The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-03-15

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what does lie want?" asked Ger.
trude, thoroughly mystifed.
"A playmate"
For a minute the younger girl did
not get the meaning Of the term. Then
she gasped and drew away from Cath.
crime.
81 don't believe you!" she said.
Catherine gazed at her in amaze.
ment.
"Are you blind?" she asked in des-
peratioa. You're only child; but
even a girl Of seventeen ought to know
something. They don't teach it to you
in business college, but it should be
part Of the female instinct-here, give
me your pencil"
Gertrude handed over her pencil.
Catherine took it and wrote some
thing in Gertrude's notebook, then
handed the book to the girl
"You can't read your own stenog-
raphy," she said. See If you can read
mine. Can you read that?"
"'Stop.'"
eyes," said Catherine. "'Stop!
That's the one word they don't teach
you. Keep it on the tip of your tongue.
You'll need it. Say, let me give you a
little tip. You're in a new world, now.
You'll meet q lot of men of the kind
you have never met before. Men who
do things and are things. Men who
don't have to wait till Saturday night
for their incomes and their holidays.
They'll hypnotic you with their force
fulness. Then they'll tell you that
you're beautiful. and your little head
will spin around at the consciousness
that little you have been noticed by
such giants. They'll rave about your
lips and your eyes and your hair till
you'll wonder why you never found
out before that you were lovely.
They'll get you drunk-not necessarily
with wine-but with hopes and prom
Uses and dreams and new sensations.
They'll have so much to offer and
you'll have so little to return. And
nobody, not even a girl. likes to be a
bad sport"
Gertrude stared at her, q spark Of
terror faring into her eyes.
Don't talk like that; you scare me. "
she whispered.
Il only wish I could. The tragedy is
that you usually can't, until it's too
late"
Gertrude looked at Catherine
sharply.
Perhaps she was envious Of the posi-
ton and wanted it for herself!
Il don't think you Judge Mr.. Scott
right. He is gentleman. He wouldn't
think Of such things; besides, he has a
wife and family and he's so rich and
important he wouldn't dare"
Catherine laughed shortly.
"Dare?" she demanded. why, he'll
dare anything! His kind will lie and
act and smile and tell you that their
wives don't understand them. They
wrote the system and can play it safe.
While they're looking into your eyes.
they're framing an alibi in their heads.
They tight and swindle one another.
these business men, and a child like
you is-well, just q child. It's the salt
in their busy lives: It's the gambling
fascination; it's the lure of the hunt.
Iney see you-they want you-they
take you-they drop you"
Il won't believe It," said Gertrude
stubbornly. Thousands of girls work,
and nothing-nothing ever happens to
them"
Yes, many thousands" agreed
Catherine. but they are the girls who
have sense and who don't run across
men nke-Scott."
Gertrude refused to be argued with
however. persisting that she could not
give up fine position that paid her sc
much more than she had expected to
get. and told Catherine how kind and
patient Mr.. Scott was, and how she
was sure that he was q fine man. Cath
crime tried to argue with her. told he,