Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-26
Printed bD special Arrangement 1Cith
Hou0htoa MiGHn Co.
COPYRIGHT, 1919, bD LeroU Scott.

TINCLB GEORGE had told her of the
~ danger; had told her that she must
be calm and patient, and she tried so to
be. you've said that before, Harry.
But it isn't so. like you-I like you
very much, for you're nice boy. And
/ hope you are going to behave so that
may always like you. But it will
never. be anything else, Harry-never
And, now think I'd better be going"
Harry's hand shot across the little
table as she started to rise and caught
her wrist 'You cant leave yet ~ he
cried with all his hearts desperate
eagerness. 70 You've got to hear me
through Can't you see what this means
to me2 It's my last chance-you've
got TO give me my chance, Jennie
And whatever your decision may be, III
never bother you again--1 swear III
never bother you !-if only you'll lis
ten to me now"
She sank back into her chair. His
words rushed on. Jennie, listen to
: your own heart Be your own self!
know you love me-we've always loved
each other - And then he went back
and pictured their hildhood--pictured
it In detail--the experiences they had
shared---the dreams they had dreamt to-
gether. "And that night when you were
arrested, and you disappeared, loved
you!--and later when found out what
you were doing, l loved you, and l de-
termined that was going to work hard
and develop and be somebody big And
all these years I've been doing that
Jennie. I've built my whole life on
you, Jennie You are not really going
to- throw me down, Jennie-spoil your
happiness-spoil my happiness--spoil
everything that might be--you're not
going to do that, Jennie! When I'm
willing to keep on waiting, when I'm
willing to fight my way to the top for
your sake. Iisten--here' something
that I'll show you I've just been raised
from fifty to seventy five a week, and
compared to Kenneth Harrison in a
worldly sense, I'm nobody; he's got
money and he's swell to boot. But
I'H work, Jennie--I'll wait--just break
off this engagement and give me a
chance, to prove what can do ~
Jennie was, indeed, strangely moved
by the torrent of words that had rushed
up from her heart-she felt strange
ache in his behalf. But she shook her
head,
I'm sorry, Harry. But it's no use
I
like you that way ...
He returned to the charge desperately
and went over it all again. In the
midst of his plea, Uncle George, who
had given them three quarters of an
hour alone, took the third chair. When
Harry ended, Jennie again shook her
head.
Nov, let inc have my little say,
Harry. since, Jennie has given you her
answer put in Uncle George. ''And
what say, say not so much for my
ago he saw that, with his bad name, the
only way for Jennie to have a chance
was for her to cut entirely loose from
him and be somebody else. She's; done
that, and she now is certainly some
body. If you were to marry her, il
would naturally come out that She {
Black Jerrys daughter--and Black
Jerry, after all he's done, would never
stand for that happening to her.
s''I don't care whose daughter she is,
cried Harry. Its all the same to
..'we don't even need to discuss that
Harry" Jennie spoke up. ''The only
points that count are that l don't love
you, and that my mind is made up.
.'Then you really think you are going
to marry Kenneth Harrison"' he de-
manded. rsr0--.-' ~-r ."~7'
81 am. she declared.
by God. you're mott" he exploded
.'He may have money and be swell
but he's not fit"
".Shut up!" she cried as sharply as
ever in the old Pekin days. Her dark
eyes were blazing at him. "If you
change to the course of running another
man down, it'll merely show you up as
a cheap cad And won't believe it
And, what's. more, III ask Kenneth tc
marry me tomorrow"
They glared at each other. For Q
moment they sat silent, their gazes de.
dant. Then a low, pleasant voice said
Good evening, everybody"
They looked up with start. In tbs
\ narrow entrance from the roof to this
arbor stood Slim jackson. He ad'
vanced toward them, smiling.
How are you, Jennie? How're you
Uncle George? How're you, Harry|
Standing beside the table, a light grace
down upon them. "Well, well, thini
Of our ali meeting together like this
II only. Black Jerry were here, it'd bs
the regular old time crowd"
'.How did you know we were hereT
demanded Uncle George.
Accident, he answered lightly
"Was dancing by here n minute age
and thought / recognized Harry's voice
a little excited, talking about God ant
such details; SO when the dance wa!
over just peeped in"
He now addressed himself to Jennie
'I'm here with a little party, Glorit
Raymond among them