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Beautiful JOANNA MANNERS, clerk No. 27. Is summoned by HARKNiAS. the buyer, to appear before her employer. Mr. (iraydoti. who delivers an overwhelming’ message. Someone whose identity she i not to know lias placed $1,000,000 on. deposit at the Metropolitan Bank, subject to her personal check. Gra.yd.on convinces her there are no obligations and has his chauffeur take her to the banker. Andrew Eggleston, Graydon’s old friend. Joanna offers to share her fortune with John Wll more, her finance, but he is determined to earn hie own way as an architect. ... ... At a brilliant social affair, wealthy Francis Brandon, the banker’s newphew, introduces her to Yvonne Count ant, famous society divorcee, whose partner. Roddy Kenilworth, rich, romantic idler, admits he will try Ills hand for Joanna, lie knows Brandon i& the one thong’ Yvonne desires that she hasn t got. Joanna goes to live with Yvonne, where she meets Mrs. Doris Marks.. a Mr. Pendleton and Lord Teddy Dornunster, who loses no time in courting Joanna . . * John attends Joanna s coming-out party and realizes that her now t---tang has placed a groat abyss between On her way to lunch with Brandon and Eggleston Joanna stops to sec John. By H. L. Gates CHAPTER XIX A Visit to Jolm’s Quarters r=;”i ROM her silken cushions in IF I the cabrlolet Joanna waited LLJ impatiently until her chauffeur, after a brief parley at the door of the house to which she had sent him, returned. The man said: “The woman came. She says Mr. YVilmore is not at home.” “Then you may wait for me here.” A half score of street urchines already had gathered about the smartly shining cabriolet, its dull gray shades carried from its dainty fittings to the satin sheen of its expensive hood. Such an imposing' car seldom invaded that neighborhood aijfi its placid company of ghosts of the days when the streets of the great metropolis were streets of home and not mere sleeping quarters. The slim, elegant figure that few patrons of a siik counter would have recognized, smiled at the urchins, pusfhed through them, and entered, dazzling, into the depths of the house where John had found for himself a tiny sleeping room And another. a larger one, with the precious north light, which he could turn into his own workroom. During the days John served at his apprenticeship with the firm of architects who provided him his necessary training. His talents were recognized. A bright future was predicted for him. But, so far, John's returns had been indeed meager—as is the fisual condition of the student of a difficult profession. If, at times, Foreman, Van Brent & Craig were dubious of their young John Wilmore, it was because he was inclined to be a dreamer. That is. they, his tutors and employers, j were of the mind that he was much too eager to skip such fundamentals as the proper angle of a drain pipe and contemplate monumental harmonies. Perhaps John would have agreed with the wiser heads that guided him through his studbnt possibilities- Perhaps that was why he confined his dreaming, as far as possible, to his one large room, and worked there, over his drawing hoard, with his blue prints and tracers—by the north light, in the early mornings and the incandescent light through the evenings that had not been Joanna’s. The “old woman” who faced the girl with the swagger stick inside the drab hallway, might have been, were she not so frankly frowsy, a replica of Mrs. Adams. She'once had been on the stage. The flood gates of her wondrous memoHe" were ever at the point of lifting. Between her and “John’s girl” barriers had brokefi down forever when Joanna, who on more than one occasion sat through an evening with John in his workroom, tryipg as best she could to fathom the things he talked about, made her come in and recount the triumphs of old with its curtain calls and its jealousies and marvelous romances. Joanna admitted to John, at that time, that she would much rather hear his landlady's monologue than listen to him rave about gargoyles and such musty things. The landlady was convincingly dramatic when " she identified “John's girl" in the radiant vision which smiled so sweetly at her. There was, even, thrilling drama in her elaborate service to the code

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that “asks no questions and gets no snubbing.” She measured Joanna from smart little hat to smart, sap-phire-buttoned suedes and reached her own conclusions over the swagger stick, but she said, only: “Os course you can. Miss. You can go right in. Mr. John’s been gone since breakfast. He isn’t been doing much work of late, it seems, because he’s seemed kind of restless like.” For some mysterious reason the landlady's gaze rested on the sapphire slipper buckles, as if the depths of them contained the explanation of her lodger’s sudden illness. “I know that Mr. John will have nothing to say about the likes of you paying his rooms a visit whenever you wants.” “But that is what you must help me about,” Joannna announced. ”1 don’t want him to know that I have been here. You must make a little plot with me not to tell him. If you say that you won’t, I know I may trust you.”

r ’' s to this the landlady was A not at all sure. Her watery, H H shrewd eyes narrowed a little and appraised the face of the girl who, plainly, wasn’t “John’s girl” any more. “Well, now,” she temporized.” as to that, Miss I’ll have to think a ! bit. A man’s house in Ptis castle, like I used to say in the old days when I was ingenue for Raymond Hitchcock who, I must say, had his pick of ingenues and knew how to do the picking. Os course that was only in comic opera and it was a scene even Hitchy couldn’t put over If I wasn’t there to feed him right, but still that’s the way it is, you know.” Joanna had listened patiently. “But it will be all right,” she protested. “John and I haven’t any secrets—you see, I’m still ‘John's girl," and always will be, no matter what happens, although he has another notion just now. This must be a secret from him, your secret and mine, and it’s just something I want that he mustn’t know about for a little while..” She gave the landlady the full benefit of a smile and a pleading from deep brown eyes that were irresistible. Grudgingly the woman gave in, shrugged her angular shoulders and agreed that “if that’s x the way it is, I guess it’ll be all right. I don’t think you’ll find any love letters from other girls. Mr. John’s not that way with girls.” Joanna opened her handbag and added to the bills which already j crumpled in the landlady's hand, left there by the chauffeur, a much larger one. Then she tripped up the stairs to the door through which I John had delighted, in the past, occasionally to usher her. When she crossed the threshold she faltered. For an instant Joanna Manners, the girl of mytsery and money, was “Miss Twenty-Seven" again, violating all the conventions of a more particular age and stealing in with John to cuddle up on hia frayed sofa and listen while he built wonderful structures that reached to the sky as surely as ever did a castle that grew up in Spain. On most of those nights she would have preferred to be out dancing- They were, in a way, her sacrifices. She’d told him, once, that if he’d put his drawing board away a.nd use the big room to practice up on his fox trot he’d make a bigger hit with her. -• * • mOANNA brushed this reminiscence away with the back of her hand, passing it petulantly across her forehead. She crossed the room to a huge chest of drawers in which John kept his papers, great sheets of blue prints and I tracings. As if she well knew the contents of those drawers Joanna plunged her gray gloved fingers directly In among a sheaf of papers in a middle drawer. When she brought them out they brought also a big blue square on which there were lines and diagrams in a confusion that many times had wearied her eyes. There i were other sheets that were similarj ly marked, as if they were duplicates {on which infinitesimal alterations ! had been made. Joanna had chosen

one of them, seemingly at random, and appeared'to be satisfied. Ruthlessly, carejess of her deadly affront to the smoothness of an architect’s drawing, she folded the blue print into a minute square and thrust it, crumpled, into her bag. Then she turned back to the door. Just for a moment she stopped and dropped into a corner of the sofa. She pulled her legs under her and curled up. She patted a place In a cushion and rested her elbow in it and propper her head on her hand. And as if she were talking to some-

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A fund of $2,000,000 is being collected for the 18,000 homeless waifs of partly American blood in the Phil, ippines. Plans are made to care for these children in three groups. The boys will be in one, the girls will be in another,, the infants ip a third. The boys' group will be 4-5 as large as the girls’ group. While the sum of the digits of the infants’ division will be as large as the sum of the digits in either the boys’ or girls’ group. How many children in each group? Last puzzle answer: ai I uj eg ( ffiiLSLH ' q The rim of this verbal wheel is the word “CHILDREN.” The hub is the word ‘TRAPPERS.” Every poke is a four-letter word. Their middle two letters belong to the , spokes only, while their first and last | letters are part of the rim and hub, 1 respectively.

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one, who sat o stood in front of the drawing board over by the window she murmured, softly: “John, dear, you’re such a tiresome old thing! I can't get all that stuff straight in my head at all. Why don't you come over and tell me how much J'ou love me?” When she had said this out into the empty room she got up from the sofa and went swiftly out, closing the door behind her, softly. The landlady hovered about in the hall. Joanna, nodded to her and said. “I found what I wanted. It’ll be all right—someday. Remember your promise—it’s to be a secret between us—that I was here. John will never miss what I took.” When her car drew up at the skyscraper Brandon was waiting. He climbed in beside her, paid his compliments, and the cabriolet sped toward the Avenue. Brandon caught one of her hands and gave it a gentle pressure. “Do you know,” he said, “you were very nice to me last night. I was beginning to be afraid that you would never decide to accept me as one of your very necessary evils.” “And you think I have made up my mind that you are not to be baffled,” she challenged him. “Perhaps I have. At any rate I’m not going to be afraid of you, but that doesn't mean that I don’t know that I ought to be. But just now I am not thinking of you, but of Mr. Eggleston. I want him to like me, and I wonder why he has asked me to see him.” She was not watching him, hut she sensed a quick glance that took her in from head to foot. “I rather imagine,” he said, “that most any one you want to admire you, will. It may be that even your banker will lose his heart to you. Have you decided, too, upon that?” “No,” she said, very seriously, as if she were considering the matter deeply. “I would never want an old man to lose his heart to me. The kind who do are always silly and wicked. And Mr. Eggleston isn't that sort. I’m dreadfully frightened of him, of the thing he knows, who gave me the money and why, but when I sit before him I feel as if there was something between us, something that isn’t money. I don’t know how to describe it, but it's something that makes me want to be liked by him, and trusted. He doesn’t seem like a banker at all. I think all the things people have always said about him, his being so hard and cruel and merciless, are unjust.” “Tet I have known him to send a man to suicide by refusing his plea

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for a few paltry dollars to save him from bankruptcy. And I've seen him torture a -woman who came to him to ask a condescension from the bank that would have saved her from the contempt of her husband. I’ve known great institutions to overnight because he wouldn't lift his hand to save them.’’ “Yes.” Joanna agreed. “He would do that. .Just as Mr. Good Morning, the buyer in the store, sent a pretty girl to -prison for stealing a pair of baby’s silk socks. We girls at the counter took up a collection to pay her fine, when we heard 1 here was really a baby the socks were intended for, but when we told Mr. Good Morning about it he snapped our heads off and threatened to fire every one of us if we dared do such a thing. But just the same her fine was paid and she got off, and I almost gave him a date when I found out that he paid out of his own pocket what he wouldn’t let us pay, and charged himself with three pairs of baby’s socks and a baby’s silk dress besides. Some men are that way, you know.” Brandon laughed, a short, insolent laugh that made Joanna hate him anew. “I would advise." he said, “that you never let your hanker catch you in a hole that you needed getting out of. You would do better to depend upon—shall I say the obvious thing?—me!” She turned and looked at him, de-

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