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FOREWORD.
"The Thirteenth Com
mandment" is an American
story written by an Ameri
can for Americans. It is,
according to a famous Eng
lish critic, "American to the
bone and to the marrow of
the' bone." It deals with
that eternal conflict be
tween finance and romance.
It tells the story of what one
lovable, modern American
girl did when she discovered
how often the checkbook's
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 start
"The Thirteenth Command
ment" you will finish it, and
when you have finished it
you will be glad that you
started it.
CHAPTER I.
As usual nowadays, Instead of
knocking at the door Fnto called up
on the telephone.
Though the bell shrilled almost In
Sirs. Kip's car Hho would not answer
It. She winced, shook her bead, agi
tated her rocking chair with petulance,
embroidered vindictively, and hardly
so much called out us sighed very
loudly toward tlio hallway:
"Daphne I O-ob, Daphne 1 the tele
phone again I"
On tlio stairs there sounded a
tnulllcd scurry like the rush of nn
April shower chased down a hillside
by the sun. Au allegory of April dart
ed across the room and raised the tel
ephone to her lips ns If it were a
beaker of good cheer.
ITer mother was used to this humor
of Daphne's and paid no heed till n
sudden frost chilled the warm tono of
tlio girl's voice. The smllo of hospi
tality wasted on tlio telcphono bad
given place to a look of embarrass;
nient.
Mrs. Kip whispered anxiously, "Who
1h It?"
Daphno motioned her not to Inter
rupt, and her voice grow deep and
Important. It beenmo what her brother
Ilnynrd cnlled her "reception voice."
In her grandest contralto sho said:
"This Is Miss Kip. Yes, I have. Yes,
bo does. I beg pardon? Oh 1 Oh I Obi
How do you do, Mr. Wmlnvni."
"Mr. Who?" her mother keened.
Dnphuc whispered to quiet her, "A
young man from Now York friend of
Bayard's samo olllce. I haven't got
his namo yet."
Into the telephone she was saying,
and bowing nnd nodding the whllo
with her politest face. "Indeed I'll try
to be. Of course Cleveland's not New
York, but By the way, do you
dance? That's good. That's right;
might as well bo deaf If you don't I
How long will you bo In Cleveland?
Oh, Is that all? Well, then, you must
come out here nnd have ten with us
tills very afternoon. I'll call for you
at the hotel In my little car. No; It's
not one of those; It's nn electric. I
run It myself. Afraid to risk It?
Bravo man I I'll bo thero In fifteen
minutes, and you might be on tlio
stops. Goodby, Mr. Wmbwm."
This last was said In tlio fond tono
of ancient friendship, nnd sho hung
up tho receiver with a gesture llko
shaking hands.
Sho turned to find her mother thin
ning her lips In a long, tight line; her
cheeks bulged explosively. Daphne
forestalled her:
"DJo's n young fellow In tlio samo
firm as Bayard. Says bo's hero on
business for ten days. Bnyard told
him to cnll rao up and tell mo to bo
nlco to him. That sounds llko By.
Also said ho hadn't time to write. That
sounds llker still. Bayard told him
to kiss you for him, so ho must bo all
xlght I was going to take him to
tho hotel to a tea-dance, but I thought
Td better give him a look-over llrst
So I'll roll him out here. Get out the
nlco china nnd tho napkins I mono
grammed, and"
"Bat, Daphno t Wnltl I can't"
"I haven't time to arguo with you,
tnamran. Please do as I tell you for
once, nnd don't fuss. Mr. Wmbwm
will probably havo a lot of nows to
tell you about your prodigal eon.
G'byl"
Slip popped a kiss on tlio forehead
that auxlcty had turned to corduroy
nnd ran upstairs llko another April
shower chasing tho sun uphill. Sho
dashed down again with hat and
gloves, and, with noso repowdored,
slammed tho front door gayly,
thrummed tho stepB, and strode across
tha Ions lawn to tho little electric car
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standing under the porto cocliorc. Tlio
cur wna very largo for a beetle- but
pretty amnll for nn uutomobllo.
CHAPTER II.
The night train from New York had
deposited Clay Wlmburn In tho grimy
cavern of the station at an early hour.
Ho had dawdled over his breakfast,
feeling lost without his New York
morning papers.
When at last It grew lalo enough to
telcphono for an appointment with tho
man ho had come to see ho was dis
gusted to learn that the wretch would
not be visible till the next day.
It was then thnt Bayard Kip's part
ing behest to call up his sister re
curred to Wlmburn. Ho planned to
compose n formal note of self-Introduction,
but Bayard had forgotten to
tell him his sister's namu or his fa
ther's Initials. Thero were several
Kips in tho telephone book, and he
could not tell which would he which.
Ho decided to cnll up each number
and ask a maid or somebody If Mr.
Bayard Kip's people lived there.
Tho very first number he called
brought Daphno herself suddenly
volco to voice with him. Voices are
characters, and It was u case of love
nt first hearing with him. She had
him smiling and cooing at the second
phrase. He felt that she was going to
make his stay In Cleveland pleasant.
He formed nil sorts of pictures of
her while ho wnlted on the hotel steps,
but when sho stepped out of her enr
and .looked about she was none of the
Misses Kip ho had planned. She wus
n round, pretty Uttlo thing, amiable
of eyo and humorous about the lips,
and cunningly dressed. Sho looked
as If sho would bo u plucky, tireless
sportswoman; yet sho had a wistful,
tender huggableness that a girl ought
not to lose, however well sho plays
tennis.
"Is this Mr. " she began, no was
too nervous to notice her pause.
Ho retorted, "Is this Miss Kip?"
He noted that she shook hands well,
with a boyish clench accompanied by
an odd little duck of tho head.
"Mighty nice of you to tako mo off
this desert Island," ho beamed.
"Mighty glad to have tho privilege,"
sho said as sho verified the fraternity
pin on his overcoat. "Mother is dy
ing to hear how Bayard Is."
Mothers havo llttlo power left as
guardians, but tlio children find thnt
tho tltlo has n certain value at times
In keeping order.
"Won't you get in?" said Daphne,
pointing to her car. She made him
crowd In first, then followed and
closed the door and pulled tho throttle.
He meditated aloud: "How wonder
ful It really Is thnt you should talk to
mo over tho telephone und Invite mo
to your homo and come and get mo
llko this."
"What's so wonderful about that?"
said Daphne. "Everybody does It."
"Everything that everybody does is
wonderful," said Wlmburn. "But how
especially wonderful It Is to live In a
city where there aro no wnlls about
the gardens. Look I there aren't oven
fences. Tlio lawns ure nil Joined to-
Already Wlmburn Was a Member of
the Household.
gcther and tho houses aro mostly win
dows. Everything Is so open and free,
full of sunlight nnd frankness. You're
taking mo homo In this charming llttlo
glass showcaso to Introduce mo to
your mother. I tell you tho world do
move I A woman of today has a lot
to bo thankful for. You ought to bo
mighty happy."
"Ought-to-bo hasn't much to do with
Is," Daphno sighed. "Wo'vo got a lot
to get yet and a lot to.get rid of."
Ho sank back discouraged. Tho
sex was still insatiable.
After a short rldo they turned Into
a driveway leading through a spacious
cxpanso of grnss dotted with trees and
shrubs, to n homelike house without
1 beauty or ugliness a houso that had
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grown with the personalities of tho
occupants. Tho only ostentatious
about the place were tho cupola of an
earlier day and tho porto cochero
stuck out llko a broken wing.
Sho led him Into the house nnd
waved him toward the hull tree. When
ho had set down his hat and stick she
led him Into the drawing room.
"Mother, we're home."
"Yes, dear," said Mrs. Kip, who
called Daphno "dour" before com
pany. "Mother," said Daphne, "I want to
present Mr. " (mumble gulp). Sho
had not yet achieved his name.
Her mother shocked her by saying,
"Delighted to meet you, Mr. I
didn't quite catch the name."
Daphne blushed for .her mother's
query, but was glad to overhear the
stranger's answer:
"I am Mr. Wlmburn, Mrs. Kip Clny
Wlmburn."
At this moment n tan, shambling
man walked In. He looked us If ho
looked older than ho was. Ills spec
tacles overwhelmed a rather unsuc
cessful nose. Daphne hardly needed
to Introduce him us her father. Sho
gave Wlmburn n namo now, and he
felt called upon to explain his Incur
sion. "I know your eon Baynrd very well.
I'm In his otllce. Wo belong to the
same fraternity different chapters of
course. Wo struck up a greut friend
ship. When ho knew I was coming to
Cleveland ho said, 'Tell my sister to
bo nice to you,' and and "
Wlmburn paused in some embarrass
ment beforo tho ballroom manner of
Mrs. Kip, but the pompous dl3gulscs
of timidity fell from her us she mur
muredand blushed In a inothorly
way :
"Daphno told me. Ho sold for you
to kiss his mother for him."
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"Well, I am his mother." ,,j.t
"Oh I May I?" , 1"Mr
"Will you?"
no pressed his lips respectfully on
her cheel;, but she, closing her eyes to
Imagine him her son, flung her fat
arms about mm and held mm a mo
ment, ne kissed her again with a
kind of vicarious devotion.
"I'd want Bayard to deliver ench a
messago to your mother," sho ex
plained. Already Wlmburn wns a member of
tho household; he had ,bcen kissed
nnd sympathized with.
no turned to Dnphno with nn apolo
getic look and saw that she was star
ing nt him with softer eyes than ho
had thought sho had.
Dellnlto anxieties engaged Mrs. Kip,
for tea had como In tottering on a
tray carried by a ponlc-smltten cook,
as ngtlo ns a hippopotamus and as
shy ns a violet.
Dnphno nnd her mother nnd father
went through the tea ceremony with
the anxiety of peoplo In nn earth
quake, and tho "Swedish dromedary"
stared at the unaccustomed sight as
If the ten bibbers were drinking poi
son and sho watching for the convul
sions to begin. '
Clny Wlmburn talked nltogcthcr
about Bayanl and his wonderful prog
ress In business In spite of the hard
times. Bnyard, he said, wns sticking to
his desk like u (lemon, nnd ho let noth
ing dlbtrnct him.
"It must be glorious living In New
York," Daphne sighed.
"Why don't you come nnd pay Bay
ard a visit?" Wlmburn suggested.
"He wouldn't have time to tako me
anywhere, nnd I don't know anybody
else there."
"You know me. And I'd bo only too
glad to try to repay your hospitality
to me."
Mrs. Kip looked on and listened with
the fond alarm of one who has seen
fatal courtships begun with Just such
fencing.
When nt length Daphno suggested
that thero was still time to rush down
to tho Hotel Stotler for a danco or
two Mrs. Kip smiled at her. Wlmburn
did not know that he had been brought
home on approval. Mrs. Kip realized
that ho wus not to be returned ns Im
possible. Her fancy gambled In fu
tures. Wlmburn wns tho victim of an onset
of that delirium amans known ns love
nt first sight, no was at tho right age,
and ho found something exotlcally
captivating In this strange girl In tho
strange city, no was poisoned with
love, and his opinion of Daphno wus
lunatlcally fantastic. No ono in tho
world equaled her. No ono ever had
equaled her or could equal her in any
futuro ever.
Spring and lovo aro tho perennial
miracles, always new, always amazing.
It was sprlngtlmo in Wlmburn'a years
and In tho calendar of tho world; and
countless other youth of mankind, ani
mal kind, bird and fish kind, flowers
und fruit trees, and perhaps of chem
icals in tho ground wero feeling tho
samo mania.
Daphne's cordiality wns at first
merely tho hospltnblo warmth of her
unusually cordial community. But sho
caught tho fever from Wlmburn nnd
decided that ho was tho final word In
human evolution.
Tlmw tini'im t ilrond ttin cnotofv nt
I others, to resent the cxlstcnco of a
squatter population on their private
planet. The world was too much with
them. The little car was transparent.
Even nt night etiquette required them
to light It up within.
Wlmburn did not return to New
York so soon ns he expected. It
seemed Impossible, to uproot himself
from that pleasant soil. One after
noon when he had already overstayed
his furlough Daphne and lie were rid
ing In the little car through the outer
suburb known ns Shaker Heights a
.section rapidly evolving from a sleepy
religious community ton swarm of city
residences.
The late afternoon moon had risen
In n sky still rosy with the afterglow
of .sunset. Tiie nlr was murmurous
with pleading.
Suddenly Wlmburn cried nlond, to
his own surprise und hers, "Daphne!
Miss Kip! I can't stand everything,
you kliow! I'm only human, after till."
"What's the matter?" site asked In
prosaic phrase but with a poetic flut
ter of breath.
"I love you, d n It! pardon me.
nut I'm internally in love with you.
I'm tormented. I came here on busi
ness, und Instead of my tlnlshlug it
you've (lnlshed me. I'm two days over
due In New York and I've had to Ho
to the otllco to explain why. And all
I can think of now Is that I'd rather
resign and starve to death than go
back and leave you here."
"nonestly?" she barely breathed.
"Desperately !" he moaned. "What's
to become of mo?"
"You'd better go back, I suppose.
You'll soon get over It nnd flud some
body else to love."
"There's nobody else In the world
worth loving. I'd die If I gave you up !
I'd simply die."
Ho went on with aching nnxlety:
"Could you euro for me Just a little?
If you could love me or just promise to
try to, I could fuce my exile for a
while. Do you think you could lovo
me ever?" y
She dropped her chin on her breast
and sighed.
"I guess I do now."
Tho miraculous felicity of this situa
tion overwhelmed them both. He dipt
her It. his urms and she flung hers
about v him, forgetting entirely the
steeling wheel. The neglected little
car promptly scuttered oft the road,
crossed a gutter Into a vacant lot,
scooped up a "For Sale" sign, and was
about to tip over into nn excavutlon
when Daphne looked up long. enough
to shut off the power. Then in a blind
rapture she returned to where she be
longed his embrace.
Soon she was assailed with fears for
the credibility of this wonder work,
and when he said :
"When Khnll we announce our en
gagement?" she protested:
"Oh, not till we nre sure."
"I'm sure now."
"But wo must be terribly sure. It's
such a dangerous thing, getting mar
ried. So many people who think they
love each other tlnd out their mistake
too late. You don't know mo very
well."
"You mean you don't know mo very
well."
"I'm not afraid of you, but for you.
I'd hate to disappoint you, and I don't
really amount to much. I can't do
anything except gad around ; und you'd
tire of me."
"Not In this world nor In the next."
"It's darling of you to say It, und
you think you mean It now. But "
"I know It, Daphne, honey, now and
forever. I don't want anybody but
you. Life won't be life without you.
You've promised to bo my wife. I
hold you to your promise."
"All right." It was exceedingly sat
isfying to, surrender her soul Into his
keeping. She had reached harbor ul
rettdy after bo brief und placid a voy
age. "
Ho ended n long, cozy silence with
tho surprising remark, "I suppose I
ought to ask your parents' consent?"
fNii ilniirrlitnr nf Mm tvfntlntli ion.
tury laughed: "Parents' consent 1 You
do read a lot of ancient literature,
don't you?"
"Still I Imagine we'd better break It
to 'em."
"You leave It to me to break It to
'em. They'll bo glad enough to get me
off their hands."
"I'll never believe that."
When they reached her homo It wns
Into and his hotel was so far that,
since he would be spending his Inst
evening with her, anywuy, she asked
him to stay to dinner.
She broko that nows to her parents,
nnd it caused them acuto distress. Her
father and her mother wero deep In
tho battlo that always broko out be
tween them when tho monthly bills ur
rived. Daphno was so used to this
that sho hardly noticed It.
After dinner tho parents retired to
tho living room to read nnd sew and
mumble over their mutual grievances,
whllo Daphno and Wlmburn snt and
the piazza which tho moon turned into
a bluo portico of mystic spell.
CHAPTER III
I Thn nort mnrnlnc Wlmhnm WnkO
from dreams of bliss to tho realization
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that lils hotel bill would require all of
his funds except enough for tjto por
ter's tip nnd u few odd dollars.
He could not buy Daphne an engage
ment ring with a few odd dollars, and
he was ufriiid to leuve he'r without the I
brand of possession on her linger. I
But how was he to come at the nec
essary sum? He could not decently
ask the linn he was dealing with to
lend 1 1 1 tn money. He might have asked i
It to cash a check on his Imnlf) but
his account was at the Irreducible mln- '
imum. !
After nn hour or two of meditation
lie determined to beard a Jeweler in
his lair and try to coax him Into the i
extension of credit. i
He loitered In froit of several win
dows, staring nt the glittering nobbles
on the velvet beaches till he ft und n
tiny gem Hint lie thought mlghi feebly
represent his exquisite adoration. He ,
went in net! asked the price. An ea- '
ger salefiuuii peered at the very small
tag and announced the very large
price S1S5. It was not much for u
solitaire, but It was too much for that
bachelor.
lie clung to the cSflnter for support
and In a husky tone asked for tho
credit man. lie was escorted to a
barred window where a very sane old
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"I Have the Honor to Be Engaged to
Miss Daphne Kip."
person gazed out at people Insano
enough to buy Jewelry. Mr. Gassett
had a look of hospitality towurd cash
and of shyness toward credit.
Wlmburn hemmed und blushed and
swallowed hard. Wltn the plausibility
of a pickpocket he mumbled us bo
pushed a card across the glass sill :
"I am Mr. Clay Wlmburn of New
York city. I have been out here clos
ing up an Important deal for my firm
with one of your big mills. I hap
poned to seo n little ring In your win
dow rather pretty little' thing. Took
n fancy to It. Had half a mind to buy
It. But rather short of cash and or
and"
Mr. Cassc-tt waited with pntlenco.
Clny went on: "I have no right t
nsk you to give mo credit. But I'm
very anxious to leave tho ring here."
"Leave It here ! I thought you want
ed to buy It!"
"Of course! I want to leave It on
the finger of n young lady."
"Oh," said Mr. Oassott, to whom
Indies' lingers were an Important mar
ket. Finally ho said: "I don't supposo
you would euro to tell me who your
fiancee is. That might make a dif
ference." "Why shouldn't I tell you? I'm cer
tainly not ashamed to. I havo tho
honor to bo engaged to Miss Daphno
Kip."
Daphne, accompanied by her
mother, goes to New York for
the purpose of buying her trous
seau. Thtre the first shadow
is cast upon Daphne's romantic
dreams by the discovery that the
money which her father has
been able to raise for the pur
pose will not buy much of a
trousseau. Don't miss the, next
Installment
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Real Riches,
no who bus fortune In lovo and
truth and beauty Is entitled to bo
called rich. Slmo und chungo and ad
versity havo no power upon them.
They nro tho only things n man can
tako with him when he goes. In tlio
process of ncqulrlng them they be
como part of him Inseparably. Ho
who hus them "wears his commenda
tion In his face," for It may bo read
as ho passes that his converso Is with
tho higher nnd finer things nnd his
dally walk la on tho plane where the
noblest meet nnd greet fnmlllarbv-
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Look at the tongue, mother! If
coated, It is a sure sign Unit your lit
tle one's stoma eh, liver and bowels
needs a gentle, thorough cleansing at
once.
When peevish, cross, listless, pnle,
doesn't sleep, doesn't eat or net natu
rally, or Is feverish, stomach sour,
breath bud; has Momaeh-nche, soro
throat, diarrhoea, .full of cold, give a
tcaspoonful of "California Syrup of
Figs," nnd In n few hours all the foul,
constipated waste, undigested food
nnd sour bile gently moves out of tin
little bowels without griping, and you
have u well, playful child again.
You needn't coax sick children to
1 take this harmless "fruit laxative;"
they love Its delicious taste, and it
always mnkes them feel splendid.
Ask your druggist for n bottle of
"California Syrup of Tigs," which has
directions for babies, children of all
ages and for grown-ups plainly on tho
bottle. Beware of counterfeits sold
here. To be sure you get the genuine
nsk to see that It Is made by tho' Call
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Deep Grief.
"And was the widow v. Inconsol
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hide her powder putT to keep lief from
weeping."
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Has been used for all ailments tlmv
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gases In the stomach. August Flower
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Give It n trial.--Adv.
Some one has advanced the startling
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What Doctot Pierce Has
Done for Humanity
BY DOCTOR CRIPPS.
It has always seemed to mc that Dr.
i picrcc 0f Buffalo, N. Y., should be placed
near the top when a list of America's
great benefactors is written. IIo studied
and conquered human diseases to a de
gree that few realize. Whenever he found
a remedy that ovcrcamo disease, he at
once announced it in tho newspapers and
told where it could be bought at a small
price. IIo did not follow the usual cu3tom
of keeping the ingredients secret, bo that
the rich only could afford to buy the
medicine, but openly printed the name of
each root and herb he used. And so today
the names of Dr. Pierce and his medicine
aro widely known, and they stand for be,
tcr health and better citizenship.
One of this great physician's most eif
ccsaful remedies is known as Dr. Picrce'i
Pleasant Pellets. These are little, sugar
coated pills, composed of Mayapple, leave;
of aloe, root of jalap things that Naturf
grows in the ground. These Pellets an.
safe because they move tho bowels gently,
leaving no bad after-effects, as so many
pills do. Very often they mako a persoi
who takes them feel like a new man or
woman, for they cleanse tho intestines of
hard, decayed and poisonous matter that
accumulates when one is costive. If you
aro constipated, by all means go to your
druggist and get soma of Dr. Tierce's
Pleasant Pellets. They may provo to b
tho very thing your system requires to
make you well and happy.
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