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Show THE RESIFA ICYIES © KATHLEEN NORRIS-WNU SYNOPSIS 21, g loses blue-eyed, her job reddish- in New York useful but unwelcome sugher boss. Typically feminine, s that time to show her "‘new'"' ich she bought at a second, to her cousin, Cecilia Moore. "we revives memories of a boy ) met the previous summer-a Gis first as P name, Peter. *\iiting all At for she remem- home her, are that her eve- mother; brother, and Angela, her crip. Joe, too, has lost his job. lle. We ze a terrible Their ready winter; ‘there's vorse off than ourselves," Ti sarscadden said, vaguely NEygng. mane going to be bad enough "se told his mother, met with his meal. "Sig,a, they never ~ } grieved, darkly, fired you!"' sweet little voice eNTialy. Reed they did, then. He said Ne 0 fresh." __ varscadden was pouring tea ED(irn. - She looked at her daughim tently. re be saucy to the boss,"' she mildly. Filet, this is only Wednesday, uy / there till Saturday,'' Sheila S Ay. ~ te's hard times coming to . Ma? that you don't know the -~ of,"" Joe observed, without p. ou'll get another job, Joe," Sie ia. anxiously. y; sure ae up I will!'"' he answered, with an effort. "‘But it SE qe," he added resentfully, --e Sheila here act as if it 4 Nea joke."' s. 9p : ° a it is," Sheila assured him, ggvas juredlyrelaxed --dulled and the by lazy, food her and Wh and leisure into a pleasant rpor. 8 at her, and her blue7 yim-and-copper beauty blazed --him like a star. There was § Gistain of color in her cheeks ake eyes smoldered with smoky matin? Shadows, the film of silky RLS sprayed once more across -_head. Milp Til get a job, all right," ambled, mollifed. He was wit» Proud of Sheila and even | led, deep in his heart, by the "mie showed. But he was tired, Sobless, young and in love. | ght of Cecilia. --she read his thoughts-in- aie often seemed to do so- nm next words were of Cecilia. Soytame home together, Cecilia "Hi@ of you'll ever know the oxsumes I've known," the mothétiee said, dreamily. guuzoing down to see her, now." _8 to tell her, * Joe Joe?" said, brooding, Uline would I take a steward's su §fruit boat. A swell chance!" tt heavens, what fun!'' Sheila --ed, her eyes dancing. VElv a month," he muttered. 7 ell your expenses, Joe!"' wined it down. I'm going to i. a week, or nothing," he -bbornly. Nit pound a month would be Kee at home," Mrs. Cars- Unused. LM» Carscadden, me dear'r," , pentle voice at the door. A .¢ had wunceremoniously fiett. ‘‘Mrs. Bur'rke-" she an- apologetically. 1 _j20d help the poor soul-and i.88 Me supper!" - exclaimed, the other instantly rising. tlately she was gone, and Joe yi(tPPpeared, too, leaping down5 iB his long legs, to see his ¥ wit and Angela tefully, P0llm finished their cleared sat on the lazily, kitchen chatting, prooly, wewait until I show you my mise, Angela!" AW went to get it. She re: Hlo the kitchen and put it into r's s-the ver hands, and Angela dark smooth beauty of back and forth admir- what I paid for it. Ten didn't!'' he. At the rummage sale at 3. I went in there at noon." ents is " on it-they're init was cheap. But I care about lot, that? I'll bet once." opened the flap, looked at initials. td? K.,"" she read aloud, and ot number Treet. on, 2 ce?'? what on do East you Eighty- suppose it if rich?" 4 79 have everything." wi 8 what I was thinking,"' d, and hesitated again. ‘‘I te @king,'' she pursued, ‘‘that- iere must be something- ‘ig in some girls that makes Mferent trom the others-that 0 out-out of it." is f what?" Angela them. in- everything. Poverty, wis.'' Sheila answered, hard with the "Lots want to know is, what got them of it, what changed things?"' out answered in- Angela "Prayer," stantly. "Oh, prayer I might have known exSheila prayer" say you'd disappointed. Tears stood "But I mean something else than prayer," she explained. ‘"‘There is nothing else but pray- er,"" Angela stated solemnly. "You can't tell me that all the rich women whose pictures are in the society sections there by prayer!"' on Sundays got "Oh, no, Sheila, of course not. But what have they got, after all? How much does the honor and glory of God-" "Oh, for heaven's sake!" Sheila interrupted. And suddenly covering her face with her hands, she was crying. Angela knew these tears. The stormy, brilliant older sister gave way to them laughter, almost if less always wrung ertheless. Presently as readily often. Angela's Sheila as to But they heart, nev- stopped crying as abruptly as she had begun and, straightening up, dried her eyes firmly, sniffed, gulped, and smiled at her sister. "This girl," she said, touching the blue and wiping her forehead. it's hers!" *"‘Mamma, Mrs. Carscadden's brow clouded. of course. "You'll take it back, Sheila,'"' she said. "Listen, Mamma-" Ponderously, Mrs. Carscadden returned from the stove with the new boiling kettle, poured upon the cool ty pot. the hot water tea leaves in the emp- "Save your breath, Sheila," she ‘‘We'll have no stealin' directed. here, thanks be to the glory of God!"' She stirred her tea, took a heartening sip, and pushed the hair from her wet forehead with a great clumsy hand that was like a caricature of Sheila's fine, square, young one.. make cud annything there's "If widowhood light to ye, it'd be seein' a ger'rl in that fix!'"? she muttered. that she perceived Immediately the in sympathy small was there a man, all she has to do is come to dinner. Chicken, clean tablecloth-she has day. If I meet a man I break do I get? I don't his last name!" blow- said, Sheila ing her nose again, looking defiantly at her sister, with a reddened nose and last my him met "I eyes. wet night of vacation, at a barbecue. I There had to leave next morning. morning at the office, exclaimed. have of ever finding him again!" Angela's expression was one of in- suddenly over the remains do it." why doesn't He?" "God could **Well, then, "I walk up a other girl demanded. different street the at day every noon. I look at every boy I see in the I've never seen him." subway. *‘Maybe you do too much,"' Angela ‘‘Maybe suggested unexpectedly. you ought to just-trust." "And then he'd open the door of the kitchen and put his head in?"' "It mightn't-happen that way." *‘How would it happen?"' see couldn't we way some "In Sheila.'""' Angela was very coming, Sheila stared at her: spoke serious. impulsively. ‘‘Well, will you pray about it, An- gela, if I stop?"' "I am praying about it!'' Angela said, her cheeks red. ‘"‘What, now?"' And I'm remember"Right now. ing,'' said Angela, ‘‘that without this kitchen door opening-without anyone coming in-it could begin."' "It's one minThere was a pause. ute to nine,'' Sheila said, then yawning and smiling and stretching, ‘‘and when the clock strikes, I'm going to bed."' The kitchen door did not open; there was no telephone to ring; the the before Yet, still. was radio clock struck, the beginning of the the and them, upon was miracle current of Sheila Carscadden's life Long afterhad changed forever. she was to look back upon ward, this quiet evening with Angela, look back upon the rebellious, copperheaded girl who had been laughing and crying in the chair opposite Angela, and ask herself, if she could call back that too-potent prayer sister, little innocent her from whether she would do so or no. The ticked seconds Angela by. the blue morocco handling was purse. for coat a blue was "There She yawned twelve,' Sheila said. again, made ing. eee Sheila!"* a toward movement Angela ‘‘Look!" said. In her fingers were green bills; she spread them on the table. Two and a ten. ‘"‘Where-what-?" mered, stupefied. Sheila stam- "They were in the purse-right here, in this little inside pocket, fold- ed tight." "They weren't!"' they were." "e eaters day!" Sheila said, sit: ting down again. "Your coat!'"? Angela exclaimed with an e.ultant laugh. "Oh, and everything-Oh, Angela, what luck! Angela, fifty dollars- ; for ten cents!" They were still rejoicing and mar- veling, still spreading and inspecting and handling the money, five minutes later, when their mother : came back. Carscadden looked tired, as indeed she well might; she was pale, her hair und gown disordered, her But her eyes face wet with sweat. shone with the mystic light of the "Prayer," get myself and Angela and were lingering of the meal, appeared air, and reverted problem -again. "‘What's to the moment's that street number there, Angela?"' Angela Sheila you work, consulted the where Sheila?"' *‘No, ma'am,'' Sheila answered respectfully, but with bitterness in her tone. "It's way up on the East Side."' "But you cud get up there tomorrow, dear?"' "Sheila was silent for a full minute, during which she looked down at her purse. own her more generous figure, ‘"‘Me mamma and papa is dead, and I wor'rks for a lady that bates me," she said, in the soft, pathetic accents reluctantly purse, read out the number. "Is that annywheres near fingers, twisting of County Mayo. "I found the little purse, and sure I t'ought at fir'rst I cud pay me doctor's bills wit' it. But thin I rimimbered that there'd be no blessin' whatsoiver on that-"' The appreciative laughter of Joe and Angela interrupted the pitiful story. Even Mrs _ Carscadden laughed. But immediately her face sobered into a sort of scandalized pride in this prodigy who was her child, her rebellious daughter. the CHAPTER III "Listen, Mamma, I bought this!" she burst out presently. *"‘Now, that's no way to talk, Sheila,"' her mother murmured, unruffled. "But Mamma, I bought it. If a ‘*You're not goin' there like that?'' *T am, too!'' "They'll give you another fifty, you big liar,'' Joe grinned. ‘"‘No, but honestly, do you see how girl is such a fool that she gives they can help handing it all back away a purse with money in it, to me?'' Sheila asked complacently. doesn't she give away the money as "Oh, Mrs. Carscadden, dear'r,'' she well as the purse? Doesn't she, parodied, sitting down at the table, and fixing her mother with tragic Ma?" "‘Doesn't she?'' Angela echoed ea- young eyes, ‘‘it's a har'rd winter on gerly. the poor'r-it is, indade. Me man "That's the devil timptin' ye," has been home it's t'ree weeks now, Mrs. Carscadden said, inflexibly, but wit' his fut swelled up the size of a gently, as to a persistent child. gourd, and me bad luck is that an‘"‘That's no way to talk." other little one is comin'-' ‘It's a perfectly sensible way to "T'll take you over my knee, and talk,' Sheila muttered, under her learn you a little more, since you know all that,'' Mrs. Carscadden breath. It's said with outraged dignity. But her "No, dear, it's her money. mouth, twitched. not yours." And as her only further comment "Mamma, how many people do after a general inspection of Sheila's you suppose would take it back?'"' costume was a reluctantly admiring This kind of sophistry got nowhere ‘*You're a holy terror, and I wouldn't with Mrs. Carscadden. She had nevwonder did the police take you up!" er read a book of philosophy or theology, but she was sure of her Sheila was free to escape, with one more burst of laughter, into the winground here. "That has nothing to do with it, lovey."' ‘"‘Mamma, listen. They're probably rich people-this came from Tiffany's. She's forgotten dred times.'' Silence. 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The vapor that arises while the zinc melts will remove soot from the chimney, adventure. descended not interested in the girl who slipped imploringly, pale to by them so unobtrusively-and once in the street she aroused no interest at all She took a downtown train, and like this!' ‘"‘Mother,'' her She shut, waste it, honest I won't. There was a coat at the rummage today that would save money.-I'd wear it two years, I'd wear it three years-'"' The mother did not speak. She looked up from her tea, looked down again. ‘‘No wonder we're poor!"' Sheila said angrily, "‘if we can throw mon- ey away ter streets, tion before opened, reopened adding: oo 4X G in the bedroom red, and looked young and pathetic. She wore an old black dress of Angela's that was scanty and tight on Angela answered instantly. > I'll be door. Or rather, someone appeared who must be Sheila, but who was not instantly identified even by her mother, brother and sister. She had strained her hair back from her always rather pale face, which was devoid of powder or lip cou- spoke she But distress. and "I'll dinner, when Joe Mrs. Carscadden rageously. [ATTERN On the morning after the eventful day of the lost jobs and the discovered money, they all breakfasted together, and once again Sheila returned to the attack. "Listen, Ma, supposing I go to this Eighty-eighth Street place, say, Saturday afternoon. It'll be my last are seven million people in this city; thousand hundred five are there A swell chance I women working. finite UTAH ""Because, look here, Sheila," Joe reasoned, ‘‘suppose it had been a diamond ring?" "Well, it isn't, Joe." *‘No, I know it isn't. But suppose it had been a diamond ring in that same little pocket, what then?" "I'd think lucky her that had a diamond to lose!"" Sheila persisted stubbornly. But she was beaten, and she knew it. ‘It makes me cry, thinking of my blue coat!" she said. *‘Let me buy your coat for you." "You, Joe!'' She kissed the rough hard young face. ‘You that have lost your job, and want to marry Cecilia!'"? she mourned, rubbing her cheek against his. "Celie's been crying, too," he said, in his good-humored patient way. "It's your turn, Ma." "There was weeks I fed the lot of ye on syrup and oatmale,"' Mrs. Carscadden observed, unalarmed. "I guess the bad times won't come to that." "‘Why, no, because we have each other!"" Angela exclaimed, in her soft, ecstatic voice, up-well, you wait!"' Her eyes were dancing. "T'll fix 'em. I'll bet I get my blue coat!"' she said. "Sheila, how?'' Angela demanded, eagerly. But Sheila would only laugh, and made no answer. That evening, immediately after timidly. *"Peter-what?"' "No, dear. He'd never intind annyone should have stolen goods." "Stolen!'' Sheila said hotly, and was still. Joe came in; they consulted Joe. And Joe said of course the fifty had to go back. Sheila sat on the arm of his chair, and wept, but she knew there was no gainsaying Joe's decision. They were all "said" by Joe; even Neely and Marg' ret, married and gone, still came back some. times to ask advice of wise, gentle, clever Joe. denly asked, Angela Peter?'' *‘You mean MOAB, free after one. And supposing that some butler or somebody won't let me in to see this ‘‘G. C. K.,'? whoever she is, and suppose they're nasty to me. Then am I to hand it over to somebody: who'll pocket it themselves?'"' "It'd be no sin on your soul if they did,"" Mrs. Carscadden answered readily. "Tl tell you what!" Sheila sud- If every year. in the country she meets ask him to ice cream, "em every like, what even know heavily *"‘Now maybe they'll make a little fuss over their ger'rls. Light the kettle there, Sheila-I've been weak for a cup of tay this hour gone."' The girls spread their treasure before her amazed eyes; her look tightened. "It's well you have their street number there, that you can take it back to them and not I'ave anny of the rummage sale ger'rls forget to retur'rn it,'' she observed instantly. tears, three rich and thick from girl probably spends months priestess who has been officiating at the oldest of earth's mysteries. "Well, the Bur-rkes've got their boy!"' she observed, sitting down a voice in speaking and purse made "this Mrs. asked ' + Kathleen Norris of the women who are rich today were poor once; they were office girls once," she explained. "What I twenties initials at's why contained in her laughing eyes. CHAPTER I Y, Wet"? Joe exclaimed. rd jlooked up, with her ig noise. 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