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tlQMT DEPENOENCE, OREOON THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPmSi, tN PAGE3 SCHOOL DAYS LILA LEE "VCii IM hl thf iImw r Pi fe4 H I mrmti r ITv Robert J. CStcad j W li ipi (fiw rfliiiimipr i 1 1 H K i 1 if J J1 V I J IU i jllmjU Illustration to, V O ? " HHW WW II" VMM V- 'W- IRW1X MYERS j O IfWWWWWWw CHAPTER VII! Continued. 12 The outcome was that Mrs. ITardy Insisted upon Irene embarking at once upon a finishing course. Afterward they traveled together for a year in Europe. Then home again, Irene pur sued her art, and her mother sur rounded her with the social attractious which Doctor Hardy's comfortable in come and professional stauding made possible. Her purpose was obvious and but thinly disguised. She hoped that her daughter would outlive her youthful Infatuation and would at length, in a more suitable match, give her heart t one of the numerous eli gibles of her circle. To promote this end Mrs. Hardy spared no pains. Young Carlton, son of a banker and one of the leading men of his set, seemed a particularly appropriate match. Mrs. Hardy opened her home to him, and Carl (on, whatever his motives, was not slow to grasp the situation. For years Irene had not spoken of Dave Elden, and the mother had grown to hope that the old attachment had died down and would presently be quite forgotten in a new and more becoming passion. The fact Is that Irene at that time would have been quite Incapable of stating her relation toward Elden and Its Influence upon her attitude to life. She was by no means sure that she loved that sunburnt boy of romantic memory; she was by no means sure that she should ever marry him, let his development in life be what it would ; but she felt that her heart was locked, at least for the present, to all other suitors. She had given her promise, and that settled the matter. Notwithstanding her indifference the girl found herself encouraging Carl ton's advances, or at least not meet ing them with the rebuffs which had been her habit toward all other suitors, and Mrs. Hardy's hopes grew as the attachment apparently devel oped. But they were soon to be shat tered. Irene had gone with Carlton to the theater; afterward to supper. It was long past midnight when she reached home. She knocked at her mother's door and Immediately entered. Her hair was disheveled and her cheeks were flushed, and she walked unstead ily across the room. "What's the matter, Irene? What's the matter, child? Are you sick?" cried her mother, springing from her bed. "No, I'm not sick," said the girl bru tally. 'Tin drunk !' "Oh, don't say that," said her mother soothingly. "Proper people do not be come drunk. You may have had too much champagne and tomorrow you will have a headache" "Mother! I have had too much champagne, but not as much as that precious Carlton of yours had planned for. I just wanted to see how des picable he was, and I floated down stream with him as far as I dared. But Just as the current got too swift I struck for shore. Oh, we made a scene, all right, but nobody knew me there, so the family name is safe and !you can rest in peace. I called a taxi, and when he tried to follow me In I slapped him and kicked him. Kicked him, mother. Dreadfully undignified, wasn't It? ... And that's what you want me to marry, In place of a man!" Mrs. Hardy was chattering with mortification and excitement. Her plans had miscarried. Irene had mis behaved. Irene was a difficult, head strong child. It was useless to argue with her in her present mood. It was useless to argue with her in any mood. No doubt Carlton had been Impetuous. Nevertheless he stood high in his set and his father was something of a power in the financial world. As the wife of such a man Irene might have a career before her a career from which at least some of the glory would reflect upon the silvering head of the mother of Mrs. Carlton. "Go to your room," she said at length. "Yod are in no condition to talk tonight I must say it Is a shame that you can't go out for an evening without drinking too much and mak ing a Ecene. . . . What will Mr. Carlton think of you?" "If he remembers all I told him about himself he'll have enough to think of," the girl blazed back. "You know what I have told you and still Mister Carlton stands as high in your sight as ever. I am the one to blame. Very well. I've tried your choice and I've tried my own. Now I am in a position to judge. There will be noth ing to talk about in the morfling Mention Carlton's name to me aeain and I will give the whole incident to the DaDers . . . with photographs . , . and names. Fancy the feature headinsr. 'Society Girl, Intoxicated Kicks Escort Out of Taxi.' Good niszht." But other matters were to demand the attention of mother and daughter In the morning. While the scene was occurring in Mrs. Hardy's bedroom her husband, clad in white, toiled in the operating room to save the life of a fellow beiner. There was a slip of an instrument, but the surgeon toiled .on; he could not at that Juncture pause; the life of the patient was at stake. When the operation was fin ished he found his injury deeper than he supposed, and Irene was summoned from her heavy sleep that morning to attend his bedside. Ho talked to her as a philosopher; said his life's work was done and he was just as glad to go in the harness ; the estate should yield something, and there was his life insurance a third would be for her. And when Mrs. Hardy was not at his side he found opportunity to whisper, "And if you really love that boy out West marry him." The sudden bereavement wrought a reconciliation between Mrs. Hardy and her daughter. Mrs. Hardy took her loss very much to heart. While Irene grieved for her father Mrs. Har dy grieved for herself. It was awful to be left alone like this. And when the lawyers found that, Instead of a hundred thousand dollars, the estate -would yield a bare third of that sum, she spoke openly of her husband's im providence. He had enjoyed a hand some income, on which his family had lived in luxury. That, It was unequal to the strain of providing for them in that fashion and at the same time ac cumulating a reserve for such an eventuality as had occurred was a matter which his widow could scarce ly overlook. Her health had suffered a severe shock, for beneath her ostentation she felt as deep a regard for her late hus band as was possible in one who measured everything In life by vari ous social formulae. She consulted a specialist who had enjoyed a close professional acquaintanceship with Doctor Hardy. The specialist gave her a careful, meditative and solemn ex amination. "Your condition is serious," he told her, "but not alarming. You must have a drier climate and, preferably, a high er altitude. I am convinced that the "No, I'm Not Sick," said the Girl Bru tally. "I'm Drunk." conditions your health demands are to be found in ." He named the former cow town from which Irene's fateful automobile journey had had its start, and the young woman, who was present with her mother, felt herself go suddenly pale with the thought of a great prospect "Oh, I could never live there !" Mrs. Hardy protested. "It Is so crude. Cow punchers, you know, and all that sort of thing." The specialist smiled. "You will probably not find It so crude, although I dare say some of its customs may jar on you," he remarked, dryly. "And it is not a case of not being able to live there. It is a case of not being able to live here. If you take my ad vice you should die of old age, as far, at least, as your present ailment is concerned. If you don't" and he dropped his voice to Just the correct note of gravity, which pleased Mrs, Hardy very much "If you don't, I can't promise you a year." Confronted with such an alternative, the good lady had no option. She ac cepted the situation with the resigna tion which she deemed to be correct under such circumstances, but the boundless prairies were to her so much desolation and ugliness. Irene gath ered that her mother did not approve of prairies. They were something new to her life, and it was greatly to be suspected that they were improper. CHAPTER IX. Very slowly It dawned upon Mrs Hardy that this respectable, thriving city, with Its well-dressed, properly mannered people, its public spirit, its aggressiveness, its churches and thea ters and schools, its law and order, and its afternoon teas, after all, was the real West ; sincere, earnest ; crude, perhaps; bare, certainly; the scar of its recent battle with the wilderness still fresh upon its person; lacking the finish that only time can give to a landscape or a civilization; but lack Ing also the moldiness, the mustiness, the insufferable artificiality of older communities. Even Mrs. Hardy, steeped for sixty years In a life of precedent and rule and caste, began to catch the enthusiasm of a new land where precedent and rule and caste are something of a handicap. "We must buy a home." she said to Tron.. "Vi cannot afford to continue living at a hotel, and we must have our own homo. You must look up a responsible dealer whose advice we can trust In n mat tor of this kiiui. Ami wns it remarkable that Irene Hardy should think nt once of the firm of Conward & Elden? It was not. She i,n.i in.lm-d. been thinking of a mem ber of that firm ever since the decision to move to the West. The fact is Irene had not been nt nil sure that she wanted to marry Dave Elden. She wanted very much to meet him again ; she was curious to know how the years imd fared with him. and her curiosity was not unmixed with a liner senti ment: but she was not at all sure that she should marry him. Whnt. Dave Elden, the million aire?" Bert Morrison had said. "Every hn.lv knows him." And then the news paper woman had gone on to tell what a figure Dave was in the business lire of the city. "Cue of our biggest young men," Bert Morrison had said, "lie served, a little ; likes his own company best; but absolutely white." That gave a new turn to the situa tion. Irene had always wanted Dave to be a success ; suddenly she doubted whether she had wanted him to be so big a success. She had doubted wheth er she should wish to marry Dave; sh hnd never allowed herself to doubt that Dave would wish to marry her. KArretlv. she had expected to rather HnniA him with her ten years devel opmentwith the culture and knowl edge which study and travel and me had added to the charm of her young girlhood; and suddenly she realized that her luster would shine but dimly In the greater glory of his own. . . . It was easv to locate the omce or Conward & Elden; It stood on a prin cipal corner of a principal street. Thence she led her mother, and found herself treading on the marble floors of the richly appointed waiting room in a secret excitement which she could with difficulty conceal. She was, In deed, very uncertain about the next development. . . . Her mother- had to be reckoned with. A young man asked courteously what could be done for them, "We want to see the head of the firm," said Mrs. Hardy. "We want to buy a house." They were shown Into Conward'! office. Conward gave them the wel come of a man who expects to make money out of his visitors. He placed a very comfortable chair 'for Mrs Hardy; he adjusted the blinds to a nicety; he discarded his cigarette and beamed upon them with as great a show of cordiality as his somewhat beefy appearance would permit. Mrs Hardy outlined her life history wltt considerable detail and ended with the confession that the West was not as bad as she had feared and, anyway, It was a case of living here or dying else where, so she would have to make the best of it And here they were. And mighi? they see a house? Conward appeared to be reflect! As a matter of fact, he saw In this experienced buyer an opportunity reduce his holdings In anticipation the impending crash. His dlfflct was that he had no key to the fin cial resources of his visitors. ' only thing was to throw out a fee "You are wanting a nice home take It, that can be bought at a fals able price for cash, lou wouiu co sider an Investment of, say " He paused, and Mrs. Hardy suppll the Information for which he w waiting. "About twenty-five thousand dollars," she said. "We can hardly Invest that much," Irene Interrupted, In a whisper. "We must have something to live on." "People here live on the profits ol their investments, do they not, Mr, Conward?" Mrs. Hardy Inquired. "Oh, certainly," Conward agreed, and he plunged into a mass of inci dents to show how profitable Invest ments had been to other clients of the firm. Then his mood of deliberation gave way to one of briskness; he sum moned a car, and in a few minutes his clients were looking over the property which he had recommended. Mrs. Hardy was an amateurish buyer, her tendency being alternately to excess of caution on one side and reckless ness on the other. Conward's manner pleased her; the house he showed pleased her, and she was eager to have it over with. Hut he was too shrewd to appear to encourage a hasty deci sion. He did not seize upon Mrs. Hardy's remark that the house seemed perfectly satisfactory; on the con trary, he insisted on showing other houses, which he quoted at such im possible figures that presently the old lady was In a feverish haste to make a deposit lest some other buyer should forestall her. (TO BB CONTINUED.) Observation of Oil Belt Philosopher. A scientist has just discovered that fish are intelligent. We had observed also that they don't bite on everything that comes along. Baxter Citizen. A London choir of one thousand voices has been organized under th I auspices of the League of Arts to sing at public ceremonies. . ' V ! , - - . . Mlis Llla Lee l moit lie di pen.er of cheer. Only f.w thort year. a3o .he w a little tot plyl"0 "Ring Around a Ros.e," In the itreet. of Union Hill. N. J. She wst induced to enter vaudeville, and a little later w.i entered a a candidate for lau rel in the silent drama, soon becom Ing a "movie" star. "Keep smiling" Is the motto of this little film favorite. "OffAgiiv, OivAqiiv Strickland W.Gillilan iCopyrlg lit.) TWO BRANDS OF PROPHET. Two kinds of prophet I have niel Upon my Journey tre below Two klnda! AnJ 1 Bin free to tx t Both kinds you also cbance to know. One kind keeps .till bofom evenls, And later uy, "1 told you iM." I must ttdmlt I am too dense To see why he keeps lying so. The other kind blurts out his .y. And when the day Is punt and on He hides. If thlwrs don't go his way. And keeps as still as Coal Oil John. Two kinds of prophet ach no good Both you and I have always known; Two kinds of prophet; and we should Be seared If neither "pulli-d a bone." SNOTHINI Recently on of the grestett print ers of poultry was operated" on at a St. Louis hoipital. Poultry painting, perhaps, does not require great abil ity. We know a butcher who nerer had an art lesion in his lifs who can draw a chicken in a minute, so ikill fully that the most careful cook has only to wash it a little and put it in to roast. Couldnt Be Cone So Soon. A proverbial1." Indigent thoUKh honest citizen In :i western town laf(" -jnnllpd the (iresl'lcnt of ' ' - " '!0 (l;iv b,ai, of if 'Wily Vx'y S1 1 i mm pk rtsJy r i a ' i j a 4w. )Vl J five loose toctlf (l nvy light LastNight'sDrcams -What They Mean An Ally Dog. Evidently there 'in- ;oc.i !n Hhm country thnt are oppo-nil u liypln-n-ateil, but not hydrorihuliiiitctl Ai'ii-ii-cans. Lately at Ames, m., :i ;errn;ni scientific laborer, employed In th-stiii.-agricultural Belfol v.-ork, whs , : hi the face by a r.il.id or iii.ti:-:it nil do;: and had to he taken to die I'an-j'eiirl.-ing Htudlo In l)es Mulrio".. V.Ux-u ,y tin American doj? and tfvori Kn-Neh fi-elu-raent, nil lnwlde of 21 hours, In nulnjf some for a (lerniiiu ! CROSBY'S KIDS DID YOU DREAM OF ACCIDENTS? TIIK IiIrIi brow, (lie -.-M!tV lO vehtlUHinrs nf iln-nm .t.-ii..mi'na. hitvr itm-tit.-,! n fciirfut no t wonderful word for the ntt i.f tnWIutf oim-us from drenin". Tin- all It oit. lriiiiiuiK jr - Bve syllulil.'s, aici-nt on ttif 'im!. r'reud, In !HH.r to th rju-ftloa, "Ii.km the drenm have ny vulm for n kniiwledi;'' of '!' future?" uid MlbstltUtt- "for knowing!- if the) imst,' for "the iln-nm ofU'iniit'-s In the piiHt In every Mine. lie liMn 111 hi chiirtu-t'rtiifnl!y lndvel mid trtinoiMideiitul nmtnn r "to h- nur tho ulirlrtit hidlrf Unit the ilri-itin reM'dll the future I hoi entirely ilevold of truth. !')' repreHi iitiiij,' ! ii u UIi uh fultllli-d the Un-jim iTrtulnly lend us Into the future, hut thin future tllkell 1')' the drenllii Its Jileoelit. till to ell foriln i Itllo the llli'Mie of tllf l.UKt ! the llld' MPietillN- l'4l." Itetltl thllt over several tiluet Hit'l jM-rhn)S you will Ken what the learned (.rofe. sor Is driving nt. The llheli-titH, l".p,rully tin' I'er shiui, lyptlnii't and (ireel. whu ereited the foretelll! nf rvetiX t.y (ireimis Into mi nrt, ilivldei) ilreutiiH liito different klielf, oidy ui.e kind ,f whhh would l;!em!ly (oiilo true Utld would iiot iii!eriii-t the iln-nm 0f people who I,, id hi .11 ilrlnklnc. And some Ilimlertl (toot h-liyerw reflln- tt reurd iih proplieUo dre.nni rnu'el y Indigestion or alcohol, lu-hup Myn sluy, who lived lii the futirth lentury mid will he reineiiih.-re,! ,y nil rendi-m of t'lmrle.s Kinsley". ijpin, wrotn a 1 1 1 jit i on dri-ntiis in which ho Mutes thnt. at lio fv.i p., .pi,. ,,. uliki the Millie liei.n, ,,,.. ti t hiive I ho Milne HKiillh nin e ,,r ,- w y ,.y iuJ.1 we hunt liml out the n,, ann, of our drem.'iK for o.ir-eh,., ., uhleh 1 wen in riio. -lull. .- nm., the dirlii of the i mi'I. 'h reKiird p, mic Ii di.-.n,.i ,i of jo .'ol.'iil-: f.r iri-t:Mn-i' lies . j hehi,. lr,.e,l: of your 8ti'v' or (ire!ri wholly on yuttr nliilltr 0 thi tft of l-etltirt without whtnlns am tt, plnltilne. odd make tti -rj rwry liBjiiilii(t, lixmlti t. ttmt frery linKenth haif( yoti tho ln-lter may mU rhj two. This total ami tlml tt' tilftii of I-stl(iy SletltJOtj, you oloin. f Thsy say thars ar as tvt x falrln. or Dial t!-' afsUinms but (hey know hot what Uf i.nglnol uf the firt- nr Vj ) found, ami la still, anions Una . mortal who knnaj Wm4 II. Hid rMS wllh KMftulbHS l k with imllM, j ut Dibtorf e tn-n and genius Ir.to a sue-: Wajtnsr. Good Things for Ocusr For K quick lum l-m Sl4tr Htlr tWO triUlHHitifllll of IC' oiih tahlaijootiful of flwttT heut until wrll hl.-ud'-u. M Ides, Hill! lHif tU f I- sit frrh ones. ho.l nil. tirntp ui onion Into dst season with M-pi-r and Mil r. I wt mlimtri. 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Mxiun carrfu!!)' out into a howl. M' ter and hnlf a " nml jicppcr to tiiste. a slow hut iiiM tho well heiilen 9 wfx THE FIRST TIME YOU UHISTUD THROUGH YOUR TEETH Gifts of Destiny CF-ORCEMATTHr.lv ADAMS D in , i'T" V"riH ,ll!l"s-'"0 l-nsil,lil...- (I,,,,, if ,,.. , u 1 . . "'I o-iieu. nreeil othor unit OldiorlunllleM J"" on mid I,,, .. , ,)ituh "ii' value nor i,,M iM-hiiny u-c. ,., ,- ;f(, K'v! to II,-in:V ei,-iii.S, -fT ol t ;;ll"o" Urn history of , lur a K you nr.- roneerneii vtry ruoiiicnt wi, n,.w , tho r.jfis (,r reu i a ",,t .,,. .. ,s 01 "'Mtlny nr.; i,h.,.f "on,.! (.,,, , ; r"t i.istippointiiu.n s t ,i". 1 ';; of '(imp .,m ,,, , vv,ll!" olhei-H Is ,..,,,, , "I'lx.rhmiil,.. K,.h '"itrlhulory. s., that- '"u nniKi Acci'iep ,i i-S;..,.m 1ut the rncitHuro -eSIK.riSihlllllcM "rtj''i to xvvwp not ''nip ,... Ihos.! who i'"ti nmko 'v-hIh as And thn i now ev.-m knocks llelt W hiw tint rotuto. liruMli wl " ' and bnke 15 inlnut.-ti In . PlL Take one cupful of ugr. spoonfuls of iiH'lK' w nn.l tho yolks of W. milk, one tPUHP''"lful 01 f. tcnspoonfuls of rrcnra juice of ona ornnce. , flour. Huk In layers MP with whlpp'l T''i"n " flavored with omnK'. i;ooii xour i-ss" t Into bolllnfc wnU-r. ui and ooverlriR tllitly : c , Imck of thn Htove hot but not boil, ii wf! IIIOVO tll Hllflia Bin' ""t ii hutton'il PHKiiiK "- tf, Hpoonful of buttiT In u tnnHpoonful of cVF. , cook In tho lmt"'r. a brown; odd onn la HiinnnfnlM of flour. pepper nntl a Unit . , furry pow.li-r. Whi-n J . ctipftil of milk nnd cf".rt. Tour thlH Kiitii-o over j with n Inyor 01 "--. tiihW Ilrown In a hot ovci (Copyright, 1920, Wsstsr I""