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Show Thursday, June 8, 1933 J THE :Oh Cunthicz f NORMA Jj KNIGHTJ TIMES-NEW- "Miss Nona," he began coaxlngly, "I've btjen your guest now for weeks and weeks. From this day forward I'm going to pay a little something an absurdly Inadequate something toward the expense I've been putting you to. You're not to refuse please, dear Miss Nona I Because If you do I'll have to move to some smelly boarding house or uncomfortable hotel, and wish I was back with you" Her soft brown eyes filled. "Geoff, you mustn't! Your mother's son " He took out his own handkerchief and touched it to her eyes. "You can give It to cluirlty If you like; or throw It Into the waste-baskeor buy some more tulip bulbs for those long beds under the .windows anything, Just so you let me feel I'm paying a little something for all you do for me!" He tucked the paper Into her hand, closed her fingers over it and smiled at her. When Marguerite came to announce dinner, he stood aside to allow her and Cynthia to pass. As she went through the door, the girl raised her lashes and gave him one brief glance. All his boyish triumph evaporated under the force of that gaze. He tossed for hours after be had gone to bed, remembering it There had been neither reproach nor anger In It, but something strangely like despair. Until long after midnight he lay .hating himself for the unfairness of his action. To be sure, Cynthia herself had been unfair about these checks. She was robbing the family purse to stave off some sort of crisis In her shop. It was his absolute duty to turn over his board money to the mistress of the house. Nevertheless Geoff was haunted by a pair of desperate eyes in a small brown face ; a little figure that drooped forlornly all through the meal ; a low, rather husky voice that carefully avoided addressing him unless It was absolutely necessary ! t; CHAPTER III Continued When Cary presently lost his Job again, Ueoir threw himself heartily Into a conspiracy of alienee against Cynthia; helped the boy find another position and smiled with triumph when Cary made airy announcement of the change. , Cary was his devoted friend, the Captain liked him heartily, Mies. Nona made no secret of her affec-.tlofor him, Marguerite showed her back teeth In a vast grin when Geoff .tipped her lavishly. Only Tenny held aloof. ' It surprised Geoff to find how the child adored Miss Nona gave her the Cynthia. tenderest care. Captain Cary was never too busy to take her on bis lap and read to her. . Cary played with her almost as though he were her own age. She accepted Geoffs own overtures with shy pleasure. But it was to Cynthia that she gave n whole-heartedl- her y love. Cynthia never petted her, seldom played with her or told her stories. She held Tenny to a strict accounting of her day. Had she hung up her own nightgown and aired her bed? Had she taken her cod liver oil after each meal? Tenny would nod In passionate assent to these questions. She hung about the gate in the evening, straining her eyes in the dusk for the first sight of Cynthia. When the slender figure appeared, walking somewhat wearily these autumn nights, the child would slip a hand In the older girl's and stick to her like a little burr till bedtime came. "Come here, Tenny," GeofT said Onp PVPnlrtfr )i nl fli'ntf nut 1,1a hnnrl her. "Your face has looked like Httle thundercloud all evening. What's the matter?" Shp. came not unwillingly, but with no lightening of the gloom which enveloped her. "I don't like Cynthia to work so hard," she said. "Her head ached this morning I know It did! And now she's telephoned she can't get home before I go to bed." "It's a shame, darling," Miss Nona said. "I'm worrying about Cynthia, too. She's working far too hard." "Stuff and nonsense her running that shop at all," the Captain said testily. "You should put your foot down, Nona " Miss Nona shook her head. "You know I can't do anything with her. Father! We've both talked to her did it do one bit of good?" She sighed and laid down her sewing. "Isn't it odd how dull the house seems without her?" Geoff, rather to his own surprise, was experiencing the same sensation. It must be, he mused, that he missed his daily tilts with Cynthia. They quarreled more and more frequently lately, as Geoff became a more intimate part of the family life, and as Cynthia's weariness often expressed Itself In tart speech. The Carys were like no other family Geoff had ever known. Reserve was 8 quality unknown to them. They discussed their most private affairs as cheerfully before Geoff as though he were one of them. To be sure, they often took for granted facts he did not know and thus confused both him and themselves In a discussion. Only Cynthia guarded her own affairs from discussion. Geoff was alternately amused and Irritated by the manner In which a flash of her blue eyes put a stop to any conversation which touched upon her earlier life. "Sometimes," he Informed her, "I think you must have a past, you're 6o secretive." The long lashes lifted and she flung him a glance. "Oh, I havel I have a husband and seven children In Phoenix, Ariz., and I'm so afraid you'll find It out 1" "It would make no difference," he assured her affably. "I have no Intention whutever of falling In love with you." The blue eyes lingered on him "I wonder It speculatively. would be an interesting experiment In emotional power but no I I'm too busy to bother with you Just now. Later, perhaps." "Go as tar as you like," he said. "The fairest maidens of New York have tried and failed. But perhaps a little Colorado desperado " "rn mn second thought I don't think bother with you. If I failed It would be a terrible blow to my vanity, and If I succeeded. Miss Nona would be "Meaning you'd turn me down?" Fie She nodded composedly. laughed, but he wns a little piqued for all that. The only son of John Knsloe, filmed for an important po- - Tj ... heart-broken- r't' -i In ." fithor' firm, pxtoemtxl tonied to an Indifference so obviously genuine that he could not regard It as assumed for the purpose of Interesting him. A few days later Miss Nona spoke to him again about Cynthia's overworking. "Won't you talk to her about It, Geoff? I'm sure she'll listen to you 1" "My dear Miss Nona, she's less likely to listen to me than to anyone In Denver. Haven't you noticed that I'm unpopular with your daughter, to say the least? I'm the only son of my mother, and life Is still sweet to me! I'd do a lot for you. Miss Nona dear, but to put my head In Cynthia's Jaws Is a Job for a braver man than L" Having taken this determined position It was a little disconcerting to find himself approaching Cynthia on the subject after all. He did it on impulse one of the impulses over which his mother raised her eyebrows. Cynthia had come home late to dinner, more than ordinarily tired. "Does your head ache again, Cynthia?" asked Tenny pityingly. "A little, Tenny." She and the little girl were alone In the dining room, the others having finished the meal before Cynthia came. Geoff, returning for the cigarette lighter he had left on the table, suddenly flared Into angry speech. "You're a fool to work yourself to death like this You worry your mother, you're hurting your health what do you gain by it? What does It matter whether your silly shop does ten cents' more or less business in a day's time? If it was necessary for you to work like this" Geoff heard his own voice speaking hotly "I wouldn't say a word. But merely for a whim to satisfy some idiotic idea of 1 She lifted the coffee cup to her lips and swallowed the last drops of the hot fluid. "Is that what you think I do It for?" "What else?" She shrugged her shoulders. "Oh, excitement, perhaps change ; or mightn't It be that I want a more useful life than baking a cake now and then, and helping Miss Nona arrange the flowers?" He moved impatiently. She was treating him with the same tolerance she gave Cary and Tenny, he So far as she was conthought. cerned he was Just one more friend of Miss Nona whom she was obliged to treat with civility. He admitted presently that he appeared to have a talent for presenting himself in the midst of domestic disagreements, a fact which probably contributed to Cynthia's bored disapproval of him. He came down stairs one evening in time to hear her say to her mother: "Mr. Montague's check was made out to me, Miss Nona You shouldn't have cashed It." "Darling, I put 'by N. C. Aylesbury' on it as plain as anything; and Tenny really needed some new clothes !" There was a pregnant silence within the room. Geoff dared neither to enter nor to go back up the polished stairs. Then Cynthia spoke. "All right, honey. It upsets my plans terribly, but it can't be helped now. Only promise me that next month " I'm truly "Cynthia, of course! sorry, dear, If you wanted the money for the shop, but after all, we have to consider Tenny first, don't we?" At that Geoff went back to bis room, making no effort to soften the sound of his footsteps. Was there no limit to Cynthia's rapacity? He wondered If the girl had got herself into some sort of financial tangle and in desperation was trying to buy her way out. Geoff's own board was due the next day. He told himself that it was concern for Miss Nona that dictated It, but In reality it was a desire to force Cynthia's hand, to shatter her maddening indifference toward him. He wrote out the usual check for sixty dollars and after dinner approached Miss Nona, smiling at her He saw Cynthia's ingratiatingly. quick glance go to the slip of paper In his hand, saw her Involuntary gesture of protest, but he Ignored both. 1 .CHAPTER IV Odds and Ends. had never GEOFF shop though visited the he knew, of course, where it was. When he happened to find himself in its neighborhood during his lunch hour one day, he yielded to an Impulse of NEPIU, UTAH S. busy with a certain mornlnf when he had told at the breakfast table of bis unavailing aearcb for this particular book. Why had Cynthia not mentioned she had It in the shop? Was it because she relented his disapproval of her business? Or had she Geoff would have liked to he believe this but somehow couldn't had she known where to buy It and done so because he had spokeu of It? Both explanations afforded little satisfaction to the tall young man who stood gripping the volume and staring vacantly at Cynthia's clerk. He came out of bis trance presently, restored the book to Its place and went forward resignedly to Justify his presence by a purchase. Elsie was busy, he was glad to see; too busy to wait on him. That spoke well for the business of the shop. "Are you always as buny as this?" he asked when she was free to attend to him. She shook her head. "It's the final spurt of the tourist season. People on their way home stop in to buy souvenirs. I'm Just a clerk here. C. C. owns the shop." "c. ar "Cynthia Cary Aylesbury. We used to call her C C. in high school." "You're a schoolmate of hers, then?" "Oh, yes. I even planned to go East to college with her but things happened and I couldn't; and poor Cynthia had to come home herself In her Junior year." "Had to? I thought she came because she was tired of it!" Elsie looked belligerent "Cyn thia never gives things up because she's tired If she did, she'd give this store up in a hurry. The way that girl works " She caught herself up abruptly, realizing how freely she had been discussing her employer with a stranger. "That's all right," Geoff reassured her. "I'm a friend of her mother. Tell me more about the shop, If you don't mind. I'm deep1 ly interested." "Why, you see, Cynthia wanted to do something when she came back from college. So she started the Odds and Ends. She had a little money left her by her father she put 1 all into this shop. At first she did everything herself: had her lunch brought In, went without dinner until after she'd closed up. Then business picked up and pret ty soon she asked me if I wouldn't like to help her. You bet I did, too," said Elsie with convincing simplicity. "There Isn't much I wouldn't do for Cynthia, if it comes to that." "So the shop really pays for itself?" She gave him an odd look. "It has to," she said briefly. "If you e know Cynthia you know It's a proposition with her. She doesn't go into anything lightly." "I should say not!" Geoff declared. "We've got to make enough," she chattered on, "to see us through the dull season that comes between the tourist trade and the Christmas sales. November is a total loss as far as gift shops are concerned." Her eyes traveled to a banjo clock that ticked on the wall. "Cynthia'll be back any minute now, and she'll tell you anything you want to know about the shop." Geoff said guiltily that he couldn't wait; selected a particularly hideous and expensive "desk set" and escaped with 'it before Cynthia's return. His purchase gave him some little trouble before he finally prevailed on a waitress at the cafe where he ate his lunch to accept it. His visit to the shop had cleared up one thing that was beginning to trouble him. A dim idea that the family might be in some manner dependent upon the profits from the Odds and Ends had haunted him for several days. Rut several things contradicted that theory. Every month, for example, Captain Cary slit a certain gray envelope and extracted a check. "Royalties from a little patent of mine," he always said with open pride. Sometimes he handed it to his daughter and bade her buy herself "something pretty" with It; sometimes he tucked it away In his live-or-dl- Geoff Judged "Dish-Faced- " That This Was the Elsie Dunsmore. curiosity and hunted it up. Cynthia, he knew, would not be in. This was her day out at this time. It was a tiny place, little more than a wedge between two more pretentious shops. There was the usual collection of chains, pins, small lacquer trays, candlesticks powder boxes, gift boxes of fine tea, traveling clocks all the ornamental litter with which he was so familiar. But In the rear of the shop was something that interested him : two comfortable chairs were pulled up to a long table on which lay various magazines. A low bookcase overflowed with volumes whose titles brought a look of surprise to Geoff. There was late fiction that was to be expected; but there was also a modest collection of technical books, several of which Geoff had sought for In vain In the book shops. Toward one of these he stretched out his hand eagerly. Fifteen minutes later some one spoke to him. From the fact that she wore no hat and seemed to be entirely at home, Geoff Judged that this was the "dish-faced- " Elsie Dunsmore. "How do you do?" she said pleasantly. "I think you're a stranger to the Odds and Ends. I hope you've found something that Interests you I" "I have Indeed !" He held up the book. "May I ask how you happen to have a book like this in your stock?" "Miss Aylesbury chose it You see, that's why we have these chairs, this case of books ; so that shoppers like yourself may drop In for a few minutes to read and rest. Miss Aylesbury tries to cater to all tastes. You'll see there are books on architecture, on gardening, on mining, on child welfare." Geoff nodded. His thoughts were THE STORY FROM THE OPENING CHAPTER Business taking him to Denver, Geoffrey Ensloe, young chemical engineer, takes up his residence with his mother's girlhood friends. Captain Cary; "Miss Nona' Aylesbury, the captain's widowed daughter; Cary. thoughtless though likable youngster; Itttla Tenny Montague, motherless, who lives wtih the Carys and Cynthia. Geoff finds himself very much "at home," though Cynthia puzzles him. She is. apparently against tha wishes of her family, running a "gift shop," and astonishes Geoff by the suggestion that he pay board money, to her, unknown to her mother. He agrees, though much Cary' specialty seems to bo securing and losing jobs, coupled with financial mystified. t"."fv WHM. l.fnff WmiM pr;t;rtirrt nMtn-- t the rirl wallet Then, too. Miss Nona sometimes carelessly referred to her husband's "estate." That word meant to Geoff the large holdings which had come to his mother and himself from his father. There was no evidence of want In the house where he lived. Miss Nona wore the prettiest of clothes, the food was abundant If somewhat plain, Gary's Indifference to his jobs did not indicate financial stress. But still, Geoff told himself, that might be the explanation of Cynthia's penuriousness. He almost hoped It was. He hated to think of a girl so young being so grasping. But after his talk with Elsie he was more than ever convinced that ambition combined with a stubborn determination to have her own way was the motive back of Cynthia's of Tenny's board appropriation money and his own. "You're a throwback," his mother had told him more than once. "Down in your heart you disapprove of the modern woman, especially the woman In business. Your idea of a woman's whole duty is making herself attractive to her man," Geoff had laughed but he knew that there was some truth in what she said. light-hearte- d PAGE SEVEN Simple Cake Baking Rules Here are some more quest 'ons about cakes (says a recognized expert on the subject). Here Is the letter and here are my answers, which may Interest some of you In spite of the fact that I have told you now and agalt: much about cake: "Because you taught me how to make cream puffs, to my everlasting pride, you may now, If you will, tell me somp other things I don't know. "I make chocolate roll frequently the kind with nothing but eggs, chocolate and sugar but It always sticks to the pan and I have to scoop it out rolling Is out of the question. What should the pan be greased with, and does anyone ever get It out whole? T want to make gingerbread bnt I want to make the kind that Is a little moist and quite flaky not either dry, hard or soggy. Have you a good recipe? I want the kind southern cooks make. It mnkes me sick but It's worth It. "One more thing: I cannot learn to make good butter cake I stick to angel, sponge and the like. Creaming butter bores and tires me and I don't know Just how long to keep It up. Someone told me once Just when butter and sugar are creamed but I forgot My cakes like tea cakes or sweet muffins are always very loose In texture with crisp crusts not firm and evenly grahied. How can I do It? Isn't It wrong to stir a batter? Shouldn't It always be beaten, except when egg whites are folded In? Do help me, because I adore plain cake and cannot make It "This Is primer stuff for mst cooks, I know, but I do want to make some renlly delicious little dough buttons." I find that the kind of pan has much to do with the suceessof a thin layer such as we use for a chocolate or a Jelly-rolIf you have a smooth tin pan, 15 by 10 Inches, which Is kept especially for this pur pose, yon may not find It necessary to line It with paper, but If your pan Is not In good condition, or of dark tin, yon will do well to use greased paper to line it. If you are using a new pan. It must be lined or else "tempered" by greasing slightly and heating before it Is used. A hotter oven than Is used for other sponge cake Is necessary. If you use a double-actiobaking powder Instead of a phosphate or a tartrate powder, less you should use about than Is demanded by the usual recipe. I will answer the third question next, because this thing about baking powders applies to all butter cakes. The only thing I can do Is to give my standard recipe for butter cake, which never fails me. Measurements must of course be made carefully. Butter must be creamed well. If It is to be used, it will soften at room temperature and will cream quite easily. If a little of the beaten egg yolk or whole ejig is added while the susar is being blended, It Is easier to cream it. Cookies may be beaten one or two minutes after mixing, but not too long. I do not think it makes much difference whether the batter is beat en or stirred, if, when either milk or flour is added, alternately, each one l. light-colore- d n one-thir- d Is thoroughly mixed before more of the other Is added. From the description of the crusts on her cakes, which the troubled cook gives, I should say that her oven was probably too hot. I like 37.1 degrees Fahrenheit best for layer cake and cup cakes. Now about gingerbread. There are so many different standards for this cake. I am only giving you my favorite recipes for It and will say that I think they are wonderful ! One Is a "cake" gingerbread which can be served hot as Is, or with butter, or whipped cream, or cream or cottage cheese for a satisfying dessert. The other Is "card" gingerbread which Is a cross between a cookie and a cake. Here Is good luck to the cake maker! Standard Butter Cake. 1 cups cake or pantry flour 3 teaspoons baking-- powder 4 teapoon gait H cop butter or other shortening 1 oup sugar I fWB 4 cop milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Mix sifted flour with baking powder and salt and sift together. Cream buffer thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until fluffy. Beat eggs well and add. Beat 1 minute. Add sifted flour alternately with milk. Add vanilla. Beat after each addition. Fill 2 greased, 9 Inch layer pans or 2 sets of muffin pans. Bake In moderate oven, 375 degrees Fahrenheit, 25 to 30 minutes. 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