South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-18
Sbug for a Day
By James Osborn

Clarice Wardham and Nancy
Smith had gone through high school
together and their friendship was of
the sort that could not be altered.
even when Nancy went TO business
school and later took a stenograph-
er's position in a business office. and
Clarice, through her fathers ac-
CURED fortune. became one Of the
most sought after young women in
what chose 10 be called, and was
called Society. with a capital S.
Clarice did not give Nancy her old
dresses, nor did she try 10 persuade
her to attend the parties she gave.
TO which only folk with very much
more money to spend than Nancy
had were invited. When she asked
Nancy 10 her house il was either TO
enjoy her alone or with a few of the
old friends with whom Nancy could
be most at her ease Thus Nancy
was never made conscious of the fact
that fortune had dealt less kindly
with her than it had with Clarice, if
indeed it really had.
When Clarice first met Robert
Harrow and somehow unwittingly
charmed and then captivated that
inveterate man Of business. she did
not tell him that Nancy Smith, his
private secretary, was one of her
best friends 1t was not in the least
because she was ashamed of her as
ISOLATION, but because she liked the
idea of having a means OF seeing
Mr.. Harrow from another angle than
that OF society and country club act
ivities without his knowing il.
CIarice. truth to say was drawn TO
Harrow almost as soon as he'was TO
her, for there was something about
this rather rought. strange mixture
OF a man that charmed women quite
as much as If he had been most
courteous and cOurtly. Sometimes
he seemed to broadest Of men in his
large grasp of events that Clarice
discussed with him, and sometimes
the narrowest in his point OF view,
that seemed 10 see only his own
business interests. Sometimes he
seemed the most generous and un-
selfish. and then the least generous
II
Clarice was 10 this much discussed
and almost eccentric young man.
she planned to surrender. if she sur
render at all. with deliberation She
had planned not 10 lose a single trick
in the love game she was about TO
play with this man, who had be-
come accustomed 10 having things
generally his own way in the other
games OF life
IL has been said that a mans
stenographer has an opportunity 10
know him evsn better than his own
wife. for she sees him more hours
Of the day usually. and, can study
him without personal prejudice Of
any sort. Nancy Smith surely knew
Robert Harrow better than he knew
himself. and il was perhaps not
strange that she suspected he was
In love before he was willing 10 ad-
nit that fact himself. much less to
Clarice. She had heard from Clarice
Of the friendship that had sprung
up between her and Mr. Harrow.
and with infinite care sounded her
regarding him and so found out how
the ground lay.
once Clarice. with an attempt at
seeming casual. asked Nancy what
sort OF a husband she thought Mr.
Harrow would make
Il could be his stenographer all
my life and enjoy it" explained
Nency but l could never endure
him as a husband. But with a girl
like you. it would De different. You
would collapse after a day in his Of
fee. but with all the little feminine
witcheries 10 fall back on you. or
a girl like you. I should say. might
find him a perfect husband
One thing Mr.. Harrow's wife
would have 10 remember. though. %
added Nancy. and that is that she