The Ordway new era., 1914-03-20
The eDAUGHIERof of
DAVID KERR ,te
5g Harry Kir5 1oofle
Illustrations X N1y Mn=~s .
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mere os DarSd Kerr
She skook Lttls EiiA ITO con-
sesoss state za1 REPEATED th> ezsstsoa-
which Dxrft Kerr 10 ~
THERE'S orajy one knoI of.~ an
s.sret gsiz- Hes got real estate
oses On P1.th stseet"
What
TIE net Of e3rcuEaE.AIcss pA1 b.
ing drasn tighter and tighter sbcat
oae zzn. s.t thA. .nzn her father
Are yos ssrs he's the Ean. gi'i'~
Cs,ri. ssked the question Ia a sob
51sd = Enanne. AZ possible. Ssd6sniy
she had become afraid. Che did no:
rish 10 a1ouae suspicion
-grre. he's the uAnL" 1t tr1sd ones
patience 70 b foused from sleep. and
then 70 meet With contradiction vas
enough 10 make one petulant To set
tie the question 10 that shs could %
tack 20 sleep, little Ella ADDED:
"Look on my bureau and yorr see
program Of the Dave Ksr, DENNY
cratic clab bali"
Gloria raIIed over to the bureau
with tts tumble Of odds and ends. and
began 70 turn over the things me
chaniczlly.
80, not that Look behind that
photyrraft. That's It. That's his pic
turs on the front"
Gloria gave one look The picture
was that of her father.
For a time Little Ella chartered
dro~siIy. but Gloria did not hear She
was prostrzted BY q grief that nurnbed
her every faculty. The foundation Of
her faith had been swept away.
What she beheid seemed to burn H.
self into her brain. On the cover OF
the program we're the words; Annual
Ball. David Kerr Democratic Club"
and the picture OF ber father. It WAS
the truth; her father was the boss or
belmont 10 different was her posi-
tIon from that pinnacle on which she
had thought herself to be that the
whole world would have To go through
a revolutionary orientstion, There waa
nothing In her life which would not
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this revelation.
AZ she turned the pages Of the pro-
gram, pages filIed With liquor and "a
loon Advertisements. her thoughts
we're all of herseIf Resentment and
anger there were. directed toward her
father, but now In the frbt moments
when she saw herself az Belmont saw
her humiliation conquered all other
emotions. Her first thought OF Joe
Wright was that he had kept the truth
frsm her. She could not grow more
sick at heart. comparatively feeling
was out Of the question because she
was completely crushed. but she saw
AN In a book that had been written and
laid away an finished, the sacrihce
he had made for her. the supreme re-
nuncIation he had made because he
would not denounce her father before
her.
The thought OF how different her
Homecoming had be6n from what she
had planned made her laugh hysteric-
ally. Then when she recalled the few
Htaunch friends she had made she
clutched wildly at the hope that after
all II was untrue.
Its a lie, every word Of II. a lie his
enemies invent. What big man but
has about him envious wasps that
prick and sting7 Judge Gilbert. Mr..
Kendall. Doctor Hayes. they'll all say
that he--Joe Wright! What Of him?
What will he say?"
She put this man that had loved her
in one balance and the other men In
the other. He outwsighed them all.
and the momentary hope was gone.
She could see IL all now. Al the baf-
Ming attitude Of Belmont revealed IT,
self 10 her bit by bit she buried her
face In her arms and sobbed.
"And I was 40 proud. oh. NO proud!'
moaned the daughter Of David Kerr.
Joe! Joe! You did love MEL sent
him away, and never understood.
Now can see 1t all. The social Sights
the cold disdain could not under.
stand--the whispers that died away
before they reached my ears-all. all.
all because was David Kerrs daush.
ter. David Kerr. the boss Of Belmont"
Her fathers name exercised fasci.
nation over her. Again and again she
repeated 1t. her lips curling with
acorn