| Show FT the h thirteenth commandment by RUPERT HUGHES by buaer brother FOREWORD the T thirteenth commandment in man an is an american st story cry W written r I 1 aten by an american all for americans Ameno ans it is according to a famous english critic american to the bone and to the marrow of the done bone it deals with that eternal conflict between finance and romance it tells the story of what one lova lovable e in modern de n american girl ui did wha when e she h e discovered how often the checkbooks groan drowns the love song in this story rupert hughes is at his best and that best cannot be surpassed by any american author of the present day if you sta start rt the thirteenth commandment you will finish it and when you have finished it you will be glad that you started it if j CHAPTER 1 I As nowadays days invited instead of knocking at the door done fate called up on the telo telephone phon though the bell shrilled almost to in M mrs re a tar ar slie she not answer it 11 she winced shook her head bead agitated her rocking mcking chair with pet petulance alance embroidered deolde it vindictively bud and hardly 7 ao an ell called 1 oil out as 4 sighed wry very loudly toward lower it the hallway halfway debeul 0 oh ob delmel the tele miu phone hase again get I 1 on oil the stairs there sounded a mom muffled scurry carry like the rush of an aa ah april adoner should chased down a hillside by the tb sun sum an A allegory ot of april darted across the he room mom bud and raised the tel call ephone to her bar lip lips as if it were I a beakel of good cheer her ber mother was used to this humor of DIP daphne 1 1 as B and paid no heed head till a on sudden 1 frost oat chilled the worm warm tone of the girl gill 8 voice adon th the smile 1 of inept muy const h ced on a the te telephone ephone had bad given plot place to a look of embar embarrass rions went at mrs mra kip whispered anxiously who is lip it daphne motioned her not to inter rupt bupt and her voice grew deep and imports important L it became what her brother bay bayard rd veiled called her reception voice 1 in her gr grandest dt cout contralto un he ehe said mid 1 his is IB miss min kip yea I 1 have has Y tes he be does I 1 beg pardon pardo ah aoh I 1 h 1 how he do you do mr ill dax fiber awu bl sued mr r vr boher mother r keened aph daphne 11 whispered to quiet her A 1 g loan A from new york filed of I 1 abard same n all domce I 1 haven t got tin tig some cama yet t into the th telephone she be w was saying Bouldi nig the while with her politest face indeed try to be of co course a cleveland a out not new york but by the way do you deals dance that good that right slight as w well ell be deaf tf if you don t I 1 how HAS long wl will I 1 you 1 be 1 in cie cleveland aroll oh ch I 1 that at ai aall well then you must come out here halt and ad li lie hae e tea with this wry very afternoon ill call all for you yen at t the fie hotel I 1 in my little mr car no its but one of those its an clec electric 1 I vail niu it myself afraid to risk 1 ill his beave a man if be there I 1 in fifteen iffla talent minutes e s and you yon might D be on am the a t spa goodby gaudily mr title last was said mid in the food fond to tone of if ancient 1 1 friendship and ad she hung bung up the receiver with a statute gesture like shaking honda head ll 11 she turned tamed to find her mother thin bi nine ng her lips in ia a long tight line tier list cheeks checks bulged explosively daphne ft led her he hes young fellow 1 in the same a firm as 13 bayard says say je 8 hein here oo 00 bus business ma for or to ten days day bayard told him bus to cou call i me up lip and it tell me I 1 to be e nice it to b him no that bounds bound like by zb lot also eald lit he he haan hadn t time to write that bounds liker like r still bayard told him to it kiss fa you jou a for him so he must be all right I 1 we was illing going to take him to the b hotel 0 tal to a t tea do dance but I 1 thought ah id be better ater give him a louk lockover loo kover ft first rot so IS III roll rail him out here get out the aten china and the napkins I 1 moun f stemmed rammed and B bat at I 1 daphne I 1 wait L I 1 cant 1 I 1 time to arpie argon with you yon mamma please pleam do as aa I 1 to tell I 1 you for once am and ad do doot I 1 tusa fees mr abw will b 11 have a lot of new ato ain tell vou about your prodigal son a gayl by I 1 eclie popped a kiss on the forehead forehand ill aliat at anxiety had find turned barred to ce corduroy and it 1 ran I up tells nira liko like abw another april ri g the a au bun uphill she doged lil doan need denla with hot and ad aa and with time nose re powdered tt at a il laic ft front door or galy tt 0 i bisno it ahe tru and ad of strode ill abe loue long 11 uv to the little electric car standing under the P porte me cochern the or ar we waa a very large tor for a beetle beell but pretty email if for far an AD A nato I 1 Dool mobile dle CHAPTER 11 II the alent train from new york bad ha deposited clay Wh aburn in the grimy cavern le of the station at an early hour H he had bad dawdled over his breakfast feeling lost without his hia new york morning P papers I 1 when at last it grew late enough to te telephone 1 tor for an appointment with the m man a n he had bad come came to see am he be we was die 1 austed gusted baid to learn that the wretch would not be visible ibl till the next dv dav it was th then S A that bayard kips parting parts 1 g behest to call up his sister re burred to wimburn lie Is planned to compose a a formal note of aalf intro be but I 1 rard ra rd had forgotten to trl tell him bm I 1 h hla 8 sister bisters name or his f fa I 1 thera h r initials RIM there h ew were well several everal K kips alps tn in the telephone limit book bud and he bf could not at tell which would b ba which he decided 1 to call up each number her and 1 I ask 1 I a maid at or somebody const dy it if mr athers bavard kips kipa people 11 aled d there T the h e wry very first number numb he be called tied b brought r u g ht daphne herself suddenly sud deuly dice to wite voice with him voices are lb characters ackers and ad it was a case A of love 1 at first hearing bearing with him she had bad him smiling and cooing at the second phrase a he felt that she vas oats going to cake his at stiv in cleveland pleasant he formed all sorts of pictures of her ler while he waited on the hotel steps but bet when she ehe stepped out of her car ind ad looked about be t ahw she was none at of the misses kip he h bad ad planned she was a round mond p pretty c ty little thing amiable ht hioram of eye and ad humorous oram about the lip lips id and cunningly dressed she looked as if she bhe would be a plucky tireless tiia ti IA old sportswoman u yet she bad a wistful tender huggable nesa ams that a girl ought not net to lose however well wait she plays tennis iselin Is this mr she be lisp began H he w was too nervous to on notice cpr pause passe ate bua he retorted to tills this miss kapr Us he dot noted that she he shook limit hands well with a bedish boyish clench accompanied by an n odd dd lit little t a duck deck of the head mighty nice ile of 0 you to take me off this desert deser t island he beamed mighty glad to haw have the brivil privilege be ge she said a as she ve verified rifled the instant fraternity ity PI pin on 11 his overcoat mother is dy tag ing to hear bear how bavard is a mothers haw have little power left as guardians but the children find that i tile the title has bus ft a certain value at times in keeping ord order a r wont you get in nf said bald daphne pointing to her car ste she made him crowd in first then than followed and closed the door and pulled the throttle he meditated aloud how elow w wonderful der it really Is that you should talk to me over the telephone and invite m me to your or home and come came and get in me like this jbv so wonderful about that r nl aalde daphne everybody time noes IV it everything a v thing that everybody dom does 1 IB wonderful sold said Wit wilaburn aburn B but u t how especially wonderful it to 18 to live in a city where hem there are no walls about the guru gardens look I 1 I 1 there arent even close fences the lawns are am nil all joined 1 R I 1 I 1 at already dy wimburn we wax member of the household gether and the thit bounce are mostly windows every everything alg I 1 IB BO pan open u and 4 tree free full of sunlight nod and frankness you sou I 1 re taking me home la in this chervil charming 9 atu btu little glass showcase to introduce me to sour our mother I 1 tell you the world do move I 1 A woman of today has a alot lot ile to be thankful for or you ought to be mighty hefty happy ought tobe tabe to ta be much to do with I 1 in dept daphne fuhad weve got act a lot to in get yet and a lot to get rid of he bo sank back discouraged the sex A was still insatiable alter after a short abort rid alda ill they turned into a driveway leading thin through agh a spacious expanse of grass glass dotted with trees treen and ad she to a homelike house bouse wit without he of beauty or usi bunter k house unit that had grown groon the person personal little i ties of the occupants foo foots th the only ostentatious about the place were the cupola of an earlier it day oy and d the porte polls cocheres stock out t alk like a I iden broken den wing she led bi him into the house and waved him toward the hall ta tree when he lind had set act down his hig hot hat red and stick she led him into th the a drawing room mom mother we a re belea homo dear said mid mrs mm KIP elp who call colad d daphne dear before bedfor company compan pan mother Mot hert eald aid daphne 1 I wool want to mr mumble gulp she had not yet achieved his bis mine me her mother shocked knocked her bar ill by saying haying delighted to meet you mr ir I 1 dian didn I 1 quite catch the A name me daphne blushed sit for her ber mothers query but was glad to overhear overbear th the a stranger strange to a answer imn I 1 am mr wimburn mrs kip day cly wimburn at this moment but a tell tall alm nibling man walked 1 in he looked as it if he looked older than he was his ap spec tables ove overwhelmed helmold a rather mills on unsuccessful DO nose D daphne alm hardly needed to introduce him us her fath kalher hh ashe 9 gave 91 1 wib a name now and it he felt culled called upon to explain A his incursion 11 1 know your son eahard very well rat im in his office me e belong to W the same dia different erent chapters of course we struck up a vast great friend ship when he knew I 1 was mining coming to cleveland he said tell my state aister to be nice dim to you and ad and wimburn pulsed paused in some em embarrassment before the bill ballroom rown manner of mrs kip but the pompous disimi disguises sm of oe timidity fell ell from her as ae ebbs he murmured ledd le and d blushed in a motherly way daphne told me he bald aid tor for you to tees kiss hiss his lila mother tor for him well wel 1 I 1 11 am in his hia mother oh 01 I 1 may II 11 win will your you he pressed bis big lips respectfully on her cheek but she closing her bar eyes eye to imagine him her son hung flung her bar tat fat arms about him and held him a moment he kissed her again with a kind of vicarious dov devotion a thin lit id want bayaud to deliver such a message to your four mother she ex ag plot ad already jimb wimburn a was a member of the he household behold he had hem been kissed and sympathized tinted with he turn turned d to daphne with an cupolo g getic sue look and saw BOW that she was star ing at him with fill softer eyes than he be had bad thought she h had d definite anxieties engaged mrs MI kip lor for tea had bad mine come in tottering on a tray carried by a panic smitten cook as agile as a hippopotamus and as shy as a violet daphne and it her mother and father went through the tea ceremony with the anxiety of people in an earthquake an and it the swedish dromedary bl stared W at the unaccustomed sight as a it the tea bibbero bibbers wele drinking pot pol son ann and she watching for the consul sion along to begin clay talked altogether about B baiardi aard and his wonderful resa a 1 in bloton business I 1 in spite of the hard hand times sin a berard bavard he said aid so was sucking sticking to his bis desk like a demon and he be let nothing fd distract ill bilm it t must be glorious living in new york ll 11 dephim daphne sighed why by don I 1 you mine come and pay bay wit ard a visit wimburn suggested coln he wouldn I 1 haw have time to take we me anywhere und and I 1 dont know knew anybody else there more yuka you know me and I 1 d be only ottoo too glad to try to repay your hospitality to me a mrs kip a P looked on and listened with the fond ad olar alarm all of one a who has haa seen sam abo fund fatal court courtships ships begun with ill just such i fei fe fencing I g I 1 when at length daphne suggested ua that there them was still time to rush man down to the hotel for a done dance or two mrs kip smiled at her wimburn did not know that b he a had bad been brought how home on an approved approval mrs kip realized realised reali sed that dint he be we was not to be lot returned arned as 1 am it possible her fancy gambled b in in fu tures wimburn burn was the victim of an onset of that dalr am amans known a as love at unit first sight eight ile he was at the right age me and ad he be found something ano exotically buy captivating in th thit 1 strange girl 1 in the strange city he was poisoned with love law bud and his opinion of daphne wat as broa timily fantastic no one A I 1 in the arid equaled her no one ever had equaled her or could equal her bar in any future future ever spring SA nod ad I 1 iov we are the 0 perennial at ic I c always new w amazing g www b m it prin in H 7 tears add ad tn in the callear of the world lit and countless other youth of mankind all an mat mal kind bind bird nud and fish kind and fruit time and it perhaps of che chem in the ground were feeling the sams a daphne a cordiality we waa at first merely the hospitable vermah of her unusually cordial community but she caught tile favor ft from wimburn buru bod and decided that he was wait the unal final word to ID human evolution let chiy beg begin to dread the society of others to rement reflect the exist euto of a squatter scarle r pop population lation on en their private privet 1 planet the alow world loo much with them the th little lew car waa as even at eight etiquette required them to light it up within amburn did not dot return to new york fork BO A AS 08 he expected it seemed impossible to uproot himself from that tile pleasant out soil one afternoon when hen be had already overstated overstayed over stayed ill hia furla furlough all daphne and nd he 1 were rid tag lug lu in the little car through u gh the a uter outer suburb known knew as shaker heights v it arh section rapidly evolving evol from a sleepy religious community to a adorm of ell city residences the in late afternoon moon had risen rise in ID a sky still rosy may with the afterglow of sunset annest the air was anwar ou with pleading SY suddenly W wimburn aburn cried aloud to to his awu surprise cpr be and hers dap daphne line 1 I mi miss kip I 1 cant can t stand lead eve everything thing lii you yon know I 1 m only human after ft all who ts the matter sh she u asked had on in prosaic plumb phrase but a poetic flu flut ter tar of breath 1 I love lave you d n it I 1 pardon d me on but im I 1 m 1 infernally I 1 in love with you I 1 in teram tormented ted I 1 come came h here on busl beat ness aud and balte ld or of f my y finishing it you ve vc finish finished d me im m M two days ays over due 1 in new naw Y york rk an and it ive had bad to lie to the office to explain why and all I 1 cau can think of now Is that I 1 id it ruther rather rest resign go and starve to death than go back bach und and lenie leae you here hem ho honestly byj 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