The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-01-21

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department store and paid for their
own meal. II made a difference.
Even the bargain prices for food to-
tailed up unpleasantly, and Mrs. Kip
missed Clay's shining presence.
The chaos Of the styles was so COM
plete that the two women decided to
retire and study out their campaign
on the war maps. They began to
make out lists and tally up prices. The
afternoon went by. and they had &C
complished little except an itemized
despair.
ats awful. that's what It is; It's
simply awful" Mrs. Kip walled. "It
costs fortune to get nothing at ALL"
II guess I'll 60 home and be an old
maid" said Daphne. "Dad's money
wouldn't buy me enough to get mar
ried In sandusky."
But when Clay arrived to take them
out to dinner he brought romance with
him. He had had good day Mt the
office. There had been furry of hope
10 Wall street, and everybody said
that the business world had reached
the rock bottom of depression and
started up again.
He celebrated the new era with
J twelve-dollar dinner at the Plaza and
another theater, and after that he
made Mrs. Kip accompany them to
roof garden, where Daphne and he
danced with other laity in the inter-
walls between professional dances on
the floor and vaudeville turns on the
stage.
The next day there was another
foray on the shops and the dressmak-
ers, with battling result. The list of
necessaries with their minimum prices
began to grow so Gong and ominous
that they decided to give up keeping a
list. They would buy what just had
to be got, as cheaply as they could.
and IL they overran their appropria-
ton papa would simply have to help
them out.
The wedding date had yet to be
fixed and the invitations ordered, with
their royal phraseology In the latest
formula.
They placed the day late enough for
Bayard and his wife to get back from
Europe. Bayard had not written. Of
! course, since his marriage, except a
brief note from the steamer the day
he landed. But he had set six weeks
as the limit of his absence.
One evening Clay announced that he
had reserved three seats for a new
comedy that had opened with success
a few nights before. Mrs. Kip begged
to be excused from going.
Clay urged her to reconsider her re-
fusal. "Sure you won't go? You ought
at least to see the star. Sheila Kemble.
Some people say she looks little like
Daphne. OF course she doesn't; she's
not a tenth as beautiful or young or
attractive, but there is a kind of a
resemblance. And they say she gets a
thousand dollars a week. Daphne
could give her cards and spades and
beat her. Sure you won't go?"
II wouldn't put my poor feet into
those tight slippers tonight to see
Daphne herself play Lady Macbeth"
SO Clay and Daphne went alone.
After the last act he proposed Clare
mont for supper Daphne accepted
with zest. They entered an open taxi
cab and scudded up the long bias seam
of Broadway to Seventy-second street
and whisked across to Riverside drive
and up its meandering splend0r.
'Thls Is too beautiful to go through
so fast" Daphne cried. Its wonder
full. We ought to'walk. Promise me
we can walk home. It's such a gor-
geous night"
You're crazy. darling" he said.
'Pve got to get to my Office tomorrow,
and you've got to get home for break
fast"
IAN right for YOU" she pouted. But
II was none too serious q tragedy, and
her spirits revived when the taxicab
turned In through the shrubs about the
old inn that had once been the home
of Napoleon's brother and had heard
the laughter of Theodosla Burr and of
Betty Jumel In their primes.
Daphne did not like the table the
head waiter led thYn to. It missed
both the breeze and the view.
Cant we sit over thereG" she said.
an see."
The head waiter came reluctantly to
his beck. When Clay asked for the
table, the answer was curt:
Sorry, sir; 1t is reserved"
Clay felt insulted. He whipped out
his pocketbook and rebuked the tyrant
with bill. He thought 1t was one
dollar bill but he saw 'V" on 1t just
as the swift and subtle head waiter
absorbed it without seeming to-. To
ask for 1t back or for change was one
Of the most impossible things in the
world.
Clay made 1t as easy for his new
Save as he could.
y dont think you understood which
table moeaiE" he said. pstntiAE to the
oae be had Indicated before. .'Ehat
! ole" $3.50 =