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DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD, DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. THIRTEENTH cuiriANDriEMr- KH v7 RUPQODGHES Mis CBPTKlSftrtf DAPHNE, AIDED AND ABETTED SUCCUMBS TO LURE Synopsis. Clny Wlmburn, n young Now Yorker on a visit to Cleveland, meets pretty Daphne Kip, whoso brother Ih in the name ofllce with Clny In Wall Htreet. After a wlilrlwlnd courtship they be coine engaged. Clay buys nn encasement ring on credit and returns to New York. Daphne ngrccs to nn early marriage, and after extracting from her money-worried father what she regards as n sufficient sum of money for tlio purpose she goes to New York with licr mother to huy her trousseau. Daphne's brother, Bayard, lias Just married and left for Korope with his bride, Leila. Daphne nnd her mother Install them selves In Bayard's flat. Wlmburn Introduces Daphne and her mother to luxurious New York life. Daphne meets Tom Dunne, mnn-nbout-town, who seems greatly extracted by her. Daphne accidentally dis covers that Clay Is penniless, except for his salary. Bayard and his nlfo return to New York unexpectedly. CHAPTER VI Continued. Her sympathies would ordinarily have been with her brother In any dis pute between him and his wife. Hut this was a dispute between Bayard and love. It was sacrilegious for him to go on reading tho Times when his bride had so much more Important things to discuss. Ho heard her dis cuss them as through a morning paper darkly, and he iimdo the wrong nn Hwers, nnd llnally ho snntched out his watch, glared It In tho fnce, gasped, and attacked the Inst of his breakfast llko a train-catcher nt.a lunch-counter. It wns thus that ,ho heard Lelhi wall, "What's to become of mo .all morn ing?" Buyurd stnred at her sharply, but spoke softly enoughs "Why, I don't know, honey. There ought to bo plenty for you to do. Tho Lord knows there's enough for me nt tho olficc." "All right," sighed Leila. "I'll be brave and worry through somehow, till noon, with my sweet new sister's help. Hut we'll como down and lunch with you. About what tlmo do you go out to luncheon, By?" Ilayard's answer was discouraging: "Tills Is ono of tho three days a week when the heads of the firm nlwnys lunch at Dclmonlco's In a prlvntc room. I'm afraid I enn't lunch with you to day." "And you'll leave mo this whvlo ter rlblo dny? I can never exist so long without you." "I'm mighty sorry, honoy. But men must work, nnd'so-forth. I'vo been away too long. Tho oillco needs me. jiVnd I'vo spent a lot of money, nnd I've Sjgot to go down mid cant somo moro to ,buy pretty things for my beauty." This brightened her In a wny ho hnd not expected, nnd n littlo too far be yond his hopes. Gloom loft her fnco llko n cloud whipped from before the sun. She dazzled him with her smile. "Oh, I know what to do I Daphne nnd your mother nnd I can go shop ping." Bnyard's henrt Hopped. Ho won dored what on earth more thero was In tho shops that sho could want to buy. She had como to tho murrlago with her troussonu .only partly com pleted, on account of tho hnsto of the wedding. But sho had bought and bought In Kurope. Sho had made his honeymoon anxious by her rapacity for beautiful things to wear. And now that they had como to New York with their 'old trunks bulging and new trunks bought abroad bulging, nnd had paid n thumping sum nt the custom house, now sho was still eager to go shopping 1 Wlmt he wanted to do whb to quit buying for a whllo and sell something. He did not sny this. Love wns sllp plng tho bandage off ono eye; but It hod not yet removed tho sugnr stick that stops tho tonguo from criticism. Leila grew moro cheerful nt n ter rifying rate: "Co on to your old luncheon, my denr child, nnd Dnphno and your mother anil I will go tin a spreo in tho shops. Then we'll all have a banquet tonight nnd n thenter, and If we'ro not too tired, a supper; nnd If you're very good I'll take you to one of tlioso dancing places afterward. I'll buy tho thenter tickets myself. I'll get good ones. I want to save you us much troublo as I can, honey. So run along to your ofllco and don't worry about us. But you must miss mu frightfully I Will you?" He vowed that he would, and he meant It. She was a most mlssnhlo creature, He roeo to leave, but sho stopped Iilm to Bay, "What play shall wo seo?" This wns thu occasion for elaborate debate till Bayard gave signs of trum peting his wrath nnd bolting. Leila graciously released him only to call him back to say that ho had for gotten his newspaper, "I left It for you. Don't you want to read It?" ho asked. "I cnu get auother ut the subway station." Rhe shook her head : "There's noth ing Interesting In tho papers. I'm Just from Pails, unit 1 know more about the fn-hlimts than they do." KS V 'MPfieat. DMtmcns BY HER SISTER-IN-LAW, OF THE SHOPS. Bnynrd shuddered n little, Inly. The times wero epic. Immortnl progress was being mndo as never before: lin den despotisms were turning Into re publics, republics were at war with ono auother; constitutions, lnbor prob lems, life problems, all soclnl Institu tions, wero being ripped up nnd re made, all the relations of masters nnd men, mistresses, children, wives, nnl mals. Yet Lelln said thero was nothing In the papers 1 ltevolutlonnry news meant to her a change In (he fashion In sleeves, the shift of the equatorial walstllno u trlllo nearer the bust or a trlllo nearer tho hips, the release of the ankles from tight skirts. Tho great rebellion In her world was tjio abrupt decision of the dressmakers that after years of costumes clinging more and more closely to the human outllno they would depnrt from It In every way possible. Leila was Interested vitally In what women would wear and what they would leave off, nnd grnndly In different to which nntlons wero shoot ing nt which. Bayard hesitated, ap pealed again to his wntch, gasped at the hour and the minutes, kissed Leila violently, kissed Daphne nnd kissed his mother and rushed for the door. Leila put out her arms again. "I must be Inst," sho cried, nnd as ho bowed into her arms sho kissed his ear and whispered, "nnd first, too, nnd nil the betweens." Bayard was a business man from tils cradle dnys. Ho loved promptitude. Ho blushed to arrive late at Ills office and set a bad example to his stenog raphers and clerks. It wns his creed that success comes to those who arrive earlier on tho battlefield than the oth ers, light harder, stay longest there, nnd end ctfory dny with tho next day's maneuvers clenrly -realized as part of tho next month's campaign. There was need for concentration In Ids business, for ho hnd brought buck from Kurope a senso of great disaster In the air. And thero was no encour agement In American business except an Instinctive feeling that tho worst must bo over because It had lasted so long. CHAPTER VII. It was a tlmo when everybody wns cutting down appropriations, reducing expenses. Cities, counties, stntes, nn tlons were nil paying tho penalty of In the Window on a Dummy With No Head, No Feet, and a White Satin Duit Huna a down That Seemed to Cry Aloud to Daphne. former extravagances by present econ omics. Rich people wero positively bonstful of their penuries. The three women assailed a list of things for Daphne's trousseau with the Will i$ tig Lh 1 iMimM U 'A' limfh'mMmml I tJIWHKL 'Hep rnthlcssness of an auditing commit tee. They cut out this nnd that, de cided that this gown could bo omitted or postponed, thut waist could be had In a cheaper quality, these parasols were not really necessary, tlioso stock ings need not be so numerous nil at once. And yet even Mrs. Kip admitted that tho whole array was far beyond the rench of her husband's .means. Still she Insisted that ho could provide a purtlal trousseau ut least. Sho herself would "go without things" for ten years if necessary. Daphne, however, wns haunted by tho vision of her futher's harrowed, money-hungry face. When her mother reminded her that It was his last chance to do nnythlng for her, she re torted, "Yes, and It's my lust chance to do nnythlng for him." Her pride wns wrung by her plight. She must cither go shabby or cause acute distress to one or both of the men that were dearest of all in the world to her. She must leave behind her a burden of debt as a farewell tribute to her father, or she must bring with her a burden of debt us her dot. "No I" she cried, with n sudden im patient slush at tho Gordlan knot. "Clay will have to take me just as I am or take back his diamond ring he wished on me." Her deflnnco was not convincing. Her mother protested: "It's not Clny thut you have to con sider. He'll never know what you have on. It's the guests nt tho wed ding nnd your old friends nnd the neighbors. You don't want them to think we're poor nnd thnt your father Is marrying you off chenp, do you?" Daphne flared back, "It seems mighty foolish to go and make yourself really poor In order to keep from seem ing poor, especially when you never fool anybody except yourself!" Lelln, with the magnanimity of a na tive spendthrift, tried to soothe tho fever of the rebel : "Let's go prowling around, nnyway. I may see something I want for myself. Bayard dragged mo away from Paris before I had finished shopping. There are several things I need desperately." Tho three wiso women set forth: they Joined the petticoated army pour ing from all the homes like a levee en masse, a foray of pretty Huns. They reached the alluring plnce where the famous Dutllh, like an amia ble Mcphlstophclcs, offered to buy souls In exchange for robes of nngcllc charm. In tho window, on a dummy, with no head, no feet, nnd n white satin bust, hung a gown that seemed to cry aloud to Daphne : "I belong to you nnd you belong to me I Fill me with your flesh and I will cover you with nn aureole." The three forlorn women understood tho message Instantly. They looked nt one another, then, without a word, en tered the shop, doomed In advance. Leila was known td Dutllh, nnd ho greoted her with an extravagant Im pudenco that terrified Mrs. Kip: "You little devil I" ho hissed. "Get right out of my theater, now dare you como hero after letting somebody else build your trousseau?" Leila apologized nnd explained und 1iq protended to bo mollified as he pre-' tended to have been Insulted, nnvlng thus mndo the field his own, he turned to Daphne, studied her frankly with narrowed eyes as If sho wero asking to bo a model, and sighed : "Oh, what n narrow escape 1" Daphne Jumped and gasped, "From what?" "That gown In tho window, thnt Lan vln that was horn for you. You must lmvo seen It tho afternoon ono In parchment-toned taffeta and tulle." Tho women, astounded by, his Intui tion, nodded nnd breathed hard, llko terrified converts at a seance. He wns referring to the ono that belonged to Daphne, nnd ho ordered her to 'get Into It nt once. Sho demurred: "I'm nfrnld of tho price. How much Is It, please?" ."Don't talk of money 1" Dutllh stormed. "I bate Itl Let's see tho gown on you." Ho called one of his tawny manikins. "Help Miss Ktp Into this gown, Maryla." A mournful-eyed beauty led Dnphno into u dressing room and acted as maid. Daphne stepped out of her street suit into the Parisian froth ns If she were going from chrysalis to butterfly. Maryla was murmurous with homage ns she fastened it together and led Daphne forth. Mrs. Kip felt ns if sho had surren dered a mere daughter and received back a seraphic changeling. Daphne was no longer a pretty girl; sho was something ethereal, bewitched and be witching. If sho could own thut gown her mother would bo repaid for all her pangs from travail on. She would ac cept the gown as advance royalty on any future hardships. Dnphno looked nhout for Leila, but Lellu was gone. She reappeared n moment later In u costume almost more delicious than Daphne's a tunic of pench-blow tullo caught up with pink rosebuds and hanging from u draped bodice of peach-blow satin that formed a yoke low on tho hips. And thero was a narrow petticoat of peach pink natln. It was us If peaches had a soul, as perhaps they have. Perfect happiness Is said to need a bit of horror to mnko It complete. Tho happiness of the two girls did not lack thot element. Tho price of their glory furnished It. They asked tho cost with anxtousuess. Said Dutllh: "To Miss Kip I'll lot It go dirt cheap for three hundred and twenty-five. Tho one Miss r Mrs. Kip has on I'll give away for ummh, well sny tho snmo price." Daphne ntid her mother were sick ened. But Outline was suffcrlne oue of those gusts of man In that ruin peo ple. Her soul of 'souls clamored to wear that very gown that very after noon. Even to take It off would hurt like flaying. Lelln had the samo feeling. Her ap petite for resplendent gowns had grown with exercise. Dutllh took pity on them: "Look here," lie said, "I'll make tho price two hundred nnd seventy-five. It's giving them away, but you are such visions In them I" It was a big reduction, but it left the price still mountain high. "I wnnt something to wear tomor row afternoon," Leila said. "I've got to go to a tea and my sister has to go with me." Dnphno had not heard of the tea, but sho wanted somewhere to go in thnt gown. Dutllh smiled: "Nothing cnslcr. Tnke the duds with you or let me send them. Where are you living now?" Leila made a confession: "Tho trouble Is, Mr. Dutllh, that I'm Just back from Paris nnd I haven't a cent left, nnd Miss Kip Is buying her trous seau and has spent more already than she expected to." Dutllh rose to tho bait that ho had expected them to dangle: "That's simple. Why not open an nccount with me? Take the gowns ulong and pay me when you like." Leila mumbled, "I should have to nsk my husband." Daphne said, "My father wouldn't like mo to stnrt an account" "Chargo It to your sister's account, then, nnd pay her." "You say you would charge ilhcm both to mo?" snld Leila. "Certainly," said Dutllh. "Send them, then," said Leila, with imperial brevity. "Thank you," Dutllh smiled. "You shall have them this afternoon. And "He's Awfully Rich, I Suppose," Said Daphne. by the way, I've Just remembered a marvelous design by Paul Polret's. Let mo show It to you." "Como quick; let's run," said Daph ne, and she hurried out of the infernal paradise. They dawdled on, down tho avenue, pausing at window after window, each flaunting opportunities for self-improvement. But Daphne's joy In her now gown was turning to remorse. Sho wns realizing that thnt parchment toned taffeta needed parchment-toned stockings and slippers and a hat of the samo era as the gown. Sho was startled from her reveries by tho sudden gasp of Leila: "If there .isn't Tom Dunne just com ing out of his club!" "I met him Inst night," said Dnphno. "You did? Did he say ho knew me?" "Ho said that Bayard stole you from him." Leila was flattered, but loyal: "Non sense. I was never his to steal. I never loved him, of course. It wouldn't have done any good If I hnd. Tom Dunne's a nonmarrler." "He's awfully rich, I suppose," said Daphne. "No, not rich at all, as rich peoplo go. But ho was mentioned the other dny in tho will of an old aunt ho used to be nice to. He's nice to everybody." Duano met them now and pnused, bareheaded, to greet Daphne witli flut tering cordlnlity. Sho wns greatly set up to be remembered. She presented him to her mother, who wus complete ly upset nt having to meet so famous an aristocrat right out In the street when she was still flustered over tho ferocious price of Daphne's new dress. "Will you have n blto of lunch with mo?" asked Dunne. "Wo wero Jut going to have, some thing somewhere," said Mrs. KIp. "My husband would object," said Leila. "I'm not inviting you," suid Duane, "I'm Inviting tho genuine Mrs. KIp. You may como along as old married, chaperon, If you hnvo to." "But Miss KIp Is engaged." "So I suspected. Thnt's why I'm Inviting her. 1 feel safe." As they turned east Into Forty fourth street and entered Delmonlco's tho carriage' man saluted Duane, pedestrian ns he was, called him by name, and seemed to bo happier for seeing him. Tho doorman smiled and bowed him In by name, and Duano thanked him by nmnc. The hat-boys greeted him by nnmo nnd did not give him a check. Tho head waiter beamed ns If a long-awaited guest of honor hnd come, and the captains bowed and bowed. Dunne did not ask his guests what they would have. Tho head waiter told him In n low volco what ho ought to have. Daphne rejoiced. All luxury wns music to her. Fine clothes, flno foods on fine dishes, fine horses, motors, fur nitures, flno everything, gave her an exaltation of soul like the thrill of a religion. New York wns heaven on earth. Tho streets were gold, tho buildings of Jas per, and the people angels good angels or bad, as the case might be, but still angels. She wanted to be nn angel. Among the squnds of men nnd worn, en camped about the little tables sh made out Sheila Kemblo again, In a knot of elderly women of manifest lm. portnnce. "Isn't that Sheila Kemblo?" Daphne asked. "Yes, that's Sheila," said Duane, nnd he waved to her and she to him. He turned back to Daphne. "Awfully nice girl. Like to meet her?" "I'm crazy to." "I'd bring you together now, but she's completely surrounded by grnndes dames." Ho named the women, nnd Mrs. Kip gaped at them as If they were a group of Valkyrs in Valhalla. It startled her to seo them paying such court to nn actress. She said so. "All great successes love one ax. other," Duane explained. "Those old ladles were geniuses at getting born in the best families, and Sheila has earned her plnce. She looks a bit like your daughter, don't you think?" Mrs. Kip tilted her head and studied Miss Kemble and nodded. She made the Important amendment. "She looks like she used to look like Dnphne." "Thnt's better," said Tom Duune. "Miss KIp might be her understudy." "How rrfucb, (foes nn understudy get?" snld Daphne, nbruptiy. "I haven't the fnintcst Idea I" Duano exclaimed. "Not much, I imagine, ex cept an opportunity." "Is It true that Miss Kemble makes so much?" "T'.l film tfj f.n.ln I . ... xr ...141. 1. m that's all. Her manager, Rcbcn, was telling me that she would clear fifty thousand dollars this year." Mrs. Kip was aghast. Daphne was electrified. She surprised Duane with another question: "You said Miss Kemble was married"?" "Yes, and has children, nnd loves her husband. But sho couldn't stand Idleness. She's just come back to the stage after several years of rusting In a small city." Daphne fired one moro question point-blank: "Do you think I could succeed on tho stage?" "Why not?" he answered. "You have with your mother's permission grcut beauty and magnetism, a de lightful voice, nnd Intelligence. Why shouldn't you succeed? You would probably have a peck of trouble get; ting started, but Do you know any manngers?" "I never met one." "Well, If you ever decide that yor. want to try it, let me know, and I can probably force somebody to glvo yon a Job." "I'll remember that," said Daphne, darkly. She said nothing more while the luncheon ran its course. The women got rid of Tom Duane gracefully Leila asked him to put them In a taxlcab, as they had still much shopping to do. They rode to a department store, and Leila started another nccount. They rodo back to the apartment. There they found a dny letter from Dnphne's father to her mother. "As you see by pnpers big Cowper firm failed today for ten million dol lars tills hits us hard you better como home not buy anything more situation serious but hope for best don't worry well love. WESLEY." Mrs. KIp dropped into a chair. Tho shock was so great that it shook first from her a groan of sympathy for her husband. "Your poor father! And he's worked so hard and been so careful." Buyurd came home Into for dinner and in a .state of grave excitement. Tho great Cowper wholesalo establish ment had fallen like a steeple, crush ing mnny a house. Indirectly It had rattled tho windows of Bayard's firm; had stopped tho banks from granting an Important loan. Bayard spent a bad day downtown. Tho news of his father's distress was a heavy blow. But ho tried to dispense encouragement to the three women who could not qulto realizo what all the excitement was about, or why the disaster of a big chan of wholesale stores would bo of any particular importance to them. Bayard was just saying: "I tell you, Leila honoy, I was the wise boy when I grabbed you, for now I'vo got you, and I need you. Thank tho Lord I'm not loaded up with debt. I've kept clear of that." Daphne Is confronted by a sit uation that forces her to make the most momentous decision of her life and she makes it with out the slightest hesitation. 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