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ep rere ae tt eer RE 2 OL LE LE OE aR i The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, August. 18, 1918 Satikoisekiease we BY w Bw By C. M. Payne YA CANT CATCH Em ISOLILOQUIE My Hunt for a Wife 4 New York Bacheior’s “Quest of the Golden Gir.”” By Victor J. Wilson. Now NEVER MIND THAT } = SUN’ ME TIRED § gust LEAVE 7D ME AND ILE Goserignt, 1918, by The Pram Pubtisning Oo, (Tin Row Took Mvasing World, 5.—THE GIRL I MET AT SEA. TWO PEOPLE cannot be frank and truthful with each other they ffrould rot want to marry. EIGHTH DAY, WV" helpless duffers we are without our wives! At home they become, In the 2 > 7 our On the steamer gotng to France I met @ fascinating girl, a = = 3 our debutante, I thought her. Ske had a certain individuality and : ‘They per- definnble piquancy that lure@every man on board. Sometimes s J form all of the lit- ahe was as unsophisticated as a child of twelve, and at other times = . ° tle stunts and work ahe displayed the penetration of @ worldly wise woman, But her role was . AN qut all of the minor that of ingenue ’ : é probleme far us, so } but as‘en' equivalent will say abe called herself Dorothy Somerset. ’ 2X ar Lochhead ana Dorothy wae undoubtedly aristocratic. Her manner, her clothes, her stories . tr n about herself and her friends indicated the breeding and culture that can only by obtained through generations of expensive living. I wondered if I ke ye on caste to keep up with her socially and half enough cash to Z Ss) sense of being Loo ‘When Dorothy found that we knew many people tn common, Mrs, A——— _ reals phd vg sdivarsteg in particul: who was et the very top of New York's Four Hundred, and i itt that my father was the President of a highly-capitalised bank, ehe showed : For ererygel cian anibea bern very plainly that she preferred my society to that of the other young men ¥ ever 1 have to put the buttons in my Who hovered about her. ' = fal She was travelling along, and was on her way to join her fod ‘a wholly unmrerited visitation convent near Brussels, where she had been educated, ‘nm Providence that I should be aubjected At night ehe went to bed with all the old fogtes at 9 o'clock, just when ‘ to the awful, racking laber of taking 8 fellow longs to etar-gase with hie best girl on shipboard. (" ad . the buttons out of @iscaréed shirt Dorothy was a tantalising minz, always demanding the unexpected. I J = ‘and putting ‘em into fresh one! @ave her all my books, magazines, my fraternity pin, a allver cup I had just 4 \ 1 pion’ quite worked up over won at tennis, which was @ loved possession, a eet of jade cuff links and a . r} and sympathise with myself and heave topas watch fod. 7 heavy wighs over my wife's callousness After we landed I sent more books and flowers and candy to the convent, ¥ in deserting her post of duty—that’s and after many pleading letters and telegrams ehe allowed me to motor \, : the way { always frame it, “deserting @own for an afternoon and introduced me as her cousin to the nuns, whom her post of duty”—leaving me behind p here to perform these laborious end | . soul-corroding taska @ vieited friends in England and I toured France and Germany and did not eee her again until I returned to New York and went to tea at her apartment, where I was presented to her mother, Dot had no father. Her mother and eister and she lived on an income. I degan to court her in proper fashion and met most of her friends, whom I con- aidered charming and worth-while people. She talked @ great deal of Mrs. A and asked me if I had seen her. When I finally met Mra, A at a dinner I could not fesiat mentioning the namé of my adorable Dot. Much to my astonishment, Mrs. A sald she knew no Dorothy Somerset and had never heard of her. As a surprise to Mrs, A, I arranged a luncheon, where they should both meet, but when I told Dot about it she said she preferred not te go. Bhortly after this J met Mrs. A in her limousine, 8h iked me to drive up the avenue with her, and who should pass in a hansom but Dorothy, who did mot ace us, I sald to Mrs. A: “That 1s Dorothy Somerset, now do you remember her?" Mrs, A.eaid: “That girl 1@ my dressmaker, Miss Brady.’ bl After some inquiries I loarned that Dorothy was the head of a fashionable @ressmaking establishment; in this way she made the acquaintances of which the boasted. Her art in creating gowns enabled her to Gress herself with such becomingness and the proceeds of the business supported her family. Somerset was her name out of the shop, Brady her name in the shop and In Bhe had been working from the time their father died, when ahe was ten years old, 1 hed fet her on one of her yearly trips to London and Paris to bring} —(‘CoPMAL Abas, Wy He K. Fly Co.) back “models for the trade.” And when I have to gether my laundry stuff into @ bundle for the laundry collector, who's bawling his 4 off up the dumbwatter shaft, I “What Ie the Joke?” fe one custom which I wish might be everywhere dis- couraged = among young people. ‘That is the prac- did?’ cried the doctor, sine bag for some ammonia and stammer: “I—well, you eee— tainly," admitted Doogan, coolly. It's out in the hall,” answered James"—— “Look here, Cluney. You didn’t want the doctor, Then, as he tried once more But at this point James Cluney ges- . SYNOPSIS OF PR! DING CHAPTERS. ‘The convent was a place to rest up after her arduous work of the winter and | yJM%% Cluney, an Kogishaien living in N: di York is carr, a dashes them to find It on me, did you?” vainly to make Cliney take the bun- ticulated so frantically to Willoughby wet her old-time school. ce) shemtainded sid, mertuante Many" “Where did jeu met that, bracelet?” dle of stock, he whispered: “Oh, well, to keep quiet that general attention No man who really loved her would have been lees inclined to marry her dex | hive Brie hoiss’ Te preiuP raise caetss thundered Dr. Willoughby, approaching I'll alip them into the safe on the Way was drawn to the poor badgered bride- cause she had to work for a living. the cuyidity of Jack Doogau, a clever thi Doogan menacingly. Kk. Get the old gentleman out of the ject. Instantly he assumed @ T told her I had met Mra, A, but of course did not eay that I already knew | Hetiyyis, Meth nem, iwodan colin the aud f “From him," said Doogan, pointing to Toom,” he added, and vanished. state of preternatural repose, and that che wee ® dressmaker. In the hopes that she would teil the truth about Sf, te whom, in le engaaed, t Cluney. But Madge came Fanning ee j book sraryecdy, after looking at him (2 mo- [omer of ite? “Why to Ka * neraelf I continued to go to wee her, but she affected the same aire and graces | MA ue tite: a wace 8 Then where did you «et It, Jam faced and terrified, and ne! ent or two, again gave attention to “I don't know. Oh, Willoughby, Cluney'’s arm, begged him to come tO Dr, Willoughby, who was as perturbed |joke that two young persons have die- he returned. - and deceptions. She waa the most accomplished little caricagurist I have ever met. Bs, WR caaney , true! I'm a kleptomaniac!” groaned ther, wh. was terribly fll, nea #8, Cluney. covered @ wonderful new relation? from him, but I told myself I coukd not be sure that she cared for me@md was not marrying Jest an ine use! nat the wretched Cluney, as he sank into @ yoo, dea.—right away, ere ‘Well, well! What is the explana-|gometimes it seems to me that there is ik chree weeks ine merely for the eocial position and maintenance f could offer her, and gradu. Peon iniverited by him ip the fort chair, his hands over his eyes, as Madge hurried dist ni MOR of this?” persisted Mra, Carr, jan invisitte circle drawn around all De yeu think ally dropped away from her. among, the presente, -—-> from the room. Come OR coud Potter ie cpmte seviein” lovers, and that this is the true holy te in anower quarters fr Don't leave me! cl { suggea' r. joughby, feeling him. eee SUE yr ee tart ta ae res ® os leave me!" And the two bolted after self cornered. greene, And ee te vere | seateaee ‘ : 2 DOCRAD Ik a to icked Safe. Madge Carr. + Vhat hi lames to do with it?’ answer, He The Day’s Good Stories (pe jeans i ae R. WILLOUGHEY laid a aym- MF. Carr wan about to follow, when Nothing—nothing!” feebly protested [the Outt of Jeste that are stupld and! nag probably been too Susy to call it t gala an appetite for trvakfest, But why, may] Boosie’ eete'eidr iol Tevmbenn hy a rust, and Pathetio hand on James hie eye chanced to Uahen what doe Wait. Task, are you ous 00 early?” re A ret | Cluney’a shoulder and told ““!'.a, me! That safe In open again. “An@ now that he is here, what is he while Dr. Willoughby te away,” oug- WO youthful artista having « studio { Phil-| Living close to. mature makes for quickoess and ‘watch him and to curb any tenden:y him to “forget it." Then, 1 must lock it, So carcless of me. Hor- going to do?” asked Willlem Carr. geated Joan. adelvhia, wherein they not only work, but! there was scarcely @ pause of helf @ second before | on his tonard Meptoaaanie. _ neveral, ire : shaking his head at Doogan, ribly careless!” “Ig you put it up to me, Bs a “The minister will have to wait,” re- Hodge ae well, were ottiged to make obit, | BMI reptied: eee, family tbe scarched. he murmured: Iie locked the safe carefully, when that we close up the joint,” eald Jack plied Mrs. Carr, decisively. not long ago, durinie a period of financial stress, | “Well, now, squire, that's curious, Here ya ae es a "I should say ao, Joan called to him from the doorway: Doogan, airtly. Madge went over to Cluney and rest- with auch mest as they could themeelves ptepere| come out carly te get an appetite for breakfast ‘ CHAPTER XV. Jack Doogan, “Come, father, Mother ts calling you ‘Joint echoed Mira. Carr, mystified’. ed her head against his shoulder, re- fm the studio; end I come out to Geto btvekfect for my apre James Cluney jumped up suddenly as She's having hysterics!” 1 “I mean—er—house,” eaid Doogan, gardiess of what it did to her carefully One morning, se the younger of the two "88 tite!"—Lomdom Angwrs, ionesiones.) an idea came to him, He ran to the n did not walt to see whether her coughing slightly, "Close up the house “gketching= in’ the coffee, he gave utterance to iat <a Os It Was a Joke. safe, and, th aw ther was coming, but rushed back to T,A4 10 and not allow any one to come in until ft pinint, “This fe 8 fine way ” led Willough- in. respons a Gone. wong sutward: fener ’ undoubtedly in @ pur questioned Mra, Carr, pitt: we nave hunted all through tt for the jot Cr Nasi Bree amie Watered Stock ‘ bead, Lita Bi me in place) to his pull, he shouted; her mother, whe war Wee ate cut of lonnly. Soatcts cians . hs “ * c oe a voul 3 je . . 1 don't know,”" was the airy complaint MILKMAN in @ country town not far from LA Peigaeetegeeayy it the Sondh et ke T wonder Me ivulsion to another In ® most On POOF "‘There was a diversion at this juncture ¢ of his friend, “Lots of peonie are far worse off, Nie Sek Wes tek tos etek ais over Dr. Witloughby’s Thank heaven!” Mere they are * Giseoncerting way.’ Mr, Carr dashed Oh, deuce take itl Geng eit, Biot into tne room and . 1 was reading only this morning of a recluse who coett & easher 6 a et sicRatien hands ove in his . Jack Doogan know he had placed the after his daughter, and soon was in his 1 ry @ beckoned to Dr. Willoughby. “Mother, mother!” whispered William cooked big own Ureakfast for 19 years,”” of milk, clothing and felt in International Steel bonds in” hi n wife’ ee where he was as useless ae “Excuse me, Dr, Witloughby, There's Carrr to his wife. ‘Why does that de- “He mint have been awfully Bungry whem Be] wyoy gre charged," enid the Judge, “with | Pockets #0 skilfully that Mrs, Carr was ft, and he felt In it to fled aut the average man always ts in the pres om an automobile at the door for you, alr. tec keep looking at mer” finally a4 it done,’ rejoined the other, *@°8687 | arose gertous offense —of selling wiulterated miix,| Moved to remark: tin that rhe had fost them, No. they ence of an hysterical lady. ae The gentleman said you should hurry, "*“Watt's minute!” called out Doogan, Harper's, Magatine, Have you saything to may ia anewer to the| cou seem to be an exper Were atl there. Cluney waa handing a | Meanwhite De Wutrying nie Black 1 never heard anything “““iGoo4 Lord!” efaoulated Willoughby, pa yal ew oo Mr Ce Ea? EDT «ESS charget’* » sheaf of « to the Jibra J . , ir. Carr! " the subject long enough, of pa that looked like the ba aba Ri hand and co by! I've got to go. Where's m: Logical Youth. . | Well, Your Wortip," aoawered the milkman, | graweret DooKsn, bonds to De, Willoughby leather medicine vasrock in the. other 1 right, then; Til go ahead with inenturmet cusete 7 7 oe en another ‘doors "1 aorrt AYMOND, acconting to # recent story, bad on might before {t was raining very hard, and Subject?” y 1 . Phar no. These are not the bonds!" by vite) medicine case ona chair and It, eaid Clune: ‘You see, Mrs. Ca: Everybody |ooked for the diack leather R vesn playing hard all day and come to only cause 1 oan sive fe the cow must have] vor praise for skill, you know," he cried the latter, “This Is the common He put iis medicines “ti hf it's like this: Mr. Doogan i# not case, But tt was not to be found until 7 detinae thorougily weary, In fact, \e| #¢ Wet Cmough,”—Harper's Weekty, explained. "Next!" stock Mr. Carr spoke about.” knelt down a common. stock!" he Feally a friend. He's more of @ guest. Mrs, Carr saw that her husband had thet he wanted to omit gaying his ——— Tle made a tentative secrch of Cluney Jack Doogan began to understand ah Mrinast get it back in the aafe No, he's fot exactly a gu He's it in hin hand, while he looked about and, dismisaing him with @ short | “What?” howled Cluney, ax he looked BFowlds NUNN TT's te pulled at more of a friend, No, that quite for it with the othere, Bt bia motier remotes, xa! When All Are Equal. ning,” looked at William Carr, who St one of the papers which Dr, Wil- before Ie TOU” arodoor, but the What T mean, ether, You eee, I asked — “William, dear!” exclaimed Mra. Carr, iat be a good boy and thank God for all Vis By Cora M, W. Greeni-a’. offered himself as the next person to be loushby had opened. “Why, so it is, the handle of toe “}ollo! What's him here to the weddin, 4—well, reproachfuily, taking the case érom are yo goles to yor, dust think What @ nice cime | ve te Beate yr a ,,| examined. ; . ve Well, where are the bonds?" He peered eer eG oad heavens! It's locked" 2 him and hanging it to Dr, Willoughby, —wtiyent wae all = AB Sarre tad alt day ‘playing, and remember all tue | 6 6 ein hearts welaave behind.” | Jack loogan said, sativ: “No 1 into the safe again, “they're gone! “in ‘ way «till fumbling at the handle, James Cluney, having got thus far,’ “Why will { be eo ebsenteminded?’ oasn turning to th ‘other little bays who have vo nice home oF We're told, “im not to di can't do it. Mre, Mother, will you And the sunburst! That's gone, too!” «to get the door open, and sw wiped aia hot face with his handker- murmured the old geatioman with ® 410.4 omoial tone: “Ladies and wen- gg psd Me Ue "Tis immortality on earth, and| ly sce if father's pockets are empt Ho got up and stared wild-eyed at MIME AO Bee str s Carr—wno had sheepish sm , Donen, 18° tan te tala cherie cn tahe Raymond's eyes opened r ” r tly ritteulous esacule 4 Willoughby, who, after an instant’s re- See egd ‘trom ner attack of iliness “Well, I'm sorry, tout I've got to Hemen, if I as eeeath, Maree eC out ot his relaxed mouth came thie protest: t of us may attain It if we But she began to In her Ayction, advised te abruptly wa aie had fallen into It— ed rush,” sald Dr. Willoughby, making for (eee ene oe ari ornate “Bui, moth think them's the feller that care to try, pockets nevertheless. Almont close the safe, James, Thoy'll oe een wide, with all the others the door. "Professional call! Remem~ Seth, olm euchter do t joago Record-Herald.) For love makes all men equal. y ie Ferensne " ty'emel © took 1t."* goed be peste her, and demanded Just what IT am Ser Booman, the case is entirely in —_————— o * 2 7 uicl nicl : ae = ued * Cl 01 . a ‘To live In heartsi” @ privilege that’s! trom the rum, foowed by her terrified 5 7h thie ce ee tteneet Gterniy: Ate Keep eS uid “Leave it to me! Leave it to mel” P He Deserved It. oure from hour of birth, daught e, James,” sald Willoughby, hol “De, Wiloughby, what are y was Doogan's reassuring response, as ty agea | "TO live in hearts” of those we love, oh! Wijliam Carr, looking after them ck to Cluney, “Put these at that wate? the door banged behind the doctor. NE naming Oa ila into when audea:| _ Reritawe of worth! | qmaed, pur his hand In his comt-pocket, hark, 4 Siegen ee EG geet “All the wedding presents,” repeated Wy he came fee (othe with tie owner] A QUE from Neaven to every soul that | felt the’ bracolet tnere, and darted after iui just than Wiliam Cars entered, MME OMIM stele of nat?” dee pent iaie CHAPTER XVII. an, writing it down on his ped, ‘ly he thyught etill lay comes to live on earth, and yanters, . ani i with a despairing ‘Too NT ee aoe Mie . “No, no,” interrupted iN of the manor, who natursily Thus WM sakes cdieee faves pnts : NE shout exetn mea Inter punt th waway fron hin manded Wiliam Gare, Tou have ne What's a detective doing | Jack Doogan in Charge oat Caroline. “The cone was the brightnow of the moraing as the} To jive in hearts we leave behind," | Dr. lous? PuSRIOG: aot Hi while Willoug’ natous to wet rid ig? a Mra, . " ER IAT’S all very well,” ob- Mr, and Mrs, Carr shook their heade __ lume wositin iO Nariel toot ¥¥4| wheeh love to never cole Phot tha raciet was in the old man a tried it Into” Cluney's ane od Mra . tine Minsat: 66 Served James” Ciuney, and frowned to keep her quiet, But ik red cut ® mervous greeting, Our image Ineffaceably engraved on| Pocket?” ' ; ' ‘iighoute " if you will kindly ex- dismayed, “But what was too late, and Deogan asked: wercrancod mamairg, air! What-—what brisgy you purest gold, eurat! anid Dooran, ConAdentye a. wcaas th me itl Guieel Dhue tere ‘atch whom?” in- About the wedding?” We “Where was the Oracelet foundt” ou 0 rd the ord of the land, with | Death were & paltry price to pay, such| manded the doctor. ing hy: I'm afraid she's going — But that reemed to be more than haven't any dest man ou pul man's pocket peep a to his band, “I came out] When death makes all men equal, ‘Bs4 Doogan put it there” . nnconseigus testing of the love as that to held, “Why, I know,” threw in Cluney, to fain Dr, Willoughby was equal to doing e it,” erled Cluney. “Hyeterice? I'U bave to get into my coberently, at.least, All be could do now. want to know.” “and gpppoee the minister comes aie ta sf ne SUMMER WIDOWER KIDDING ~ You RUBES Make® eC HAST er OAT : By Clarence L. Calien. of imitation or Ll as Thiet @ story of actual happening, eo that I may not use her real name, * 4 ’ at when we Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers ee — ~oaneene S OF A work up @ perfectly dandy little feeling ynthetic sadness over @ way ''m being mistreated! Fact of the matter is they make help- less, incompetent babies of us. They take Little joba off our hands that in the aggregate shape up into a whole lot of work, and after a while we begin to accept thene things ae perfect mat- ter-of-course, our lordly right, the just- it-ought-to-be stuff. ‘There ian't muoh nutriment in the thing of feeling abused after they're gone. The only fun you gan get out of the abused atuff is by showing ‘om that you feel that way. When they're not around to see you look abused there’ nothing whatever in that line of medi- cine. Queer that ehe writes me éuch cheer- ful, chirky lettera!- I read ‘em between the ‘Hines to see if I can discern any vulgar, even if good-natured. 1% io high time that euch mockery should etop. “@. 1." writes: “Ie it @ young lady's place to epeak firet when she encounters gentleman?” a Yes, to show that ehe wishes ¢o reces- aise him, ~— Titeasien ap! “M. A." writes: “Can « widewer of thirty-five, with one child, mary bbe Bete "D Badan? Sek 2 aut “e

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