The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-05-15

must go. You can't put me off
again!" he said. 81 will take Won
home!" He turned to call redcap
standing in solemn patience beside two
travelling bags and bristling golf pag.
Porter, take my things to the parcel
room and bring me the check"
NO." said Daphne, hastily. "I
mustn't! You mustn't! Reailyl I
mean it! Goodbye"
| She walked away so rapidly that he
could not follow her without unseemly
haste. She heard him call, sharply ::
Porter, never mind the parcel room.
! Come along to the train.'
Her success in escaping him was so
complete that she rather regretted it.
When she reached the apartment she
round Leila almost Frustrated from the
effects of her altruism and from the
fact that Bayard was in one of his
tantrums.
A special delivery letter had Just
come from Datilh's shop. It said that
MIR. Dutilh was arriving from Paris
With his winter models, and since he
would nave to pay large sum at the
customs house it was regrettably nee
essary to beg Mr.. Kip to send by re-
| turn mail check for the inclosed bill,
which was long past due.
And now the briefly Adjourned laws
of finance were reassembled Leila's
short reign was over; her extravaganza
had again found her out and demanded
| punishment. The gown she had bought,
and was asked to pay for, had been
worn shabby, danced to shreds in
Newport. But the bill was as bright
| as ever.
Bayard was so tagged with his
weeks Of encouragement that he was
| as irascible as a veteran of the govt
| whose toe has been stepped on. when
Daphne walked in he was denouncing
Leila in excellent form. lie used
Daphne as q further club.
''My poor sister sent back the gown
she bought! But you-you bought
mOre!'
Daphne realized how much this
would endear her to Leila and she
took immediate flight. She found the
Chivvises in n state OF tension. Mr..
Chivvis was not usually home before
half-paSt six. Daphne felt an omen in
the way they looked at her when they
acknowledged her entrance.
She went to her room in a state Of
fOreboding misery She had not paid
her board for several weeks. She had
not mentioned the fact to Mrs. Chivvjs,
nor Mrs. Chivvis to her, though the
nOnpayment of board bill is one of
the Self-evident truths that landladieS
usually discuss with freedom.
4 few minutes later Mrs. Chivvis
tapped on the door, her thimble max
ing a sharp claclz, She brought her
sewing with her and sewed as she
said: "NIay I sit down a moment!
Thank you'' She kept her eyes on the
seam while she talked.
"Well, Miss Kip, the war has reach
ed us also at last. My husband lost
his position today"
eyes? Oh, how horrible!" Daphne
gasped, with double sincerity.
"The Office was closed unexpectedly
| by an Involuntary petition in bankrupt
CIV. His salary was not paid last week
nor this, and-well-we don't want
to inconvenience you, but"
ST understand" said Daphne. "Tl
give you what I cam
She took her poor little wealth from
her handbag. She had paid ten OF the
fifty to the photographer as deposit.
She gave Mrs. Chivvis twenty-five dol
| lars. and promised her more.
Mrs. Chivvis was very grateful and
went down the hall, smiling a litt':z
over her seam.
Clay called that evening. He WIS
exhausted with day of tramplng me
town, looking for work. He was roo
weary to talk and he fell asleep t"1ce
during one of Mr.. Chivvis' com mem
tartes on the probable effects of the
imminent capture of Paris by tie 1r-
resistibIe Germans. The FrencA gov
eminent had already moved to Dor
deaux and But Clay had read 1t all
in dozen different newspapers. and
he passed away.
Daphne was restless. Mr.. Ch1vVls
was on her nerves. Clay was not
pretty, asleep, sitting with his Jaw
drOpped and his hands hanging down.
Mains forward, like an apes. She was
eniOving another of the woes OF Hldr-
rage without it's privileges.
The Chivvises began to yaWn, ana
Mrs. Chfvvis finally babe the started
CLAY "Good evening"" She had Deen
brought up to believe that it was IN
delicate for a woman to bid a man
Goodnight"
CLAY. left alone with Daphne at
+oronted drowsy caress, but she felt
insulted and she snapped at him:
eff YOU'RE only walking in your sleep
you'd better walk yourself out Oh mere
and go to bed"
His apology was incoherent and she
was Indignantly curt with him at the
door. She went to her room ana SAT
at the window, staring down at tne
dark swarm Of watchers before me
bulletin boards.