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don't. think it‘: fair to me for you to work for us any longer." I drew mysd‘! up angrily at what I believed was a coming Injustice. .» "Oh. wait a minute." Mr. Davton slid. "I'm_not. gain; to behave the mmnen do i_ii iimi-i- iiooini. It isn't livelihood and my affection. I sini- y mean exactly what I say. I loo you, and it ls torture to me to see you about this place every tiny. Consequently I'm going‘ to help you to get another position. just as good as this one, with anrther ilim company. I don't think that is un- As {matter of fact I think . d be Itgppler. too." . I hungry mydiand to hlm. - t?" "I will‘. o gladly anvthlng I can not to hurt you." i said. “I tlilnk what you suggest is ‘sensible. and it's nice of you to helii mo."

Which closed that incident for themoment.

Noiw, although I was still lon- slderably piqued at Hugh's attitude toward me when ‘I hail iuailc my first little advances toward him. I IYDNIII not rrs-ist tolling him some- thing of this conversation.

"I'm nct going to be with the Champion I-‘ilm (‘onipany much longer," I said txarclossly. as I stood (Irving the ilisbiss in the kitchen while Ilugh put them away for me.

IIo whoclwl at oricc to look at me. going directly to the point, as was his baibit.

"Lost your job?‘ ically.

"Ne, not exactly." I said. "But Mu‘.- Dziyton is having me transfer- red to another company. lie tliiniikii it's better. and so do I.

"Wily?" asked Hugh.

"\Vel.l," I said "you know huw

' hi? asked lucun~ k

be felt about me. The other day I have had a keen“ 30y ma“ m mo“ men as you d0 x cam “y

father has brought me much bitterness these last few

decided I never could care tor him and we had an undcrsuintiing. Iie IIIIIIIIS ii Witllitl ii.» klIViCI‘ ii no‘ dldnt see me cvcry day for a while. He has really been iiwfully square about it."

Iiugh di..rcgardcil the of my information.

"How do yoil know y'otl'll ncver care for liini?" lit- ziskcil.

"I just know I never will," I re- plied.

"Don't hr? silly‘. Nell." said Iiugll a little impatiently. “That's no answer. Ilow do you know?"

“Wr‘“l." I said. "iic kissed inc. nntlw‘ 1

"The devil he did." interrupted Hugh. I

“Well. ‘he. did.‘ I went on. “and I didn't like it; that's all."

Hugh pill down the platc he hail in his hand and walked closer to me.

"I remember.‘ he said, at me steadily. "you don't like any- btiliy to kiss you - do you?"

I measured carefully the dis- tance to the don-r. I backed a fcw steps tentatively. and then ~-

"Ohl don't-know‘ that I said that exactly" l told hitullefore he could move I had bolted.

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Chapter LXIV

Mr. Dayton arranizerl my trails- fer from the (Yhampion Film tiom~ pany to another troncern in which he was a stockholder tilmost im- madiatcly after our conversation. I was timid about the change. I had begun to realize how little l really did know about this work and to IIPDPGUIHIG that perhaps some oi‘ my quick success in it had been duo to Mr. Daylonis leniency Now. with no one near to encour- age mo. I would be working en- tirely on my own merits. One Sat urday afternoon I walked rother nervously into Mr. Daylons office to draw my last pay envelope and say gcodby. I think he W85 hon- estly moved. ' ‘ “We won't. have any fond ferry wells, little girl," IIP said. “I hate them. Ini trying very hard to he- have. If I do, there is no roaison why we slinuld not see each other occasionally. is there?"

I put oiit my hand to hlm.

"You have been very square," I said “I shall never forget that you gave me my start. I hope you will come out and see mother and me when you IP11 like it.‘

"Well. Noll," he said slowly. "I don't think I shall feel Ike it for a while. Better let me get over it for the next few montbsv" and lhenvabrirplly~ "Not going to be mairrieil, are you?"

‘I flushed. I couldn't liclp It.

"No. I'm not," I said. "All I'm

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~ i thinking of those days ls my work.

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I had a few days’ rest and tlien my labors began again. My new film company was called "The Git-be Feature Stu-vice)“ I medl- ately I realized that I was going to have to work bard. Evidently Mr. Dayton bad spoken to my new director of what he was pleased t0 oiili my "intent." I Ullllk lie-pro bably had been made to believe I was more experienced than was actually the case.

‘Thus I was given little time t0 worry about my own affairs and whether 1r not I was going to make good. Intelligence was expected of me. and I keyed myself up to meet the requirements, if possible As I look back on it now. I can see that the transfer was a good one tor me. It brought forth my best effort.

For. Mir. Dayton, in the Cham- pion studio. had been so attract- cd ‘to me that he had not seen my faults clearly. Consequently, I really had heard very little crltl~ clsm of my work. This is bad for auvboily.

With my new company I was on a strictly business basis. If I made stupid mistakes my director did not‘ hesitate to tell me of them. Nor did lie take any particular pains to clothe what he had to say In beautiful language. Iie lcft me with very few illusions about my own powers. At first this dis- i-iiiirzigod me. I was unused to n. Then I found it was spurring me on to better effort. For now I hull

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days when at last I kncw my work was gcrd ‘and why it was so.

It was just at this time, ton. that mother was Iwought home from tho hospital. She came in a com- fortable automobile I had hired. arriving shortly after darkFather- hail not returned home. I had liordcli the younger children into‘, the front parlor In (‘Ilarge of my OIIIPI‘ brother Tom. warning them very stieclally‘ that mother would he weak and tired after her trip. They must riot cry nor shout when they saw her.

Hugh. too, was waiting for lier. Ills tenderness was almost unhe- lievahle. I remember he had been upstairs himself and had seen that the covers of mother's bed were turned down for her anti that the sheets were warmed with a bot water bottle.

llugli iran out when the automo- biln arrived.

“Well. young lady," he Bald to mother. "it's time you came home! Where have you been all these weeks? Nice way for a married woman to behave!"

And I saiw my mother's white face light up at his cheery voice.

"YW “r” a“ naughty as evervimother." I said. “Hugh Trotter has things, which perhaps

ISIIP, whispered to hlm as he carried llic-r in. ' I Presently her, nothing WUIIIII do 'but she had to have Iiilgh t0 sit lie-side her bezil for a while. And one by one the: children trooped in and klsed her.

“it's good to be home a.galn,"slle suld at last.

"And it's good to have dearie." I said. bending over her. ‘ It was the happiest evening we hail had for a long while. E-ven father came home sober and tip- tncd in like one of thechildren to R1881 my mother gently. _

I think I went to s-leep with a smile upori my lips and~dreamed of liugli.

CHAPTER LXV.

void I

After mother had been home a few clays she felt much stronger and we had a chance t0 talk toge- ther one evening.

"Iteally. mother.“ I told her. "there is nothing much to worry about any more. I think we can be sure of my week. OI course. We can't have many luxuries on that. But anyhow, dearie. it will pay the rent, keep the children in school and feed us. if we are careful." ,

and well. if you bad not had

the good lurk to make a i-inlary in my ‘work! Where would we be’! Dependent on

the money he brings In now seame- Th Ily feeds hlm, Ict alone helping us e more difficult itnyug‘

1 was fascinated. iiiiinoiiieiii zii-iio." said

“Iiiaybe I just didn't have chance for rdilcalion and to know 0f $0111‘ 11101-1191‘ NemP- 13111 111111 111° ygurlfiilllie I have to work."

all the misery in all the

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good sense and understanding." But my mother ‘was a very human sort of woman. Evidently. she had something on her mind. Now she must have told herself, was the time to broacti it to mo. So as I leaned /0ver her, she wouldn't let. me rise. "You are a good ‘girl. Nclllefi =he “whispered. "and i'lll only hop- ing tr; live to see you with your own husband and children." i I blushed painfully and struggled to draw myself from‘ mother. I told hcr I ivas "never going to marryf‘, “lBut you are getting such good, sense. rlcario. on every other sub- ject," she said slowly.

“And that's good sense too," I

told IIIOIIIPI‘. Aiiii then, with an oiiil

burst of my one-time fecllngz? ‘Mother? I cried. “how can yout forget that you would be strong so. many of us! ‘Suppose I bad not bad decent

father! A lot n‘ good he is!" I added hitter- ly. “I don't want to be mean or to worry you, but you know perfectly,

"lliaybo that was only my bad motherl your

but

But. as I have often said in

It's give and take. Nellie dearU

don't you forget. it. You might just as well sity you were never going 1"‘- 511111. H1111 111111911 away. "Good- well that he probably lovcd to live in a house itgain lym-augg,lliglli." be called pleasantly over only silly pride would keep

you saiw your neighbor's house

burnt to the ground."

"Rut, mother. I protested "isn't worldi brought here because men and women marry?" _ My mother smiled at me through‘ “Perhaps dear." she said, "hilt then all the happiness in all the world is brought here for the sell- same reason." Anti. forgetting that I-lirzlfs name hail ncver been men» tIont-d between us in this connect 1 ion. she went on innocently: "St don't you ho refusing that ' nicti voting mun because of your silly nonsense, child. You'll he turning away the best of your life lf' you - l I drcw myself up with what d13- uity I could. ,

"Please don't. speak of that.

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never asked me to marry bit“. Vliafs more, he doesn't love me.‘ Mv mother looked at me incredu- lously for a mu-ment. Then she burst IIIIO.IIIG Iioartiest laugh I had

iheard Iroiii her in years.

“Wihy. you iiwo young she cried.

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caime out so often to our house I11 the evenings. 0r when he did route he stayed ‘with niothcr the little while ‘he was there, and seemed scarcely interested in me at all.

Now I ‘ad come to realize tliiit I‘ cared for Hugh. 11')’ bride wouldn't allow nie to ail-mit. even to myself. that I would marry hlm if he should ask mo. But I did know that 111 spite of my will power my thoughts would stray to a possible future ivbnre. i-iugth invariably hovered. Although when lliy mother had questioned me concerning the state nf my heart I "had cried that "I w0illtin't marry anyone!‘ I said that Hiugh "tiidn't love me.‘ Still her laughter at my hot. iwords far from angered me. They somehow had given m‘. a joy, the name for which I refused to realize.

Besides. mother knew so much.

lMcther looked at me front her pillows.

"You are an awfully good girl. Nellie." she said. "I can't get over hating to take your money from you. child." The tears came into her eyes. "l w-islt your father bed turned out different!‘ she whisper- ed hall‘ to herself.

I smiled at hor to reassure her.

"It's all right, mother." I told lier "Of troursc I wish he were dif ferent. ton, thmlgli not so much because of the money. But I bate hiim for wiorring you as he Sometimes when I see how coarse and common he is getting I hate to think that his Iliimid is in me, that I'm his child!"

lIVIy mother put out her hand and clasped mine.

"Try not to feel that way, iiearle.’ who said. "It 0n‘ly makes you bitter. Bitterness in your heart is like a. rotten spot on fruit; it spreads and It spoils the others around It. I want to tell you something. dear. that ought to make you proud."

I lookrd at mother inqulrlngly.

"It is not so much tbs-t your lath or is. getting coarser and common- er." she went on, ‘ias it is that you are getting finer. I don't klinw ‘what it ‘is, denirie. but I like to feel you got something out of going into t-he world to earn your livelihood. But you know. Nellie. you are much prettier than you ever were ibefore."

“It is Just bemuse you love me. mother.’ I said. "And of course, If you are interested in any artistic work. you begin to learn of ‘beauti- ful things. I'm lust beginning tu understand why some lines are lovely and some are not. You see. I even do my heir differently.‘

"it's not so much that, the way you dress so plain and like a Iady~but its the change in your heart, too, girlie. I don't know how to express myself. but it's like get. ting lo be ii Indy from your thoughts out. an you might say."

I was tom-lied. I leaned over ~ud kissed mother.

"You are such n wonder." I told her. "If I ever do amount Io any»

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dit to you as the housekeeper of anwody w.“ in n", rogm with me 111B 11111111?" . until I fclt Miss ‘Molntoslvs arm ""9115? 11 r151"? “m “mm”; slip over my shoulder. . she even looked at me mischiev "what-s m, mum; girlie?" gho OHBIY- uihlsperctl tenderly. “Couldn't you "OI ¢0ur116~ 811B 1*" 1111811 11K‘ tell and old lady-Alice me-all reed,‘"as a movie star. But I'm tel- 5,1,0“; it?" _ - 11118 "P" 911° 15 *1 "m" “WNKQPF (Through my tears, at first. I de- 91‘ 1111 111° $11-11“ 51111- 1 11°11‘ “"1” cliired there was "nothing wrong." pose that matters. Some day she My“ McIntosh gfnflgd ggnlly a; W111 ‘b9 11111111115 8° 111111111 11101197 she said: "But this is a curious ""11 she Wm be “Me m 3110M 1° celebration ‘for a happy little girl!" P115’ 1119111)‘ 01 891111111"- Yflil-Nlilem “Pridef she said in a conversa- bflt‘. 110111 3'0". 111111 911° 13 119791‘ tlonnl tone. and as though she going to marry)‘. were talking to herself. "is often “Don't You b81101"! 111111 B118 5111153 a very silly thing. Youngpcnple al- said mother. “Those were the silly prays seem to over-estimate the val 11191111 11119 111111 ‘"1911 511° W" l tie of their dignity. I tell you, one 171111113‘ learns as one grows older, never ‘B111 1 W115 111 11° 11101111 1° 1-11-1111 let pride come ibetuveen you and Hugh's‘ teasing good nsturedly. Iniiy person foi- whom you happen hold out my arms for Pane sbrupt- to care. Now lf I loved any one. 1 - and I quarrelled with hlm or be "Come baby." I said. "let Neill-Ia seemed to ibe staying away from put you to belittle-byes.‘ A1111 then niii for any reason, do you know to mother and Hugh-ll don't what I'd do?’ know whether my ideas are cliild- Qwhat?" I asked childlshly, iah. but I do know they have scarcely‘ realizing Iiow completely grown stronger as I» grow older." I was giving away my secret with I marched out cf the room with my Ihq question. head in the air. "W-liy‘ I'd go right after the per- ‘Later in the evening I went son I loved.’ Miiss ‘McIntosh said. “I downstairs with Hugh to lock the couldn't allow him to stay ruvay. If front door after him. be did. I iwould go after- im and I "Well." be said slowly as we wouldn't allow him to be angry. I stcod on the threshold together. would be sogood-nziturcil that he “your mother's simosfiwell. Nellie. ivouid feel ridiculous If he ‘were I am very glad. I don't suppose I angry." will be seeing you for a few "But a girl can't go alter works." loan," I suggested timidly. “Whv not?’ I asked quickly. Miss McIntosh threw back her "Well." lie explained. "my work head and laughed. “Ob, can't site. my dear!‘ she to earn somethin extra. ‘with some said‘. “They do it every ‘day. Only magazine articl i.f I could. You vtry few of them have the. courage see we can't all the moving picture to go at the job honestly.“ And "Dear citild.‘ you must realize that a love that is‘ said ivorth having is worth working fur- "with your heart and ihrafns. Noth» oi.’ it."

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"Mother will misii you." I stiflly.

"l'ni sure I hope, she does." he ing should stand in the way replied warmly. "I'm awfully fond

CHAPTER LXVll

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Miss Mcintoshs talk ‘ set me thinking. Iinwever. it rcqtilrcd -‘-I‘\' "But even when you hail to work eral more works of SIIQIIIII} from

he added lig-litly, "so I guess it can't be help-

look at all the tine men m“, pa... before.‘ I cried chiidlshly. "you al- lliigli to make me begun to considq marrlrd. zootI-ller-rgqlhjng wiomenj ways managed to come out and see er putting her

suggestion into 11S 0V9?!’ few days" iiI'l'IOIl. Siie had told me that wllcn

"My work Ia harder now.’ wesell a girl loved ii man and know quite her Itei" 111$ fi1\<1\11<1t‘.\'- from healing the breach between

I shut the door slowly "d "ell! them if lie refused to do so. upstairs. I wanted to avoid 81111115 I was quite young. Thcthniiglit 111w 11101119113 100111 Btluln- I didn't 0t such all advance made me burn want her to know I had been 111')" with blushes. Indeed. I don't sup- pose that I ever should liavc dared to stretch out‘m'y,liand to Ilugli if I Iisd not Iicgun to guess some- tliing of the catise of his ‘fence.

A few days ‘passed rather sloom- 'I'll:|t I11‘ cared for IIIO IWVHS {IllllilSI 11y all" 1111811 TTOII-‘P-Ffi 1381 V1811 sure. But I did know that since I to our hoarse. ‘MY 11111111 "("1111 ""111" hall been fairly successful as a I191‘ t0 our fflretwrli- Several 11111911 moving picture actress, doubtless 111F- 1111901-01‘ 111 mi’ 119W 51111110 11611 my salary we: ziilioiil as lzirgt if to speak sharpely to me. Usually not large‘; than “t3 as a “Qwsvav. 1111s “b11111 have but smiled me 0n- oi- reporter. A150 lliigii iii-obniiiy Already 18911118 11111161” 11 0101111. 11 had visions of my rising l0 the‘ 1113119111911 111e~ 111M116 1 111111 bee“ position of a star. lie knew only WOPRIIII! 1110 1911K W11110111 fl 11°11 ton well that ‘writers seldom liiakc dar- The nervous 111111111 ‘of 11 new IOrIIIneS. ‘ills pride wouldn't pP-l" kind 01' -W01'1< 11110118110111 1119 Y?" nilt hlm to be dependent on mo. w" 11911111111115 1° 1911 i111 "18 111111 1 Thus. whatever he might feel for 11111 111w enoush 1m ‘my shoulders ma, Ilc n-oiiiu Stifle it u iio i-niiin. 1w a r111 111ml W15- 11111111" iii plain EIIEHSII. Hllgll TPOIIOI‘ 1 “("1111 was not the type of man who‘ have passed over as trifles In the wmhid ca", u, marry a wmmm who days gone lily. loomed very 1815B 1° earned more money than he did. 111B 111 my 111113119- Hut Iiiiviflng once reached this sol-