r BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA . ✓ ■•I;'.' By RUPERT HUGHES u . \'/> Copyright W Harper Jk Brothers THIS WEAK, yTells How Lydia E.^inkham’0 Vegetable Compound Restored Her Health. - 3 a I V "V DAPHNE AGAIN TURNS TO CLAY, BUT AS THEY PLAN FOR THE FUTURE A NEW BLOW FALLS. ■% „ Synopsis.—Clay Wlinburn, n young New Yorker on a visit to Cleve land. njeets pretty Daphne; K1p, wfip*e brother Is in the same office with Clay in Wall street.. After a whirlwind courtship they become op gaged. Daphne goes to New. York with her mother to buy her trousseau. Daphne's brother. Bayard, has Just married and left for Europe with his bride, Leila, Daphne and her mother Install themselves In Bayard’s fiat. Daphne meets Tom Duane, inan-about-B»wn, who seems greatly at tracted to her. Daphne accidentally discovers that Clay Is penniless, except for his salary, Raynnrri and his wjfe return to New York unex pectedly. The three wofuen set out on a shopping-excursion and the tw^> younger women buy exfw-nilve gowns, having them churged to Bayard. Bayard is furious over the expense, seeing hard times ahead. Daphne^ Indignant, declares she will earn her own living and breaks her engage-* meat wltlfcCIny. Through an Introduction by Duane, Daphne induces Iteben, a theatrical magnate, to give her a position in one of his com panies. Her first rehearsal la a fiasco, but Reben, at Duane’s request, gives her another ehahee. Sudden illness of Miss Kemble, the star, gives Daphne her chance, but her acting is a dismal failure. She Is con soled by Tout limine. CHAPTER XII—Continued. * —9— a Satan or Raphael had whispered to her an Invitation to revisit the scene of her late humiliation with Clay. With Duane’s magic purse there would be no danger of a snub from the waiters; .with his own car.there would be no risk of footing It home. Then an Imp of mischief spoke* for her and said, “All right!” Duane told the clufuflTeur nnd the car shot like a Javelin from the lighted street Into the deep forest-night of Central park. What would Clay say? But, after all. he had failed her ip a crisis,- Per haps he hud turned his heart else where. Men were Impatient, vindic tive, fickle. When Claremont was reached and Duane handed Miss Kip out he noted that her hand wus hotter than his own and a .little quick to escape, her face wu Hushed and h*»r lips parted as if with excitement., He assumed that the speed of the ride atwl the tang of adventure were to blituiv*. . While the waiters were serving the ■upper and while he was attacking It with the frank appetite of honest hun ger she recounted the evening’s dis aster as calmly hs if It were the story of somebody else. In fact, she was standing off and regarding herself with the eyes of an alien. We change so fast that the persons we were yester day are already strangers, nnd their •eta the acts of distant relatives. Her calm was really the numbness of abock. The anguish would come to morrow. __ “I can’t understand myself at all,”' Daphne said. “1 went through every one of the motions, hut I couldn't reach the audience once. I was like a singer with a hud fold singing In a foreign language—you don’t know what the song Ik all about, hut you know that It never quite gets on the key.” “You mustn’t he discouraged.” “Oh, yes, I mufet! I couldn't he an actress in a thousand years. Mr. Bat tersea told me.so himself/* Duane felt the truth of tlilsj hut It hurt him to have her feel it. It of fended his* chivalry to realize how im polite fate Could he to ‘sb proITy a'girt. He hated to see her reduced to the necessity of proving how* plucky she could be. He tried to liud an escape for her. He said : "You’re- far too good for tht* stage.” “1 don’t believe that for a minute.” . ^ ness in Cleveland to a post of distinc tion in New York; to solve at once all the hateful, louthsome, belittling rid dles of money ; to be the bejeweled nnd feted and Idolized wife and mistress of this young-'American grand duke; to buy that impossible trousseau, or bet ter; to live In a New York palace in stead of a flat; to go about In her ow-n limousine Instead of an occasional tax Icub; to be fortune’s darling Instead of a member of the working classes, struggling along with bent neck under a yoke beside a discouraged laboring man! When the car reached her building she was resolved to see Duane no more. She could not tell him so. After all, he had been everything thutwas courtesy and charity. It would hardly She Stared at Her Image in the Mirror. have been polite to treat him with ab solute indifference. Duane got down and holped her out and took her to the door, which was logged at tins late hour. While they -waited for the door man to nnswepvthe bell she was pay ing him his wages; “You are wonderfully kind. I had a gorgeous evening. You save.d my life.” Site- ifad said more t+mn she ifitend- she—protested. “But I've Iuolv thaih j M . had earned. Knm a! It i ,t r, I oil m .lit V something I can do.' “May I help you to decide?” — — “If youLoiily would! But Tin getting to he a nuisance.” “You are a—a—to me you are a— well, you’re not a nulsanct^’ He dared.not fell her what she was, especially ns the waiter had set the bill at his elbow and was stnivding tiff In an attitude of Ul-conceqJcd. Impa tience for the -tip, which lie knew would he large. Mr. Duane always gave flie normal ten per cent and a bit extra, lie tipped wisely .but..no£ too well, knowing that ni^ixtr/iyugunt tip wins a waiter’s contempt almost more than none at all. The head, waiter fairly cooed “Good night’’ and almost gave them a blessiqg. ». The starter had Mr. Dunne* ear, wnlting for him ut the curb-ami W-Uai, htrhftt tvTtli one hnud as la -n uggjcd u quarter away with the oUjer. lie stepped, in. to lay the lin n Iqprol*/ 'over their knees with reverence, closed the door exquisitely ami murmured, “Ooud-H-rgtit!” —_ —o- The car was yfi* aristocrat; it (float ed from the cuife with swii'uliku ■weep.. • ..*• Daphne thought of Clay and lierseif "plodding homeward. She seemed to see them or their wraiths staggering disconsolately ;ilojig.‘ She felt very ■orrj^ for them. Here wag a chance to save one of thcm-^TmtlT of them, in fact; for In taking hvr financial bur den from Clay’s shoulder* she would b£ twice strengthening him. If she were to accept ifuaiic ms her hpshpnd ther\ her prolUems would In* suited— and (“irr-wrn^rfix- free of her. To be Mm. 'Pm rHiane;/<> step Into the society society; to lift ktr father •other Irote a tr ' « Then may l call soon?” “Of course;” ? ‘Tomorrow?” - ‘ . “I—well, I’ll lot you know.” ‘*T'ine! Telephone jiie at— I’ll write it out for you. I’m not often at the club whose you found me, and my number isn’t In the hook,” Hefwrole V»n Ids card his telephone address and gave it to : her as the diiurinaii ftp- j peared. fie murmured^ “Don’t forget.” She Mrs. Chivvis was touched. - “You poor ciilldi! It reaffy Is—Just too bad!” She pondered, i then she tightened,: “Tin sorry you¥e disappointed, but I’m glad you’re not to be in the theater. It must he Very wicked.” ■ ' . “It’s mighty difficult,” said Daphne. Mrs. Chivvis thought a moment more, then she said:' “Did I fell you?— No, I don’t be lieve I did—you wore away—hut Mr. Chivvis gets liis' 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 leuve Tuesday. I’m .going, -of course, so I can’t give you your meals. You can get your breakfasts In the kitchenette. Of course I’ll ullow off whatever is right.” . . “Oh.” Daphne said. “I’ll be, nil right, I guess.” Daphne had not realized how much she depended on Mrs. Chivvis till now. She wus to be left alone at the very time when she was mosj in peed of society. The whole world was forsak ing her. CHAPTER XIII. When the Chtvviscs had gons Daph ne assailed the task of composing her letter of resignation from Reben’s em ploy. It was not easy to resign with digulty and the necessary haste. She sent it off by messenger. It was none too prompt, for Rehen had al ready dictated a very polite request for Daphne’s head. When he received her letter he reculled his stenographer and dictated a substitute for his first letter. In this fee expressed his regret ut learning Daphne's decision to re sign; the former understudy had come back from the road, he said, and would resume her work., lie begged Daphne to uccept the inclosed check for two weeks’ salary In lieu of the usual no tice, and* 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 again, and suw It was the first money she had ever eurned. She hated to let It got She decided to frame It and keep It to point to in ufter years as the begin ning of her great fortune. Late In the afternoon, when the western sky was turning lrttd a loom for crjmson tapestries almost as rich as her own driyims, she went^ to her brother’s apartment. There the N # ew Girl found the Old Woman In the throes of finance. .Leila hud brought her check book and her bank book to her husband. Her af- fulrs were in a knot. He laughingly offered to help her. She was hurt by his laughter, but not hu f so deeply us he wus by his dis covery of her mouetury condition. He had established her bank account In a mood of adoration, a precious sacri fice on the altar of Idve* She had not cherished it, hut . scattered it heed lessly. And money was peculiarly precious now in the final agonies of the hard times, when only the fittest of the fittest could survive the last tests. Credit was the water cask, and dollars were the hard biscuits of a boatload of survivors from a wreck. She told about her failure and her future nnd Leila Raised her courage and her optimism. They dined cheer fully and Bayard decided -but the best preparation for the hard wUrV of him would be an evening of (Aiyety.' lie invited his Wife and his sister, to go with , him to the Winter Garden, where the typical “Sunday concert” of New. York was given. CHAPTER XIV. Lund might be reached if they held out, hut self-denial was vital. Bayard gazed at Leila with wonder ing KM5 'afi(l terror. She was both divinity-and devil x in his eyes. "Tie groaned: “Ajp> you trying to wreck me? - You know how hard I’m working ami.how much I need money iu my business and how much it meufcs to your future, but you won’t stop buying and charg ing and burning my poor little earn ings. We discharged a stenographer yesterday because we wanted to save her ' salary of fifteen dollars—and bere'S a chock for a pair of shoes for you that cost sixteen. - “But tell me one thing more before’ I’m carted Off to Bhxuuingdale in a. strait jacket. Why, in heaven's name, why—admittihg_yau jnsjulmd. to-have Then the Chi wises came back from their vacation unexpectedly early,. They had found~ the hotels expensive and Mr. thlvvls was afraid that his Job would be snatched from him if he were not there to hold it down/ Clay called on Daphne that evening and the Chivvlses retreated tb ^heir own room. But ns they could be over heard it was evident that they could overhear, and 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 as he could hear: “Mrs. Chivvis is growing uneasy, honey, about our being together every eve ning. I told her we were engaged, but she didn’t seem, convinced. Perhaps you would let me wear that beautiful engagement ring again. Pwas a fool to give it back to you. May I have it ogr-”, .. Clay blenched in misery. “I—I’m afraid I— You see, I hadn’t paid much on it; and lost week I hujLan in sulting letter from the jeweler. lie tlireatencd to sue me and notify my firnr, and I—well, I had. to fend it hack.” He was so downcast that she an swered with mock cheer: “Oh. thnt’s all right, honey; It doesn’t mntter. After all, it’s only u 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 os soon as these hard times are over and I can make fome commissions. But it’s so dismal to wait. Couldn’t we get married and live on my salary?” *‘I could if you could.” lie .caught her In his arms so vio lently that Nhj? squealed. r The next day Clay telephoned to her his firm had Just offered «hirn the choice of accepting half his salary or turhlng In his resignation. It was really Impossible for. two to live on half of what was hardly enough for one. Daphne cried n long while in her room. She got out her list of ways to earn fifty thousand dollars again and cried over that. There Is nmeh foolish and futile pro test against the nowadays woman .who goes into business outvie her home. But the fact Is that it is her business that began It. Her business 10ft the home first nnd sThvlsmerely following It to the-places where^muv conditions nnd Inventions have centralized and mechanized it. *' New conditions have taken her distaff and hrt-'i^ishtub nnd her- cook ery and gflfssip liufe the woptfn mills and. steam hiundrh^\^mL^estaurnnts and fele/hone exclmngesTr^he has had to go thr her to do her necessary work. E\eii tie entertainers, the singers, dancers,idlers of stories, who used to stir tin* seraglios and tire castle balls have been gathered fnto opera houses and theaters nnd into vaude ville and moving picture’pnlnces. - Daphmv-having no gifts for spin ning,' evoking, or laundry, t/ied the theater. Her old-fashioned lover pro- Philadelphia, Pa.—“I was very weak, always tired, my back ached, and I felt sickly most of tha .time. I went to s ^doctor and he said I had nervous indi- 1 gestjon, which ad ded to my i weak condition ke^t me worrying most of the time — and he said if I could not stop that/ I could not get well. I heard so muchabout Lydia E. Pinkham’s rainy season. He had found his salary L Vegetable Com- too small* for his courtship requisites; pound my husband wanted me to try it now that ills salary was halved hi§ 1 took it fora week and felt a little bet- --courtship had to be reduced to the ter. I kept ifeup for three months, and minimum of expense. -' ; „ I .feel fine and can eat anything now w-, , . . .. . , „ without distress or nerVousrtess. —Mrs. Bayard nnd I.olla ha,I more money j WoRTHLINEi 2842 Korth Taylor St, to spend, and they innde ambitious Philadelphia Pa. pnrntroo Rnt Dnniirwh nntl Pinv must: , The majority of mothers nowadays murmured,. “I wqnL” Both said “Good nigirt.” .'TTIjiftnodoonmm galh-1 pitiful litxip pair of sli.iw*—why* ■ ■ ... >r~ - . when you wrote the chocks.diduk. you subtract it‘from your 'balance instea ered her in nnd hoisted ..heir to-, her lowly eyrie. It was v$fy different from where she wouhf ha\'e gone as Mrs. Duarte*- ~*r v - But when she was. in her room she tore- hfs card to’ pieces—after she had -lupked at it. She stored at herduiag-i* in the mirror. She lna^lwho4-*ho syw thcie. . " J __ *» . \ Sin* vowed to break lier.prdffffge--fo~t^t of adding i,t? J. ask you,!” •- - ~T)h, tlid ^ do Unit?” she asked, look ing over his shoulder. “So I did!” and she j>ut her cheek close to his and giggled; '■ , jle shook his head in imbeeil'e infnt- uation, and drew.Imr .around into his Tent Duane/ SJje'vowed to forget hi-Jf Jcleplfone iimulier. But it dmuvd' about ih the dark long after she ire! closed li*.T-eye*. ■ - .*, ■ The next morning she overslept even That was what Daphne overheard when the maid let, her in. SheJPumd In Ihbyrrd's* lap. Bayard did not.toil DaplKfe whdt his cunt, rellCe With Leila had been.' He beyond the,extra hour the Chivvises simply closed the check book and the permitted themselves ,/nd jjie rt ranger ' hank b> * GTrateful. ✓ McKinney, Texas.-—Mrs. Mary Sbq V enson, Af till* place, state** “About ’a”year nnd a half ago I was down in bed for six weeks, not' able to sfi t up. I was flat an tuy back and had t» r- rllde spoils- . , . Why, It looked like I would die. At time* I didn’t know anything. I would get nervous, I couldn’t hear anyone to talk to ine, —I would Just Jerk and shook with nervousness . . . pcross my. back was so sore nnd ached me nil the time, I would have a dizzy feeling. My limbs ached me nnd I wouM get numb nlid feel so weak ... I cnhl to my husband I.knew Cardul Was good 4jnd I believed I had l>est try It. He got nie n bottle i>f Cardul, and w lien I h:f?T only taken one-half bot tle of Cardul I felt stronger. I took - • * a half a dozen bottles hlrogi OR r, t?I tl in two .weeks after I began taking I town-tied husbands, the summer wid* yas up^in three I was doing my wot-k. owers. He went back once a week on furlough to spend s Newport Sab bath with' his wife. 1 IIe~hecame one of the Kridav-night-toMonday-morn- ing ‘excursionists. There was leisure enough in his office. - • ,Ho i insisted on Daphne’s krcpthg; her room in his apartment, and of evenings he affixed himself to her und/Cluy. ami made- their company a crowd. But they welcomed him as a chaperon of a sort. Also, he paid his''- way .with liberality, except for occ^i- „ sional spasms of retrenchment, when lie economized atrociously. lie pre dicted that good times would never come again. The whole world had’ gone to pot and would never come ._ out. Suddenly he changed his tune; sud* den’y the whisper went about that hard times were ending, „ — -■> In his bachelor days,) when Bayard was gro’wlhg in commercial stature like a young giant, he had regarded* his business with all the warmth of a poet. His office building was his Acropolis and hts 1 office the peculiar temple- of his muse; and her name was Profit. He thrilled* like a poet to the epic inspiration of. n big sale, and he knew a joy akin to the poet’s revision of Iris scansion if he devised a scheme for reducing overhefcd charge ot* wastage. I praise Cardul f<>r I believe it Saved piy life and I am grateful.” - - - r For over 40 year* Cardul has been helping weak, siek women back to health and strength. Try it-^tYdv. r .\ cloak i^ not made "for a '-ingle shower of faTii’y^-Tfhftkrn Proverb. t*f hiim4 and dry as ttu> toa^i ■ .-'101 :k t.i-inte • j “And so will J," said Leila.* “It was “Yi it ^uTre rather 1 at&^getting in j awfully hard work ke. ping track of last audit —or thi- inomlftg, rather.’ j every little penny. I’d much rather Ihiphne's answer ’wtis not an expla nation. Imt it uas betters— it. Mrs. Chivvis, b«FT[ * r •n last night. —Ye*! 11 tl eipal p.-irt and tilled it. ! leiphn** iii not tc*td what all this t go. uc wi the sla ji: any 1 talk vat at~»ut, tojt- rhe-^uad** a fai * - -« ** -ugh she pr*. teniK*vl uul to Id *<»h. f t my •Oh, Did I Do That?” She Asked, - Looking Over His Shoulder. tested, and she went, anyway. But she was irot suited to the theater, nnd have a regular allowance in cad» ev-1 she re^reuied witlrdothing to show for erv weak." * *—rher expedition except lier shattered right Jtjald Raya rd._ “We’ll try pride and -^le * fifty-dotriTr. check fof it—next wfi kr ; . I two week*’ spy. 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 w*r. ■ Bayard was among the first casualties. Read about it in the next installment Weak From Pain y •- Mrs. Gibbert Was in Misery, But Doan’s Brought Her Splendid Health. - "About hi years ago my kidneys Were in bad condition," !-ays_Mrs. Lucy Gib-, bert, 15310 Columbia Ave;, Harvey, 111. “There was a eon-taut, dull, bearing- down pain m tlie small of my back. 1 couldn t turn over in bed without such pain I could ,hardly, breathe. 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