Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 145, 5 May 1916 — Page 10

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99 . By Virginia Terhune Van de Water

A part of tier seeming confusion was due to embarrassment, for she felt Delaine's eyes fixed upon her In silent appraisal, but her predominant feeling was a thrill of triumph. If she had rolced her thoughts her words would probably have been "At last!" After these long dreary months in the city, where nobody worth while had seemed 0 consider her or pay her attention, ' he most attractive man she had ever net was asking her to lunch with him, nd this was only the second time she . ad met him! : , " She did not reply at once. She "anted to go with Somerdyke, yet her -nninine instinct warned her not to iera too eager to do so, that she would am by an appearance of reluctance. ' nd while she hesitated. Delaine turn1 almost sharply ... to his unceremo.lous visitor. ' Really, Harry," he said brusquely, ( don't particularly relish having you lake a convenience of my rooms. Nor 0 I believe," he added with a change f tone, "that Miss Marvin cares for hat kind of an invitation. Somerdyke r laughed . recklessly. Don't preach, Kelly! Surely there is 10 harm in my asking a lady' whom ' have met In a formal and correct ashlon to lunch with me, This is not 1 monopoly," he murmured in a lower olce and with significant intonation. Caryl, watching the two men, her iyes sparkling with excitement, saw 'be dark color mount to Delaine's face. But, controlling any further evidence f irritation, he shrugged his shoulders and replied with a tolerant smile. "Though you have lived in South America for the last five - years, Harry," he remarked slowly, "I fancy that you have not forgotten that among civilized people a man usually . knows a young girl's family rather well before he ventures to ask her to lunch alone with him." Somerdyke's eyes narrowed and he thrust out his Jaw stubbornly. "Instead of holding a brief for Miss Martin, Delaine," he said, "why don't you let the lady speak for herself? I think that she feels that she knows

me well enough to risk going to lunch with me, desperate character thongh I appear to be." "Certainly, answered Delaine, still suppressing any manifestation of anger.-,: "But, Harry, the lady's name is Marvin, not Martin." , . It was Somerdyke's turn to flush, and for a second he stood silent, biting his lip. Then he took a step toward Caryl. "Come," he said impetuously,"you're going to take pity on a poor lonely man and .go to lunch with him, aren't you? Please end all this squabbling by saying yes.-" But Caryl still hesitated, and looked uncertainly from one man to the other. Somerdyke stood directly in; her line of vision, his lean face animated and oxpectant She , noted ; with swift,- silent approval ' how well his. suit of English tweed fitted him and how well groomed he was from his tan shoes to his sleek hair. Then she looked at her employer as he leaned nonchalantly against the mantelpiece, a cynical half smile on his face. Caryl hated him for that smile. He seemed so certain of what she was going , to do. Did he really Imagine that because he disapproved of her lunching with his friend she would refuse the invitation? At the thought she tossed her head with a sudden defiant movement, and spoke quietly, but decidedly. "I shall be very glad to lunch with you, Mr. Somerdyke," she said. She looked again at Delaine as she spoke. The hateful smile broadened. He shrugged his shoulders. "The matter appears to be settled," he , observed indifferently. "I would

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are interfering with her work and mine by staying here any longer just now. Please complete your arrangements, and then go on and let me get down to business again." "Your politeness is in keeping with

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sneered Somerdyke. "I congratulate you upon them both. Miss Marvin, I

will be in the vestibule downstairs at twelve. Good morning!" He bowed to the girl and left the room without another word to his host. Delaine watched him ,: until ne disappeared into the hall, and 4 the cynical smile was still; on - his lips. When the outside door had slammed he turned to-his stenographer. " "Now, if you are quite ready, Miss Marvin," he said impersonally, "we will try to go on." - Without answering, Caryl took up her notebook. For a minute Delaine stood silent, " looking steadily at - the girl. Her pretty, flower-like face was flushed. A shaft of. sunlight, streaming in through the window, touched her hair and turned it to a bright gold. Once she flashed a quick glance at him and he noticed how. clear and childlike her eyes were. At last she lifted : her head and looked at him again, this time interrogatively, f "Your sister is at home, I suppose?" he asked abruptly. "Yes," answered Caryl thoughtlesslIy. , ' " He stood silent for a moment longer, a puzzled, almost anxious, frown wrinkling his forehead. The frown was still there when he began to speak. "You will excuse me, I hope, Miss Marvin," he, said slowly, "if I seem officious or," In other words, if I butt in on your affairs." (More Tomorrow.)

Copyright. 1916, by the McCIura Mr. Possum was too sick from the horrid medicine that Dr. Coon had given him to are even if he did hear Dr. Coon talking about something to eat. "What he most needs, said Dr. Coon,. Is a fat duck or a hen, and I think two chickens and some eggs would be the very best thing he could have, but he must have green things,

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also, and I wish you could find something sweet as well. You might get a silver spoon from Mr. Man's house while you are about it, too. Something bright and shiny is better to use for his medicine. Mr. Fox said he would get the chickens, and as much more as he could.

Helen and Warren ; Their Married Life

By MRS. MABEL HERBERT URNER Originator of "Their Married Life," Author of "The Journal of a Keglected Wife," "The Woman Alone Etc r: -

Again the place was darkened and the spotlight turned on a girl in the balcony who came to the railing to sing. "Why, dear, that's the pretty girl who was sitting back of us! Surely - she doesn't belong to the place?" "Seems eo," shrugged Warren. "She Is not so much too made up." "It's such a pity she's so young." "Huh, not so young as she looks," batting a floating balloon. As the girl sang she smiled down at the man with whom she had been sitting, and who was watching her ! through the puffs of his cigarette smoke. "Flowers fox the lady?" a girl with a tray of fresh flowers paused by their table. Warren shook his head. 1 It was foolish to want them, yet Helen was conscious of a desire for 'some light attention. Warren leaned jback, lazily smoking. He had hardly 'troubled to speak to her since they entered.. In all that crowded place jno other woman was so obviously 'ignored. Almost enviously she watched a couple near by. The man's hand, Hthough fat and pudgy, covered the ! girl's as it lay on the table. He was

'drinking, and the admiration in his eyes was probably both cheap and insincere yet it was admiration, and the girl flushed under it happily. The music, the wine, and the gayety had brought out a certain emotionalism in every one except Warren. He sat there stolidly unresponsive. At another table a girl, picking to pieces a rose her escort had bought her, was dipping the petals In her wine glass and plastering them on his forehead. He seemed highly amused until she tried to decorate his bald spot. One of the dancing girls was now passing among the tables, spraying perfume from a large atomizer. There were shouts of laughter as she sprayed the men. ."What about your wife, Bob, when she whiffs that? Put a yellow hair on your shoulder and shell lock you out!" Some of the men took .it good-naturedly, but many of them dodged the atomizer, which only increased the hilarity. As the girl approached, Warren, who loathed perfume, waved her away but she mischievously shot a spray at his collar. "Devilish smelling stuff!" wiping his neck with his napkin. . "Anything more, sir?" asked the waiter, clearing, the glasses from the adjoining .table. "Bar closes in five minutes." . "The same one Scotch and one claret lemonade." Then to Helen: "You want a sandwich rwnat kind?" kind?"

"Soon as I serve the drinks, sir," and. the waiter rushed off. "Pardon, sir!" .An omnibus hurrying by with ; a laden tray. Jostled against Warren's hair. . "Here, I'll get out. of the way." Warren moved his chair over, beside Helen's clearing the aisle and . getting a better view of the dancing space, where four girls in black and white dominoes were doing there turn. ' Everybody was clamoring for drinks The perspiring waiters, their shirt

fronts full of checks, dashed back and forth, trying to supply the demand before the stroke of midnight ushered in Sunday morning. "They're whooping it up," chuckled Warren, resting his arm on .the back of Helen's chair. Another two minutes and the hand3 of the gilded clock over the archway were at twelve. "Too late, sir, nothing but soft drinks now," as a man raised his glass and shouted: another quart here!" "Guess the fun's about over," yawned Warren. "Don't want to wait for a sandwich, do you?" "I'll have a headache if I drink without eating something." "Sorry, sir; but I'll have to ask you to take your arm down." "Eh? What's that?" Warren stared up at the head waiter. "You Can't, have your arm around the lady here." More Tomorrow.

We acknowledge that this column might be better if we clipped it out of Puck, but what's the use of doing anything like this unless it's original.

Some fellow called up the other day and said that he had taken the first out of doors swim so far this season. We didn't disagree with him, but when he was asked his name, he hung up on us. For the Actors. -The villain should always wear riding clothes and should carry a whip or cane at all times. A black mustache helps out. Can You Guess It? How do some people ever expect you to believe some of the things they tell you? The Fable. Once upon a time a woman moved out of a house to another town. She did not know the woman who was going to move into the house. Yet she cleaned the house perfectly before leaving it. Moral: A woman will admit that the cow jumped over the moon but she will never admit that any woman but herself ever moved out of a house and left it clean. Why? Experience teaches otherwise.

If paper keeps on getting scarce, at the close of the war there will be no paper on which to draw up the treaties.

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Lorimer will pay all back according to the paper published yesterday. That must have been the kind of man

that Mr. White was talking about the other night when he said that if a person didn't get money back that he had loaned for. him to blame himself. What's the use of getting Villa? Latest reports say that that will not end matters in Mexico. Borrowed. The soaring, lark salutes the dawn, The red breast' takes the wing; From green young onions now we get The faint, sweet breath of spring.

And yesterday a May flower actually blossomed forth.

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wnat he could. . Jack Rabbit was sure he could get some green stuff, and perhaps something sweet, but he did not know about the silver spoon, v Mr. Fox said he knew where there was a silver spoon, but that he was too big to get in the window where he saw it He ould be willing, though, to .show Mr. Squirrel where it was, and he was such a good climber he might get it. "By all means get it," said Dr. Coon, looking very grave. "His life depends upon everything I have prescribed " Mr. Fox had been just a little suspicious of Dr. Coon, but when he said that last word Mr. Fox decided he was the real thing. "What did he mean by that word he used?" csked Jack Rabbit. "Prescribed, do you mean?" asked Mr. Fox. "Well, that means we have got to hurry like anything and get those things if we want to save Mr. Possum. And off ran Mr. Fox as fast as he could before any more questions were asked. When they all were done. Mr. Possum said: "I thought you said I was to get a lot to eat, and here I am 'so sick I don't want anything from taking your horrid medicine." "That is a part of the scheme to get the food." said Dr. Coon. "You ought to be willing to do your part; I am doing mine." "Well, I'd rather have played the doctor than to be the sick one," said Mr. Possum. "Oh, dear, how sick I am!" -That evening late in came Mr. Fox with two fat chickens and a basket of eggs, and pretty soon Jack Rabbit knocked at the door and left a basket

of green stuff. Mr. Squirrel came after they had gone and said he had to wait so long for the spoon he didn't have time to get anything Use. "That is all right" said Dr. Coon,

his eyes shining when he saw the silver spoon. "You have done well to get this." - By and by Mr. Possum felt better and he slipped out of bed to see where Mr, Coon was, for he was all through playing doctor now. . , v . There sat Mr. Coon in Mr. Possum's chair by the table eating all the things that his neighbors had brought to him. "You are a cheat and a bad fellow," said Mr, 'Possum real loud. . "You are no better," said Mr.. Coon. "You were willing to rob your neighbors when I told you how it could be done. You are mad , because I got the best of you, that's all; t Now. it happened that Mr. Fox had not gone home; he stopped and hid around the "corner of the house, for he ;.; thought Dr. Coon looked very pleased when he saw the eggs - and chickens. - "Walt and see what Dr. Coon does with the 'things we brought." he said to Jack Rabbit; "we will peek in the window for a few minutes." When Mr, Squirrel came along they stopped him and they all hid. so when the loud - talking began they were all there looking in the window. -Now is the time," said Mr. Fox, when Mr. Coon told Mr. Possum that he was mad because he got the best of him. "Let us break in and give them both a good beating." But Mr. Coon was too quick for them. He knew it was all up when he saw Mr. Fox's nose come in the door. He jumped for the window and went right through it, and off he went bounding through the woods and far away. Mr. Possum,-though, when he saw

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he was caught, thought of only his own trick. He jumped into bed and played dead Possum. Mr. Fox and Jack Rabbit found him, and Mr. Fox said: "Well fix him. Take him by his bind feet. Jack Rabbit, and I will take his head." '. ' Mr. Possum had not the least idea what they were going to do, but he

so much. .v .: "Throw him in." said Mr. when he and Jack Rabbit came to the river near the house; "we will soon find out whether he is dead or not. -But Mr. Possum was far from dead, as he soon showed them, for out he jumped on the opposite side of the river and ran. and neither Mr. Fox Jack Rabbit or Mr. Cquirrel ever again

saw that Mr. Possum or that p articular Mr. Coon, either. Tomorrow's Story: "Benny Brown's Battle."

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