The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1921-01-21

I've been going into the subject
rather thoroughly. and hundred thou
sand would be running it on a pretty
close margin. By the way, just what
is your allowance under that crazy
WIFI"
"Ten thousand" said Bobby.
swell" said Miss Van r.. there you
are! Just enough to keep you COM
fortaby in debt. and you want to
marry me on it, 1t wouldn't be quite
so out Of the question If you knew you
were going to have it forever. but you
don't. 1t may be cut Off"
ANY day." said Bobby promptly.
at isn't likely, after ell these years,
but it may"
swell. there you are!" Miss Van T.
repeated herself. "I'm not altogether
a pig, Bobby Ten thousand with you
thrown in is enough to make any
woman think three times, but the
truth Is you have been killed by too
little and too much kindness. If you
had never gone on as super for dis
appearing heiress, you might have
amounted to something by now. In
stead of making you, that money has
buried you"
"You don't know me altogether,
Madge," said Bobby. 'Do you think
I've never thought things out? When
l need to make money. I'll do it. The
great thing nowadays, 1t seems to me,
is not to have too much"
"Not TO have too much!" exclaimed
Miss Van T., puzzled frOwn on her
forehead. Bobby, do you know that
you've said something original? No;
l won't put it quite as strong as that,
but will say that you've given birth
to an exotic idea.
but it doesn't alter things as far as
| am concerned" she continued, al
most without a pause. "ln fact, 1T
only simplities matters. You've signed
the warrant. | want loads Of money;
you're afraid of having TOO much. So
we'd better turn oar backs on each
other and march,
Mr.. Randolph looked at her through
narrowed eyes.
81 suppose" he said, "you have
picked out the man with a hundred
thousand a year,"
Not finally" said Miss Van t.,
though they are not so scarce in this
hurly-burly world as your question i'm
| plies. After all, it isn't the cash I'm
keen on, but what it will bring. If
necessary, I'll earn my own living"
Earn your own living!" exclaimed
Mr.. Randolph. twill you please tell
me how you could earn anything?"
"Well" said Miss Van r., 1--WE had
| couple of offers without even ask
ing When | tried to jew Simon Simon
down on this very frock on the
| grounds. that / was hard up. he said,
in the incest way, that he would take
me on at sixty a week any day during
the next five years"
And the other?" asked Mr.. Ran.
dolph.
1.-THE other" said Miss Van T., drop.
| ping her eyes. was Beacher fremont
He wasn't quite so nice. but he offered
more. He said he was looking for a
private secretary, who could name hel
own price"
During the next five years-at youl
own price" repeated Bobby, his mint
daZed but nevertheless going straight
to the kernel of each proposition
saying? Do you know the horrible
things you infer?"
She moved one hand impatiently.
Bobby" she said, "dont get the
atrcal. tell you New York is a fever
I've caught it, and I'm not bit sorry
The choice between being a Van Tel
lier corpse and a fustish woman il
easy. The semi-declassees of New
York, if they play for high enough
stakes, have world of their own tina
is worth moving In. Money is merel
an adjunct to it-rothing but tn
bridge across which clever men com
to show themselves off at their Ut
trammeled best"
"Madge," said Bobby, at once fright
ened and earnest, you only half knoN
what you're talking about. There
such a world as you speak Gifts tn
world OF inSatlably hungry W0mel
It's brilliant and fascinating for
while, but 1t breathes a poisoned al
and all its roads lead down. Ever
woman that goes into it with her eye
open has an idea that, with her beau,
, and her brains. she can buck the tigt
, and get away with it. She won't loo
over her shoulder and read the recol
Of an endless losing run on the black
, Miss Van T. smiled.
'Im already beginning on my +
! ward" she said. you've never talkt
so well before in your life"
: Its more than talk, said Bobb
i flushing angrily. "And the ways
, access that you have imagined"
D continued. "You read happy stori
to the public taste of midinettes, sho'
r room girls. and dress-mOdels. and pc
hars you think they mirror the u: