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CHAPTER lli.-Continued.

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"Oh," she said, mothers write
two or three books, and lots of maya
zine articles, about women-women'
rights and suffrage, and all that
She's been-well, sort of leader eve
since she graduated from college
back Unjust think !-1870, when mos
girls used to have accomplishment
French, music, and washing extra,
you know"
She said it all with a quite adora
BILE seriousness, and his gravity match
ed hers when he replied: 81 would
like to meet her very much. Femin
ism's subject I'm blankly ignorant
about"
81 don't believe" she said thought.
fully, shat I'd call it feminism in
talking to mother about It, if 1 were
you. Mothers suffragist, butt
there came another wave of faint
color along with her smile-"but -
well, she's awfuliy respectable, you
know"
She didn't seem to mind his laugh
ing out at that, though she didn't
Join him.
'What about the other interesting
member of the family" he asked
presently, "your sister? Which is she,
suffragist or a feminist?"
81 suppose" she said, you'd call
Portia a feminist. Anyway, she
hasn't time to talk about it much. You
GOO cba'c bucinocc ,x,opap Cha,c n
house decorator. She tells you what
kind of furniture to buy, and then
sells it to you. Portals terribly clever
and awfully Independent"
"All right" he said. "That brings
US down to you. What are your"
She sighed. "I'm sort of a black
sheep, guess. I'm just in the univer-
sity. But I'm to be a lawyer"
Whereupon he cried out so explo-
sfvely that she fairly jumped. Then he
apologized and said the notion of her
In court trying case-he was law
yer himself-Seemed rather startling. |
She sighed again. "And now I |
she said, you'll advise me
not to be-"
'Not a Bit" he said. "It's the fin
est profession in the world"
But he said it off the top OF his
mind. Down below, it was still en-
gagged with the picture of her in a :
1ismal courtroom, blazing up at a
Jury the way she had blazed up at
hat conductor.
81 suppose" she hazarded, shat it's
lwfully dull and tiresome, though,
Until you get way up to the top"
That reused him. "It's awfully dull
vhen you do get to the top, or what's
allied the top-being a client care
aker with the routine law business
f a few big corporations and rich
states going through your office like
rist through a mill. That's supposed
D be the big reward, of course"
He was out of his chair now, tramp
lg up and down the room. "The thing
D bear in mind, If you're going to
-avel that road, is that q case is
'orth while in precise and unaltera-
lie ratio to the amount of money in
olved in 1t. If you question that
xiom at all seriously, you're lost.
hats what happened to me-"
He pulled up with jerk, looked at
er and laughed. eff my sister FIRE.
erica were here" he explained. "she !
r you to ask me II I'd been to see
aude Adams or something like that" !,
She smiled in a sort Of cOntented II
nusement. Then the smile trans :
uted itself into look Of thoughtful II
avity, and there was a long silence Ia
1ich, though it puzzled him, he made \
move to break.
At last she pulled in long breath,
rned straight to him, and said: 81
sh you'd tell me what happened
you"
And, under the compelling sincerity
her, for the next two hours and a ,
II, or thereabouts, he did-told 1t {.
he had never told 1t before.
he told her how he had started at
, foot Of the ladder In one Of the ,
! successful firms of what he called
lent caretakers." He told of his ,.
covery of a real legal problem and
the passionate enthusiasm with
ich he had attacked it, the thrill m,
weeks Of labor he had put upon it. the
md then he told her how the head tha
the firm, an old friend Of his IA the
RS, had called him in and said the !
TX he had done was very remark boz
e. but, unfortunately, not profitable her
he firm, the whole amount involved of
the case having been some twenty the
ars. In other words, he was fired. mo-
lie told her how he'd got In with scIt
altruistic bunch - the City Homes dri'
,<dation And from the way he car