Show Prudence Pru dences 9 0 daughter dau ht er by ETHEL HUESTON copyright by the marrill co service CHAPTER ill continued I 1 11 jerrold looked at her 1 I thought you see ece any sense in making money you dont need just oh this ls Is a diffie different rent thing 1 tills Is 18 well im doing something for the money I 1 ive got a right to the money if I 1 earn it bitont iab dont you see how it Is mother mot ber of course I 1 do I 1 and think of the poor oil old house je jerry rry finished pathetically after nil all these years of being a barn and a blot on the landscape just think how it will feel to wake up some morning and fand it Is pretty and lovely and that people are stopping in n tho thi street to exclaim over it think how feel if you were a house jerrold considered that too much of a strain on a business imagination like his big but lie he finally agreed that it was a sound bound practical proposition find and it jerry had made up her ber mind to it he thought it might turn out rather nicely all around and he would go with tier lier the very next day to look it over and get figures on it and if it seemed all she said they would buy it and pitch in buy iti jerry repeated in great surp surprise riRe tt Is bought 1 I 1 bought it this afternoon I 1 gave him my five hundred dollars and I 1 dont have to make another payment for three months and I 1 figure that by that time I 1 ought to have it looking like pretty much of a place what I 1 want the money from you for is to begin tearing things down when dinner was over jerry looked regretfully at the waning light she should have liked to dash clash tier her father and mother out to look at the house right away but it was too dark so go she elie pulled out all the old house beau and spread them over the dining room table and worked feverishly with a pencil and a pad of paper ebing out little nooks and corners as is she intended having them in her finished product lucky thing I 1 studied art after all she said brightly 1 I never thought id find such a rial real practical use for all that nonsense prudence hung over her with pleased solicitude with her avid interest agreeing with every word she uttered 1 I may not make such a lot on this one jerry admitted later rather reluctantly luct antly to jerrold because I 1 dont know how to figure down tile the expenses of it but with the experience I 1 get on this one ill make a killing of tho the next what do you mean the he nert Is this the first of a series jerry pulled herself up surprised that was a funny thing to say slip sit admitted 1 I thought of a next one she went on brightly but of course you can see that hat I 1 must not waste all this experience and if I 1 can make a little on the first I 1 can make heaps more on the second so when you come to think of it of course this Is just the beginning As jerrold hid had grown older had learned to entrust ills his affairs to others outliers in ills employ lie he had gradually fallen into a way of going steadily later to the office so that now it was customary in n the home to have breakfast brea klist at nine after which jerrold took ills own time about getting olt off but on the morning after jerry discovered her passion he found himself a tardy member of the household jerry pounded on the bathroom door three times while lie he was shar shaving flig urging him to make haste and when lie he hurried down at last to show tier her indignantly that hat it then wanted ten minutes odthe of the hour she said oil oh I 1 forgot to tell you yon I 1 told them wed have breakfast at eight thirty that was the beginning of jerrys most feverish month she bargained with contractors plumbers and builders she studied designs she bhe puzzled over matching mat ebing colors and in the end the house of dreares that evolved from her tender thoughts was built on most engaging lines jerry was nothing if not thorough the stiff steep steps leading up to her house from the lie street had met with destruction first oral of all and in their place developed a pretty stair that went on the blas bias as she said angling up the green terrace in a most inviting manner and then drifted up to the veranda which was wag extended around the house to the left while the stiff square windows and th the stiff oblong door in front were torn tom out for a sweep of graceful french windows the awkward square parlor and parlor bedroom comprising the th e lefthand left hand portion of tile the first floor were thrown together to make a broad living room with window seats beats all the way around and shelves for books and handsome built in cabinets the staircase which had so particularly annoyed her was completely thrown into the discard anif it very bronil broad one in its stend rising from froin a wide base in the rear of 0 the living room and turning itself about in some curious fashion finally to reach the top where the changes were yet more drastic one sleeping room was entirely done awny with to be transformed into a pretty informal sitting room or lounge at tile head bead of the stairs a novel and engaging version of an exaggerated hall jerry felt she had never been so BO happy and she had never worked so hard la hi all her life silo she encountered many obstacles indeed many times she was appalled appall edby by them it was hard for tier her to believe that human beings like herself could be so BO grossly stupid as to misunderstand and misinterpret instructions so plainly so BO lucidly so painstakingly given she was amazed to learn that laborers regardless of the delicacy of the work on which they were engaged regardless of the liu pera operative lve tive need of haste regardless of the he honor that was theirs in assisting to beautify and ennoble and elevate an inherent weakness in the structure of their own home town would drop a shovel on the stroke of the hour and would walk sturdily out on strike for a trivial detail they called a principle but which to her seemed a flagrant breach of contract she was pained and bewildered to discover that tier her carefully matured plans set down in consistent black blach and white signed agreed to end and included in the financial estimates of the contractors turned out to be not at nil all na as she hod had intended and that site she was obliged to refigure and rea in order to develop tier her cherished dreams to concrete fact and she was especially shocked checked and upset to find that there were things that a lather in loyalty to his laboring brothers would flatly decline to do things a plumber would wash hla hia hands of things a plu plasterer blusterer would openly sneer at things a bricklayer would consider an insult to his big profess profession lon and thus oblige tier lier to deal with a totally new organization of workmen to meet the exigencies of the lie case and she found tile the cost of her work mounted heavenward on soaring wings and that her anticipated earnings with a corresponding ratio in spite of her natural easy gener oAty she soon found herself dickering constantly over trifles arguing with great heat beat even with anger trying to cut down a dollar or so here grudgingly allowing a dollar or so there where bile felt the expenditure pend ture iture must not be denied why I 1 have to argue over fifty cents like any street she said to her father plaintively regretting this new hut but necessary niggardliness of liers hers already forced me up ond and up much farther than I 1 intended why if I 1 dont stand up for my rights I 1 wont make five hundred dollars dollars on the whole busi business I 1 and the way ive worked over it I 1 oh I 1 thought you did not care about making money he said 1 I thought you said there was no nobility in the simple earning of a dollar or so in the bare earning of it there but la Is a different matter altogether jerry was joyously mysteriously passionately happy slie she told herself quite often that she find entirely forgotten dunne allerton lint hut she bad entirely forgiven him for his vulgar insolence and she worked balder harder than ever within a month slie she took an option on mother another wretched clied little hovel four roomed moth eaten run down own at the corners a dis disgrace gruce to its street and am mediately begun began getting estimates for its rebuilding and making roseate sketches of its future estate jerrold had taken alien tier her to ills his bank in the beginning of her business adden luring faring and obtained for tier an audience with the lie pi president resident irvin in in weatherby a member of jerrolds club and ills particular friend jerrold aias ex ei tremelt businesslike on tills this occasion 1 I know you liae have met my in lighter daughter jerry lie he said but I 1 want you to get in touch with tier her in it a professional way as well ell site she Is going into business for herself and I 1 am starting her of with a checking account of three thousand dollars but should like for you ou to extend her an additional credit of two thousand if she needs it jerry explained tier her business interest with the he impulsive eagerness of her youth and irvin weatherby looked at her nodded his approval sighed dismally at tier her father aint girls the he damnedest darn edest any more he asked plaintively that second daughter of mine emily know what the little fools doing secretary to a dairyman over in chicago twenty five a week and crary about it says she abe wont be dependent on any man for a living father or whatnot what not I 1 hope to god she gets married all ive got to say eay jerry laughed at his concern loot at judge daniels laughter daughter clerking in the ten cent I 1 1 you ought to be glad you drew nothing worse than it a secretary you might have got et a 6 la undress or on an art trailer jerry still insisted when she thought f it filial she would not work for the sake of 1 iv mone slie she aull could get that from her father but sho cho sat at up nights figuring how she could cut down the expenses of her business a different thing site fhe nl ways said the only way you can tell how youre getting along alone la Is by how much you make in july she started work on the second ond cottage impatient to get it into human habitable shape before the coming winter aind aid in august she took an option indorsed endorsed Indor sed by tier her father on a huge six storied rooming g house for women the verlest skeleton on of a house as jerry saw houses built with no more regard for esthetic satisfaction than a freight train but with accommodations for tw 0 hundred women jerry worked over that hut with a pencil and a u pad of paper if she rented two hundred rooms ut lit an average of thirty dollars a month the earnings of the lie house would be six thousand a month it site she paid twelve thousand for the house spent ive five thousand making it what she called it fit to the live in allowed a running expense of perhaps a ind a month prior to making a salt sale ont outright right jerrys figures tuond d to aureate dreams slie bile told tier her father she would bet any anny arno acourt tint lie he wished that site she could sell beell the house it was going to he be for twenty five fhe thou thousand dollars jerrold with her prudence said silo she knew right from the beginning that flint jerry was vins right so she bought tile the house nod and in tier her new absorption in estimates plans an and figures fell into A way of forgetting to go home for meals nt at proper hours and lost n preposterous amount of sleep in tier her eTor el Torta tR jerry hall had returned to iowa in march it was early in Sep september wilher imn she had find her first letter from rhoda la hnyp rhoda was brisk all and to tile the point in con correspondence esponde nce as well ns as in perso a her letter consisted of three paragraphs ahe first told jerry sho she hastily pulled out abad a pad of paper and wrote a letter how very much she Ill rhoda ioda loved her missed her admired tier lier tile second told tier her that she rhoda had just jnet been awarded the scholarship by tile the academy for fo tier her picture pic t me und wits wag leaving the first of october for a years study and travel lb roligh the lie nit cen of europe tile the third said that flint duane allerton whom perhaps perlin ps jerr jerry would remember had find lost all ills money in a terrible crash in wall street that the poor fellow ans us completely broke down tin ind out and up lip against it as recorded in the lie dully daily pa pers that he did not know where to turn for the next meal men I 1 and ains said RAM to be looking for a jot job but of course get one because lie he fill did not nol know how to do anything and it a shame a nice alce fellow like dilana and now he would probably become I 1 11 tramp and a bum like other nice young fellows who are left money they lont dont know how to take care of and ati ili oceans and heaps of love anode voluminous volu clippings from tile lie dally daily press of new york to substantiate the last two p of tier her letter there were photographs of her prize winning picture of herself ind and columns in of tier her and of her work jerry tossed them to the floor there were other and more sensational clippings recounting UK the financial troubles of young dunne allerton and ills his des plight with a tragically pen died cited sketch showing min him down at the heels trending treading the ralls ralli as lie he would doubtless be a few years hence jerry read every one of them she wits was trembling she knew that hat was because she bile was a tenderhearted tender hearted girl oil and even in her own bitterness of disillusionment could feel but sorry for the misfortune of any human being the thought of a young man any young roan man alone in new york not knowing where to turn tor for the next meal where to lay life ills head bead at night jerry had read of the miserable miser ablie ones who sat on the benches in central park all night and winter coming on onit it struck chill to her gentle heart she hastily pulled out oat a pad of paper ond and wrote a letter my dear mr air allerton A letter from my friend rhoda Ls la faye fae inclosing newspaper clipping clip pins hus hits just informed me of your sour disaster disa stef on oil wall S street ethoda says you are unable to 0 o get til position and are without funds my father is s an bile manufacturer ciul employs a great many men inen if you care to come to the lie middle west lie viii mill be glad to give gho you sonn som kindol kind of position I 1 do not know what kind of work it will be nor how flow much you can call earn hut but at least it will take care of you until you can get on your feet again it if you lime have not the money to pay for your ticket wire tile nio collect and my futher will send it by telegraph it la Is only fair to warn you that lint you may have to work pretty hard while mcfather my father Is the kindest ninn man in tile lie world he believes that every man should earn his wages sincerely yours youri GERALDINE harmell CHAPTER IV and jerry disposes one lovely september bep morning at eleven a smartly dressed young nian stepped briskly into the office of the harmer motor company tie ile held ills his soft gray lint in lila ills hand and smiled us as ho sald lio lie wished to see mr clariner II ariner if you ion please the charm of ills his manner was not lost upon the young girl nt at tile the desk who told him midi real regret that mr air ll arnier WAS lit in a iery important conference and find left word that lie he did ili not wish to be disturbed slie she professed her entire willingness gness to produce any other person connected with tile lie establishment who cited ile be of tiny possible interest to mm film lint hut the lie young imin shook ills hla inid head lie he said paid lip must see bee mr air flar iner in person and should very much appreciate if alil earliest possible nio consistent with mr charmers harmers Har mers |