The Monticellonian., 1919-05-16
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! H#eI liIta ift Tor IilE lulN-s AH AtHA said DaHhnes nerves he'd hean dreewurEtd She had beca rushed from adventure to adventure Of soul and body She had been invited to #eHtar q carecr CT gorgeous sin. and ~He Lad been swept along tHe edge Gt feacfu disaster
 Mrs Ghivvis met Daphne at the daof Her recent affection had turned #a=ata #to se08. and she elnWeret at BophHe, who crapt to her room in H6prfess acceptance of the role of ad- Neuuress.
 Tired as sAe was she could not sleep. The clangor eff the morning called her 10 the window. X gray dax broke on weary town. The prob lem of debt and food and neW clothes dawHea again Everything was gray before her.
 Wisdom whispered her to take Duane at his word and try the great adventure How could il bring her to worse confusion than she found about her now. And then the morn ing mail arrived and brought her q large envelope addressed in q strange hand She opened il and took from it sheaf of photographs.
 Her fathers image dozen times repeated lay before her. The un- touched proofs omitted never line never wrinkle. one of the pictures looked straight at her. She recalled that once she had stood back of the photographer and her father had caught her eye and smiled just as the bulb was pressed.
 She Hade him smile like that What would his expression be when he learned that she had "listened to req son" ceased te be his daughter. and become Tom Duane's-
 She shuddered back from the word and the thought. She forgot both in the joy of reunion with her father All the philosophies and visions and luxurles were answered by the logic of that smile.
 She lifted his pictured lips 10 hers with filiul eagerness and her tears battered ruinously on the proof She WIS satisfied 10 he what the jeweler in Cleveland had called her to Clay Nimburn["old Wes Kip's girl"
 Suddenly she remembered Weth- erell and his messages To Leila. She felt so renewedly yirtuous herself that 1t seemed her duty to go down and re buke Leila for her apparent philan- dering at Newport. She was also eu- rious to see how guilty Leila would receive the news that Wetherell had asked for her.
 But she found BaYard at home for luncheon and she WIS neither mad nor mean enough to confuse Lel9 before him. And this was rather for his sake than Leila,s.
 Leila was just informing Bayard that the butcher had delivered the mornings order no farther than the freight elevator, and instructed his hoy te send the meat up only after Che money came down.
 Bayard had no money and the cha grin of his situation was bitter. He SAarled at Leila: "Teli the cub to take the meat buck and eat it himself. Then I'll go over and butcher the butcher.
 Leila dismissed the boy with a faint-hearted show of indignation. Then she came back and said And now Me have no meat To eat"
 Bayard was reduced to philosophy, the last resort of the desperate: Well. the vegetariauS Say we ought nevec ta eat= meat. anyway We're poor but my Lord were in grand company Look at this cartoon of GeSareas in the Sun-Father Knicl1er- booker turning his pockets inside out and not a penny in them. New York ciry has to borrow money on short time notes at high interest to pay it's own current bills.
 Lock at Europe. All the countries ovor there were stumbling along un- der such debt that they wondered how they could meet the interest on the next pay day. And now they are morfgaging their great=granasens' property to pay for shooting their sens.
 "It's the old Thirteenth Command ment that we've all been smashing