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•1 . BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, 8. 0. :/ U - ■*.s * -#^7 $y RUPERT HUGHES Copyright by Btrptr A Brothers CHAPTER XXV—Continued. —16— "That makes no difference,” Daphne stormed, already converted to the shop religion. “Customers must not And the door shut. Run open It at once. Suppose Mrs. Romiliy dropped In. We’d lose her—unless this no toriety drives her away." A little blnsh of shame flickered in Daphne’s psle cheeks a moment and went out. J3he sighed: “I suppose Mr. Duane has stopped that check; too—if he ever sent it Oh, dear!" Then a nurse knocked; brought In n card growing in a large little,aza lea tree. Daphne scanned It "Mr. Thomas Varick Duane!” She peered closer at the pencillngs and read < aloud: “ ‘I Just learned. I’m hearts broken. Isn’t tber$ anything 1 _ can dor” Daphne felt as If outraged society had forgiven her. . “Isn't be a darling?" she murmured. Mrs. Chivvis begrudged a stingy, “Well, of course—” She had the poor folks’ conscientious scruples against wasting praUe on the ^rlch. "You'll want to se« him, I presume.” ' But Daphne had had enough of evil appearance. “See him here? Neverl” She glared at poor Mrs. Chivvis with a reproof that was excruciating to ac cept and ordered her to go down and - meet Mr. Duane and Incidentally learn , about the check. “Business is busi ness.’’ she enld. >* Mrs. Chivvis descended in all the confusion of a I’urltan wife meeting a Cavalier beau. She come back later to say that Mr. Duane was really very nice, and *fH»ke beautifully and had aent the check and would send an other If Daphne wished it, and would make old Mrs. Romiliy go on with the ord^r, and would she like some s|*e- dal fruits or soups or something! He was reully very nice. Daphne eyed her with Ironic horror and said, “You’ve !»een flirting with him! and me ao helplesa here I” “Daph!—nee!! Kip III” Mra. Chlv- ▼la screamed. The only counter-thrast could think of waa, “And what Mr. Wtmhurn say?" This sobered Daphne. Why had Clay sent no word? Everybody else In town had seen the papers. Clay read the papera. Surely he was not capable of such monstrous pique. When your worst enemy gets badly hart you've Just got to forgive—if you're human. And the home market is booming. We can sell ail our product here, and more, too, than we can make.”* Colonel Marchmont squirmed, but he was a soldier and loved- a good counter-attack. He smiled as be squirmed.. -Wetherell was - avenged when his successor signed new con tracts at a higher prince .than ha had made. The changing times'changed everything; jresterday’s exorbitance was today’s bargain. , Bayard departed with a wallet full of business. He got back to his office on feet fledged with Mercurial wings. His feet were beautiful on the rug of Ahe president’s office. Bayard felt so kindly to all the world that he hurried to the hospital CHAPTER XXV! Leila was determined to endure •rerythlng that might he neceaanry to regain her beauty. She would go through any ordeal of knlvea or plas ter casts or apilnta or medldnep for that. She waa quite grim about It Her resolution extruded A> the spend ing of as much of Bayard’s money as might be necessary on surgeons’ fees and doctors' hill). If she bankrupted Bayard It would he with the tenderest motives. . Five times she went to the operat ing table, made that Infernul Journey into etherland, knowing what after- angulshes waited her, what retching and burning and bleeding. She braved death again and agilin, took long chances with cowering bravado. And all for Bayard's sake. One morning when Bayard reached his office after a harrowing all-night Tlgtl at Leila’s side he was Just falling asleep over the first mull when his telephone snarled. He reached for it •with alarm. A voice boomedTn his ear : “Ah you thuh?” ’ \ “Yes.” “Keep the line, please. Now, you ah thrqugh, sir?” Then a growl replaced the boom, n growl that made the receiver rattle: “Ah you thah, Mr. Kip? This is Colonel Marchmont. I dare say you remember our conversation about those damned contracts with , Weth- erell. A little farther discussion might not he amiss—if you couid^ make It perfectly convenient to drop ovyah at, say. a quawtah pahst fah? —Good! I shall expect you at that •h.” Bdyard pondered. What new per secution was fate preparing? As he went to the office, he bought an eve ning paper. A heavily headed cable gram announced that the laborers in the British munition works were strik ing or threatening to strike. A gleatn of understanding cam? into Bayard’s eye. When he reached the desk of Colonel Marchmont he' looked tin- abashed Into the revolver muzzle of the old war horse’s one eye. Without any preliminary courtesies or any softening of his previous tone the . colonel snorted: “Those devilish contracts you made with Wetherell—: The poor fellow is no longer, alive— more’s the pity, but— Well, I’m afraid I was a bit severe with yon. I fancy we might see our way to renewing contracts at a reasonable figure at a 23 .per cent reduction from the term* you quoted.” Bayard sailed tod shook hi! Lead.' plained. He Muffed the bluffer. “The price* we had to move. We Included only a fair profit, across tto atreat. Wetherell Was Avenged When His Successor Signed New Contracts at a Higher Price Than He Had Made. to scatter good news like flowers over Leila's couch. She was In that burner when anybody clue's good fortune was an added grief to her. “I’m no use to you now,” she wailed. “I never was much. But at least I dressed and kept looking fit And y«u said I was pretty. But now— Ofi. Bayard, Bayard! You used to call me beautiful, and I tried to be beautiful for you. But now— To he ugly and tineless both—it's too much !“ Wise pathfinders say that when you are wandering in strange country you should turn every now aud then and look hack at the way you came. It wears a different aspect entirely frutu its look as you approached, and you will need to kuowt bow it will look when you return. From % childhood on, Leila had l*een warned against extravagance—ns Bay ard had;,as have we all. But only now that site was looking backward could she realize the wisdom, the in tolerable truth of the adage, “Wuste not, want not:" Meanwhile Duphue was having so different a history that she felt ashamed. It seemed unfair to tier to get veil quickly and with no blemish except a scar or two that would not show, while Leila hung between death and deformity. But seeing Bayard alone jjnd hear ing Leila fret, she felt confirmed in her belief that she had-done the whole some thing when she Joined the labor ing classes. There were discourage ments without cease, yet Daphne was learning what a remedy for how many troubles there is in work: It seemed to be almost panacea. It was exciting, fatiguing, alarming, but it -was objec tive.*, She was on her way at last to that fifty thousand a year she had dreamed of. She was uncPTtain'yet TJf earning a thousand a year, but she was on the road. Clay WImburn, seeking chances in the West, did not see the New York papers or any other record of Daph ne’s accident. When he got back to New York, his pockets full of con tracts, Bayard, eqifnljy ‘ successful, greeted him enthusiastically. Then he learned of the accident and the fact that Daphne was “In trade.” He was indignant at The news and wanted to see her at once. Bayard gave him the address, and Clay wasted no tirrie asking further questions. lie made haste to the sub way, funding; left the train at the Grand Central station and climbed up to a taxicab. Then he found Daphne. She led Mm'into u little shop empty ofj. everything hut the debris of re moval. “Where are we?" said Clay. “This wnr my shop.” “Whut’a jthe matter? Busted al ready?" Clay asked, with a not unflat tering cheerfulness. .. “Not In tto leas!” Daphne ex- “We’ve expaadetTa* fast we Met and moved so long you might have, though. Where’ve you been, Clay? But wait— you can tell "me on the way over to -to give up your stenographer.” the new shop.” - * , “ph, It’s like that, eh? Well, then, When she led him into her new em porium the graceful fabrics displayed were all red rags to him-. "He was‘a bull In a crimson shop. ~ Daphne made Clay sit down and aatsetf him if It were not all- perfectly lwveiy. He waited until Mrs. Chivvis went on to the workroom. He had a glimpse of a number of girls and wome on sewing bent. They were laughing and chattering. He answered, “It’s perfectly loath some.” Duane because I don’t love him and never did and he knows 1! I can’t borrow, of you because—” — He leaped at The Implication:'“Be cause you love me?” * v • • . “Because I used to.** “Don’t you any more?” he groaned. “How can I tell? It’s been months _ - _ and months since I saw the Clay Instead of resenting this Insul! that xame out to C , eve i aD d Daphne laughed till she fell against the counter. The worst of It was that her eyes were so’ tender. “Where did you get all the capital for all this stock?” Clay demanded, with sndden suspicion. “Oh, part of It we boiight cn credit and part of it on borrowed moqey.” “Borrowed from whom?” “Frotn Mr.‘Duane.” This was too much of too much. Clay stormed: “I’ll get him I” “Oh, no, you won’t 1” . * “Oh, yes, I will!” «. . .. “I .won’t have you assaulting the best friend I’ve got in the world.” v -.IIe groaned aloud at this, nQt no ticing how she used the word “friend.” She rnn on. She had not talked to him for so long that she waa a perfect chatterbox. “He lent’me five hundred dollars when I didn’t know where else to pet It. And It nailed our first real con tract—a Mg commission from old Mrs. Itomllly. We paid back Mr. Duane’a five -hundred and then—"" She giggled in advance at what was coming to Clay. “And then I l*«*rrow«*d* a thou sand from him. We owe him that now." Clay was as wroth as she had wished. He took out a little book. Well, I’ll give you a check for that ders again, but she did not smile. She spoke instead: “I don’t ask you Daphne blushed, too. “Well, I should think thut the business woman could, afford babies better than anybody else, why won’t you let me lend you money U^he has to gtv? up the housework, any- instead of Tom Duane T Tler'afiswer astounded him with its feminine logic: “I can borrow of MR and lured me on to New York. The only Clay WImburn I’ve seen for some time has been a horribly pros perous, domineering snob who is too proud to he seen v|ith a working woman. He wants to marry a lady. I never was one and don’t want to he one. I’m a business woman and I love it” “And you wouldn't give up your simp for me?” “Certainly- not” He looked at her with baffled emo tions. She was so delectable and so phstlnate, so right-hearted and so wrong-headed. It was intolerable that she should keep a shop, lie spoke ufter a long delay: “May I come and see you once in a while?” “If you want to.” ^ “Where you llviug now?" “Still at the Gbi\v«sw*." “You ought to take better .care of yot^rself than that. Surely you cuo aff<»rd a better home.” “I suppose so, Lut It would be lonely anywhere else. It has he« n * »ufe there—since you quit* calling on tue. It d«*esn’t cost*me much.” “But you’re money." Not so very much—yet, but it’ come? Or do you cut out,the kiddies?” HOME TOWN HELPS^ amount—or more. And jou can pay | all my own ami I made every cent of Tnmne off with Intern! I won't have you. owing him money." “You won’t have!” Daphne mocked "You won’t have? Since when did you become seuior partner here?” "Senior portner!" Clay railed. “I’m no partner In this business! I hate this business. It makes me sick to see yon In It" "Then step out on the walk." said Daphne. “You’re scaring away cus tomers and using op the time of the Arm. The boudoir is no place for you, anyway.’’ A young woman with* a bridal eye walked In and Daphne left Clay to blunder oat sheepishly, lie did not see that she cast sheep's ayes after him. He was a most bewildered young man. He hud made a pile of money, and still ha waa not happy 1 v CHARTER XXVI! In the course of a few wretched days Clny pfekpd up some of the facts about Daphne's presence in Wether- ell’s fatal car. He WffRmrtfe" furious at her than ever and more incapable of hating her. He saw Bayard often, hut Bayard knew little and said less. One after noon he invited efay to ride with him to the hospital, whence Leila was to graduate. He warned Clny not to be tray how shocked he would be at Lei la’s appearance, which, he said, was a wonderful improvement on what it had bpen. She w'as, indeed, a more shell, and Clay was not entirely successful with ills compliments. Leila sighed: “Much obliged for your good Intentions. I’m a mere sack of bones, but I’m going to get well. The doctors say that if I take care of myself every mjnute and go to a lot of specialists and go to Bar Harbor in the hot'weather and to Palm Beach in the cold and spend about a million dollars I’ll be myself some day. That’s not much, but it’s all I’ve got to work for. Poor Bydie I He didn’t know he was endowing a. hospital when he married me.” "Wba t~d<T I care,--honey ?** Bayard cried, with perfect chivalry. “The money is rolling in and I’d rather spend it on you than on anybody else.” “The money’s rolling out just as fast as it rolls in,” Leila sighed. “The Lon} seems to provide a new expense for every streak Qf ? luck. Ahd that’s .my middle name—Expense." n ' She had actually ^earned one lesson. That was a hopeful sign. ^jLliay. sought Daphne in her odious (to hitaj place of botlntM. She asked him what she could sell him. lie said In* would wait till the' shbp closed. She raised her eyebrows impudently and gave hi/n a chair in a corner. lie sat these feeling as out of place as a strange man in a hurein. ——- way, even when she’a a housekeeper I suppose she could give up her shop for a while. At leant she could share the expense—or her husband could stand the bills since—he^ escapes,, the, pain. I tell you, If I ever had a daugh ter I’d make her learu her own trade if she never learned anything else. I’d never raise her to the -hideous, inde cent belief that the world owes her a living and she’s got a right to squeeze it out of the heart’* blodd of some hard-working man. No, sirree! It may be old-fashioned, hut it isn’t dece.nt, and it isn’t even romantic. The lov& Of two free souls, wl»h their own ca reers and their own expenses, seems to me about the best kind of love there could be. Then both of them can come home evenings and their home will he a home—a fresh, swee: meeting place." Clay breathed hard. He was silenced, but not conv'Inced—tv-yond being con vinced that Daphne Kip was - still the one woman in the w >rld for him, in spite of her cantai kerous notions. Still, of- course; a wortfin'Tiud to have some flaw or she wou d not he human. Daphne’s foible was as harmless ns anyone’s, perhaps. S*. he blurted out: “I suppose you’v# given UP -,*11 thought of marrying i le?” She answered him with pious ear nestness: *Tve never given up that thought. Clay. I’ve been trying to make myself worthy *f the happiness It would mean. 1 ha 1 e hud the trous- se-tu all made, and paid for. a long while. That’s what I •■nine to town for originally—our {roue cau. -But wberr I saw how much *ncr flee it meant for toy fetor old father ni 1 whst u bundle of billa I’d In* dump ng on my |*****r making so much young lover 1 rnuhtr’t see the go**) ofif. So I took my v«rf that I wouldn’t get a trousseau till I could earn* the price of It myHclf. A fid now I’ve •■arms! the jirice and I’ve got it. But, I’ve l«**t my exruse f r wearing it. “StUl. I'd probuhl) have |n*t you. anyway, or ruined y«*i if Thud Iwought you my old Ideas. H-erybody nlway* says that money is tl * enemy of love. I wonder If It could ,*t be made the friend. It would lw i a interesting ex periment. anyway.” "Daphne, honey, le' I try the exj»eri- ment.” She looked at him vlth a heavenly smile in her eyes, aud answered, "Let’s.” He moved towari her. hut she dodged behind the counter. She studied him a monte*it. then reached below the counter. A bell rang and a drawer slid out. Sin took aoiue lolls from it. made a tue noranduni on a slip of pa(ier. and put chat in the place of the hills, closed lie drawer, and leaned across the courier, murmuring: “They say a)l successful businesses nre begun on borrow# J money. 8o I’ll burrow tbi* from the "firm—for luck." She put out her hnr d. Clay put out his. She laid three dollars on his palm and closed his 'finger* >n them. • “What’s all this?" h< acted, all mys tified. %She explained r “A plain gold hand cost** about*, six dollars, aud that’s fo* ihy L«1 f of the partnership. Women wearing their wedding rings very li;ht nowrduys.” "I should say so I” * lay -groaned, but with a smile.* She bent forwaril r ^ 1 he hent for ward and their lips m*; She svus only a saleswoman selling t customer part of a heart .for part of :t l^eort, hut to Clay the very counter vas the golden har of heaven, and I)i -hue,(he Bless ed Dainozel that le*) ed op it and made it warm. **’’’ , • THE E' '!). CLEAN UP AND KEEP CLEAN Much More Than Mere Comfort Is In volved In Having Community. Free From Dirt. The greatest effort In the history of *. ^cleanliness Is cm! " f For cleanliness has a history. Its influence can be traced down the ages. Those races that were clean were those races that weVe the masters. The Athenians, wdth their baths nml beautiful homes, conquered the Per sians, with their unkempt beards and dirty skins. The Romans, with their aqueducts, their harbors, their gar dens, heat bnck the barbarians with their goat skins and greasy fingers, * Louis XYT was the most dainty mon arch France ever- had And one of the mightiest. Filth kept the Panama_ -e««a4 from feeing built .wars befmrF'tt'" finally was. Bolshevism flourished when the dirty und ignorant gained control In Russia. Real people, the wise, the leaders In progress, always hu^e fought for cleanliness. At times it has been a spdrudlc fight, a skirmish. A clean man was handicapped by a neighbor who let liis premises run wild. But .co-operation has been brought to play | at last This year, in the United State* ! alone, 7,000 villages, towns and cities 1 are mmpnlgnTng fcfr* cleanliness and health. They are not doing so for a day. <rr a week, hut In n contlnuou* campaign. In a steady pressure. Tin cans, flies, refuse, dirt, waste ? paper, unsightly buildings, unpainted aurfaei-s are taboo. Tlie drivu Lm*»u. It has been estimated Hiat .TOOOO,- 000 men. women nml children • 1’nlted Staten are nnnnally In in and working on clean up at up activities. It Is an army of u cent pnrp<*4> anil of Immense |* ties. It Is hound IujUo. - •loin tire forward mm*verm nt. up. paint up and keep It up. Mr aid enemies, dirt and dNen-»* a alghtliness abd.ente and stay o in the d paint mi iml-fl. i-s>.|Mlt. i! and—golly i bow 1 love‘to watch It grow.” . “You uiiser." “Maybe. I guess that’s the only way to save ui»m y—to make a pas sion out of It and get a kind of we luptuous feeling from It. But I really think that It’s the fun of making it that Interests me luos! It certaiuly keeps me out of mischief and out of loneliness. Oh. there's no freedom like having a job aud a little reserve in the bank. It's the only life. Clay.” “And you wouldn’t give up >our 'freedom.* as you call It, even for a man you loved? Couldn’t you love a man enough to do that?” “I could love a man too much to do that. For where’s the love In a woman's sitting around the house nil day an*) waiting for a man to come homf and listeu to the gossip of her empty bruin? That isn’t loving, that's loafing." Clay was not at all persuaded. “But there’s no comfort or home life in marrying a business woman." “How do you know? You know plenty of unsuccessful wives who are Sot business women.” “I want a housekeeper, not a shop keeper." “Go get one, then. I sajf. If a wom an can’t earn enough outside to hire n housekeeper let her do her own house work. But if she can earn enough to WHY HOME OWNING IS URGED T#n Powerful Arguments Put Forward by Those Convinced of Wisdom of the Plan. Home owning will result In benefit tn |>cople who become h«*ine owner*' and to the city as a whole, for the*e. anting other, rraxm*: 1. In the long run the home owner l« more pr<»«per<»ii* than the renter, and the pnettM-rity of any rtty depends . upon the |trn«H*erity of a tt* individual j citizens. >\ 2. The home .owner Is permanent 5 the shifter does’ little good t# his city ' or himself. , S. The home owner Is progressive; I the renter is n«*t Interested In progres sive movements. * 4. Habits of thrift learnnrl In home buying add to the wealth of the indl-. | vldual and the city. fi. The home owner beautifies the city: the renter d*n*s not; the more beautiful our city is the more people {_wIH_ he iil»W' 1 - 1 to It. 0. Other thing* being equal, the home owner Is n better worker than ""the renter, and keeps his |*osition af ter the renter is discharged. | 7. The owner of a home 1 has an ever- i present-—protection against poverty, ' and will not become a charge n^on tho community. , 8. No city of renter* can ever suc- j reeds No nation of tenants ever be- I came great. * A city thnt is worth living in is | worth owning a home in. ‘ 10. Other things being equal, the home owner is a better citizen, a bet ter soldier, u better American than the renter. “It Seems to Me It Ccjldn’t Help Be ing a Better and a Happier Way of Living."' * Ev.-ntu«Uy the tart „ hundred TiouMtoeperj why tenter- talked her*-ff dutub; the .1,^,! shP Kti ek tn the kltehen? In my •nt. Mr M*winc woman w« pulled down'thy curia!us in window aud at 'll*** door aud JL a night * -St Daphne locked . t I. A I urvjypg Ut* iDow ide good home, if I ever not he the stat i then MtcrtsU have In price every nhsia (mi abroad. "Ten .rrtnrmher Jfo. Chlrvt* don’t punt Mra. tkinti yam haven't hr prise Iff*, Wiaahnfau He a kept aeajr, wrarily , Into i atglm 1 “Well, Clny I" 1 want to knew why yea < sp Teas Duane. * Ao ahrwtfW had geode riuUr. 4 Ins if CtM f tw t' get ofre, the c«x*k will \ Beside* it enlarges I of two living on the o will livt» op tffiftj- 111 SI 71* vail! ^ ruil uuu J It aeensa to me it I Id enrr The Hottest C ity. The city of Hydera’ a 1, on the great Sind desert of India, b is tbe reputa tion of being the hot it t place In the world, having a shadn (emperature of 127 degrees during the smmmelr months! Even the nr if res find it hot —and that Is saying * mething. In order to fqo) their I ouses as mi as possible, the peopff make yse of curious ventilators try much like those on shipboard, “st ting” them so as to convey a breeze <0 the ilwell^rs In the hot rooms belor. Every resi dential building has or reral of these queer airshafts leadlnj down to the .principal living room#, ard especially tfi jthe bedrooms. Evr/z so, It is prac tically .Impossible, du l lg the terrible heat of summer, to g <t to 1 steep until two'or three o’clock n the morning, and.then -one only g.'s a couple of hours’ rest, as the rn>fi of tie Indian sun nre specially stre’g early In the mnrrijkig. and soon rai e tli* tempera ture Ingain to an uhfee#;kbl.i extent. . , P ish for Fre* rioltcmea. When a tank *«nr with 8.00; gallons of inolnsse* /a.itrpM»c near Telford. I'm., and the molt joes began ran out. pt-opl* cu/ a bj score*, OS agms aoc by ai*tonx>bilaw __ Old-Fashioned Flower Garden. “A thing of beauty Is a Joy forever,” which, can be found in a bed of old- fashioned flowers at a minimum cos! After the soil is prepared, sow the seeds or set out the plants, putting the tall ones like sweet peas, hollyhocks, golden glow and sunflowers in the hack. Plant shorter ones in front, sufh. as the' marigolds, -Japanese pope pies, sweet Williams and field daisies; in front of these. still shorter ones, such as petunias, nasturtiums and as- •s, pansies, pinks and verbenas in rront. A border of candy tuft pr stveet alyssum is very decorative. With such an arrangement,-flowjers for the parlor and living room -table can be obtained until frost comes: Many n bouquet of beautiful flowers at practically,tto expense also can find Its way into the room of somesick per son or’to a hospital ward.—Thrift Magazine, Build Bitd Homes, Birds add much to the home sur roundings und are easily made neigh- 1k*ts if jyesting places are available. Bird houses will attract wrens, blue birds. martins and nuthatch***; aud the windbreak, apple orchard, or lawn trees niuke i'lKXt homes f.tr orbries, plushes, rnllifis ■r f. nv nd tb if ti-iiti w* i L. *t a ;4<v bef 11 uewarfy M lw 4m aMi *tha habiw rw p’uggvq n# q »ul; um ®f ^aspy mu 4 #*< ffxt at La v »• * 09 i of i raflpit and 1*4 They a* ill*. I fb# af**l L AAMAli Zllt#