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BEGIN HERE TODAY When Daphne Brett took her younger sister, Jennifer, under hand in an effort to launch her on a successful career in New York, difficulties immediately arose between the two. Jennifer resented any such interest and promptly defied Daphne. She was ready to elope with Tucker Ainsley, wealthy playboy, and would have eloped had not Daphne stepped in in time to prevent the wedding. Next, Jennifer had made a play for the affections of Larry Smith, attractive young architect, with whom Daphne is in love. Weeks dragged on in which the sisters became increasingly estranged. Then Daphne sent Jennifer to a shore resort for vacation and Jennifer met Gordon Herzberg, famous theater producer. Immediately she found a new interest in this field and seemed to lose her old bitterness. At the same time Daphne, who has been asked by Larry to become his wife, is sent on a two-months’ sales trip across the continent. Happy, because she knows this will give her enough money to see Jennifer safely started, she calls Larry. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

“QO, I'm selfish, am I?” Lanny placed a box of white flowers on Daphne's table, fished a box of candy from one pocket, a toy dog from another and from an inside pocket, took out a very small, white box. “I didn't mean it. it. I didn't mean it,” Daphne said and slipped from his arms. “You're the sweetest, most generous person

in the world and I love the dog. |

I've always wanted one just like this.” “But why don't you put him down and give me a little of your attention while I tell you my news?” “Consider it all yours but first I want to know if you are going to ask me to marry you because if youare ..."” n n n “¥'M not as a matter of fact. I'm telling you that you are going to marry me.” “Oh, so that's the way it is! You're going to be the Magnificent Brute, are you? Well, listen to me.” “I thought I had the floor.” She looked properly subdued. “You are not only going to marry me but vou are going to marry me tomorrow. Hand in hand we are going down . . . She captured one of those hands. “Darling,” she pleaded, “don’t lose your breath. Take it easy and tell me what this all means.” “It means that we are going to build castles in Spain.” “That's exactly what it sounds like to me. Youre very lucid, Mr. Smith.” ” n n “YF youll sit on my knee, I'll be very lucid. There! Well, I'm —weTre—sailing for Spain on Friday. You and I. Mr, and Mrs. Smith. Is that clear?” “Not very. Hadn't you heard there is a war in Spain?” “Yes, but not all of Spain is battlefield. The point is that our firm is going to bid in on the Spanish Village for the next World's Fair and I'm going over to look around and get some ideas. And you're going with me. Darling, we'll stand on the road to Granada and look across to the shores of Africa. We'll see the twilight that falls at midnight. Well . , . Daphne took a deep breath as though she were about into something very cold. must you go now? it off another two months?” ” » ”n E appeared puzzled. “But why should I? Things are getting hotter in Spain and I want to get over and get my stuff before it is too late. Two months from now it may be.”

Daphne got off his lap and walked |

over to a table. She fingered the petals of the white blossoms. “Larry, don't you think it would be better if you went alone? Then, when you've got everything . . . I mean your material, we could . , could have a real wedding and a honeymoon.” Silence. Perplexed silence. “Don’t you want to go, Daphne?” Very quickly she said, “Of course jdobut...bdut...” “Are you going to give me any | more of that line about my responsibilities and not being able to afford a wife?” “Oh, no,” she said and took two of the flowers from the bowl. She studied the effect carefully. “Can you give me any good reason why you doen't want to go?” “No,” she said. “Only ..."” Silence, Hurt silence.

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HE put the flowers back in the bowl. “Larry, please don't ask me why, only please don’t ask me to marry you before you go. I'll marry you later if you still want me to.” “Daphne!” She couldn't answer that cry. She knew if she did shed tell him her real reason and she didn't want him to know that. She didn't want him to know that she had to have that money before she could marry him. Better for him to wait a little while without knowing. “Yes, Lary,” while. “Don’t you want to tell me why you want me to wait?” “Well,” she said brightly. “You know my job. . . . that is, you know how hard I've been working on the Georgian account?” He didn't say anything. “Larry, my campaign has been approved. That is, the one suggest= ing the tour across the country. Now, they seem to feel that I know more about it than anyone else and so they want me to manage it. That means that I will have to go.” “I see,” he said tonelessiy. can't, of course, let your down.”

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F Daphne's nerves hadn't been on edge she would have understood his sarcasm. As it was, she said, “There is that point. After all, I do owe my company something. It has supported me, and Jennifer, for six years now. And I am responsible for the success of that account. I can't very well let them down.” Larry stood hat. Something inside Daphne eried out, don’t let him go. Tell him that you arent what you are trying to make yourself out to be. And something else inside her said, he should you, his shouid be big enough to accept

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Daphne. You haven't ever given me a reason for not accepting me, have you?” She stood there calmly enough while her heart rocked.

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“FT was stupid of me not to have seen that you cared more for your job. I wish you success. I hope it’s a great trip. Are you still going to make it?” For one minute she looked back at him but he didn’t know her eyes were pleading with him to tell her that he had to know why. He didn’t. “Yes,” she said. “I've got to do it.” “Then I guess it's goodby.” Without another word to her he went out the door. Daphne didn’t cry. She went into her bedroom and began emptying | the drawers of her dresser. She | piled her lingerie in neat little bundles. She washed her collars and | cuffs and packed the things she | thought she'd need on her trip. She | straightened out her check book | and polished the set of silver bowis.

tell me for the last three months,

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And all the time she was saying, all lovers have quarrels, Larry will telephone me tonight and we'll both break down and he will understand and it will be all right.

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UT Larry didn’t call that night. Or the next day. Or any of the days that followed until it was time for Daphne to leave. Larry had meant it when he said goodby. Daphne wrote and tore up a score of notes. If he loved her, he would love her when next they met. . , . A month later, Anne Cockerell | wrote to her at Detroit. “ . +. 1 met Larry today,” she | wrote. “Just spoke to him for a moment. Has anything happened between you two? I asked him if he was looking so wan because you were so far away and he said it was nothing but disappointment. Not being able to go to Spain, he felt that the war was a personal injury. I congratulated him. Things are bad over there, aren’t they? By the way, youre a poor correspondent. Even Larry couldn't tell me any news of you. . . . ”

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(To Be Continued)

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RESCUE—By Nellie Guy

IKE tramped up the groaning stairs to the second-floor hall of the dilapidated apartment house. Not much prospect of a sale here. Why, the people who lived here probably made scarcely enough to buy necessities. How could they afford to buy washing machines? Even as he thumped on a rattling door, he felt like a bum—asking these people to buy. He hated this door-to-door can- | vassing, but old Clausen, his boss, (gave the men who had families first chance at the better jobs—the | office jobs. | “Mike, I know you belong in the office,” Clausen had said, “but these | other fellows have wives and kids. | You, being single, can get along on (less, so you take this canvassing for | the present, If you were married—"

| his usual line. | “Good afternoon. madam. Would you be interested in—" | ” x » IS voice trailed off. He looked hard at the girl who stood at | the door. Why, she'd been crying! | Then, he noticed long, ragged | strips of paper lying on the floor. | It looked like—yes, they had come out of the crack in the door. A piece was hanging from the other side. Mike was flabbergasted. “Say, what's the matter?” he demanded. “Nothing,” the girl murmured, brushing her eves with the back of her hand. “What do you want?” Mike's brain whirled. He'd have to stop this kid from doing anything desperate. It was evident she had been using those strips of paper to shut out all air in preparation for turning on the gas. “Listen,” he said, “maybe I can help you if you tell me what the trouble is.” “Have you got a job for me?” Simple and to the point. “Because that's all I want. I won't have charity!” “Let's just talk this over,” said Mike. » n n ITHOUT waiting for an invi=tation, he stepped into the shabby little one-room apartment. | Quickly, his eve took in the de= | crepit chairs and small couch. An

"| old knife on the windowsill beside

| another strip of paper half stuffed | into the wide crack around the window convinced Mike that he had been right in his conclusion that this girl was about to “end it all.” How should he handle the situa= tion? He must think of some way to dissuade her from her purpose. “Look,” he said persuasively, “can’t you swallow your pride and go home?” “Haven't any to go to, and I can’t find any work,” she answered, sinking into a chair. “Sure—I know work's hard to get. That's why I'm hanging onto this two-bit job. I could have a better one if—say!” A brilliant idea suddenly struck Mike. It was absolutely startling.

| But after all, why not?

Impulsively, he said, “How would vou like a business arrangement that would net you, say $40 a month?” “Fine,” the girl answered. scornfully. “And what do I do? Teach trained flees how to rhumba?”

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IKE ignored this and rushed on. “It would be for my good as well as yours.” He chuckled “Boy, wouldn't the old man be surprised?” “And just what is this profitable scheme of yours?” “All you gotta do is marry me!” he said, excitedly. “Marry you!” “Sure-—strictly business, of course You need money to live on and—" She interrupted him, her eyes flashing. “Marry a meal ticket? I guess not!” “But you'd be helping me, too. The boss says that if I get married I can have a better job. Then. a little later, we can get a divorcee, and you can have alimony until you get on your feet. See=it's simple. And I wouldn't really be cheating the boss, because you've got as much right to live as the wives of the other fellows in the office.” The girl was beginning to weaken. She studied Mike speculatively. “Nobody would need to know that we hadn't known each other for a long time, would they?” she asked. “Of course not!” “Well—all right,” she agreed hesitantly. “If you're sure it'll turn out all right.” “Swell! Say, what's your name? Let's go out and get something to eat, and talk it over... .”

» » » T= marriage took place a few days later. When Mike bro

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dumfounded. Soon afterward, old Clausen came through with the promised job in the office and a raise in salary. A month passed, during which | Mike found himself growing more and more used to Aileen’s companionship and wishing that the “arrangement” was going to continue indefinitely. She, however, seemed awfully quiet. Mike was bothered by the fact that she still seemed to suffer from spells of depression. Maybe it was because she was anx- | ious to get this business over with. One night, as he walked homeward, with his coat collar turned up against the piercing wind, he was brooding over the situation. Something would have to be done about

LISSEN, LADY? WHEN YOU GOT MARRIED, YOU SACRIFICED ALL OF YOUR RIGHTS HERE, WHICH MAKES ME TH’ BIG SHOT AROUND HERE - I MEAN, OVER YOU! SO DON'T BE COMIN’ BACK, EXPECTIN' TO BE YOUR OLD, BOSSY SELF!

WHAT A THRILL: ING YOICET-AND THAT SONG- IT'S BRIMMING WITH ROMANCE S-AH-H/'-NOW I'M IN THE MOOD, MY DREAM GIRL=~! You r=

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that divorce, but he hated to think about it. However, a bargain was a bargain. He reached the two-room apartment he had taken, and rang the bell. When Aileen opened the door, he was startled by the similarity to their first meeting. Her eyes were visibly red, and a ragged strip of paper fell out of the crack in the door. n ” ” ILEEN darling!” he said in in alarm. “What's the mat-

ter!” Impulsively, he took her in his |arms—for the first time—and was |amazed at how right this seemed. | She hid her face in his coat col-

FLAPPER FANNY

TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1937

By Sylvia

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“Chuck’s so generous—he shares everything with

you.”

“Yeah, measles last spring, flu this winter—and the

blame all the time.”

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Jd like any young bride, and | sobbed, “Oh, Mike!” | “Aileen, do we have to get that

LAID A HAND ON IT!

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| confounded divorce?” he blurted. “Oh, no, Mike—I don't want ity | | “You don't!” he exclaimed in- | | eredulously. “Gosh, darling, that's! swell!” | » » ” | HEN, suddenly, he remembered | | the ragged strips of paper. “But see here, dear,” he said | | axiously, “you've got to stop tais darned foolishness every time you | get blue.” | “Foolishness?” she stared at him. “What do vou mean?” . He pointed at the strips of paper | in the door, then at some others

| that he now saw stuck round the | windows. !

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QUICK, YOU GUYS - PILE BACK ONTO DINNY! WE GOTTA TAKE OUT

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GIDDAP, DINNY, YOU SLAB: SIDED HUNK OF LIZARD MEAT, GIT GON!

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“Why, this end-it-all business.” | As it dawned on her what he meant, she suddenly burst into a gale of laughter.

“Oh, sWweetheart—is that what you thought? It’s too funny—and to think that we're married Just be= cause of that! Darling, it’s cold today—and the radiators don’t seem to be working very well. Didn't you Ever see any one stop up cracks to keep the cold air out?”

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