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SYNOPSIS With unusual solemnity. Mr. Harknems buyer in the silk department of a mammoth store, summons Joanna Manners, beautiful clerk, to apear before Mr. Graydon owner of the store. Jonua shudders at the thought of possible dismissal and thinks of the bills that have been accumulating. Instead of reproaching her Gra.vdon delivers an overwhelming message. Someone whose identity she is not to know has placed $1,000,000 on deposit at the Metropolitan Han't subject to her personal check. Graydon assures her “there are no strings tied to the proposition,’' and has his chauffeur take her to tha banker. Andrew Eggleston, Graydon’s old friend. With SIO,OOO her first withdrawal Joanna purchases an expensive outfit for herself and promises to buy some smart new clothes for Georgiana. her chum. Mrs. Adams, her landlady, is dumfounded when Joanna gives her a crisp st>oo bill and asks her to keep the news Quiet for a while. That evening, when Joanns hopes to talk confidentially with John, her fiance she finds the eloquent Francis Brandon, her banker’s nephew, also is waiting in the drawing room. Sensing the situation Brandon departs after being assured of a later engagement. , . Joanna promises to 9hare her fortune with John, but he will not believes her story and departs with the utmost coldness. , ... , Joanna sinks to the floor stupified. By H. L. Gates CHAPTER VIII Joanna Makes a Decision r-T~l FTER a time the girl, hudI I died on the floor in a heap c ■ of bobbed brown hair, clinging' gown and silver stockinged legs, stilled the birth of anew sob and stopped the convulsive tremble of her bare, velvet, soft shoulders. Her eyes, as quick to dry as to dim with moisture, which is the way of youth, selected a spot on the parlor carpet, just beyond her toes, and fixed on it. So, she sat very quiet, and stared, straightening out the jumble of her bitter, very bitter, thoughts. She realized that she couldn’t think sensibly, for the things that had happened during the hectic days were not sensible things—any of them. It was a trait of her's to rebel when things weren’t right; she couldn’t analyze, or probe for reasons, or ask herself if she were to blame. That is, she could ask "if she were to blame when things got into a jumble, but her Invariable answer was "No!” Time was when the spirit of Joanna was submissive and aipenable to discipline, and to the learning of lessons out of experience. That was a long time ago—before she had to make her own way about and compete with other girls with the ones who were on the square, as well as those who weren’t. She gradually lost her sense of submissiveness then. Whoever criticised her, except herself, was wrong. As her tongue grew smarter, more and more accustomed to giving more than it received, and her lips grew redder and more provocative, and her skirts became shorter, everybody ! Even John! The one thing she admittedly loved. Even he could never understand a girl—a real, square and above-board girl, who had to fight like the devil to keep up with the other girls of this day and age. John had objected to almost everything she did or wore or said. He’d preach by the hour. Once, in this same parlor—this dingy, frayed, heaven-will-protect-the-working-girl “drawing room only," John had brought her a lot of clippings from a newspaper. Some funny old bishop had said young women ought to wear mother hubbards or something like that, and sombody else so olifashioned that he read bed time stories had told the newspapers that in his day girls didn’t take an

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occasional drink out of their partners’ flasks. Goofl Lord! In his day! He and NotJj were so busy advertising a flood in their young days they couldn’t appreciate having to take a nip of something else besides water just to keep up appearances! And John couldn’t understand that neither she nor arty girl she knew really liked the beastly stuff; nor cigarets. Simply had to go in for both or else go into dead storage. -• * * mOHN was wrong, then. Tonight, his insane suspicion of the money that had been given her for a reason she couldn’t fathom* simply proved how wrong he hau always been about her. And he yasn’t coming back, as she was sure that he would when he slammed the front door. Always, their quarrels had ended in a kiss and a few minutes of wonderful silence very close to each other. Tomorrow, of course, she could go to him and straighten out his mind, easily. She could even take him to Mr. Graydon, or to Eggleston, himself. Then John would be contrite, they would have their silence together, and make their plans. That was what she could do. But this had been a deep hurt. Being so utterly unjust, the bitterness of the wound was just a bit magnified by Joanna’s admission to herself that other times she hadn’t had near so much right to fight back. He’d come to her, now, would John. Come without calling, and say "I’m sorry!” When she had definitely sealed this bitter verdict in her rebellious mind, Joanna was conscious of Mrs. Adams, sitting on the sofa in a corner of the room. She had come inquietly and had not disturbed the reflections of the girl on the floor. Joanna smiled up at her, wanly: “Funny, isn’t it?’’ she said. “Everybody thinks! It seems nobody can believes anything, these days, that’s good to believe. About girls, I mean. First, the chauffeur. He was earnest, too, because he thought he had a perfectly ripe date with me, and deliberately crabbed it. Then Cohen, who as much as told me that fur for maids were symbols of darkness. Now John! Funny, Isn’t It?" The landlady, whose kindly old face was a mirror of all her mental transformations, nodded her head. “Yes, Jo, It’s funny, but maybe its not so funny, either. Sometimes T don’t sleep . nights thinking about you girls, you and Georgie and the others I’ve got and had. I’d try to be a mother to all of you, If you’d let me, but you never will. Georgie told me day before yesterday, or, maybe, it was the day before, that mothers were too old-fashioned for up-to-date girls to be bothered with. She said that mothers who were any good were like flannel underwear. Wore well, I think she said, but didn’t have class.” “Yes, that’s like Georgie,” Joannd agreed, from her place on the floor. “But I don’t think she’s really in bad. She’s is with a crowd that travels pretty fast, and she hasn’t got enough sense to know when she’s skidding. But you don’t always have a smash when you skid, you know.” • * • Mi -- ~ RS. ADAMS knew only vaguely what Joanna was u trying to say. She’d given up, long ago, her struggles against the language of her young lady roomers. “Are you really sure, Jo?” she asked, her words coming slowly, “that you haven’t had what you call a smash? All that money you had in your pocketbook, and you say there’s more besides. You know —!” Hefore the steady ga;e of the girl on the floor, the landlady faltered. The eyes that stared at her made her uncomfortable—uneasy with her doubts. “You see, Jo,” she argued, plaintive in her self-justification, “the things a girl like you talks about, and knows about, and the places you go! Georgie wears her clothes too tight and she says that’s what girls are supposed to do nowadays. And you wear dresses that you ought to never cross your knees in—you oughtn’t to sit down at all; it’s worried me a lot. And you smoke, Jo, and I’ve heard you swear, too. That’s why John was ready to believe. ...” “You mean that’s why you believe, too?” “I won’t believe, if you tell me it Jsn’t so, Jo. I’ll just believe in you and I’ll take back the money you gave me.” Suddenly the landlady was confused. ”I’m sorry, Jo, but I put the five hundred dollars, and nobody knows what a god-send it would be to me, in the pocket of your old wrap. The coat’s on your bed, now. If you say it came to you all right, like you say before, I’ll take it, dear, and bless you for It. Joanna scrambled onto her feet, straightened her frock, brought a strap that had fallen back, onto her shoulder and, without a word, ran up the stairs to her room. When she reappeared she held the bill. She put it into Mrs. Adams’ hand and folded the worn fingers about it. Neither she nor the landlady spoke. Mrs. Adams pulled the bobbed head down and kissed it.

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“For once,” Joanna remarked, when she straightened up, “I want to drink. I’m going to wait until Georgie comes in, if she makes it early enough, and if her boy doesn t get the air too quick ry buy them a taxi while we hunt an all-night bootlegger.” * * • EORGIE arrived, edrly 1 |f. o’clock. Her companion of 1 the evening was sufficiently equipped to supply Joanna’s unaccustomed need, and glad of the excuse for lingering over his dismissal. Joanna's bitterness was mellowed, but far from banished, when a streak of gray, stealing across the court of sordid back yards, warned the two pajama-clad girls propped up in Joanna’s bed, that if they were to have any sleep at all against the excitements of the day to come they must get between the covers and trust to the housemaid to awaken them. Many houses had been built, some of stone that were destined to stand forever, some cards that would be blown away. With her awakening to the new day—the first full day of her new estate varying emotions rushed in confusion into Joanna’s mind. Her first thought was of John. With it came the urge of recollection of the scene in the “drawing room only.” She winced at the sudden memory. She would get hold of him right away. She wouldn’t lose a minute — before he went to his work! She buried her hand in the hair on the pillow beside her. Georgie had stubbornly shut her eyes, refusing to be ordered up by any housemaid, but opened them wide at the viciousness of Joanna's tug at her shingled head. "Pile out and get dressed," Joanna commanded. “And be quick —you can make up afterward. Bring them things in and we’ll ask Mrs. Adams to let us cook them in the kitchen for breakfast —and I want you to telephone from downstairs on your way out.’’ Georgie, her wits not fully gathered, broke off short in a general remark to the effect that some people had their crust. Things came back to her. especially that she must send word to the store that she’d broken a leg, or her neck, and couldn't show up at the silk counter until the next day, and that Joanna was going to take her shopping. She blotted out her first remark with. "Surest thing you know.” And, in her own conception of the way people kept their affairs straight, she added: “I’ll make the telephone in about two minutes. What did you say John's number is?”

B-n UT Joanna decided she would not telephone to John. The i___J hurt was too lively and bitter. She didn’t even want to ever hear from him again. Brandon had said she mustn’t make mistakes. That her perspective was no longer that of the shop girl’s. Brandon! Who, and what, was he? He must be mixed up In this strange affair of hers in some way, but he denied it. She didn’t like him. Why? She was afraid of him- Why? Wasn't It because she was afraid of him, of his association with her unexplainable good fortune, that she didn’t like him? He had been so quick to begin his acquaintance with her, and he frankly said he was going to be devoted to her. Yet Brandon had nothing to "do with her amended command to Georgie who had whistled her way into the few clothes she habitually wore ar.d who was asking what she’d say to John when she get him. “Nothing,” Joanna replied, tartly. “I don’t want you to call hip. Don’t be silly. I was only joking. Just get the breakfast. Take a five hundred dollar bill and tell me what delicatessen men look like when they have fits.” Which Georgie gayly did. Her report was hysterically satisfactory, sobered only by the discovery that she’d been short-changed ten dollars out of the twenty dollar bill she had finally given him. x “Let him keep it,” Joanna ordered, shortly. "It’ll be something to re mind him of the next time he refused you credit.” “If you get me those duds you’ve promised me,” Georgie reflurnedl, “I’ll never look at a delicatessen door again. I’ll get my herring and dill pickles gX the Ritz. See If I don’t. All I* need is clothes to get out of the delicatessen class.” Joanna shot a keen look at her, but said nothing. John had turned her soul against preaching. • * • mHE beautifications that axe suitable to new street tailleurs, Joanna’s which she had worn the afternoon before, and her preliminary gift to Georgie, which Georgie had blossomed in for the evening, are not hasty ceremonies. It was well toward noon when the two girls settled in their taxi. And then Georgie had to wait, a block from the store, where she would not be detected as having broken neither a leg nor a neck, while Joanna pre-

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sented herself to Mr. Graydon’s secretary. She just wanted to talk to him again, she explained, and to let him see her. N The “boss” of yesterday made her understand that he was her “friend” of today, and all days. He thanked her, gently, for stopping in, and hoped that she would come in, often. Bui he would not give her the thing she asked. Advice. Something that would be a hint to her of what was expected of her; of what she should do to carry out the wishes, or the plans, of her Vihknown benefactor. “I have been cautioned by your banker, Eggleston,” he said, “that I must not pretend to advise you. Not now, at any rate. Mr. Eggleston is emphatic in saying that a condition that went with the money was that you solve your own problems. After awhile, perhaps, some of the severity of the ban may be lifted. Just now I mustn’t intereftere.” "Am I just to take all this money and go out and spend it, then?” Joanna persisted. “Just go out and spend it—some way. I suppose that is the one way of repeating that you may do with it whatever you wish.” So naturally that she did not know that she was doing it, she began to tell him about Cohen, and Mrs. Adams, and John. Suddenly she hesitaded, and was abashed. “But all that doesn’t interest you, does it?” she apologized. The gray man had been watching her intently: almost eagerly. He reassured her quickly. “On the contrary, Joanna, that is just what I mean, it does interest me tremendously. Won’t you go on—about John? You straightened him out, I hope, and it’3 quite all right, now?” “No,” Joanna replied, her voice quavering a little. “I didn’t, and it isn’t. I’m afraid it’s all crooked in his mind.” “What are you going to do about it?” “Just let it stay crooked, T guess. Crooked things that ought to be straight must get that way by themselves, I think. If they have to ba hammered out, they’re only make! believe.” She was silent for a minute, then added so suddenly that Graydon was sure she hoped to catch him off his guard. “What would you do about it if you were In my place?” He smiled. “That Is one of the very things I mustn’t advise you about/ But I shall want to know, very sincerely, when It begins to straighten out —and see what happens then. I shall be interested in John." “Well, that's more than I am, right now.” the girl retorted. She was restless under the keen scrutiny with which Graydon was suddenly observing her. She was still uncomfortable when she said goodby to him. She had intended to ask him what part In her affairs he thought Brandon was to play. But she concluded that she would have to find that out for herself, too. It was then that she resolved that perhaps Brandon could show her the way to go, as well—better, perhaps, than John. (Copyright, 1925, by H. L. Gates.) (To Be Continued)

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