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Show THE NEPHI. UTAH. TIMES-NEW- S. 1 The Thirteenth Commandment CHAPTER XVI Continued. 11 "I'll buy myself a picture of you." Site told of her Innglug for a photo-Kriip- h of him, but (lid not tell him of her need of It as a talisman. lie lunched aloud at tills Incredible way of spending money, till she began suddenly to cry. He had no niiHwcr to that argument except yes. Then she began to laugh. They decided to stop at a photographer's oil the wuy to the train. raphne ran out and cashed Reban's chuck at the grocer's much to the relief of Iteben's bookkeeper, whose books had been held up by the missing five-thir- ty check. Daphne asked for the privilege of taking her father to the train, and Bayard was so busy figuring where to put the cash he had on hand that he conKcntcd to stop at home. They went first to the gallery of a hud photographer whose show-cusdisplayed some strong and veracious portraits ot men. The photographer's prices staggered Daphne and she protected, but be answered dolefully: "I'd give a thousand dollars for oue photograph of my father." That settled It. After Oie Bitting Daphne and her father proceeded to the station. She stopped at the gate because she hud neither a ticket for tho train nor a platform pass from the station master. She watched him dwindling down the long plat form, lie was a mere manikin when he reached his place end waved to her before he vanished through the magic door of the train. She waved to hlra with her handkerchief, and when he was gone tdie burled her ryes In It. Her piuilngs with her father bad marked epochs In her life. She wondered what deMluy would do to her between now ami the nest one. She felt forlorn, afraid for his life on the train, afraid for her soul In the perils ttefore It, and so sorry for Mm and for herself that she could not help boo hoolng a little. Destiny did not keep tier waiting, for while she wns strangling her sobs as best she could she heard a voice over her shoulder. It said : "Aha, gel, at lust I have yon In me power." "Mr. Dunne !" she gasped, as she turned to meet hlc smile with another. "And where Lave you been all this lung e whller "A lot you've cared," be growled. "Did you ever telephone me as you promised you would? No! Were you always out when I telephoned? Yea! Did you let me call on you? Tou did not! When at lust It penetrated my thick hide thnt you wei actually giving me a hint that you didn't want me round and that you had thrown me overboard, neck and crop. I grew very proud. I refuted to call on you again." ahe said, and Tin awfully aor-ry,- " tier voice broke, "Sorry" was a dangerous word for her at that moment, and her sobs were again, when he made a vigorous effort to talk them down. The crowds In the station were too well preoccupied with their own errands to notice a girl crying, and to the gateman farewell tears were no tcxtiry. Ihiane tried the best he could to help her. He was saying: "And now 1 sup-fsii-e I've got to miss my train and my 9. 1 lT1' .7 By t self-evide- hut" "Good-night.- Clay, left alone with Daphne, a caress, but she felt "I'd Clve a Thousand Dollars for On Insulted and she snapped Inat him: your sleep "If you're only walking Photograph of My Father." you'd better walk yourself out of here golf snd all thnt while I take you home and go to bed." in a tail. YotTre far too pretty to be His apology wss Incoherent and she running arotind loose in a mib tike was Indignantly curt with him at the this." d'xir. She went to her room and sat She shof.it tier bend. "Tou mustn't at the window, staring down at the miss your train, Mr. Duane, or your dark swarm of watchers befora the Itolf. I'm Bed to going shout alone, bulletin boards. and I've (rot to get useder to It. I'm She bed told her brother that she did not hf f to starve or sin, because rolng home In the subway, Good-bnd thank you." she had father, a brother, a lover band formally, and to protect er from want Aod Bow She put out ! took It. It was like a soft, sun her father and her brother snd her warmed flower In his palm, and be lover were alt In dire predicament. Clung to It lis warmth seemed to (staggering blindly la a fog of debt droy hr five-thirt- forty-eight- RUPERT HUGHES reach through his blood to his heart and to make It ache. "I must go. Tou can't put me off again 1" he said. "I will take you home!" He turned to call a redcap standing In solemn patience beside two traveling bags and a bristling golf Dag. "Porter, take my things to the parcel room and bring me the check." "I "No," suid Daphne, hastily. mustn't! You mustn't! Iteally! I mean It! Good-hylShe wulked awuy so rapidly that he could not follow her without unseemly haste. She heard him call, sharply: "Porter, never mind the puree! room. Come along to the train." Her success In escaping him was so complete that she rather regretted It. When she reached the apartment she found Ih'IIu almost prostrated from the effects of her altruism and from the fact that Buyard was In one of his tantrums. A special delivery letter had Just come from Dutilh's shop. It said that Mr. Dutilh wus arriving from Purls with his winter models, and since be would have to pay a large sum at the customs house It was regrettubly necessary to beg Mr. Kip to send by return mail a check for the Inclosed bill, whlcb was long past due. And now the briefly adjourned laws of finance were reassembled. Lellu'a short reign was over; her extravagance bad again found her out and demanded punishment. The gown she had bought, and was asked to pay for, had been worn shabby, danced to shreds In Newport liut the bill was as bright as ever. Buyard was so fagged with his weeks of discouragement that he was us Irascible as a veteran of the gout whose tou has been stepped on. when Daphne walked In he was denouncing Ieila In excellent form, lie used Duphne as a further c''ib. "My poor sister sent buck the gown Hut you you bought she bought! more !" Duphne realized how much this would endear her to Leila and she took Immediate flight She found the Chi v vises In a state of tension. Mr. Chi wis was not usually home before half-passix. Ihiphne felt an omen In the way they looked at her when they acknowledged her entrance. She went to her room In a state of foreboding misery She had not paid her board for several weeks. She bad not mentioned the fact to Mrs. Chlvvls. nor Mrs. Chlvvls to her, though the nonpayment of a board bill Is one of truths that landladies the usually discus with freedom, A few titfnutcs later Mrs. Chlvvls tapped on the door, her thimble making a sharp alack. She brought her sewing with Ver and sewed as she said: "May I sit down a moment? Thank you." She kept her eyes on the seam while she talked. "Well. Miss Kin, the war has reached us also at lost My husband lost his position today." "Yes? On, how horrible P Daphne gasped, with double sincerity. "The office was closed unexpectedly by an Involuntary petition In bankruptcy. His salary was not paid last week nor this, and well we don't want to Inconvenience you, "I understand." snld Duphne. "11! give you what I can." She took her poor little wealth from her handbag. She had pnld ten of the fifty to tha photographer as a deposit. She gave Mrs. Chlvvls twenty five dollars, and promised her more. Mrs. Chlvvls was very grateful arid went down the hull, smiling a little over her seam. Clay called thnt evening. TTe wns exhausted with a day of tramping the town, looking for work. He was too weary to talk and he fell asleep twice during one of Mr. Chlvvls commentaries on the probable i fleets of the Imminent enpture of Paris by the Irresistible Germans. The French government had already moved to BorP.ut Clay had read It all deaux and In a dozen different newspaper, snd be passed away. Daphne was restless. Mr. Chlvvls was on her nerves. Oay was not pretty, asleep, sitting with Ms jaw dropped and his hand hanging down, paltns forward, like an ape's. She wns enjoying another of the woe of rnnr-rlar-e without Us privileges. The Chlvvlse began to yswn, and Mr. Chlvvls finally bade the startled -Clay Uirxi evening." She had been brought tip lo lx Ileve that It was for a woman to Md a man the afternoon went la an endless reiteration of dip and write, ttU Then she Joined the home-goin- g panic ind took the crowded subway to Columbus circle. She plodded the treadmill, till at h the end of the sixth duy, her hour ot transcribing names aud addresses from the lists to the wrappers, she curried off a cash reward of eight dollars. This was not clear gain. Her street car fures hud totaled sixty cents, her lunches a doilur and a half; she had worn ber costumes at the sleeves and damaged them with a few Ink spot, and her shoes were tuklrg on a shabby nap. It was not encouraging. At Daphne's left elbow was a large, fat girl whose pen rolled off large, fat letters. She talked all the time about nothing of Importance, laughed and fidgeted and asked questions that would htive been Impertinent If they had come from anything but a large, fut head. Her name was Maria Frlblk. She was a Ikihemluu of the second generation; but she was dyed In the wool an with New Yorklshness. She Incessant optimist and kept reminding everybody to "cheer up, golls, the wolsst might be wolsser yet." Daphne's luck did not last long. The receivers found that the percentage of Inquiries following upon the advertising and circularizing cumpulgns was hardly paying the postage. People were either too poor to buy books or too busy with the molten history pouring from the culdroua of Kurope. Yesterday's pnper was ancient history enough. The receivers closed down the business abruptly on a Saturday and Instructed the niunuger to announce Ooprrlf M by Hnspmt a eratbars Suppose her futher's train ran the track or Into another train. off A spread rail, a Mock signal overlooked, a b witch left unlocked, might bring doom upon hU truin as on so many others. She nhivered at the horror of Iter futher's loss. She shivered agala at the thought of what It would mean to her. Suppose the Chlvvtses turned her out Why should they feed her for nothing when their own future was endangered? What could Bayard do for her? or Cloy? There wus Mr. Duane, of course; hut she could not take his money without paying hlra. And In whut cola could Nhe puy htm? She trembled, and the breexe turned glacial. The next morning was another day of the same shoddy pattern. She rose unrefreshed with only her fears renewed. She borrowed the Chlvvlses newapaper and, skipping the horrid advertisement of foreign barbarity and American dismay, turned to the lust pages. The "Situations Wanted' columns were eloquently numerous and the "Help Wunted Female" columns were few ; still, she made a list of such places as there were. She wrote letters to all sorts of people adwho gave newspaper letter-bodresses, and nhe wiit out to call on all sorts of people who gave their street numbers. The letters she wrote were not answered at all. She lost her postage as she hud lost her car fares. It seemed as If the end of the world, or at least the breakup of Its civilization, had arrived without warning and without refuge. x CHAPTER XVII. Daphne had not told Mrs. Chlvvls of her financial plight nor of her father's, nor her brother's. She had simply let the days of payment go past one by one. She saw a chillier glitter la Mrs. Chlvvls' eye and there was a constant restraint upon the conversation for many days. Mr. Chlvvls was at home most of the time now, sitting about in his old clothes to save the others. He and bis wife naturally talked of Daphne. Hortotlmes she overheard their undertones. Each seemed to urge the other to the attack. Finally, one evening Mrs. Chlvvls made so bold as to call on Daphne in her room, and to aay, after much Improvising: "I dislike to speak of It Miss Kip, but well er you see the feet Is The grocer Is sending round If you In the morning for his last week's bill, and If It's not Inconvenient " Daphne felt sick with shame, but she had to confess, "I can't tell you how sorry I am. but I haven't any." "Kcally? That's too badP Mrs. Chlvvls said. She was hardly sorrier for herself thsn for Daphne. She tried to brighten them both with hope. "But you expect no doubt you expect soon to" Tv een looking for for some work to do, but there doesn't seem to be any." "Oh. I seeP said Mrs. Chlvvls. confirmed In her suspicion and reduced to silence. Daphne went on, after swallowing several cobblestones: "P.ut, of course. I've no right to be eating your food and staying on here a a guest And I suppose I'd better give np my room, so that you can take In somebody who con pay." Mrs. Chlvvls was close, but she wa not up to an eviction, and she giispcd. oh, reiilly ! I hardly think I shouldn't like " Her hard voice crackled like an bide snapping c(T the cave In a either of them spring sun; snd quite understood It the hard eyes of lxth thawed; Icors streamed, and they were In each other's arm. Daphne was the better weeper of the Inn, Poor Mrs. Chlvvls could Hot l really lavish even with tears; but li did very well, for her. Immediately they felt years better acquainted old friends all of a sudden. They were laughing foolishly when an apologetic knock on the open l.or Intrndiicfd Mr. Chlvvls, who would tio more heve ftwH the sill than he would bsve broken Into the temple r f Vesta. His name was Chlv- Is, not CIMIna. The surprised eyes of Daphne threw him Into crnfoMon, bit be said: "I've trfen thinking. Miss Kip. that If yon renily want to work and aren't too particular vtnt at ros1e I coti'1 g"t you a place at M.y old office, with thf publishing boue. They turned ine s!T. but the receivers are trying to keep the business going. Not much pay. but something's alwsys better'o nothing." "Anything Is better than nothing." ssld Isphne, "and It might be a beginning." She applied the next day and the firm accepted her, Now Ihiphne was truly a working woman; not a dramatic artist with peculiar hours, but a toiler by the dork. She entered the office of the company numat halfpst elcht punched ber on the time register, snd t to work addressing large envelopes. She wrote and wrote and wrote tM twelve; at one she took j her pea again, and hr prurient innuendo thai tbe book were published In their entirety without exVice has its hypocritical purgation. cunt no lesa than religion. One day, toward the end of her first week, she wua startled to find before her a curd bearing the legend "Duane, Thomas." His address was given, and the facta thut he had bought tbe three-quartmorocco Balzac, the Fielding and Smollett and the levant Court Memoirs. He had not yet taken the bait for the De Maupua-sau- t. er half-leath- er Daphne pondered his card and his taste. She was shaken from her pen- sive mood by the sudden commotion of all th voinen. All eyes had seen the minute and the hour hands In conjunction at XIL Numea were left off in the middle; pens full from poised bunds. Duphne found herself alone. She was glad of the quiet and tbe solitude, while It lasted which was not long, for Gerst came back unexpectedly -- early. nis eye met Daphne's. He started toward ber, and then, seeing that she glunced away, went on to bla desk, He stood there manifestly Irresolute a moment He glanced at Daphne again, at the fire escupes, at the empty room. Then he went to the first of the tables and with lubored carelessness Inspected tbe work of the absentee. He drifted along the aisle toward Duphne, throwing her now and then an Interrogative smile that filled her with a fierce anxlsty. She knew hta reputation. She had seen his vulgur scuffles with some of the girls, had heard hla odious words. She was convinced that he wa about m pay her the horrible compliment ot his attention. Her heart began to flutter with fear and wrath. She felt that If he spoke to her she would scream ; If be put his hand on her shoulder or her chair she would kill him, with a pair of scissors or tbe knife with which she scraped off blots. . . . No, ahe must not kill htm. But ahe would have to strike him on the mouth. But that meant Instant dismissal at the very least He might smash his fist Into her face or ber breast or knock her to the floor with the back of hia hand. She bad seen too much of life recently to cherish longer the pretty myth that the poor are good to the poor. She bad seen how shabby women fared with street car conductors and subway guards. She bad seen her own prestige dwindle aa her clothe lost freshness. But the violence of Gerst' resentment would be a detail. Tbe horror wa the mere thought of his touch. She rose quickly and tried to reach the fire escape. That was the solution to Join the crowd. But Gerst filled the aisle. She sidled past two tables Into the next aisle. He laughed and sidled across to the same aisle. She tried to baaten by. He put hi arraa out and snickered: "What's the rush, glrUe? Nobody hollered "Flrer" Mr. Chlvvls Was at Home Most of th "a-- me psss. please," she mumbled. Time Now, Sitting About In His Old "Walt ta minute, watt ta minute. Clothes to 6av the Others. What 'd you aay If I wa to ast you to his flock that there would be no to go to a abow tanlgbt hub? What'd more work at present Daphne's heart you say?" "Thank you. I have another 1 stopped. Here she wa again, learning again the dreadful significance of couldn't" "S'mother eve, then? Or to a dance, "out of a job" what the theatrical huhr called "at liberty." people "Thank you, I'm afraid I cant" Miss Trtblk looked at Daphne and "Why not? Come on! Why not? noted her gloom. "Say, kid, listen here. Whyn't choo come with me? I 'Ain't I got class enough for you?" "Oh yes, but Please, let me by." can land you a Job at the Lar de tie stared at her, and his hnndi Lucks. Guy name of Golst la the boss and he'll alwsys gimme a job or any twitched, and hla lips. His eyes ran over her face and her bosom a If ah lady friend. He's kind of rough, but were a forbidden text She was trywhat' the dlff? Ills money buys Just told ss much ae anybody's. We better beat ing to remember what Duane bad her about tbe way to quell a man. It over there ahead thla bunch." With difficulty and In all trepiDaphne murmured her hasty thanks dation great she ber old formula. parroted and they left at once. Miss I'rlblk led "Mr. Gerst you don't have to flirt the way to a huge building full of "Panta Makers," "Nightshirt Makers," with roe, I don't expect It and I don't "Wolst Makers," and pnbllshera of ca- tike It so please let me go." He stared at her, trying to underlendar, favors and subscription books. amazing foreign language. She asked for Mr. Gerst. saw him, stand beckoned Mm .over, and balled him Then he sniffed with amused unbelief, dropped his hands, and stood aside. with bravado: Daphne conld hardly believe ber back I here Golst. am, "Well. Misf Ths charm had worked the third to the mines. This 1 Cie friend Kip I want you should give bir a job and time! She darted forward to get away before tbe p II was broken. As she me, too." passed him whether he suddenly Mr. faced Orrsfs Inspection chunked Ihiphne his mind or had only prctend--- d she without visible flinching, though to acquiesce he enveloped her In was uneasy within. Gerst wss a large, that his arms. flamboyant brute with eye She almost swooned In the onset of seemed less to receive light than to send forth vision. He bad an In- fesr and the suffocation of bis embrace. Then she fought him, striking, quisitive and stripping gaze. Hut scrsiftilng, writhing. He crowded Ihiphne must endure it After ran- her acsinst the nearest table and tried he his with eyes, sacking Daphne to reach her lips across ber left elbow. to look "You grunted: pretty good Her utfliing right hand struck me. VlfMo. Ycu can begin Monday." agslnst an Inkwell, recognized It a a "Thanks." said Ihiphne. humbly. "I'm comln', loo," said Miss I'rlblk. weapon of a sort and, clutching It It up and emptied It luto his "All right." said Gerst. "It'a time face. beef did. some of Well tske that yon His satyrlc rr vanished lo a black off you." And he playfully pinched splash. His bands went to his her srm. drenched released, eye Ihiphne, Adroitly evading his pincers. Miss PrtMk led the way out. and Ihiphne dropped the inkwell and fled to the locker-roowhile he stamped about trailed ber oust hie. howling like the blinded Cyclops. tnsn the feared loathed snd Irphne did not stay to tsnnt him nor He stood like a glowering Ihiphne slresi'ly. to demand ber wages. She caoglit a mrnsce In the pnth ahead of her. e glimpse of fscrs at the Monday morning at eight Daphne hat her and windows, bnt hugging repone. for work with the L'Art de coat, she made good her escape. I.nxe Publishing society, pronounced She knew whst she wa escaping by Its own people (who ought t bof rot whst to. froqj, know) "Iir de Locks." (TO B(E CONTINUED.? This firm wss engaged In the pebusiness of grazOn Word Spoils All. culiarly Anglo-Saxoing the censorship ss closely as poswhen a woman begin to be InJot sible. It printed everything thst It vited out a little by nice people her dared to print under the whimsically hosbsnd spoils all by referring to the Toward tsnndres as tbe washerwoman right Puritanic eye of tbe law. the authorities it turned the white out where everybody can bear.- - Ohio side of a bsnnef of culture claiming Slate Journal. to put In the hands of the people the noblest works of foreign gmiss and IfKpoaa'bl. flub "T don't beiw defying any but an Impure mind to g pending find Impurity In Its classic wares. The my virtues." Wife Too couldn't other side of the banner wa purple anyway. It lakes tpilte a number te il tbe customer by every make a parade." toctoa Transcript tie" Wmru ! SAGE TEA DARKENS HAIR TO ANY SHADE Here's an Old time Recipe that A.nybody can Apply. Dont atay Gray! The use of Sage and Sulphur for re Storing faded, gray hair to Its natural color dotes bnck to grandmother' time. She used It to keep her hair beautifully dark, glossy and attractive. 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