The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-26
THE NEW
GENERATION
JANET INVITES MARGARET AND
JOAN TO TED'S GRADUATION.
By JANE PHELPS
Chapter los

Chapter 1OS.
Malcolm had gone but he had left
pleasant memories and the promise of
a renewed friendship very pleasing to
all.
Hes so frank and honest no one
could help but like him q" Margaret
said to JOAN
Hes stubborn. too, think. You
remember, mumsie. he used to always
get his way when he was a little boy.
I think perhaps that was why I liked
him better than the other boys.
1.-The masterful man idea, Ell,
Joan?"
, Perhaps. But it is queer, mother.
how even when we are little We adj
mire in a way the very things that
appeal TO us when we are older. Be-
cause a boy is strong, or knows mole
because girl is more courageous,
prettierI we admire them no matter
what our age. I think Malcolm is
finel I hope he will come again. But
he was awfully, mumsie, about our
dinner at the Green Parrot SUNDAY
night. 1 could see he couldn't eat and
yet he hated to go. Even the taxi
driver laughed when he said our souls
had been fed and now it was our
Nstomach's turn"
I'm not surprised that the cabbie
laughed. 1 should had 1 been with
YOU Malcolm is nice, clean-miuded
boy. I am not surprised that he, pre-
9ers clean food also. I hope he will
run down soon again." her mother re-
turned.
so do Il" Joan made reply
zone more forlorn hope" Craig
Forester called Malcolm Frost Craig
would have dragged joan to The altar
with any nice young man Of their ar
quaintance if he could. He felt so
for Joan and her objections to a step
father and to Margarets making her
self silly by marrying at "he~ age"
1.-The days pass very slowly at times,
Margaret" Forester said. "Often I
become very impatient waiting.
want TO be with you all the time, to
see you, to leave you in the morning
and know I shall return to you at
night. So much of what is besH in
me is brought out by you have even
gpasped AT this young fellows visit, as
one might grasp at straw, in the
hope he would be the means of free
ing you from your vampire daugh-
ter
Don't you dare call Joan YAM
pirer'
But isn't she? Isn't she sucking
all the youthful happiness from both
man of me because of it? Isn't she
constantly vamping you to do only as
she desires? OF course she is
please, Craig! Don't be SO hard
on Joan. She is beginning to like
you-ever since that awful experience
dence she Yves so glad to see you she
could have hugged you"
'Um-don't you think, Margaret,
she would say that about anyone that
| had happened to get her out of her
predicament? She didn't mean hug
hue
anything or anybody who helped her
| lose that wretched man."
NONSENSE" Margaret was laugh
! ing merrilyEat Forrester's explanation.
1T is the truth, badly as I hate to
admit
Janet Baker formerly Mrs. Wal
ters) had returned from her wedding
| trip and was once more at home to
her friends. While Margaret rejoiced
that this was so, and welcomed her
delightfully."-, she could not avoid a feel
| ing of envy. Janet seemed so happy,
and SO marvelously young.
You never looked your age, but
| you don't look much older than Joan
does now" Margaret said to her. Tied
will have a hard time to make his
classmates think you are his mother
| if you go over for comm 3"
"Of course I'm going. You don't
suppose I'd let that blessed boy grad
uate without being therei Come on,
go with me and take Joan. Ted
would be delighted"
.'Pd love to Janet, but never can
answer for Joan, 1 never try to- she
added with a little gr;mace.
Make her come along. She seems
a little softer than she used to. 1
don't know that that is the right word
but she certainly clings closely to
| you"
''Perhaps-I hope So"
when are you going to marry
| Craig. Margare IT.
when Joan says I may" Margaret
returned so seriously that both women
I laughed. THAT is just the truth" she
said after moment. 81 shall marry
him, or anyone, when Joan is willing"
81 think you are wronging both
yourself and Craig
He understands"
TITS more than I dol" was Janet's
retort.
(Tomorrow-Joan tells of her novel
dreams)