Show brud prudence Pru dences s daughter ter by ETHEL HUESTON C right by the tb bobbt bobb M merrall III OR co wro it harlo THE BIG IDEA PART ont ON ONE at t ft ra marry try party arty in 11 the tu dudlo in iparco ment of carter make now new 70 york jerry Cerald lne H armor pru zi dince daughter lot leoti do duane he malna wealthy by title idler ha id ad har u ir nd kh an alki him I 1 but allerton a 1 I 1 ali air with A buot jerry sill III I 1 a inwood of familiarity le lav th in party abruptly the story turn to jerry childhood and 00 youth oo A t A irr no hokit in dea moles only 1 ant of wealthy father etien n so ahe I 1 twenty he be feel the th 11 I 1 of art all ind it ano kii har airn to let her co to la I 1 new I 1 I tork iek ek for 1 I tudy wi to in iv ivac lc t they acree are I 1 to her in I 1 in york I 1 jerry e hal I 1 her h homa with A mr delaney n I 1 I 1 an a net ant eues who with ith to therecia There jia ft A painter i to the lot b house jerry ry fab a Q ddll immediata hem to taille Tal lle who I 1 and eccentric fand it ill jhb two bc become B jorry jerry now dat h raif to tbell who evil be her liking jerry polls for or ther ess IA masterpiece I 1 ne he octo ocean rider lot ill Al allerton lefton calla I on jerry to jhb barl let 1 1 to A aea him at K A hotel at dinner r 1 arry etc b amnia omnia fand ad 1 IB C 1 I of hl dar if than it alon tint bet to A chadee hill her toward tomira him jerry to bei canies conies convinced mcd h hafl hai ha not hot the tha ability to beckma an at party art jerry it in beba duani diane bind am wit will not hot ile tilie on alm thra theresa hints that tent jerry hid A affo e horab and ad rl her a li to reta m from an A aag or of ganty jerry in on blocked kd it at hearin 09 ir she A also learns that elal it ho pr zi 1 tha at there therbia had ad or ah jerry try crovea 1 to 1 be hr her picture T tini 0 rid rider jerry 4 d to SO no home oh at be home abe 1 1 IB en en ma I welcomed oed by nor her adoring rm r m sh no it ilni th their with in iha decortes 0 or al no her new york ill lite CHAPTER II if 10 jerry comes into her hehr own over jerra seemed to settle again into the routine of evert evell day life in her we western beeders eders home without change sh she all einred d ne in the work week of the giouse be 8 A as she he had done before the she wort went to new york voile practiced her be must music rend mod a great deal and drove out very often in the handsome little barmer Ua Ila raters which was tons her prenatal personal pon possession e 1 I her return count war waa hailed with win A great creat of celebration on the part of tier he friends for she be bad long boon been leader in the pont particular war little set sue she C claimed I 1 aimed 86 he hers immediately she he was tom made th the a occasion to tor a go ga series of dadi dances floers and ad parties carlies little flirtations flirtation B inconsequential which wit betch b bad failed ana easy and died upon up her do departure a back into a ares hild ce of rejuvenation on an her and although they failed to tie jerry to union active interest bt at least they their part pact in whiling away the houra and helping to occupy her thong tits add which e h were not happy 1 ones I lor for the mt part even with no As much to amuse and engage be her tile the days daya passed slowly rod and jerry tor for all the demands on her time remained distrait rod decu pled died almost 1 in listless tall and prudence Fr odet drove drive bets herself or if well nigh to distraction in her amasa maternal amleta lery to bridge the I 1 da grous chum chasm between times time past and times present but all in vala vain on b racked cited her fertile beat brain tor for to annot innot let jonys interest oh L my dear you taught an to dance for nearly two yearl years r she exclaimed one night in the ext extreme reque of dap desperation cratham jerrold and jerry brolie broke into laugh ter olor her abject submission to tor for hw her daughters daughter sake bake for far prudence found in dancing noth PurI ing but ment and tribulation married marred life for far her had been on an in V trecate tests matter at befit beat having as aa she did the sacred mend shadow of methodism for a background the church itself had hem been the first shadow to cloud the heaven of t their air domestic barmont Frode church to prudence meant methodist and jerrold in the order ardor of his young loie is attended ded gerame with her 1 in th the be beginning joe with some rome fair air display dl liy of air his HB act using boilers we wan in for prudence fredel only not hot for the r amny the ab nb of her alfill affiliation t nihed A hen adl lie asked him w now bow he be liked it lie be set ald oh very much to prudence pads after abnit x alint growing a to the dep depth h of thin ha terent she ide Pe rinsed bini lurther further jerrold admitted kt it lost lant that as aa tar far as an be va ana cose can berned he be considered cos entered it no horch at 11 II 11 no a real evell worship no a divine im 1 I prudence Piu Pro dence drale was we an k ell into speechless an ness but jerrold hard bard driven stuck t to ante bl ground lie he said bald the way it the mo mind to clubbed about the door and an I 1 ch chatted acted and laughed aaa as hla big idea ade of C to rank k A fromor irreverence eure and tw far A pre preacher be to tn aget ret down on an his knee keen in the th pulpit suit nd talk in th t offhand friend unit and fa familiar millar fashion to the dime being instead of reading media g I 1 Y from book beek he called I 1 11 he ele was rai willing to so go to please printhe prudence be a will ta to sake handa hand ad disman his hl realm and the nis fair and it to ane corn a veres toil at ts lotito done loti don e to planar h berhe he was rua wi ad ling ing to follow through count client teu bow Jani ultimate nate pinn graph of at exien jer mryr but Us b did not net all it church and it wax ing not net his hl idea of worship prudence prediction wrote went to her be father and aad her father wrote back with that gentle and forbe forbearing aAng pat patience leare which seems more rare race and nil more a dirt in the inan 1 any the than anywhere oyah else that pru pre dence benca must most 9 go with her husband we have learned he wrote that there are bee lessons an n A 1 in atones and nil sermons in I 1 running ing b broolis ame so if f jerrold finds did no am religion in our church tt it la I 1 up to you yon to slid find it I 1 in hla his Pr prudence verall swallowed awed hard bard but bat she he did it it wan wait out not a aa jerrold frankly ad retired that he cared particularly about anthill attending A a any church with a painful degree of at assiduity fil lifty but when he h had d church he be wanted church an and d A not in a bonds morning reception without rw re fresh ments ot of course prudence itice had had bad to learn to dance having beem become an episco rid slie she could not plead the moth diet discipline in rebuttal bno and the titue torn tom adrift sora irom her bet spiritual ital ImIL backbone bOtte she be selves with jerrold rather faintly that it would b be a shame home lor for her to go an through alf to ittia out vm every enticing want walte and ad luring she must carta liely learn to amee she encountered difficulties from the tart A professional instructor was in to teach reach her and an I 1 after many painful painstaking lessons she ehe managed to get around very nicely but who when Pei prudence dence 1 in fear and trem new bling get on no the floor with any other the than the instructor she ae had trouble it that I 1 do dont t try ehe he told her or husband re despairingly but bat eager in he her own defense to in the face of his derision 1 I do te tarl I 1 I 1 put pit my whole mind on an it I 1 know knew exactly what I 1 wo am supposed to doI do 1 count every a step to p and I 1 never listen to a word my partner ensor move aava and I 1 keep both eves evea shut ao a I 1 we won t be afraid of running lot into the w wall 11 I 1 1 but I 1 can call t keep off his hia fret feet no nor from from under der them you yon keedo t laugh inter cither tor for I 1 co can chelp t help it ahou ft hen jerry tied had come me of an n age a to 11 tube a 1 per personal R met ittem interest 7 tto in her bet moth er 4 trial social in life laid and to feel a personal responsibility for fop her public appear ance she bhe shared this burden with her father and at regular intervals per hope hapa twice a year vear the entire household we waa thrown late into a enciA tim a state arabs ot of excitement with teaching loathing Pr prudence to dance W M hf by can t you dance 1 why cant you on 7 demanded jerry earnestly aunt abed fairy III dancea C beautifully aunt C connie Is bilm danag both the twirl twin qunties aunties adore it haven t they an aa much math odist blood A a you yon be bar why cant you learn 1 I 1 do don I 1 it know I 1 acknowledged aka lodged her bet mother unhappily hAppIly ni 1 I cerna certainly luly work hart bard enough en ingi to learn bearn aut anything thing I 1 1 I 1 just can t t and that 5 all there Is ie to it when r prudence doce therefore of her an ofin volition olitia and it without coe coercion relon from anyone voluntarily proffered herself as a will willing ag flee to learn to do dance again she 9 driven to desperation to her surer surprise ble to let her great real can concern in ald a as well it jerry only y laughed and ad w would not accept such many martyrdom came at her bands nonsense mother you cant can t dance rod and you yen dont want to why bother better belter just atik to weley wefley and eschew the devil had and all his works bridge the then pleaded prudence be hopefully yon yen really ought to twell teach we me something you know how jerry consented to add a few final 01 touches 1 to a course in cards which had already todell extended faintly over a period of twenty years yeara but she warned her he mother another to let no one ole lic inveigle eigle her 1 into 10 playing tor for points for do your level best mother you can still tons lobe the family fortune a great deal taster faster than father can earn it if you go in tor far points point the way you it and so 80 march blustered away and april came rod and met mav and in all these months jerry could not fathom that peat great mystery of in what kin girls it do who hale hae nothing to do and to go quite mart mail over doing it I 1 it we was a morning let late to in may who when she he was called to the telephone A girl of if list her a sae Vor vh sythe a pr nas a going over ever to ill the other side bide of ton tiron to on look at a house she afi asked lerry jerry to go eo with tier her jerry who one had bad driven dri C lnor be own cur car from the time she in wan fiftena years year old was used to them to a 90 ich her friends friend a an errands to remote and inaccessible jerry understood it verv well but b hw understanding under standing was waa quite with out bodne she did not blame them aji bhe ABI bure or if ann hud bed to go a long way to image part pan 0 1 town and ad had bad BD cur car of at her ber own she he herself hermit alt aull out 4 invite 1 I as a company tor for the occa adlon one who had bo b he accepted the very cry ally rod and A bald III atie he won gouid id top mop by for far it hafl 1 in the t he car a about out eleven a 0 clock she knew that rae we waa going to be governed 1 la the fall call and that net her bar fennel father hud bad given her ten tea thousand dollar to an provide P 1111 1 home and all thin tbt ex loni ii BB as she he was wu in ID earth earch of a base house A a the fihe plaited up he her friend at tile the designated hour hoar and n turned her mr ctr buoyantly to the north earth side of the city but why KO go away wat put then them res BM its ita a may id par to he wit look tor far A bona ht h t nha be protested tea but property J la 0 a much cheap er we want to get house and tural fund ista hire all 11 for ten thousand thou Band you see bee and the then grant he baa bought a drug store ter out by the university and it will be much nicer for him he fie can come home for far luncheon I 1 she ahe explained with the me pretty proprietary ahir ness of pre nuptial days fall following wing rae directions jerry d drove a slowly out along central avenue and turned down seventeenth street when they came to tile the house herse she bhe topped stopped the car and both orin turned about in their beats and looked at it it was not prepossessing set she en tie C ly too ter far forward to in a mail in lawn at the top toi of a steep terrace it stood stand very still stiff very square very high with a awkward square porch pooch clumsy bunare windows window the whole in grievous old of point paint V you tell me jerry said bald plain lively why my 7 iowa 1 re builds it itself if each ghastly homes it he said amid it wn was a hem barn of a thing restated absented rae nine tut but it tn Is very cheap lie he and ald the real ral estate mao man I 1 me mean said aid it could he be entirely built over j for or a few thousand and it has good points point a garage games to in the back bach who when we get rich men enough tor far a car just juat lapp opposite the 11 little r tie park you yon see on oft the ener car une line scid and quite near the undre university mIty and grants grant a drug store with these points point to its credit jerry followed her bar distastefully up the steps of the terrace and still nil more distaste fully on the clumsy stiff square porch why do they do it rae R 7 all nhe ill won doted dered such stiff straight I li neathe ul doom the th windows window tile ui col cal I 1 akk will in w tell me jerry said bald plain why my iowa him builds such ghastly homes home u man nans coulder couldn t they put a little move curve in once in a while tor for tile the sanni ame money beauty 1 la very try expensive said old ron rae lightly no wonder ae e all ail KO go off somewhere here to california or to new york it lids 1 is the best we core can do for ourselves jerry went on gloomily 1 I dont blame us ua fancy living in a thing like this I 1 1 not just one me elther either all the adm poor poorman mals houses bouses are exactly like it the do better in tents on oh both bother the gypsies jerry come on OD 1 in und and lure linie a look 1 I line kue open opened d the door with the rho key which had be been n given her and led tile the way inside where here they stared curiously about them thiem a frowning disapproval on OB their two me young faces people must have lived in it wine some time thae audd jerry probably the they y died poor lif figr I 1 don t wonder the hall house we was divided aich sterup tells loua exactness into four sections damens jerry berc dec decided I 1 ded one must doubtless cull call them to the left a 1111 square queen p plo parlor lo leading to a stiff square parlor bed room boy boyd beyond d to the right eight 1 solemn I dining I 1 room with a sober her kitchen ad joining the stairs let roie hnis 1 in a damn acl and tr manner ancer annual pre tense team or As artance to the second and near floor where there was waa another mathematical division of apace par a bedroom a both bath to um the left two ten bedro bedrooms orris to tile the tight right jerry stared and stared you think must hill ahme died rae hae tile asked lt would be ilk like living in a 1 cemetery III it Would rit y you think that wine time one me of alm would have take taken A a Inu hammer reler to those walls just to break the deadly im con thin i ty of the thing poor aps cordsen cps I 1 don t blame you a bit I 1 think you re lucky re rae laughed at her you aro am funny jerry janis but it i 1 A a hrold horrid old be aaro of a house it itt but then chev are on only IY suiting king 11 hundred for i cheap enough out anleu one he haa to in live in it murmured let jerry 1 I dolfl it against the santo rae an ahe W beni on an I 1 almost wish I 1 |