| Show thirteenth mir im ITH COMMA I 1 a nua ME NT Z RUPE RT HU ches 16 IV DAPHNE GETS THE BIG chante THAT SHE HAS BEEN PRAYING FOR AND AT THE SAME TIME HAS FEARED clay wimburn a young new yorker on a visit to cleveland aeeti pretty daphne kip hip who e brother 14 la in the same office with ith clay in aall al street after a whirlwind mInd mInd courtship they become engaged daphne g ge to new york with her mother to buy her trousseau nu dephnea brother Il illiard lias has juet just married and left for europe with his hi bride leila daphne and tier mother install themselves in Ila flat dichne inputs ine ts tom duane man about town loun who mho seems greatly attracted to lier tier daphne accidentally discovers that clay Is pennI penniless lev except for hi ht batary baynard daynard and hia his wife lie return to new ew york unexpectedly 71 a three women act et out on a shopping excursion anil and the two younger wonus buy expensive gowani hailu then them charged to hayard bayard dacard Is I 1 furious over the expense seeing hard times ahead daphne indignant declares she he will can eum her oun on 0 ihloff and break breaks lier tier engage merit with clay through an introduction by duane daphne induces kebin ae n a theatrical magnate tu to aglid her a position in one 0 of hia his coin corn ponies first rehearsal rehear aal la Is a casco auf bu reben at duanes request giree gives her tier another chance j I 1 CHAPTER XI continued a well I 1 beert he gaped anil anti all this trip ot of your mothers inot liera and yours and all the expense expenses gone for i was as his hi first dol dolful ful thought lie remembered the lie woud mortgage be he bad placed on one of his 51 4 to gut get the money for the vitally important wedding festival and now thero there was to be lye no wedding tle eun son in law who waa ta hae baie assumed the burden ofa Daphnes bills was bant hed di daphne pline wa was again her father own oun child lie he was wa glad to have her back bat but he be could hare have wished that she had not gone away dace since he paid the frelent la in both direction directions and now here was himself in new york ant and nothing to how show for all the split mik of time money and emotions at he the critical moment aplin D mentioned that the etar star whose Oer study the she m nit m auld earn fifty tho dollars that rear in spite of the hurd kimt fifty thousand dollars do llara had a musical sound to paley ears if daphne could earn pam a tenth of that he would believe in where were you planning lne to live honey while youre acting with bayard I 1 suppose ob oh no sala daprie weve ruined hie his honeymoon enouch enough already aho vho ho with ith then oh by bl myself I 1 suppose pl good lord I 1 you do that very ery mell a young girl like you why fotr the said lie ile fumed turned pale this was like belag eked buhy babies acre ere found under cribbage leases lemes lie mas as nn an old fash ioard father and he had never raver beet able to rise to the new mckool of dis fewing vitally Import pt rt topics with the children vitally interested why why he why because nobody doea does it lt hooey honey nice girt dont live alone daphne studied him with a tender amusement he ile was so innocent in hie his woy may in of au all he lie must know she understood ahat be he was wo thinking of t she was sophisticated in the man ner ter of at the nice cirl girl ot of ht time and he she liked to treat submerged aub themes with citan clean candor she thought that prudery was a form of slavery if youve just got to lay stay in n new york and just got to wok wo k your mother cougil stay wilh ali you I 1 suppose supposed lint what become becomes at 0 you and tour your beall f I 1 10 i get alone along somehow I 1 dont ia batir tir this broke we h t heart she tried out ant nut lint 01 ol ou do matter daddy you mit liter terribly cut cant you understand daddy that im dro trying to roller relieve you and make myself kucul instead of a parasite Th ouanda of women live alone sione professional profession at omen momen art stu tu dents college girl normal school tomen besides beside si the women in shops and factories its it coming nors more and more do youre not brought up to a trade 61 ish I 1 had been ovll that a new complaint any way Y but well of course you do anything wrong but if you lived atone alone be misjudged anil ara men would mould keep throwing temptation in your way ways 1 I had plenty vt ut that when I 1 was living at home bome daphne I 1 he lie cried tried out tn in pala pain at the th ery very thou thought glit she went on educating him with a vengeance renge anco plenty rf temptation and plenty of opportunity Y daddy it wasa it year fault rou give me all the protection that anybody could daddy bet you cant protect people all the iliae and it was when you arted me most that you protected me most veople lop le are jut jutt beginning to rr tillie even la in the higher he mca aad the stricter tvr the ther guards the ibor prisoners try to escie pe thyre Th pyre 9 to ling convicts oct out to work on n roads vf aim no at t all auti they 1 l far vw V s 0 aw e C back don t you think women can be trusted as 08 far for as mu victar 1 I cuppe so he be sighed but he be wan nam convinced of the security of pel inet ther the convicts nor of the women under these new anar chies lm lie was cont convinced laced of only one thing auti and that mas aa lai daphne took him homo home in a taxicab at the apartment they caught bayard just rushing for hia ida office lie ile greeted bis his father with affection I 1 lut ut he knew that he be would please W weley eley better by hurrying on to hia his office then than by neglecting hia his business for the purpose of entertainment wesley tool took leila lelia by storm with his lavish and wholehearted whole hearted praise lie ile ho tin I 1 not seen her tier bedfor he lie gathered her to his breast tern held her out nt at arms length t to 0 praise her end cad to praise bayard for bringing brin fing hr br two the family sire mm kip hip did not delay long lorac the is tji i s ault soult on daphne daphnes position but weley wesley eald bald weve hae a long tall and I 1 ghessi she aehee 9 pretty tt la in her way a food sirl girl though mamma and che she knows her tier own mind better than we do its her own mind let zat her have her way and if anything goes wrong nhe can always come u back home ills wife boiled over it macra her feel feet as much at home ils sa an old kettle on stove to have her bubang there to boll over on weeley wesley kip are you going to pet thre and encourage that girl to ruin min her life and her r enuta tion without doing anything to protect herr oh 1 X rue gues eh a cot not going to rain min anything atter all the ewt way to protect folks Is to trust lem it was bald plagiarism but daphne made no complaint wesle wesley got into trouble at once however by making the that his wife remain as R companion for lit wr mrs mm kip took it as a sign he be to get rid of her and daphna refused to take it at A all wesley mt sat poder tug la in silence for a n while then he rex rot e and mumbling re back in a litteri llull while took bl bli bat hat and went oct ort they wondered what mischief he was up to and what folly he would commit he lie caroe came bark back in halt bult an bour hour with a smile of icuss 1 I guess its it all debt right I 1 been think ing about all the efferent erent things been raid paid we dont want daphne living by herl herself and the dont feel like the she czatt to trespass on leila home to I 1 cot got an idea and went down and aw saw the janitor or or what ever be ie Is and I 1 asked him it be v wax somebody in this build inc ing wanted to rent a room to a nice girl ctrl and be he raid there was a young couple felt the rent was a little high and hau ham an extra room so we re vent went up and took a look at it right nice young woman name of or or i like that raid id shed be glad lad to take my daughter in I 1 was think ins ing that if daphne wax was up there the he could see bayard and loll 1011 when she he was lonesome or anything and shed abed he be handy here they thoy could keep an eye on her it abe he got sick or anything tho th three women looked at hla him la in amazement he lie had olred solved the that baffled thera them all and had cazarro moped the lart ill bet the place Is a right tight end and the a reak freak aid said UM kip lets go hare hire a look at her so all four ent up la in the elevator to the top fl clr ar they were abut t to 0 ring ve U etl ell of one of the bs big froni front like bayards Ba but weeley checked them thera ava if IQ in the back the women enhanced ex glances and smiles behind the important shoulder ho older blades of wee wesley ley ape manager he ile rang a belt bell and a young woman opened the door A leila raid mid afterward atten rard she had the whole map of new england in her face and her bet middle name was bor bote m hat not he me ns youn in a pu way and he she looked exceedingly clean and correct her very emile smile was neat nest exactly adjusted between those of the gracious hostess and of the landlady mrs MM led the way to the room that wax was for rent it took daphne at once Spotless spotlessness nm la is the first luxury in a rented room and I 1 puritan ur it a a be beauty n u i oty has a grace all its own om T the h e m magog a h any bed with its twisted posts the excellent linen and the honesty of everything ery thing won her completely bre felt a cense sense of relief from froin the rather gaudy beauty of leilas apartment she felt that sirs mrs wem showed such fine restraint in her furniture would be equally discreet la in minding her own affairs ill take it she said that Is if take me sirs mrs eald said she would woud blie ald raid it with a new Eng landish parsimony ut of enthusiasm but her eyes were lindly kindly and daphne decided thy thought nice things but lacked be the courage to say them daphne moved ai at once into the chivvis what lelon ings she had brought on from cleveland and her mother promised to klipatch the rest of airia as soon as she reached home wesley could not be ded to stay over an unnecessary night ills business was in it pe ilous condition the mammoth cowper firm had gone into bankruptcy owing him a handsome sum surn of money which he was not likely to recover the failure also closed an important and profitable market for his calculating machines it frightened his banks aa as well rell and he had bad wrestled like another jacob with an almost invisible cashier cabbler for money enough to meet his pay roll yet he lipped slipped a large bill into daphnes hand m ben hen he bade her good by at the station late in the afternoon and nod he whispered to her the she should lave other re w whenever she called d oa an him i Dri daphne pline reached the theater at seven oclo ec end and sat in the dark on a canvas rock watching the stage hands gather and listening to their repartee batterson batter son arrived at length he ile was in one of his humane moods he asked daphne if she bad had memorized lit r lines on annl bhe said ebe she had he lie told her that be he would mould give her another re hearsay the next day after breakfast after breakfast 7 he explained was one p m next met morning daphne presented herself to Batter batterson sou and endured one of bis his with bis his assistant reading all the cues in a lifeless voice batterson was more discouraged than he the was he lie it for a time by a patience that was of at the sort one shows to rt shy imbecile he was so bained r that daphne broke out for him do you think I 1 am a complete CO huot mr Bat nl far train it my dear said batter ROD oton you are a very intelligent A young woman unman the trouble Is that you are too intelligent for the childs play of the stage il ii a all 11 a kind of big nursery and you ton cant forget that facts are not facts in this toy game it if you could let yourself go and be foolish and play doll house you might succeed its hard even when you know how but its impossible as long ion as you try to reason it out its like music and fiction ion and all the arts TO youve ure got to or yon you cant feel feell and you cant make anybody else teel and that indeed was daphnes agony agany she could not release her imagination or command her clear vision to see what was not there them night after night the reported at the theater and left it when the curtain rose rom on one of tatu evenings tom duane met her outside the door ills apology was that he felt it bis big duty to look after his client he lie invited daphne to ride home la in his car which was waiting at the curb she declined with thanks ile ure d wr in f L she sh reached the th theater at seven oC lotic and sat in the dark on n a canvas rock watching h he stage hande hands gather and L lulng enang their repartee Rt partee that the he take a little spin la in the park she decap d without thanks sighed that it was a raty to lose moonlight she said she he would ret enough ab walked borne home ho it if toddle alone she could bard hard ty refuse without cracy insulting they loitered slowly up the reach of seventh avenue he questioned arr about her work with all gratful erat ful dattory fiAtt cry ture Is L la in aa an appe ute for ano another thees autobiography she found it easy to tell him of her curties cul ties lie extracted encouragement or indirect compliment out of all of them thern when they arrived 11 at her apartment ho bouse use she said sorry I 1 cant ask you up but I 1 have no reception room and I 1 ira red ed 0 out UL my tor boyr z ha have ve wasted ao ig h DJ your time on me he said sald 1111 see you to the ele elevator an daphne stepped into the hallway she found clay wimburn there wait ing grimly lie ile sprang to bla his feet with a gasp of relief lie ile caught eight of duane and his joy died instantly wimburn loved daphne and wanted her for bla his own lie had counted her his own and still had bad neither refunded the engagement ring n r paid for it daphne was more eased with wim burna bums misery than with duanes felicity wont you conie come op UP clay I 1 she asked lie he murmured can we be alone for a little talk 1 I rn afraid not the you know A III you yon take a little walk with MP in the park I 1 all right she said sald as she led the way out into the street im pretty tired bough though I 1 walked home from the theater with anith clay snarled you too tired for that daphne thought of the motor ride and the supper she had bad declined she said are you dragging me out here for the sake of a there 11 be no fight if you 11 cut out that man dunne am I 1 to have no friends at all aill you can con have all yon MI want pro tided d let roe me give you one little hint clay for your own liT information ever time this sir mr duane that youre so afraid of meets me he does his best to help me get my chance and he tells me only pleasant things eury etry time youve come to see roe me lately you youe e been either a eick sick cat eat or a roaring user tiger she was planning inq to urge him to help her and mal asae ke their meetings maler but lover like he took umbrage and pain and depalo from her advice and since they were inere again at the vestibule he sighed good night 31 duane and flung out into the dark daphne sighed and the poor elevator man who ubo saw so much of this sort of thine thing sighed with her ber and for her CHAPTER XII alt all this while daphne was kept in readi readiness nests to take miss kimblee pirt in case the illness of her child should result in death and in the furth furt hp case that she should be unable to finish her performances with the theatrical season in such bad estate and most of debens companies and theaters losing money heavily shella sheila kemble was his one he called her bread breadwinner misa miss baby passed the crisis and recovered and then the mother worn out with the double strain caught a little chill that became a |
