The Press., 1908-09-02

HI tue SuUWdy EunOF turned Grifd0
 serious. The noise, the confusion. the shouts of the guards, the crowding of
 the mob bound for a ball game. the
 flashing white pillars beyond the open
 windowS-and this was how the girls
 who worked for their living rode back and forth each day. She thought of her trap and her runabOut, her victo- Tia and her touring car, and then she studied the faces of the women around her. A man had risen instantly on her entrance, and she had sunk behind A row of newspapers. But there were other women, older women, more plainly dressed women and more tired looking women, who swung from straps.
 She leaned forward and Deered around the screen of afternoon papers, Oh, that tired looking woman with gray hair and arms filled with bundles. who clutched desperately at a strap and swayed resignedly with the move ment Of the car! Elinor half rose in her place to offer the tired woman her seat, and then she sank back. Behind the screening newspaper directly in front of the tired woman she had caught sight of a face, a face she knew, Reginald Schuylers. And that man behind the paper was the real Reginald Schuyler, who could sit behind Il paper while a tired wo-. man swayed before him! Elinor did not reason consecutiyely or logically. She had simply a vague feeling that if ever she became less radiant, less charming than she was today Reginald Schuyler was not the man who would forgive her defects. Reginald Schuyler would be a delight ful companion so long as no sacrifice was demanded of him.
 It was a subdued Elinor who a few stations farther along signaled to Miss Greenleaf that she had had enough of the subway. She slipped out of the car in dread fear that Schuyler might lay down his paper and see her.
 Once more in the fresh air, she bade Miss Greenleaf hail a passing taxi cab. Miss Greenleaf laid the girls sudden quiet to the foul air in the sub- way and berated herself for yielding to her charges nonsensical scheme
 That evening James Began felt that never before had he fully appreciated his daughters beauty and charm She was so wondrous tender and woman ly as they sat alone in his "den."
 Daddy" she whispered, her arms crossed on his knee, her face uplifted to his-"daddy." she repeated very softly. If l were to ask you to buy the crown jewels of Patrovia or some oth- CT tiny kingdom for me to wear you'd get them, wouldn't youY
 Her father nodded and smiled down on her.
 And if wanted to buy a prince and palace I could have them?"
 Began drowned. He hated monar- ch1cal institutions. Then he smiled and patted her head. "I guess. yes-sureg' he said
 ''Or new sort of orchid-and you'd send to the heart of Africa for itY'
 Now, what are you driving at, Ell shrewd eyes twinkling. Elinor flushed beautifully and grip ped both his hands in hers
 "Such little thing, daddy-and it | will cost you just 5 cents"
 The old man turned serious.
 "Out with 1t. darling"
 "I-want-you-to telephone Jack l Boardman to spend the week end with | us at Grey Towers"
 For a few seconds silence reigned in the high ceiled room. Then Began laid his hand tenderly on her bright hair.
 "Elinor, if you want that more than in the world"-
 He hesitated, and the girl said soft ly, More than anything in all the world, daddy"
 The man flung back his shoulders and said firmly:
 '"Then I'll phone him now, before I change my mind"
 For Jack Boardman was-the other man!