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Show It ville with Mr. and Mr. Willard, disof the start the at was plain right want her to, cussion, tint he didn't her at the needed he because not and office either. She couldnt go to ths otiice anyway, Just then, becauee she was laid up with a cold and dad had a temporary girl In her place. "That cold Is likely to hang on to ysyVyvr 7T o he A Copyright by the Acting In good faith to aid a neighbor, Ilulh Ingralium, in a business way, o IMwarii 1uUerwon, oanh.er of the agency of & life insurance company, la wrongly euspertd by his wife, Julia, of lnfldelltv. Her a tuaa-tlounfits him fur business and he takes a short vacation. On his icfurn Is he deeply wounded by his daughter, Edith, telling him his persunal belongings are In the "bpare room," having been removed from the room which had been his and his wife's bedroom. EaUerson accepts the situation as proof of his wife s belief in his guilt. A business matter brings James MarMariner Into Hatterson's life. iner needs $6,000, with which to push his Invention, an automobile choke, and atterson, after a brief Investigation, decides to go in with him, supplying the money and taking a nart in the Without Informing his management. family, he resigns from the insurance company, devoting hls whole time to A short the pushing of the invention time later he tells hls wife of the he Kite has made. change accepts the fltuatlon. Kdith is made aware of the In the family fortunes by her Change mother tailing her she has derided to with the cook, she and Edith to part do the housework. At Christmas Zbdith'a brother, Edward, comes from college for the holidays With him Is Roger Morgan, whom Edith had known as a child. Her mother asks Edith to leave her present private school and finish her studies at the public high school. It wilt mean a of several hundred dollars, and saving Edith agrees. A talk with Roger Morgan heartens her. She decides to leave school and At herself to become her father's stenographer. He Is hurt, hut her determination is evident. Edith finishes her course and takes the position in her father's office. Mariner shows an Inclination to keep away from the factory. He Is working on another invention." Patterson gives him $500, ending Manner's connection practically with the business. Eatterson becomes acquainted with a man of means. Jak (lorman, who has talked vague ly of pulling money into the business. Clii-cag- n CHAPTER VI Continued li I hope I dont know, she said. he will, of course. Hut Ned, Ill be Sort of relieved If he doesnt. lie nodded, ns If he understood, which was more than the girl did. Oh, dreums are dangerous, I know, h said. Hut youll find were harder-boilethan we were last October. Next morning the quarter hours crept away as if nothing had happened. Kdith and her father sat and looked at each other. Every time they heard a car In the street outside Edith went to the window. JIe wont come now, dad remarked finally, lled already said the same lie told thing a few minutes enrller. me hns was coming In the morning, end the morning's over. It's a vile day, of course. Thnt may have put him ofT. Iiut It wouldn't, If he'd really meant business. Anyhow, I'm going out to lunch. Want to come along? "Oh, I brought mine with me from home, she said. Tin not coming back," he told her, not for quite a while, an how. There are some people I want to see, and I've got to go to the hank. Tut what If he comes! she cried. He wont," her father asserted, but with more assurance, she thought, than he really felt. He gave himself away by adding, I can call up, of course. Ill do thnt; some time around the middle of the afternoon. Still, he hung about a few minutes longer, and It was with a visible Jerk Umt he finally tore himself away. Edith didnt eat more than half her lunch nnd she bolted that In a panic lest Mr. Gorman should come In and catch her at It. Hut she might have fletchorized the whole lunch, for the hours went by nnd nothing happened. Hlie decided slicd stick around for K while. There was nothing to wnit for, really, but she thought she might as well. (She was to decide later that this had been a genuinely prophetic hunch.) Hhe whs telling herself that mother was right that It was a relief to have the possibility of Jake Gorman definitely written off the books when She heard the door open, swung around and saw him standing there. There was no possibility of entertaining a moment's doubt as to who he was. He couldnt he an body else, lie had on tlm biggest, thickest beaver coat she'd ever seen. It seemed to fill the whole otlice. His big square face inhad, at the first blink, a look of jured surprise upon It. ns if ! he were saying to himself, "Is tills all It annoyed her. She decided that hls small, bristling, dark mustache looked ridiculous. It was too small to go with his wide nose, lie looked like some sort of animal ; she couldn't think what. Nobody home? he asked. With great dignity she rose to confront him. "Mr. lattersons gone out," she said. So It seems," lie observed, hut not In a discontented way at all. He was taking her In with evident Interest. to "I told him I was coming around see him today." he went on. "If you are Mr. Gorman," she said, he was expecting ou this morning. 1 am? Well, Oh, yon know who me that's something. You might invite down." to sit or She didn't care what he said before away didn't go he If only did, to do. she had time to think what hereWon't you lie rather warm In with that coat on?" All "Make myself Rt home, eh? me." suits right, that It ui, He took off hls coat and hung the desk, and beside chair a up pulled d i 3 & i U. , ,ri V sat down, iVrI by IIiiirv KitiSill Webster fWNTJ Service) Co. Eobbe-Merrl- SYNOPSIS i HBffi She stole a glume at her wrist watch. The only chance she hail to catch her father would be at Mr. Willard', hut he wouldn't he there yet. She could telephone now and leave a message, of course, but she was afraid unless stie got him on the wire himself, the move would frighten her visitor away. Ills Interest in the business was, she felt, hanging by the merest thread that first glance of hls about the room bud not been lost on her and unless she could deliver him somehow, straight into dad's hands, there wasn't much hope. Just now he was looking at her, his gaw frankly curious. ".Seems to me, he said, that youre a pretty live wire, sister, to be working In a dump like this. Give me the low down on it. Whats the answer? A phrase of her ful tier's turned up, providentially, In her mind. "A tur- nips bigger than an apple seed," she said, but It won't grow into a tree. "Look here, he said, thats pretty good! You ought to write advertising copy for a real business. If you ever want a new boss, give me a look In. IIow about the old man? Any chance that hell come hack tonight?" If you'll wait a minute, she said, Ill see." She pulled up the telephone and called the number of Mr. Willards office. It wus a great big olllee, and there was quite a lot of red tape about It. In order to keep her voice from shaking she had to freeze it as hard ns lee. Is this the Willard Manufacturing I'd like to company?" she asked. speak to Mr. Willard's secretary. . . . Miss Haldwin? . . . Tills is Edith She wasn't looking at Iatterson. Jake Gormun, but she was pleasurably aware that lie suddenly sat up a little. Tm trying to find my father," she went on smoothly. "He spoke of going In to see Mr. Willard this afternoon. He isn't there now, is he?" He wasn't there. Mis Haldwin said, but hed telephoned. Mr. Willard wasn't there now, either. Hed just gone out. Hut she believed that theyd arranged to dine together nt the club. That would he the Union League, wouldnt It?" Edith asked, and the secretary said she thought It would. "AH right," Edith said. Thats all I need to know. Thanks very much. Without taking her hand from the telephone or letting so much as a glauce stray away from It, she called the club nnd asked If her father was She'd hardly He wasn't. there. hoped he would be, hut she left a message that he was to call hls office when he came In. She wns still without a plan for holding Jake captive until he could be delivered Into dad's hands. Hut she felt It must, someAs she looked rather how, be done. helplessly around at him, he spoke. That certainly was one on me, Miss He was looking very Patterson." flushed and uncomfortable, trying to apologize, and not quite knowing how. Hut I don't Site beamed nt him. mind a bit!" she said. "I'm glad you thought I was a live wire, nnd I'm glad you thought I was a regular stenographer. That's what 1 try to he. The assurance didn't make him look nny more comfortable. Slicd spoiled everything by letting him know who she was. She wished as hard ns she'd ever wished anything in her life that site knew how to vamp people. I suppose," he said, "if your father is way down In the Loop nnd on the way to hls club, it Isn't much good my waiting for him out here." Well," she observed demurely, "that depends. Why couldn't she he brazen and flip! Would It do any good if she let her hand hang oxer his side of the desk? Irolmbly not. Wlmt does it depend on?" he asked. Why, on how much of u hurry you're In for one thing." she said. "Well, I'm not lu a hurry. I havent a thing to do." He said It doubtfully, though, as if he couldn't make up hls miiul about something. She wasn't getting away with it. I havent, either," she said desperto 1 w as Just sitting around ately. see if an tiling happened." She'd tried to make it sound Inviting, an audacious hint at possibilities, hut she couldn't blame him for not taking It that way. The shop door opened and Charlie Franklin came In. We're Just closing up. Miss PatterI just thought I'd see son," he said. If you wanted me to stay for anything." Thnt finished ever thing, of course. He'd never survive anything like that. She could have slain Charlie where he stood ! "Not a tiling, site told him with her friendliest sinde. "Im going myself, pretty soon. It was en then that the Idea came to tier, "I'm going dow mown to have dinner vv ft fa, 'n r at the dull. That sal's", 4 Cb it ho. lie said good night and left. Hi re was an awful It WO! ho.'. silence for a m': m w h le Mr. Gorman hung fire, ami by the tone he spoke the was ft " i g so tilt! sit" had to or teeth together. Hut simply dan what he said was, "i've got my car ; Id be right Imre, M,ss Patterson. glad If I could drive you to the club." -Oh that would lie perfectly fine! Hud told me what ft wonderful car you have, ami Id love to have a ride In it. The only trouble is" she almost choked over this, for it was risking everything on one throw "the only trouble Is. Im not supposed to he there till half past six. And that's more than an hour." He was looking at her now a little more as he'd looked when he'd first come in and called her "sister." "Well," he said, "you can't scare me thnt way. If you like to ride, come along nnd I'll show you what the little bus will do!" It was getting scary now, a little like the first dip on a trip In the roller coaster. She was afraid she betrayed that, a little, In the sound of her voice when she said, Oh, thnt'U be great!" and went to get her things. She was That was the doing It all for dad. thing to remember. The Immense size of the cur gave her a thrill, too. It looked, gleaming there In the cold light of the electric street lamp, like the cars heroines Intrusted themselves to In the movies when they were being lured away. was a Her little black vvrlst-bnfamiliar comfort. She clutched It like a talisman. That's what it was, really. ! forward to our next chance for a talk, we when we (an go on front where Roger. left tiff lat time. was a delicious touch of imj hen have pudence In the way he must handed It over with a "Stick that In, .nt?" r ght under Ed's nose, for will him to read It? Ed wouldn't know whar that phrase "from where we left He'd certainly off last time" meant. have been one surprised brother if he could have guessed where they had left oft! It was after taking much thought that she decided on the little private pm ket In her wrist bag as a repository fur the treasure. She didn't take it out very often. She knew It by heart, of course, ami didn't want to wear It out. In the hag It went wherever she did, and was hardly ever out of arm's reach. Other people might scorn her for having left School, for having to go to work In an office, hut Roger was proud of her for having done It. Roger thought she was a brick. Shu heard dad come home, not very late, ami for quite a while she listened to the murmur of his and mother's voice In the sitting room. Then, she heard dad coming upstairs and cu'led to him. "How did It go? she asked. He came straight into her room and sjyt down on the edge of the bed. Why, I don't know," he told her. still enthusiastic, I guess, but hes very wary about getting down to anythin? definite. We'll owe it mostly to you, I think, If we get him. There's no doubt of hls being enthusiastic about you. lie asked more questions about you than ha did about the choke. He said, perfectly frankly, if he hadn't found you In the office this afternoon, he'd have gone away and never come "He So you did a good I don't quite see how you Oh, I didnt do any speak of, she told hint ly. "Im glad If It helps me, though." hack. job, anyhow. managed it." managing to disingenuousthat he liked Jake remained for weeks hanging upon the verge of putting his money into the business; some sort of money, It wasnt, it seemed, his, anyhow exactly. Frequently, he dropped Into the Sometimes he brought Edith a Once he Invited her box of candy. and mother and dad to a show. He had uncounted conferences with dad, some of them coming to a point where it seemed that tomorrow would see the signing of a contract and the real launching of the enterprise upon the grander scale. Rut something always happened to put It off. Pad was getting blue again. He couldn't get the same thrill any more out of going out and selling two dozen chokes to a smnll supply dealer or converting a fioorman In a garage into an enthusiastic, if not disinterested, advocate. It was about this time that they got a maddening sort of letter from Mr. Mariner. It was written from Los shortly after he reached Angeles there. The choke, he calmly told dad, had proved to be no good. It might work well enough In flat country, but in hills It was worse than useless. He'd had to take it oft his car. Even as a selling proposition, he'd found It disappointing. 11a had turned his attention to the vaporizer which, on the trip across the continent, had gone beyond its Inventor's fondest hopes. Edth had laughed at the letter and had spoken of the writer as a poor nut, and dad himself had tried to take 't that way. Hut she could see that it had staggered him rather, lie kept wondering whether it was true that the thing really wouldn't work In the He had no really convincing hills. proofs that it wasn't true. She begun to suspect too. about this time, that there was some sort of drain in the relations between her father and Mr. Willard. When the question arose of Edith's going to Ashe office. Thsre Was no Possibility of Entertaining a Momenti Doubt as to Who He Was. He Couldnt Be Anybody Else. a note from Roger Morgan In It, hidden In a little private pocket. But now, suddenly, It gave her a terrible pang. She wus being unfaithful to Roger! It had She was so tired when Mr. Willard brought her home that, though It was hardly nine o'clock, she went straight to bed. She didn't tell mother a thing. Pad could do thnt when he got home after his talk with Jake. She hadn't been sure until almost the last minute of her drive whether her stratagem would came to anything or not. She'd begun by insinuating as gradually ns she could the idea into Jake's mind of dining with her and her father at the club. Then she'd had to prepare h'm for Mr. Willard. The last step of the campaign she had decided not to divulge to him nt all until she had him safely inside the This was to detach Agatha's club. father from the purty and get him to take her home, leaving dad to work Even with his will on Mr. Gorman. this feature of the program undis closed, she hadnt been a hit sure when they drove up to the ladles entrance to the club that Mr. Gorman wouldn't say good night to her and drive away. However, it had worked, down to the last detail. Yet, she felt awfully fiat about it somehow, as If, after nil, nothing ha happened. Therell been no pulling up at a roadhouse, no turning off on lonely country roads. Jake had stuck to the boulevards ami kept both hands on the wheel, and he had delivered her at the club promptly at half past six. She didn't quite like to admit that she felt defrauded about this. She hadn't wanted to he obliged to struggle with him, furiously; or even to have to plead with him, recall him to hls better self. Had she? Tired as she was when she went to bed, she found she couldn't get o!T She was restless but she to sleep. didnt feel like reading. Even her one It had been the and only ever since she got Roger's one note hadn't worked very well. The note, Just a penciled scrap, had come enclosed In a long letter from Ed. written soon after he'd heard from mother, the, to him. astonishing fact that Eiittl had been studying stenog rapliv for a month nnd had gone to Roger work for dad In the cilice. must have been up In Ed's room while Ed wns writ'iig the leter. and Ed must have told h'm what's slic'd done. And she could fairly see the time o,t -t ..to ful. frowning smile that nmon a b't he wrote as face in his been of Ed's yellow scrap paper that mes sage to her: Pear Edith: You are a brick. I'm letter writer, but Im looking not 1 day-drea- nnd-onl- Edith for weeks with the kind of weather we have around here this time of year," Mr. Willard had said Why dont you suddenly one night. loan her to us for the trip? Well show her a good time for two weeks and bring her back blooming." Mother, after a quick glance at dad, had been noncommittal about lt;didnt see how it would be possible to get her ready on such short notice; her clothes would need a lot of goln over. Hut this, the girl felt, wasnt the reel Issue. She went to bed as soon as the Willards left, aware that something would have to he talked out between her parents. In connection with ths trip, that she couldn't hear. pad told her next morning at breakfast that she could go, but there was a look in his face that mads her feel like saying she didnt want to. She didn't say It, and he didnt act, after that, as though he wished she had. lie saw her off on the train with the Injunction to have the best kind of a good time, and he and Mr. Millard Joked with each other until the train left in a way that ought to have removed the last of her misgivings. She was Only It didn't, somehow. left feeling sort of queer about It. She had a perfectly lovely time ; got over her cold; played golf; danced; had her first experience riding horseback and found it awfully exciting; and reveled In a luxurious bed and a big bathroom all her own, and In never getting up for breakfast until she felt like It. Letters from mother were the worst she got one every two or three days ; always affectionate, rejoicing In the wonderful time her daughter was having, but economical of home news. There wasnt anything to write about, really. She and dad were both well; business was going on Just about as usual; Mr. Gorman hadnt come In yet, but there were still hopes that he would on some basis, at any rate. There wasn't anything she said that made the girls throat ache with sympathy. It was what she didnt say. Ail told, when the two weeks were over, she found herself In a passionate hurry to get home. Their train got in In the middle of the morning, and It surprised her to find dad waiting for her on the platform. He impressed her as looking rather pale, but this was probably because all the people she had been seeing lately were so brown. He told her emphatically when she asked how he was that hed never felt better in hls life. He seemed to be watching the Willards, who had got a little ahead, to make sure they didn't get away. That was funny, because, of course, theyd wait. It struck her as they drove away, leaving the two men behind, that It had really been to see Mr. Willard, rather than herself, that dad had met the train. There was no doubt, though, for whom mother was waiting. She must have been watching for the car, for she opened the front door the minute they stopped, and came flying out to meet them. There was something thrilling In the way she swooped down the steps. Edith was always forgetting how pretty she was. They hugged each other on the sidewalk, stood with their arms around each other, thanking Mrs. Willard while the chauffeur was carrying In the bags, and when they got safely inside they embraced again. The girl felt her eyes getting wet but she didnt care. Then went together, rather aimlessly, Into the sitting room, and now there fell a momentary stiffness. There was nothing In particular to do, yet It seemed silly to sit down In ft couple of chairs, like callers. Mother must have felt It, too, for her voice, when she spoke, the next minute, had sort of a company sound. You're looking beautifully well, she said. No need asking if you had a good time." Tin feeling great," Edith said. And a gorgeous time. Mother, do we have to wait, and lead up to things? I want to know how Its going at the office; what's been happening I had to dad. Hb3 a success in business Hum But at home hes the worst kind of ure. Can t get along with his ;(. jj easily upset . . , attacks of nerves always tired out. All this could easily be avoids & .a t f,iw tonic Man, how ,t peps up appetiuS 1 FELLOWS SkT Doping Out the Tim teacher had lu.n readies tfo story of All B,,ba and the Forty Thieves" to her class of small bon When she reached the end shech the book and proceeded to questiim them regarding the story. Now, can anyone tell me, she said, "vvliat Ali I, aba said when It wanted to open the entrance to the cave?" One child, an ardent promptly replied: most tnteroMing day Info twelve in mosaic, on a example, divid was f.mn puts t g t! e 1, d.o.e teve.tVd pnv.m.qit In Teeth Index to Brain Ur G. et S , .a, ,o,v (, or of a:., tomv at a Hr,v v, ''pros- - s f e c ef p p, t. :i rt an man pa s w w.ak r.:. cr h. J tn..i fur a tutor 1 ! ; t hrain. No Pay? A physician sent a bill to a man who hal called on him for medical advice and received the bill back with the following; "I dont figure I owe you nny ih, ng because I didn't get the mebiino or go on the diet you suggested " , Tribute to Humanity N"1. ng sr kes those who have ng in this world so much as '! o esMni'al goodness and kindliness if huci,.n tinure when you look for It.- - S.r A'f:eJ Ilopkinson. 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