Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-05-09

her into and for the things he had
said. Daphne's + had been
overworked. She had been rushed
from adventure to adventure of soul
and body. She had been invited to
enter a career of gorgeous sin. and
she had been swept along the edge OF
a fearful disaster.
Mrs. Chivvis met Daphne at the
door. Her recent affection had turned
again to scorn, and she glowered at
Daphne, who crept to her oom in
hopeless acceptance of the role of adj
ventures.
Tired as she was she could not
sleep. The clangor Of the morning
called her to the window. A gray day
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 her
to worse confusion than she found
about her now? And then the morn
ing mail arrived and brought her q
large envelope addressed in a strange
hand. She opened it and took from 1t
a sheaf Of photographs.
Her fathers image a dozen times
repeated lay before her. The IN
touched proofs omitted never a line,
never a wrinkle. One of the pictures
lJnoI101 o4,msoh%Z n how Che r00o71n6
that once she had stood back of the
photographer and her father had
caught her eye and smiled just as the
bulb was pressed.
She made him smile like that. What
would his expression be when he
learned that she had "listened to rea-
son." ceased to be his daughter, and
become Tom Duane's-
She ~shuddered back from the word
and the thought. She forgot both in
the joy of reunion with her father.
All the philosophers and VISIONS and
Injuries were answered by the logic
of that smile.
She lifted his pictured lips to hers
with flial eagerness and her tears
battered ruinously on the proof. She
was satisfied to be what the jeWeler
in Cleveland had called her to Clay
Wimburn-"old Yves Kip's girl"
Suddenly she remembered Weth-
erell and his messages to Leila. She
felt so renewedly virtuOus herself that
it seemed her duty to go down and re-
buke Leila for her apparent philan-
dering at Newport. She was also GU
rious to see how guilty Leila would
receive the news that Wetherell had
asked for her.
But she found Bayard at home for
luncheon and she was neither mad nor
mean enough to confuse Leila before
him. And this was rather for his sake
than Leila's.
Leila was just informing Bayard
that the butcher had delivered the
mornings order no 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 at Leila: 'aTell the cub to take
the meat back and eat it himself.
Then I'll go over and butcher the
butcher"
Leila dismissed the boy with a
faint-hearted show Of indignation.
Then she came back and said. "And
now we have no meat to eat"
Bayard was reduced to philosophy,
the last resort Of the desperate !:
well, the vegetarians say we ought
never to eat meat. anyway. We're
poor, but. my Lord! we're in grand
company. Cook az this cartoon of
Cesare's in the Sun-Father Knicker-
booker turning his pockets inside out
and not a penny in them. New York
city has to borrow money on short
time notes at high interest to pay it's
own current bills.
look at Europe. All the countries
over there were stumbling along UNI
der such debt that they wondered
how they could meet the interest on
the next pay day. And now they are
mortgaging their great-grandsons'
property to pay for shooting their
sons.
tits the old Thirteenth Command
ment that we've all been smashing