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amber the KFBY
rem
line suite 0' ’°°t’x“‘;'
of which she a
,,d,,,,, intl almost imnli§d
hopini; 9 0
dogilgfili-?lin thenl. In the
onecould remembilrt h‘;`i‘l
,hey were. D C “I9
nsgligee of chiffon
th,-ow over the chaise
would be other
of tllclll-and 8
do \\'ollid So l_16l’
mililllbel' lheeleil way Ca\'=llS
“Iggy lovely dresses and
t _
aliiilrkhcsss it siillilly °¢°U|'\"
that Adam Arnold would
I5 much right to enter that
as she would llavc.
'rrllALs ._
Chapter 90
Luther slept pr-.lceillily that
had his own depress-
but he had livellwith
more than a year now, and
tinle, anyone canvlearn to
worry 100.
Talbot had a fatal feeling
it-qi-ld had crashed and
was still alive and llnhurt
get up ilild illake coffee
eggs as usual about half-
seven in thc morning. Any~
li was done! Aim' was seine
Adnlll. lhlli was all settl-
and claire were stains
get-lllcll settled
she, .»\nly Talbot, accepted
things culllly alld linprotest-
She had lost her old beliefs,
thelil for licw ones. What
Jordan sayi’ What did sho
about ailyilliilg Jordan
say? iicw liillcli had she
had not nlarricd Jane,
she have bllllileli ller girl
away with him. uny-
She ililll no nlatter
she lroulli have sorrow-
the brl'-iiilillg of all the
of morality and convention,
still llavli been glad that
getting seine happiness
could find ilbtilinl: to be
ill .-\lll,v'.s deliberate
oi this nlaii-lllore than
to ill' hcl' father, fat
selilsn and tyrllnical. llut Amy
chosen it. _-he could only
t. She tried to colicentrate
the incl that she illllst get np
make iireahl`:l.<l mon, tilinking
would sl-lui hcl' to sleep for
Ii hours. `
am Arnold lily awake too. But
yalnilit- l>c':ail>'c a mixture of
ber salillllviciics-why would
nt cucllillllcrs lvlleu they gave
illliigeslioll-clike, wine.
ee and cigaretlc.~', had upset
to such ll liclilw that n large
[Joi lead set-lllvd io exist in the
li where his siolllach be-
i|f\iIil' la_\' alvllkc longer than
roi the o:l_:»»l'-. it was done_
ind been irllllnpllant. She was,
li, Going to illurry Adam
ld. rich. l.iv:.<il. llnencllnlbcred
aii\'e:~', anxious for nil
lilvre \\'a< to be ll:ld out of
f0\ll'Sf‘. lil- \v:ls-lvhrlt. 40
hi lll-A|ll--l'ci- would say.
sr \l.l,- ililli lvals there any
in llzlir toilir.~'.’ Silo was sure
Used till-ul. til' course llc was
mildll inillle him dict, he
to he thin. Probably he
“i“'¢\i'S lilvail to dict, hilt
“Oi fiuilc inlagllle him
wilhout good things to eat
HEALS
and Red Pim-
An abund-
ance of luxu-
riant hair full
of, gloss
gleams _ and
life sho r_tly
follows a gen-
uine toning up
of neglected
scalps with
while they were within his reach.
She would be rich-oh, she could
travel, .she collld see the whole
world, she could live beautifully,
keel! yvllng. be rested. be envied-
She could go on studying singing-
"Amy Trllbot Arnold, the famous
sopranogwill give a recital this
evening at the-"V
Dick’s face canle into this
thought, and it fied.
"Dick will get fat too, when he's
old," she told herself by wi-ly of
desperate consolation.
Bllt Dick was a lad, barely ill
of a boy, he would not develop a
waistliue for 20 years-if thell.
“He did l-let so white. when
Adam made that-speech-" .she
said to herself.
She remembered Adam with his
silver paper crown over one ear,
the handkerchief that had blind-
folded him around hi; neck, thc
glint of his dialnond shirt ‘studs-
nf course he would choose din-
lllondsi the well cut dinner suit
that only made his figure more
settled-.she remenlbered she
looked quickly at Dick, in her sur-
'ls quickly she glanced away, for
cause he couldu't support ber;
Clnire quarreled with Luther be
cause she wanted to go back on
the stage to earn nlore money-
“He might have said goodnight."
Dick had gone up to Adam, quietly
congratulated him while :lil tin'
others were pouring enthusinsin
upon thcnl. Then he had sat with
Dee for a time, and when the
party was piling into the car to
start home Dick had .slipped off
somewhere. `
"Anyway, Dick’s fearfully unin-
teresting." Amy went on telling
herself. "He'd be an awful hon_lc-
body. \Ve'd have n tiny place. and
never go anywhere. l'nl too selfish
to stand that.
It would be all right for a little
while. Tllell-"
She did sleep at last. But she
was awake when Luther break-
fnsted, and went out to ,ioin him
ln the dining rooln.
"So you`re~ going to retrieve the
family fortunes, and marry the
millionaire." he greeted her banter-
alld happiness "
ikiss though his word; were cheer-
iful enough. She fancied Luther de-
'epised her for marrying an “old
long as \ve know it, give us the
Delaiisf Ami' .saw them in ,l
- y i a ooflless,
broken Dick'.s heart. nlade her
mother thoroughly llliserahie, and
lost her brother's respect to suv
Hive her 11 luxurious houle where
she would ilot have to \\'ork ol' to
worry.
That idea cheered her.
She listened to the chubby girl
singing in rehearsal. She had a
voice of angelic purity ami sweep
ness und a trick of raising her
solenln brown eyes and drawing
her pale nlolitll to a wistful di'oopi-
ness that would take hor ollt of
the chorus into real operatic roles
some day. Alily know her own
voice was not as good. But this girl
was intriguing with two lnen for a
h
his twenties, half the age or Adam! xc' alice to sing principal roles null
Dick's face was chubby-but iti::.,l:;:l(,‘0S;),I,l;‘;e(§;y smg and mek her
'.vn3 the roundness and chubbiness Amy was ma`!.|_ in hd. wa to
Y ii Y
success- and thereby mukillg_ller-
self envied by hcl' coinrades.
She went llollle 'after rehearsal
with time to eat a light supper and
to go back for the pei'i`ortllallt'.e.
Adlltn's cal' was waiting to take her
there und back, Adam himself
coulll not come. Poor Adam could
not stand nlany parties, hc always
took it day off to recover.
At home was ll slllall box with
her nallie oil lt. She opened it
idly. another gift fronl Alluul.
Froul the black velvet lining a
llialllond ring actually burst upon
Wise over A‘i"m'5 Swéoch' T"°“lller.--tile only wav to describe the
fl o tone as it can ht
" ` , ash of the ling s . t ' ' g
the sight of Dlck's face was like a th H I .h U ,I , ..
pam that Shm- ihwugh her' lim? :=tllg‘ngoelllleil‘t  
If only Dick had “"°m`3"`thM Sho locked ut it without any emo-
was al“'"5_'5 the problem' D°““l‘l ilioll except surprise that a diamond
had “°‘ “umm '° "‘“"y Jan” bl" could be so lurge. There was the
inevitable note-
“Tllis is tile biggest I could find.
Galavina wanted it, nild I got it
away and have been saving it up
for nlontlls. l'll call at the opera
she thought. remembering that Jlmlse for you-»
So this was tho very stone the
great singer, Gnlnvina, had been
trying to hlly! Alily slipped it oil
her finger-it fit. of course, for
Adam had her ring size. Silc still
looked at it curiously and imper-
sonally. she had seen diziinonds
enough on the big singers, only
somehow she had never- quite bc-
lieved them. This stone to her was
a gl'e-at piece of glittering glass.
'i‘ilen she remenlhererl that
Galavilln llnd been tall-:ing of thc
iiilnlber of thousands this stone
was to cost her.
Alid she. Aiily Tlililot. \vllo 1S
nlontlls before had been scrubb-
ing willdows in a frame farlll-
hollse, hor nails black llnlf moons
froiil the dirty water, was wearing
a alone coveted ily one of thc
ri¢»hp_~it singers on the stage!
She looked at it on her finger. lt
_ ll18lY. and kissed her. "Good luck had M-timliy no relation to licr
h'lnd 'lt all it blazed and flashed
___.__._..-_-_ _,lm_-.
 Bllt there WHS "0 Wnfmlh ii' his lllld almost scrcllilled aloud for
lmao." She wondered whether Dick IK  Ones
' THE RING _
. Chlptar 91
irl told her
would see her, what he would say. eep
Well in Winter
The “CWB of Amyvs engagemgni Winter is a dailgerclls season
Tern-ble' got about ,of course. That very day  iilfllgs “gli
when she went to rehearsal. the . -_ .H nd Storm. that the
dressing room buzzed with it. 0"” °0“ “N  tl CMM
Amy tried to avoid talking of ll;<ll‘th(+):\ltil;oi‘sliIl;\i‘.`lglmta iiriifind ex
it-strange to say. ‘ _ d an mm.h_ In Nm.
"How did you hear all that?" §‘;::’l“*;`ngf°i‘h(f'f°;\r0 om," cm,,,,,d up
she countered when a dozen 111195' In ' overheméd' badly \.,,mi|,,,¢@,i
tions came at her askin: “_” m,,m, and an. ,,0,,n ,,,_.|z,,,l with
whether it was so she was ‘¢° mms 0,. g,|,,,p¢~,_ wllill is needed to
marry one of the richest men in Kew the mm. ,,,,,.,, well is illibyts
New York." 0 - Tablets. They will rGK\\ ll U
A chubby little brown haired th`:,“,-,¢.¢,mfieh and bowels and drivv
loldl. alld by film' "G" the
8 - out ' ~ '
"My rommate is a friend of _Il ,,,,|,,. will he able to get over tilt’
man named Thonlpson. and iles win-icr season ill l“‘rfer-t satttsy.
press agent for the Tweedle Slst- The nelvsales tax will not i1ni:'l;;lt§e
ers. They told hinl-" it sermvll 1° the -price oi rlallys Own al ».
.snug have come direct frolil an nllthor as ,he ¢0mpa,i_vthp§;F=nItR`<;qt;l€{'nI§;:
itative source. Y _ can still obtain Mlm 25 Poms n
"Why not admit it?" ld ndver nny medicine den ` Rm from
use all f l ll nm- town." the im, or bv mil- l‘_‘*‘ l‘ _. ' _
e ac R h looked Tha pf Wiilillllls Nlelliclile C0.
chubby girl wont on. S e _ _~' (_ 1
take the most demure and retirills ‘Jror “il P.
"7 `\ -A -- . ~ f ‘
’L` '...._... -s. V-.  @‘v'J\r\ " ` v ‘ "* 1 I ' lv
/1
dependable "Daring,-|ne_" ll0ihiI1i5 of ber own good opinion oil " l.__‘$i'a»r,~¢r~»
FWIUDZ hlir. itching scalp and h°_‘,"s,""'
the danruff is corrected immediate- M” dom "UW "I0 U10 lflyiill
|y_ Thln; dry_ wisp), or fading hu" little bride-to-be," the chubby girl
,is qumkly invigérated' taking on comlnented. “Never lllilld, yoll'll
new an-eng;h_ cow, and youthful get used to it. Going to pay off the
beauty. _"Danderine" is deiigm. llwrtsage on the old home farm?"
fu] gn me hair; R refreshing' mink Amy froze up. Tile farm had no
uiating tonic-not sticky or greasy! "‘°"g5S@ 10 Day Off,-she colild not
Any dl-ugetm-e_ N0 701 even do that! She could blly her
-  lnother 'handsome clolhesmunul
t 
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li from Pale 2) ' \    ciloi: fgrsdrtianmgugrfangiihe  R E  
the reputation' of being one of .
36aCo|\t “Danderln¢" 5, |,,,p,.°v“ the "swiftest" girls in the city. » ' "us “uh” “ll” md l°“°°’ ‘ml
-Llnlen, Neglemu Hair lysnt tv keen it quite for a °‘““d° '°“‘°d‘°""°“°‘ "’“*"¢
time, Amy said. hoping "mt want whsnt.roubledwltllaGrippy
would end the discussion. Cold, BronchlslCold, Chills, 50”
“Ali right we won‘t tell. But ar. Thmst,Cl-amps, ste,
details." 
flash. The details wer. tl t h I
had flirted outrageuusloy, lailoluiedi Anodyne
r . I - I I
every D n i I h
'o fcmining Idiignit e atllnlce lhem ds? 
I
-nud internally for more than I
eontury-goes directly tc where it
is needed and its soothing and
healing action is immediate. Doc-
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modyne because it is a
Dootor's Prescription
Internal and External Ula .
Over 100 Years of Success
Externally for Cuts, Burns, Strain!
etc. it has no equal. All dealers.
25 and 50C.
i\llEHli011. it stood' high above its
little covert cloth suit. and her
wash waist.
“How vulgar of him!" she com-
lllented briefly to herself.
Of course Adam would buy the
biggest diamond in the city!
Her mother came to the door.
"My land," she chier, surprised
into her old countryficd speech.
“Do you mean to say that’s u real
dialnolid?"
DICK COMES
.__~`.,_,.v
'M' Chapter 92 l milk
Ailiy had managed to secllre u
pass that night, so her mother and
Luther were to go to the per-
fornlalnce. lt \vall only "Aida" nga-in,
bill the greatest tenor, wllo always
filled the house to capacity, was
away resting, so passes were
livailable.
Mrs. Talbot hall long siilce over-
collle llcr ideas about operas. She
had collcluded that tile beauty of
the lllusic lllude the opera spiritu-
ally clcvutillg. so that it did not
inaltcl' what the actual story was
about.
She hall once \vi>'llt~d that tllei
iibrettos might tell about peoplcl
who loved ilorlllaliy and luarrieilg
in orthodox fashion in the lust.
scene, but after a time she felt|
that this would lnakc the wllolc|
thing too lllllcll like everyday life,:
tllereforc the opera would lose
some oi' it effect of illusion.
"And it isn't real," silo consoled
hcrseli' as her last scruple was
ready to give up and expire witllill
her.
Latex' she suid: ‘
"it doesn't matter whether it's
real or not, it's so bcalitiflll."
Ordlirlnrily, she and Luther would l
have waited outside the stage en-i
trance for Allly und they would!
have gone uptown on top oi` u hus.i
lint tonight they slipped oft’ alolle,i
kllowiilg Adam would cull for Amy,
and respecting his suddc-n right to
have her to llilnself. "
That was the way in which Amy
begun to feel engaged. Not thc
ullllonlicelllent und collgrutlllzltiolls
of the party, lnot the hugo ring that '
-int heavily llpoli hor finger lllld
kept her frclll putting oil llcr left;
glove-neither of these things inl-
pressoli the fact upoll her.
lt was the sight of Adnnl's big
car on the street, and the sllarlolv
ot' his figllre sitting in the tonnenu
waiting for her. llc took her hand
ns they drove off-of course he
always did that. _ H
"Your fingers are like icc. M'
said.
“Yes-I cail't Rei “W 5170"” 0" for
the ring." she answered. Then rc-
lnelllbcring she thullkcll hilll wnrin-
ly for the gift, and kissed hiln.
hidden ill the slladows of the clos-
ed car.
lie held her close to llnl. lI~is kiss
was `dii`ferent this time--before it
was n casual caress. or un ilblllll'
sire one--this was tho linilorinl;
kiss of love-and of D0tlt‘@“i0"-
" 'll send ou a muff so voli cull
- _ 0
He took the rebuff good natllred-
iy and gave up tryiilg to hold hell
hand.
“i'm tired," she apologized. ’ ‘
“All right. So am I. Never mind,
after we're nlarricrl. you won’t:
have to work. Tllen it will bc all
right."
“But Adanl--I want to!" She was
awake with genuine alarm.
"I want to sing. _You said !
might."
"Of, of course, you can .sing
whenever yon like. I only meant
you \vouidn't have to do this sort:
of tiling-rehearsals, and lessons
and long hours. It`s all right n0W_
and then." I
"But Adam! I have to work hard,
or l’ll never get anywhere. My
voice is not well trained yet. I
only got illto this chorus hl~r:auS8`
Jinl Clarke had so much inflllencel
“Vve had to work awfully hard
to make good. and nt that I've
barely kept lily place among these
better trai-ned girls. She rememb-
ered the French and Italian lessons
when she crnlllllioll so she could
illcnlorize the choruses ill strange
tongues, the dancing lossolls to
give her case and .noise in so
'siinplo il tiling as \-:alkiilg o'.'l~l' the
stage with 211 otllcr girls-the
hours nf pl'ar-tice. the llllvtl work
and the dread oi ovnr\\'ork that
lvollid tire and hlli't her voice.
“l'vr\ got to go on just as l alll. Iii
isn't the lilollcy~it's the trlliniingr'
Eventually l‘ll graduate tn small
parts, -then l ilillst. study the pri-n-
ciplil roles so l can bn rr-ally if my
cllallco ever conlcs. When my
voice is good enollgil. l‘ll try con-
cert sillginl.-,'. which will be easier."
"lint you won't have to work.
yoll'll be rich." It was Adulu's an'
swer to all problems. '
Amy guve it np, and dropped
hack iilto the cor-ner of the lilotor.
'l‘hf\v stopped ut. her door, and she
pleaded fatigue -so as to go upstairs
alone. There was ll light in the liv-
.llg rooln-wmlld l)lck be there by
ally cllance? There was no reason'
why he should--yet he lllust como
and demand an explaination.
Dick did not come for a week.
But. he did wait for her in the
living room then. when she camo
back from a performance.
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