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Island Morson 8n Dull? larriator and kttornoYlfr-“W HONEY TO LOAN ‘IHE ouuw The Story of a Girl Who Didn't Want to Marry By crust. LLOYD earr.’ “iv Q2113 Chapter V. _ On the afternoon of my first day's ‘hunt for something to do 1 took a position offered me in s wo‘ man's tailoring establishmsuui I was to get $5 a week for pasting samples of cloth In a book, ad- d-essing ‘ envelopes, and waning "Don other people in the establish- ment who were more experienced than 1. I think perhaps I might Ila-vs found something whersl‘ would not have to work ,4, 1mg mm». n,“ , irrm cssnnorrnrown‘ GUARDIAN 7719f! Ilglllim“ i m" ocsssmmsnussic, “All Ill CANADA P91115118 l mlsht even have a little "l0" "IWBY- But since my mo- i118!‘ lit!!! t0lll me l might wgrk I "l" "My 1° lIB8lI1—to be up and at It. I took the first chance I could-get. Also, with the selfish. 1195B 01' Youth. I did not stop to rmvlize it was my duty to gun] 3.3 mlwll 8B Possible that I might be a Peal lwlll to my mother rather than s drag. I went home that night triumph- ant. And mother, dear souli, was too kindhearted to throwany cold W816!‘ on my happiness. She did not point out, as she might have, that by the time I had- bought my commutation ticket. and my lunch and the better clothes ' I would need I would have little or nothing left. Instead mother told me she thought it was quite wonderful that I should have been able Io obtain anything at all after but one day's search. She cheered and encour- aged me. “Do you think you will be able to get along all right without ma In the daytime?" I asked mother.’ "Is It going to be too hat-d for you?" ‘ "No, wlcarie," answered - mother quietly. "And, anyhow, .1 don't want to be a drag on you. (liars will help me, and you can start out In the world and, perhaps, If you work hard and learn nil you can, they will raise your wages and presently you will be a great, big help I can depend on." “I'm going to get you servants and ‘servants and servants, to wait on you mother-when l’m rich!” I told her childishly as '1 flung my arms about her. ISO now began my new life. Hen- ven knows 1 was accustomed enough to hard work, so that my long day of petty tasks" did not weary me. ‘Indeed, II was stimulat- ed. I was thrown In contact for the fir-st time In my life with girls of my own age. And 1 could observe the EXDuTlGIICGII ssleswomen In the establishment, the typlsts and this, my new Iife,_that word "fir- Bil" lyllified for me the worst that might happen to a girl. "Well, l’m not fired exactly." she told m-e. "but It amounts to the some thing. I've_got to glvo up my job. It. makes me sick! No sooner do I get started with a little mon- sy ahead than there It is! The same old thing!" "What!" I asked. fizzled. "Wlhy, there's going to~he an- other baby, of course!" she said. "And my husband Isn't worth the gunpowder to blow him away! I iell you. It just makes me sick!" “Why. Sarah!" I said stupidly. “I didn't know you were married. Have you got babies and have to work too?" ' “Of course I have?’ the woman told ma. "Its. the third one coming. My husband keeps the roof over our beards. but’! don't KIIOW what we would eat If -I didn't work-” I-Ier eyes grew mfsly for a mo- ment. "I-nrd!" she said. "Didn't I think he was handsome when he come to our town selling buttons? All the fairy tales he told me, and I believed theme-poor boo ! I didn't know life ‘was like this! I-t was all love and bread and cheese nnd kisses then. Let mv3,tell you something, Neil Birney—" she ended" suddenly and her voice rose. " Don't you ever 89i- mflrllefl ——n.ot unless you get a rich guYl l tell you, you're a fool If you do!" - . till: ssndcrlul ‘is. G uliv Itllfllln- Oriental Cream "No dear l-‘It isn't mfltllel‘ Bfllll ggnfly, ‘It's p, weak, selfish life for anybody to ibe 1110119 l-n ll"! worId-dlilirticularly a wmllflll- l "my say I wish your father had been different but its better for a mo man to nrarry and live than to he too afraid of_ life to risk anything? ‘You're dust good-natured, mo t-her,’ I told her with a kiss. “Youga an angel! ~Im not. 1 think I'll stsv bv myself just“ the same." ‘We'll ree, dearie," mother sn- slwered. It. was at about this time, too. that I caught my first glimpse of one of the possible alternatives-Of‘ fared to a girl who does not wish to marry. It was a day or llwo af- ter my talk with Sarah that I first began noticing the telephonegirl. She was vorypretty. I-Ier hair was soft and lblond, and the two silver hands of the telephone instrument which she wlore 0n her head made her profile. as she bent tower her switchboard, almost cfassic. -not'iced, too, how prettliy she was dressed. At first I was attracted by the color and simplicity of her clothes. Then I realized they must be very expensive. She wore sev- eral diamond rings on her slender, futile looking hands. I used tn steal glances at her, watching her fascinated when I thought that she did not know it. She was, how- ever, a shrewd young person. Ono day she startled me enormously by saying: "Well, kid, what are you staring at?‘ when I thought that she ‘was too nibsorbed iu know that I was anywhere near her. » ' "I ‘beg your pardon," I stammer- ed. "It's all right, she answered. "Have another look! It won't cost you anything!’ “Yesj I said very slowly. "l! know." Cllflptr-r VI . "Neil Birney," lsaralt had said l0 mo, "ymfre a. fool marry! lAnd the sum of my own life's elf-l perience told me she must Ibe. rlillll“ I pondered on ‘her words that night as I went home. ‘Sarah .8 saleswoman In the women's ‘ta-flor- Ing establishment where I worked‘ has told me that she must BlVB “D if you ‘ever l telephone girl. I could watch .the elegant women customers who came to ordersults. I was getting myfirst peep at the worlmalthough l was vcry shy at first. It was weeks before I answered any one beyond a monosyllable. - I came in the morning, did tasks that were required of and took m Iun the I118, cheon. which ow her position because she was t0 have a baby. This would he her_ third little one. Husband, she- said, was unable to earn money enough to support, his family com- fortably. Thus she had to wor . and “Th; Lord only knows," she had concluded, “where the money's to _ _ , fl‘ plied ' of infirm" paper; hack ‘fnto- the ship, ping department a-t the luncheon hour. There I sat by myself and ate. I watched the other-girls from beneath lowered lids as they form- ed chattering groups and went out to their midday meal. I envied them, not because of the better feed they had. "I wanted somebody v5 5 § o F to Iaugl: and joke with me. I thought how fine It would ‘ be to have a girl friend with "whom I might walk arm in arm. At night‘! hurried home. 1 had to get there before father return- sd. Mother and I had not told him as yet that I was working. And I knew, too, how wenrv mother was by that time of the tiny. I wanted to be in time- to help h-er cook the dinner. After we had eaten I had the dishes toiwash, baby Jane to soothe to sleep and the other child- ren to help with their lessons and tuck Into bed. It. was a pretty hard life for s. girl of seventeen. ' But at the office I was coming coma-flu , time! lit not makes me sick! It's ‘ Andwhen. otter my own day's work, I hurried home and saw mother so fruiililie scarcely oould straighten her ,wea\k spine, bending over the’ hot kitchen stove, little Fred tugging a-t her-skirts and the’ baby crying aln a clothes basket‘ near her, my own thoughts echoed Sarah's words. Later in the even- ing, when the children wereJn bed, Iispoke to my mother of that ,whlch was uppermost in my mind. “Mother? I asked, "aren't you sorry you married? Don't you wish you didn't hsve—us?" Mother paused before she unsw- ered. "Well, I wouldn't say that, Nellie, girl," she told me. “It hurts me very cruelly that I can't give you more, and II feel sometimes with the life you lead Ivwas iwiclred to bring you here at all, ilyut I couldn't say I wish I hadn't married. It's nat- ural for a girl to love some young man, and it's natural for young out of my shell. I was beginning tentatively to make friends. I be- gan Io sort the girls, out in my own mind; to notice. those whom I in- stinciivsiy liked; several by whom I was repelled. My first definite impression of any of these new people by whom I was surround- ed came after I had been working about three or four weeks. I sat eating my solitary uncheon when one of the sslesyvomen come out Io ‘wash her hands. I saw that she had been crying. I llollora for Royal llnk of Canada J. A, MoEachen Oph. D. ava IPIOIAl-IIT odlar-ovcllfhohulh laaullh ‘crew ‘a “What the matter, Sarah?" asked. "Don't you feel well?" "No, I don't!" she snapped back; "and what's rnore, I got to quit work." people to marry. Sometimes a girl has Ibad luck. She marries a man who doesn't turn out -very well. But, Nellie, dear,.it's only fair to say that many ,a man has bad luck, too. ‘He marries some girl who isn't willing to work for him, or who is extravagant. or maybe she is wicked and likes other men. You ssn't tell, dear. We all halve to take our chance." I thought. this over a, few mom- outs. ‘Well, I\don't think I'll take a chance, then, mother," I said. “lm newer going to marry at all! I I've bad enough taking care of bab- ies with Fred and Clara and Janie. I’-m going to work hard and get “You haven't bden fired '!'.' I quer- ied in un awed tone. 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"I was thinking how pretty you are,’ I said shyly, drawing closer. “Those silver bands on your head and all. I like to see your rings sparkle.” Thegiri flushed slightly. "Want to see my new one?" she risked, and from her ifund took a finely wrought platinum band in at pure white dia- "‘My!" I said “That's very beau- ‘ ilf_ul! IDo you mind i!‘ I put it 0:1 i my finger! , "Go to it!" said the telephone Jo-‘tadre care of us this girl cordially. ‘I slipped the rings on my hand. mo Imwh of a at-nlssle: that’ a allw Then I held out my arm to admire It ibetter. "Worth a cool five hundred," tho girl told me. I stared at her. - “Five hundred?" I repeated s palied. I knew that my poor money in all her life. . "Yes," said the girl and nodded. "1 always twke diamonds. They're as good as money In the bank. A good white stone you can sell any time. Other jewels are fads. Sometimes they're worth more: sometimes they're worth less. But n girl's s fool to take anything but diamonds! I tell you, they're just like money In the bank!" "This was given to you?" I ask ed, owed. "Do you mean to say your father gave you a beautiful ring like that?" "IVIIy "father!" repeated the tele- phone girl. “iSaylwhat nre you try- ing to do—kid mo? One of my friends gave it tome, of course.’ “My goodness!" ‘I whispered tfllllfi overcome, “you are lucky to have friends like that!" WEDNESDAY Chapter VII I stood staring at the ‘Iiamond ring ‘that belonged to the telephone girLQSlte had permitted me to slip it upon my own finger. She had just hold one that o, "friend" had given It to her. I tors my glance from the jewel to meet her eyes. "A friend!" I repeated sftenher half puzzled. half slppaI-Ied. "Look here," said this young person. “what are you trying to do -—kld mo?’ She smiled he ravish- ingrsmiio not unkindiy. "You don't suppose I mean a lady friend do you?" she added coquettlshly. "It's my Ihtest—my gentleman friend!‘ . I -wns still staring at. the long. beautiful lines of her expensive gown; at her little high-healed slipper with its tantalizing glimpse 0f flesh through tightly drawn silk which flashed above It, I was ign- orant of life. lBlIt I was not Innoc- ent. I was ibu-t seventeen. Still, I had been using my eyes during the few weeks since 1 had entered the employ of the women's tailoring establishment. I was beginning to put uwo and two together. I be- gun to guess whence came the jewels of the girl who sat before mo. Bu-t I was still child enough to put pny thought quite crudely in- to words. “You mean," I asked the toler- hono girl, "that somg man gave you that. beautiful ring?" ‘ ‘Sure!’ agreed my now-found friend. "W-hy not!" She leashed s, ‘little. ‘There ain't anything won: with my face is there?" ~ I ‘Ext you are not ensued to mar- ry him?" I protested. "It's just somebody who-lwho-J I stumb- led, searching for a word and caught at the phrase she herself had given mo, “It's somebody who Isd just friends with you?" I ask- e . ' . “Sure? agreed the girl again. ‘Toddlo on kid-I got to mind in)‘ switch-board." ’ of Bayer Manufacture of Hono- well known that Aaotrlyiaazanzgw "Bayar- Croce.‘ l , . I turned snray. But I hul gather- ed foul for thought , '60." I, laid to myself. "now you mother had never seen that much", lhavq seen and talked with s girl ' who is not good." ' I puzzled over it. The charming picture at the switchboard did not. correspond with what I‘had been told about. girls of this kind. The telephone operator certainly did not look dissipated. Nor were there sibout. her any of the signs 9 my dime novels hsd led me to look “for In such a case. This girl djd land certainly she was far from Weeping over her unfortunate lot. The thought ol her fascinated rue. I found myself all the rest of the ¢l'\ milking excuses to pass the if-lcphone switchboard. I wanted lo ask more. And as a matter of fact, thnugn I ll"! girl, because she was really tracted me. ‘My heart was drawn to her. All In all, she was r/ne of "will Ilwlefilly unmorai and cheer- ful young women who is perhaps the most dangerous companion an ignorant Elrl may choose. And she was perfectly good-nat- ured about my staring. She must hflve felt my hovering about ‘her Ililke a silly little moth about s clan- , . “Shy? she-said late In the after- "Oon. “you look at me the way a 00w stands and looks at some- thllls over the fence!‘ What's YOIW name?" - "Nell Blflley." I answered, lac- °"_"‘=1lly. “What's yours?‘ ‘Ollavvu can "can me “Dora,” the Jllfl answered. ‘You're, n queer lhtle thing you're all eyes. Want f‘ no to luncheon with mete-mor- row?" div face flushed quickly. YQ-‘lf’ I said, "I would. I want ‘r3 talk to you some more; I Iikep u.’ ' “RIgIiI-o!" agreed Dora. go tomorrow.‘ Ami we did. And this in spite of the glances of the other girls. I had not been conscious of It be- fore, but suddenly I realized now the various young women In the es- iatblishlnent left Dora, to herself. Perhaps I had never noticed It be- cause she seemed to care so little. Now, however, .I)y accepting her inviizliion, I definitely left my own sphere and entered hers. As “'1' talked together in the dressing room, adjusting our huts and cunts, I saw the girls nudge ouch other. It‘ didn't worry mi: much, If u friendship with Dora mean: that r must Ihe cut off from the other, It seemed worth the price. Dora led the way to an In- expensive restaurant In the neigh- borhooil. “My treat," she exiplnineil, "Wo won't have any angunleni on that score.’ ' For n while, as we ate, we talked spasmodlcaily of things that did noi matter; of some of the other en:- "We'll ~__ not paint; she did not dress boIdIyI did not realize it,: Illllll- hrhzht and good-natured, at-l PAGE -,_, . ._ s by the ma =' Iillllliiiji ;\ users today. Perfect! packed in bright lead foil and [mac marked on every putlzage. "YOU'LL LIKE THE FLAVOR" o/fTromise_ that has made good _ When KING COLIZ TEA .was in its infancy we associated with it the slognn-“Youil like the flavor." was a modest statement, yet when you come to think of it, it covers all that you are looking for in. the tea of your choice. How wcll IQING COLE has lived up to its promise is proved It ny thousands of i . i’ ‘ ‘Q . I lion to dine with her on Saturday night. iShe hull told me that her "gentleman friend" lwould bring “another frlend"und that _we would have a good time. She also hut! added that 1 need do nothing I did not -.want to; and that anyhow a good dinner would not hurt me. ‘She was a bright and good-nai- ured person, this Dora, the telep hone girl. I iwas not sorry I lliill made friends with her. This, In spite of what I now knew Io he her mode of life, although, as I have said, I was really ignorant. I knew I00 little of life to be able to form an adequate picture of what It meant for a girl to take jewels and clothes from men. On the other hunlt. the sombre pic- ture of Iny nwn existence pressed heavily down upon me. From my mother, and our own home, I did know_ all too lwell what happened to a girl ‘who nuirried a man who turned out to the a brute, If I could I would avoid my mother's ployees and 0i’ the man by whom we were all employed. And then. somehow from him the conversa-' tion drifted to men in generahnndl ‘titer. became more rpersonai. At last, Ilultlugly, I found I hnd given Doro. u rough outline of my own lifei uad——~ - '-‘~Sc-,' 1 ended, "I am never going I-n marry. I've seen too much of, It. There's my poor mother almost dead with iwonk and us children. If a girl's got. to work, it's better to, work for herself." "_0r let some man work for you!’ interpolated Dora. “The huuns!_ .'I‘hat's all they're good for!“ ‘ "But ‘I tell you I'm never going to merry," I reiterated. _ "Mayibe you're wise,‘ agreed the jgirl. “Unless you get somebody illatis awful rich. But there's not mach chance-or that for a girl like you or me.» These wealthy guys .arn't marrying—not our kind. But. and again there come her flashing smile, “there's no harm," she said "in taking the (TIIIIIDS that full from the rich mans table." "Perhaps not.‘ I told her slowly. "But I think Id much rather work formyself." " 0h, Lord!’ can't do that! i said Dora, “You A girl's got to have u 800d time! She got to have beaux-df She isn't a fish! It's hu- man nature; ain't it? You've 80f to do one thing or the other. I fig- Iure you've got In marry or have beaux. and I'm like you-—I don't want to marry and be some man's slave! -I tell you, it makes a diff- erence to men if you can keep ihcm on the Anxious Sent. If they don't know whether they have you or not that's when you get the diamonds." It sounded as ununswernble to me as a sum in IIIIIIlIBIIIIIIICiLDOTB- seemed hammering Into my mind the very truths I 11nd wanted to avoid. I felt I could not 110058 them. I opened my mouth to say again that I preferred to go ilirmltll I-Ife without any man. l closed it without sipcillfing I felt childish. I felt that she had rea- soned it all out. and thnt she knew. What could I say to n girl, who Ind lI-ved and proved her problem? ‘There was a pause. Tlfen Dora asked: Dont you know any fel- lows?" I shook_my head violently. "I never wanted tn," l mid her- Tho girl hesitated again. "I tell you what you do. Nell," she said. "Come on to dinner with mo Saturday night. I'll ask my friend to lbring s. friend of his. Now hold on-yon don't have to do any- thing you don't what to! You lust come along and see If I'm right. Anyhow, a good dinner won't hurt “my. "No,' I said with a little sigh, "l don't suppose It will. ' (Jhwptor VI-11 Thus l accepted Dora's invita- _.-a F I _ “ M DRININIO Car Carmina‘ Hp: Uu Car Hm, Cigarettes lot. No work for me from early dawn to late at night at tasks for which I never received any thanks and with flip little clinging hands of ch-Ildren dragging at my skirts! "Anything." I told myself, “must be better than the sort of life my mother lives!" , 1 um not know u but I was sub‘ tly ripe _for the form of tempta- -tion Dora had to offer me. So,‘ when fascinated by the girl's pret- tiness and easy-going nuture, I hnd first spoken to her and then gone to luncheon with her, it was but a step further to accept her invita- tion to dine and in meet two men friends of hers, though I did not so upon my way unwarned, ‘The day after the other girls had seen me talking with Dora. Sarah, the snleswoman. who~ was married and hud two children at home spoke If) me about my new-formed friend- shilp. "lDrop her, kid," she told me, You're too young for that game. And, anyhow there's nothing to It.‘ _I turned on Sarah for her pains. I don't have to do anything I don't want to, do I?" I asked. No matter Iwho I talk to. And anyhow you said yourself I'd be a fool If I nlarnied." I did, agreed Sarah. I was kind of in a huff the other day because of the new ba~hy's coming. I dld'nt see where the money was to coluel from to take care of him. "I was just hesrtslck and tired. But Y0" let me tell you something. Nell Birney—-there‘s nothing in the other game at all. You might het- ter marry than g0 In for It. You're left high and dry right enough i" the end of a few years, without even n. husband" WMaybe." I agreed slowly. “Ilut a girl can always ‘work, can't she? And‘1f she doesn't want u husband "No, she can't work,‘ Sarah told me. "Not after she goes In for u gay life for long. ‘She gets the soft of tastes site can't satisfy. She can't earn enough money. After money comes easy for n few years she gets {he habit. lShe thinks It ought to be like that always. And then after she Isn't a novelty any more the Teliows leave her alone. .And what's to become of her? I'll tell you! She's like n cheap toy you give the kid at Christmas time. It's all‘ hrnke lo bits before the painfs half off oi‘ II. It's just ‘been amusing for a little while, but it hasn't had the strength to stand the racket." "Oh. well,’ I answered uneasily. "Don't go on like that, Sarah. I'm only going tn dinner with Dora." “Oh, you are. nre you!’ exclaim- ed Surah. “Well. you take m)’ B!l' vice and don't take the first steill It's a darn sight easier to stop that sort of thing before you start!" "That's all very well for some Biris,’ I told her. "Bu! l know what I um doing. Please let me alone. And I walked away. As a lifllitlel‘ of mt. I was fairly self-possessed for my n88- flllll l did have a natural straight lor- wordnoss of thought. To prove It I told my mother the truth In this malter—l.hsi is, I suppressed some of the facts, but I did not attempt fQQIElI s falsehood about my din- ner Invitation. » | "Mother," I sold. “l’m aoins t0 stny in town Saturday and go in dinner with one of the girls in the office.’ "I don't wand you going Into strange homes. Nellie Kiri." be!!!" my mother. "1 wont to know where you ‘are.’ “I'm not going Into any girl's Iloiue.‘ I answered. "I'm going out with one of the girls and she IS going to have twu of Iier men friends meet us.‘ "Oh, dearlc." Itegnn my mother, "I don't like that. ~ "Please-J I Internupteil, ‘lm nld enough tolook out for myself,‘ mother. Don't WL‘I'I‘y1lllt)lltIIIt‘. just think, I was never In a res- tnimlni at night like this to dinner' before in nu my life! And noIh-l Ing can Ilwppen, mother, It’ we all four sit together.“ "I don't know,‘ said mother. don't know. Anyhow. please bc careful, and I'll sit up for you." Chapter IX - 1S0 I carried out my determina- tion and -went to dinner will‘. Ilorn I think, as a mutter uf iurat. she Sl1l)S8qll8Ili.l_V‘W(IIIlfl have been glad to shirk the obligation hzul It hrwn possible. IIer “gentlemen! friends’ as she phrased Ii, were "spells". They were accustomed to inking smartly dressed and pretty girls to dinner with them. When Dora realized I would have to go with her In my willie cotton shirt waist and plain =bluck suit, which I wore every dny, with my black sailor hut. I think she feared, us Mlle would have sfllll,_ that her friends would think she had "let them in for a lemon." ' "However, as I look ‘back upon the situation, I think she Irehaveil no- bly about It. The worst Dora did was to give me every opportunity to withdraw my acceptance. 0! course, I scarcely realized that sh-l would just as soon not huve mc go with her. I wanted to go. and then ‘Suruhls warnings hail mud-l me feel that I would go or die. The older girl Iuul told me there was ‘nothing In" the sortof life that Dora led. Now to my childish and ignorant eyes Dora was pretty and attractive. Iier uittruetions to me were enhanced by the jew- els‘ and-clothes given her by her men acquaintances. Dora's mode of life cpuld not mean very much to me with my lack of experience. I was at the age, too, when girls form those singularly loyal likes and dislikes. Just now I would not hear one word against Dora. So, as I have said. I went with her on ‘Saturday night for dinner, although I dill feel ill at ease. It was the way in which Dora Iiad dressed for the occasion. Not that she was in any way conspicuous. But even I who knew nothing of cost, could guess that the furs about her throat had been paid for by a sum of which I had never ev- en dreamed. The Sllflfie and tilt of her hat eloquent of money. And the lines of her suit and the fit of her gloves and shoes were unim- peachsble. I told myself a little bitterly that I must look like her servant. Dora, however, had begun to get over her chagrin at my simple costume. I think perhaps she even guessed my discomfort, for she be- gun to chatter tn make me feel more at ease. A nti whether it was because I was genuinely young. or whether It was lN-BCIIIISB as Dora said afterward. I looked like a "cute, quaint little thing.‘ anyhow when we did uiect the pwr; men wlm weft! ti) lflliil llti If! dinner they did not laugh at mo. Instead, Iho older and stmlter 0f the two smiled encouragingiy us he held out his hand. "lloru hns told us about you" he said. "She says you've. never been out tn dinner before like this. We'll have t0 show you a good Lillie." ’ I itiurmured something incoher- ent. The four of us when to the restaurant of_ihe hotel- in which we had met. For u' while I was tou (lve-rcome to speak. All ‘about me were girls and women n's ex- quisitely ilreesscil as Dora. ‘Some m‘ them in fur guyor and mono, glit- tering colors. I seemed to myself lu he [he only grub in this garden nI' butterflies. And, foo, to add to my discontfort, I scarcely knew which of the shining forks and spoons ll. was correct i0 Ilse’. M-y glance continually sought Dora, and thc hwo mm with whom we were. to guide my own actions by theirs. Aitltnugh 1 had not caught the names -of our escorts st first, I new learned thut they were offici- wily Mr. White and Mr. Fellowes. Mr. White was all attention to Dora. ‘She called him “Billy Boy" and he called her “baby" or "kid" (Iultc frankly she took the jewel from her hand and showed It to Mr Fcllowcs, asking him If "Billy Boy" wasnot "n perfect ducklc-doddle" for halving given ii to her. Mr. I-‘ellowes (lRClllFEil he was going to cull mc "iflnderellu." for reasons . that I could fathom and that. did not add anything to my sense 45f self-reliance. And he insisted that I call him "Freddie." I look- ed at him and could not do it. He was fully fifty years old and ‘gray und iportly. I could not bring my llllfi t0 form the skittish name. .An<l here, too, the normal Im- pulses of a healthy girl cardéfix my and in what might have been my first temptation. As n very much older friend I might even have liked him, for he was not un- pleasant. He was good-natured. Ahliflffiiiltv’ lie Ineant to be kind to me. But as a suitor, and us my equal In youth and in the love game, my every instinct rose up In arms against him. Cert Inly, after Dora had asked me to‘ her dinner party, and this man was do- ing all he could to entertain me,,l did not wish to be rude or abrupt. But “Freddie? I could ‘not call him that. And his languishing glances I could not meet. Although in response to the teasing of the Other three I even had sipped my llISI Bluss of chsnrpagne. The wine only made me feel not and a little dizzy. My cheeks were flush- Cfl, but my impulses were not. At lust, as my hand lay beside my plate fussing with s bit of roll, Mr. Pellowes evidently thought it was time Io make more definite advances. His fingers closed ov- er mine. "'I‘hui‘s a pretty, cute little hand’ he said. “Same day it ought l0 have I1 ring on It like Dora's. Don't you think so?" he aslted of the others. » Ilut I snatched hurriedly “Please don't touch me!" I said illstinctiy. I know that my eyes were blazing. "1 never like‘ any- body to touch me! It—-It gives me the fidgets!" I concluded, and my lips quivercd. , , The man stared at me for a, m0- meni. Then he laughed. Strang- ely enough to me, he did not seem very angry or to be repelled by my ouulmrst. Instead, he regarded mo with widening eyes. ' "ileilo!" hc_said slowly, beneath hs breath. “some IentpeP-whai? Woll, that's not sobsd!" my hand away of Teacher said to name three principal resources Canadaand I said three dishes of Post TOASTIES