Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-16
7oCindereHa's
Daughter"
SYNOPSIS
=, gAzEL DEYO BACHELOR
D.,obt. 1880, bv Public LEDGER Co.

SYNOPSIS
ri,oirn West is IN trah Cm,,
,ruiSS's dogohtor. Reared IN iocdth
sNenU ,o idea of the udtue Of money.
!@nupd;uo !@ nud; school she meets Kathleen
~ ooI W. ond the ttco form friendship
f9g.%I 10 Interesting because the too
UN,V" .c vtfeyly different in temperu-
pS ." Atferpard, Mrs. West loses
mgr. .,onou and Virginia, tcho has
s% 49,. in louc pih college man,
ioneS i,. him in spiic Of her mothers
mu.mnroroi 70. She meets poverty and
isgpess dsEpp and ackcn her husband dies
dos"iio iCoreS her nothing TO meet tho
o,,t osa of her baby she is forced to
aay.ot tke helm Of Jimmy's family.
acV'H meantime Kathleen Foster,
~ J %oo bocu engaged 10 Jimmy's best
Td Tso ard has broken the engagement
pnsn pr.m Bill Lyons is poor. discovers
MSa"bS ~, he has legacy left to him and
,,tsrmipcs mt to encourage hm q second
time -
WU,REE.' Mrs Anderson S voice was
disapproving. IT don't see how
couId be more free in the city than
w. ore here" She had offered Virginia
~ ..s tbe baby a home and Virginia's cool
,.hssl of it was surprise.
nBut Mother, I'd stagnatc here. This
NJ, rould kill me. I want to get out
I'd do things. Why, I'm only twenty. y
0Whst do you think you gould do
h.t would take care of you and the
baby? You have never worked; why, ]
..,'+ get YOU to help me down here. If
r.r,d stsv with US, Virginia, you could
4. great help to me with the work and
,ou wouldn't have so much time to think
s,olisb notions if you had certain
,moupt Of regular work to do every
day."
"Housework l hate it, said Vir-
,r;a passionately. 'The same old
chores every day. want to iive!"
She really did not understand what |
1, wac that she wanted certainly her |
;aeas were very vague, but Mrs. Ander-
son thought her attitude very strange |
Shs felt suddenly that Virginia needed
IN be checked. reproved
6Do YOU think that Jimmy would |
have approved of such goings on?' she
asked. w
Instantly Virginia. dark little face
suivered into emotion, and she rose from
be hammock and ran upstairs. Barbara
was asleep in a tiny crib that had been
.Iimmy's, and Virginia looked down at
he small dark face so like her own.
md could hardly see it for a mist of
tears.
That evening she wrote n note to
Bill Lyons asking him to help her find
4 postion. Somehow she felt sure that
he would help her, that he would prove
4 friend. She went to the postoffice
with the letter and on the wav home
some one stepped up out of the shadows
and murmured good evening" She
turned to face one of the men she had
met in church, boy not much older
than Jimmy. His father was reputed to
b quite wealthy and they lived in big
ray stone house at the end of town.
May walk along with you?' he
,sked
They strolled along together and
alked, but when they reached the An
ierson house Virginia did not ask him
a. She was quite conscious that Mrs.
Anderson was sitting on the porch and
he had an idea that Melville Horton
vould be welcomed too obviously.
Wasn't that young Horton?" Mrs.
anderson asked as Virginia stepped up
% the porch
"Yes -
why didn t you ask him in?"
l didn't want to.
In Mrs. Anderson's mind the idea of
rirginia and Young Horton was not un-
leasant. If Virginia would be sensible
nd remain in Crystal River she might /
nd home for herself and Barbara in
be old Horton residence. she might be-
ONE the wife of one of the most in
uentlal young men in town. Mrs. An
erson felt herself u martyr to think of +
nythlng ike this SO soon after .Jimmy's
cath, but Virginia S future must be
lought OF and she was so utterly alone.
the truth be known, Mrs Anderson
as too practical to have much sent
lent IN her make up, and she felt il
dlculous TO mourn for Jimmy when
lournlng would do nothing to bring
i'm back.
But Virginia had no idea of remaining
Crystal River under any capacity.
8 tor thinking of young Horton seri-
lsly. the very idea was revolving. Vir-
mia had loved Jimmy very dearly. He
ad not been the ideal knight that she
ad dreamed about, but Virginia had
ome om,e to believe that her ideals had been
my very youthful dreams that could
eVer come true anyway. She grieved
y Jimmy: bus it was for the fact that
le missed him rather than the more
sonl2ing grief that comes to the mature
oman when she loses her husband. I
icmorrow--Virginia's one talent.