The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-03-11

sleep.
broke on a weary town. The prob
lem of debt and food and new clothes
dawned again. Everything was gray
before her.
Wisdom whispered her to take
Duane at his word and try the great
adventure. How could 1t bring hei
to worse confusion than she foune
about her nOw2 And then the morn,
ing mail arrived and brought her o
large envelope addressed In IA strange
hand. She opened IT anG took from 1,
a sheaf of photographs.
Heg fptlsr's iAaSc U dozen time,
repeated lay before her. The un
touched proofs omitted never line
never wrinkle. One of the picture.
looked straight at her. She recalled
that once she had stood back of the
photographer and her father hat
caught her eye and smiled just as the
bulb was pressed.
She made him smile like that What
would his expression be when lac
learned that she had "liStcned To rcn
SON" ceased to he his daughter, anc
become Tom Duune's--
She Shuddcrcd back from the WORD
and the thought She forgot both In
the JOY of reunion with her father
All the philosophers and wisdoms and
luNuricS were answered by the logic
OF that smile.
She lifted his pictured lips to hers
with iilial cagcrnrSS and her tears
battered ruinnuSly on the proof. She
in Cleveland had called her to Clay
Wimburn-"old Wes Kip's girl"
Suddenly she remembered Wcth.
.rcll and his messages To Leila. She
felt so rcncwedly virtuouS herself that
il seemed her duty to 90 down and re-
bukc Leila for her apparent philnn.
dcriug at Newport She was also GU.
riOuS to see how guilty Leila would
receive the news that Wethcrell had
asked for her.
But she found BayHrd at home for
luncheon and she was neither mad nor
mean enough to confuse Leila before
HIN. And this was rather for his sake
than Lcila's.
Leila was just informing Bayurd
that the butcher had delivered the
mornings order mo farther than the
freight elevator, and instructed his
boy TO send the meat up only after
the money came down.
Bayard had no money and the cha.
grin of his situation was bitter. He
Snarled ut Leila Tell the cub to take
the meat back and eat 1t himself.
Then I'll go over and butcher the
butcher"
Leila dismissed the boy with q
faint-hcarteG show Of Indignation
Then she cane back and said, "Anu
now we have no meat to eat"
Bayard was reduced TO philosophy
the las' resort OF the desperate
We, ne Vcgctarians say we ought
never to eat ment, anyway. Were
Ioor, bnt. my Lord! we're In grand
r"p'pnng. Look az this cartoon
teSHrc ( IN the Sun Father hniCke,
booker turning mis- pockets inside OF
ana not penny in them. New Yc-A
city mas to BORROW money on short
time notes at nigh interest to pay its
own current Dills
LOOK AT Europe. All the countries
over 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
mortgaging their great -grnndsons
property TO pay for shooting their
sons. .-..-. e..a .--,..
It's the old Thirteenth Command
ment that we've all been smashing
to flinders. And, my God what u
punishment we're all getting And
It's only beginning"
They sat down to a pitiful meal
meatlesS. maidlcSs, mirthless--hardly
more than the raw turnIps and cold
water of Colonel Sellers. Leila
fetched what victual there was.
After the meal Bayard shrugged
into his OYcrCOat and left without
kissing his wife or his sister goodby
Daphne and Leila went out to the
kitchen, set the dishes In the pan
and the pan under the faucet. Leila
turned on the hot water. Daphne was
glad to be at work.
There's one good thing about a
small meal" she chirpcd, "t makes
less dishes to wash" Then, with as
much trepidatiOn as If she had been
the accused instead of the accuser she