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Show vnn ihi: ;rMsoN i:n. ;rM-o- itii . WHIN NATIONS 0 CHAPTER I she walled, AiJidr.ette re ling; she wax nervous an pjirf stir. r, It seen.e! cu-- '. r to ran! .X,.,,I. there w ix for hr-c!i ' j ; r t, ; f ,r 1 ! . n'"h f, p' k a 1 been In liny Hi: g lit f 4 li". - nt a .I- - tLr' j .r the 'i . (. . i i' ?";'!"! I ': s'! t rai'fi'i'it Journ.d nf thit M.- I, "i i n i I i ti-'- ' . alt I i - n . ! a v ; I; nr Tri!'.! cr.i-'i- el ainl k I mi ... x Mont ,i. t ' I k li ) ,.-- to r. :i -- r i' l r.. .' t - ' , line , ' ' t It li b w o' i -- I , 1 li. i Ilf- - n Stlm i i row ft Ing In' ! A t . A ' I ' I H . i i W t i i I i i i j i 1 f M t v V i m s I i U I i ( l,'-et.i- vrS& & ! f I i i' i s'ii N' in r r I id t'ii M,. .N . . i: v - It . , ii r ; ni ,, iU f ir , i i fiv 11 I 1 1 I1 five-roo- ' i ! ile de;ire-'iidvv flinv n ' reels, tin Coll dl'ion of the finl'v bn !et were 'll! for.ot: Antoinette was In Ionim in London clubs and studios following a s'eiMiv rassoek throng1 str inge find dr mi iMe advent ures After a uiide the foul was gone an the r dn h id d s i; pen' ed too Antoinette put tier heel down on her arms and sit motionless for some tif teen minutes T!nn sud lenl.v 'he sprang tip, her book emsting to the floor, arid mi. itching up the tray (led rather Hi in walked with It to the kitchen. Cup, spoons, plate Into the di'hpan, hot water, tr.iv tipped up on the dresser again, teapot rinsed and turned upside down Antoinette worked ns If whips were driving her. She went Ino the bed room and came out with two waists and several pairs of stm kings, took n basin from the damp, vegetable scented back porch, rinsed and soaped has Her electric Iron w is plugged ily. In, nnd a hoard brought from the same back porch, wllih was fortu nately spacious, and served as a store Meanwhile, with characteristic fatal determination to be thorough, An toinette was starting several other things and planning in her busy brain to do more. She hung the waists daintly on hangers In the sitting room, put the dish towels on to boil, took out the stove tray and slid It Into the sink to give It a thorough cleaning, brought her sewing materials into the kitchen to catch up a run in one stock ing and the split heel of another, and poured a bag of peas Into a pan. I really ought to find an old sheet that ironing board and well only burn the blanket right through at this rate I wonder If re-cov- TONY TAFT was a swell reporter, an expert at gathering social news for a big San Francisco newspaper, but she couldnt manage her love .. . And thereby hangs the tale that is told so delightfully by the most famous of American women authors i Yc-u- hi fr ( Read this opening installment of Maiden Voyage - ' . , ll. ' I I , I I "I ' I e i J . i if t A ,1 i Ig " i , i i ' oi It M ' II .v ' i. i r i t f VI I - : . o ' .ii N,,. V ft, 'I - it t l e v k. uii . i r oi ' !t. ng I X d g ' i ,.o vv i ' I ' v i v vv i n i - ai!, of I) I i.fi. i i i.i d , x si up ici or I .i in lor eiopl.iv er old ii' we , vv io i'll," I , i i 1 ini ivrv -- ,0 Li br. v (III, "Mbat vviili i i 1re-euM- i ! ci id I 1 v At.ili cite, tmt e- -t dn lien 1' , stoekln.s oh, nnd Mo it I III Irntb got iii'o (in vegetable box " ml voti're cleaning tin Move ton ".'it down, Iliidv, tin! Here t re-- do tin p' ax 111 get out of all Ml x Ant'diiel le brought to the eonfo'.on her own swift energy and ('omentra tion, nnd wax wimglng out the Imt ( lean di'h towels when her aunt came In. Llltle Ml.xx .nice wax cramped with the cold; her gloves and boots nn shoulders were dump; she fairly litld dered with pleasure nx she came Into the comfortable warm kitchen. "You got caught In It. Aunt Meggy!" (aught In It, I should say I did!" scolded Miss Lruee, with a pretty lit tie petulant manner that had remained with her since lytig ago d.ijs of popu "1 lardy and youth and prettiness. do believe we could have a fire in the sitting room tonight. Oh, later, later. Theres Jingle Jingle, you bad cat. where were you all morning?" Lad cat Is right said Antoinette. "He was out on the roof again, and he leaped in your window and knocked your violets over. And I wish you could see your quilt I" Mixs I.ruce, small, gray, fuzzy headed In her mackintosh and tied small hat, stood rooted with horror to the spot, both small clawlike hands nt her breast. left "He didnt! I left alackad.iy I that window open nt the bottom; Im always forgetting Mint! lamented the older woman. "Yes, rub yourself against my legs now, she reproached Here, the cat. "You villain, you you might as well come along with me If youve done all the niKchlef you could do for onep," she added, trailing from the room with thp cat puIdng affectionately nga!nt her. "ClilTy home tonight, darling? I I -- 1 I Nope. Gone to Sacramento" "That looks ns If Barney Kerr was half as Important as G1IIT! Miss Bruce said triumphantly, scornfully. Maybe they need Barney here," Antoinette, who for reasons of hpr own did not quite like to have Barney depreciated, even for the aggrandizement of Cliff, offered mildly. home?" o He went to the wafer polo." I dont think, after his pneumonia, that he ought to plav wafer polo. I dont believe hes playing, hut of course he had to go yell for his team." Brenda sat at the kitchen table In a contented dream of pea shelling; Antoinette finished up the othpr odds and ends of work with the familiarity of long practice. Miss Bruce, returning In a practical alpaca gown of many seasons wear and a large checked apron, Inspected the kitchen alertly. Presently Antoinette spoke musingly: I wonder If queens or lets say movie queens, thpre are so few of the other sort left I wonder If movie queens ever do anything as pleasant at the end of a bleak wet a'fernoon warm klchen as to con.e out to a and t nve the sort of dinner they nke to ne cook H I d.1 Ti.'s a".-.-- Hr Bruce hack was to l' M.-- s eTo'on-ally- . k'e,en. t I ' fc r I If V" ( c NW mo I n v II I V riWtv f i lif I. lo t l.i v ir II ',. .( Intli r I rtilh o l!H I ns' kiv viwlt rv hi t ,r$ ImuiwitiM tiot t i J . , . r r A In nt Com; I ii if I if I! ns r it.tf iiiial' t V ft r m f writ r tltUf -- i jT CMlS 30 YfAfti FG 1.1 rl Mu c tj lVm i! y flkil , rwthtt M.lWnnmW fv tiif rt f F M m.hI ferula trt tN I IV ly cankca-iifTLTlT1 II j " V .I Ui ii. . Kind in In I of." 'Mhit'il he i - nt Totiy h'lnked ! the Joiirn.il xi, he wax nl e enough. It But he Be Sure They Properly Cleanse the Blood 'crested miiiTv old mixer!" Brenda said, to imue s'niwherrles. help ng "( li, nn, he's imt, I.emiv. Ilea a stunning oung thing, ns tall ns CHIT rmt in ii. li more Mum thirty, I should tlihil, uml very much the gent! "U h it did he s iv ?" lie w mfed nn to get advertisef wonder, " Tony ments, nf course -- ihl mu- - nglv, her elbow nn the fable, I won i bln In one h.md, her der If it's Imrrlhly turd to get ad vert Kernents. Someone must do If; tlmre are millions of them on all sides, Miyho I might to try It If might get nn In, con Jjntly matter fiom th blood jhe.im. Put kidncyi jometimci loj in their work do not act a natura fid toremova impunhei that poeon tha jyvtem when retained. Then you may luffer naqqm? bacL ache, d ztinevx, scanty or too frequent urin.iLon, gcttioq up at niqlit, pulhnes under tha eyes feel nervous, misery tie .til upset. Don't delay? Usa Doan't Pill. Do.tn are especially for poorly functioning kidneys, lhey t i recommended by guilcA.I the counlry over. Get teem forn any druqq.st. anyway." started (Ii a-- iV'CiC'. nt In anything to do." As Tony I loMneyi ar YOUR seem to me the thing for a girl to do," Mixs Bruce aald with a decision that sat oddly upon her smallness nnd frailness. l'll get something, Tony aald again; "but It seems so naele-- s to get "It "Iw BABY COMES BEFORE really don't want Elimination of Body Waste Is Doubly Important and Brenda washed the dishes there was a stir at the hail door; a man's voice, Hello, everyone. Cliff here? Hes really shy Barney; he'a been standing there hating to make the break," Tony thought, as she called hack cordially, "Come In, Barney. No, hes not. He went to Sacramento." Burneys litg hulk slid Into the chair that Aunt Meggy, fluttering!? departing, left empty. I cant atay," Barney said halfheartedly. You didnt come to dinner. Barney," Brenda observed. "No I I couldnt very well." ne was floundering. Tony's grin bad a slightly malicious tinge In the dark. There was a silence. 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Mo too-ai- v a j oc th it edl'r i - M -1 Sind l et iM.d.oiix ex pi i ill e got li -- be f.i lo A the kiti l.eli, to oil did "I .IX of build ItS good til (XI dined t id in i e to vv b rl H of vui't'. til! fix I IHLiH Ml(WuNfc ('iMiolIc weekly and the i"i rlrnce winkly am! tlw in rg"i nd and the News letter and Suii-And I urn (mt destined to en lew;. r it eer oy " Bti ik voti up?" asked m'i l'riii e S li i young voice, all K) III I W.M more . t i It C.II Mil vh V I II I i.- - r oil a- Lit Vet t I W- - e I ' It . I liei '. ly, lloti N.'i e " I. Ing do ng " ' !i mv ir I'm no sorry 1" " li It ii nx " nv s.dil, Kfnrln to s' i e pi iv Ing wIMi her knl'e, "I lit I've oil to every city i v editor In this cltv Jve h I v I g , - l'." I'li ' n 1 ' pi lii I f LIFE LONG' FRIEND oi on! I . ire nvo'if I x I v - I . 1 i M r ! , ill h X ' , ,.er T 1 ' : ' kC .c4;" ,i II . . , CHAITI I , . uv i ' ' v ' e If - i - , j ( I tie 4 e I .1 i ! 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In the fprsin except those Involved .No!' Bit w i' m got to pit on tonelesx speech. Antoinette roxo era iiini iiilu'i 1, ng In nf I.t l!r dou'iy. In her heart she said. "Mr explain the wlmle to tin t'n.r jmi.1 Bellamy tr.ld him to keep me waiting editor said m ded to explain lie pun .exactly fire minutes. Hat Just to it, ill'i'U amg tigures with h pencil make himself important Antoiiiotte ri"pei tfully, he Put when she stepped Into the edi cauxe she had no elinue. tor's office she revised her opinion "Now, I'll tell jmi whit I'll (o, Mis Taft," Lawrence Bel'amv said tin.ally, T'xe (nit a n(x nun on here to rux tie me up ads only had him two weeks, and I don't know how he's going to turn out. Ill gie him another week, and then wliv don't you get In on this? Ill let him keep whatever he's got, and I'll tell liltn that you're going after the department stores and the milliners and the tea rooms, how's that? Y'ou get forty per cent of what you bring in. The fellow that did have It, Hansen, used to clean up about fifty a week on It. "And meanwhile they were stand ing now "meanwhile 111 ask Mrs. Bellamy what she thinks of any worn en's stuff in the Journal, the editor said, guiding her toward the door. 'She gives me pretty good steers sometimes I" Antoinette bowed a smiling farewell, went out into the dark, woodeny, Inky hall, and walked down two ilights to the street. The whole morning had been an utter waste of time. Rain was still falling heavily; there was no use going home; nobody was there. Aunt Meggy would be at the sewing society meeting, Bruce was In school. Cliff at the ofiice, Brenda at the store. Antoinette wandered past the Halt Justice and the little park whose of i And You Think Youd Like a Job leaves were tossing In the warm green on a Newspaper?" sticky rain, and went Idly along the There was a fat young man In a cafe-- . narrow streets of Chinatown. Someau lait raincoat in the revolving chair how she was still smarting over the recent Interview with the handsome, opposite that of Mr. Lawrence Belaristocratic editor of the Journal. ; la my. While I "lah they had been talking, he had youd let me send you our her told something of his own hisfigures?" said this Individual ; engag had graduated very young He tory; I lnsly. rising as Antoinette came In. from Harvard, and after some experiI wont! said Mr. Bellamy. j .May I leave you my card? asked ence on cohege periodicals had become associated with a financial Journal In j the visitor. immeSure! the editor agreed. The New York, had married almost In continued 'had newspaper diately, young man took out his fountain pen work ever since. The present venture j 8Ld wrote on the card, and Antoinette In San Francisco was new but already took the vacated chair. She saw the marked with success. lie was was i older man, lolling in his seat, glance or two, Antoinette thirty-ononly I at her card. "Miss Taft?" he asked. less than ten years Judged, probably J "Funny thing my mothers brother he was pleased than older herself, I was Taft Baldwin." he said. sure of himself and his Job! with life, i Theyre both good New England It was "his idea" to do this, and his t names. Antoinette said, with a slight to do that; he could smile Innovation fort to seem friendly and at ease. could he down, deprecatingiy shake Your people from Boston?" away her poor little suggestions; he "My fathers family was. But his was full of suggestions and ideas himf ather came round the norn In Forty-- , self. the. Antoinette went through the usu-- f After all she would go home to little story smilingly. She, was still She climbed into a car on lunch. terri5ed of the editor any editor street Iresently she entered Market was rather less frightening than the doorway of a dilapidated building I most of them. flats on that contained eight was dark, his brown face thin; wooden steps, j levels. floor four Steep !s aquiline J large nose gave a sort of peeling and paintless, led np from the , autocratic significance to his face. Elis street that ran for blocks between hands were big and lean, his mouth the shabbiest and least Interesting of r large, hl3 dafk thick hair was In an the citys dwellings. Almost all the untidy tumble, and he wore glasses. windows had little signs on them, litJob, eh? he began. Antoinette only tle confessions of poverty and ; smiled What experi-- f deprecatingiy. Violin Modes," Studio," have you had?" Rooms," "Home Board," said the 'Not much on newspapers. I did year patient and the social column for the Bulletin for signs, after year. t,T eeks. Then Margaret Russell There were no signs on the Taft 03 Y friend, who had got me Into It windows, windows: they were back from her vacation." anyway, above the eyes of the crowd. That was the only work you ever On the right of the narrow entrance did? hall there was the doorway of a Oh. ro. Antoinette smiled rue- dark bedroom. Antoinettes and BrenI done lots of other things," das room, where one must always f f e confessed. I was in the Mercansnap on a light. Lighted, however. I;3 1;hrary for a year, and then In It wa3 a pleasant room enough, with cur.gorg bookstore, helping mv older a great window that was always open, on an airsbaft, and an oblique ups.pr." .? know Paul Younger well." 51r. ward view of the sky. v..amy said, wl;h what appeared Next to this bedroom was the bath to characteristic muidr.g irrelevance, room, dark sal dank, with a smell of j'.ce fe er dreamer, but thats all ammonia and yellow soap on Fridays gior work there? wh(a Asterboll came to c.pan, and an u J Uof.jpjv i'r because she's unpieasant odor of plum ing, rotting I dark, fin sho wears Lr wood, damp rags, and pla-'at othr (''r.rte rcr. he a gesture, tin -- x. Thon cam Aunt Meg's room; u.a le fh.'s gesture In the te;t bedroom In the house, small las crown of Lra!'?. but bright, for It locked out ccr ss the Ikr.ow; young girl, rather pretty, southern city and Twin Peaks, and colors; Tout twea-'- J shared with the sitting room nxt to It tOv or 3ve?" the only exposed si da of the apartment. , to : -- . ; tt .IX n ill i - i i ( . V I'M t A t It I . !. . i hap- - s , . ' . (i ' i - " ! , r IN M, . !! if ' rs cim-- e 1 i ' i No ' i . i ! i 'i.iTi.'". litin- - til Sen li!m was fulling In gie ! s M : ; I 1 . 1 I ) M "I i I IM.I't. I'r re," I .i .i ti rd tor of mark. n. T'.i'i id be I v Sir. fan t I t " into. f, n u ai. K"' flti- - '.ilnly nt tb x w'Mi B'd Le I"1' Hi' ipp'-urean "''I pen I M-- .. 11 . I t' r -- " lv "M J 1 i hits Brr d i tie id "J I ; . "1 ! j;xv;t i ii j - , Klin Norr!a Copyrifht. In I f XOKItlS ELYOJLEiHvX V! 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