Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-25

Jennie Malone is the daughter of
Black Jerry Malone, who conducts n
cafe in New York Jennie has never
seen anything but the dark side of
life. 'Slim" jackson and she have
been friends since childhood Their
last escapade was to forge check,
for which Jennie is arrested Taking
the blame upon herself to screen
Slim, she is given n preliminary hear
ing, remanded for a further trial, but
allowed her liberty on bail The next
mo ming Jennie has disappeared,
skipped her bail Uncle George,
posing as her guardian. takes her to
a first class boarding school, where
she is introduced as Jennie Miller, to
become acquainted with the manner
isms of future society girls and
boarding school life. Uncle George
takes his leave of Jennie and the maid
conducts her to her room. At the
dinner table later she is subjected to
some i'll bred quizzing on the part of
Gloria Raymond, but makes friends
with Sue Harrison, her roommate.
~ think Gloria Raymond was per-
fectly horrid tonight Sue says.
AND HERE II CONTINUES.
stT GUESS l lost my temper, too, "
L Jennie responded dscrcctly.
"You treated her perfectly right
though none of the rest OF us dare talk
that way to her. guess She has more
money than a"r other girl hcrc-and
she does about as she plcaScs with her
aunt-and she's been to Il lot of parties
and she's got a lot of bcauX--so she
thinks she's just about all right and
Just a little bit better than any of the
rest OF us. But ! wouldn't mind the
way she behaves if | were YOU.
"Im not going to" said jennie.
"She's fairly decent to me, because
my brother is one of the fellows she's
sweet on.
as your brother in school, too%'
"No. Kenneth graduated from col
Iege years and years ago. Three years,
] think it was. But l hope lac docsn't t
let anything--you undorstand-Scrious
grow up between him and Gloria. for
I'd hate to have Gloria in the family. -
With her pleasant. friendly smile
JENNIE TOOUllltl' 'hulENN INV NN'
ject. Il wish I'd lived ont West.
suppose you shoot well and ride like
everything. You know the school has
a stable and most Of the girls here ride
almost every day. I'm sure YOU can
show them what real riding is.
Jennie saw danger before hcr. 81
was always afraid of guns, she said,
''and my uncle got hurt riding when
/ was little girl AID would never Jet
me get on horse. So ! really can't
do anything that western girls are sup
posed 10 do"
81 wish you'd tell me about yourself
if you don t mind. said the other.
The girl was interested and eager.
And so Jennie, inveutiug carefully where
Uncle George had not supplied her with
data, told of the rough Wyoming life
of that recently created orphan. Jennie
Miller. Subconsciously She FOLLOWED
Uncle Georges advice to "underplay
herself; or perhaps she was rather act
ing from the dictates of her own in
stincts. Size was seemingly shy. mod
est and very open. She confessed that
she knew nothing either about books OF
how to behave among people, and shr
confessed. with every appearance o
simple frankness, how it was that sh,
had come here. with only 4 few rougl
items of clothing. Her watchful eyc'
ooted that her unknown roommate wa,
warmly sympathetic.