San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-06
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| Ned Cornet, sen OF wealthy Godfrey
Cornct, drives Lis car homeward il
the drizzling rain and goes into skit
at n corner. A passing jitney is dam
aged and Bess Gilbert, a shop girl, or
her way home, is Knocked to the pave
ment. Ned promises a policeman that
he will settle. with all injured parties
The young lady, is taken home il
Comets car. Ned tells his father Of
the accident. Godfrey Cornet reminds
his son that in his 30 years he has
never done man size job. b.,
The elder Cornet offers Ned two
thousand silk and velvet gowns to take
| to Northern Canada and Alaska tC
exchange with the Indians for fine
furs. Godfrey offers to split the prof
its 1925, the lions share to Ned. Now
go on with the story.
Almost trembling in his eagerness,
| the old man waited for his son re-
ply. The latter took out a cigaret
lighted it and gazed mcditatively
through the smoke. Fifty thousand ~
he whispered greedily. "And l sup
pose l could stand the hardship"
Then he looked up, family smiling.
| IL htlA ANl nv hS
pronounced at last.
Ill
The exact moment that her name
was on Ned's lips. LenOre Harden
worth herself. in her apartment in a
region OF fashionable apartments eight
blocks from the Cornet home, was. also
wondering at the perverse way of par
ents. 1t was strange how their selfish
interests could disarrange ones hap
piest plans. All in all, Lenore was
in a wretched mood, savagely angry at
the world in general and her mother
in particular.
1t was the way Of the old, Lenore
reflected, to give too much of their
thought and interest to their own fan
cied ills. Not even a daughters bril-
liant career could stand between. And
who would have guessed that the ,ner-
vousness her mother had complained
of SO long, pandered to by 4 fashion
able quack and nursed like baby by
the. woman herself, should ever lead
TO such disquieting results. The doc
tor had recommended a sea voyage 10
the woman, and the old fool had taken
him at his word. ., e..
1t was not that Uenore felt she
could not spare, for some months, ncr
mothers guiding influences. 1t was
merely that sea voyages cost money,
and money, at that particular time,
was scarce and growing scarcer about
the Hardenworth apartment. Seem
ingly the only course that remained
was to move forward the date OF her
marriage to Ned. at present set for
the following spring. .
She dried her eyes. powdered her
nose, and for all the late storm made
4 bewitching picture as she tripped
TO the door in answer TO her fiance's
knock. IGNORE Hardenworth was in
all probability the most beautiful girl
in her own stylish set and one of the
most handsome women in her native
city. She was really we'll known, re-
membered long and in many places,
for her hair. 1t was simply SHIN
mering gold. and it framed race OF
4, floworlike beauty-an even featured,
oval face, softly tinted and daintily
piouant.
Ned came in soberly. kissed the
girls inviting lips. then sat beside
her on the big divan. Studying his
grave face, she waited for him TO
| speak.
bad news" he said at last.
"What is it," She spoke almost
breathlessly, and he turned toward
her with awakened interest.
Nothing very important" he told
her casually. I'm afraid / startled
you with my lugubrious tones. I've
got TO 20 away for three months"
Ned. You can't! After all our
plans. 1 won't hear Of it,"
wait, dearest.' the man pleaded
"Of course 1 won't go if you say
not" *
"Of course I saw not
| But it's a real opportunity
make forty or fifty thousand. War
till tell you about it. anyway" =
He told her simply; the exact plar
that his father had proposed. He
interest ouickened, as he talked.
The idea of trading obsolete gowns
for beautiful .furs was particularly at
tractive TO her. "Ive got some oil
I