Show th N M TA h t inc e at h kUAm mma iba ath alint by RUPERT HUGHES copyright by kiy harper A brothers DAPHNE RESOLVES THAT SHE WILL NO LONGER BE DE PENDENT UPON ANY MAN synopsis clay a young deiv new yorker on oil a visit to lo cleveland meets pretty daphne kip whoso choso broehl brot lir ar lit Is in tile same saino oillie with clay in wall street after it a whIrl whirlwind whid courtship tit they e Y beco become loo engaged clay buys nn air engagement ring bit credit till and returns to now york Da dahline pline agrees to nn nil early marriage and after extracting from tier her lioney worried father what alio regards na its a sufficient sull clent sum built of moll L y for the purpose silo goes to to yc new york with tier mother inot lier to buy tier trolls beau daphnes brother nayarit nay aril lins lifts just Inar married fled and left for europe with ills his brido leila daphne and tier her mother install themselves in IlA yards hat flat Wit uburn Introduce i daphne and tier lier mother mollier to luxurious new york life daphne meets tom dunne duane about town who lio scogna greatly attracted to tier her daphne accidentally discovers that clay ciny Is penniless except for ills salary its ills wit return to new york unexpectedly the thice women set ou olit on oil a shopping lm excursion and the two younger women buy expensive going having them charged to bayard Itu yard CHAPTER VII VI I 1 continued 5 said nid nothing but thought hard bayard was silent lat or the loor loo rheU bell rang and it young sewing mewing girl brought two ivo big boxes from Dif tillis they were so big that there was no concealing them leila made a timid effort to escape with hers but bayard was full of a cheerful curiosity all that honey oil oh its just a a little thing I 1 picked up lip today at Du what Is it a scarf or something give a fellow a loot look at it ile iio began to untie tile the knot sealed scaled across the cord was an envelope with it ft statement bayait tore it free lelia leila snatched at it bilyard bayard laughed nil and lodged dodged tier her leila pursued it was n ghastly game of tag for tier and daphne and tier her mother looked on oil in guilty dread bayard whooping with laughter dashed into ills room and closed the door held it fast while leila pounded and pleaded with him lalni ills laughter wits was quenched sharply there was a silence lie ile opened the door dobir and walked out a sickly pallor at ills lips tile tho statement in ills hand this cant be right honey bayard elayard kip to Du cutilli tilli debtor peach blow matin gown two hundred and seventy flye dollars the price Is ridiculous account thero there lie ho insisted on my illy or opening lening one but bu t I 1 dont want to open a any ny accounts net act I 1 pay my bills in thirty days or discount them for cash I 1 cant pay paa tilts this lit in thirty days every rey really I 1 can see ahead of me la Is laid out III 1 I im sorry lelia faltered you said tile tho times were getting bett better or 1 I thought they were I 1 hoped they were but gone bad again besides I 1 was trying to cheer you up lip to give you yet a happy lioney honeymoon moon and I 1 bought you everything yon saw abroad and it enough I 1 when will you get enough clothes 1 leila had stared incredulous tit nt the calamitous result of her tender impulse to beautify herself in ills eyes then came caino gushing and mile eho run ran to tier lier room and locked the door bayard did not follow tier her lie ITO turned for comfort to ills his mother and daphne plino ile noted tile the other box daphne had not dared to open it bayard ripped tho the envelope fr from in its cord and read bayard kip to dutilh dr parch ment toned gown for miss daphne kip hip two hundred and seventy five dollars 11 ila iia was parchment toned himself ns as lie ho shook the statement tit nt daphne and whispered huskily tills this daphno could not muster any courage silo explained with craven remorse 1 I saw a gown that I 1 I 1 needed there and 1 I 17 I 1 7 ue ile offered ed to let it on your buur account till I 1 could get tile the money cayard was choked with wrath and a terror greater than liera her 1 I go to my and work like a flood nil all day und and I 1 como collie home to find that my wife and my illy sister have run tile mo into debt for five hundred and fifty dollars and the firm the big firm I 1 work for had to extend a note for seven hundred and fifty because wo we meet it itt I 1 ills ika mother tried to stem the tide of bayardi bayards Ka Ba yards rage to turn ills hla wrath with a soft answer 1 I guess its ull all my fault honey the te dresses looked so eo pretty on the girls I 1 urged them hem to take them you ought to see liow itow beautiful they are go put tile the dress on daphne and let your brother see bee how sweet you took look in it sweet I 1 she looks sweet in it I 1 its beautiful band I 1 and that justl justified anything lord what did you make lem cm out of these women I 1 liars kip nudged daphne and will pored go on put the dress on let him see you in it site she spoke with great canniness but daphne pared at tier her with derision and edged away and spoke in a tone as biting ns as cold blue vitriol allut put it on mother 1 do you think id ever wear tho the thing ill III send it ane PAO tomorrow morning at day daybreak brank and ill never take a n thing any man pays for as long as I 1 live bayard retired abber at her over hla film ahall li ym v wont vat taka that any ninn man pays anys for ell eh what hat are you going to live on air she sha answered hlin him grhuly therb are se several million women in ili tills this country earning their own living and im ill going to bu be ono one of them ills comment wits was a barking hall I 1 slie site lugged the box aay away to tier lier room bayard flung filing himself into a chair and listened to the cauldron cauldren caul dron of ills his own hateful thoughts gradually they ceased to bribble and stow stew lie ile could hear now tile lio mulled boat bent of ceijas sorrow orrow ile iio resisted it for a n while sti sneered cored lit at it raged at it and then nt at the cruelty of the world leilas sobs had stopped now and hayard bayard listened for them anxiously perhaps silo sho had died of grief A lasso coined to havo leavo caught him about tile the 8 shoulders hould ers it wilts was dragging him to tile tho door 1 ile iio went there at last and listened lie ile heard n low whimpering unendurably lie ile topped tapped on tile door and called through it lelia leila honey love forgive mo me ive keen eon r the little gown its beautiful you shall have it imd and a dozen like it forgive me and love me again and ill buy you anything you want please Ilea sc please ilease dont keep mo me starting standing outside your do dour or honey I 1 leila love covol 1 tha door lie mil tinelL through to take refu refuge go with his film lot leila in A moment later the doorbell rang daphne checked the mald maid whose cars lind had been fascinatingly entertained and told her that if tho the caller were sir air linburn minburn lie ho was to wait outside in tile hall it was Wini wimburn burn and daphne went out to him lie ITO greeted tier with the zest of a young lover daphne gave him it 11 cold check t to a lols kiss unit and then putting pulling tier lier engagement ring front from tier lier finger placed it lit in ills hand what this daphne he stuttered its your ring lin im giving it back the engagement Is oft off indefinitely for heavens hen vens sake why what have I 1 done nothing neither have I 1 but im going to do something what tire you going to do daphne 1 I dont know but something dont you ovo ove me inc any ir ore just oa as much as over more than ever and ill prove it too provo prove it by putting tho the ring bad back on never send sena it back and save your money what im going to do with alint ive bought bougal kiss me good night and go please silo she left him outside tin and closed tile tho door ns its lovingly ns As she could valle odny waited for the elevator to conio como up and take illin him down lie stared at the ring with cheeps eyes tossed ic and caught it awkwardly and laughed and utmost almost saoko ills thought aloud funny tiling thing I 1 paid for it yet got an insulting letter from tile tho jeweler too this very afternoon but dahline was thumbing tho the telephone book to solo if she ehe could find tom duanes number CHAPTER VI VIII 11 she failed to run duano duane to earth in tile tho telephone book silo she was at a loss for another source of directions slid she was new to new york and did not know how flow to set out on such a pursuit sho she went to tier her room and found tier her mother there dismally engaged in writing n letter to tier futher fat lier breaking to him film tile the dreadful news that tile tho trousseau wits was to cost far moro more for far less esa she bhe was asking for extra money at once daphne walled bitterly and stilt rub it out and do it over again iun lu aroma mina thero there aint goin coln to ile be no trousseau tron Escau no wedding bells for me sirs airs rip kip rolled large eyes lit in daphnes n as direction and looked deaf daphne held out tier lier denuded engagement nn hit get in oroff that she and clay ciny were def rothell bood grac gracious loual I 1 was mrs airs kips comment why on earth did you because im too expensive for him what are you going to do dogo go back to cleveland and tell everybody that youre youra not going colget married after nil al tills ills trouble wo no im not going buck back to clove land mill and I 1 nm am going to go get t married but later inter much later inter 1 I hato conundrums thild mrs airm KIP ll ketter etter tell me tho answer for I 1 wont guess what want are you going to day do im ill going to lend lead a hand sald said Dri daphne plim ado do my share let a job mid and earn my board and 01 I 1 I leaven help us youve rone gone crazy 1 mrs airs KIP exclaimed you get to bed and ind fed better lit in tho the morning ill my illy letter sit she added unbeknownst to daphne it postscript us its long us the letter con tilt till silo luid hall just written nid urging tier husband to come enst list it it t once and chargo charge of lila its unruly daughter site dropped it in the ginnif inell chute and it foil fell into a bot bottomless pit alti caloni with tier other hopes hopeni daphne tind tier lier mother were uneasy tit nt tile prospect ot of the breakfast cn counter with the lie couple there lind hall been a sense of the birst ni ornIng kut but now a bitter quarrel qui irrel lind had intervened that first ugly guarro when lian the wedge of innico Is 19 driven between united hearts bayard and lelia leila however arrived nt at tile table nil smiles more timorous than ever leila wore a triumphant biffle such ng as delilah roust must have worn till alio second billic silo went out walking with tier big beau it was plain to tile eyes of mrs kip hip and daphno daphne that lolla leila lind had emerged emerge front from the quarrel with all tile loot till and aggravated power site had taken of lier her hus bus bands trust and abused ills genc generosity rosity recklessly with no more evil motive indeed than the wish to beautify herself lit in ills his honor bonor and yet with rock reek I 1 less e s n nusa es s it wits not altogether lelias leilas fault if tile the lesson she learned perhaps unconsciously from the combat was something like tills 1 I run ran my lily husband into debt without consult consulting lilg him ills listless lovo love woke from its torpor and enchanted toe mo with a first class demonstration of its energy he stormed I 1 wept thrillingly ile he apologized bogged begged 0 to o lc be permitted to bring tile me some more nice ackt lit K it f e I 1 X fv k she went to her room and found her mother there dismally engaged in writing a letter to her father things lings ti ergo when home life grows gros dull I 1 can always stir up lip tile fire liy by buying something we cant airone when I 1 want anything I 1 must get it I 1 shall bo be scolded then lien kissed all treated with awe it if I 1 bought it I 1 have had it nor tile the hollus bonus that goes with it if we tre hall had not quarreled we a should have missed tile the rapture of making up lip tills Is ono one of the first lessons cp that certain sorts of husbands teach to certain sorts sorta of wives when the man of the house had departed tor or ills his balce and tile waiter had carried off on the breakfast kelleg rell cis the three women were left bonc in a completely feminine conclave 0 ot Y faced life like three bornst borns the old mother tire hie new wife and tile the deferred defer reil wife each front from tier her cojan of tage tile two married women turned on ell tile lie ronld mald with common resent resentment men they I 1 hey were married nil and dependent ind and mile blie had tier independence iahey were torlea tories and site at a whig it was their privilege to rail tit at things as they were hut but it was their religion to frown on changing them mrs airs kip senior spoke for mrs kip junior now daphne tell us what Is tills new foolishness all about daphne answered stoutly its rot not foolishness its file first glimmer of sense ive ever had im sick of the idea of always living on the mercy of some man taking lila ills charity or his fits ex ive always been a drag on poor daddy and I 1 was getting ready to shift my illy weight over to poor clotys clans back but I 1 dont think IL ought to be dependent on oil a man I 1 think slid she ought to benr bear tier her share of 0 the burden As if the site 1 mrs kip broke out u at ai it tile home just na its much imbor us as tho the leila her front from another direction vor goodness sake daphne dont lo 10 if your hiir lead head dont you ou imagine for it moment that it husband bijl all be and 00 love oo ills difo better ter IW silo alic arns waseil bagci tito arder ion work ar men tho the bettor better ahny somebody homebody else tito tho harder a inina aavo mavo works for you tile ho better belli i lio ito you host best ot of nil lie ho love lous 4 tile the biou that altot tries to break him Ma philes answer was as A n snappy mappy 1 I dont believe ili it I 1 id despise a unit felt that aliat avay iii 01 s the thred thieo women wrangled with etli ak 1190 sas K and modern instances unit div ui y were lit in a perilous state of oc its when file lie liot io rang leila iiii it and tier lier out cilos ot of indig ablian alarmed mrs airs kip KII daphine till they learned tile lio cause bayard hud had called up tip to bay that file lie luti luncheon cheon party must bo be postponed outrageous business si hall ignado enoth or cr insidious attack on oil love lou bellit cuine crime front froin tile telephone in it state of mitigated by the lio pik that eliut bayard hall asked tier bior to take lily ills another and daphne shopping wid buy thein and herself something aillo na its tin atonement for ills abandonment so they set forth again on another conot against the ramparts of beauty to tile eilent horror of daphne and tier mother ollier ni leila aris ans persuaded to buy a new cont coat and a new lint hat and to tiny an for them by the alio convenience of if opening two now new accounts at the suggestion of two soupy sale salesmen sillen ilay ha aids surrender after jils its first battle find already accomplished the expect aide able result B acri everything very thing was vai tho the very latest thing and yet was ns marked down hut but doph no priced pi iced things now with etli a now soul silo wits was lit in the terms of find and toll silo ablio was going to earn fifty thousand a year icar some day but she supposed that hat tit at first she would earn very little avo dollars it n week perhaps for the first time tit in tier lir existence site she vividly understood how all these fairy tissues were tho the products of tillman human I 1 labor abor |