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IV1 aret and Ashtoreth scribbled
Don Quixotic" on the cover of her
notebook.
Something else to look up in the
library. Ghastly how many things
q girl didn't know. Lots of people
used the expression. She wondered
if they all knew what it meant.
He glanced at her quickly as she
slipped her pencil back in place. But
her hands were folded now as before,
quietly in her lap.
MY secretary" he informed her
surprisingly, "has perfect passion
for cats. A few months ago he sug-
gested that we endow something
or-other for homeless felines. A
hospital, / think it was--an asylum
for INDECENT animals. Dogs, too, If
I remember correctly. He persuad-
ed me to sign a check for $4,000.
"Well, he hadn't been out Of here
ten minutes-with my check in his
pocket-when in walks this little
De Mari. Crying her eyes out. It
was 6 o'clock Shed waited, sup
pose, until the rest of the girls had
gone. I was waiting myself for a
telephone call.
"Now-I wonder If I can make
myself clear-Mr. Higgins goes in,
you see, for d nh animals. Well,
here was a dumb woman. And, if
flock of cats is worth $4,000 how
much, I asked myself, is woman
worth?
IF a man can endow home for
animals, to keep them of the
streets, how about a girl? How
much was it worth to keep her of
the streetS?"
Mr.. Hart paused.
"a purely rhetorical question" he
assured her. II was merely specu-
lating. It's puzzling-the relative
value of things. Particularly when
a man with a philanthropic bent
acquires a great deal OF money.
Can you imagine, Miss Ashe,
having so much money that it
doesn't make any difference-to me,
I mean-whether 1 spend it on
starving cats or foolish girls?"
You don't really mean that?"
she gasped.
"Well," he admitted, there is
more kick, of course, in spending
it on girls. Cats are so undemon-
strative, don't you know. Anyhow
I reckoned it would be more fun
squandering. a few thousand on the
little De Mari A better return,
you might say, on the investment"
"Oh."
Ashtoreth Strengthened uncon-
Sciously in her nigh-backed chair.
mo" he murmured, II didn't
mean that at all. My word, you are
suspicious young person. My mo-
tives, assure you, were entirely re-
spectacle.
"Only I'd rather incur the graft
tude of a pretty girl than the feline
caresses of the best dam Maltese in
Boston. An entirely masculine
point of view. Perhaps you do not
appreciate it, Miss Ashe."
"Oh, yes" she retorted, "I quite
understand"
miss de Mari" he resumed,
talks lot about the modern
girl Now wonder what it is, Miss
Ashe, that makes people do that"
He smiled ingratiatingly, and
Ashtoreth noticed the humorous
little lift of an eyebrow. He was,
really, she decided, quite charming.
you'd think" he complained,
that she was an entirely new spe-
cies. The newspapers pirate Of her,
and the reformers.
"And the best sellers are all about
her. The general opinion seems to
be that this so-called modern girl
is paragon of all the recent vir-
tues. Honest, fearless, clear think
ing. independent.
Personally, I'm beginning to
think she's a good deal Of a fraud.
It seems to me that she's pretty
proficient in most of the old-time
vices. 1 might almost say that she
practices them exclusively.
"And this war cry of hers-'Inde-
pendence and Equal Rights" is
rather a lot of hokum. However,
Miss De Marr may be an exception,
of course. That's what I'd like you
to tell me-"
(TO Be Continued.)
Hollis Hart continues the story
of his amazing philanthropy and