f Stella Dallas
l!v OI.l\ HIM.IVS PltOl’TV
\OP8I9.
Vft**r i ear* -• imrati«tti Stella
• Villa* I* rei|iii>itcil liv her husband'* at
torney to act a <tl\*/rr. on tho aronml
desertion II Ian *ha refnaea aha In
fold the nltemnntive will he an action In
which »!ie will be charged with immoral
conduct with Alfred Monn. an old admirer,
from whom she received attention while
tier daughter. laurel, 13. w as \ {siting her
father, Stephen llallas. In .New lurk She
indignantly denies wrongdoing and de
«inr** fl»c will fight. Stephen Is desirous
of freedom *o that be mar marry Helen
Morrison, a widow, hut after threat hv
Stella, under ad % Ire of her attorney, to
name Mrs. Morrison as corespondent In a
roiinteriirtlnn ha tell* tha latter mnrrisse
ia impossible.
Itontlnned from Yosterdaj.)
Laurel was forced to answer. ”1
wasn’t hunting for anv special book."
"What wero you doing, then?’’
*’I was Just looking at the titles
[for fun.” Laurel murmured.
The librarian gave her a withering
look. "The card catalogue is not fun.
It a for use," she reprimanded "It's
not a toy. It's a tool Don't ever
play with it again."
Once out on the street Laurel said
to herself, fighting with tears she
could not control, "I'll never go near
tt again: I il never go into the build
ing again!"
It was six month* before her hun
ger for books overcame her fear of
being recognized, % and humiliated a
second time.
Baurel spend many hours in the
trollej cars in Boston. Her moth*!
decided if WHS too fete irt trie year
to attempt to place her in any prl
xate £ hool (of course, public schools
were ilo more to be considered In
Boston than in Milhamptonbut Mr.
Him kv said Boston was full of splen
did institutions that specialised in
about every subject that existed, and
he could arrange for l.aur'l to ‘eke
up course^ of instruction In almost
any of them.
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Therefore Laurel traveled from one
side of Boston to another pursuing
music in one building. French and
German in another, art In * third,
current events In a fourth, filet lace
making In the top loft of a fifth. She
chafed beneath tbs tfiooh-rent mu
tine. She longed for Mi** Filli
brown'S, although she hadn’t l>een
very happy there She thought it
w.-js the familiar < laserot>ma and fami
liar faces she was homesick for, but
really it war the co-ordination and
consistency of an orgaplied unit. The
pupils in Laurel's cissfces in Boston
were as varied In »g*. r*,c«, sex and
station a* are a chance group gath
ered together in the elevator of a
public building
Night after night Laufil cried soft
ly Into her pillow after her mother
had fallen safely to sleep. Dsy after
day sh* struggled with tears that
seemed always to b* just beneath the
thin surface of her smiles.
Sli» tried to mason with herself.
She had been away from Milhamp
tori before. Why, almost every sum
mrr since she could remember, she
had been lonely in some unfamiliar
place. Put it had been bearable, she
supposed, because it had been only
for limited periods. And, besides, It
had always been bellboys lo speak
to, elevator men and chambermaids.
There had always been a game of bil
liards to watch, or 4n auction table
of women to listen to.
Once, on the eldewalk outside the
apartment, waiting for her mother
to return from a shopping tour, lau
rel fell into shy conversation v*lth a
dark little girl a few y ears younger
than herself who lived In the apart
ment below. The possibility- of a
friendship with this gentle child filled
Laurel with timid happiness for a
w hole afternoon.
But when she told her mother
about the conversation. Stella had
exclaimed. ‘'Heavens we can't know
those people. La u re I. They're for
eigners! So is tit# family above us.
I've discovered this place is riddled
with them, Mr. Hinckly couldn't
have known what ho way talking
about! We’ve aimpl^ got to get out
sooner or later." •
1 ntll .Stella moxed to Boston, Laur
el had preferred a tramp In 11le'eoun
try, or a call on Jake, or Tony, or
peg legged Eddy, to the movies; or a
stolen pilgrimage to the little house
that used to be red, where the myster
ious old man whom she must never
tell was her grandfather lived, to a
vaudeville or play. But In her new
solitude, where there was no place to
go and nowhere to call. Laurel look
ed with interest upon tfie diverting
Interior of any amusement place.
She went to the movies with her
mother three times a week regularly.
They climbed to gallery seats at
Keith's every time tlie bin free
changed. On Saturday nights Stella
and laurel usually dressed up In
*helr be^t clothes, and dined at a fash
(enable hotel, ordering the lowest
priced entree on the bill dawdling
over their bread and butter, as they
observed the gay parties about them,
and watched the vaners bear in mar
velr-us planked steaks and Leach
Melbas.
It was a bleak and frrlorn sort of
existence for both mother and child,
and terribly shorn of human contacts.
Eut it needn r have beeA quite so
bleak and forlorn and ehorn. Stella
said. If Laurel hadn't taken such a
dislike to Alfred Munn. Ed tried to
l>e awfully kind. He called at the
apartment before they had been in it
a week. He tried to be awfully kind
to laurel especially. Eu: the child
wouldn t let him.
4.
"I can't bear that man, motner."
«iie had said as soon as the door had
! red upon him after his first visit.
"Don't let him com® again." There
was a red spot in the center of each
of her checks.
"Mervy. mercy. Ixrllie." laughed
Stella. 'Lately Lolhe would flare up
like a imle firebrand every once In a
while over the littlest things! Her
sc». probably, Stella coucluded'
"Why. what * the matter with Ed?"
sh» asked lightly, humoring!;
' He's horrid!"
‘ Horrid? How s he l\Orrid"
"He tickled me In the ribs and said
T was prett and kissed me
"Well, what of that" Tou re only a
little girl. t\ by shouldn't he tell you
you are pretty, attd kiss ypu"
"His lips were wet. and his breath!
smelled. Oh. mother?' shuddered
Laurel. "Don't let hhn kiss rue again!
Don t let him corns here ag^ln 1 >
"Now. don't be silly, L4urel« 1
ran • tell Ed Munn not tepcomg here
again. It would lie awfujiy rude and
bad mannered."
"Rut lie s rude, he's $>ad-mannered
"Why, I-aurel, boat ran you ta!k
*o about a gentlem*! who's trying to
do so much for '
"He. Isn't a gentleman.'
"He's more gentleman, 1 suers,
tl-.an’ that dirt! old cobbler you. like
eq. w!k> spits aryd sv.rt-e, and that
dago who c#tl« fruit. xPU came oxer
s!*erag^.” ^
"Jake iso t dirty only on the out
side, and.-T ny 14 not a dag - He;
a liceek, and he eom»s iron a place
in Clreec* wlyfe 'b» most beautiful
tilings In th* world come from Be
floes Jak<* and Tony don t kiss me.
and Jake .slid Tony don t say horrid
things to me about you!
' And what things did Ed ss; about
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should he? Notno me? The way if
‘••Why not? * f don’t*call that hor
rid.” *
‘ Don t you? lieany ■
“Certainly not. Why shoultln t li*
say It, If he thought It? '
Laurel stared at her mother, con
fused, perplexed. She dldn t know
how to answer, how to explain. Sh«
hid never liked Ed Munn. but herdle
like of him had never swept over (her
like thin. It was frightening.
sudden hatred of the man was nice a
big dense cloud that had rolled upon
her unawares and enveloped her com
pletely. She had turned toward her
mother for help, for comprehension.
She had groped for a Steadying hand.
Eut no hand had been held out.
Suddenly Juiurel turned and buried
her face In the pillow on the couch
and burst Into violent weeping. Of
late many of her emotions, were lit e
enveloping clouds—low ^nd worship,
as well as hah and scorn. Her pas
sion for Mrs. Morrison was big, dense,
un-understandable. As she lay with
her face buried in the dark of the pil
low, she could see great masses of
red and purple light-dust, shapeless
and conglomerate, rolling and shifting
senselessly in the dark behind hpc
closed lids. Life was like that. Oh.
if only somebody would show her a
straight easy little path leading
through the c-Onfusion.
“Oh, come, corns,, Lollie," exclaimed
Stella. "Don't do that way. Of
course if you feel so badly afc all that
about poor Ed, why—he needn't come.
But for the life of me, I don't tee
what he's done to y ou.’’
It was the first time for years Stella,
had seen Laurel cry like a little girt.
It was the last time she ever saw her.
After that one outburst. Laurel never
again betrayed to her mother her feir
of the shifting clouds of the twilight
stratum of the dawning of her soul.
.Stella was not mistaken in attriiyti
intr Laurel's sudden aversion to I
to her age, but she soon discovered it
was no whim. In fact, Laurel seen
ed ho terribly set against * poor E
that si-e almost wi • Inclined to i»
!ie\e that Stephen must ha'» "p"
oned her mind somehow. Why, when
Ed invited Laurel and tier mother to
go ti the theater with him. and
choose their own show, the child t ™
fused absolutely to stir an inch. Fha
wouldn't touch a piece of the generous
box of candy- he sent them. “Oh,' how
can vou bear him?” she remarked
quietly (for all the world like Stephen 1
when the found his name written on
the card in the envelope tucked utS i
neath the showy bow of ribbon.
Stella had to tell Ed the truth at
last. She hated to give up ait t1 ~
good times lie stor'd ready to shower
upon th*m. She didn't mind givim
up Ed himself. She aJwaye sot si .
of him after a little - hile. anyhow.
and she must confee* h* had rt
downhill considerably even since last
September. He had changed his bus
iness ■'gain. Ho was working In son -
sort of machine-shop no- and h'c
fingernails w»re terribly broken and
greasy.
CHAPTER XVI!
1.
Laurel s.' on the end of the
with her f»et swinging over the edg-.
A girl about her own age eat on eaci
side of her. Their arm.' were throw r
lightly around h»r shoulders am
here 1 ghtiy around thei-s.- Ail thre.
of th“ girls were in white, except fo:
their Boutft de Ifonvel colored ew^a'
*re—pale, pink, pale j ellow . and faint
»st lavgnder. The three girls ma
st p-ett- a display n gainst- the gf'
Ihlue of tite lake a« a fragment of ram.
ie.w. Beneath tlielr twinging fe
float'd a flotilla of panoee. the!
bright nri and green sidee flashing n
the sun. un the pier behind the gi- -
was a be,||»ctli»n of boxe« leather e* m
cased fl ermos bottiea and jara, aad
an. uAi tea baskets
Xlie three, girl* were . siting ft’
“tbfc crowd to a:-sSt hi' “The
ubOwd" was going on fl picnic to Stag
Island today. Laurel was one of ' the
crowd."/ -
Latur*! w as IV . Mrs old row, a 1
this Was the first tin* In all he- life
xherhad eser been ore of * crowd
Tide thrilling experience had latte <
f<Sr 10 da>t. It would be three weeks
fhe da. after tomorrow since Laurel
and her mother had arrived at the
unexpected paradise.
Laurel was keenjy conscious of ti *
careless amis about her shoulders tut
she didn't show it. Laurel could cor
real joy and pride she discovered, ,
quite as successfully as disappoint
ment and chagrin, h'he was keenly
conscious. too. 0T tbe gir’. she had s’
ways teen before on occasions of th
sort. she iiad strolled by just such
liitio ate little groups as she now ir.,
aouiously found lierself one ..f, she
and lier mother taking in what detai'
of exciting preparations as they cou!
In a glance or two. or* covert back
ward look. laurel lelfc Sorrier ft
that girl on this happy morning, site
thought, than she ever had befi^e.
if PVlinnftl tn Hftitilij Bff
1.230 Engineers
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at iVe Of lew* 1”<\.V rat
public Ut« .v^t.a-1 «'f the state bos
of engineering esaml.'-era for the hear
ending June. 1913.
The report *bnwe that the eta:*
now h*e 1 iSO *cti\e resident eng -
neere, d*\id*d Into two cUssej— P—
f»ss)cu»l eng.neers gr.d l»-d suf'1
or*. The prv>f.s*ionel ergineers rl*«»
include* etrurtuml engineer*, el*
trice I »nd sanitary engineer*
Prof**-lop* I eng1 tieering 'B to**
has been regulates! by !a\l ».r.<* 19 ?
and the board of examiner* ’ ns been
In exlat*ni • n.iu'P thAt ti’rf
Tha pretent board is head#!
?s*!h l>#An of, GU wood, In cln f* v
i‘ » branch of draln*f# and Mr 4
veyiug; I*. M Martin of cm
n d chairman And lep* esonta ' * '
the rational coyncll. In chavs * f
highway ami railway tntflnoer s
P Fleming of Iowa City. In
. f elect r al and mocha k G *
nearing. c. S. Nicholi of Vi»«.
charge of immiclpal and s. lit* > 0
gingering. And AUm '
Glendale. Cal.. who until h “
removal front the »tate, wi» ■ c * s*
of utroctur*) engineering \»aa- Man
tin and I/eTan have bee
of th« board tinea i?» crA.v.
Vorrijju V volianpr* >lump
Nee \crk. Jan ll .'onttnup'
oonxeraion of French fran * into d
lar hilta in France, F.nglaml And
Switaerland influenced Another drop
in franca in the local foreign e ^
change maiket to»!*> . f .anew we r- *
Quoted at I M cent a a new low r *
for All Unit, ami o«mbv i'C with
terdnjCa low iwint of 4 % * •
Peniand Merhng opened a* c »
duplicating Its low \ ♦ of *•!*'
day.
