The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-05-01
CHAPTER XII-continued.

Satan or Raphael had whispered to
her an invitation to revisit the scene
of her late humiliation with Clay. With
Duane's magic purse there would be
mn danger of a snub from the walters
with his own car there would be no
risk Of footing it home.
Then an imp of mischief spoke fol
tsr and said, "All right"
Duane told the chauffeur and the
car shot like a javelin from the lighted
street into the deep forest-night of
Central park.
What would Clay say? But, after
al, he had failed her in crisis. Per
b.ps he had turned his heart else
where. Men were impatient, vindic-
tive, tickle.
When ClaremOnt was reached and
Duane handed Miss Kip out he noted
that her hand was hotter than his own
and a little quick to escape, her face
was flushed and her lips parted as If
with excitement. He assumed that
the speed of the ride and the tang of
adventure were to blaMe.
While the walters were serving the
supper and while he was attacking it
with the frank appetite Of honest hun
ger she recounted the evenings dis
aster as calmly as If it were the story
Of somebody else. In fact, she was
standing off and regarding herself with
the eyes of an alien. We change so
fast that the persons we we're yester-
day are already strangers, and their
acts the acts of distant relatives. Her
calm was really the numbneSS OF
shock. The anguish would come to-
morrow.
II can't understand myself at all, -
Daphne said. 81 went through every
one of the motions, but I couldn't
reach the audience once. was like a
singer with a bad cold singing in a
foreign language-yOu don't know what
the song is all about, but you know
that it never quite gets on the key.
'You mustn't be discouraged"
"Oh, yes, l must! I couldn't be an
actress in a thousand years. Mr.. Bat
tersOn told me so himself
Duane felt the truth of this, but it
hurt him to have her feel it: 1t Of
Tended his chivalry to realize how i'm
polite fate could be to so pretty a girl.
He hated to see her reduced to the
necessity Of proving how plucky she
could be. He tried to find an escape
for her. He said:
you're far too good for the stage"
u don't believe that for minute
she protested. "But I've got to find
something can do"
May help you to decideY
IF you only would But I'm getting
TO be nuisance"
You are a-a-to me you are a.
well, you're not nuisance"
He dared not tell her what she was,
especially as the waiter had set the
Oil at his elbow and was standing on
IN an attitude of ill-concealed impa-
uence for the tip, which he knew
would be large. Mr.. Duane always
gave the normal ten per cent and a
Olt extra. He tipped wisely but not
Wo we'll, knowing that an extravagant
up wins a walters contempt almost
more than none at all. The he waiter
'o'Fly cOOed Good night" and almost
gave them a blessing.
The starter had Mr.. Duane's car
Whiting for him at the curb and 1fteo
Ills nat with one hand as he smuggleo
quarter away with the other. he
stepped in to lay the linen laproDe
over their knees with reverence, closed
ule door exquisitely and murmured'
Good night!'
Ahe car was an aristocrat; it float
Gu from the culb with a swanlik6
sweep,
Daphne thought of Clay and herself
ploudlne homeward. She seemed to
See them or their wraiths staggering
OSaSconsolately along. She felt very
aOffy for them. Here was chance to
s"Ve one of them-both of them, In
49, 1or in taking her financial bur-
ho n from Clay's shoulders she would
t"lce Strengthening him. If she
we're nsre to accept Duane as her husband
on en ner problems would be solved
clay would be free of her.
ha ~ De Mrs. Tom Duane; to step into
ana v society of society; to lift her father
mother from q position Of meek