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o THE DAY CALL topic, and elderly ladies, from thelr ped fact, to pu She coulc ve have been estal of superiority, and the w "',"’“,“h‘_i !gl b e . . Sallse p ensation of coldness surreptitious nine-days' wonder in News- a sort of souvenir. g o e w er e. Her guick intelli- paper Row. Besides, the detective would But Miss Hampton did nothing R, ,;“v” Moo " te unablc to_grasp Mr. find nothing. There was not one chance sort, and her aunt reluctantly admitted s eaning. She had no in a hundred, she told herself, that Ar- that the edicts o modern Jonge s n wheels. he sat thur Stuyvesant and lvy t.ampton wouid were rather cheerle z ; = amt ehens and waited run such unnecessary risks. . missive, ‘non-refractor bu . San Sty e went on—and She would make one more effort— apathetie, 1f she ‘had 3 b = voice—"lied to though scargely realized what it meant. things! Surely the more rigid rules of ¢ . g MeN S e mer women, the fear She quieted herself, and put forth her quette could scarcely have conflicted wi - ~ w esire to avoid dis-' alfirements once more 3 the making of doylite [ 4 . most ¢ bstacles bow to the inevita , Mr. Green the hundred articles d # o fl ~ i s mee ced re- she said, meekly You are the lnevi- were consistent with re poss [ t - knows how « em, and table, of course, and what you have 1ol The girl's frequent abs m homn 4 ' w b g this me is a revelati I could scarcely be- raised hopes, the elder laa oked f entrances o : : nds jeve it, and that is wky | may have parcels, bundles, t minine symbols o 4 rs courte: seemed ‘refractory. But it is hard to be “shopping. waited eagerly for s a > H A p trut squelched, isn't i(? You are going to send such manifestation betrothed impulse ~ "Det 8 ste asone porter would have a reporter with Mr. Jackson. When? And the disappointment was ke march upon Detective £ the P s. He would have Mr. Green humored her, though . the Ivy had always been to after teas so v o e Mrs S " we Know proce was rather ual soon G 1o chat with and Lerlock H s s all set up. as he notifies me to do so, he replied LT e B e s o - : a tha xious t hance 10 *It may be very s A telephone mes seemed most antipathetic to aius ad ¢ 3 o, you will sage might come i day—n an hour— Jack Childers r she lister spicu . . at you will not now. It all Gepen n Jackson. He placidly to the y of | s 1 mojeh L } i ed her this is a very cautious man he knows on these occa was Sallie edly Wed 8 e WO ave h ines: the chatter, a the pe Suss » > e < Green,” she said eagerly: and she tion. And Mrs. Hampion oeg med v ghast, a 11d merely placed her hand on his chubby shouider, sider the condition of ings a singed, she wa for she di w what “I know I'm a failure, and that I have Ivy's: peculiar temperam rea scaly W e unaware of what done my work badiy, because I'm new ey or- tecdae ate m he ] : " b But it don't like to give it up. Wil you attempts to rectify matters—n belec w - Sa b vou resumed, let me be the reporter to accompany Mr admitied a positive need of S C > 2 his is ¥ 2 mere- Jacksc he engagement of « s b . ¢ t report to me He was astonished, and—perhaps for had been announced, a w g : at it e made the time—into his bcfogged, densely aveh LiGred to. ealtician 1he . a i rov brain crept a suspicon of the form™ of Dollie Beths yeo N w o lady w 5 . - son after her be al W P . S it - < Y he cried you—a—gir! to like 1vy She wa 1 -~ for mpany a detective in a quest of er enthusiastic. * She talked of | Pa adultery You ask this, and for mo rhapsoay ; she empiated w 1 4 . reason at @ Really ss Sydenham— : Ak esenc k. ta v w ) h C ve r lesgly and cots were a ropans w 8 S . " miserak L know nwomahiy and ated, her happ was appa . that sort of thi I know it isn't merest outsiaer. She behavid as & = respectable, and tnat a girl ought to be should behave In the fruitior ' terri at’ the pozsibility. But I'm not est_hopes t s. 8 ad _herself pog Mr. Green. 1 can’t heip it. I'm not I could almost wish, I . " ek Please let m o-—please _ with a sigh. one afternoc . 4 cratched head with the tip of Bethson's departure, “that y ¢ R . n, and puzzied. = This certainly enthusiastic as Miss Beths 8 something; But what did it—what 1t iR afihanigstic " she = t w t earings. 8 t mean? He stared at her, seeking to chasten her remarx. eled . tion in her eves, in her manner. in seem young and ha w se. He was comp etely perplexed belp thinking that he A t can’t help thinking Miss Sydenham e A g 8 e said slowly, “that you are concealing Vi's hos culliik Rd Cheliok t 18 something. This zeal—this enthusiasm is st ey ni X m w wa ead’ so we not reportorial. You are interested for Ton me of K 2 : Ow . ries” w dre reasons that you have not told me - 1 e als g 1 we . What are those reasons? Surely 1 have especi " trea ey a s e a right to ask. They exist, do they not? e nok g, th . glowing v aternal i The case appeals to you lady retorte tur - - - Confession was on 'the tip of her tongue. thing 1 say N v e r dr nd_tried r all, Mr. Greem was a man, and he that the p pointed eng 1 ess fe, and he would understand of Miss Beths v S 2ha - r fess a certain amount of the larity with K r " P A y r loyalty. He would surely see oo X'y g ght S F s implication of his superior edi- really be incline " e Py x r r I-suffi_fent reason for allowing gagement to Juck wa stake. S > r e r to drop. Yet it was im- epression is ver o . e v r possibl it was beyond her power but rward rely be \ » I am not interested he cried. *I am Gz S w w 1 not. How can you suppose such a thing? b i o emerg N rr t s What could Arthur S ant and his Smile. & s o . - t ed inamorata be to me I despise him huried at her. She thouvs . g sef front him « o se his smug self- vor. She saw her P 1 N my repor complacence vanish. That is ail. May 1 fiery demonstrat 4 - heip go with Mr Jackson? gazed “on this picture, A Miss Sydenhar No.” he replied ast: *cer- and she wondered at (his du = « am r that ask She had certainiy ide » u your velously differ h .. g acqua y in it. This trouble to hide anything. a . - . P r e subject is surprised at Mr=, | s w S . wy v 1 told you the situati in Biderly ladies w ry eas N L o explain the complexities of revelatior Trig M v > ournalism, and ve like a spoiled Mampton: and the - v w aift hild. 1 have no m time to waste, found herself w y i ¥ S 8 Miss Svd w to Arthur s . 5 " x She accepted her dismissal and rose; perzon a 2 ia . e was not discouraged. Detective ranger o - . & g s ester Jackson might be a very and she accepted them ut " . most “smart” person d_undoubtably was. Ttention or InsTihe & %) h s g <5 myster But he had “detected” nothing so far, i d = t € the eCH use here was nothing to de- 2 . ' because the time was not ripe. K m \ She felt that she was a match for him, ' nybody ¢ except journalists, W 8 s i She would & ain if her letter had i g ag i Thai would be : s if she found that Sa ” 5 N s 8 a g w . Cha s 3 . t L F 2 consta n: s f = S 7 = Sy A ey a b g e g Miss H 3 s = 8 - e M g "n th s s or - o 1 we ' ger she hed 1 failed, she would intrude herself v e ma "N ; s £ iy pon the duicet tete-a-tete of Mr. and Ha and : " g s 1 ( ana—distasteful, repu by fem 3 - - tt it might be—she would her- auth A = Q €8 . o f expie e siuation to them w I r seives S 1 ~ US " She was aglow with enthusiasm and talk 5 em - \ ¢ = e 1elt that she could not sleep private women wh . s g8 . . - o ilely until she had begun to put her eved hem 8 K = 5 ans” i peration. And before going their beliefs t s. Iy ad e . s - PR ¥T- home—t tic and her slumbers—she f < The knowiedg t 8 - - weedg < in een Gecided t a nocturnal giance at Mr Stuyvesant hau a wife had been bitte 4 : ling g e, racked Mrs. Comp £ luding-p.ace. It to her, and at times she b a =2 - & & & e k.. Che 15 @ nauseating rip, in colu. dark m the rigidity f the € N - E g . . gl cars gh regions flled with ma matters difficult and v 4 _jeopardy. w be h te c r That part of expensive. But of ad_schooled e Gimregar: A: 8 let- her 3 h be accomplished hers thos ry d ties g 12 wer f < e, lia Bre 1o particulariy repulsive. Sne . 38 & VO s feature St 3 the " . ared ai, ucCus.ed i even grasp- o aint ting he ecsta S e the stapnant deigens of foul und : = of martyr caught | cea . was d - . & t 20 L] r shiaic v When she d t was f m s ' € N N 1d- gows of use in which Ivy and Ar- ? 3 P Selis ana He Denibice hin " xecuted haraig you fo TR0 S Chmptons. ~iere Sere e HIS ARMS ' AGAIN B I B seoe v Clicking theirs. ‘Iher name was still visible ) lven her ‘“engagement part ¢ 5 ‘ g K ver the fetter box, in the vesiibule. Mvic o\ Off AND HE WAS TELLIMNG 5 pioVen her —engagement: - B as & derk €lt des € e replie ent they had not relingushed their y \ occurred, would be its climax stairca wn_w ‘ : e lerstand. pied-a‘terre. The lack of illuminativn HER “WHAT EVERY Y % \ s summit b voloutu ) ng Y me e b r detect course, meant notning, as they wou.d A g gl \ m b § S er not pass their mghts nu.» ivy was EEADER CAN GUESS t f‘ |“/‘[y.r\‘|l‘“y”,l! the idea: but % s shrec . ow S5 zvous, t w n . "probabiy sleeping the slumber of the re- / N were now m widely spread. and she & 1L A Com h se t » " r tan' ,..;.-.K‘ in Central Park West ebn '*’fi " ]\nywdr'lndt in time they wou entirely k e ging 4 Sallle cow.a pictu her pale, cool Ma- disappear. £ 1 H donna face on fts pillow, haloed by the NHAES Bl ais ik not play 1he. gal he there” a A mer r . er strands of silver-gold hair. « U TS BanGE (o b was opened ss H € mir But the name was there above the bell! i et e o R fo. a N wrong ere will be 4l The apartment still belonged to Mr. and pretty game and one t 3 & S b will be ory. It Mrs. Compton. Perhaps they had aban- to produce a salubr effect 1 H 1 253 i doned it in abrupt finality. Perhaps the Tk Ae Tion o0 tombend w ark > and ¥ f expressior S ni s mersly, deusplelpiia TOr{ )y oot witad e sEhndA Gl AR N ey that she wam.not guent contact. She chilled him 80 re- piece covers. and manipulate table-cen- Ha 8 was_knock her hea But if they did meet there again, Sal- lear enough = He plled/Mr. Green with ridieulously * conventional ~enougi to freshingly. Ii was lke sitting in the ters. and make herself pretiy wra - o ugh the e swore that she would confront them. duestions, @nd sat tingling with laughter pass him by because he was labeled “en- shade “under a spreading chestnut tree” for when she “‘wasn ling well. . . = was wortt And detective Jackson . . . she smiled At his agswers. And Mr. Green, In the gaged.” Other women twight do it. but to be near her. \When he got home late lie Bethson had two of these wraj w well done A and snapped her fingers safely of an immaculate position that such a proceeding would be quite unlike at night or early in the morning, all a- in ostentatious manufacture. Ivy L2 well indeed ¥ c " assured to him all the truth of the in- Sallie Sydenham. He (id not belleve fever with the worries and cares of it strange that th Miss Hampton. superb ¢ s Syder he r cident, feit that he could afford to weave that she considered his sex at all, and he Jjournalism, it was pleasant to meet IVY of their gay enthus d think a ars a u s Per - We CHAPTER I Miss Sy n m’'s exploit into a sort of told himself that he was far from con- in_ her cool, chaste peignoir, her silver seriously of days when y wer AT nllie s . 3 N Jack € s chuckled in e ¢omic interiude. ~Had the paper been sidering hers. Mr. Childers had no faith gold hair knotted loosely on her neck. feeling well But 4 always _did B - . 3 this 1 reciation of the result . op the “story’’ he would probably in platonic - attachments, as a general and with her meek Puritan eyes free [t was like the miser and his “rainy day for revea f s excitedly, scar r m's assignment. Nigh have avoided Mr. Childers. Mr. Green (hing, but in Sa.lie's case it was even from all perturbing influences. It Was that Is alwaysso felicitously anticipated. cupied the few se s w - - who knew his sup uways encased himself in an impenetra- less than platonic as good as a bromide. It rushed his tem- g, gid not change her demear . _fos e ey w n w ty for entertainment, aiways saved up ble sheil of mystery, when things went His engagement” to Miss Hampton peratur wn to the normal point, and 4.4 Jack Childers because she was - - s - t et t tit-k f the ice r him. and he was careful to place the had by no means altered his life. It many Tmidable problems that had U0l “ana"che was thankful to S a " s ress— Mr. Childers listened (o many quafnt in for the muscarriage upon was a pleasant arrangement, and not at seemed to him unsolvable in the early FafRc, pit G005 WEE PREED FG at a nter - e dents of Newspaper Row, as he lolled the set of available shoulders that all moving. It was progressing well part of the morning, ranged themselves: p<Cause e GIg ot S o o mor. smok etings. lLet Donchalantly in his office, and took life he could find as could be expected'—as he always felt discreetly and satisfactorily in his mind R 0 ¥org T he had been. her « o P what he can Pleasantly. " Mr. Green, after his sqme- Mr. Childers, as a man. had little sym- absurdly inclined to say when questioned. as he sipped his cup of boulllon, sit- PYRSERE AR 5 A0 o eas For g ot what paipitant interview with Miss Sy- pathy with these owl pursuits; but, as Ivy was quite well, thanks, and able to ting by her side. could et - Siulate; Witk - she . Uh. met 3 = - - . eione nd Heaoubts and his ap. a journalist and a managing editor, he be about—also thanks. He nad discover- It was certainly a cozy arrangement. goltld o0 SMETIC, FIAT SHe Gaq hot d returned to his original was bound to regard them. And he did ed no new charms in hie cousin; but Jack Aunt Hampton, who always used to sit tinct from the other, and encroachment T e gra e i girl's non-success, and he his duty by them. Many a nauseous dose Childers did not believe—as so many up in the drowsy propriety of chaper- would have been impossible. She could : Mr. Green PUILIL up into merry anecdote for Jack had he swallowed; but he never grew seem to beliove—that an engagement onage. during these meetings. felt that would have beem impossible. = She could tte, w . s In owldom an ounce of authori- quite accustomed to the taste, and he brings out a girl's qualities as if they she could now leave Jack and IVy to- est_imitation of what she lavished upon risms . - > kneaded into pound: of flunkey- invariably promised himself taut one day were a rash. or an eruption—better out gether. It was eminently proper to do Arthur Stuyvesant, and he did not ask it 1 the r escaping powers are deftly graded. 1t he would “own & paper’ that should be than in. s0. Moreover . . . she was not far {,"Cuniral Park West she was Ivy Hamp ' —and 2 - o Sueb T g company, in which as solld and heavily dignified as the Lon- To be sure. he now permitted himself away. Mrs. Hampton felt that othing Yh:< in her. East Side cneironsenc mhe the cheap N L the Jeporiers Are ihe chorus, and the don Times, the mighty thunderer that to accord Miss Hampton a chaste kiss or wrong would happen. From the adjoin- tonj i1 Per B froom : e ey onne Drincipals, stand. would make such splendid wrapping pa- two on fitting occasions. But it was ing bedroom she could have heard a kiss, “5% Mrs. Compron. = aban- s ov % and S - s ng haughtily in the center of the stage per and parcel covers in New York. quite perfunctory and his blood pulsed but she felt bound to admit that she had /03 0. Sororts 16 cape the chill oo - a8 couy ely. and declaiming beautiful, puissant things. There were many denizens of New York's no more warmly: nor did hers, he was never done so. Nothing but the soft un- troasiirtutir oy Tl ag S B i e g, in_jo m ! Mr. Childers thought Eallie's incursion ewldom who saw happy rest and stout, quite certaln. Once or twice he felt the dertones of dialogue reached her ears, e lly: e MRS Jaek mocer Bls o \phed x censibly, and Lo the reportorial field one of the best stolid dolce far niente in the lugubrious irony of this condition, and he wondered as she sank fo siumber, She would per- Joverlye helmrslor, : But' Mre Chitde 1. This w - - jokes of the season. The idea of her in- doughiness of the London Times. If Lamp-Post Lucy could tell why he was haps have liked to feel th.t her duties lover-lke hehavior. Bul Mr = Chi ter r ~ tlerview with Mrs. Stuyvesant, according g ltor V5%, MiXlous to “s0 cold and ~unrespomsive.” Possibly as chaperone were a trifle more arduous. was most plausivle He had known Ivy - ; 1o Mr. Green's adaptaticn of the story, see Miss Sydenham; but she had been she had some recipe for it. He felt It would have pleased her to frown at an A title o Thi: 06 & Bt Stha r @ppealed to him with an_ intensity of strangely absent of late. He missed the certain that Lamp-Post Lucy and Mrs. occasional outbreak of vouthful im- rP [t ireatue enthoalsson Decovie’ thoy Malied N 2 humor It occurred to him that the uptown trips on the elevated train—even Amella Amberg F{ulnhln. n could, be- petuosity, and she believed that o F“,‘,L" ‘15(1 R TR st Ty T .;" | Miss Ham b picture of Sallie in her war paint, toying more thoroughly than he realized. He tween them, brew some admirable ad- could have done it very gracefully in ey B el o Sk - She gladly with the sensationalism of adultery, and had unconseiously grown accustomed to vice. Later on, of course, he would be deed. But she could sleep In perf e e Gt oL PAtha: witr expression’ =t om s I pe a catastr s e e royishing plainiiff her- them as relaxation. and he had no in- obliged to “incandesce” @ bit, but just security, certain that the convenances hers led through cynicism an et mained by the @ a i 1 c¢ would self. was quite too killng. = And he was tention of allowing Miss Sydenham to at present matters were cooler and, pe would receive no unhandsome treatment th' lh“’z';', turies have givens his h lleq With excitement A " e some § f an ag She longed convulsed at the resuit—at Sallle’s easy neglect him. He looked upon these trips haps, more desirable as they were. He Yet she would gladly have remalned at the cen l" < Bo ey indidt reed o move. as all the em hur e 1 him, and tell him belief that there was “nothing in it,” and as his perquisites, and his aunt and Miss knew that flamboyant manifestations of awake. . . N R T g "Ei I eTNTS 4ud jobbed hex of . hat if ‘he persiste this demoniac at her charmingly supercilious neglect to Hampton found him singularly “cranky” affection were rather bourgeois; still, he No date had been, fixed for the wed- anc a smooth, untuffled Hking ' 3 A malignant_®express vest of sensat sm, he would find “report progress” to Mr. Green. e I er S Co oty sbmialn, Thers reasoned. those who did without them @ing; the wglad day" stayed frigldly un- _As chaperone, who might have dome aciors face: The i hat his own T e ppitor would It was so extremely original and so were other ‘“jolly good fellows” in the missed a good deal. They were sup- named. Mrs. Hampton tried vainly to AT R TR LR T ftS- cle which this w ampen his ardor ve Guick Had he archly funny. He wondered if Sallle had office, of course; but they wore trousers, posed to besnatural, and a man could not stir up a little enthusiasm on the ques- 8rieved. P ”k S that ndy bt ter abe his latest k T e o have teowould have laughed with Mrs. Stuyvesant, and had and Jack Childers was not inclined to re- go through life In’ artificial apathy just tion. She would have Iked to see Ivy Uisténing for kisses that neyer were kissed breast like & knife e. A it. She wou aired her quaint and oatre philosophy. place Miss 8ydenham. f(., the sake of “good form.” go out and buy things—those beautiful, and for et et ';’l";"'l he recalled her threatening Wor \n Ow n at him, ar He fould imagine Miss Sydenham dis- He could not help notlcing that she = He liked Ivy principally because she useless things that excitable brides-eleci UL to be most prosaica ubstantia dom s balcony—words Since would have cussing the case with outbursts of epi- was a little different in her manner of was such a picturesque contrast to the love to purchase. 1t would have given CHAPTER XIX the eral irity &s. been f fir e a P e (ovas Dot surprised that late. She seemed %o be slightly distraite, self-supporting ladies of Owldom with her something to talk about to her cro- 4 R X1 gott t ee of Yyour she had failed to “worra ? ] , R If you don't pia ar } @ story from and the frivol of ker talk was less spon- whom he came in such brugue and fre- nies. It was always an exhilarating McNally —Silverman—Compton—Riy had said, “if e ‘_)