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she had sent Jake ; oldest daughter through a business college 10 enable hcr To help her people. Why she lidn't tell him Of these things, in- stead of letting him believe her guilty of foolish nditur~-or even ot something eyiI-can ba answered only In one way,
 Just as some persons are afflicted with an inferior complex so had Jill acquired sensitive complex" II hurt her feelings when he took il instantly for granted tha, she had spent the extra money in some i'm proper way. Then her stubborn pride r.bclled and she refused to answer To hing but her sensitive com plox. The result was--misunder- standing, h"artache and tragedy.
 From that morning the rift in the l1Ite' in the daily lives of Jack and Jill began to widen. He made no move toward the curtailmcnt Of her check writing, nor did he again refer to their expenditure. The life craft Of the Stuurts continued to drift along with the apparently smooth running current Of everyday affairs. And therein lay their danger; they were drifting.
 Gossip began to hook up Jill and Professor I.e Tarte, and then started n affair between Jack stuart and Nita Raven. As none of the parties I ,-,I $T any attention to the talk. it grew anaemic tor lack of au6tenance. 1 But it did not die. There were al ways embers 10 be famed into q flame. Nor did the gossip run eA- clusiN,ly among the women folk. There were men who came, who saw, and then saw to it that others saw as they did.
 Jack Stuart's riding for tumble | if he fools around with that Ravelle woman much longer" said Clyde Cummings. Of Cummings and Put nam. realtors. He was speaking confidentially to the junior partner. Putty"
 Not as big fall as that wife O i his'll get some O these days.' asseN- crated Putty. pursing up his parrot mouth in righteous disa pproval Of the woman who lacked appreciation of his betting proclivities and refused aftrrwurd to dance with him.
 Just because Nita Ravelle, not caring for the il-brceding and soup ! yO1 ri1irap rpaOp,ricuoc cf tho IJor | ora able Clyde Cummings, had declin- 1 ed q second dinner invitation from him, she was q dangerous woman for Jack Stuart.
 "Thot woman." said Pat Sweeney 10 Father Ryan. holding toward Nita Ravelle, who was passing in 1 her coupe at the moment. was ! awarded beauty prize in her home l town in Illinois. Tn prize itself 1 didn't cost over foive dollars. but tn | pooblicity she got won her mil 1 lionaire hoosban' thot she divorced in year on an ally-mony of a tousan' dollars a month. All because someone said she was pritty," '"Twas ever thus" quoth Father i Pat Let a man tell a woman she is pretty just once and the devil will tell it to her 4o times q day for the rest of her life!"
 II was late in November that Jill ! committed her first grievous indis- cretion, and while it was an acci- dent, it's consequences were just as l harmful as an intentional act Ap- poarances are often very deceptive, and it must be conceded that ap- appearances were against Jill.
 What do you think of that, Jill? crupted Tony, as he burst into the flat one morning at breakfast time tearly breakfast at 10 o'clock). He was waving q telegram.
 What is it?" she asked, the light of an old-time ambition suddenly flaming in her eyes, "a dancing con tract ."
 "Y ou guessed if right 10 a dot." he proclaimed, adniringly Its from that bird at tn Alphcreston in Pitts burgh. He offers us 300 plunliers a