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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER the afternoon went In an endless re- iteration of dip and write, till Then she joined the home-g- o ing panic md topk the crowded sub way to Columbus circle. She plodded the treadmill, till at the end of the sixth day, her forty-eight-h hour of transcribing names and addresses from the lists to the wrap pers, she carried off a cash reward of eight dollars. This was not clear gain. Her street car fares had totaled sixty cents, her lunches a doilar and a half ; she had worn her costumes at the sleeves and damaged them with a few ink spots, and her shoes were takirg 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 have been impertinent if they had come from anything but a large, five-thirt- The Thirteenth Commandment I CHAPTER XVI Continued. "'..." Til buy myself a picture of you." She told of her longing for a photograph of him, but did not tell him of her need of it as a talisman. He laughed aloud at this incredible way of spending money, till she began suddenly to cry. He had no answer to that argument except yes. Then she ' began to laugh. They decided to stop ' at a photographer's on the way to the ; . ' 11 .a five-thirt- - train. y Daphne ran out and cashed Reben's .Check at the grocer's much to the of Jteben's bookkeeper, whose books had been held up by the missing ' check. : i asked the for privilege of Daphne taking her father to the train, and Bayard was so busy figuring where to put the cash, be bad on hand that he consented to stop at home. They went first to the gallery of a had photographer whose show-cas- e . displayed some strong and veracious : portraits ot men. The photographer's prices staggered Daphne and she but he answered dolefully: Td give a thousand dollars for one photograph of my father." ' That settled it .'. After the sitting Daphne and her " father proceeded to the station. She stopped at the gate because she bad neither a ticket for the train nor a platform pass from the station master. She watched him dwindling down the long platform. He was a mere manikin when he reached his place and ; waved to her before he vanished through the magic door of the train. She waved to him with her handkerchief, and when he was gone she bur- led her eyes in' It Her partings with her father had marked epochs in her life. She wondered what destiny would do to her between now and the next one. She felt forlorn, afraid for his life on the train, afraid for her soul In the perils before It and so sorry for bim and for herself .that she could not a little: help Destiny did not keep her waiting, J for while she was strangling her sobs as best she could she heard a voice " over her shoulder. It said; ,i "Aha, gel, at last I have you in me ' ' power." ... "Mr. Duane !" she gasped, as she turned to meet hie smile with another. "And where have you been all this long '. : while?" "A lot you've cared," he growled. "Did you ever telephone me as you promised you would? No! ..Were you always out when I telephoned? Yes! You did : Did you let me call on you? not! When at last it penetrated my thick hide that you wen actually giv ing 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 refused to call on you again." she said, and Tm awfully sor-ry. ,' ber voice broke. : "Sorry" was a dangerous word for ;. her at that moment, and her sobs were beginning again, when he made a vlg' s orous 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 luxury.' Duane tried the best he could to help He was saying: '.'And now I sup- . her. ' pose I've got to miss my train and my re-li- ef pro-"teste- d, "... boo-hooi- ' ' ,. . ," : ' . RUPERT HUGHES prurient innuendo thai the books were published In their entirety without ex purgation. Vice has Its hypocritical cant no less than religion. One day, toward the end of her first week, she was startled to find before her a card bearing the legend "Duane, Thomas." His address was given, and the facts that he had bought the three-quartmorocco Balzac, the Fielding and Smollett and the levant Court Memoirs. He had not yet taken the bait for the De Maupas er half-leath- er " sant mm GOOD BUILDINGS FOR SHEEP SF.ould Be Dry, Well Drained, Veil, . . tilated and Furnish Ample Space Daphne pondered his card and his for the Flock. taste. She was shaken from her pensive mood by the sudden commotion reach through his blood to bis heart by the United States Departof all the Tomen. Ail eyes bad seen "Prepared ment Suppose her father's train ran off ot Agriculture.) and to make it ache. the track or into another train. A the minute and the hour hands In con The for permanent buildings for site off "I. must go. You can't put me oft spread rail, a block signal overlooked, left were XIL Names junction at should first of all be dry and in the middle ; pens fell from' poised sheep again!" he said. "I will take you a switch left unlocked, might bring well drained. Ample yard space that home!" He turned to call a redcap doom uoon bis train as on so . many bands. Is dry and sheltered should be availof horror the at She shivered in two others. She solemn beside alone. standing patience Daphne found herself to the main barn or able was glad of the quiet and the solitude, shed. adjacent traveling bags and a bristling golf Dag. her father's loss. She shivered again A southern slope with sandy mean "Porter, take" my things to the parcel at the thought of what it would while It lasted which was not long, soil is especially satisfactory for this ' ' 5 ; room and bring me the check." to her. fat head. . for Gerst came back unexpectedly , purpose. ' ' ' her turned "No," said Daphne, hastily. "I i Suppose the Chi wises; Her name was Maria Pribik. She early, , On most farms it will be advanmustn't! You mustn't! Really! 1 out Why should they feed her.ior was a Bohemian of the second genera- .. His eye met Daphne's! He started tageous to have the buildings and mean it! Good-by!- " nothing when their, own future was tion; but she was dyed in the wool toward her, and then, seeing that she yjfrds easily reached frrm the regular She walked away so rapidly that he endangered?:.-with New Yorkishness. She was an glanced away, went on to bis desk. or from fields used to grow could not follow her without unseemly What could Bayard do for her? or incessant optimist and kept remind- He stood there manifestly Irresolute a pastures forage crops for summer pasture. As haste. She heard him call, sharply: Clay? There was Mr. Duane, of ing everybody to "cheer up, goils, the moment He glanced at Daphne again, the flock requires attention many times Porter, never mind the parcel room. course: but she could not take his woisst might be woisser yet." ..' at the fire escapes, at the empty room. daily during part of the year, conin Come along to the train." money without paying him. And , . luck did not last long. The Then he went to the first of the tables venience of location in relation to the Daphne's Her success in escaping him was so what coin could she pay him? She receivers found that the percentage of and with labored carelessness inspect- farm dwelling and to other buildings complete that she rather regretted It trembled, and the breeze turned gla inquiries following upon the advertis ed the work of the absentee. He drift- will effect an economy of time in the Wheu she reached the apartment she cial. and circularizing campaigns was ed along the aisle toward Daphne, performance of routine labor. The next moraine was another day ing found Leila almost prostrated from the an InterSince sheep do not require quarters paying the postage. hardly People throwing her now and then effects of her'iltruism and from the of the same shoddy pattern. She rose were either too filled with a chat are her smile that rogative to books or poor buy especially warm, a single wall refact that Bayard was in one of his unrefreshed with only her fears too busy with the molten history pour fierce anxiety. will sufficient insure ordinarily tantrums. newed. She borrowed the Chlvvises .. She knew his reputation. She had warmth. If Iambs are dropped In very from the caldrons of Europe. Yes A special delivery letter had just newspaper and, skipping the horrid ing was ancient history seen his vulgar scuffles with some of cold weather, a temporary covering come from Dutllh's shop. It said that advertisements of foreign barbarity terday's paper ; the girls, had heard his odious words. over the lambing panels will provide enough. Mr. Dutilh was arriving from Paris and American dismay, turned to the The receivers closed down the She was convinced that he was about warmth, or a small space can be parwith his winter models, and since he last pages. The "Situations Wanted' business on a Saturday and to pay her the horrible compliment of titioned off in which to keep a few would have to pay a large sum at the columns were eloquently numerous instructedabruptly to announce his attention. ewes until their lambs become strong. the manager customs house it was regrettably nec- and the "Help Wanted Female" col Her heart began to flutter with fear Shade and protection from heat are essary to beg Mr. Kip to sendby re- umns were fey; still, she made a list and wrath. - She felt that if he spoke peculiarly necessary for sheep. Shade turn mall a check for the inclosed bill. of such places as there were. She to her she would scream ; If he put his cannot always be furnished In paswhich was long past due. wrote letters to all sorts of people hand on her shoulder or her chair she tures, and buildings that are well loAnd now the briefly adjourned laws who Eave newspaper letter-bo- x ad would kill him, with a pair of scissors cated and constructed so as to render of finance were reassembled. Leila's dresses, and she went out to call on or the knife with which she scraped them cool in summer will often proshort reign was over ; her extravagance all sorts of people who gave their off blots. No,, she must not kill vide greater comfort to the flieep durhad again found her out and demanded street numbers. him. But she would have to strike ing hot days than would be possible The not an she had wrote were she The letters gown bought, punishment. for them out of doors. him on the mouth. and was asked to pay for, had been swered at all. She lost, her postage as meant Instant dismissal at But that Dryness and freedom from draft are worn shabby, danced to shreds in she had lost her car fares. It seemed least. He might smash his most important. Sheep cannot posthe very was as bill But the or of at end the as the world, least if bright Newport or her breast or sibly thrive in quarters that are damp Into her face fist as ever. ' the breakup of its civilization, had ar knock her to the floor with the back or dark. In fact, the flock should be Bayard was so fagged with his rived without warning and without of his hand. She had seen too much shut in only during storms. Abunweeks of discouragement that he was refuge. of life recently --to cherish longer the dance of light in all parts of the as irascible as a veteran of the gout pretty myth that the poor are good to buildins and at all times is necessary whose toe has been stepped on. when CHAPTER XVII. the poor. She had seen how shabby not only for the health of the sheep, Daphne walked in he was denouncing women fared with street car conduct but for convenience of the shepherd in Leila in excellent form. He used Daphne had not told Mrs. Chiwls One square foot of ors and subway guards.' She had seen caring for them. of her financial plight nor of her fa Daphne as a further c'ub. window for each 20 square feet of floor as own dwindle her her prestige "My poor sister sent back the gown ther's, nor her brother's. She had space is necessary. Windows should clothes lost freshness. she bought! But you you, bought simply let the days' of payment go be placed at a height to insur a good Gerst's resent of violence the But more!" past one by one. She saw a chillier distribution of light, and particularly would a be ment detail. The horror Daphne realized how much this glitter In Mrs. Chivvis' eye and there direct sunlight for the lambing pens was the mere thought of his touch. would endear her to Leila and she was a constant restraint upon the conduring the period the ewes are lamband to rose tried reach She immediate quickly the She found took versation for many days. flight ing. was fire That the solu the escape. Chlvvises in a state of tension. Mr. Mr. Chiwis was at home most of the Close confinement In poorly ven tionto join the crowd. . Chivvls was not, usually home before time now, sitting about in his old to breed- is But Gerst filled the aisle. She sidled tilated pens very Injurious half-pasix. Daphne felt an omen In clothes to save the others. He and his two tables the next into He aisle. the way they looked at her when they wife naturallv talked of DaDhne. past 6 .rf.. laughed and sidled across to the same Sometimes she overheard theh AinJT' acknowledged her. entrance. v aisle. She tried to hasten by. He put She went to ber room, in a state of tones. 'Each seemed to urge the other his arms out and snickered: foreboding misery She had not paid to the attack. Finally, one evening "What's the rush, girlie? Nobody her board for several weeks. She had Mrs. Chivvis made so bold as to call hollered 'Fire!'" not "mentioned the fact to Mrs. Chivvis, on Daphne in her room, and to say, of Most Home the at Was Mr. Chiwis "Let me pass, please," she mumbled. t nor Mrs. Chivvls to her, though the after much improvising: Time Now, Sitting About in His Old "Wait ta minute, wait ta minute. nonpayment of a "board bill is one of "I dislike to speak of It Miss Kip, Clothes to Save the Others. What 'd you say if I was to ast you truths that landladies but well er you see the fact is the The grocer is sending round to his flock that there would be no to go to a show tanight, huh? What'd usually discuss with freedom. if you A few minutes later Mrs. Chi wis in the morning for his last week's bill, more work at present. Daphne's heart you say?" ' -J I w-I have another Thank tapped on the door, her thimble mat and if it's not inconvenient" 4 stopped. Here she was again, learn couldn't." you. but Ins a sharp clack. She brought her with sick felt shame, dreadful significance of Daphne the again ing S'mother eve, then? Or to a dance, sewing with her and sewed as she she had to confess, "I can't tell you "out of a job" what the theatrical huh?" said: "May I sit down a moment? how sorry I am, but I haven't any." ?'at liberty." people called "Thank you, Tm afraid I can't." Thank you." She kept her eyes on the "Really? That's too bad!" Mrs. Miss Pribik looked at Daphne and seam while she talked. was sorrier "Why not? Come on! Why not? hardly Chivvis said; She listen kid, doom. her noted "Say, "Well. Miss Kip. the war has reach for herself than for Daphne. She tried I got class enough for you?" 'Ain't me? come with choo "Oh yes, but ed us also at last. My husband lost to brighten them both with hope. "But here. Whyn't a Please, let me by." can land you job at the Lar de He stared at her, and his hand! his position today." you expect no doubt you expect soon Lucks.' Guy name of Goist is the boss "Yes? Oh, how horrible!'! Daphne twitched, and his lips. His eyes ran Government Sheep Shed at Beltsville and he'll always gimme a job or any over Farm. her face and her bosom as if she gasped, with double sincerity. Tve oeen looking for for some lady friend. He's kind of rough, but text. She-watrya forbidden were "The office was closed unexpectedly work to do, but there doesn't seem to ewes. While they should seldom what's the diff? His money buys just to remember what Duane had told Ing by an involuntary petition in bankrupt- be any." be shut indoors, a part of the flock will much as anybody's. We better beat ing as con man. a week to her about the way quell "Oh. I see!" said Mrs. Chivvis. cy. His salary was not paid last lie inside at night. At lambthere ahead this bunch." we don't want firmed In her suspicions and reduced it over With great difficulty, and in ail trepi- usually nor this, and well and thanks murmured during storms doors should be her hasty Daphne dation she parroted her old formula. ing to inconvenience you, but " to silence. Daphne went on, alter closed. For such times it is necessary Miss Pribik led once. and left at they ' "T understand." cobblestones: said DaDhne. Til swallowing several "Mr. Gerst you don't have to flirt to provide means of securing fresh air way to a huge building full of with me. I don't "But of course. I've no right to be the expect it, and I don't without creating drafts. give you what I can." In a very Makers," "Pants Makers," "Nightshirt so please let me go." She took her poor little wealth from eating your food and staying on here with numerous doors of cal- like it, building large and "Waist Makers," publishers better I'd of I the And suppose as a guest. He stared at her, trying to under- and windows it is often advisable to her handbag. She had paid ten can endars, favors and subscription books. stand her amazing: foreign language. build one or two partitions from floor fifty to the photographer as a deposit give up my room, so that you saw him Mr. asked She for Gerst, dol take in somebody who can pay." Then he sniffed with amused unbelief, to She gave Mrs. Chivvis twenty-fiv- e him ceiling to prevent drafts. Fresh air hailed Mrs. Chivvis was close, but she was beckoned him over, and lars! and promised her more. dropped his hands, and stood aside. d can be admitted through : with bravado she could hardly believe her Mrs. Chivvls was very grateful and not up to an eviction, and ' gasped. Daphne on the side windows back opened am, I Mist' here "Well, Goist, think I The charm had worked the third really ! I hardly went down the hall, smiling a little "Oh, opposite to that from which the wind to the mines. This is me Jriend Kip eyes. ! She darted shouldn't like" . time forward to get away is blowing without causing drafts if over her seam. .' and a want should her I job an you like give crackled Her hard voice He was ?' Clay called that evening. before the spell was broken. As she all oilier sides of the building are a me, too." exhausted with a day of tramping the icicle snapping off the eaves in passed him whether- he . suddenly closed. of them Daphne faced Mr., Gist's Inspection changed his mind or had only pretend- tightly town, looking for work. He was too spring sun ; and before either Level and she without of though "visible flinching, hard eyes ed to acquiesce he enveloped her in floors are satisfactory and ecoweary to talk and he fell asleep twice quite understood it the was uneasy within. Gerst was a large, his arms. durine one of Mr. Chivvls' commen both thawed; tears streamed, and nomical. Sheep pack the surface very flamboyant brute with eyes that She almost swooned in the onset of firmly, and if there is proper drainage taries on the probable effects of the thev were in each other's arms. to than to seemed receive of less light better weeper fear and the suffocation ; of his em- the only objection to this floor Is that Daphne was the Imminent capture of Paris by the irsend forth vision.- - He had an in (jon-wt- e resistible Germans. The French gov the two. Poor Mrs. Chivvis could not auisitive and strlrrolne gaze. But brace. Then she fought him, striking, it does not exclude rats, He crowded rooms feed ernment had already moved to Bor- be really lavish even with tears; but and floors for scratching, writhing.. alleys Daphne must endure It After ran her against the nearest table and tried are But Clay had read It all she did very well, for her. deaux and necessary, but will seldom be better felt sacking Daphne with his eyes, he to reach her lips across her left elbow. called for in the pens. years and they Immediately different newspapers, In a dozen to Her outflung right - hand struck acquainted old friends all of a sud- grunted: "You look pretty good he irassed away. The main features to be provided in were laughing foolishly me, kiddo. You can begin Monday. den. Mr. Chivvis an inkwell, recognized it as a '.he floor plan are minimum of waste They restless. was against Daphne humbly. said Daphne, "Thanks," of a sort, and, clutching it space, convenience and ease in feedwas on her nerves.- Clay was not when an apologetic knock on the open "I'm comln', too," said Miss Pribik. weapon it Mr. Chevvis, who swept up and emptied it into his ing and in cleaning the pens, and elimpretty, asleep, sitting with his jaw door introduced "All right," said Gerst "It's time crossed the sill face. ination of the need of moving or disdropped and his hands hanging uown, would no more have beef that did. of some Well take was than he would have broken Into the you His satyric lerr vanished In a black turbing the sheep. Pen , partitions palms forward, like an ape's. She mar-- temple of Vesta. His name was Chiv- off you." And he playfully pinched splash. 'His hands went to his should be movable. By using feed enjoying another of the woes of her arm. nHvllpCPSIts vis, not Clodius. .lhmif drenched eyes. Daphne, released, racks to make divisions in the pen .1... o 1' Miss liagv niwivui his pincers. Adroitly evading The surprised eyes of Daphne threw the Inkwell and fled to the space the size of the pens can be vaThe Chlvvises began to yawn, and "Pribik led the way out and Daphne dropped : "I've locker-roowhile he stamped about ried as needed, and in special cases Mrs Chivvls finally bade the startled him Into confusion, but he said If you trailed her oustlde. Miss Kip, that been been had thinking, She the blinded Cyclops. the racks can be removed to permit like "Good howling evening." Clay InDaphne loathed and feared the man Daphne did not stay to taunt him nor the use of the spnee for other stock. really want to work and aren't too brought up to believe that it was could get already. He stood like a glowering to demand her wages. She caught a delicate for a woman to bid a man particular what at maybe I e "Oond-nleht.- " you a place at my old office, with the menace in the rVath ahead of her. LIVE . STOCK GAINING FAVOR glimpse of faces at the off. me Monday morning at eight Daphne windows, but, hugging her hat and publishing house. They turned . Clav. left alone with Daphne,, at receivers are trying to keep reported- - for work with the L'Art de coat, she made good her escape. Farmer Who Does Not Raise Animal tempted a drowsy caress, but she felt but the the business going. Not much pay, Luxe Publishing society, pronounced She knew what she was escaping Insulted and she snapped at him : to Supplement Crops Loses to noth by its own people (who ought from, but not what to. "If you're only walking in your sleep but something's always better'n Soil Fertility. know) "Lar de Lucks. (TO- - BE CONTINUED.) . you'd better walk yourself out of here ing." In the firm was than This pe nothing,' is better engaged "Anything and so to bed." More and more Is the tendency toOne Word Spoils All. Anglo-Saxo- n business of graz His apology was incoherent and she said Daphne, "and it might be a begin culiarly livestock raising to supplement ward InJust when a woman begins to be ing the censorship as closely as poswas Indignantly curt with him at the nine." in general farming. The growing crop It nice little a that her the vited and next sible. by It people , put printed everything day door. She went to her room and sat , She applied the who raises crop's, such ns farmer to all the dared to print under the whimsically husband spoils by referring withat the window, staring down at the firm accepted her. Toward laundress as the washerwoman right corn, cotton, sorghum, hay, etc., Now Daphne was truly a working Puritanic eye of the law. dark swarm of watchers before the out animals and sells these products can hear. white Ohio out the where turned with It the authorities everybody pe woman ; not a dramatic artist bulletin boards. must sell the fertility constituents at the ciock, side of a banner of culture claiming State Journal. ; She had told her. brother that site culiar hours, but a toller by wholesale and buy meot, milk, butter, of the people the did not have to starve or Bin, because She entered the office of the company to put In the hands meal, etc., at retail, paying the flcr, - of and num worksnoblest her Impossible. genius foreign eight, punched cost of hauling both ways and she had a father, a brother, a lover high to mind In bellev to don't set Hub "t parading defying any but an impure to protect her from want And now ber on the time register, and saves wares. The mi virtues." Wife "You couldn't dealers' profits. Animal raising her father and her brother and her work addressing large envelopes. She find Impurity in Its classic was and the high cost of huuHug. fertility a takes ; to It number twelve banner the quite of other side wrote anyway. purple till wrote and lover were all In dire predicament, wroLe and V J? worth while. at one she took up ber pen again, and and formed the customers by every make a parade," Benton Transcript. staggering blindly in a fog of debt. ' ' . ... . st ... self-evide- " 1 to" muslin-screene- : - well-draine- d clay-surfac- s -- - . a Thousand Dollars for One Photograph of My.Father." Xolf and an that while I take you home in a taxi. You're far too pretty to be , running around loose in a mob like " '. thin." ' She shook her head. "You mustn't miss your train, Mr. Duane, or your golf. Tm used to going about alone, and I've got to get useder to it I'm Good-b- y Uolng home in the subway.; " and thank you." She put out her hand formally, and was like a soft, sun- h took it. '"warmed flower In his pnlm, and he clung to it IU warmth seemed to "I'd Give ' It . - . I'J i |
