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SYNOPSIS The second tragedy of her life has befallen JOYCE DARING. First she is - made homeless when her parents separate. After she gets a job on a telephone switchboard at a hotel, and is beginning to aste of life’s pleasures, she despairs of happiness when her mother is shot and her lover lIENRY DEACON collapses in a fight with “BUTCH SELTZER, gangster who is mad about Joyce. She watches anxiously at Deke’s bedside, while her mother hovers between life and death in the surgery room. CHAPTER XVI Gathering Clouds Deke was not dead. He roused from his faint in a few minutes feeling very much ashamed and very, very weary and sore. Dr. McDonald, whom Deke had known for a long time, was grinning down at him. Joy was sitting weakly on a chair near his bed. “For crying out loud!” said Deke disgustedly, sitting up and wincing at the reminder of brusied muscles. “You’re a sweet one,” mocked Dr. McDonald. "Faint away like ala do dah Victorian and scare your young lady here half into eternity.” "Oh, please!” Joy’s soft voice was beseeching. “Don’t make fun of him. He’s been awfully brave tonight.” McDonald smiled at her. Deke groaned a little and got to his feet throwing off the cover of the bed. “See here, Mac, I want to talk to you, privately,” he said. He stopped by Joyce a moment. "Do you want to stay here tonight to be near your mother? I think they can arrange it, can’t they Mac?” The two men went out into the corridor and Joyce sat waiting. Presently they came back. “Deke’s got everything fixed up," said Dr. McDonald cheerfully. “Now you stay here with him until I come back from the surgery.”

“It’s all right, Joy,” said Deke, sitting on the edge of the bed. “I fixed it so the papers will have a hard time getting any kind of story, even if they do smell a rat. You stay here tonight, and if your mother is better in the morning you can go back to Mrs. Jenkins’.” “Won’t she think it’s funny that I don’t come in all night?” Joyce asked. "That’s so,” Deke thought a minute. “I’ll call her—no, I’ll get my mother to call her. That will sound better.” "Deke,” hesitantly, “Deke, will they wake me early enough to go to work in the morning?" Deke could not help laughing. “You precious baby,” he exclaimed. “Are you worried, about that?” “I’ve got to go,” said Joyce seriously, “unless, of course, unless Motherdear should, should get worse. It’s more important than ever now.” , Deke had too much respect for her resolution and good sense to try to move her. “Tell the nurse or whoever’s around when you go to bed that you want to get up early—C o’clock, isn’t it?” Joyce nodded. “Deke,” the same hesitant tone. “Deke, must I tell Dads about this?” Dr. McDonald came in, looking professionally cheerful. “Your mother has a good chance, Miss Darling,” he said. “She’s -rwt , out of the ether yet, but the signs are good. They got the bullet and it’s a clean wound. She’ll be pretty weak from loss of blood, of course. But I think you may hope.” “Thank you,” said Joy gratefully. “What time is it?” Deke looked at his watch and gave an exclamation of surprise. “Would you believe,” he said, “that It is only 10:30?” “No!” Joyce was amazed. “It seems like a century since we—- “ Since we nearly staged a petting party,” finished Deke with a smile. Joyce felt tears rising to her eyes. She choked back a sob and pressed Deke’s hand. “Good night,” she said, “and thank you.” Mrs. Daring lay white and inert with a nurse in attendance. Her eyes were closed, her face waxlike. “Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy,” she was moaning aga}n and again. “She is speaking my name. Does she want me?” Joyce asked. “She’s not conscious yet. She won’t be fully conscious for hours probably, from shock and the ether. You might speak to her. It might quiet her a little.” Joyce approached the bed. "Motherdear,” she said softly. “Motherdear. It is Joyce, speaking. Joy, your little girl.” The painstricken woman moved a little. “Joy, Joy, forigve me,” the . words were distinct. “Forgive me.” Bet me tell you everything. Surely you will forgive me. I did it all for you. Joy, Joy, Joy,” and she lapsed back into her delirium. Joyce leaned over and kissed her mother’s white cheek, then she went down the long bare ball to the room assigned her for the night. Someone shook her awake at daybreak. "Your mother is conscious now and wants to see you,” said a voice. Joyce sprang to her feet. “How is she?” she asked. “Doing fine,” sajji the nurse. “I don’t think you have a thing to worry about. But she’s pretty restless and before we put her to sleep again we want her to see you.” Mrs. Darling, whiter even than the evening before, it seemed to Joyce, smiled faintly at the girl. Joyce ,was bending over the high hospital bed. She kissed her mother tenderly. “Don’t try to talk now,” she whispered. Mrs. Daring pressed Joy’s hand feebly. “Your father,” she said weekly. “Mustn’t know. Promise.” Joyce looked pityingly at her mother. “I won’t tell him Motherdear,” she said. , The nurse, hypodermic needle in hand, bent to give Mrs. Daring her release from pain and shock. Joyce

left the room, and went to her work. Near noon Marian called Miss Scanlon. “Seven forty-three just made a date with a man in the lobby to come up to her room,” she said. Miss Scanlon nodded. “Call Hop,” she said. Marian plugged in a call. “Whenever a woman staying here invites a man up to -her room we notify the house detective,” she explained. “He goes up and if they have their door closed he tells them they must leave it open.” Presently Jim Hopkins, the house detective, came in. Maran repeated her information and then said: “Here’s anew girl you want to meet, Hop. Miss Daring, Mr. Hopkins. And you want to watch your stop, Joy. Hop’s the regular thing when it comes to detecting.” When Joyce went out at noon he was lounging In the lobby. He came over to her. "Say, I saw you last night over at Lakeside,” he said. “Somebody sick?” “My mother,” said Joyce, a little fear clutching at her heart. “Went over there to try to pick up the trail of a lady bootlegger I’ve been hunting two or three weeks,” the detective. “My mother was hurt quite badly,” said Joyce, trying to tell herself that it was all nonsense to be afraid. “That so? Accident?” Hop took a quick look at the girl. “Yes, an accident,” said Joy. “Didn’t notice her on the admission sheet,” he went on. “Never forgot a name. Daring’s yours. Ought to be your mother’s, too, but I didn't see it.” “Mother doesn’t live with my father any more,” said Joyce, seeking for an escape from this tete of tete. “She calls herself Mrs. Martin.” “Mrs. Martin?” Hop’s face was alive. “She was shot, wasn’t she?" “It was an accident,” protested Joyce miserably. “There, there, never mind now. It’s none ot my business. I didn't mean to fret you about It,” said

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Hop sympathetically. “Run along now. I hope she gets better right away.” Someone called her as she went back to the board. It was Gladys wearing her uniform and looking anxiously at Joy. “Everything all right with your mother?” she asked. “As well as we can expect,” answered Joyce, wondering how much Gladys knew. , “Say, that’s a swell fellow you got. And his mother’s the real thing. They came in to see Mrs. Jenkins last_ night just as I was getting home from work. The way Mrs. Deacon spoke of you she must be strong for you.” Deke and Deke’s mother. How good of them. Joyce flushed with gratitude. Promptly at three Joyce hurried toward Lakeside. It seemed queer that she hadn’t heard from Deke. She was taken straight to her mother’s room. It was fragrant with flowers and the nurse handed her a note. “Dear Miss Daring,” It ran. “Henry was bruised a good deal last night and I am keeping him in bed today. It is nothing serious, but we have given him an opiate to keep hi masleep. I hope your mother is progressing nicely. You will hear from Deke just as soon as he is able to get'to the telephone. Cordially, Sarah Deacon.” The nurse looked uneasy at Joyce. “Dr. McDonald said for you to come in to see him as soon as you arrived,” she said. Joyce hurried down the corridor to the resident’s office. “Good afternoon Miss Daring," he said quietly. “Your mother’s condition is very serious. I advise you to notify your father or any other relative she might wish to see.” Joy’s knees turned to water. What must she do? Motherdear had said to tell no one. Yet surely her father had still some rights. Resolutely she took up the telephone book. An hour later she was facing him in an ante room of the ward where her mother lay;' still sleeping that deathlike sleep. * Without reserve she told him all the story.

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When she had finished John Dar ing took his hat firmly in his hands. ‘ I’ll have naught to do with the works of wickedness,” he said. “And I bid ye come with me, away from the evil of this woman.” He took Joy’s arm. “Father!” she cried. “I mean it Lass,” he said, “I’m going from her and her sinful ways. I bid ye follow me!” TOMORROW: First the detective,

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