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BEGIN HERE TODAY | Daphne Brett, charming young New

York advertising executive, rents Wer |\,..q the roaring fire in the hearth, home.” the books and magazmes, the hand- | work on a loom. She knew instant-

deceased father's Connecticut estate to Larry Smith, attractive bachelor architect, and immediately finds herself Tiking him tremendously. Daphne has one sister, Jennifer, just out of college and on her first job in New York. Jennifer is a vivacious, somewhat selfish sister who resents Daphne's guide ance and her first night in New York she dates Tucker Ainsley, Caphne's old beau. Then Daphne see In Jennifer a challenge to herself—a challenge to get a bit more from her own life than a career. Daphne is under the impression that Larry is married until one night, returning home, Jennifer announces Larry has been there and is not married. Jennifer, unaware of Daphne's liking for him, says she is going to set her hat for Larry. The following Sunday Tuck Ainsley calls to take Jennifer out to Brett Hall where Larry lives and Daphne, deciding to play the game herself, prepares to go, too. TYt's a race between two sisters for the same man, NOW GO ON WITH THE

STORY

CHAPTER EIGHT

APHNE came back to the living room 10 minutes later. She wore her bright green tweed suit with a big collar of soft black fur. Her small green hat bore a tantalizing feather of pheasant thrust jauntily in its crown. The brightness of the green pointed up the white and black contrast of her skin and hair. Tuck looked at her approvingly while she drew on her black gloves. | Then his glance swung around to Jennifer — Jennifer looking very | much like a magazine cover girl in rer yellow wool coat, a shade deeper than her soft flaxen hair Which flowed out from beneath a childish bonnet of brown velvet. He sighed. “1 wish I could make up my mind which of you two girls is the most beautiful. You're such perfect foils for each other. Ah, me! A man has troubles.” n ” ”

ENNIFER avoided Daphne's eyes «J and was angry with herself for doing so. “Why try to make up | vour mind, Tuck? It isn't likely that | Daphne and I would ever enter into any competition for a mere man. Would we, Daphne?” She smiled but her eyes asked a question. They Were cool, penetrating eyes and left no doubt of | their meaning. Daphne laughed. “Don’t be ridiculous, vou two. Who ever thought of such an idea? Jennifer, don't ever take Tuck seriously. He never means anything he says.” “Suppose you let me make my own conclusions? I'm not really a | child, you know.” Jennifer's voice had a pettish note. “You certainly are,” Tuck said and pretended to shove her out the door.

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is a child, Daphne noting the sullenness in Jennifer's face. Jennifer sat between Daphne and Tuck in the roadster. She kept her lovely eyes straight ahead and answered Tuck's cheerful attempts at conversation in monosvllables. She is acting like a child and I'm sorry I behaved this way to her, Daphne's thoughts ran on, uncoms- | fortably But she couldn't be unhappy for | long. Wasn't she going to see Lary Smith? Tt would be nice when they got out of the city, Tuck was telling | Jennifer. Daphne thought it was! nice in the city. The tenements, the el pillars, the crowded, gray streets, the unattractive stragglers on the | streets—all these were drawn into the warm anticipatory mood of Daphne. Her thoughts raced ahead of the | car and because she knew the value of every treasured moment, she savored the next even as she wished she could have held on to the last. This quickened sense was something | she had never known before, ” » n SHE was a fool to feel that way. | Trying to put her thoughts back in the order that had existed before all through that drive, she told her= self how silly it was of her, But when they had turned off the parkway and had driven through ! the familiar backwoods roads of Plantsport and were at last at Brett Hall, something within her told her | that she was not a fool. Something in Larry Smith's eyes when he saw her told her, too, that | sie was not silly. She saw him before they got to! the house. He was—as she had seen | him first in riding clothes—on his | knees putting burlap bags around | the plants under the windows of the corner room, which he had] looked through that first day. “Hi, Squire!” Jennifer called from | the ear Larry straightened, put his pipe in his pocket and came down to-| ward the car. Then he saw Daphne.

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ELLO,” he said and there was | great warmth in his voice but his eyes were for Daphne and | it was to her that he held out his | hand. “We've taken advantage of your | invitation,” she said. "This is my sister whom you've met and this | is Tucker Ainsley, Mr. Smith.” “Of course, I've met the little | sister, Glad to see you all.” He | shook hands with Tuck. “It's been a divine drive, Mr. | Smith, Youre a lamb to ask us up.” Jennifer offered him an angelic | smile and held out her small hand | for him to help her out of the car. | “A cold one,” he said. “Let's get inside. I've been burning some of these fine hickory logs and 1 think there is something warmer than that.” “Thank heavens for that,” Jennifer said. “I told Daphne that I knew you were the Kind of man who'd be the supreme host.” “I'm glad you told her that” he said and smiled down on her, Jennifer felt she had said the wrong thing.

| against | lectures he had heretofore received |

| ward | working.

They went indoors and Daphne forgot about Jennifer,

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T= first thing that struck her |

was the beauty of her old home, 8o like what it had been be-fore--80 exactly what it ought to ke. ‘There were all her things, the polished tables, the old mirrors, the rich brocades. She saw them first even as she felt a new living pres

| different about home—just

| somehow, there seemed brighter, more cheerful atmosphere |

seasonal filled the

ence there. The late blooms ang leaves that

ly what these people—Larry’s people—were like, that they were her kind of people. “Mother,” Larry was saying, “this is Daphne. This is the little girl in the portrait—the one with the lack curls.” “I'm happy to know the mistress of Brett Hall,” she said, taking both Daphne's hands in hers. “I'm happy that you are here,” Daphne said simply. > % %

ND then they were all talking. There was s6 much to say about the Hall. Jennifer had taken Tuck to see the old school room. Aunt Alice, twin to Larry's mother, made tea and Lary poured cocktails for himself and Tuck. Daphne felt that she had known them all her life. All of them but Larry. Dusk fell early and filled the room with shadows. “Wouldn't you like to have a look around outside before it gets dark?” Larry asked Daphne, She went out with him from the

| room conscious of her sister's eyes

on them. It made her uneasy, but she soon forgot it strolling with Larry about the grounds she well

| remembered.

Then, too soon, it was time for

| them to drive back to the city.

“May I call you?” Larry said for

| her alone to hear.

“Please do,” she said. The three of them — Tuck and Jennifer and Daphne—drove back to town, stopping on the way for dinner. “Let's go to a movie?” Jennifer said. “Do you mind

it I doa?»

| Daphne cut in, “You two run along. I've some things I want to do at

» » ” LL she wanted to do was think. To think of Brett Hall. To remember every corner of it as she had seen it. To remember the things Larry Smith had said to her about lit. But not to think of Jennifer. She was ashamed of her own tactics. | Was there something mean in her [that could do something like that

to her only little sister. She'd try

| to make up to Jennifer for it—

Jennifer found her in bed when [she returned from the movies. | Daphne had rather dreaded that moment, Jennifer hung up her yellow coat, [tossed her brown hat on a stand. Then she dropped down on Daphne's bed. “So you've fallen saiz pleasantly. Daphne said, “Idiot!” | “You ‘can’t fool me,” Jennifer said. “Why didn't you tell me how it was? I'm not a bad girl at heart. I'm awfully sorry, Daph. I wouldn't have barged in only I didn't know. I think he's grand and I wish you luck. T wish I could fall in love

in love,” she

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only I guess I'm not the falling-in-love kind.” | [ “Youre only a baby, Jennifer. | {You'll fall in love some day,’ and [she added hastily, ‘not that IT have.” | | “Well, if I ‘do, remember one | | thing, Daphne; I expect fair play | land no big sister stuff. I'm just | [warning you.” | Daphne said, “Fall in love with | the right man and it will be all right with me, but be careful.”

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| (To Be Continued)

Daily Short Story

A GIRL NAMED MARY—By Alice L. Miller

“TPOY, oh boy, oh boy!” Ted

gazed rapturously at the girl's |

picture, and softly whistled. oh boy, oh boy!” he repeated.

He continued to look at the pic-

“Boy,

| ture, which had been enclosed in his So Dad had at last |

father's letter, waked up to the fact that there were

| other essentials in a college man’s (life than eating. sleeping, and study- |

ing. Good old Dad! Ted had begun to think that long years of being a widower had prejudiced his father the fairer sex. From the

in his weekly letters from home, he could thing nothing else, He was still exclaiming to hime self, his father's letter and the pice ture in his hand, when the door

opened to admit his roommate, Carl

Benton, “Apparently, you have received good news,” Carl remarked casually, noting the smile on Ted's face. “Good news! Boy, oh boy, oh boy!” Ted waved the letter, “Just listen to this—it's fiom Dad.”

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E read: “ ‘Dear Son—I regret that life at home has been too uninteresting 10 claim your pres= ence even on an occasional weekend, but from now on, I hope things will be different. Beginning next

Saturday, I shall expact you home | There is a | to | I am inclosing her picture. |

at least once a month, girl named Mary 1 meet, I'm sure you will like her. Plan to come home next Saturday—I will be expecting you.’ “Bay, oh boy, will T be there!” Ted exhibited the picture. “Look, fellow, at those eyes, and those dimples— did you ever see such dimples? Oh,

want you

{ boy, Will I be there!” Carl looked critically at the girl in

the picture, “Yes, she is charming,” he ventured. “But such a wide forehead and perfectly shaped head surely

indicate some intelligence—I doubt |

if she would take any interest in you.” “Say, I can act intelligent if the occasion is important enough , , . But gosh, Carl, I'm broke! I've got to get hold of some money by next

| Saturday--what you have in your pocket when you go places with a | | beautiful girl. I can't let Dad know

I'm broke already. Gee, and a girl like that waiting for me! What am

| 1 going to do?”

“People do earn money,” Carl remarked. “Or borrow it,” Ted hinted. “But it must be borrowed from some one who has it, which doesn't include any of your bosom friends, Well, there's always dishwashing at Tony's place.”

un n " ONY drove a hard bargain. Well he knew that, only after all other means of obtaining neces sary funds had failed, did the boys

come to the back door of his ress |

taurant and suggest a few days of

| work.

From 7 until 12, each night until Saturday, Ted had his hands in greasy dish water, Only by bolster ing his determination with frequent references to Mary's picture was he able to stand the ordeal.

| The soap used in Tony's Kitchen

was guaranteed to remove goodly portions of skin from the hands that handled it. When Saturday at last came, Ted felt deeply deserving of the re toward which he had been Now to claim it—or

rather, her. With his hard-earned

| money in his pocket, and with an

amazing amount of confidence in himself, he boarded a train for home, Fortunately, he thought, home town was not large-it would not require much money there to

show a girl a good time, With what he

he had, plus his Dad’s car, should be able to entertain Mary in style, » » n

LMOST as soon as Ted entered

the house, he sensed something what, he didn't know. There was the same furniture and everything, but to be a

about the place. When his father came down the stairs to greet him, there was a new spring in his step, and & broad smile on his face. Ted had never seen him looking so well. His fa-

his

ther 0 ned him, t00, more cor=

THE END

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