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Show THE MAMMOTH RECORD. MAMMOTH CITY. UTAH Youre not the only one who can looking odd and unreal la their paint open accounts. I started one for They seemed to be surprised that those. Daphne was still In existence. Eldon He took from his pocket a pale gave her a curious smile of greeting. brochure and said to Leila r That alShe heard the call boy crying Overlowance we agried on, you know?!-- ' ture about the corridors. She heard Yes, I know.1 the kings the orchestra playing Well, instead of paying it to you piece. Then it struck up a march week by week I decided to open a that sounded remote and irrelevant. bank account for you ; so I ran over to There was a loud swls I which she supthis bank at the lunch hour and made posed to be'the curtain going up. An 4 deposit to your credit five hundred actor and an actress in white flannels dollars ! with tennis rackets under their arms , Leila forgot her Jewelry for a molinked hands and skipped into the well ment in this new pride. She strutted of light. .They bandied repartee for about with mock hauteur, waving Mrs. a time. - . .. Kip and - Daphne aside and saying : Eldon, speaking - earnestly to Mrs. Dont speak to me. I am a lady with Vining, suddenly began to laugh soft- jr By 9' RUPERT HUGHES: J r H k r f r a MMNE AGAIN COMES TQ RESCUE AS DAPHNE SEES, HER a - STANCE JO BECOME A STAB SLIPPING AWAY. Synopsis. Clrfy Wimburn, a young New Yorker on a visit to Cleveland, meets pretty Daphne Kip, whose brother is in the same office with Clay In Wall street. After a whirlwind courtship they become engaged. Clay buys an engagement ring on credit and returns to New York. Daphne agrees to an early marriage, and after extracting from her money-worrie- d father what she regards as a sufficient sum of money for the purpose she goes to New York with her mother to buy her trousseau. Daphnes brother, Bayard, has just married and left for Europe with his bride, Leila. Daphne and her mother install themselves in Bayards flat. Wimburn introduces Daphne and her mother to luxurious New York life. Daphne meets Tom Duane, who seems grestly attracted to her. Daphne accidentally discovers that Clay is penniless, except for his salary. Baynard and his wife return to New York unexpectedly. The three women set otlt on a shopping excursiob and the two younger women buy expensive gowns, having them charged to Bayard. Bayard is furious over the- expense, seeing hard times ahead. Daphne, indignant, declares she will earn her own living and breaks her engagement with Clay. Through" an introduction by Duane, Daphne induces Beben, a theatrical magnate, to give her a position in ' one of his companies. - , , CHAPTER X Continued. ' Miss Kemble went forward to Daphne and took her hand and petted it and said: Im so glad to see you. ' You must meet my auntl Mrs. Vining. She wont object to your playing her parts, Im sure. Mrs. Vining, who had played all manner of roles for half a century, and was now established as a fanus of hateful old grandes dames, ( player, spared Daphne her ready vinegar and chose to mother her. Mr. Beben had come down from his , f office to make up his own mind. He smiled Mth a kind of challenging cordiality and .murmured : So our little business woman is going to open the shop. Well, all youve got to do is to deliver the goods and Ill buy em at your own price. Batterson rapped ; on . the kitchen table that stood on the apron of !the stage under a naked bunch of light of glaring brilliance. Places, please, for the entrance. Beady? All right, Eldon! The noble matinee idol put his hat on the table, walked on, sat down on a divan composed of two broken iChalrs dud read an imaginary news- ' paper. Patterson said: Doorbell Buzz-z- . A yoqgg man, whom .Daphne recognized as the elderly wafted across and opened an I weB-dress- ed but-jjle- imaginary doirf between r, two chairs. This was the cue for Miss Kembles fajnous .How ffijypu do? f Everybody waited and watched for Ahe newcomer to diake her debut In ithe new world. Then was a silence. Dphne stood with, heels screwed to the floor and tongue glued to the roof sno Al of: her mouth. All right, iMiss Kip, said Batterson Come on, with ominous .'Patience. ' ' cdme on, please Another' . sildie, then Daphne laughed and ch9ked. Tm awfully stu- pid. Ivetforgotten the line. Batterson gatkhed his unlighted and 'growled: Howjado! How- : jadoi iOh. yes! Thank' you. Im so sorry said JDdphne, qnd walked on atttm wrong side of the chairs. ' Evefbody shuddered .to realize that she fiad ehtered through' a solid wap. Thlscwiraele was ignored, but there was no ignoring the peculiarly inelo- when she bpwed quqnt note to the butleh and stammered: How are you? A sigh went through tbe?vast profound and void of the empty theater. Instinct told even the echoes that Daphne did not belong and never could belong. Batterson groahed, tragically. iyi,"Not.4to .the ,hvtler. please! , Dont 'nay HoW Vre' Vou? to the butler. Dont say How are yon? to anybody, please. Script says Howjado? Say Howjado? to Mr. Eldon there. Say to Mr, Eldon there. Howjado ' ( 1 ? 8 ci-g- ar lt 4 y OomdcM Miss Kemble tried to help. '.She asked Daphne tq step aside and watch while she went through the scene. But she 'was so unnerved that she forgot her own lines and had to refer to the manuscript, while Eldon waited In acute distress and Daphne, looking on, said : Oh, I see. I think I understand It now. Then she forgot it all again at the repetition' Somehow the rehearsal was worried through to the end and Batterson dismissed the company with sarcastic thanks. Then he Went to Beben to demand a substitute. ' Daphne went home, dreading her fate' but not knowing what the verdict was. She felt sure that It would be not guilty of dramatic ability. She was worn out with the exposure of her own faults and uncertain which she feared the more to be dismissed or to be accepted. .The latter meant unending trials. ; - At the elevator she found Tom Duane. He had just telephoned up to the apartment to ask if she were in. There was a welcome flattery In his frank delight. She asked him np. Tom Dnane was electric with cheer. He praised Daphne with Inoffensive heartiness and Insisted on hearing the history of her progress. She gave the worst possible account of her stupid ity. He would have none of her selfdepreciation. . ' Everythings got to begin, he said. Some of the greatest actors are bad at rehearsal, and never get over it. Some of the greatest actresses always are at their worst on the first performance. ' Youre bound to succeed. Ypu have beauty and charm and grace and magnetism no end. Dont worry. Ill speak to Beben and make him restrain Batterson. Well make a star of you , yet. There was a fine reassurance in that word we in spite of its pleasant tang of impudence. It gave her strength to go to the telephone and call up Beben. She came back ' In despair and collapsed on the divan. Tom Duane was at her side instantYoure ill! In heavens name, ly. what can I do? His solicitude pleased her. She smiled palely: Mr. Beben told me he was afraid Id better give up the joh , by HMH ' ') '? r : No, no p Im She flung herself free. an imbecile Im no good thats all. a bank account. ly. He laughed louder and louder and Mrs. Kip sighed in dreary earnest, then plunged into the light. Those big hands were at her shoulders again. That soothing 'voice was "Thats more than I ever was. A little later Eldon came off ,the Leila was poring over her bank book, stage laughing. He dropped his laughministering courage and praise: You are not no good. You shall the blank pages in which so many dra- ter as he crossed the border and resucceed Ill make Beben take you mas, tragedies and life histories could sumed his anecdote. "As I was say-in- g back. Ive helped Beben out when he be codified in bald numerals. NO ATTRACTION NOW. ' was in trouble. Ive lent him mone Her first question was ominous : Do Mrs. "Vining But interrupted: and Ill make him give you your I have to go all the way down to There comes my cue. How are They Mrs. Gotham I met your friend, chance. I promise that, on my word 1, Broad street every time I want to tonight? . Mr. Huggins, today. . f She stared at him through her tears, draw out some money? Bather cold, said Eldon; its so Mr. Gotham (over his paper) Oh, flashes In him dancing Her first thought was already to at- hot. They blurred . did you? . of light as if he were a sun god. She tack the integrity of her store. The swine ! said Mrs. Vining. Then Yes. And he said you never called her from shoulder?, hands his caught No, dearest, said Bayard, there she shook out her skirts," straightened to see him at his office any more. but she had to hold them in hers; She is an uptown branch, right around the up and swept through the door like a Oh, did he?. .. was drowning, and she must cling to corner. But I hope your visits there I . swan. Yes. You know you used to like to dowager her. to down whatever arms stretched will he more for a put-i- n than takeOne of the box lights began to sputcall at h,s office very often. She must not question whose they out. Eyery time I give you anything ter, and Batterson dashed round from Yes, I know. were till she was safe again on the I want you to put some of it aside. the other Well, why dont you now?' wing to curse the man in solid earth. Maybe some day Ill want to borrow charge. He ran into Daphne, glared, Well, you see, he had some trouble Dnane was laughing now and pat--, and spoke harshly: You neednt wait with his girl stenographers and typea were she If as ting her on the back any longer. writers, and hes got the clieesiest lot frightened child. She felt no right Daphne swallowed her pride and of female key punchers now you ever were to rebuke his caresses. They saw ! slunk out such as a brother might give a sister. His arm about her was that of a comNO IDLE BOAST CHAPTER XI. rade, sustaining another in a battle. He whs the only one In the world She woke early next morning. It who offered her courage and praise wras just six oclock. She remembered and help in her need. that her father would be arriving in Duane said, with a matter-of-fac- l; two hours. She decided that It wriuld once. briskness: Ill call Beben up at be a pleasant duty to surprise the No, Til go see him. old, neglected codger by meeting poor, such me under But you put oblige; ' " him. tions! Im afraid station Central Grand At the Daphi Nfvtgr be afraid of an obligation ne found that she wms nearly an hour Im afraid I can never repay it. too early for the train. It amused Then youre one ahead. Bat you her to take her breakfast at the lunch will. me can repay and you counter, to clamber on the high stool How? . , and eat the dishes of haste a cup of t Don see. Lets wait and Goodby. coffee and a ham sandwich. It was worry. pleasant to wander about alone in this He gave her a hand-gri- p jbf perfect atmosphere of speed, the suburban good fellowship and went into the hall. trains, like feed pipes, "spouting She followed him to tell him again d streams of workers, the was how kind he was. As she claspto far-otheir trains passengers drawing the Leila hand his opened again ing as destinies suction. if by , door with her latchkey. At length it was time for the' train. Now there was triple embarrassDaphne went to the fope barrier opment. ' Tom Duane had- paid ardent Doyle OBrien likes folks to know posite the door of entry and waited now that lies wan iv the min higher court to Leila before she married Bayin ambush for her father. ard. Here he was in Bayards wifes up in the polace department. with5 At length she made out a rather Bayhome, apparently flirting Bojle Arrah, wdiat ilhnted him? shabby man carrying hit own luggage. Hes bin appinted ards young sister. - -Doyle A horse With She Batterson Found Quarreling It was her father. He looked older a miruber iv the tliraffic squad. Leila felt all the outraged sentl-- , a Property Man Over the Responsiand seedier than she remembered. He ments of jealousy and all the indigVase. bility for a Broken did not expect to be met., He was nation of a chaperon who has been cirHis Own Fault. ... t i , t cumvented. Duane retreated In poor some of It for a while. Maybe you looking idly at the hew station., He Mans hair turns gray before womans, Thats known in every clime. order. Daphne stammered an expla- can save me from a crash some day. had not been to New York since it had The explanations1 easy, for1 , nation too brief and muddled to suf- Anyhow, it will be a great help to me been thrown open. 1 , , He wears his all the time. fice. Then she went to her room. She ran to him. He dropped his old Punch Bowl. to feel that I have a thrifty little wife There her mother found her when, at home. A man has to plunge a good suitcase on the toes of the man followWifie Has Her Inning. . she came in later. Daphne had only a. deal In business. Its bis wife that ing him and embraced Daphne with faint hope that Dnane could work his usually makes him or breaks him. i fervor. He devoured her with his eyes Say, my dear, remarked the facemiracle twice, so she told her mother Bayard spoke with unnsual solem- and kissed her again and told her that tious fellers wife the morning after that she had failed as an actress. She nity: Old Ben Franklin said, A shil- she was prettier than ever. AH about the night before, the banquet of the told her bluntly : Dippy Dozen club you attended last ling earned and sixpence spent, a for- them there were little groups embractune. Sixpence earned and a shilling ing and kissing. There was a won'der-fu- l night must have been a, pretty sleepy Mamma, Ive been fired. affair. To her comfort her mother caught spent, bankruptcy business in reunions. or something like , her to her ample bosom and said : Im that But Moses got ahead of him. Whereja get .that .line ,,o, stuff? When her father said, I havent glad of it. Im much obliged to who- "When he handed down the Ten Com- had my breakfast; have you? she lied rose up hubbie in his wrath. Well, the paper says that covers ever is to blame. Not but what you mandments he whispered an extra one affectionately, No." t could have succeeded if you had kept to be the private secret of the chosen Lets have some breakfast to- were laid for twelve. - .. at it. But youre too good for sueli people. t gether. a wicked life. A person couldn't be an Helpful.' What was it? said Leila. with a Well go to Fine, said Daphne. Scenario Wiiter Im trying to disactor without being insincere and a minimum of interest . t the Biltmore. ' Thou shalt not spend all thou earnpretender, and my little girl is too honKind of expensive, isnt it? he cover a locale for a motion picture w liich has never been used before. Can est. So now you come along home est, said Bayard. It was well, it asked anxiously. , with me. you suggest anything I was the Thirteenth Commandment, I Its my treat,- she said. Friend Sure! How 'about the pit No, thank you, mamma. This amused him enormously. So guess a mighty unlucky one to break. a volcano? Kiiauen, ip Hawaii, is of Mrs. Kip gathered herself together The Jews have kept it pretty well. youre going to treat, eh? . readied. Film Fun. for a vigorous assault when the easily . . , . , she said. Theyve been the bankers of the world .Yep, , rang and the maid brought word even while they were persecuted. Where did you get all the money? that a gentman wished to speak with Dangerous Remark. ; Leila shrugged' her handsome shoul- . Im a working lady now. - .. t I servant of the'people, exanin Miss Daphne. , ders and studied the gems. He laughed again and shook ; his '' claimed the orator, " " It was Duane, and she braced hertalk about it tonight. head over her. Lets not i Dont voice self for another blow. But his whispered the say that, Lets dine sohiewhere and go to the What did you mean by saying you Servants are terribly dictawas clarion with success. theater. I want to show off my new were a working lady?" said Wesley friend. 'J torial these days. People may think Ive seen Beben. Its all right. Hes splendor. when they, were seated at the table promised to keep you on and give you Fine said Bayard, trying to" cast and breakfast was- - ordered. - Your you are trying to be d boss. a chance. He says for you to report away his forebodings and lift himself mother wrote me something about havNO FEELING. at the theater at seven-thirtGet on your tonight. bjr his own boot strnps. little a with you. ing disagreement And now' again Daphne was more duds mother,' you and Daphne. , She seemed to be right worried, so I afraid of her success, such as it whs, "I cant go, said Daphne. "Ive got thought Id better run on to see ff I than of her failure. But it tvas pleas1 to be at the at half past sort of smooth things over. ant to carry the news to her mother seven and Ive hardly time to eat any- couldnt Im you came to meet me. ,We glad " ' and Leila. , thing." ' , ' 1 can talk without interruption for once. . It disgusted them both. They were While Leila and Bayard ind Mrs. Tell me all about it. j still trying to dissuade her from con- Kip on their festal robes putting him told She whole the story of her tinuing on the downward path when Daphne was eating alone a hasty meal a telegram from her father came for brought up tardily from the restau- decision to join the great social revolution that is freeing women from the ' her mother: rant. , slavery of enslaving the men. Her Cento Grand beaver arrive had Before? they were dressed she Taking was her new watchword : , ' tral tomorrow dont meet me love. march out . Itt what she called her peroration I dont want to take any more money WES. to ran hnllman clothes. The working from you. cnll her a taxicab, but she shook her and was Why, honey, he protested, I love as usual, late, Bayard dollars ner humble twenty-fiv- e head, It to you. I only wish I had to Leilas temper had just begun to sim- a week would not give to justify a chariot ten times as much. I couldnt dream mer when the door wns opened stealth- and from the shop. ily and a hnnd was thrust in. It profShe walked rapidly along Fifty-nint- h of letting you work. Youre too pirty. fered a small box of jewelers size and Wimburn cub mean street, but not rapidly enough to Whats that young waved it like a flag of truce. work? by you letting two or murmurous one gal' Leila rushed forward with a cry of escape "Oh, hes bitterly opposed to it, so lants. I gave him his ring." delight, seized the pneket and then with Batterson found She quarreling the hnnd, and drew Bayard Into the a property man over the responsibility room and Into her arms. for a broken vase. lie ignored her till This Is your apology, I suppose, Suburbs It is simply groat to wake At last Daphne gets the at length she vehtured to stammer: J she said. chance that she has hoped for up in the morning and hear the loaves Batterson. Mr. I ;nere ani, Yes, the apology for being late, and f and at the same time has dreadwhispering outside of your window. So I see. Well, sit down somethnts what made me- late. . City man to a It is all right 'to hear the ed chance the gain place ' Leila wns enraptured. - She adored where. leaves whisper, but I never could stand will give her the independthat task. no was easy Finding a seat gifts and she lind the knock of Inspirence she seeks. What Daphne hearing the grass mown. selected ing them. The little square parcel EVery piece of furniture she did with the great chance when of the became once at the object She opened provoked her curiosity. it came is told in the next inThe Limit. It so excitedly that the contents fell (scene shifters attack and she had to stallment A careful man Is Daniel Dent . take . flight to the floor. She swooped for them As careful as you'll 'meet: ' Members of the company strolled in, and brought up a platinum chain with If he paid J ou a compliment, ami to went and 1TO at Hed ask for a receipt. Bli 'mailbox the CONTINUED.) a delicate plaque of tiny diamonds paused . their various cells. , of device on a platinum. pearls ,t Real Handy Man." Been Celebrating, Perhaps. Leila ran to Mrs. Kip and Dnplme, , Eventually Batterson found that nil A Tasmnnlnn jack of all trades Arent . they, beautiful? the company was on hand and in good lme you .quarreled with exclaiming: "Why is a hairdresser, tobacArent they wonderful? Arent; they health. He said to Daphne, "Every- clnlms that he Jack? electrical certiBecause lie proposed to mq last r body Is here and nobody sick, so you conist, cycle repairer, glorious? Mrs. Kip and Daphne tried to keep neednt stay after the curtain goes ficated engineer, cert idea lea marine cn Mght. am1 gineer for the Derwent, erganis the pace, hut once more they couhl not p." Well, there's no harm In that, Is stencil cuttr, lretworacr choirmaster, to her trade, wanted wns learn she But wns there?" It who that rrilnlng forget clrcu But I had accepted him tlu night down gold on this greedy stronger. so she loitered about, feeling like an billiard hnll keeper, proprietor lb Is of ami manager before. Their alarm was not diminished when uninvited prior relation. The members luting library, , of the company came from their lnlifc, local town hull' Bayard said to Leila; 1 1 out-boun- ff - , tele--pho- . 1 1 she-struc- y . ' y 4 . e How do yon do? said Daphne, bowing to Eldon and speaking with a soullessness of a squeezed doll. Eldon rose, folded up his imaginary paper, and came forward with a pitying desire to help her. He hoped that the scared little Kip'woman would win through the same bitter trials to the same perilous and always endangered success. But he had a fear. He delivered' her his line with be- nevolent gentleness. He waited, then gave her her line with exquisite tact. She did not repeat it after him. He aid to her : "Dont be afraid; youre all right. He gnve her the line' again and she He Gave Her a Hand-Gri- p of Perfect Good Fellowship. parroted It after him. She leaped then to a speech several minutes farther on. He drew her back to the cue : lie was very polite and awfully sorry, Pardon me, but I think I have a line but he said he didnt think I was quite suited to the work. He said that later, before that. The rehearsal blundered on. It was perhaps, there might be another not Daphnes fright that disturbed chance, but oh oh oh She was crying with all her might. the rest. It was her complete failure to suggest the character, or any char- Gradually she realized that Dunnes hands were on her shoulders. He was acter. But Batterson found nothing to squeezing them as If to keep her from amuse him, and Beben tasted that sobbing herself to pieces. Ills face iust nnu ashes of disappointment wns close to hers, and he was murwith which theatrical managers are muring: You poor little thing. You mustnt so familiar when they hite on the Dead sea fruit of beauty without dra- grieve. Youve to fine and too beautiful for such work. matic talent - 1 , - , , |