The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-04-04
CHAPTER xi-Continued.

well, I neverl' he gasped. SANE
Ill this trip Of your mothers ant
Fours and all the expenses gone TO
nothing?" was his first doleful thought
He remembered the second mortgage
ne had placed on one of his propertie.
TO get the money for the vitality impor
.ant wedding festival. And now there
was to be no wedding. The sOn-in-lav
who was to have assumed the burden
Of Daphne's bills was banished
Daphne was again her fathers own
child.
He was glad to have her back, but
he could have wished that she had not
gone away, since he paid the freight
In both directions. And now here was
himself in New York and nothing to
show for all the split milk of time,
money and emotions.
At the critical moment Daphne men
toned that the star whose understudy
she was would earn fifty thousand dol
lars that year in spite of the hard
times. 'Fifty thousand dollars" had a
musical sound to Wesley's ears. If
Daphne could earn a tenth of that he
would believe in miracles.
where were you planning to live,
honey, while you're acting? With
Bayard, suppose"
"Oh, no." said Daphne; 'we'ye ru-
med his honeymoon enough already"
"Who with, them"
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Good Lord you couldn't do that
very well-a young girl like you"
''Why not?" she said.
He turned pale. This was like being
asked why babies were found under
cabbage leaves. He was an old-fash-
Toned father, and he had never been
able to rise to the new school of dis
cussing vitality important topics with
the children vitality interested.
why, why" he stammered. "why, |
because nobody does it, honey. Nice
girls don't live alone"
Daphne studied him with tender |
amusement. He was so innocent In
his way, in spite of all he must know.
She understood what he was thinking
of. She was sophisticated in the man
Ger of the nice girl of her time and
she liked to treat submerged themes
with clean candor. She thought that
prudery was form of slavery.
''If you've just got to stay in New
York and just got to work your mother
could stay with you, suppose"
"But what becomes of you and your
homer
"Oh. I'll get along somehow. I don't
matter"
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 you
and make myself useful instead of
Thousands of women live /;
ne-professional women, art stu I
dents, music students, college girls, ;
women, besides the I
women in shops and factories. It's ,
coming more and more"
But you're not brought up to a
trade" i
II wish / had BEEN" tx
well, that's a new complaint, any I,
way, but well - of course you
wouldn't do anything wrong; but If G
you lived alone you'd be misjudged,
ind men would keep throwing tempta- a
Ion In your way" 1T
Il had plenty Of that when / was r
living at home"
"Daphne!" He cried out in pain at '
he very thought. g
She went on, educating him with
vengeance: "Plenty Of temptation and t
'lenty Of opportunity. daddy. 1t wasn't r
vour fault. You gave me all the pro- q
ection that anybody could, daddy. c
3ut you can't protect people all the
ime. And it was when you trusted
ne most that you protected me most 8
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