THE OMAHA DEE: THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 23, W22.
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SOULS for SALE
By RUPERT HUGHES.
Than nued t long battle ovtr (he
letter, Mem Insisting upon reading it,
fighting fur ll a for a cup of pot
eon held out of her reach.
And It proved to be a cup of poison
when finally she got It from her moth
i r' reluctant fingers.
Dear Wife Tho Lord glvefh and
th Lord takath away. I have lout
you and my darling daughter and my
head la bowed In shame and lonell
ll", but I can still aay, "Thy w ill be
done."
I think you should know, however,
how thing ar here. Otherwise I
should not writ you, Hut I am afral'd
ihat the daughter thnt win oni;i ours
might tire of the liunka of sin and
wish to come homo repentant.
JUtterness filled my soul whin I
b-iirned that she wa lending a life, of
rlotoua mockery, and whi'ii I saw the
picture of her smiling In wan tun at
tire at the side of Unit smirking
Krench ireneral, I hud It In my heart
to rune her. I wrote In hnst. I re
pented my hardness f heart and
liowed my head In humble shame
when I read your angry reily. 1 had
lost your lovo and your admiration,
I. (it thnt wiih deserved punishment
f'r the Idolatry that had grown up In
my heart to ynuwarda; and for the
mistakes I mut have made In not
Hiving (fir erring daughter better
ca re.
Hut now It has pleased the Iord to
pmir out the vitals of hln wrath on my
gray liilrw. The old mortgage on the
rhiirch fell due long ngo, but fore
closure had b en postponed from time
to time. We gave a benefit to pay It
off. but everybody wai too poor to
respond, and It did not pay expenses.
Tho manager of the motion-picture
house h're offered to share the profits
on the showing of u picture In which,
aa he had tho Impudence, to tell me,
my daughter played a part. But while
It would have drawn money for cur
iosity that would not have responded
to a Chrlatlan apprul, I felt that it
would be a compounding with evil,
and I put Satan behind me and or
dered the, fellow out of the holme.
Then I made a desperate appeal to
our banker, Mr. fhlpp, and he prom
iHPd to do what he could for u. But
tho other day hla bank waa cloned
after a run upon It. Ha had previous
ly mortgaged his houne and koUI hla
automobile the one that killed the
poor boy, Klwood Farnuhy, whom you
will remember us one of our choir.
The banker waa our only wealthy
(teatlaaed Front Ylvnl.i )
member and with him fulled our la at
hope, The crop have been poor and
the hard times have affected the local
merchant so that pew rents have not
been puid and the usual donations
nave been withheld,
There wera no ronverelon at the
hint communion. Kven the baptism
and the weddings that brought me
an occasional little fee have been
wanting.
The ranipalgu w made to clone
the motion-picture houne on Kiiuday
was lost at the hint election. We are
fnllen on evil day.
What small religious enthusiasm
I left In the town has been drawn
away to other churches where there
in younger minister with more fash
lonable creeda and fresher oratory.
1 have not been spared overhearing
carelessly cruel remarks that 1 waa
too old to hold the pulpit any longer
and should glv way to a fresher
mind; but I have not known where
dee to go, I have no call from
outside. And I could not Ood for
give my vanity I could not believe
that 1 waa yet too old to toll In the
vineyard of the Lord. I have endured
every other loss but that, and now
the vineyard Is closed,
The church la to be closed. We hud
no lira In the stove last Hunday and
almost no worshipers were present.
The sexton waa 111 and his graceless
son refused to leave his bed.
What I shall do next or how take
care of the little children tout still
cling to our home, the Lord ha not
yet told me In answer to my prayers.
I still have faith that In his good time
he will provide a way or call his ser
vant home, and I hope you will not
take this letter as a plea for pity. It
Is only to explain to you that If you
should plan to return to the fold you
will fl rid the fold a ruin. I could
not even send you tho money for your
railroad fare.
There wa a piece In the paper say
ing that the moving picture studios
were also cloning for lack of fund,
and I wonder If rny poor daughter has
been turned out of the Olty of Pleas
ure In which sh elected to spend her
life. The rain falleth alike on the
Just and the unjust.
My cup Is full and running; over,
but my chief dread Is that Unhappl
nens and want may be your portion
as well aa mine, and that I shall fall
you utterly after providing so scantily
for you all your days. I ran only pray
that my fear are the results of lone
liness and age and weariness. .
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tM Ift you know, t'nr months I ui
V tliink, very lima I hrarJ the train
wIiikIIi-; Perhaps It til-inns my l"v
ones hom. Kor th last f-w wrcka
I havs frarH that It mlBhl, lft I
khnuM havs to wtU'ume yna to utter
poverty. Kvtn th oil Is wanting to
ksep biirnlnf tli lamp 1 used to set
in ths wlmluw svery vsnliti.
And now may th I.unl shirt. I you
with hi ever present inen y. or at
least ive us th Ntrenslli to under
xtHiid that In all thlmtn he knowt'lh
best. Vour loving
lll'SriAND.
As sha read thla letter and w back
nt the lines th heavy brows vt her aid
father, saw the tald sMt sh It.id
stared at fmni th i holr kft, saw all
the swwt wronc lieadednesi of tho
veteran saint, Mun'a heart hurt In
tolerably. From h' r yi' (ell streams
(t tliiiss tears thi she Imd m lcl fur
so much apiece. Her f waa blub
bered ard rrumpUd and siippy uh In
ths t'rylnf contest for points,
Iler old fasblone.1 hearts h and
tyo shower en'ed In an old fashioned
hysteric of shrh kinic laushler, ot f.ir-
deal crynlclsin at the rlillculoiia auh-
llltlllH'b of hf. htie St.trtliHl her PUU.
er by crln. sudhiily; "Iha Iird
is another I'luirlu I'h.iphn. libinima!
lies junt planted annlher kick where
it will do th ni"t harm "
fHAPTKU MAS.
Mem had been ddsitof what make
of car to buy. CV i-rt cheaper In
j rlfo ii'iw, and wondi rful tatrgalns
wei-e to b had In sllhtly Used cars
ptirrhnseit by hardly used star who
could not complete, tho payment or
eep thn Kaeolme tunks titled.
hlie had cried h"rst If Into mony
tint ninth, hut a c fl deal consider
Iik; tne hard tlms, the general un
eniilfjmeiit. und hr 'nexptrlenco.
ti'it pad sptnt Utile if It. the had
no il-ne to simp or iivn to to down
Into the street and star In at the
windows.
Hlie had hardly found the time to
leud the advertisement and study the
fashion plate In the tunduy supple
Uients. What car to buy and what new
hnio to rent Imd been amusing
ronundruma for idle moment of mut
li' e. And now tlioe conundrutii
were solved. Ih-r mother sobbed:
"What on t-ai th can I write the poor
" n
Metn replied: "The answer I easy.
I'm S'linu tu send him nil tha money
l'e ;ot."
Iler mother t ried out aealnst rob
bins on of her loves to pay another.
It seemed a iTin-l shame to take the
llrst bit of cake from her daughter
and sell ll to buy bread for her hus
band. "You'll need It yourself. Tou may
not have another Job soon. You need
pew clothes Mid A rest."
"Itet and the clothes can wnlt."
tlrr mother k"pt a missrabla silenr
for a long while before she could say:
"Vour father will never accept money
that you hav earned from the pic
tures, You know him. He'd rather
die. lied rather the whole world
would die."
'ihl gave Vein only a brief pause.
he answered simply:
"Dr. Hretherlck got me Into this
business by making up th pack of
lie that brought m out here. Now
he can make up a few more and save
poor U.ultJy from desperation."
Hlie sol dow n at once snd wrote the
doctor a b-ttHi, telling him what he
must know already of her father's
hulplessness. hlis Inclosed a money
order for flW. tih wrote a check
at Cist, but she was afraid to have It
put tlnojgh tho bank at Calverly lest
her father bear of it. fhe instructed
the doctor to nvik up another of his
seonnrtcs ahou. a repentant member
of the congregation wishing to re
store some stolen funds nr anything
that hi imagination could Invent.
Then sha set th wheel in motion
to secure an Immediate engagement
with the next to the greatest come
dian on the screen, Ned Mng. a man
whosa private life waa a solemn as
his public life was frantic and f'xdtsh:
whose personal dignity was aa sacred
a his professional dignity was de
graded: a man of intellectuality; a
reaih-r of important books; a debator
of art theories but above all a man
afraid of nothing so much a he wa
afraid of love.
Tha fiermnnd company was declar
ing another holiday, letting out such
ot It people ns were not under con
tract, farming out such others as It
could find place for In the shriveled
market.
The public ws not flocking to the
pictures or to anything else. Tha ex
hlbltor were losing money or closing
down,
It wa n period of dead calm and
torpid seas. Wis men were trim
ming sails to tha leant brecs and J"
tisonlng iwnluui cargo. Th too
coumgt'ou one were mklng, vanish
ing. Plowing up, dying ot famine.
When Mm spoke to Hemiond of
her desire to play a comedy with Ned
Mng, ' Vermoiid leaped at tha idea.
It would take her off his salary list
for week anil It would help her fame.
Ha was not altogether" seinsli. ll ar
ranged a dinner under the pretext of
a private preview of Tom llolhy
new picture, it was not yet In Its
filial shape, but th" producer were
glad to lend It to Herinond.
Ilermoml warned Mem to wear her
best clothe.
There was a certain ham In her
heart ul baiting such a trap, but she
felt now that sh had a higher pur
pose than her personal ambition. Fh
wa working for her father and his
church as well; and religion motive
has always been a wondrous edatlve
to a conscience.
Hermond saved her the price- of a
gown by lending her a Hashing Paris
ian miracle from his own big wardrobe.
It was astonishing to him as It was
to Mem to find what a change clothes
make in a soul. The simple things
she had worn hitherto had once given
her a simple modesty. In her nr-t
stems she ll id b en a bd Mi eg
l'.evaii. former pulling her skill
down. Iler muscles repit lllbt lrd hell
her mind forgot. Keudrlck had clbd
to her once. "Ill lloil's IliHiie, Mlh
rUeridnn, forget your knees and don't
advertise them by always covering;
them."
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