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Miss Kelly Tells How Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Restored
Her Health.
By RUPERT HUGHES
Copyright by Harper A Brother
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AKDOWN
The
Thirteenth
DAPHNE AGAIN TURNS TO CLAY, BUT AS THEY PLAN FOR
THE FUTURE A NEW BLOW FALLS.
Synopsla Clny Wlmlitira, a young New Yorker on a visit to Gleve
l'nnd, meets pretty Dnplmo Kip. whose brother Is In the same oOlco with
Clny In Wall street. After n whirlwind courtship they hecomo engaged.
Daphne rocs to New York with her mother to buy her trousseau.
Daphne's brother. Bnynrd, hus Just married and left for Europe with tils
bride, Leila. Dnplmo and her mother Install themselves In Bayard s flat.
Daphne meets Tom Duano. mnn-nbout-town, who seems greatly at
tracted to her. Daphne accidentally discovers that Clny Is penniless,
except for his salary. Baynard and hla wife return to New York unex
pectedly. The three women set out on n shopping excursion and the two
younger women buy expensive gowns, having them charged to Bnynrd.
Bnynrd is furious over the expense, seeing hard times ahead. Daphne,
indignant, declares she will earn her own living nnd breaks her engage
ment with Clay. Through an introduction by Dunne. Daphne Induces
Itcben, a theatrical magnate, to give her a position In one of his com
panies. Her first rehearsal Is u fiasco, but Itcben, at Duano's request,
gives her another chance. Sudden illness of Miss Kemblc, the star,
gives Daphno hor chance, but her acting Is a dismal failure. She 18 con
soled by Tom Dunne.
CHAPTER XII Continued.
9
Satan or Itnphacl had whispered to
her nn Invitation to revisit tho Hccno
of her late humiliation with Clny. With
Duano's magic purse there would bo
no danger of a Bnilb from tho waiters;
with his own car there would bo no
risk of footing it home.
Then an Imp of mischief spoko for
her and said, "All right 1"
Dunne told the chauffeur and tho
car shot like a Javelin from tho lighted
street Into tho deep forest-night of
Centrnl park.
What would Clay say? But, after
all, lie had failed her in a crlslB. Per
haps he had turned his heart else
whore. Men were Impatient, vindic
tive, flcklo.
When Clnrcmont was reached und
Duano handed Miss Kip nut ho noted
that her hamj was hotter than his own
nnd a little quick to escape, her faco
was Hushed and Jier lips parted as it
with excitement. Ho assumed that
the speed of tho rldo and tho tang of
adventuro wero to blame.
While tho waiters were serving tho
supper und while he was attacking It
with the frank appetltu of honest hun
ger sho recounted tho evening's dis
aster as calmly as If It were the story
of homebody else. In fact, sho was
standing off nnd regarding herself with
-the eyes of an alien. Wo chango so
fast that tho persons wo wero yester
day nro already strangers, and thejr
nets tho acts of distant relatives. Her
calm was really tho numbness of
'Shock. Tho anguish would como to
morrow. "I can't understand myself at all.
Daphno said. "1 went through every
one of tho motions, but I couldn't
reach the audlcnco once. I was like
singer with a bad cold singing in
-foreign language you don't know what
tho song Is all about, but you know
thnt it nover quite gets on tho key."
"You mustn't be discouraged."
"Ob, yes, I mustl I couldn't bo as
actress in a thousand years. Mr. But
terson told mo so himself.'
Duano felt tho truth of this, but It
hurt him to havo her feel It. It of
fended his chivalry to realize how Im
pollto fate could bo to so pretty a glrL
Ho hated to see her reduced to tho
necessity of proving how plucky sho
could be. Ho tried to find nn escape
' for her. He said:
"You'ro far too good for tho stago."
"I don't bellove thnt for n minute,"
sho protested. "But I'vo got to find
.something I can do."
"May I help you to decide?"
"If you only would I But I'm getting
io bo a nuisance."
"You nro a a to me you uro a
well, you'ro not u nuisance."
He dared not tell her what sho wan,
-especially as tho waiter had set tho
bill at his elbow and was standing off
in an attitude of lll-concenled impa
tlcuco for tho tip, which ho know
would bo large. Mr. Duano always
.gavo tho normal ten per cent nnd a
bit extra. Ho tipped wisely hut not
too well, knowing that uu extravagant
tip wins n waiter's contempt almost
imoro than none at nil. The head waiter
fairly cooed "Good night" und almost
.gave them a blessing.
Tho starter had Mr. Duano's car
waiting for him at tho curb and lifted
his hat with ono hand (is ho smuggled
a quarter away with tho other. Ho
stepped In to lay tho linen luprobo
'over their knees with reverence, closed
tho door exquisitely und murmured,
"Good night 1"
Tho car was nn aristocrat; It float
ed from tho cuib with a swanllko
-sweep.
Daphne thought of Clay nnd herself
plodding homeward. Sho seemed to
tee them or their wraiths staggering
disconsolately along. Sho felt very
sorry for them. Hero was u chance to
mto one of them both of them, in
fact; for in taking her financial bur
den from Clay's shouldera sho would
be twice strengthening him. If she
were to accept Dunne us her husband
then her problems would bo solved
nd Clay would bo free of hor.
To he Mrs. Tom Duano; to step into
.fce society of society; to lift her father
anM nmtl.i" from a position of week
ncss in Cleveland to n post of distinc
tion In New York ; to solve at onco all
tho hateful, loathsome, belittling rid
dles of money; to be the bejcwcled nnd
feted nnd idollstid wife nnd mistress of
this young American grand duke; to
buy that Impossible trousseau, or bet
ter; to live in n New York palace In
stead of a flat; to go about In her own
limousine Instead of nn occasional tax
Icab; to bo fortune's darling Instead
of a member of tho working classes,
struggling along with bent neck under
m yoke beside a discouraged laboring
man!
When the car reached her building
sho was resolved to see Duano no
more. Sho could not tell him so. After
nil, ho had been everything thnt wns
courtesy nnd chnrlty. It would hardly
She Stared at Her Image in the Mirror.
havo been pollto to treat him with ab
soluto indifference. Duano got down
and helped her out nnd took her to
the door, which was luetccd at this lato
hour. Whllo they wnltcd for tho door
man to answer tho bell she was pay
ing him his wages:
"You nro wonderfully kind. I had a
gorgeous evening. You saved my life."
Sho had said more than sho intend
ed if not more than ho had earned.
"Then may I cull noon?"
"Of course."
Tomorrow?"
"I well, I'll let you know."
"Kino I Telephone mo nt Til
write It out for you. I'm not often nt
tho club whero you found me, und my
number Isn't in tho book." Ho wrote
on his card Ids telephono address and
gavo It to her as tho doormuu up
turn red.
He murmured, "Don't forget." She
murmured, "I won't." Both said
"flood night." Then the doorman gath
ered ber in nnd hoisted her to her
lowly eyrie. It wus very different
from where she would have gone us
Mrs. Dunne.
But when sho wns In her room sho
tore Ids card to pieces after sho had
looked nt it. Sho stared at her Imago
In the mirror. Sho hated what sho saw
there.
Sho vowed to break her promlso to
Tom Dunne. Sho vowed to forget his
telephono number. But it danced
about In the dark long after she hud
closed her eyes.
Tho next morning sho overslept even
beyond tho extra hour tho Chlvvlacs
permitted themselves und tho Htrunger
within their gates on Sundays.
When Daphno appeared nt break
fast, trying not to yawn. Mrs. Chiv
vls greeted her with n volco us cold
and dry as the toast, nnd ns brittle:
-You wero rather lato getting In
last night or this morning, rather."
Daphne's answer was not an expla
nation, but It was better:
"Oh, I know It, Mrs. Chivvls, but I
lost my portion last night. Yea I I
played tho principal part and killed It,
and now I'm not going ou tho uluge any
more."
Mrs. Chivvls was touched. "You
poor child I It renlly Is just too bad I"
Sho pondered, then sho brightened:
"I'm sorry you'ro disappointed, but I'm
glad you'ro not to be in the theater.
It must be very wicked."
"It's mighty difficult," said Daphne.
Mrs. Chivvls thought a moment
more, then sho said :
"Did I tell you? No, I don't be
Hevo I did you were awny but Mr.
Chivvls gets his vacation next week.
He's got to take it when his turn
comes. The man who was going now
couldn't be spared, so we have to leave
Tucsduy. I'm going, of course, so I
enn't give you your meals. You can
get your breakfasts In the kitchenette.
Of course I'll allow off whatever Is
right."
"Oil," Daphne said. "I'll bo all right,
I guess."
Daphne hnd not realized how much
she depended on Mrs. Chivvls till now.
Sho wns to be left alono at tho very
time when she was most in need of
society. The whole world was forsak
ing her.
CHAPTER XIII.
When the Chlvvlses had gone Daph
ne nssalled tho tusk of composing her
letter of resignation from Iteben's em
ploy. It was not easy to resign with
dignity and the necessary haste.
Sho sent it off by messenger. It was
nono too prompt, for Reben had al
rendy dictated a very polite request
for Daphno s head. When he received
her letter ho readied his stenographer
nnd dictated n substitute for bis first
letter. In this he expressed his regret
nt learning Daphne's decision to re
sign ; tho former understudy had come
back from tho road, he said, and would
resume her work. Ho begged Dnphne
to nccept tho Inclosed check for two
weeks' salnry In lieu of the usual no
tice, nnd hoped that she would believe
him faithfully hers.
Daphne felt a proud Impulse to re
turn the fifty dollars. She wrote a
letter to go with it. She looked ugaln,
and saw It was the first money sho had
ever enrned. Sho hated to let it go.
Sho decided to framo It und keep it to
point to In after years us the begin
ning of her great fortune.
Lato In tho afternoon, when tho
western sky was turning into a loom
for crimson tapestries almost as rich
ns her own dreams, sho went to her
brother's upurtment.
There tho New Girl found the Old
Woman in tho throes of finance. Letla
had brought her check book and her
bunk book to her husbund. Her af
fairs were' in a knot.
no laughingly offered to help her.
She wus hurt by his laughter, but not
hn'f so deeply as ho was by his dis
covery of her monetary condition. Ho
had' established her bank account in
a mood of adoration, a precious sacri
fice on tho altar of love. She had not
cherished it, but scattered it heed
lessly. And money wns peculiarly
precious now in the final ngontes of
tho hard times, when only the fittest
of the fittest could survive the last
tests Credit wus the wuter cask, und
dollars wero tho hard biscuits of a
boatload of survivors from a wreck.
Land might bo reached if they held
out, but sclf-denlul wns vital.
Buyurd gazed at Leila with wonder
ing lovo and terror. She was both
divinity nnd devil in his eyes. Ho
groaned :
"Aro you trying to wreck me? You
know how hard I'm working and how
much I need money In my business
nnd how much It menus to your future,
but you won't stop buying und charg
ing and burning my poor little earn
lugs. Wo discharged a stenographer
yesterday bocauso wo wanted to save
her salary of fifteen dollars and
here's a check for a pair of shoes for
you that cost sixteen.
"But tell mu ono thing moro before
I'm curtcd off to Bloomlugdalo In a
strultjacket. Why, In heaven's name,
why udmlttlug you just hnd to havo
that pitiful llttlo pair of shoes why,
when you wroto tho check, didn't you
subtract It from your balance instead
of adding It? I ask you I"
"Oh, did I do that?" sho asked, look
lug over his shoulder. "So I did I" nnd
sho put her cheek closo to his und
giggled.
He shook his bend In Imbccllo Infat
uation, and drew her around Into his
amis.
Thut wus what Dnplmo overheard
when tho mnld let her in. She found
Lelln resting In Bayard's lap.
Bayard did not tell Daphno what his
conference with Lelln had been. Ho
simply closed tho check book and tho
hank book and said to Leila : "I'll send
tho bunk my check for thirty-eight
cents und usk 'em to close their uc
count. They'll bo mighty glad to
do It."
"And bo will I," said Leila. "It was
uwfully hard work keeping track of
every llttlo penny. I'd much rather-
have a regular allowanco lu cash ev
ery week."
"All right l" said Bayard. "Wo'll try
that next week."
Daphno was not told what nil this
talk was about, but she mado u fair
guess, though sho pretended not to.
She told about her failure nnd her
.future and Lelln praised her courage
and her optimism. They dined cheer
fully und Bayard decided that the best
preparation for therhard work ahead
of him would be an evening of gayety.
He Invited his wife and bis sister to
go with hlra to tho Winter Garden,
where the typical "Sunday concert" of
New York wns given.
CHAPTER XIV.
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Then tho Chlvvlses came back from
their vocntion unexpectedly early. They
hud found the hotels expensive nnd
Mr. Chivvls wns afraid that his job
would be snatched from him If ho
were not there to hold It down.
Clny called on Daphne that evening
nnd the Chlvvlses retrented to their
own room. But ns they could be over
heard It wns evident that they could
overhear, nnd the lovers found no
chance to say any of the things that
frightened their souls.
One evening Daphne said to Clay In
as low a voice ns he could hear: "Mrs.
Chivvls Is growing uneasy, honey,
about our being together every eve
ning. I told her we were engaged, hut
slie didn't seem convinced. Perhaps
you would let me wear that beautiful
engagement ring again. I was n fool
to give It back to ypu. May I have it
or"
Clay blenched in misery. "I I'm
afraid I You see, I hadn't paid
much on it; and Inst week I hnd nn In
sulting letter from the jeweler. He
threatened to sue mo und notify my
firm, and I well, I hnd to send It
back."
ne was so downenst that sho an
swered with mock cheer: "Oh, that's
all right, honey; it doesn't mntter.
After all, It's only a ring. And we
have each other."
"But we haven't each other. This
way of living Is driving me crazy. I'll
be all right as soon as these hard
times are over and I can make some
commissions. But It's so dismal to
wnlt. Couldn't we get married and
live on my salnry?"
"I could If you could."
He caught her In his arms so vio
lently that she squealed.
Tho next day Clay telephoned to her
his firm had just offered him the
choice of accepting half his salary or
turning in his resignation. It wns
really impossible for two to live on
half of what was hardly enough for
one.
Daphno cried a long while In her
room. She got out her list of ways to
enrn fifty thousand dollars again and
cried over that.
There is much foolish nnd futile pro
test ngninst the nowadays woman who
goes Into business outside her home.
But the fact Is that it Is her business
thnt began It. Her business left tho
home first and sho Is merely following
it to tho places whero new conditions
nnd Inventions have centralized and
mechanized It.
New conditions have taken her
distaff and her washtub and her cook
ery nnd gossip Into the woolen mills
and .steam laundries und restaurants
nnd telephone exchanges. She hns hnd
to go thither to do her necessary work.
Even tho entertnlners, the singers,
dancers, tellers of stories, who used
to stir the seraglios and the castle
halls have been gathered Into opera
houses and theaters and Into vaude
ville and moving picture palaces.
Daphne, having no gifts for spin
ning, cooking, or laundry, tried the
theater. Her old-fashioned lover pro-
Did I Do That?" 8ho Aked,
Looking Over Hln Shoulder.
tested, and sho went, anyway. But
sho was not suited to tho theater, und
sho retreated with nothing to show for
her expedition except her shattered
prldo and tho fifty-dollar check for
two weeks' salary.
Daphno began anew to hunt for
work; work, tho thrice blessing that
kllU time und nukes money nnd t?tuR9
mm. f i 1 1 jtf.
IWWM7, M S J-0".S
"Oh,
passlon. But the world seemed to be
full of every other trouble except
work. Even had she been skilled, na
she was not, It would have availed her
little, since skilled luborers wero be
ing turned off by the thousands. And
unskilled laborers were being turned
off by the tens of thousands.
(Jlay had saved nothing against the
rnlny season. He had found his salary
too small for his courtship requisites;
now that his sulury wus halved his
courtship hnd to be reduced to the
minimum of expense.
Bayard nnd Leila hud more money
to spend, and they made nmbltlous.
voyages. But Daphno nnd Clny must
swelter with tho other stny-at-homa
millions. Clay denied himself even tho
two weeks' vacation allotted to him,
Bayard took his, however, and carried
Leila Had Decided That It Was Better
for Her Health to Stay at Newport
Till the Cooler Weather Came and
Her Summer Wardrobe Had Been
Worn Out.
Leila off to Newport, where they
boarded humbly, if expensively.
While they wero gone, nt their sug
gestion, Dnphne moved down Into
their apartment. It was large and
beautiful, und, ns Clay said, it was
"not infested with Chlvvlses."
Now and then Clay qunrreled wltn
Dnphne because of her obstinate de
termination to havo a trade of her
own. Then they made up. And quar
reled anew lovers' quarrels, summer
storms that break the sultry tension
of the air and make peace endurable.
Bayard came back alone. Leila
had Cp.dded that it was better for
her health to stay at Newnort till
the cooler weather came and her
summer wnrdrobo had been worn out
So Bayard joined the army of
town-tied husbands, the summer wid
owers. He went back onco a week
on furlough to spend a Newport Snb
bath with his wife. He became ono
of the Friday-nlght-to-Monday-morn-Ing
excursionists. There was leisure
enough in bis office.
He Insisted on Daphne's keeping
her room In his npnrtment, nnd of
evenings he affixed himself to her
and Clay and made their company a
crowd. But they welcomed him as a
chaperon of a sort Also, he paid his
way with liberality, except for occa
sional spasms of retrenchment, when
ho economized ntroclously. He pre
dicted thnt good times would never
como again. The whole world had
gone to pot nnd would never come
out.
Suddenly he changed his tune; sud
denly the whisper went about that
hard times were ending.
In his bachelor days, when Bayard
was growing in commercial staturo
like a young giant, ho had regarded
his business with all tho w-armth of
a poet His office building was hla
Acropolis and his office the pecullnr
temple of bis muse; and her name
was Profit. He thrilled like u poet
to tho epic inspiration of n big sale,
and ho knew a Joy akin to tho poet's
revision of his scansion if ho devised
a scheme for reducing overhead
charge or wastage.
Bayard, led on by the visions
of riches to be won In Wall
street, draws all his savings
from the bank and begins spec
ulating in stocks. Then at far
off Sarajevo rang out the shot
that plunged the world Into the
frightful nightmare of war.
Bayard was among the first
casualties. Read about It In the
next Installment
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Raining "Cats and Dogs."
In England tho mnlo blossoms of the
willows aro called "cats nnd dogs" nnfi
a rainstorm would shake them off nnd
strew them on the ground. Henco nrose
J u0 expression "raiuing cats and dogs."
wW 7 I'll w
Newark, N. J. "For nbout three
years
suffered from nervous break
down and got so
weak I could hardly
stand, and hnd head
aches every day. I
tried everything" I
could think of nnd
was under a phy
sician's care for two
years. A girl friend
had used Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vege
table Compound and
sho told mo about
it From tho first
day I took it I began
to icel cotter and
now 1 nm well nnd
able to do most anv
kind of work. I
havo been rocom
mendintr the Com
pound eversinco and give you my per
mission to publish 'thi3 letter." Miss
Flo Kelly, 476 So. 14th St., Newark,
N.J.
The reason this famous root nnd herb
remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, was so successful in Miss
Kelly's case was because it went to the
root of her trouble, restored her to a
normal healthy condition and as a result
ber nervousness disappeared.
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Sho mixed Sulphur with it to Re
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