The Dolores star., 1919-07-18
CHAPTER XI-Continued.

"Weu, l never!' he gasped. And
I'll this trip of your mothers and
rours and all the expenses gone for
,othing?" was his first doleful thought.
ae remembered the second mortgage
se had placed on one of his properties
q get the money for the vitally impOr-
ant wedding festival. And now there
Ras to DE no wedding. The son-in-law
Elo was to have assumed the burden
If Daphne's bills was banished.
Daphne was again her fathers own
.hlld.
He was glad to have her back, but
lie could have wished that she had not
gone away, since he paid the freight
both directions. And now here was
almself in New York and nothing to
IhOw for all tn. split milk of time
GOney and emotions.
At the critical moment Daphne men
honed that the star whose understudy
she was would earn fifty thousand dol
.lars that year in spite of the hard
lines. "Fifty thousand dollars" had u
huSica! sound to Wesley's ears. II
Daphne could earn tenth of that he
Sould believe in miracles.
"Where were you planning to live,
soney, while you're acting? With
Bayard I suppose"
"Oh. no." said Daphne; we've ru-
ned his honeymoon enough already"
"Who with, then?"
"Oh, by myself. I suppose
"Good Lord! you couldn't do that
rery well-a young girl like you"
"Why not?" she said.
He turned pale. This was like being
.abbage leaves. He was an old-fash-
Dned father. and he had never been
ible to rise to the new school of dis
.ussing vitality important topics with
he children vitally interested.
"Why, why" he stammered, "why,
BECAUSE nobody does 1t, honey. Nice
girls don't live alone"
Daphne studied him with tender
amusement. He was so innocent In
ais way. in spite of all he must know.
She understood what he was thinking
If. She was sophisticated in the man
,er of the nice girl of her time and
she liked to treat submerged themes
With clean candor. She thought that
,rudery was q form of slavery.
''If you've just got to stay in New
FORK and just got to work your mother
:ould stay with you, I suppose"
"But what becomes of you and your
aomer"
"Oh I'll get along somehow. / don'i
uatter."
This broke her heart. She cried out
But you do matter, daddy; you mat
Ter terribly. Can't you understand
daddy. that I'm trying to relieve yOr
and make myself useful instead of 6
parasite? Thousands of women live
ilone-professional women, art stu
tents, music students, college girls
aormal-school women, besides tht
women in shops and factories. It.:
oming more and more"
"But you're not brought up to {
rade."
81 wish had been.''
"Well. that's new complaint, any
way. but well - of course yo,
wouldn't do anything wrong; but +
you lived alone you'd be misjudged
and men would keep throwing tempta
ton in your way"
II had plenty of that when I wa
living at home"
"Daphne!" He cried out in pain q
the very thought.
She went on. educating him with /,
vengeance: "Plenty of temptation ant
plenty Of opportunity, daddy. 1t wasn'
your fault. You gave me all the pro
lection that anybody could, daddy
But you can't protect people all tn
time. And 1t was when you truste,
me most that you protected me mosl
People are just beginning to realiz
that even in penitentiarics the highe
the walls and the stricter the guard
me more prisoners try to escape
They're sending convicts out to worl
IN roads now with no guards at all
AoA ths5 d their work and com