Mountain advocate., 1919-12-05

beautiful brown. For two hours Diane
sat with burning cheeks and listened
to as thorough a scarifying Of Senator
Brendon as the vocabularies Of the
five Infatuated women who addressed
she assembly could produce. For Sen.
ator Brendon had been indlscreet
enough TO express publicly his real
reason that he had hitherto cnmou.
tagged under pretended reverence for
states rights. lie did not believe, II
appeared ut last, that women had suf.
ficlent intelligence!
Mrs. Barding-Scott made no com.
ment on the way home, but Diana
was too furious at her finances slut
upon her sex to notice Il. Mrs. Bard
ing-Scott dropped Diana at her home
with a grim Think II over, chpd,
what you heard this afternoon" And
Dana did. She STAYED of her moth
er's eager questlonlngs about the aft
crnoon by pleading headache. She
would tell about 1t In the morning
and couldn't she please be excused
from dinner?
But long before Mrs. Wilson's hour
for arising, a wrath of Diana, pale
as her namesake, let herself out Of
the house unobserved, mailed n let
ter to the senator at the corner boy
and then, for the first time In her life
boarded q public conveyance unac-
companled and walked Into the can
teen two hours before her regular
shift. Help was short. Diana
hustled into her apron.
1.-Two; sunnyside up. please" The
order came from red-haired youth
In 0. ID. The voice was familiar.
Diana glanced up and smiled. The
young lieutenant to whom it belonged
was frequent visitor ut the canteen.
They had gotten to be very good
friends, indeed.
These stars stand for intervening
hours Of that day, during which the
best laid plans of Mrs. ]. Henshaw
Wilson "ganged" very much aglee In
deed.
Diana was taken on the rebound.
Lieutenant Granger, a STRIPPING NJ. H.,
knew nothing Of Mrs. Henshaw or her
plans. He pleaded well his cause.
At eleven o'clock Mrs. Wilson dis
covered her daughters absence and
phoned the canteen. A voice In
fo,,nad hos ,hot Afi.. NxrtIao,, ho,l iaft
haif an hour before. Was some one
bringing her homer Mrs. Wilson In.
qulred. for that lady had ascer
tanned that no car had been ordered
out of the family garage that morn
Ing.
"Why, l don't know, I'm sure" an.
swered the voice. "Miss Wilson went
out accompanied by Lieutenant Gran.
ger"
Worried by Dianas unwOnted as
sumption OF independence, Mrs. vii.
son waited--and waited. Diana vii.
son never returned, but at five O'Clock
In the afternoon yClng woman who
much resembled the one who had
stolen out of the Wilson house In the
morning returned. very much pinker
of cheek than her NEUROLOGICAL name
sake.
And the only consolation Mrs. J.
Henshaw Wilson has been able tc
salvage out of the wreck Is the ameil.
Grating fact that Mrs. Bardlng-Scot'
takes proprietary interest In Mrs.
Laurence Granger. For when Diana
told her mother the overwhelming
news of her sudden marriage to
man who was to sail overseas that
very night. and whom Mrs. Wilson
had never seen or even heard of, Il
was not In the mothers power to
take the retaliatory measure employed
additionally by irate parents since
the world began and cast the dlsobed.
lent daughter out into the cold, cold
world. Because. you see. ]. Henshaw,
before he died. had had the wise
presclence TO leave the greater part OF
his plethOric fortune to Diana.
Doctor Granger is back now, and
Mrs. J. Henshaw is living alone on
liberal income and the thoughts Of
what might have been.