-w.tr-' wgrttf-- DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD, DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. I Vl - U 8X2&S&MEEaXIDt WWHSBJT 5 The DAPHNE RESOLVES THAT SHE WILL NO LONGER BE DE PENDENT UPON ANY MAN. 8ynopsls. Clny Wlmbum, n young Now Yorker on a visit to Cleve land, moots pretty Daphne Kip, whoso brother in In the airio olllco with OIny In Wall Htrect. After u whirlwind courtship tliey become cngnged. C'Jay buys an engagement ring on credit and returns to New York. Daphne ngrces to an enrly marriage, mid after extracting from her money-worried father what nlie rognrds aH a Htilllelont Hum of money for the purpose eIio poos to Now York with her mother to buy lu-r trous seau. Daphne's brother, Bayard, has JuhI married and left for Europe with his bride, Leila. Daphne and her mother Install themselves in Unynrd's flat. Wluiburn Introduces Daphne and her mother to luxurious New York life. Daphne meets Tom Dunne, miin-nboiil-town, who eems m-atly attracted to her. I$phno accidentally discovers -Hint Clay Is pofinllens, except for his salary. Ilnyard and his wife return to New York unexpectedly. The throe women net out on a shopping excursion and the two younger women buy expensive gowns, having them charged io Bayard. CHAPTER VII Continued. 5 1 clla said nothing, but thought hard, Huvard was silent. Later the door-hell ran:' and a young sewing girl brought two big boxes from Dulllh's: They were ho big that there was no conceal In', them. Leila made a timid effort to escape with hers, but Bnynrd was full of a cheerful, curiosity: "What's all that, honey?" "Oh, It's Just n a little thing I picked up today at Dutllh's." "What Is It, a scarf or something? (Jive a fellow a look at It." lie began to untie the knot. Sealed iu-oss this cord wns an envelope, with ii statement. Bnyni'd tore It free. Leila snatched at It. Bayard laughed and dodged her. Leila pursued. It wi a ghustly game of tag for her, and Daphne and her mother looked on In guilty dread. Bayard, whooping with liiughlor, dashed Into his room and elo'-rd the door, held It fast while Leila pounded mid pleaded with him. ills laughter was iiuenched sharply. There was a silence. Ho opened the door and walked out, a sickly pallor at IiIh lips, I lie statement In his hand: "This can't bo right, honey: 'Bayard Kip to Dutllh, debtor, l'each-blow satin gown two hundred and seventy- Jive dollars.' The price Is ridiculous, am) I have no account there." "Jle lie Insisted on my opening -one." "lint I don't want to open any nc coiiiiIk. I pay my hills In thirty days or discount them for cash. I can't pay 'this In thirty days. Every penny I can seo ahead of me Is laid out." "I I'm sorry," Leila faltered. "You isald tho times were getting better." "1 thought thoy were. I hoped they nvero. But they'vo gono bad again. He aides, I was trying to cheer you up, to glvo you a happy honeymoon. And I bought you everything you saw Abroad. And It wusn't enough I When vlll you get enough clothes 1" Leila hud stared Incredulous at tho calamitous result of her tender Im pulse to beautify herself In his eyes. Then tenrs came gushing and she ran to her room and locked the door. Bayard did not follow her. He turned for comfort to his mother and Daphuc. lie noted tho other box. Daphne had not dared to Open It. Bayard ripped tho envelope from Its cord and read: "Bnynrd Kip to Dutllh, Dr. Pnrch-ment-toned gown, for Miss Daphne Kip, two hundred and seventy-live dol lars." He was pnrchuient-toncd himself as lie shook tho statement at Daphne, and whispered, huskily, "What's this?" Daphne could not muster any cour Ri She explained with craven re morse, "I snw a gown that I I needed there, and I I He offered to let It n your account till I could get tho money." Bajurd was choked with wrath and a terror greater than hers. "I go to my olllco and work llko a 11 end all day, and I come home to Hud tlmt tny wife and my sister have run mo Into debt for llvo. hundred ami fifty dollars. And tho Jinn, tho big (lrm I work' for, had to extend a note for seven hundred mid fifty because wo couldn't uioef HI" Ills mother tried to stem the tldo of Bayard's rage, to turn his wrath with ti soft answer: "I guess It's all my fault, honey. Tho drcsf0H looked so pretty on tho girls 1 , urged them to take them. You ought to see how beautiful they are. Go put the dress on, Daphne, and let your brother sou how sweet you look In It." "Sweet I She looks sweet In It 1 It's beautiful t And that Justifies anything. Lord, what did you muku 'em out of, theso women!" Mrs, Kip nudged Daphne and whis pered, "Oo on, put the dress on; let him see you In It." She spoke with great cnunlness, but Daphne stared at her with derision, and edged away mid spoke In u tono am Idling as cold blue vitriol. 'Tut It on, mother I Do you think I'd ever woar thu thing? I'll send It hack tomorrow morning at daybreak. And I'll never take a thing thnt any iiuiti pays for as long tot I live." IhiyMd-rarod n't her ovur Ids shoal-ili-: "Y." Aon't take anything that TJflK.,BSTFrE:.r'.lr:i!V'Ti"tflia hirteenth Commandment By EBB any mnn pays for, eh? What are you going to live on air?" She nnswered him, grimly, "There aro several million women In this country earning their own living, and I'm going to ho one of them," Ills commcnl was a barking, "Hnhl" Sho lugged the box away to her room. Bayard Hung himself Into a. chair and listened to the cauldron of his own hateful thoughts. Gradually they ceased to bubble and stew. He could hear now tho muflled beat of Leila's sorrow. Ho resisted It for a while, sneered at It, raged at II, and then at the cruelty of the world. Leila's sobs had stopped now and Bayard listened for them anxiously. Perhaps she hud died of grief. A lasso seemed to have caught him about tho shoulders; It was dragging him to tho door. He went there at last, and listened. Ho heard a low whimpering, unendur ably appealing. He tapped on tho door and called through It. "Leila, honey love, forglvo me. I've seen the Utile gown. It's beautiful. You shall havo It and a dozen like It. l'lease forglvo mo und lovo me again. And I'll buy you anything you want. Please. Please don't keep mo stand ing outside your door. Honey! Leila lovo I" The door opening, ho slipped through to take refuge with Ids Leila. A moment later the doorbell rang. Dnphne checked (hu maid whose ears hatl been fascinatingly entertained, and (old her that If tho caller were Mr. Wlmhurn ho was to wait ouUdde In 'the hall. It was Wlmhurn and Daphne went out to hint. Ho greeted her with tho zest of a young lover. Daphne gave him a cold cheek to kiss, mid then, pulling her engagement ring from her finger, placed It 111 his hand. "What whnt's this, Daphne?" he stuttered. "It's your ring. I'm giving It hack. Tho engagement Is off-lnilcllnltcly." "Kor heaven's sake, why? What havo I done?" "Nothing. Neither havo I. But I'm going to do something." "Wha.t are you going to do, Daphno?" "I don't know hut something." "Don't you lovo mo any more?" "Just as much us over more than ever. And I'll prove It, too." "Prove It by putting tho ring buck on." "Never I Send It back and save your money. That's what I'm going to do wljli what 1'vo bought KIbs mo good night and go, please." Sho left him outside and closed tho door as lovingly as sho could. While Clay waited for tho elevator to como up and take him down ho stared at tho ring with sheep's eyes, tossed It, and caught It' awkwardly, and laughed mid almost spoko his thought aloud: "Kunny thing. I haven't paid for It yet. Got an Insulting letter from tho Jeweler, too, this very afternoon." Hut Daphne was thumbing tho tele phone book to see If she could find Tom Dunne's number. CHAPTER Vlll. Sho failed to run Dunno to earth in the telephone hook. She was at a loss for another source of directions. She was new to New York and did not know how to set out on such a pur suit. Sho went to her room, und found her mother there, dismally engaged In writing a letter to her father, breaking to him thu dreadful news thnt tho trousseau was to cost far iioro for far less. Sho was asking for extra money at once. Daphno smiled bitterly and said: "Hub It out and do It over again, manima. There ain't goln' to ho no trousseau, No wedding hells for me." Mrs. Kip rolled large eyes In Daph ne's direction and looked deaf. Daphno held out her denuded engagement lin ger In proof that she mid Clay wero detrothed. "Good gracious I" was Mrs. Kip's profane comment, "Why ou outih did you" "Beoatifio I'm too oxpiimdvo for nim." "What aro you going to do go back to Cleveland and tull everybody that you're not going to get married, after nil (his trouble?" "No. I'm not going buck tr OIv.j. K2S3X9HK: RUPERT HUGHES land, nnd I am going to get married but later, much later." "I huto conundrums," said Mrs. Kip. "Better tell mc the nnswer, for I won't guess. What are you going to do?" "I'm going to lend n hand," sold Dnphne. "Do my shnre. Get n Job and cam my board nnd keep." "Heaven help us I You've gono crazy I" Mrs. Kip exclaimed. "You get to bed and you'll feel better In the morning. I'll finish my letter," Sho added, unbeknownst to Dnphne, u postscript as long us the letter, con tradicting all she had Just written nnd urging her husband to come Kast at once and take charge of his unruly daughter. She dropped It In the mall chute, and It fell into a bottomless pit, along with her other hopes. Daphne and her mother were uneasy at the prospect of the breakfast en counter with the brldnl couple. There had been a sense of strain the first morning. But now a hitter quarrel had Intervened that first ugly quarrel when the wedge of finance Is driven between united hearts. Bayard and Leila, however, arrived at the tnble all smiles, more amorous than ever. Lelln wore a triumphant smile, such ns .Delilah must havo worn tho second time she went out walking with her big beau.. It was plain to tho anxious eyes of Mrs. Kip and Daphne that Lelln had emerged from tho quarrel with all the loot and aggravated power. Sho had taken advantage of her hus band's trust and abused Ids generosity recklessly, with no more evil motive, Indeed, than the wish to beautify her self In his honor, nnd yet with reck lessness. It was not altogether Leila's fault If tho lesson she learned, perhaps un consciously, from the combat was something llko this: "I run my husband into debt with out consulting him. Ills listless lovo woke from its torpor nnd enchanted mo with a flrst-class demonstration of Its energy, no stormed. I wept thrlll Ingly. Ho apologized, begged to be permitted to bring me some more nice She Went to Her Room and Found Her Mother There, Dismally Engaged In Writing a Letter to Her Father. things. Krgo, when homo life grows dull, I can always stir up the lire by buying something we can't afford. When I want anything I must get it. I shall bo scolded, then kissed nnd treated with nwe. If I hadn't bought It I wouldn't have had It, nor the bonus that goes with It. If wo hud not quarreled wo should havo missed the rapture of 'making up. " This Is one of tho first lessons that certain sorts of husbands teach to cer tain sorts of wives. When tho man of tho house had de parted for his ofjlce, and the waiter had carried off tho breakfast relics, tho three women wero left alone In a completely feminine conclave. They faced Hfo llko three Norns: tho old mother, the new wife, and the deferred wife, each from her coign of disadvan tage. Tho two married women turned on tho maid, with common resentment. They were married and dependent and sho had her Independence. They were Tories and sho a Whig. It was their privilege to rail at things as they were, hut it was their religion to frown on changing them. Mrs. Kip senior spoke for Mrs. Kip Junior. "Now, Daphne, tell us what Is this new foolishness nil about?" Daphne answered, stoutly: "It's not foolishness. Wa tho llrat glimmer of sense I've ever had. I'm sick of tho Idea of always living on tho mercy of some man, taking his charity or his extravagance. I've always been a drag on poor daddy, and I was getting rondy to shift my weight over to poor Clny's buck. But I don't think a woman ought to bo dependent ou n man. I think she ought to hour hor bhare of tho burden." ;- II a: iidn'tl" Mr. Kip broke I I III BrraanaiEnsmracwKCTiOT out. "As If the home weren't jusl ns much labor as the ofllce." Leila attacked her from another di rection. "For goodness' snke, Daphne, don't lose your head. Don't you Im agine for u moment that a husband will be happier and love his wife hot ter because sho earns wages. The harder you work for men, tho better they llko somebody else. The harder a man works for you the better he likes you. Best of nil, he loves tho woman that tries to break him." Daphne's answer was a snappy: "I don't believe It! I'd despise a man that felt that way." The three women wrangled with wise saws and modern Instances, and they were In a perilous state of dis sension when the telephone rang. Leila answered It and her outcries of Indig nation alarmed Mrs. Kip and Daphne till they learned tho cause. Bayard had called up to say that the luncheon party must be postponed. Qutrngcuus business hud nmdo anoth er Insidious attack on love. Leila enmo from the telephone in u slate of desperation mitigated by the fact that Bayard had asked her to take his mother and Daphno shopping und buy them and herself something worth while as an atonement for his abandonment. So they set forth ugaln on another onset against the rnmpnrts of beauty. To tho silent horror of Daphne nnd her mother, Leila was persuaded to buy a new coat and n new hat and to pay for them by the convenience of opening' two new accounts at the sug gestion of two soapy salesmen. Bay ard's surrender after his first battle had already accomplished the expect able result. Everything was tho very latest thing nnd yet was marked down. But Daph ne priced things now with a new soul. She was thinking In the terms of wuges and toll. She wns going to-curn fifty thousand a year some day, but she supposed that at first she would earn very little twenty-flvo dollnrs a week, perhaps. For the first time In her existence she vividly understood how all theso fairy tissues wero the products of hu man labor, paid for with wages mid to ho sold for other wages. Parls were drops of sweat; perfumes were the sighs of weary men ; soft fnbrlcs were the hard spinning of human silkworms. Bayard was even now racking his brain t accumulate what three wom en wore squandering. So Daphne meditated as she had never meditated before and might not often mcdltnto again. Sho refused to buy a tiling. Her mother could only explain her mood ns a symptom of an Illness and advise her to get home to bed. There was something suspicious In the condition of a girl who could look with qujilins of conscience or ap petite on such a banquet. At length fatigue and falntness re minded Mrs. Kip, senior, thnt she had not eaten and the hour was late. Sho .called for her luncheon nnd they went together to a tearoom. Here Daphne hnd nnother attack of eccentricity; a stubborn determlnatlpji to go home and send back to Dutllh the wicked gown that she had bought of hint on credit. Sho had left tho house without re turning it and she wns afraid that there would he difficulties if she de layed. Fortunately there had been no alterations In tho gown. Perhaps there Is no form that satan takes oftener than that of a fashion able gown. In thnt shape ho offers women the conquest of tho world. But Dnphne resisted him and snid to Leila : "Get theo behind me, satan 1 I'm go ing to return this gown nnd let Dutllh glvo Bayard credit for It. I won't look at another gown till I can pay for it out of my own enrnings. I'll not get mnrrlcd till I can buy the rest of my trousseau myself. I've decided thnt an Independent woman must buy her own trousseau." Even In the eyes of ambition this promised to require n fairly long period a period so lenghty that she wondered If Clay's lovo would outlust It. She did lovo him mul the thought of losing lit in alarmed her more than the thought of losing tho precious gown. Leila woke from her meditation with a sudden "Come along; wo must dress for tho tea-fight." Mrs. Kip, senior, amused the young Kljis by thinking aloud: "I wonder If thnt nice Mr. Dunne will bo at the ten." "Oh! shamle shame 1" cried Leila. "It's a regular Intrigue. No, he won't bo there. Telephone him at tho Rac quet club and he'll comu to you. He's usually there." Sho did not seo tho start .tho artless hint gave Daphne, who bud learned by accident what she had not known how to llnd out otherwise. Daphne con cealed her agitation In tho briskness with which sho concluded tho affair of the Dutllh gown. She folded It up mid laid It back- In tho box as if It were a baby she wns about to leave on li door step. She ktasod It good-hy and put I he lid over It and tied It up with n crazy combination of strings of vuri- ssisasawjaav!. Copyright by Harper A nroUiers She refused to go to tho ten pnrty, now that the gown was lost, nnd hIio sold sho had letters to write. But when her mother and Lelln had left her she wrote only one letter a note of regretful rejection to Dutllh. i She pinned It to tho box nnd sent It off by a messenger. Then she tele phoned to Tom Dunne. She did not quite realize the pmer ity of culling a man at his club, and Tom Dunno misunderstood her, lm puted her innocence to Its opposite. He remembered her ns a pretty thing. If sho were brazen well, ho liked brass In certain forms. When she said thnt Mie wanted to have a serious talk with him at his convenience, ho mudc it thd Immediate moment at the cost of breaking an engagement at tennis. Ho asked her if she would not meet him somewhere for tea, but she paid thnt she preferred to seo him at her brother's apnrtmcnt. Ills invitation aroused her suspicion, ner invitation confirmed his. Daphne's heart was bcntlng excited ly while sho wnlted for him nnd she began to feel thnt sho had put herself In n wrong light. When Dunno ar rived nnd the maid showed him into the living room Dnphne tried to re deem herself by n businesslike direct ness. "Mr. Duanc, you must think it very peculiar of mo to drag you up here." "I think it's mighty kind of you." "You say that before you hear what I'm going to ask you. I'm going to ask you to do me a tremendous fa vor." "Thnt will bo doing me a tremen dous favor," he said. Then she nmazed him with her re quest: "You offered yesterday of course I know you didn't mean It hut you offered to get me a Job with a theatrical manager." Duane's hospitable smile hnrdened Into a grimace of anxiety. He mum bled, "Oh, yes." "You know Mr. Raven or whatever his name Is very well, don't you?" "Mr. Rebcn oh, yes yes, I know him fairly well." "I want to go on the stage. Would you dare Introduce me to Mr. Rchen?" "Indeed I will, nnd proud to do it" "Do you think he'll give me a a Job?" "I'll make him." "How can I over repay you?" Her hand went out to him nnd ho took It and squeezed It, and It squeezed back gratefully. But he did not let go. Dunne seemed to be ex cited suddenly. ' Daphne drew hor hand back, but his cume with it, und he followed close upon. There wns a look in his eyes that made her unensy. His yolce was uncertain as he snid: "You enn repay me easily enough, If you want to." "I do. But how? How?" she asked anxiously, not quite daring to wrench her hand free. "By by being by being kind to me." . "Kind? How?" IIo did 'not nnswer with words, bnt he lifted her hand with both of his to his lips. It wns an act of old fangled gallantry that could hardly be resented. But, manlike, having made a formal surrender, he tried to tnko command. One hand held hens, the other swept round her shoulders and pressed her against him, without romjhncss yet with strength. His lips mocd now, not toward her hand, but toward the sacrcdness of her mouth. The future seems bright to Daphne as she Is given what she believes Is the opportunity to realize her ambition. So few difficulties are in the way at the beginning that she cannot see those that may loom up In the future. (TO B13 CONTINUED J Impress Left by Romans. 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