter of resignation from Rebens employ. It was not easy to resign with dignity aild the necessary haste, S She sent it off by messenger. It was none too prompt, for Reben had al- ready dictated. a' very polite- - request fqr Daphnes head. ,When he received her letter he recalled his stenographer and dictated a- - substitute for his first letter. In this 'he expressed his regret At learning Daphnes decision to resign ; the former understudy had come Jmck from the road, he said, and would resume her work." He begged Daphne to accept the inclosed check for two, : weeks salary in lien of the usual notice, and hoped that she would believe Jhim faithfully hers. . Daphne felt a proud impulse to return the fifty dollars. She wrote a letter to go with it. She looked again, and saw it was the first money she had ever earned. ' She hated to let it go. .She decided to frame it and keep it to point to in after years as the beginning of. her great fortune. Late ,in the afternoon,, when the western sky was turning into a loom for crimson tapestries almost as rich as her own dreams, she went to her ; brother's apartment. There' the New 'Girl found the 'Old Woman in the throes of finance. Leila had brought her check book and her bank book to her husband. Her affairs were in a knot. He lnughingly offered to help her. She was hurt by his laughter, but not hn'f so deeply as he was by his discovery of her monetary condition. He had established her bank account in a mood of adoration, a precious sacrifice on the altar of love. She had not cherished it, but scattered it heedlessly. And money was peculiarly precious now in the final agonies of the hard times, when only the fittest of the fittest could survive the last tests. Credit was the water cask, and dollars were the hard biscuits of a boatload of survivors from a wreck. Land might be reached if they held J was vital. out, but wonderLeila with at Bayard gazed ing love'and terror. She was both divinity' find devil in his" eyes. He groaned : Are you trying to wreck me? You know how hard Im working nnd how much I need, money- in iny business and how much it means to your future, but you wont stop buying and charging and burning my poor little discharged a stenographer yesterday because we wanted to save her salary of fifteen ' dollars and for heres a check for a pair of shoes " you that cost sixteen. But tell me one thing more before 'Im carted off to Bloomingdqle in a Btraitjacket. Why, in heavens name, why admitting you Just had to have that pitiful little pair of shoes why, when you wrote the check, didnt you subtract it from your balance instead of adding It? I ask you! Oh, did I do that? she asked, lookSo I did I and ing over his shoulder. she put her cheek close to his and giggled. He Bhook his bend in Imbecile Infatuation, and drew her around into his arms. That was what Daphne overheard when the maid let her in. She found Leila resting In Bayard's lap. Bayard did not tell Daphne what his conference with Leila had been. He simply closed the check book and the hank book and said to Leila : I'll send the bank my check for thirty-eigh- t cents and ask 'em to close their account., Theyll be mighty glad n Oh, Bat-terso- -- ' Leila Had Decided That It Was Better for Her Health to Stay at Newport Till the Cooler Weather Came and Her Summer Wardrobe Had Been i Worn Out, - - Charles What was the reasou you quit the club? Arthur Reason enough By the time I bad worked three years to be elected treasurer and finally 'got it, they lmd decided to put, in a casii register. J Leila off to Newport, r where they boarded if expensively. humbly, While they were gone, at, their suggestion, Daphne moved , down,- - into their apartment. , It was large .and beautiful, and, as Clay said, it was not Infested with Chivvises.. ; Prejudiced. Now and then Clay, .quarreled with A dogs a most engaging bruie, deof because her obstinate Daphne He has a heart thats true and warm: termination to ,liave a trade of her But when the kind the dames call yule We almost wish to do him harm. own. Then they made up. And quarreled anew lovers . quarrels, summer Modus Operandi. storms that break the sultry, tension I met yonr friend Spongely this of the air and make peace endurable. ' Bayard came back alone., Leila morning. IIovv did lie strike you? had decided that it was better, foi Said lie'll left bis at home her health to stay at Newport till In bis other trousers. change the cooler weather Icame and her summer wardrobe had been worn out. . Her Preference. So Bayard .joined' the, 'army of He Couldn't you find it agreeable town-tie- d widthe summer, husbands, to knit closer the tics of friendship owers. He went back once . a week between us? on furlough to spend a Newport SabShe Couldn't do It. I'm too busy bath with his wife. He became one knitting socks. of the excursionists. ' There was leisure Too Small. enough' in his office. Toss Why does Flossie look so He insisted on Daphnes keeping Hind? her room in his' rertment; nnd of Bess A Johnny gave her a. diamond evenings ''he' Affixed himself to hei garter and its too small to go round and Clay and" made' their company a her waist. Purple Cow.-".-,- . ? : a crowd. But they welcomed him as a t chaperon of a. sort.', Also, he paid his r SHAKESPEARE. t . way with liberality, except for occasional spasms of retrenchment, when he economized atrociously. He predicted that good times would, never come again. The whole world had gone to pot' and would never come out. Suddenly he changed his tune; suddenly the whisper went about that hard times were ending. , In his bachelor days, when Bayard was growing in commercial stature like a young giant, he had regarded his business with all the warmth of a poet. His office building , was his Acropolis and bis office the peculiar temple of his muse; and her name was I'rofit. He thrilled like a poet to the epic inspiration of a big sale, and he knew a joy akin to the poets, revision of his scansion if he devised a scheme for ,, reducing overhead Me , Te Actor A horse a horse! 6 charge or wastage. kingdom for a Gallery God Machine broke down e again? Bayard, led on by the vision UlJ of riche to be won in Wall Very Comforting. .street, draws all hia saving . ,, "lf money Is leal'y from the bank and begin specThen, by Ueuige!" snlil llupp, It's mi up. Ornette talki-r,ulating in stock. Then at far. Kor It ih'-cia tcllow up.. off Sarajevo rang out the shot that plunged the world into the Tee Her. frightful nightmare of war. Say, you know n troupe of these Bayard was among the first trained Ileus nin't a hud stunt,, said casualties. Read about it in the tin facetious feller. next Installment. "Whiidyit mean, ain't 'a lmd stunt? asked bis friend, the stage- carpenter. "Why, look how Imndy they arv (TO BE CONTINUED.) ' making these long Jumps." ,.f Raining Cats and Doga." In England the male blossoms of the The Plain Truth.,. She Would jou love me any better willows are called cats and dogs" and If I hail a million dollars?. a rainstorm would shnke them off and He Certainly md. strew them on the ground. Hence mme ' I'd, lie thinking so inueli about the million I'd hardly the expression raining cats aud dogs. Hihik of you at all. ! . , ... , b-y hor-r-rs- e llii-ltl- d' ' Old I Do That?" Sh Aked, Looking Over Hia Shoulder. tested, and ahe went, anyway. But she was not suited to the theater, and she retreated with nothing to show for her expedition except her shattered r check for pride and the ' two weeks salary, ' Daphne began anew to hunt for work; work, the thrice blessing that kills time and makes money and tamos flfty-doila- ,