Show III the th T thirteenth h by commandment cum m and ln t RUPERT HUGHES f copyright ti A jill THANKS TO DUANE DAPHNE GETS THE C CHANCE HANCE TO abe BECOME AN ACTRESS IF SHE CAN MAKE GOOD Synoptic Clay amburn a 0 young new yorker on a visit to clee clew land meets pretty daphne kip whose brother la is in the same office with clay in wall street after a whirlwind courtship they become eng engaged aged clay buy buys an engagement ring on credit end and returns to new york daphne agrees to aa an early marriage and after extracting fro from in her tier money u father what the she regard regards as a a lelent surn of money for the purpose ehe she goes to t new york vi with ith her mother to buy her arous trou a pau daphnia Dep linos noa brother bayard lius flus jim jait married and left tor europe with his hl bride leila daphne and her mother install themselves in Ila DR Yards flat wimburn introduces Introduce a daphne and her mother to luxurious 1 new york life daphne tom dutine man about town who ho seeing seems greatly attracted to her daphne icel dentally discovers disco vcra that cla clay Y Is except for his salary flav nard and hie his wife return to new york ua the three women omen set out on a shopping eau exu excursion and tha two wo younger women buy expensive ex gorni tuning them ch charged arged to DR ord bayard Is 1 furious aler the tile expense seeing hard times ahead Dal dachne brie indignant declares she will earn her own living and li nals her clay CHAPTER IX a distine writ tier head bead so quickly q lint flint blie hl press A 4 lips touched tier hair she bark ivard end and thrust him away and broke from his bold hold aehl I 1 sho h I 1 IT I 1 tile instill for aull ou III 1 I intend ft it for nn on I 1 insult 11 H iro followed her eulth pleading arms bhe she bielek and found herself in it corner flushed furious nt at bay how dare you yon bho stormed storme it a of thought with how often the tile phrase had bad been used end and alti it what hypon 1163 l it seemed to fall familiarly on his tits per ear for ho be laug lous lied comfortably allow inn I 1 hilp III if you touch me I 1 11 lilt hit you lie ile paused stared deep into her tier eyes do menn III of coure coursel mean it ira im orry sorry he sighed but vont you let lot me ext exil laan aint you dont have to ite its til all my fault for inviting you here ob oh no I 1 bee bet you dot not to til think that I 1 M such a cad cat ilease co I 1 all right I 1 he murmured and left the room she heard hie his stick rattle ae as he took tt it from th run brella jar sho she thought there goes ny iny opportunity my en ca rmel 1 well lit it 1 I it worth tho price I 1 alP alfered aaen to eny BOY oh ohl by the nay way that introduction to sir mr aben do you still ant iti it f no thank you not fro from you goodby ayou he lie bowed farewell then changed fits mind entered lie the room and oat at down and d her tier to a sell bent t as 08 it if it were his bouse house nales 1 kip tuny MAY I 1 FRY one word t to you I 1 dont pretend to understand you women people im not burc now just how you are just how enuch of a it ninny apu may think me die for being rebuffed 1 mo easily r APer lence la 13 no guide butwell anyway a alint i 4 wanted to BOY ny Is this there 1 is hardly adf man that would eien bother bolher a woman moman un knilling illing to b be both ered ml if it he ile could only on be cel that he tufts really bothering her do I 1 wake myself clearl 1 not in the tho least well then I 1 sivo give up but I 1 must leabu you a bit of advice you wy MY YOU want to tarn money it if you d annik 1 f 0 I 1 A and may blay I 1 arrance rot you t to use lit et he stac or in any ether other hulne bir lne ia YO you will meet a if 1 of inco who will cel feel it their duty ta try 0 to o klas you 1011 el it the first opportunity T ita its not only became because you are e 1 pretty tor or I 1 really bellere believe ane hoat mellet ho ilett birli 11 ret get the moat most perhaps its it because PYre not IM so parti u any way if not broke nen plen are 4 that they fly to lim but because obliging bli ging there 1 1 Is an DIA enswor 1 dout awl t ku k how wl ruble it 1 Is or how true no man can know but there Is a tradition that very every I oman expect expects every man eho she meets to offer lier tier on an insult the technical termas bermas soon as they arc are alone that feeling Is what women are going to run into every time they try to force their way into business it mill 1111 die out I 1 suppose to n certain nex ex tent as you crowd into our field it will bo be one of the last privilege privileges lose youre already permitted to stand up in street cars and po out after dark alone by and by ou wit have to mke your advances to the men in the frankest frnnk cit manner instead of 0 subtly as now daphne broke in coldly that will bo be a n very v elcome day to roost most of us somehow it did not sound convincing to her there hns grave conviction lio hono never vcr in his response it mill III be a mighty welcome day lay to Us u noor wor men miss kip for most men the faintest desire to poon pool with women its it hard enough for some if I f them to keep their own brud wives ives ca reused then theres there s another thing it if im not boring you houi I 1 made aj id lonar long a speech since I 1 waa was a schoolboy and reci recited tiLd spartacus te top the gladiators 11 go on phase said daphne A woman woma n otten often get the chance of hearing a man tell the truth about these thine her I 1 I 1 er t A r chilled him a little but he be went 0 on n 1 I just want to say any th isIt a old advice to a young woran going into business when ben a roan man asks for a it job to bringa brings references and they are investigated 0 01 be an answers sers a R lot of questions and he la is given a trial or when two mea me meet et in a club or elsewhere clew elsen here they shake shak 0 hand handlo that handshake hande hake itsel is a kind ki nd of investigation vesti gation of character they learn tach others politics and religion and all d prejudices as boon soon as they can so when nhen a n ann meets a woman ho he Is apt to be thrown n with a good deni deal be he Is apt to say hat sort is she ahel hut but the thing that annoys a nian man most about having to do business with a v woman oman Is the fear that he will elthor her or disappoint her alt the first problem to let out of tho way may and theres nothing easier easler for a woman to do than to cn ince n aman that she want mant it a to tic to flirt with her herit if she daphne cried in heavens name a tell roe inc how tta ita done the tho way to Conil convince lice him Is 1 to be convinced yourself if it youre yon re sincere he 11 know IV ilot I 1 was sincere with you and you rou didn t know it 1 I 1 know it at fr st but I 1 boon soon did I 1 think thin kand allot now what im darivin at all this long white bile if It youre godi into boldness buld ness competition with rocc iner ploy play fair every now nov and then one of of them as oon won as he finds blia him roif alone wita you will be polite to insult you but the average man ill let on alone it if you 11 let him alone suppose lie doc does make a mistaken advance you could be sen tible enough not dot to bet get mad not to reet feet besmirched but just take it ai as n t matter of course and suit bay say frankly NN V thanks 1111 I 1 it interested I 1 tin un der stand you perfectly but you bother or something like that and say it honestly tho the rest would be plain and now if forgive me for or lurann nir arin off and it you it 11 pro e it 11 1 letting nw 1110 help you I 1 it promise e neer to his you or try to till till iou on me to daphne nt at his impudence and he laughed as well tell as he lie might and they shoot bands hands and inny may I 1 arrange for you to meet reben 1 I bato hate to in ilsk you now not ive no right tight to trouble ou but I 1 im m terribly anxious to get a it job jow and im terribly noxious anxious to get you onea one YOU rf awfully kind iliad 11 aho she paid nna led jell him to the telephone she felt that it would be Indeli to llan and vent went back into the living 1 room of the apartment thera D buene ne joined hin a few moments moment with the terrify terrifying ini bev nei A that cleben had aid said that he might hare have a chance to place her at once it she could come to bis his office without delay opportunity bouncing cut nt at her like a it jack in the box alarmed her but ehe she faced it pluckily pluck lly she put on her hat hilt nath ith trembling handa bands and went sent down in the elevator with duane they went nent up in 1 nn on elevator at one side of or the lobby of or the theater and tipped stopped out at office door A number of somber and despondent of a theatrical complexion were cre waiting alting there also the wr watched te hed Lazar uses of art duane poke spoke to a it respectful I boy who disappeared through a door and returned to beckon him in with heart bounding high and bubbling at her throat daphne entered the theatrical world by br one of its mott gilded portals purt als the great beben sat bulkily behind an ornate table desk and dismissal a till still more ore ornate stenographer with nith a nod as he roae to greet duane duane did the honors mr 1 auant I 1 want to present you to kip miss daphne kip italien greeted her with witt suavity and his eye cyca Is were oven even more enthusiastic than his words daphne was mas at her superlative degree and anxiety gave her a it 31 that was appealing to to reben charms charm a and not 1 I 8 t ful nesses made up a large part of III his ware a re i la rj rade have you had any experience ione one I 1 studied elocution never I 1 never feole a piece lu u my life I 1 good it I 1 amateur theatricals never I 1 never neier to care for them katter i et 1 IN lint makes you thick you disint int to net act lloil money I 1 want to earn morcy get rich 1 I eee see ead sad ilaben and ani fell into a profound meditation studying etu dying daphne searchingly duane netted seized the opportunity r to rise and any ay well nell ill III leave leme you tw two 0 to ather P ther to talk terms it would be in bellil e for me to know just ho how w rich miss KIP Is going to be lie ile had bad no sooner gone than R ebens manner changed slightly and da daphnes ahnes courage vanished kebin macd the floor as he talked ills 1119 path kept eflowly 1 v closing in n around her like the walla walls la in roea etory story yon you look like MISS 1 terrible Xer I 1 be he aid you bavo have nt at we ule same etyle style of play tha omay may bo be your line I 1 cant tell of course I 1 don t know how veil fell you Y can act perhaps i you acier could kamble la Is great but ehe she cornea comes of an old theatrical family of course yon YOU have one great curtal your beauty for you are very beautiful MISS kip very let u your eye t ite had bad a it right to ask it if he were gring to hire her tier eves bet but ehe she looked up cravenly tvr for the burly satrap jenning over her ilia ills left bind wae was on the orm of the chair his right on the back of it ills left hand band was vas gradually un ily enveloping here hers it was a fat J jt t hand and his face was so close that it was blurred in her ad vision i n then the she remembered duanes urda she controlled control lid ltd herself benour enough h to put them to the test sho she art tended to look coldly into face and bho she said jill a brave chow of 0 calm mr sir cleben I 1 lome oine here tu to flirt girt with you bod find I 1 dont intend tu tc I 1 came hero here for a job as RS nn an actress if this sort of thing it Is a necessary part vf of tho tha job lit ill go somewhere clue else beban backed away nad and stared nt at her lie ile vas as rendered foolish by hr rebuff and ho he stammered why wily I 1 I 1 meant in lant no hann barm she went on with the duane elsiem M of treatment 1 I know you dida didat t y you OU meant to be polite but yon you doat dont haqq h ity to be eo polite to me I 1 dont ex hect it aad I 1 dont like it all right all right I 1 reben grow growled IN pacing the floor again but in a con scantly receding path lie ile did not jcak peak lie ile felt that he had made a fc fe I 1 of himself and ho he wa was embarrassed daphno daphne was so frightened with her success that the she fat got to her tier feet isay sa Y ing 1 I 1 suppose his this means that you on do don t want roe me to work for you ile it true then what that they say a about he stage n II 11 nonsense I 1 0 of f course nott not I 1 ilott I 1 never see ino root inot t of my rny people except at tit or performances te r e never spoken ken to three quarter of 0 em if it you want a R job you can anve it und co no concessions are necessary tec essary you dont have to flake love ove to die me you make teve love to bo the audience aud lence and it if you can con capture that you can slap MY face every time you see me daphne was astounded she was edgag a di she was exultant and thrilled with milt ide to dunno duane for introducing her to ablo alil isam marvelous loua oi op port unity and for he the wisdom of bit his coun counsel liell babou said the me general under studa of the kemble company has bag cronn tired fired of waiting via ting for a ance to appear ja public quitt lue ilig me this uk cek for a 1 part in 5 rood road company you can con hava her place if you rou it du W bour you bet er op Indeed I 1 III how often does an on understudy As rarely as possible 11 daphne daphnes joy turned to lend lead cleben added I 1 but we don t pay by performances s I 1 III it pay lay you tn twenty nt flu a I 1 week you wanted money theres therea a lithe little 0 of it for a start at a rt do you nant it IN UH III it lead to anything better it might am I 1 to understudy misa miss kemble ye yes ani aul nit till the other women momen r roles oles and when do you suppose get a chance 14 i play miss 3 part soon never I 1 hope encouraging I 1 if mis kemble fell III wed erdl naulty refund the money because the star but sometimes we might have to sire e a performance nt at short notice 1 chances in the other othor parts might come co me any day and give mo me a better chance when you caal can indeed I 1 will isyou if you have the gift the sooner I 1 find it out and the harder I 1 giorl ork it the more mon money ey I 1 make the more you earn the more I 1 male id I 1 d like to pay you tin tn thousand a w i eek ek id liko like to have you all right III try ho ile pressed a button on his desk once then twice the office boy appeared ti followed follo jel by the stenographer ilaben said to the boy 13 1 mr batterson here send him to me to the stenographer be he sad sald I 1 hll III out a contract for miss kip miss IN lints the first name miss daphne kip salary twenty wenty five make it a three year contract reben motioned ber absently to her chier cli clr and said rather for du deanee anes sake suite thun for hers she atif sit down doin wont you till the contracts coat facts come and pardon me it I 1 lie ile finished the phrase by the deed the office routine went 0 on n and daphne might have been the cb chair air she sat out in for all till the attention he lie majd her se felt rather ungallantly ign red still she had asked to be tren ed on a IlL siness licals ile wa was t king her at her word before the contracts were I 1 ready mr hatterson Hat tereon appeared he ire ws one of 0 reben rebena a stage managers a worried emot emotional loual little man worn orn to shreds with hia his task of stimulating end and cor erecting tho the emotions by which others earned their and fame reben introduced him to daphne and explained her new office batter son on teemed seemed none too well pleased Pleas edwith with the news that daphne was ignorant of stage work to the last agree lie had found it hard enough to inlo the experienced actors read their lines as th they ey must be rend and keep on reading them eo so to tench 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