Show BEGGARS CAN CHOUSE CHOOSE THE STORY Renewing a childhood attachment attachment attach attach- ment J Ernestine of ot a wealthy family la is attracted b by Will Wilt Todd newspaper artist arUt liar Her sister Inter Lillian urges her to break brea k off the trait affair but Ernestine re refuse reo re fuses fuse A runaway marriage foi fol- fol lowe low toting Hamilton wire wins LIIlIan Lillian's Lillians LII Lil lian's lians content consent tn to become hit his wife Will and end Ernestine begin their married life lite In humble surround Inge Ing John Sohn e Will but best friend gives g a birthday party for tor Ernestine at Ruby nuby re resort reo re- tort sort I Ernestine and Will VIII have han their first quarrel ae as a result Will father tather dies dlee suddenly Lililan Lillian Lil Lil- lian ilan and nel Loring are married CHAPTER VII 7 7 The Baby for Passenger Lillian was 81 In Europe Mamma Iamma and papa and grandmother had ICO e to Langley lake lako for tor the month of August I Ernestine entered Into a period of waiting of ot passing through days of unreality and nights of patient endure endur I ante ance Sometimes waking after arter she I had slept she silo looked about the walls of ot the little room with a feeling of enormous surprise Was Wu this really she hl he I Ernestine In this dim room with Ith the curtains pinned hack buck to ton n nn n nh u 01 3 nu with her frith-her her heart suddenly quick In the sUlI still night for her husbands husband's ds d's footsteps Mr Poole en came mo often otten to toI I visit lt them Ernestine began to look for tor him for tur late Sunday breakfast And the Pas Pas- tanos were Itself elt lr shining car with the swart grinning chauffeur was often orten at the door One day as ns I Ernestine sat reading aloud Wills Will's mother laid a u swollen creased hand out over the book and I Ernestine looking up at her smiled quickly and und kissed her What W Is la It mother They TIley talked a little tittle about the coming coming com com- ing baby and th the plans l Ernestine and Will had made It Is I. hard for your mother said Mrs lIra Todd with a smile I think perhaps It Is la as liS great rent a mistake to toLe tobe tobe be Le about fa favors vora as It Is be greedy Perhaps admitted Ernestine ItIs It Is hard bard to be exactly balanced One Olle must choose a direction In which to lean They fell Into a friendly silence After a little Wills Will mother pressed Ernestine's hand hond About Will she said sold and hesitated hesi- hesi and I Ernestine's heart hart beat a little faster taster Be e patient with him lie He hasn't found himself yet But Ile hp will You are aro more mature than Will Children will InC Increase lIse the lie distance between your jour our wisdom and his hb childishness Just lust love him Hell He'll come home I Ernestine knew no answer but the words worda fell Into her heart art as liS thou though h there were more I significance to them thew than their stereotyped Importance For or an BO hour or more they sat pat In silence allenee Ernestine dreaming of ot Mrs Todd remembering Willi Will I Mrs Irs Todd lived just long enough to tolIe see lIe her grandson llon and to kiss his poppy silk cheek chek Will laid him bins in the hollow hoi hoi- low of ot her arms but after a moment with a word of entreaty she he asked askell Mm him to take the baby away He lie did dido so o and calling the nurse nurie to his mother mothr who seemed I to be swooning he lie took the little one back to Ernestine And so the parlor of the little house so was a bower for far death The gray pray coffin offin the room mom filled with flowers Ers th the worn-out worn shell of ot the woman Ernestine Ernes Ernes' Ernestine tine had understood so little Will his mothers mother's death with more philosophy than thon Ernestine had hall d of ot him In expected The long Ions waiting toe me clinging nail hill neon neen for lor hIm nom nini than the t nal l separation Reparation the new little life lite cuddled against I Ernestine's Ernes Ernes' tines tine's heart was Will so much more than any loss loss loss-It It was such an appropriate compensation The baby had finally established Ernestine amon among her m mw mv v neighbors Slowly hut but surely surly they hall had s como come to respect her and now with Peter In her ber arms arms with her house clean and by her lier own efforts she found Mrs Mrss Schuss and Mrs Pryor and others 1 showing her real affection which she FbI appreciated and anal respected In full tull I Ernestine felt that all sacrifice was justified ed and they entered Into loto n a new phase of 11 life in their own olIn small 11 home Will at the time oars Irni at the helm and the baby for passenger e e e e e e e eIt It was harder barder to maintain the high level of ot contentment after otter Lillian returned re rev turned from runs Europe und and l' l established herself In her new home homp on 00 the road out near Loyola Will went acra M u with I Ernestine one noon shortly after their return Mumma was th there r Lil Lillian lian lisp was charming to Vii Wll kissing Ida him when she greeted Ernestine Ir and the baby haby and fluttering hu him After Will Viii had left for the Sun Suu the three thrle women followed one another about the house passed the baby balk back and forth between them and talked talked talked all at the same ame time 1101 all listening and talking all Intent on catching up the tho old Intimacy It was charming harming Ernestine could not remember remember re re- member when she ehe had spent such a happy afternoon There here was no nn one like no tamma no one I II Ilie I lie 1 e got to go because pa papa pa Is bringing a new litone stone merger tr man home with him for dinner I am going goIng going go go- ing to put rock powder In th the currl coKee I DIll lillI hem Iem iem all goodbr r with tears tear In her eyes ejes s Ernestine looked at I Illian and real tz d tl with wroth a shock hol how ho chan changed 11 she be o was In the sit sic months since her mar She was satisfied with her tier lot and herself There was almost danger a a challenge te n to fate tate In her complacEncy com coin She Rhe was gentle and kind to Irne Ernestine but subtly BubUy patronizing It was especially noticeable since mamma had gone Kone for mamma kept Lillian In check heck But Iut If It Lillian was changed Loring was ns startlingly so He lie seemed to Ernestine bigger handsomer HI ills III blond strength was now set fn a robust vitality which was very different from Wills Will's volatile excitability He Ill kissed Ernestine affectionately told her she he looked well and admired the baby Mamma had hind trained a maid for Lillian Lil lian liaa lIan and she else served In silent sl competence competence com com- an excellent lInt dinner but the bright vivacity of the afternoon was WI gone tone The Interwoven volubility of the three women their constant Interruption Inter of one another their exclamations ions mind and cries of astonishment or sympathy now disappeared and LorIn Lor Lor- In talked anti the two girls girl Irl listened lie He assumed Ernestine knew all about their E journey Over there he hI said he had hlll got a new slant I on things It was u good thing for a aman aman aman man to K Jot Pt t sway ny from his desk for a I while Now r he had decided to forego the l idea lu of ot the bench and go In fur for crime They n anti and lie ne tit tt them thew but hut all the sume balDI he hits he meant It The he Judiciary qualities are ore excellent excel excellent lent but not remunerative unless unless one becomes a corrupt from tram which fate tote Heaven ln deliver mcl I The criminal crim inal lawyer Is the Important lawyer of ot today lie He I Is the lie man with power In Inthe Inthe Inthe the courts It It will III be tie a new leW kind of ot litigation for our but It If I can get the business I 1 can handle hondle It I went to lI see e that Greek creek chap chap Pasta no this this afternoon and ond recalled to him our acquaintanceship and our mutual friends lie He remembered rl me perfectly and asked about you ou lIe He seems much Interested In you and Will lies lie the theman theman man to see se Tom Kelly y told me me at lit the City hall halt He Ile has hal the say about all that Clark street colony Theres There's no end nd of ot money mOlley there and Im I'm going to dig Ill some of It out for miss us Ernestine's face wa was flushed She could collid not deny her anger aner Hut But It seems Inconsistent to me she said quickly for you fOil to take advantage ad ads vantage of ot his friendship for Will when you d disapprove e so of ot our knowing him I dont don't understand has hn friendship got to do with business Loring asked and his own face flushed with resentment I tell you OU Ive I've got to make new contacts If it were we're to bring a different kind of clientele Into the office Besides I didn't disapprove e of ot Will knowing him It was only his taking you to tint that dive dle Do no you jou ou think I would mix Lillian ui U un with that crowd I see se any grand difference retorted I Ernestine Lillian Isn't a baby y She's your our wife anyhow Upsides Up sides sIdell the are all ull right right nil nil of ot them there I know them well well and the two girls are arc as fine tine as ns any I have met Theres There's not a month passes lases that we dont don't visit them or they dont don't call Mr Ir admires Will Wilt He lie once onro hurt my DIY feelings and hes he's been making It up lip ever eter since Weve We've been ben friends Js without asking about hi his political pout ical teal or how he tie makes his hits l IDO money its It all 1111 very Jy well for you to take an attitude with we ue declared Loring but Ive In come romo home dome with the determination deter d to mole money and and a lot of It Chicago ico o Is Ii rich rid I 1 may as well WE'll take some of It us os others And If It an acquaintance with n R powerful mun manlike like Ia tano tally IIII to toI I luck Ill I'll riy my u pursue It rr win um want me to Will would I a admitted Ernestine but her looks were pre cold Youve chan changed eil Loring You used not be so I e acquired a new sense ol of tallies values he admitted Of course Im I'm not nt at nil all that u a man should stick stUk at nothing to m make le money That's n II ml mistake and nn no good anyhow any any- how limit Hut Ive I've I been a around around i 1 I saw one ono I thins thing everywhere its It IlIs Is U the passion pus pas don sion for fol the of money us money-us us much ns liS a moon can on III lay Iny han hands ls on on one Dont be he silly said hi his wife mildly mildly- Look ook how happy Ernestine Ernes Ernes' tine lime Is and nd she's else's as broke us Ul broke I i am um happy happ declared d Ernestine r Ye admitted Luring but that Hut Is Iv because your our capacity for tor happiness Is 11 great grat Your pleasure In your jour marriage und and your jour I child wouldn't be he g spoiled atall at ul atall all by y more amore comforts I 1 don't dont want anything changed Not ot now now not not at this moment But If you'll be bp honest with find that one reason for jour your content tent nent U is your jour our great t expectations for tor forthe forthe the tho future You ou f.-el f. that your our condition condi condl lion tion Is li only temporary Come lome now Ernestine Isn't Ernestine Isn't that EH so You are arl confident that there will still be he money for tor you jou ou amid Will 1111 when Peter grows grossa older und and Wills Will's work wont develops tle Into more morl Importance poor can be a game gume If it Its It's only an un Interlude lint Hut if you ou had lud to look hook forward rOM to nothing else else The truth of ot his logic hurt Ernestine unbearably l 1 care core w wi ether bether Will 1 ever Ver makes make money or not not t she ahe declared passionately passion study almost In tears You think you jou OU dont don't dont said bring lc inexorably Will wouldn't say that thal i ery mun own wants money every I woman wants her man to have It Its It's a of power potter If it Will set get It hell he'll feel that lies hell felled failed your Tour confidence In 10 him hirn t By MARGARET WEYMOUTH JACKSON O Q 1 br by 7 Hobbs Co Ca W NU service Bent Ernestine found herself trembling Lillian picked the baby op up and dandled dan dnn died him and spoke quietly to boring t You are arc disturbing Ernestine and It Isn't a abit bit nice aloe of you ou All this shoutIng shout shout- log Ing makes me wonder It If you yon doubt your our own ability She took the bal baby y and put him In his hla mothers mother's arms Loring apologized Its 6 a bad habIt I nave have hare arranging my own thought In an argument It mean a thins timing sophistry pure and simple I 1 know you are sincere Ernestine Dont Don't pay any attention to tome me The talk fell Into safer lines but Ernestine was Willi no longer happy Lor- Lor lux ing got out his car lar amid with Lillian and Ernestine In the back sent seat with the sleeping he dro drove e e to her home Imme They left lert tier her now as they thel had hud left her tier In I Erie street disrupted d unhappy un un- happy and at odds with Will Iii She he was awake when n Will came In and she fixed a n light supper for him s 1 r Sh She Was Satisfied With Her Hor Lot and Herself and told him bins all that boring had said with some small editing lies a capable la lawyer laer er 1 I suppose Will said And nd If It Ruby nuby wants to give gin him work to do and Loring wants to todo todo too do o It what's the difference lies lie's not the only lawyer that would like 1111 to get his fingers Into pie But Hut anyhow I e got something to tell you ou I Underwood's going coins to New York and I Tuckers Tucker's to be b head hend of the time art room Ernestine felt a cruel shock of dis dis- disappointment appointment She knew Will had expected expected ex ex- this this hud had for tor the job himself nut But Tuckers Tucker's so young oung she protes pro pro- protested tes tested ted It Isn't that that that-he's he's hes capable Im I'm glad he got It It said suld Will Ernestine thought of ot what this job might e have meant The pay lay was nearly near lIlar ly Iy double They rhey could have hu rented this house hOl mid amid with the rent and the Increase mo e moved l Into an apartment In Ita en wood Oh Ob she tried cried to Will Vill ast at ather ather ather her own mental processes Its so hard not to 10 consider money Not ot to want It I Not to care caret I I Ito dont don't want to be greedy and grabby I dont don't want to crave success But I I am-I do Isn't hot It horrible lie Ile looked at her ber with some humor You arent aren't greedy and grabby sweetheart And a as for success theres there's a legitimate way to want that not DOt for tor the money but for tor the work I dont don't think this has any effect on executive my future Its It's really an position and Im I'm a solitary worker Id I'd be no good at bossing Its It's an edi editorial edl edl- job and Tommy has an editorial slant on 00 things timings lies He's fitted lilted for tor It ItA it itA A few tew days later Inter he tie came home with a a shining face tace Im to be Poole's Pooles assistant he said Do 00 you realize what this means to tome tomp mp me met Its It's worth te ten tea thousand In cash to to work ork under tinder him If a person went to him and offered a hundred dollars a alesson alesson lesson Isson he wouldn't teach him to draw but would curse curs him out of ot the office And hell he'll teach tach me tae and Ill I'll be paid laid for tor It It means no nn more night work Ten Tn till six Fix I d do detail In the art room until Mr Ir Poole comes In and then lien I work for tor him all afternoon lie does dols a copy for a New York syndicate syndi cute cate every ery day dRY and theres there's always work to plan ahead and sketches to toIny toIny tolay Iny lay out lies lie's been boozy a lot lately und mind I think |