The Washington times., 1920-09-09
Screen Version Novelized-
By Jane Mclean.

YER brother looked at her and
n laughed. ''See here" he
L said, II don't think it's right
for a brother to come, between
father and daughter. I'll chaperon
Miss Halo and you. Well you-how
does that strike your"
You're just like all the Others"
said Mabel; "they ali fall in lovo
with Alice. first glance"
What others?"
"Oh, everybody"
Didn't know you met any men tn
Orleans?"
"We don't"
We'll, then. where do you meet
thsm-I mean where does she meet
them?'
Mabel was enjoying his curl
osity too much to reassure him.
"Why don't you ask herr? she
suggested.
Mice thing to do" he shifted.
walking away.
Mr.. Andrews was n. bit startled
when his son suggested that
weeks leave might be a good thing
for the girls.
ITS fine, Jimmie, this self-sacri-
flee on your part" he said with q
serious face.
well. you Sec
IThat's lust it, ! see quite plain
ly. Still, as it's really in good
cause go ahead. Itll set you back
one week when your own vacation
comes. Is 1t too high at the price,
I'm not saying anything about
that" replied the young man. as he
walked away to plan picnic LOT
the following day.
Lal " i
Of glorified knight errant. Perhaps
because she'd never met young men
before and perhaps because he was
the brother of Mabel, she was pre-
pared to find in him all the quail
tiles that the real knight should
possess. At any rate there was no
mistaking the happiness of the man
and the girl when they were to-
gether. The only cloud on the
horizon was the coming departure
of the girls for school.
That was approaching apparently
on the wings of the wind. the
convent doomed up now to the mind
of Alice. not as a place OF fefuge.
but as n prison where Jimmie An
drews might never enter.
She wondered what she could give
him out of her slender store to
remember her. and at last. after
much cogitation, she decided on a
photograph of herself. inscribed
modestly, done up in tissue paper
and tied with a red ribbon.
II she had experienced difficulty
l. sClecting this gift, she found
VASTLY more difficulty in present.
ing it. What should she say? she
repeated many formulas, but they
all sounded stilted, and then she
asked herself in a sudden fit of an
alysis why she should be giving
him picture at all. lie had
begged for one, to be sure, but
Young men, she had been told. al
ways did that.
Alice had walked out of the house
with the photograph in her hand
when she was suddenly struck with
this questioning spirit, and as she
passed behind clump of trees she
saw Jimmie approaching from the
garden.
She slipped into the shade, but
IL was too late. he came bounding
along smiling to himself. while she
waited. confident that he had not
seen her.
She was speedily undcceived and
as she saw him making straight for
her she lodged and in her excite
ment dropped the photograph.
There was nothing for it then but
aipht but Alice was no runner com
pared with the husky pursuer and
tho chase was certain of only one
result.
She fclt her arms 'pinioned to her
side, and the young man, looking
wholly unrepcntant, wheeled her
about till they stood looking at
each other.
so that's the way you treat your
old friends" he said laughingly, re-
leasing her arms.
80 that's the way YOU treat new