The Bozeman courier., 1926-09-24
published by special arrangement with
the Chicago Tribune Syndicate).
IN TWO PARTS-PART TWO
WyTTM GTnE2V an TAn

THE STORY SO FAR
The success of the building of a new
University club building depended large
ly upon the support Of Kenneth Badger.
His wealth was a factor to reckon with.
He was not in favor of the project. He
was a great estimator Of overhead.
At the boarding house where Kenneth
stopped, there was a yuOng lady bOarder
by the name Of Ellen. When he is re-
turning to his room one day, this girl
approaches him and asks the loan of
book Kenneth, not to be led into any
ruse stated he feared he had nothing that
would interest her in his library. Up
on reaching his room, an afterthOught
of the incident, led him to reconsider his
action. He went to, the bookcase and
selected book he thought would be suit
able, and went to her room to deliver it.
Here he found Ellen asleep on the bed.
He returned to his room with the book.
The next time he met Ellen Dale was
three days later at the stairway, and he
handed her the book. The girl is friend
of Sidney Blair, who hopes to win her
hand. Blair is not altogether satisfied
with Elias acquaintance with Kenneth.
And now the story;
"YOu watt" theatened Sidney, "and, of
course, you're joking about this Badger.
dear"
"Yes, 1 do, and if he marries me he'll
find out that 1 know"
You're not engaged to that penny
pinnsSIheEE!"
And then, suddenly, quite soon after
that, they were engaged. 1t happened one
night when Ellen was tired, and pursued
by bills and in need Of new clothes and in
need of money, when she felt more alone
in the world than her stark little statue
did in the middle of the table. On that
same night Kenneth, bitten by the only
real passion of his life, had for an hour
forgotten the adjustment Of his life to
the handbook, and wanted only to adjust
it to the soft sweetness of possessing Ellen
Dale.
To do him justice, after he had left her
on the stairs, he took her half reluctant
promise to marry him and the amazing
memory of his first inspired embrace Into
his own rooms, and forgot figures and
banks and everything in the world. II
was Ellen who sat on the edge Of her bed
at her statue and took desperate comfort
in the true reflection that man was what
a woman made him and that Kenneth
really did care for her. She closed hel
eyes, and thought of the newspaper where
one worked and worked and got no return
except a salary which couldn't pay fol
her lodging and her meals and her moth
er's board in the sanitarium where she
lived, q salary which gave her no chance
to buy anything to adOrn her lovely body
There weren't so many rich men waiting
to marry a girl like her, and as for mel
like Sidney she didn't want to embark OF
marriage WHICH WOulO De d SlEuSSN6 VIII
only liking to help her along. If Sidney
hadn't been so much a plunger, so mucl
buffer like her father, she might have
cared more for him, she thought. Or per
haps she might have cared less. In an!
case he wasn't a way out.
She was tired of bluffing about none!
and hoping for money. And a girl h9t
to do something. She spent the first nigh
of her engagement staring at the ceiling
with the. wasteful light full on, hopini
that it's full glare might drive away som
of the pictures of her father that hauntet
her, or the worry about her mother, 30 Q
the pricking feeling about girls on thel
UetrOthal nights shouldn't feel like this
Rapture remained with Kenneth, but no no
to the destruction of his temperament. II
knew Ellens background, and to tina
background it did not occur to him t
make concessions. He did not translate ri
feeling into quick terms Of what he coul
do for his fiancee.
That showed in his purchase Of rims
He was ignorant of the Obliging custOl
which made it conventional for youn
woman to pick out her own ring accom-
panied by the man she is going to MARI!
! kenneth went to a jeweler whom he kne