Show a ir n im all TH LOM MANDi IL M ff bent AM ka Z RUPERT H ja bf ft DAPHNE GETS THE BIG CHANCE THAT SHE HAS BEEN PRAYING FOR AND AT THE SAME TIME HAS FEARED 81 N tt amburn a young sew new yorker on a n visit to clevelend cleveland meets pretic daphne kip brother Is lo 10 the be bame osice office with clay in mall street after a whirlwind whirl aind courtship they become engaged daphne goes to new york alth her mother to hoy buy her trousseau daphne daphnes brother has ha jat just married and left for europe with his hl bride helln daphne and her mother intall install themselves in bayards Ba jarde flat daphne me anete ts tom toni adane raba about town who beems greatly attracted to her daphne accidentally discovers dI that clay la IA penniless except for his hi conry barnard and his wife return to new york bunei the three lrea net met out on a shopping ami aral the two younger women buy expensive gowns liv arlu them chained charged to bayard bayard Is I 1 furious over the expense exin axe alax bard hard times ahead daphne ne indignant declares she he will fam rn her ouro own aral breaks her enga a e ment with clay through an introduction by dunne burtine andu induces steben a thi aurli ul magnate tc lie give her a posit in la in one of his corn annie her first rehearsal Is 1 a casco but bui cleben at deanea request gives her another clano e CHAPTER XI continued a well I 1 beverl never he lie gasped arri and all this trip of your mothers anil and fours yours and all the cone gone for ri othIn r wa at his crt doleful thought lie remembered the second mortgage be he had placed on one of his prOp to get the money for the vitally important wedding festival and now there wax was to im no winding weddin the on son la in law who as to have assumed the burden bilia wax was banis banished htA daphne WAN wits again her futtere fut bere own child lie ile wa clad glad to have her back but he could have wished that she he had not gone away ince since ho he paid the freight frel glit in both direction directions and now here himself in new york and nothing to how show for all the ilie milk of time money and emotion emotions at the critical moment daphne men stoned that the star tar whose understudy tady ehr she wax bould cam tam fifty shousan tho usan dol lan inra that year in spite of the hard bard timer I 1 fifty thousand bou nand dollar dollars had a bound sound to Wee leye ear eam if daphne rould earn a tenth of that he would believe in miracle L abere were ere you planning to live honey while youre acting with bayardi bayard I 1 suppose oh no paid daphne weve ruined rained hie his honeymoon ev ednah agh already aho with henr oh 1011 jy by myself I 1 supposed eup pose bood lordi you do that very well a young girt girl like you boar lilby chy fotr she he aid said lie ile turned pale this wa was like being asked ked why hy babies were ere found under cabbage leaves lie ile wa was on an old fashioned father rind be he hud had never been wen able to rl rise to the new school of ill dis cumming vitally important topics with the children vitally interested why why he stammered why because kolody does it honey nice girls irl don dont t live alone dorline studied win with a tender amusement lie wae was PA innocent in his way in spite of au av he fie fiust know she rhe understood vi what bat he was thinking thin hing of f she uns sophisticated la lit the man ner of the nice girl of her tier time and she be liked to treat submerged thi tonic tl nic with clean candor she thought that prudery was as a form of slavery pl avery if it youve just juit cot got to stay in new torb aind jut just got to work yur mother could tay stay wita ith you I 1 suppose lint what becomes of you and your bona bot f oj 04 ill set get along somehow ome how I 1 dont mat tr this broke her tier heart she out i lint you do mutter matter daddy you lull ter terribly cant you understand daddy that im trying to belleve you and make myself useful of a parasite par aslie thousand Thoun ands of women live alone profess professional lonal women art students 1 students biege girl normal school women side the women in and ac torlea tortes lva coining coming more and mom but youre not bi blought ought up to a trade 1 I with wish I 1 had been 1 well weil a new complaint anyway but well of course you do anything areng wren but if it you lived alone yond be and men would keep throwing tempha lion in your ft nay ay 1 I had plenty of that when I 1 wa was biting at home daphne riel he lie cried out in pain at the very thought she wert went on educating him with a vengeance v 0 plenty of temptation and plenty of f opportunity daddy it your fault you gave me ell tit the ro lection that anybody couk daddy but 1 you cant protect people all the tim and it t wa was when you trusted in mg mot that you protected me most dimple ere are just beginning to realize that even in penitentiaries the higher the stalls alt and the stricter the guard guards the raon more prisoners try to a it tins convict nut out to work w n roads i t ir 1 no guardi at t nil all aud they thay 14 their wo f an back don t you think women ca can be bt trusted as a far ai ni con convicts victir 1 I suppose go he but he was wn convinced of the security m arity of nel ther the convicts r nor of the women under these wese new an anar archles chies lie was convinced of only one thing thin and that no bis his daphne cooc him home la in a taxicab ta acab at the apartment they caught I 1 agard just bushio rushing for his office lie greeted lila film father fattier frith with whirlwind bat but he knew that be would please amley 1 better 1 ly hurrying on to bis his office than by his business for the purpose of entertainment aley eley took aila by storm with bis his lavish abole tt hole hearted praise he lie had not iw peen her before lie gathered ra her lo 10 his breast then held her out at enns arms length to praise her and to pral te elayard for brin bringino ginZ her loto into the family aire kip did not delay lone long the as fault sault on daphne daphnes position cut but weeley wesley said were weve bad had a ion talk and I 1 g aass ashes pretty set in her way sars a ewd gill though mamma and she ha know knows her own bind mind better than fe e do its her own mind let her hare have her way and if anything goes she be aza always come back ills wife boiled over it roade made her fl ab a much at home ai as an old kettle on a to hare have her there to boll over on wesley kip are you coing going to net pet there and encourage that eirl girl to ruin her life and her reputation without doing anything to protect berr 0 01 1 guess hes thes not going to ruin anything after all the best way to protect folks Is to trust tw m it was bald but daphne no complaint lonley asly ps ly got into trouble at cince however by making tho the suggestion that his wife remain as a companion for her child kip took it ax a algo sign that he be wanted to get rid lid of her and daphne refused to take lake it at all wesley rat at dmd artric in silence for a 1 while then I 1 rose and mumbling ile back la in a little while took bis his art and went out th y wot dered what he via up to und what hat folly he would commit he lie barale back in I nit an hour with a ullo lille of 1 I sow guf ax ita it i all richt I 1 been think lag ing about all the different shingi been mild said wo dont want dephne thing by herself and the he don t eel feet litre like bo bult to trespass on leila home eo so I 1 rot got an in idea and went dona and aw saw the janitor or superintendent or hat ever he it I 1 nad and I 1 asked him mich tnt it be there vms somebody la in this building wanted to rent a loom to a nice girl irl and anti he eal sal I 1 there wai was a youns couple felt the rent was a little high and had an extra room so we trent went up and boot too n took at it it burkt lice young woman name of chivvis 1 or something thin like that aid ithe abed d be glad to tale take my laughter in I 1 was think ins ing that if it daphne was wa up there she he could 14 bayard and leila lelia when he she was lo lonesome lonc Konie or anything and hed shied be handy where they could keep an eye on her it she he sot got eick nick or 9 anything ny thin the three women looked it hs hl in ama amazement amaie rement nent lie ile lind had bolted solved the riddle ridd ie hat that baffled them all and had comero compro the III 1 bet the place Is a sight and the woman L freak mra kip lets lelva co go hare a look at ler 1 so all four went up in the to the top floor they were about to ring the bell of one of the big front apartments like bayards but desicy checked then them ili in to the back the women exchanged glances and smiles behind the shoulder eh blades of wesley uie the manager lie ile rang a bell and boane woman opened the door As aa leila mid sald afterward she bad had the whole map of new england in her face and od her middle middie name wae was iota Io tc I 1 tat fhe she wis we young la to a raced ru rits way and he she looted looked exceed teaty clean correct tier very wee was neat exactly adjusted between tw those ot of the gracious hostess and of the this landlady mr mrs led the way to the room that wax was for or rent it took daphne at once spotlessness Is the first luxury in a rented room and puritan beauty has a grace all its own the mahogany bd bed with if its twisted poets the excellent linen and the honesty ot of everything every ery try thing won her completely she felt a 11 sense of relief from the rather gaudy beauty of leila apart men she felt that mrs lim chitti showed uch such fine restraint restrain in lr fur alture would be equally dl discreet la in minding her own aff alre IM take it ehe ilbe said that Is it take me t mrs said she be would she aid said it with a new Eng landish paral mony of enthusiasm but her eyes were kindly and daphne decided that the he thought nice things but lacked the courage to ay may them daphne moved at oace into the ch cha r vis 1 apartment what belongings the she had brought on from cleveland CleT dand and her mother promised pron led to dispatch the rest of them as sa on as she reached home wesley could not be persuaded to stay over an unnecessary eight ills business was in a p perilous rilous condition the mammoth cowper firm arm had gone into bankruptcy owing hira him a hand some zu sum of money which he was not likely to re recover coTer the failure also closed an important and profitable table market for bis his calculating machines it frightened bis his banks cs rz well and be he bad wrestled like jacob with an almost invisible 1 cashier for money enough to meet his hi pay roll yet be clipped slipped a large bill mo daphnes hand band when be he bade good by at the late in the afternoon and be he whispered whisper cd to her she should hare have other rc re enforce ments whenever she milad on an hira him gnp daphne ahne reached the at seven and eat rat in the dark on a v vas rock the stase stage hands eather an listening to their repartee batterson Bal terson arrived ut jengill he lie was in one of his humane woods lie he asked daphne if ehe she had memorized her lines and che she eald said jibe he bad had lie told her that he be give 1 her another rehearsal the next day after b after breakfast he was one I 1 p m next awning daphne presented herself to batterson Bat tinon and endured one of his rehearsals with his assistant read ins ing all the cues la in a lifeless voice bat terson was more discouraged abar the he was lie he bowed showed it for a time jy y a pat patience lence that was of the sort one shows to s L shy imbecile he ile was so restrained that daphne broke out for him lira do you think I 1 am a complete idiot mr far from it my dear eald said bt ater eon son you are a very intelligent young woman the trouble Is that yon you are ire too intelligent for ibe be childs play of he ho sta stafe e its all a kind of bic big nursery and you cant forget that facts are not facts la in this toy game if you could let yourself go and be foolish and play doll bouse house you might inight succeed its lva hard even ren when hen you know hew but its impossible as ions long as you try to reason it out its like music and fiction and all the arts bouvo got to pretend or you cwt cat feel and you IOU cant make else teel V and that indeed was daphnes if LF ony she could not release her imagination or command her clear vision to see ahat bat was wax biot there them ight after he reported at the theater and left it when the curtain rose on one of these evenin evenings gj tom duane met hr outride outside the uv door ills apology was as that be he felt it bis his duty to look after his client lie ile invited daphne to ride bome in a his car wilh was waiting at the curb she dec ned with thanks ile ure d I 1 I 1 I 1 f sho sh reached tb the theater at seven and sat in the dark on an a canvas rok rock watching Watch lna ate stage hande hands gather and L to their repartee that she take a little pla spin in the park she declined without thank ile sighed that it was a raty pit to lose the moonlight she aid said she he would get enough when hen she he talked walked home lie asked it bo he might toddle alone along she could bard hard ly refuse without crawly crassly insulting him they loitered slowly tp vp the quiet rech reach of 0 seventh avenue ile qu cloned her about her work with all the crateful grateful flattery Is in aa an appe 7 ute tite for ano thees auto autobiography Anra rby she S found it easy to tell him of her cullim ue be extracted or indirect compliment out of all ol 01 them when they arrived at br her apartment bouse house the she eald uld sorry I 1 cant ask you up but I 1 bate no reception room and I 1 m tired out yoa have wasted tio enough of your time on me he eld uld HI see ee yoo you to the elevator ele As A daphne stepped into the ba hallway she found clay wilbam there wa wait it ing in grimly lie ile sprang to his feet with a pap of relief lie ile right sight of duane and hl joy died last antly wimborn wimburn loved daphne aad and wanted her for his own lie he bad counted her his own and still had bad neither refunded the engagement eoga gement ring nor paid for it 11 daphne was more pleased with hums burns misery than with doanes duanes felicity wont yoa you come op up amyr the she asked he murmured cao can we be alone for a little talar 1 11 I m afraid not the yoa you know will mit you take a little walk with m me la in the parky all right the she eald wild as she led the way ou on into the street rm pretty tired though I 1 wailed walked home from the theater falth ith deaner clay snarled lou IOU too tired for that daphne thought of the motor ride and the supper the she bad had declined abbe eald said are you dragging me out here for the sake of a therell 1 b no flat if cut out that mza doane dunne am I 1 to have no friends at aall all yon you can have all you want pro tided vided r let me give yoa you one little hint clay for your own lif information formation every emery time this mr duane dunne that youre iao u afraid of meets me be he does his best to help ne me n e get my chanat and he tells me only pifa sant things every tim timp youre youve come to see me we lately youe youie been leen cither either a tick cat or a roaring tiger she waa was planning to urge him to help her and make their meetings roster rosler lint loTer lle tie took urn um brag brage and pain and aud despair from her advice and since they were again agala at tle he sabe t good night mr mrs duane dunne and fling tut cut into the dark daphne sighed and the poor eleva tor man who vilio saw eo so much of this sort of thine sighed with her and for her CHAPTER XII all ali this while daphne was kept in readiness to take silas miss Nem bles part la in cae else the illness of br bor b r child should result in death and in he further case that she the should be unable to finish her perform performances anem with the 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