Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-03
! DAT1GHTER of TWO WORLDS
A story Of York. LDo
By LEROY SCOTT
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| sue Seeuieu peTSOuhlly uudbsreeSiNct o.
ways good -humored, always reliable,
always patient. She began to be re-
garded as ''find."
Among those who led in society,
Jennie particularly was aware of the
OF the banker, and particularly did she
set about to gain that lady's recogni-
tion. Two or three times Mrs. Ship
man spoke pleasantly IL briefly to her.
But the first sign of success was that
lady's asking her to be n figure In one
of the tableaux in the war bazaar she
was giving in few weeks. To be
sure, the figure suggested to her was
not important--but she was getting on
She met Mr.. Shipman occasionally at
balls and at dinners; and not again did
she carelessly throw away her oppor-
tunities as she had done at their first
meeting. She studied him, and studied
to please him. She decided to be good
and she knew she acted the part well.
She thought he was beginning to like
her--a little, at any rate. She was
getting on there, too If only in the
preliminary stages.
BY the middle of that winter, peo-
pie began to talk about "those young
Harrisons," and particularly about
that pretty, clever, and unspoiled Mrs.
Harrison" In speaking of her some
Of the discerning older women com
pared her to this or that highly i'm
portant woman who had first appeared
on society's fringes as an obscure figure
from the outland. Mark their word,
this young Mrs. Harrison was some
day also going to be an important per-
son.
Jennie was exultant chiefly on Ken
neth's account: because Of the bearing
success had had upon her relationship
with him. She knew that he was
pleased, though only occasionally did
he speak freely and fully of what she
was achieving. But if Kenneth did
not give full acknowledgment, his
mother did. One evening when she and
Kenneth had had family dinner at the
house in the East Seventies, the older
woman, up in her sitting room, had ex-
claimed, her blue eyes warm with en-
thusiasm and affection:
Jennie, / believed you were going
to make a remarkable wife for Ken
neth--but you've been even more re-
markable than I dreamed. Oh, I've
been watching you closely, my dear
every mother is born spy.
"You manage your house amazingly,
we'll for so young wife-and home
he can be proud of will always be ef-
fective with Kenneth. And the way
you are getting on in society! l don't
care a great deal for society myself.
but I know, for all his indifference, it
means a great deal to Kenneth. Just
as thought you would, you are prov
ing to be exactly the right wife for
him" And then, she added remtnis-
Gently: II might possibly once have
become somebody in society if I had
cared-but I never could possibly have
become what you are going to become.
Never, my dear!
"I'm sore at her." grumbled Sue,
who soon was to become Mrs. William
Grayson. Nobody pays any attention
to me at all when Jennie is in the same
hemisphere" The warm hug with
which Sue ended this complaint was
proof that jealousy did not exist in
| Sues generous nature.
'I'm more sure than ever, Jennie"
Mrs. Harrison declared, that you are
going to make fine big man out Of
Kenneth-and help him to the sort Of
success his heart desires!" -:
| Jennie glowed at the praise and af-
! fection OF these two sincere women.
She had long since discounted the de-
ception which had been practiced,' so
she now felt no twinges Of guilt. What
ever might have been in the long ago,
she now was trying to build solidly !;
she was trying to do her very best for
Kenneth; and the words of Kenneth s
mother and sister were the highest rec
ognition that her achievements were
solid and of truly helpful character. .
During this swift mounting period
there was so much in Jennie's life that
its single events lost their identity in a
blurred but glorious whole. But there
was one incident-rather, few scenes
which did remain in her mind. This
was on the occasion of>the first time,
since that night at Silver Bluffs, that
she had seen Kenneth and Slim Jackson
in the same company. Slim was not a
member of the original party-a little
supper dance at Sherry's--but at mid
night Jennie noted that he was pres
cnt: debonair, gracefully at ease as
always. and welcomed, too. A little
later, apart from the milling of the
dance. she saw Kenneth with an arm
on Sims shoulder talking with inti-
mate earnestness. -.
Presently she was dancing with Slim.
"I saw you talking to Kenneth just as
though you were old friends,' she
whispered. "What does it mean2"
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