The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1919-03-21
CHAPTER discontinued.


Mr.. Gassett smiled. @Not old Wes-
ley Kip's girlT
81 believe did hear Miss Kip call
her father Wesley"
swell, I'd like to help Yves out. I
suppose l might take chance. Do
you think you can pay for the ring In
ninety daysT
''Easilyp
Wlmburn would have promised to
tear down the world and rebuild it in
ninety days.
II shall have to add a little to the
price for the risk and the accommoda-
hon."
Anything you like said Clay mag
Efficiently.
"Call 1t two hundred dollars"
sCertainlyi" One could hardly
Maggie over an engagement ring.
"Tll ask you to sign a little docu-
ment."
"With pleasure"
He would have signed an agreement
10 surrender a pound Of his flesh.
Clay hurried out to find Daphne and
fasten on her the glittering give.
He might have taken further alarm
from the immense and greedy rapture
Daphne revealed at the sight Of the
petrified dewdrop set In the golden
eirclet. Women are all misers when
& comes to diamonds.
Wimburn noted only the Joy the
oauble gave to Daphne, and the pretty
submissiveness with which she poked
out her slender finger and slid 1t into
the fetter. he felt that the kiss of
Alliance was worth years of hard labor.
1t was hard and bitter to rend their
eemented hearts In twain, but he had
to 20 at last. She floated him to the
station in the little car and waved him
through the iron paling. She was I'M
imaginably precious and pitiful as she
stood there, and he wanted to blubber
when the vestibule was slammed shut
and the train slid out of the station
like q merciless snake.
He vowed that he would work with
the strength of ten and pile up a for
tune In the bank for her. But first
he must pile up enough to pay for that
solitaire.
.
Clay wrote Daphne a fat letter ev-
cry day. He usually sneaked 1t In
among his business correspondence
and took great pains that 1t should
never miss the Lake Shore limited al
five-thirty In the afternoon. A spe
clal-delivery stamp put the letter In
Daphne's hands evnry next forenoon
But after the letter had gone ht
usually remembered that he had omit
ted to include some message Of fright
fully important urgence. SO he had
to send her every .hight night letter
and frequently Of mornings he mus
fire OF day letter. These cost onl!
sixty cents apiece, but often he hat
10 send them IN double or triple
length.
For occasions where time was We
more uncomfortable there was the tele
ohone-a pittanee of three dollars ant
twenty-five cents for the first thre'
minutes, and dollar and five cent
for each additional minute or Fraction
thereof would bring his lips to Daph
mes ear.
From the little rubber mouth Of tn
receiver her voice came to him q
from distant star by interplanetar.
communication. The sense Of remote
cess was unbearable. She seemed :
he dead and wailing across eternity
Clay wimburn was In complete dis
tress. His health wavered and his OF
fice work suffered tillit won rebuke
and threats from his chiefs and CON
ment even from Bayard Kip. VIII
never suspected and was never told Q
wimburn's infatuation for his sistel
With lovers logic Wimburn pei
suaded himself that the only one VIII
could save him from destruction wa
Daphne. With her married and al
and ensconced In q little nest In Ne
York, he could take up his office tasl'
with a whole heart. SO he began
write. and to telegraph. and to groa
across the living wire wilder an
wilder cries for help.
Daphne wept back and repaid n
longings IN kind and suffered hear
rending ecstasies Of yearning. An
6eally she promised franticaIly
marry him without further delay.
With desire to economlze In pa
she broke the double news to her ~
parents at the same time. telling the
both that she was engaged and IN
abe was about to wed
They were stunned. They had new
experienced q suspicion Of the acu
state Of Daphne's heart affairs II
really astounding how blind paren
are 70 their children's activities al
Acw much can 70 % under their nos
without catching their heavy eyes.
Daphne sskls broubeat her fath
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