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THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1915. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PAQETUtm P. N. Practical Front Corsets Really the only new thing in corsets for ages. Just what women have been wanting, so comfortable and conven ient. They are selling by leaps and bounds in New York, Boston, Chicago and all the large cities. The price is so very reasonable. - , , ' Demonstrater IThis Week ' Be sure and call Friday or Saturday and have this corset explained to you. It will repay you many times for the. little time spent. ' American Lady Corsets Are pronounced the Standard Corset that is absolutely right in all that goes to make an up to the latest in corsets and have been universally adopted by the best dressers of America. You are most cordially invited to ask to seea the latest designs. Insist on getting "your" model. We have them in front and back lace. Reliable Merchandise CE1BELS Department Store Reliable Methods JUNE BY GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER AND LILLIAN vCHESTEK Copyright, 1915. by Serial Corporation AT SHERRY'S Runs Each Wed nesday and Thursday CHAPTER III. EOR a moment Juno hesitated be fore the door of nn employ ment agency next morning, and then she sharply beat down her reluctance. People who have made up their minds to be independent and to earn their own way in lifo must bare no timidity. She turned the knob with sudden boldness and opened It; then she smiled at ber own sensitive ness as she stood before ft pleasant traced woman, in the corner of whose eyes,' however, - there was a veiled 'Sharpness which June did not see. A very pretty woman came in as June turned to go away, and with ber was a little girl of great beauty. June hesitated as Bhe heard the word "gov erness." The woman at the desk smiled to June. The newcomer fol lowed that smile and herself smiled at June. The little girl bad been study ing June frankly out of round eyes. "I like you," she said, with startling candor; then the employment agency womau laughed, and pretty Mrs. Wiles .laughed. June dimpled. " "I like you, too." she acknowledged. The employment agency woman rose. "Mrs. Murdock is listed as a gov erness," she observed, and June winc ed at her new name. How queer this iH' 'seemed! "Perhaps you would like to have a little chat." Mrs. Wiles and June Moore Warner Justin Day . Murdock were both agree able to that suggestion, particularly since little Dolly Wiles had appropri ated June apparently for keeps. They sat In one of the cozy corners, and when June rose she was engaged. Mrs. Wiles was a most appealing woman. All three were perfectly happy as they left the oltlee and rode lu Mrs. Wiles' victoria up Fifth avenue to one of those wide, clean streets which lead off from Central park. A block and a half from, the avenue tbey stopped before a new looking . apartment house with an imposing en trance, and a hungry looking doorman bowed his regular bow, and a hungry looking elevator man shot them sky ward. A duplex apartment June had nev- er seen one before, and Its utility wi a puzzle to ber then, as It was foi' many a long day afterward. After luncheon a imp for Dolly, and then a romp in the park. Holler skat ing. June's foot was nearly as small as Dolly's, and the child, after she bad thoroughly exhausted herself, insisted that June try. It was a pretty little deceit which was put on Dolly. June strapped on the skates and was timid and helpless and altogether charming until Dolly had laughed herself weak; then June suddenly straightened up and skated away like the expert that she was, whereat Dolly was more pleased than ever,, and u voice from the roadway, a suave and pleasant voice, called: "Bravo!" Gilbert Blye! He was smiling. June was confused. She whisked off the skates. ' ' "You seem to hare all the accom plishments," went on Blye, stepping down from bis lvixrirlous limousine. I "Bravo! How do you do?" "Hello, young lady!" He held out bis band to Dolly Wiles with a famil iarity permissible to tho very young and to the very old of femininity, and the child took it hesitantly, with a shy upward glance at June Her big gray eyes widened, however, as tbey fell on the limousine. She dropped the band and ran forwurd to the machine. "What a lovely car!" she exclaimed, patting it on its smooth, swelling side. "Just the kind mother wants, but dad dy says we can't afford it" Blye laughed lightly. "Would you like a spin around the park lu It," he suggested, "you and your playmate here?" And be bowed. ; Dolly, jumping up and down, was al ready tugging at the door handle, and Blye, laughing, opened it for her. Dol ly gave a cry of positive Joy as she saw the rich interior, and she .was among the soft cushions in an Instant "You haven't much choice," said the low voice of Blye, and he held the door open for June. "This once." And she looked bun squarely In the eye. He smiled. June was thoughtful all through that delicious twenty minutes of riding, Blye his dark face haunted her. An other face came to ber Ned! A great wave of homesickness swept over her. They made their adieus rather hasti ly to Blye, for their time was a little more than up. Just before dhincr was called Mr. Wiles came home, and June happened Into tho library. It was Dolly's favor ite storeroom for toys, books aud every thing else. Mrs. Wiles he called her Woozly was sitting on the arm of her husband's chair, her arm around his neck 'and his chin in the palm of her band. With the other huud she was twisting a lock of his buir over and over. her finger, and she was most dis tinctly and obviously wheedling him for money! Ills voice wus low and protesting with us much sternness as a man can use when ho is being charm ed Into docility. Woozly Wiles was locking the money in her little Inlaid desk when June next saw her. ! They were going out after dinner, j Tliero was some talk about ordering a car, and it needed but one word to glvo j Dolly a start. The luxurious limou- j sine of tho black Vnudyked man was iuu nuuio ui ,iur . one milieu on and on and onvabout It, and as she talked tho pretty face of Mrs, Wiles grew more and more distressed. Mrs, WUea lit n tunning negligee stood In tho library door. "You wftut Dolly, of course," she said to June. "She a a born prowler, I think.- . " Dolly smacked ber father u parting kiss.. . "Daddy says It won't ia u big limou sine, mother, but It'll have mlllc tassels, and It will be it limousine anyhow. May wo have a red headed chauffeur and a chow dog?" "It depends on whut color upholstery I your mother selects," grinned her fa I ther as his pretty wife took Dolly's place on the arm of tbo chair. I "There's only one kind of upholstery ' In the Heaver curs, laughed Mrs. Wiles, pinching tier husband's ar. 1 "Boally, Harry, I've been wondering If It Isn't A waste of money to buy as cheap a limousine as that. I'd rather wait until you can afford one that will bo more substantial." "I kuow your tricks." commented her husband "Iteully. Woozly. I positive ly cannot afford an expensive car." "Harryl" That wheedling tone echoed Id June's ears ns she skipped upstairs with Dolly, and she knew that the cheap little Beaver cur would not stand In front of tbo Wiles' door. . . It did not. . A good cur brought Mrs. Wiles homo the very next duy. Mrs. Ned Warner had been tnudo tre mendously thoughtful by the affairs of tbe little Wiles fumlly. There was romctblng wroug In tho custom which made this condition possible. What was it? The positiou of donor and recipient. Neither tbe man nor the woman was really to blame. It was custom. And June hue w what Mrs. Wiles would not admit to herself. If she suspected it that tbe man wus be ing constantly wheedled beyond his means. Mrs. Wiles affocted even to herself that his constunt resistance toward ex penditure was tho uorinnl attitude of a man toward the domestic spending of money. It was tbe woman's busi ness to get all she could and the man's to resist Tbe crush came sooner than June bad expected. On the next evening nfter the llmousluo bad come home there hlni, Hiid Hliutvvtl nun ner lltllo purse With a laugh. . "It's a shame that n priaty" girl like you has to worry about money." Aud bis coal black eyes gazed down at ber glowingly. . . He tried to detain her. Catching ber gently by the arm, he tried to urge her Into bis car. using nil the persuasive ness of bis eyes nud his smile und bis suave courtesy, but she was obdurate. . Suddenly he jumped Into bis limou sine aud whirled away. He whs at the employment agency before June reached It and lie hud it cordial chat with the employment agency woman.' He banded her an -address ami. went away... ,.' ,.,;: ; June wuu delighted when she secured an opening quickly and started .out immediately for the place. i'or a mo ment Juno felt an Intense dislike to tin' ugly looking house nt the ttddrexs given her and all that It might contain; then, laughing nt ber own fancies, she strode up tbo steps and rang the bell. Tho door swung open silently, but no one appeared.. Wondering, June walked in. and the door slummed behind her. Two minutes Inter Gilbert Blye walk ed up the stops, toik a key from his pocket Inserted It hito the lock and smiled. ; tats cf Ohio. City of TtMo. I ' Luou County, sb. ... Frank J. Cheney makes oath that b la ianlor partner of the firm of I. J. Cheney Co.. (Joins Dullness In the City To ledo, County and. State aforesaid, snd that said Arm will pay the sum of ON at HUNDRED DOLLARS tor each and ev ery ease of Catarrh that cannot be eared by the ue of HAI.t.'S CATARRH CUttaX . - FRANK J. CHEN 1ST. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my xmenoe, 'h' " ' cmbr (Seal) , ' A W. OLCASON, ' . ( . Notary Public Hall's Catarrh Cure !a taken Internally and acts directly upon the blood and no- eoua surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. r. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo, O. - Sold by all Drutglite. 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for conetlpatlea. " "Hurry, dear," she said. "Dolly and with cordiality. I want a limousine! Please!" Dolly clapped her hands. . "After that limousine again." he gay-' ly commented. "Not now, Woozly. Business is too bad." "I don't like' business," she laughed.. "It's n mean old thing, Isn't it, Dolly? Harry, please!" "Get thee behind mo, Woozly." The man still laughed, but bo began to look very seriously nt his charming wife. "You'd 'get ' anything out of a man." And bis laugh was half vexed, alto gether admiring. . Pretty Mrs. Wiles accepted that com pliment prettily, but June, as she slip ped out of tho library unobserved, was hurt for the woman, for herself, for her kind, as her face betrayed. Here It was again tbe endless, almost un varying story of the woman dependent on the man's bounty and, in this case, getting all she could out of him. Ned and his detectives on that day were down in tbe neighborhood of tbe Hotel Daniel scouring the district Inch by inch, as it were, for some trace of the runaway bride, aud wherever they went a small, flat nosed boy with one soiled newspuper under his arm sleuth ed after tbcm, slinking from tree to tree and from doorwoy to doorway. Little Dolly Wiles awoke in the night to become aware of a light In the low er floor of the duplex apartment Dad dy! He wus at work In the library, as he always was late at night here re cently. Dolly felt herself privileged to say good night to daddy, so she slipped out and put on her bedroom slippers and her pretty little lounging robe and tripped downstairs. June beard ber go and dressed in like fashion. Harry Wiles bad his books spread out before blm and a pen be bind big ear. "Daddy, are you going to get mother a limousine?" The man glanced ever at bis books and ran his band across bis brow. "Well, I promised mother tonight," be admitted, with reluctance, and bis face grew grave. "Goodyl" .The little girl clapped ber bands. "But will It be a nice big limousine?" "Not an extraordinarily big one. Just a proper sized limousine for little girls like you and mother. Ob, come in. Woozly r . j Another Face Came to her, ' Ned! walked lb to the house a grim Jawed, hard eyed man of forty-flve, on whose suit case were pasted foreign labels. v Hello, linker!" - exclaimed. Wiles, "A little personal business." Anil Maker seated himself. ' 'iimv's llie Ijiii'ldii braiii-li'f" iislied WlJes by way of tnaUiuu conversation. i'nlng very nl'-ely," was the curl re ply. ami linker shook hands with Dolly liy liuil by the voices of tbo men lose as they , became more interested In their conversation, and thcj'e Moated up to June an . emphatic speech of Baker's which she could not help hearing- . "You've spent itl" Baker's words were clean cut "In my absence of a year and u half you've overdrawn your account $50,000. Fifty thousand dol lars wus the exact amount of your in vestment. That makes us quits. You'll turn over your share of the business to me immediately." "But that leaves me without a cent, without an Income!" worried Wiles, lie bad no blame for his partner, nor was bo as much crushed as ho hud ex pected to be. "I hiive a wife and a child, you know, Baker, I could no more refuse them anything than 1 could refuse bread to a starving child." "That's the trouble." Baker's voice was not harsh. It, was simply cold. "You've spoiled them. A wife should bo a help to u man. and most of tbem would if tbey were given a chance. You made u toy of yours. " Tho next morning Mrs. Wiles came up to June. Shu hud been crying, but there wus a light in ber eyes which was good to see, "I am very sorry," she said simply. "We have bud u busiuess reverse, and we shan't be able to keep you. The fact of tbe mutter is tbat we don't hap pen to have a cent in the bouse. 1 took all of Harry's pocket money yes terday, and I spent It yesterday after noon. 1 I I thnt Isn't quite the truth," sbe suddenly blurted out. "We are absolutely broke. We haven't any' money at all," it hurt June to part with tbem. Shu had liked them all, and when the little girl hung around ber neck tbey cried together, all three June and Mrs. Wiles and Dolly. Halfway up to the avenue .laae, . walking along anil dnbbiug ber eyes occasionally, was confronted by some one, - Blye! "Which way?" be asked. 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