The sun., 1919-04-27
STEPDAUGHTER IN
BRIAN HOME AGAIN
florence Pope, IA, Had $500
Besides 500 She WOrmed
From Donald.
VISITED MANY STATES
Outwtted Cops, but Motherly
Womh in st. Louis Brought
Forth Tears.

When Frence Pope the 14-year- old
daughter o Mrs. Donald Brian, LEFT
Great Neck ,ociety nat six weeks age.
she proved herself no unforehanded
Dona ouixot. She rode no meager
Rosinante. II. girl companion in night
errantry turne, out to be a faint hearted
sanchette Pana and came home after
single night b the road to romance
but not go Dong Florence.
She's just bac. And while she was
away, 1t now turA out, instead OF hsv-
Ing to prick the Uniting sides of Rosi-
mantle and panhanse innkeepers for her
meals. she rode Wiker Illness fiossiest
puilmans and pail her reckoning at
every turn. Well Sc might, for. while
per 1t, Florence ha, $500 so perfectly
good that the only omance about the
money was the way florence rot It and
the way she spent it,
She had beautiful. long presumably
tight. and undoubtedly fashionable
grown up skirts Blu the powers OF
darkness in the person Of two low de-
tectives in the employ { F1orence's un-
romantic mother. boardd the train she
was riding through Sracuse. They
looked at her, compare her appear
ance with the descriptit sent out by
the New York police an asked her IL
she was Florence Pope. he young lady
drew herself UP as migf the leading
lady who plays opposit her distin-
guished dancing stepfather at the point
where she begins to doubt n the second
act. smoothed her hair so tat the we'd
ding ring showed and read this line:
Sir. how dare you? ! IN a married
husband in Chicago"
As they might say in inartitic places
like the Lambs Club. 1T wasa knock
out" There was business of ne detec-
tive fumblng with his hat, IA ing over
his own and his partners feet and re-
firing out Of the car. as the scrit has II,
registering confusion"
Eona Florence, still in the ohracter,
admitted after she got back tat she
| didn't know just where she wa going
when she left the home where 10 one
understood her. but that incident IN the
train gave her an idea--and she came
home from st. Louis.
Her path was strewn with torres
a., bought out of the most expensive per-
fumes. with wlthered orchids and aan-
doned boxes of dollar a pound Tort
| candy. with walters staggering btore
dollar tips for luncheons consisting
wholly OF French pastry and. accor Ing
! to Florence. with crowds of people yon-
| dering where that young girl. so bau-
tiful and 80 sad, was going all alon. in
| her glory.
AT any rate, when she reached Il
| Louis things were not going no we'll =
usual One of those motherly deceit
persons who never have any eXcltemet
| in their own lives but who have nN
6anQhtara - batr
| trate Florence's cool reserve when sh
encountered her in hotel lobby one da,
and Florence, moved by kindness, n
doubt. broke down and cried. Where
upon the kindly person took her to he,
own home and after four or Ave days o
minist-ation she got from Florence III,
fact that she was not an abandone,
widow of dark and distinguished Soutl
American millionaire, but only littl,
Florence Pope.
And Florence Is now home Whethe
her reunion with her mother savore,
more of the woodshed or more of tn,
rated calf could not be learned las
night, for both were In seclusion
But the romance of how Florence go
the Four Hundred! Well. Florenc
lu1uriates in two fathers One, Charlie
h. Pope. who lives at the Carlton Man
sions, is her real father, the forme
husband of Mrs. Bryan and periodical
contributes to Florence's support Flor
ence applied direct method to one O
his checks for 5000. But there was llttl
art in that.
Her real triumph was with her dane
ing Stcp-father, or her dancing te
father. Donald Brian. She got" hin
al his own game-drama. She got hin
with wonderful recitation of no,
lonely and how poor little girl she wa.
and OF how every one misunderstood
hef. she wept upon the perfectly
tailored Brian shoulder. and then sh
wept some more
So the kind Brian heart was move,
and taking from his pocket one Of IN
most powerful levers ever devised b.
man. crisp hundred dollar bill. h
pried the weeping Florence from ne
sartor!al pillow. saved the coat. mad
Florence dry her eyes and set her OF
her great adventure.
And all the time Florence was rails
ing the hundred she had the thre
hundred safely tucked away. And Their
was poet who once wrote somethini
about tears, idle tears" At any rate
as soon as step Father Brian comes I,
on the. road it is believed he Will sa,
TO himself:
"Well, II she can work like that
guess III retire