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Show ; EA5TER, S SUBSTITUTE 'I r- S . .. ' I, Ay ' A,, 'li Y ) vS.JT: MYJ i L4SgJ EVEF" EaiJ Frederick $ jjj.' llronson. 'ii '; fc-KfJ "1;ut father." P.illy re-t re-t ' YYj Plied, -you haven't J?Y seen her. You haven't 'j e5l'S;;i any right to say what . '- i 5,(JU have said about 2 ',Cl. Y lcr. merely becausa " ycu or cp 'itiarreled with 5 her father, and still cherish a grudge against liim." "Whether 1 have any right to Eay it or not, you may as well give up the idea of persuading me to ever have anything more to do with you if you marry her. Rather than receive a daughter of Henry Urooks as a mem her of my family I'd cut off my right arm. If you wi:-h to break my bean and have me disinherit you go ahead and marry her if she'll have you. Now ycu know exactly where I stand.'' Billy l.ironncu looked at his father steadily foi a moment and was silent, si-lent, lie thought of Helen Brooks and it was with difficulty that he controlled con-trolled himself. lie was strongly inclined in-clined to tell his father to do his worst to fling defiance in his face. He kept his head, however, and without with-out betraying his emotion, asked: "What was the trouble between you and her father?" "I don't care to speak about that now," the older man replied. "He is dead. Let him rest in his grave. I merely give you notice that no daughter daugh-ter of his can ever set her foot inside my door much less expect me to receive re-ceive her as a member of my family." Eilly spen. a wretched night. He was unable to sleep and spent the , ,-Yr - - : 1 v jr , , ' M" "Wow You Know kxzcuy Where I Stand." long hours thinking of Helen and trying try-ing to make up his mind to give up everything else for her. When morning morn-ing came he was fully determined. In fact he had been determined from the first, but he had. debated the question with himself in all its phases, and had been unable to arrive at any other conclusion than that Helen Brooks was more to him than everything else in the w orld. He decided, however, that it -would be useless to make his decision known as long as a declaration was unnecessary. unneces-sary. There was one thing that bothered both-ered him mere than his father's opposition oppo-sition to Helen. That was his fear that she would never consent to be his wife if she learned that their parents had been enemies, and he felt that ho was in honor hound to tell her. While he was thinking the malter over at breakfast he was called to the telephone tele-phone and informed that Mrs. Wal-lingford, Wal-lingford, the soprano or the church choir of which he vas the director, had been stricken with appendicitis and would be compelled to undergo an operation at once. This would make it impossible for her to sing on E'aster, which was only three adya away. Billy hurried to Dr. 'Williamson to consult hi in about it. "We simply must have somebody who can take Mrs. Wallingford'ii place." said the reverend gentleman. "Faster is the occasion of all occasions occa-sions when we ought to have our j choir at its best. You must find some- body somehow-." I Billy suddenly brightened. t "I will lind somebody," he said. "I I think I know a young lady who will I come." I "Clot her, by all menus, if she can 9 sing," the clergyman urged, and Billy 1 hastened to Helen. I "I have an engagement for you for j Easter," ho said. "Will ycu conic?" I There was a sparkle in her beaufi- j ful eyes, and a look of gladness over- I spread her faco as she replied: 1 "I should think I would. You don't I know how sorry I have been to think 8 I was not going to have a chance S to sing anywhere on Easter. Tell me a all about it." He hastily explained the situation and she agreed with much enthusiasm to fill Mrs. Wallingford's place. "Only it's too bad," she said, "that the engagement had to come because 1 cf auotiicrji misfortune. You will have very little time and I will need ( to rehearse, ycu know." ' When Easter Sunday camo Billy Br'onson was in a state of nervousness such as was not at. all common to him. He had never worr.ei: as he bad worked dttrins; tliose three davs. and he fe;t ready to collapse when he took his place m the choir. Looking cut at the immense congregation, he saw his fatnei' m a pew well down toward the I'rcnt. hen Helen rose to sins her solo Billv held his breath and watched his lamer. lie saw tne old srentJeman lean forward m his pew as the rich, sweet, sympathetic strains noated out lie hau never neard such sinking before, be-fore, and tne loveliness of the sinner ontrancCQ turn, me sternness faded out or i reacricK Bronson s countenance: counte-nance: the spirit ot J'. aster crept into j V ! I I c c q b f e 1 1 J 1 oi b ev 1 1 l i r c I l i tat 11 had ii.udiy seen unly lur three days, ami bo v anted to grasp his sou by the liuiii and o.t'er hiiu a word of congratulation con-gratulation on the success he had achieved in carrying out the musical jirc&ram ci' tne morning. When ho had reached the vestibule he paused ai d looked back, but Hilly was talking talk-ing with a group of his friends. He drew a deep sigh and went out-r-:!e. .bis limousine was waiting tor him at tho curb. He was about to step into the vehicle when a hand was laid on his shoulder, and, turning, ho looked into his son's radiant face. "Hello, Biliy," lie said. "Get in. Well ride heme together." "Won't you wait a minute, father?" Billy repiied. "Tin re's some ono whom I want you to meet.." "Who is ye;ir i:.'. topranc?" Brci-"rick Brci-"rick I! reason uJ-.i. |