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es CHAPTER XXKYV. ONSTANCE led Connington out into the gamien, and they found Avuirey and Aunt Ella sitting on the seat under the on & hedgerow which faced the tibwer beds. “Runt Bia looked from Constance to Comnington and back again. She saw & Wubtle ohange in her sister, an air 48 of girthood suddemly returned, & shyness and a reserve, as though she réeverved something from sight. An Incredible suspicion gripped Aunt Elia, and quickly grew to a certainty. ‘With its advent she knew @ peace of mind which had not been hers for years, “Audrey |"" some effort. Duthe to see yo! what to say. It was Connington’s adroitness which broke the tension of the mo- ment. He took Audrey's hand and stooped and kissed her on the check. “This is the happiest day of all my fe," he sald gravely. ‘For it has e'ven me back my wife and my daughter." Mamma!" Audrey turned to Con- ataince with a cry and put her arms about her. Gonnington stepped across to Aunt Ella. “T have always imagined you spend- fag your days in a garden Ike this, File,” he eaid. “And, after all, I think you have chosen the wiser Toad."’ ;Aunt Ella smiled up at him. She had always liked her brother-in-law. “Yet {would be a very lonely road {f love wére taken from it.” she sald, with @.glance in the direction of Constance and Audrey, “And {t would easily be so empty and futile.” am having tea served in the wing room,” she said. “Will you li_come inside? Connington rose and offered Aunt ja his arm, and Constance walked abeca with Audrey. Audrey was silent, and Aunt Bila w of what the girl was thinking. ‘Connington talked smoothly and ‘ly, when Audrey interrupted him th a little cry. Jim Harkness was walking up the th. ‘Lord Connington stopped talking. “Who is this young gentleman?” Constance spoke with “Lord Connington has She hardly knew he asked. Constance answered him. "He is Hlarkness—the man of whom you were speaking.” 4‘He is just in time for tea," he ob- @eryed. ‘The smooth remark broke the ten- sion, and told Constance how to act. With Audrey beside her, she walked ovgr to the window “Mr. Harknesi For! come in this way? tug tea.” Harkness reached them and held out his hand, For a fraction of a second Constance hesitated, then she took it. “T hope I'm not intruding,’ sald Harkness. “I didn't know you had visitors until 1 saw the cay down at the gate.” He was turning to Audrey as he spoke. and it was Audrey who an- ewered him, she called. “Will ‘We are hav- “Lord Connington inside, she waid. Harkness did not answer. The an- founcement appeared to have dis- turbed him, Won't you come in?"’ she asked, “I am sure you must want a cur of tea.” “Phank you," answered Harkness gravely, and followed them into the rool. Constance introduced him, "Mr Harkness—Audrey's father, Lord Connington. Geoffrey—Mr. Hark- nae.” fhe told Harkness everything in those few words, and ‘his incredulity » was reflected in his face @onnington extended his hand to Tigykness, and Constance realized that thove was a measure of approval in thé’ action. "I believe I owe you a debt, Mr. Harkness. You have spared me a reat deal of worry and trouble, and possibly saved me from making some enemies, I must congratulate you on the way you handled the trouble at your father's works. By the way, how is your father?" Marknes§ smiled. “He has re- coVered wdnderfully, and is able to Bet about. We were afraid he would have a relapse when he heard what _Tadone, bie seemed to see a joke in “it"and hed for thy first time for som He h snounced thet | finitely ved with » work rds to join . golf club, ant a > into a very sclf-sat- tifed wu. awntortable old gentleman.” id have met him several times,’ observed Connington, “and can hard- dy imagine him filling that role, I ‘By THE NGM By Tee Meccome Ne “| THINK | HAVE UNDERSTOOD ALL THE TIME,” SHE SAID. hope he doesn’t politics.”* They sat down, and Connington dropped out of the conversation. This Harkness, he told himself, was a man after his own heart. He had met Harknesses before. They were scat- tered on the fringes of the empire. Harkness was speaking to Con- stance, “I came down to ask if you and Audrey would care to go to the theatre to-night with me, I have a box at the Palatial for the first night of Lois Denbigh's new show ‘Which? It promises to be one of the cleverest pieces for years.” Constance hesitated. answered for her. “If your box would big party, Mr. Harknees, I propose we all go. You would like it, wouldn't you, Ella?" Constance said nothing. not quite intention. intend to study Connington hold a She could understand Connington's As Aunt Ella told her, the Conningtons had alwayy been beyond her. had once Connington the and Constance went Bila slipped quietly through the door, and Harkness and Audrey found them- selves alone, For afew moments they were silent, then Harkness sald: “I had your letter—it seems a very long while ag: Audrey walked over to the plaho, She was trembling. “Did you under- stand it? Have T—annoyed you’ She was expressing the doubt which had tortured her ever since she had sent it. Harkness came behind her and looked down at her over her shoulder. “My dear, you have saved me,” he sald quietly. “You have only to tell me now that you forgive me and there can be nothing else to say.” “There is nothing to forgive,” an- out into warden, = Aunt swered Audrey unsteadily. “It was Ally-just misunderstanding. If we understand completely now—.” “We do understand, ! think,” @aid Harkness. me, dear?” She turned to him. “I think Ihave understood all the time,” pered. He put his arms about her and drew ber to him, and she came un- resistingly, her breath warm on his cheek, her lips parted and rosy “I love you!" There could be no more for him to tell her, nor for her to hear, The woman in her wanted nothing else, ‘They kissed, and in that kiss was all his claim and all her surrender CHAPTER XXYVI, OND “I do. Will you look at she whis- NGTON drove them to London in his bix car, and a subdued exeltement and re- strained them all happiness animated When Harkness had taken Audrey out to where Conning’ and Con. stance walked among the roses in the garden Connington'’s approval was expressed Jn a way peculiarly his own. He turned to Constance with a little wry smile And said: “Alas, the schemes of women and mor We have lost our daughter befure we have found her, Constance.’ Constance stooped and kissed Au- drey softly on the cheek. It was Aunt Ella who showed the most enthusiasm, and her unspoken approval of Harkness was obvious and unbounded. Connington dropped Harkness at his flat and proceeded to the house in Mount Street with Constance, Au- drey and Aunt Ella. “My sister and her son are awa he said briefly as they walked across the hall. “I believe they have gone to Biarritz." Constance did not reply. She felt that there was a volume of informa- tion in those two sentences which called for no comment. They had dinner fn the room where Constance and Connington had firat discussed the custody of Audrey, Harkness having come along in taxi, and afterward they all went down to the Palatial. The theatre was crowed with Lon don‘'s smartest people, and more than one elegantly colffured head was turned toward the box. Constance began to realize why Connington had come. “This is Lote's great chance,"’ sald Harkness to Audrey, as they sat a little apart at the side of the box. “'T hope it's @ success, for her sake."’ “Do you think she really cared for you, Jim?" she asked, He hesitated a moment. “I believe she di he confessed. Audrey was wondering what com- pensation Lois could have for the loss of the great happiness which made her own life so radiant and full a of promise. From the first scene all their doubts were set at rest. Tho play was wonderfully written. Lois was superb. Even while she had the audience laughing she was bringing them near to tears, She was not an actress play- ing @ part, but a woman living a life in the brief space of time during which she moved behind the foot- lights, She made a graceful little speech at the end. “I did my best!’ That was all she could say. ‘I did my best! And I thank you!" She looked up to the box and her eyes rested on Harkness and Audrey. Harkness leaned over and threw a bunch of roses on the stage at her feet, She picked them up and, of all the flowers which were handed to her, they were the only ones which she kept. Audrey felt for and held Hark- ness's hand. “She has found her lover,’ she whispered. ‘There!’ She nodded toward the clamorous audience. “And I have found mine, dear,” murmured Harkness, gripping her fingers tightly. Behind them Aunt Ella sat and watched Constance and Lord Con- nington, and told herself that love was the greatest gift of all. (The End.) Cleverness vs. Cosmetics As Husband-Holders The Lure of the Lipstick Is Ephemeral, but a Cultivated Mind Is Always Attractive, Says Dr. Riegelman. By Fay Stevenson. WOMAN should be the red rose rather than the scarlet belladonna. Hk. “A powdered nose, @ painted lip, @ darkened eyelash or henna- dyed hair may catch @ husband, but cannot keep him. “Every woman should develop some special at- traction all her own until it be- comes something man will be proud of." That is the gist of a lecture deliv- ered by Dr. Josiah Otdfleld before the Eclectic Club in London the other day. Dr. Oldfield is not only a physi- cian but a barrister so his philosophy “Having got her learn bears double weight. a woman must warns the doctor. man, him,"" “But how? If mere physical at- traction will not hold a husband what special attractions should a wife develop?" I asked Dr Riegelman, head of the Child Hygiene Bureau and a social worker for thirty years. Dr Riegelman has come in daily contact hundreds of women all classes and rather prides herself on the fact that she understands and ap- preciates her own sex to keep clever Laura M Brookiyn a service with from Indeed every woman should de ALL have and velop special HER OWN if she wishes tc to hold her husband's love,’ jared Dr with Dr latest statement.” aome attraction emphati- Riegelman. “1 Oldfield in his cally dec quite ag There was a slight pause Dr Kiegelman added ake yeasop ip the world why a woman and then “there shouldn't work both rules—the beauty derfully attractive she would be! rule and the special attraction too. “While the high brow type of girl does not make an especially attractive type to the average man it is true every woman must have something besides! beauty to hold a man’s love, In fact, the George Sand type, the very plain woman, frequently com- mands a8 much attention as her pret- tler sisters and she does it by this special attraction of her own. rule “It a girl can play, sing or paint my advice to her is to keep this talent up after marriage. Mere man is very proud of a woman who has some line He likes to sit back and gsten to his wife render a dainty piece of music or rattle off some lively jazz, He is proud to point to a painting or sketch upon the wall with a noncha- lant ‘‘My wife did that; rather good, eh?’ It gives him personal pride, a constant interest in her work and her ambitions, of her own. “But not all women are talented along this line," continued Dr. Riegel- man, ‘‘and it is true children and the care of a home keep many women away from thelr girlhood talents. Still I hold that an hour or half hour each day should be devoted by every wom- an to some special talent which will add something toward her own devel- opment, I that every girl should be ax well educated as posst- believe ble and if she cannot go to college high should keep up with current events and spend a cer- tain amount of time daily sort of mental work “Even a girl with an elementary education can acquire a vast amount of education and develop a mental at- traction which will grow yearly, If the average girl would spend as much or school she in some ee ey Abe and Mawruss Re- mark the Wonderful Change That Has Made the Banker an Outdoor Sportsman. They Agree That a Superfluity of Bank Officers Is a Very Fine Thing for Sta- bility. By Montague Glass. ES, Mawruss, you can't 6é ; recognize one of these here snappy, up-to-date young salesmen for commission houses no more,"’ Abe Potash re- arked recently. “They look like such typical bankers.” “What do you mean —- typical bankers?” Maw- russ Perlmutter protested. “A typical banker has got side whiskers, a black string tie, elastic side cone a frock coat and gress gaiters.”” “Not no more,” Abe declared. “A typical banker nowadays dresses the same like anybody else with just a little more color in the necktie, y'understand, and maybe also the coat is gathered in the back and has gussets behind the sleeves so that the banker could show the other members of the Loan and Discount Committee just how he got an 87 at the Swamp Ridge Country Club last Sunday before they go to work and close down on a couple of cus- tomers in the silk business. “In fact, Mawruss,” Abe con- tinued, “the old-fashioned banker which begun at the bottom of the ladder as a bench boy in the bank and worked his way up to the President, y'understand, usually gets lost in the merger when his bank is taken over by a large, snappy, up-to-date bank of which the President worked his way up from a rotten 125 until he became winner of the Southwestern Cham- pionship amateur title at the Wee Doch and Doris Country Club, and got into the Board of Direc- tors of three banks and two trust companies with a 75 already.” “It's wonderful the way golf has got such a hold on the business life of the country, Abe.’ Mawruss said. “T bet yer." Abe agreed fervently, “which if T had a son, Mawruss, I would give him the beginnings of a good sound business education with a couple of these here Scotch profes- sionals, Mawruss, and see him rise to be anyhow one of the two hundred or three fundred vice presidents which no really up-to-date bank or trust company could get along without, y'understand.”’ BRIDGE AND POLO ALSO REQUI- SITE. “But of course, Abe, if you expect- ed that some day he would be able to put through a merger of several banks and trust companies, he should also be a first class, A-number one, cracker jack auction bridge player,’ Mawruss declared, ‘because after all it's the friendship made by a man who can get his partner out of a four no-trump doubled, —_y’ understand. which counts in after life."’ “Well, in some cases, yes,’ Abe said, ‘but real big things in the busi- ness world, \Mawruss, is veserved for time upon her brain as she does upon her coiffure and fingernails how won- Coming back to this girl with the elementary education, I advise her to go to evening school if her strength will permit. If she finds she needs the air and must have plenty of exer cise she need not confine herself to « night course. A good, sensible paper read on the way to busiuessyevery morning is bound to improve her mind if read seriously through news ani editorial columns. Then she must read good books, books by worth while people ideas. tA once a week will help the girl who wishes to he mentally attractive and I advise every young woman to go to church once containing worth-while lecture at least a every week. I do not care whether her church is a Synagogue, Christian Science temple or Catholic altar as long as it is a place of worship and directs her mind along quieting influ- ences for an hour or so each week Every woman needs poise and this HvEBwinG WUeLD, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1922, ve.Will Never: JOHN HUNTERW i A*STORY, FOR THE YOUNG OF HEART. \ ‘ ‘| fellows whose fathi stick to polo, for lunch, “Bo fai — a an a et ON MODERN UP-TO-DATE BANKERS F I had a son I would give him the beginnings of a good, sound busi- ness education with a couple of these here Scotch professionals and see him rise to be one of the two hundred or three hundred Vice Presidents, which no really up-to-date bank can get “The real big things In the busine: I can see there was a whole lot more banks failing solemnly than are making money cheerfully to-day yet. “You can say this much about modern, up-to-date banking: It certainly keeps bankers out in the open alr.” jong without. world is reserved for them young seen to it that they didn’t fool their time with such nonsense as double entry or stenography and typewriting, but made them ;~ “When you and me first went into business bank Presidents got talked about because they wore overcoats five years old and ate a couple of apples respectably in the old days them young fellers whose fathers seen to it that they didn't fool away their time with such nonsense as single and double entry or stenography and typewriting but made them stick at Polo—sometimes calied horseback- croquet—till their names was house- hold words in the executive commit- tee rooms and offices of the boards of directors of all the big New York and Chicago banks." “Naturally, Abe, because what banks has got to have nowadays is the kind of publicity which is going to attract the real big depositors,’’ Mawruss remarked, ‘'and from having @ couple of hundred vice presidents who in their off hours are elegant fifteen-ball pool players or who can win a three-fifty hand in spades by two points and never turn a hair, Abe, ain't going to attract no better class of depositors than poo! and pinochle Players, y’understand, and no bank never got deposits of over $100,000,000 out of pool and pinochle players, Abe."* MANAGING THE PRIMA DONNA. “That's because the whole idea of business has gone under a great change in the last few years, Maw- russ," Abe said, “which when you and me first went into business, Mawruss, bank presidents got talked about be- cause they wore overcoats five years old and ate a couple of apples for lunch. They also used to walk up- town in the evening and save thirty cents a week carfare that way. “As for being guarantors of a sea- son of grand opera, Mawruss, and footing a hundred thousand dollar share in a deficit of two millions, y'understand, one of them old fash- ioned bankers oser would have loos- ened up for a nickel not if the com- bined cities of Chicago and New York didn’t have no more music than one performance of ‘Troyatore’ per an- annum. But depositors take a broader view of bank officials nowadays, Mawruss. ‘They want to do business with a big institution and they figure that officers of a big institution couldn't be small in or out of busi- ness."* ‘At the same time, Abe,'’ Mawruss suggested, ‘it looks to me that when a bank official has footed a deficiency for grand opera to the extent of a million dollars or so in one season, y'understand, he hos done enough to prove to the depositors that he ain't small outside of L ness hours."* “Sure I know," Abe agreed, “but it's only in such conservative busi- nesses as the moving picture industry and politics that a man has to be careful what his customers find out about his amusements outside of busi- ness hours, Mawruss. In a snappy, up-to-date business like the banking business has become in recent yea Mawruss, you've got to overlook such things. BANKING IS IN ITS INFANCY. ‘The modern banking business is in its infancy, Mawruss, and what would Seem like sensational methods in such old-fashioned, well-established lines as moving pictures and the manufac- ture of radio apparatus, y'understand, people is willing to make allowances for in the case of a business which is only in its experimental stages so to speak, like these here new chains of banks,"* “Well, certainly, in the old days, Abe, when you was blowing your wife d family to a round of Sw ss cheese Sandwiches and coffee after the thea- tre, y'understand, and you happened to see in the restaurant ) connected with your bank, undertand me, you felt guilty like you had been discovered drinking tchampanyer wine out of a chorus lady's slipper.” Maw- iss said, “which you could imagine what you would feel like to-day yet if banks still had them carfare-saving quality only comes through a divine worship and and rest which should enter every mind “Dr peace Oldfield is right when he says lip, a powdered a painted darkened eyelash or henna-dyed hair nose, may catch a husband but cannot keep him’ Physical attractiveness is most essential but it is only ha'f the batil:. A girl must have the mental poise, the balance wheel to keep things going smooth and straight and to hold thts man’s esteem and love sound like fairy to but when two peop “Ideals may and book talk, ive under the same roof together both the man and the woman must have some {deal to cling to woman who reads, who gives a certain amount her time to some talent of her importance of these ideals music and religion help one to cling to youthful ideals “I Know of a couple who had been married for twenty-nine years and of developing own realizes the Books, officials and you was one of them twin six driving depositérs.” So I Suppose that they've simply got to hafe them prima donna fanciers for bank presidents nowadays so as to make the depositors feel at home in the bank and to get their business away from those banks which con- tinue to have old-fashioned ideas about not lending money to high livers even when they carry a good balance.” “And what is more, Mawruss, them new style bank presidents who began at the foot of the ladder two years ago as vice presidents, y'understand, can “MAYBE THE COAT HAS GUSSETS BEHIND THE SLEEVES SO even a drummer could have picked up such a line of conversation.’* OLD-TIMERS AFRAID TO LEAVE BOOKS TO TAKE VACATION. “Well, 'll tell you, Abe,"’ Mawruss said, ‘'so far as I can see, there was f& whole lot more banks failing sol- emnly and respectably in the olf days than are making money cheer- fully to-day yet. “In fact, Abe, it was the bank offl- cial which never took a vacation {n thirty years that was able to cover up his juggling with the depositors’ money, whereas in the modern, up- THE BANKER COULD SHOW THE LOAN AND DISCOUNT COMMIT- TEE JUST HOW HE GOT AN 87 AT THE SWAMP RIDGE CLUB BEFORE THEY CLOSE DOWN ON A COUPLE OF CUSTOMERS IN THE s SILK BUSINESS.” turn you down for further accom- modation und still make you feel « whole lot more comfortable than the old-fashioned bank official, who began as bench hoy could when he loosened up for an addition of ten thousand dol- lars to the line you already had with the bank, understand me," Abe said “Why, T can remember when if you would give me my choice of going to see Old Man Feder at the Kosciusko Bank about the loan we had there ot of having an operation for appendici- tis, Mawruss, I would have chose the operation. I used to come away from there feeling like ('d had a Turkish bath with all my clothes on. “Whereas if I go and see a bank official about our loan nowadays, Mawruss, he wouldn't let me get a word in edgewise until he's talked about the shows he's seen lately and told me a couple of stories he’s heard at a meeting of the Clearing House Committee which in former days you would have wondered what kind of a stag party it could have been where while they were devoted to each other there were times when life began to bore them, when everything seemed commonplace. I happened calied one evening and | suggested that they read some romantic poetry I noted a change came over the man, though he said little. The next even- ing he brought home a box of candy for his wife, to be “As a matter of fact his wife was getting portly and knew she should not eat sweets, but she was 6 touched by the return of this lover- spirit of her husband's that she told about it at the club and glorified in the triumph or sentiment over time 3 “Lip sticks may work miracles, but r.ental poise, seasoned with a liberal education, will keep the tie that binds from snapping suddenly like a broken elastic band, The woman who works up some special talent of her own, who reads and thinks and clings to girlhood dreams and ideals, never loses her charm for her husband. Copyright, 1922, Bell Syndicat to-date bank, all the officials trom the president down to the fortieth ussist- ant cashier, spends so much time away from the bank trying to get new, business by playing golf with pros- pective depositors, y'understand, that they're obliged to be straight in thgir accounts."’ nd that is the reason why they have all them hundreds of vice pre dents and assistant cashiers in up-to- date banks, Mawruss,'’ Abe said. “They've got to have anyhow from four to five officials on the bank premises while the rest of the execu. Uve officers is playing golf, attending bankers’ conventions, and going @® business men's annual luncheons, dine ners and theatre parties.’’ “Well, you can say this much about modern, up-to-date banking, Abe, Mawruss remarked: ‘It certainly, keeps bankers out in the open air. “Or anyhow up late nights," Abe, concluded A STORY OF Miners, Mountains Lost Wealth ANDA Wonderful Girl THE EVERLASTING WHISPER By JACKSON GREGORY BEGINS MONDAY, JUNE 12 The Evening World § i i