Show NIL y F zi RUPERT w HUSHES we 1 ssie iw DAPHNE N GE GETS TH THE E B BIG G CH CHANCE al THAT S SHE HAS BEEN PY PRAYING G FOR 01 AN AND AT TH THE SAME T TIME E H HAS FEARED arl M ily stamp synopsis clay wimburn arba a you youna NOW new aw yorker on at a visit to cleve cless land jim no meets a pretty re U daphne abue kip w whose 1 liver brother s I 1 ts Is I 1 in 0 the some same office with clay chu y I 1 in wid wall 11 ivaree elm street e I 1 A after lita a whirlwind md con courtship t it they a become became engaged daphne pit e goes I 1 to new W york or n ill her or mother a r to bt to buy her bar traus trousseau sea daphne p as 8 brother t pa as baard V d be has a just us iner married aled vied and ad left tell for te ea europe P with his bri bride deLella va letin daphne and bern her mother alther install u the 0 in bayard s bat daphne meet tom duane man about town who some seema greatly at tr dmd to her daphne discovers that clay I 1 Is penniless except for his so salary tau baynard baynand and ad his hia wife return to to new york anex the three women set act out on an a shopping excursion and the two younger men huv has expensive gowns having haling them charged to bavard bayard 1 la furious over the expense seeing hard times ahead daphne indignant declares she will mm earn her own living ling and breaks her engage ment with eith clay through nn an introduction by duane daphne 1111 induces ce paben a theatrical magnate to give her a posit portion in I 1 oil one of his to companies her it fai bt t rehearsal rold 1 18 a flow fiasco but reber beben at acta ounces 0 request gives her mo another chance CHAPTER XI continued Cont blued 4 well I 1 never neve V lie he gasped and all tills this trip at your larce other mother i end and youra larres and 1 all I tia the expense espouses g gone for nothing Bot hingl n as his first doleful thought n he mile aad ed ilia second ad mortgage he bad placed on ma one a of hla his Pia parta to so get th the money am tor for the vitally important armald wedding Is festival and now thele was to beo be no wedding dd g th the so sou 1 in law L who we aia to in have bar leaned assumed the burden of daphne s bills was band lied lual daphne wits was again her fathers own on child he was glad to have her baric back but he fee no could it have bave wished that she bad not at gone away army at since ce he paid the freight to both directions and now nor here was himself to in new york lork and nothing to how bar lor all the sp split it milk of time boney find and emotions at the critical moment a daphne boldine mentioned fajt old that the star whose whole understudy she was sea would earn fifty ilia thousand as send dot del we lara the t year 1 in spite of tile the hard times fifty thou thousand strad dollars tied ft a musical eel sound to lesless ears eam if daphne he could men earn a tenth of that he would believe in art miracles elm bellaize wh where m were am you planning to live h boner oney while youre you re acting with royal it il I 1 suppose oil oh no an isad daphne weve wese ru ni toed ined h his ha I 1 a honeymoon enough already who with the then oil ob by myself I 1 suppose good lord you do that very tory well a young girl gir like you why out she he old bald he be turned pal pale this was being ml sled Z d why babies were sore found under es cabbage bb ge leaves he was an old fash boned on it father and he had ramer neier ben been abl able to rise me to the new school of tile dis vitally I 1 important topics with the ilia fh hildren ildren vitally interested chy 11 by why by he be stammered wh why nobody body does IL it honey nice girls cant live ilia all alone a studied led him with a tender i H he 1 was I I 1 so innocent I 1 in is ats stay oy 1 in spite of all he be must know hours she and understood cloud what he be was use thinking lo 10 et cf she was as sophisticated led in the man ner r of the nice girl told of her time and he e ll 11 liked h to treat when submerged aged themes theme iltha becat with c clean candor she thought that prude y was a form of slavery it if you youve just joel got to stay in new york 8 and ud just got to work your mother could stay to Y A with till you I 1 suppose bill what hat becomes of you lam and ad your borm T 0 1111 get along 19 1 9 somehow how I 1 do don t th ahls 6 broke her bar h met heart she cried out it but you do matter daddy you mat tor cr terribly cant canet you understand dadd addy I 1 that pro im trying to relief you nd make my myself if useful instead of c bare parasite site thousands housand of women live mo lone P professional f I 1 women art at stu do music etc students college girls so normal 1 ach women besides tile the women same in shops hope and ad factories it its oming es more am and no more but rd you on re sm not brought up to a x trial trade 1 I wish ish I 1 had bad been base well that a a new complaint ozer BD sr way or b but ut well of course you yon gulant d do 0 anything wrong but if you libed led ot alone a yield be misjudged said nd me men would keep keen throwing temptation in 1 Y your way 1 I 1 imil had pleat plenty af of that when bhea I 1 was living at he home 1 Datil daphne mere he cried out at in pain at the very ery thought thong lit she wort went a on wa educating ring him with a so plenty if 0 temptation and ad plenty of opportunity t daddy it low your 1 I aou an gave me all ail the protection last anybody cland daddy but ant you cant amt pmt protect people all the time and I 1 it one w when h y you trusted d we e most the that J you P protected m t d demost me most people are am just net beginning to realize that hut even no in penitentiaries aries the the he walla unit mid the stricter the gard guards the ibe am inora r firl somers try to maps escape tbell aum u ling convicts coulle fit out to will so on tadd ur wit to no an gurd euarda on jand ne I 1 ip 1 m their ch yo mi rna i back dont you yen thick women can be trusted handed as a far ar I 1 aa convicts 1 I suppose alt so he sighed but he ans covin co convinced vin of the a security of nei eel ther the to nor of the wo women under these there new anar chies he be was convinced of only one th thing and ad that wits was his b a helplessness daphne took him home in a ted rid at the ilia apartment they caught balard baard joe t ashi ruining g tor for his office film he be greeted ilia his father with affection but he be knew that he would old please weslea well better by hurtling on to his theetter office than n by neglecting his business for the pulp purpose of entertainment moment wesley took leila by storm with his lavish and ad whole heart lie arted oil praise B he b had it not ant seen man her before bear ile he gath gathered ered her to his breast then than held her out it at arm am a 3 length to praise her and to prof praise bayard for far bringing her I 1 nto into the family mrs kip did not delay long the as a sault on an daphnes position but wes wea ley said weve wela bad a long talk voll ana I 1 gueste ashes pret pretty set in her way nay shea a y good girl though mamma and ehe he knows her own mind mild better than we do it iab her own III mind let her hove have her way and if I 1 anything goes wrong she can always come back home his hia wife b boiled tied over it made her bar Is feel eel as a much at home as an old kettle on a a stove atom to have her husband there to boll over on weley kip are am you going to set there and encourage that girl to in min her life and ana her repute that without doing atil thing ching to protect her herp oll oh I 1 gas guess ashes not going to min anything after all the best way to protect folks I 1 is to cm cas it was use bald alakl plagiarism R than but daphne made val no complaint wesley got into trouble at one once how however evor by making the suggestion stigger ion that his bis wife life tomato remain as a companion for fair her child mrs kip took it as a sign that he wanted to ill get rid eld of her and ad daphne refused to take it at all wesley sat pondering in silence tor for B n while then he rose and mumbling be bulk back 1 la a little while took his bis bat bat slid and went want out they wo wondered dered what mischief he md was ns up to and what folly he would commit com milt he mine came back in halt half an hour with a smile of success 1 I go guess it its all right I 1 been thinking I 1 limit about all the differ dirC erent of things it been said aid we do don t want deplue daphne living by herself and she do dont t feet feel like she ought light to tres trespass ass on LOW leilas home so I 1 got so an idea til and went want down and ad saw the janitor or superintendent up e or what chat ever he Is and ad I 1 asked d him it t be there was somebody to in this build ing 9 wanted to rent a room mom to a nice ice girl and he mid bald there we was a young couple felt the rent coal was a little high and had an extra room mom so we went up id and took a look at it right nice young woman name ile of 11 chi 11 or warm bag like the that i said it she it be glad to take my daughter tn in I 1 was think ing that if daphne ans up there she h could see at bayard and ad leila iella when he she it was lonesome or anything and heed be handy where they could keep n so an ei e on an her it she got sick or anything the three women looked nt at ill him as 1 in amm amazement he be had solved the riddle sweet that md won 1 all I and bad compi compromised it the me irreconcilable I 1 ll II bet the place Is a eight bight and ad the vina woman an a freak aid mrs kip lets go he have ve it a look at her so go all tour four went trent up IV in ID the elevator to the top time floor they were about to ring the bell of on oae of the big front apartments like bayard but wesley checked Ms them if in the me back the women charged glances and it fin flies behind the trapa important mint h id blades of wesley th the manager gw H he e rang mig a bell bel so and d a young woman opened the door As iua leila uld sold afterward she had the 0 hole map of NOW new england 1 in be her fee face and ad her middle naina ass was boiten Boit cn nut she was nan youns tn I 1 a placid pit I 1 vel any Y and she looked exceed lt ugly c clenn an and correct her very smile was ana neat heat exactly adjusted between those or of the gracious hostess and ad of the landlady mrs mra chivvis led the way to the room mom that was tor for rent it took nt at once spotlessness ans la 11 the first best luxury la in a rented room mom and puritan beauty has a grace all lt its own onn the magog may any bell bed with its twisted posts post the ex t turn linen and ad the honesty of everything ery thing won vain he her completely she felt a banse Is ot of relief from the rather gaudy beauty of leila 8 apart mout meat she felt that mrs who showed such one fine restraint 1 in her fur fir kiture would be equally discreet in bouldin minding her own affairs irtle I 1 ill III take it she mid that Is if van ton 11 take me mrs chivvis chiald said fill khe would world she said aahl it with a new Eg landish parel paral mony many of enthusiasm but bat her eye eyes we were kindly and it daphne decided that ill she thought nice things but lacked backed the to my eay them daphne amov moved is it at once into the chir vis is apartment what belongings she hod had brought a on from cleveland le leland and tier her mother promised to dispatch the rest met of them a as won soon so as she reached home W wesley 0 aly could old not at be persuaded I 1 to slay ay over nn an unnecessary night his boll business n em was in a perilous condition the mammoth cowper firm had bad gone game into bankruptcy owing him a hand wave same min of 0 mom money Y one alch h ile he vats not likely to recover at th the filature also IS closed an important and it prof profitable flable market tor for his calculating machines it frightened hla his books banks as well and he had wrestled like another jacob with a ao almost invisible cashier lor for enough to meet his pay roll call yet be e slip slipped P ed a large bill into ia D daphnes ph 8 hand band when elien he italic bide lie her good by at the station late in the after 0 noon an and it he be whimpered to he hep she should have other re nh whenever r ill she called tied on an him DP daphne an r chad the theater at seven alor Is and d an sat it 1 in the dark on old a can ra fas race rock watching notching the stage hands gather aud and listening to their repartee batterson Bit terson arrived it at length he was in hi one of his har humane rome abod moods he be asked daphne if slie she had bad memorized her lines and she said she hid had he told her that he be would ghe her another re fluet the next cast day after breakfast after breakfast he explained dred wis was one 0 clock p ni in next morning aph daphne as 1 presented r 0 noted her bet self to Hat batterson temon and end endured d one of his irs rehearsals with his assistant read 1 ing all 11 the r cues aes ues in a lifeless voiced voice batterson at was us more it discouraged is cou raged thron than she a we wag he showed it it for far a time lt by a tle patience that was we of the sort met one all shows to a shy by Ini imbecile blaile he was so BO restrained that daphne broke out I 1 for or him do you think I 1 am a complete idiot mr batterson far afar from it my dear said batter son sim you yon are very intelligent at young no woman th the trouble 1 Is that you are too int intelligent ea for the child s play of the stage it a all a kind of big mr nursery and you yen can t forget that fact facts are an not facts fact I 1 in this athla toy game if you yon could let your yourself malf go and be foolish coul and ad play doll house here you might so succeed it its hard bard so een ru when you know 11 how but its impossible Is as long as yon yen try to reft reason ser it out its like a music and fiction and ad all it tile the deal arts you ve re got to pretend or you eel can t feet feel said and you yen car can t make anybody else feel 0 and that indeed was as daphnes ag on nv she could not release her image a nation at 0 n or command he her clear vision to 1 see I what hot we was not at there night after night she nhe report reported nil at the theater and left it when ulten the cur tain into rose emte on one me of these evenings evening tom due duane met her outside the am stage d door a or his apology was that h he felt it his duty to look after his bis cli client cill ile he in invited tied daphne to ride home in lit his a car which idah was waiting hafting at the curb she declined with thanks he be I 1 she reached the theft theater at al seven seve 8 clack and sat bat 1 in the dark so on st can canvas ronk rock watching he stage hands hand gotha gather nd ad laing Lj ning to 0 their repartee that fille take a little spin epla to ID the park p she eluned declined without thanks thank he 1 I that it III avae I 1 S pity to on I 1 lose the she ald she would get enough when she a walked w liked house home he eta asked if he might toddle alone she could hardly refuse without crassly hiscal him they loitered lettered slowly up the ehg order reach of seventh avenue he etc I 1 her about her ber work walk with all 11 the grateful blatty no va 4 te Is tn in an n nope ama ute life for another an others autobiography she found it easy to tell him of her dim cult cultrea iest flo bo extracted encouragement or indirect compliment out ot of all of them when they arrived at her apartment house she mid bald I 1 sorry I 1 cant aft ilk ask you up but I 1 have no reception room mom and I 1 in tired out you have wasted enough of your time on me he be bald 1111 1 ill see you to the me elevator AB A daphne topped stepped into the hallway site she found clay wimburn th there re wait lag ing grimly he sprang to le his feet with a gasp of relief he etc caught sight eight of duane and his joy died instantly wimburn loved daphne rind and wanted her tor for hit his own HP be had counted her his own oun |