New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
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bY'H 'HEMQY' kIrCHzLL MEBUED
ILLUSTRATED DY f.P. GPuGER,

7 EAVING behind in Centropolis,
IL Ill.,, her tyrannical father and
her stxpetied erst,ohils fance,
Dorothy Ps7tyn has come to live in
Chicago. She is independent be-
cause Of her stepaunt's legacy,
,0hich has led her already into the
adventures set forth in Dorothy for
the Day and Tho Accidental.
While Dorothy is leading Bo-
hemian bachelor girl eristence Nth
Enid Case, a0ho is "sculptimg," Dor
othy's mntter-of-fact, umemotional
and i'as~ferably highbro,0 lover
acokes up back homo.
TINE proverb "Out Of sight,
out Of mind" contains as
II much, perhaps, of the vir-
gin gold Of truth as any
other proverb; but in the case to
which I now invite your attention
1t was conspicuously false.
This case is that of Dorothy
Pruyn, late Of Centropolis, ILL.,, and
now a citizen of the world; and the
person most aware of the proverbs
falsity was Herbert Sheldon, prin-
cipal Of the Centropolis high school
Enid Case backed away from the
half-enveloped armature upon her
sculptors table, wiped some Of the
sticky clay off her hands upon
her sleeveless pinafore and went to
one Of the south windows, where the
breeze still miraculously retained q
suggestion of its June magic despite
its fight over twenty-five miles Of
Chicago's roofs and chimneys.
What she really saw, looking out
that south window, was not the for
lorn, rubbish-filled vacant lots, nor
the bulky skyscrapers of the down.
town district beyond. What she
saw was a particular office in a par
ticular one of those skyscrapers, not
actually visible at all--the Office of
Hallam, Green & Co., and the desk
of young man named Robert Bur
CESS. Bob himself was bending
over it working furiously-a dis
appointed and probably rather sulky
BOb--her Bob.
They might have been miles up
the shore by this time in Bob's
brother-in-law's eight-cylinder road
ster. That's where they would have
been, except for that nasty little
clay figure on which she had just
turned her back.
Bob had come in exultant from a
business trip about noon, big with
his first success. There was no need
of his reporting at the office at all
until tomorrow morning. The day
had been made to order for them
expressly. The car was his for the
asking. He hadn't seen her for a
week. 1t was the best Of days in
the best of all possible worlds.
But that bland assumption of his
that since he was free there could
be nothing to prevent their going
out together had to be challenged.
So she had told him she would not
go. She didn't suggest picnics to
Bob, just whenever it happened she
had nothing to do. CeYtainly it was
Gs important to the world that her
talent for sculpture should find it's
full expression as it was that Bob
should go on being a successful bond
salesman. Well then!
All the same, she wanted him now
very dreadfully.
She was distinctly cheered few
minutes later to hear Dorothy's step
on the stairs, though she did lose
heart beat making sure it wasn't
Bob's, and sung out to her to come in.
Dorothy was, Of course, entitled to
come in anyway, but often when the
young sculptress was very much in
the midst of things she turned off
into her own bedroom on the other
side Of the hall. She did 80 now, an
swering Enid's invitation with a nom
commital GAN right"
HN1D worked on for another
IL quarter Of an hour before it
crept over her that there was