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V ir\ i // • //•/''■ i-r ,/. f , r / RUPERT HUGHES . • • • r “ # Copyright by Qarper A BroOms in in iiiiihiiiiiiiihiiiiiui DAPHNE DISCOVERS THAT HER MONEY WILL NOT GO FAR ll 'N BUYING A TROUSSEAU IN NEW YORK. /. Synopsis.—day Wimburn, a young New Yorker on ft visit to Cleveland, meets pretty Daphne Kip, whose’ brother Is In the same office with Clay in Wall street. After a whirlwind courtship they be come engaged. CHAPTER III—Continued. —2— Mr. Gassett smiled. “Not old Wes ley Kip’s girTr “I believe I did hear Miss Kip call her father Wesley.” “Well, Pd like to help Wes out. I suppose I might take a chance. Do you think you can pay for the ring In ninety?! ays?” “Easily 1” Wimburn would hare promised to tear down the world and tebuild It In ninety days. “1 shall have to add a little to the price for the risk and the accommoda- tion." ' • ’ “Anyttitng you Tike," said Clay mag nificently. “Call It two hundred dollars.” “Certainly!” One could hardly haggle over an engagement ring. “I’ll ask you to sign a little docu ment." “With pleasure.*’ He would have signed an agreement to surrender a pound of his flesh. Clay hurried out to find Daphne and fasten on her the glittering gyve. lis might have taken further alarm from the Immense and greedy rapture Daphne revealed at the sight of the petrified dewdrop sot in the goMrti circlet. Women are all misers when It comas to diamonds. Wimburn noted only the joy the banblc gave to Daphne, and the pretty tubmlaalvenesa with which she poked oat her slender finger and slid It Into the fetter. He fHt that the kiss of alliance was worth years of hard labor. It was bard and bitter to rend their fomented hearts In twain, bat be had to go at last. She floated him to the station In the little car and waved him through the iron paling. Hhe was on Imaginably precious and pitiful as she stood there, and be wanted to blubber the vestibule was slammed shut the train slid out of the station Ilka a merciless snake. He vowed that be would work with the strength of ten and pile np a for tune In the bank for her. But first he must pile up enough to pay for that solitaire. • •••••• Clay wrote Daphne a fat letter ev ery day. He usually sneaked It In among his business correspondence and took great polos that It should never miss the Lake Shore limited at flvs-thirty In the afternoon. A spe cial-delivery stamp put the letter In Daphne's hands every next forenoon. But after the letter had gone he usually remembered that he had omit ted to Include some message of fright fully Important urgence. So he bad to send her every night a night letter, and frequently of mornings he must fire off a day letter. These cost only sixty cents apiece, but often he had to send them in double or triple length. \ , For occasions where time was yet more unendurable there was the tple early marriage. Her father groaned at the thought of the wedding ex penses, hut consoled himself with a Pisgah-sight of the Canaan when the Inst of his dear children should be living at another man's cost. * Mrs. Kip made one stipulation; T won’t let Daphne sneak away to New York and be married by a Justice of the peace or a coroner or whoever does such things Iil New York. She must have a church wedding and a home reception.” Daphne accepted this nnanlmously, with one amendment. “I must go to New York to get my trousseau.” “Of course,” said Mr a. Kip. “Of course not!” said Mr. Kip. “Why not?" said Mrs. Kip. "The expense Is the why not 1 What’s the use of spending a fortune on clothes? Thf money that goes out for these honeymoons might better be turned Into the wedding fond. Lord knows Daphne will need dollars more thnn she needs duds If she marries that young fellow.” Daphne broke out In a revolt “Oh, hut I'll be glad to be free from this everlasting talk of money, money, money I I hate It I bate to take It from you. If It weren’t for the dis grace I'd bring to you and mamma I wouldn't accept a rent; I’d be mar ried In my old bathrobe. Thank heaven. I’m marrying a man who doesn't hang onto every penny like grim death.” In her own heart she did not realise what a grh-vous wound she dealt the battered old heart .of her father till he alghed: “I was like him when I was hla age. Maybe he’ll be like me when he’s mine. If I had been more of*a miser then I guess I'd be less of one now.” Then Daphne caught the hunted, hounded look behind hla spectacles and flung herself In his arms, weep ing: ”Fnrg1ve roe, daddy. I'm a little beast to talk to yon so. I don’t mean It. I’m Just excited. I’ll get only the simplest things, and some day when Clay and I are rich Id pay yon back a thousandfold.” Us patted her and kissed her gawk ily. and. manlike, having gained hla point, threw It away: “Yon get whatever la beat and nicest. Yon’re the plrtlest girl In Ohio and you're going to have the finest wedding ever was seen In Cleve land. And I’ll find the money all right, never you fear.” He had Just remembered a bit of real estate that had not yet been decq^ rated with a second mortgage. He had bought It secretly with the proceeds of a windfall. Thut was his double life. Instead of sending money surrepti tiously on dissipations, when he had a hit of luck he sneaked out and in vested it In something he could bor row money on in a crisis. The crisis never failed him*. So Daphne wrote to her brother that phone—*u pittance of three dollars and was. coming to New York to buy twenty-five cents for the first three minutes, and a dollar and five cents for each additional- minute or fraction thereof would bring his lips to Duph- ne’s ear. From the little rubber mouth of the receiver her voice came to him as from a distant star by interplanetary communication. The sense of remote ness was unbearable. She seemed to be dead and wailing across eternity. Clay Wimburn was in Complete dis tress. His health wavered and his of fice work suffered till it won rebukes and threats from his chiefs and com ment even from Bayard Kip, who never suspected and was never told of Wimburn’a Infatuation for his sister. With lover’s logic Wimburn per suaded himself that the only one who could eave him from destruction was Daphne. With her-married and all, „ and ensconced in a little nest in New York, he could take up his office tasks with a whole heart. So he began to - write, and to telegraph, and to. groan across the living wire wild< r end wilder cries_for help. ~ Daphne wept back und repaid his longings In kind and suffered heart rending ecstasies Of yearning. And finally she promised frantically to marry him without further del^y. With a desire to economize in pain she broke the double news to her two parents at the same time, telling them both that she was engaged and that she was about to wed. T^ey were stunned. They had never experienced a suspicion of the acute etate of Daphne's heart affairs. It Is rally astounding how blind parents to their children's activities and i go on under their a trousseau for her wedding to the dearest boy on earth, whose name she would not tell him till she saw him. Her letter crossed a letter from Bay ard, who began it with his regular apology for his unavoidable delay .in writing home. . - Dearest Mother, Dad and Sis—Received several sweet letters Yrom you, mother, and meant to answer, but been very busy. These hard times forced us to cut down staff and threw extra work on men re tained. But business has been so bad so long it can*t f get any worse. Bound to get better. So I’m going to—don’t drop dead yet— I'm polng to get marrted. Found the an- gel of the world. Known it for a long time: been engaged a year, waiting jo get rich enough to place her where she belongs. Not there yet, but can’t stand bachelorhood any longer. Wedding date not settled yet, but prob ably soms time in June. That would make a good song, "Some Time in June." Will let you know exact date. Silence followed-the document. And there nfe few. documents that mean so much ttf every family as that bear ing the news that one of the children has i'oue lnto v the world and found a mate and given up the ancient loyulty for the new. CHAPTER IV. The two old Klpfc sat brooding over their mystery.* The frnlt of their al most forgotten romance, the Httle, squalling, helpless baby that had come to them and strangely evolved Into a great, grown man, wo now In the tolls of romance In hit turn. He had found. In a far city, somebody there that be loved better than hla family or hla friend* or hla freedom. « Daphne waa delighted at first Then the realised that the news of hla mar- ra|* would throw bar : **T suppose I’d better postpone my wedding till we get Bayard off our hands.” ? “That’s a fine idea !” her father ex claimed. It was always a Joy to him to defer an expense. -MrfK Kip flung him a glare and Daphne, foiled her eyes In distress, but he redeemed him self with an unexpectedly graceful turn, “It lets us keep Daphne with ns a little longer.”" Daphne wrote this new decision to Clay. He sent back a letter that fairly howled with protest. When Daphne told her parents of Clay’s anguish they made light of it. It was a long, lorg while since they had been ybung. They had learned that marriages contain surprises that may sometimes be postponed without misfortune. Bayard did not write again for sev eral days. This time be wrote to Daphne: Dear 81s—Your* of no date (a* usual) received and beautiful content* noted. I can hsmiy bell-jve that my little sla is an nouncing intention to join the procession aad *re* married, too. You*re more sen sible than I used to think. This Is sub ject to revision when I know who the lucky man is. Mho is he? Some Cleve land Appolo (or however you spell it), I suppose. ' - Before I could write you a bombshell ex ploded in the office. Heads of firm decided that since we can't sell any goods In Amer ica, might try England. They want me to go over at on*e and see what can be done about establlahtiig a selling agency In dear old I-unnofi. doncher know. And ao now I Intend to combine bualneaa trip, va cation, and honeymoon in same voyage 8<> we get married Thursday and aail Saturday. Just time to get settled In our dove-cote before leaving. Waa worrying over not being able to ac cept your kind offer to pay me a visit Then the blessed wffetet dartlngly sug gested that her sweet slster-ln-low-to-be should coma to New York and mak% our apartment her home while she shops. We won’t get back from honeymoon hike for els weeks at least. You and mother just settle down there until you have nntehed shopping. Will leave key and Instructions with superintendent The letter ended with the usual oceans of love and kisses and the usual haste. It set the family to pon dering. Old Wesley was the first to speak and hla train of thought startled the women: “So he's going to get married tomor row. That's awful euddenl Raves us bujrlng a wedding present, though!” When he had recovered from the Im pact of hla wife's look he saved him- aelf again with a quirk, pleading sug gestion: “What I was thinking was— It leaves more money for Daphne’s trousseau.” The poor wretch bad grown used to seeing unexpected gifts of fortune float Into view like soap bubbles, drift dose In Iridescent loveliness, and then wink out, leaving hardly a damp spot As soon as he had bravely added what he had saved from his son's wed ding to what he had already voted to hla daughter's trousseau he was doomed to learn that Daphrie could not start East to buy clothes to get married In until Rhe had bought some clothes to start East In. And. besides that, she could not go East alone, and her mother could not go with her un- “That's a Fine Idea," Her Father Ex claimed. less her mother had also some new clothes to tide her mother-over till her mother could get to New York and buy some clothes to stay married In. 'Wesley Kip went forth to peddle that second mortgage. This was a commodity not easy to dispose of, and It took him a week or two to'find a purchaser, and then he paid an Ingen iously disguised- usury for tt. But he got the cash. When he came home he proudly an nounced that Daphne and her mother could start for New York as soon as they’d a mind to. They had a mind to as soon a^ their clothes were ready. He accompanied them to the train. He was not eves to have the doleful luxury of seeing ti^em spend his But he pot a brave front on and Ma tea “Havq ft good time, honey, and If you see anything you absolutely got to Nave, just you get It. And If the money you got isn’t enough, why, I’ll get more somehow. You can usually depend on your fid dad to his best," ; • He felt repaid when his beautiful child cried, “I know I can! you angel I” and reuched high and drew his head down like a faithful camel’s. He never told her that she was squeezing his- eyeglasses into his nose. He managed not to sneeze at the exquisite agony - of her curls tickling his nostrils, and she feasted his hungry ear with eager gratitude. - ; * Daphne slept little that night In her Pullman pigeonhole; she was too busy with her thoughts, and the wheels made a banjo of the rails. But she was glad of her Insomnia. Even better than sleeping well Is staying awake wbll.~ The train was on time and rolled charlot-smoothly Into the Grand Cen tral station. Clay Wimburn was there by special dispensation from the office, hi.'I he had hud the forethought to se cure a permit to come down to the platform. He told the station master that he had a crippled aunt to meet. He did not tel) Mrs. Kip that. He let her believe that ay doors opened to him. Daphne had not finished pointing out her hand luggage to the redcap when Clay’s arms were about her. She turned to draw her trusty “Sir!” but smothered It on her lips. He charged her iwgiter next, and kissed her well, saying: "That’s not for Bayard; that’s for -f-roe. How are you, mat Mrs. Kip blushed and squealed as she had squealed long ago when her first lover stole the first kiss. After making arrangements about the baggage with magnificence and tipping the porter like a freshly baked millionaire. Clay taxlcabbed them to Mr. and Mrs. Bayard’s apartment bouse, a towering habitable chimney on Fifty ninth Street, overlooking Cen tral park and Columbus circle. The conrenleh^e and Ingenuity of the apartment enchanted Daphne. It seemed Impossible that all this luxury, this ozone of wealth, could be secured In so small a space, on part of ooe floor, the twelfth of a building. Every thing came up In baskets by pulley— people, food, everything; It was like a monastery In the mountains—with some differences. She was grateful beyond words to the young man who embraced her and stared over her 'shoulder—over her left shoulder—at the tiny commerce of the streets and the toy park. She said to him: “Oh, Clay, this Is heaven I What do you say to our having au apartment just like this? Let’s I” She felt in the arm about her a sud den slackening. The chin on her shoul der seemed to weigh he’avler. ^ “Er—It—would be nice," said Clay. She turned out of his embrace and looked nt him. He explained: “Do you know how much Bayard pays for these seven rooms and two baths?” “No.” “Well, I’ve been looking about for a Httle\nest for us, and I priced one like this. They charge twenty-five hundred dollars a year!” She asked, shyly. “And that’s more than'Xve can afford?” She had no idea what salaries were paid to fairy princes in this city of fabulous wealths. She had merely a glamorous Impression that her lover was there to get what she wanted. “Well, we could afford It, all right,” he laughed, meekly, “if we could eat the, view and *wear the altitude. But we’ve never talked about money, honey, have we? I suppose we ought to. I don’t want to give you any 1 false Impressions. Shall we talk about It now?” “No! please!” — Daphne sat suddenly. She felt as a stranger to tall buildings feels when an express elevator starts downward. She had rejoiced to think that she was escaping from her father’s nag ging dollarocracy to a region of love and light. She sorrowed a moment, then she, gazed at her lover and saw how anxious he was. Her love came back to her. The express elevator was shooting upward now. “What does It matter where we live, so long as we have each other?” “You’re a little saint,” he said as he took her In a very secular embrace. And then she began to laugh. y . The whimsy struck her that she was like a bird gaining its freedom from a cage only to find itself In* a trap. It was a good Joke on her. She en joyed the jokes fate played on her— sometimes—more or less. CHAPTER V. . * • He taxlcabbed them down to the Knickerbocker and lunched them so lavishly that Daphne and her mother felt thoroughly reassured as to hla means. Then he left them and do- aeeaded to the subway. Clay had. Insisted oa and iheatertng with him •ft «*• Am* and ha fad Km raasjMA ti catch a glimpse of the bill fbt the meal. It made her heart ache till Mm noted that Clay gave the waiter a dollar bill tot the tip, without visible excitement on either side. She re solved that Mr. Wimburn must be yery rich or yery rash, c / • / Next morning the attack on the Shops began In earnest. Clay did not lunch with them, and so Daphne and her mother* ate In the restaurant of a department store and paid-for their- own meal. It. made a difference. Even the bargain prices for food to taled up unpleasantly, and Mrs. Kip missed Clqy’s shining presence. The chaos of the Styles „was so com plete that the two women decided to retire and study out their campaign on the war maps. They bogus to make out lists and ta.3y rp prices The afternoon went by, LiC< they had ac complished little except, an . itemized despair. “IPs Awful, that’s what It is; it’s simply awful,” Mrs. Kip wailed. '•Tt costs a fortune to get nothing at all.” “I guess I’ll go home and he an old -maid,” said Daphne. “Datfs mouey wouldn’t buy me enough to get mar ried In Sandusky.” __ • But when Clay arrived to take them out to dinner he brought romance with him. He had had a good day at the office. There bad beea a flurry of hope In Wall street, and everybody said that the business world bad reached the. rock bottom of depression. and started up again. He celebrated the new era with a twelve-dollar dinner at the Plaza and another theater, and after that he made Mrs. Kip accompany them to a Baby Sleeps at Night when the stomach works naturally and bowels move freely. Mr*. Winslow's Syr up is especially recommended for quick ly overcoming wind colic, diarrhoea, - constipation, flatulency, and-other dis order*. ■ Help baby's digestion by giving MRS. WINSLOW'S ' SYRUP Tk* Infants’ and Children'* Reg aUtor - and note the health-building sleep that \ follow*. Nothing better tor teething time. This remedy contains no opiatea. narcotics, alcohol or any harmful in gredients. The formula is on every bottle of this safe, vegetable regulator. At all druggist* PARKER’^ " HAIR BALSAM A toilet preparation of merit. Relpe to eradicate dandruff. For Restoring Color and Soauty to Gray or Faded Hair. ~Wc. and IT 90 at Druggist* Showing Herself. At a Washington reception a lady said to Senator Nelson in a shocked voice: . “Look at that CjrMnndt J’deecker -fflrh—1 never saw .shell a .decollete” blouse, such a short skirt, and such transparent stockings. I'm-astonished, for 1 always thought her a very quiet creature.’* “IVrliaps,” laughed Senator Nelson, “she’s the sort that believe* In the old snying that young gnU.should 1m* s**m) nnil not hoard.” “DANDERINE” FOR ' - FALLING HAIR Stop dandruff and double beauty of your hair for few cents. Ha Celebrated th# New Era With ■ Twelvft-Dollar Dinner at the Plaza. roof garden, where Daphne and he danced with other laity In the Inter val* between professional dances on the floor and vaudeville turns on the stage. The next day there was another foray on the shops and the dressmak ers, with a baffling result The list of necessaries with their minimum prices began to grow so long and ominous that they decided to give up keeping a list They would buy what Just had to he got as cheaply as they could, and if they overran their approprla- Uon papa would simply have to help them out The wedding date had yet to be fixed and the Invitations ordered, with their royal phraseology in the latest formula. They placed the day late enough for Bnyard and his wife to get back from Europe. Bayard had not written, ot course, since his marriage, except a brief note from the stgaraer the day he landed. But he ha<V set six weeks as the limit of his absence. One evening Clgy announced that he had reserved three' seats for a new comedy that had opened with succees a few nights before. Mrs. Kip begged to be excused from going. Clay urged her to reconsider her re fusal. “Sure you Won’t go? You ought at least to seethe star, Sheila Kemble. Some people say she looks a UtUe like Daphne. Of course she doesn’t; she’s not a tenth as beautiful or young or attractive, Hbut there ia a kind of a resemblance. And they say she gets-* thousand dollars a week. Daphne could give her cards and spades and beat her. Sure you won^t go?” “I wouldn’t put my t poor feet Into those tight slippers tonight to see Daphne herself play Lady Macbeth." So* Clay and Daphne went alone. After the last act he proposed Clane’ moot for supper. Daphne accepted with zest. They entered an open taxi cab and scudded up the long bias seam of Broadway to Seventy-second street and Whisked across to Riverside drlvo and up Its meandering splendor^- Dandruff rsu**-* a frvrriah irntat'os •f the scalp, the hair root* shrink, luu*en and tlien the hair come* out fast To •top falling hair at otter and rid the scalp of every particle of dandruff, get a *matl bottle wf “Danderine” at any drug store for a few cent*, pour a little in your hand and rub it into the scalp. After several application* the hair ntops coming out and you can't And any dandruff. Your hair appeal-* soft, glo**y and twice a* thick and abund •nt Try it I Clay and Daphne have a dis tressing experience when the former’s attempt to keep up tK# pace that he had set get# him into an embarrassing situation. Daphne’s eyes are opened to some things to which she had given little thought. The next Installment telle how these things eomo about. (TO BE CONTINUED.) T- Tbe beauty of the the Nseeing of the ; the glory of the Misdirected Smiles. “Can’t anything !*♦* «bn»e to provent tin* fair defendant from smiling at the Judgev’ "I'm afraid not. She's either a l>om coquette or slit* isn’t familiar with court procedure." “Yes V’ ‘Til acknowledge tliu.t the Judge is a bettor looking man than any mem ber of the jury, but her fate lies in the hands of flu* jury."—Birmingham Age- llerald. FRECKLES Now Is the Time to Get Rid of These U<ly Spoti There's no Jonjer The BllRtitest nepd of feeling S*fa»med of jour freckle*, an Othine—duubl* ■trength—Is guaranteed to remove the*e homely •pots. Simply get an ounce of Othlne—double ■trength—from your druggist, and apply a little of It night and morning and you should 4oon se« that even the worst freckles have begun to dis appear, while the lighter ones have vanished en tirely. It Is seldom that more than one ounce J* needed to completely clear the skin and gain * benuttful Clear complexion. Be stlre to ask for the double strength Othlne, a* this Is sold under guarantee of money back If it fall* to remove freckles.—Adv, Oh! Axkctt—What are you limping for, old chap? Tellmn—My wife became irritated this morning and stamped her foot. Askett—But why should that affect you? . ^ \ . Tellum—’Well, you see, she stamped mine at the same time. a Cold lo the Head” Is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh. Per sons who are subject to frequent “cold* lh the head” will-ftnd that the use of HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE will build up the 8yetem, cleanse the Blood and render them less llaMw-te ■ colds. Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh may lead to Chronic Catarrh. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE Is tak en internally and acts throuah the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. - All Dru**lst* 75c. Testimonial* free. tlOOOO for any case of catarrh that HALL’S CATARRH? MEDICINE will not •ur*. F. J. Cheney A Co.. Toledo. Ohio. 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