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Golden Rain
r'i:
SY.10FHIS: Most unexpeetedly.
stursiun black hat become very '
much interested in tn-year-old trie
t.onnlug, with her precise speech
and her old-fashioned clothes when
he finally leaves her he dote not
know that the ie the niece of the
Ella Vanning who will, he hopes,
t.ike him lor a boarder to buttress
the lading banning fortunes, trie
bewails her position ae the daugh
ter o poverty-stricken aristoeracv:
all she can do is to make partite go
with her "parlor trick."
Chapter Tbr
SURPRISE
DLIT Iris's "parlor trlck" were
u better than sbe knew. Miss Ella
bad unwearledly passed on to her
niece everything that In her own
more accomplished and literate ije
money could buy or art suggest for
the brilliant young Ella Lannlnf,
rho had Intended to be singer.
Iris's unmodern education com
prised fluent French ond Italian, the
ihlllly to play well the yellow-keyed
sld family piano, and a singing voice
opoj which Miss Ella had lavished
ill she knew of her own "role cul
ture" of a good though old-fashioned
IC'JOUl,
"You'll need accomplishments,
dress with," rls thought as she
swung along Is the dusk with her
armsful of "golden rain,"
She began to daydream again: per
haps somebody would be at Kay's
when she sang her old-fashioned
songs that people laughed over so;
perhaps she'd get a paying engage
ment at some bouse In Philadelphia.
Perbepe It would end wltb her doing
It regularly, earning money enough
to buy herself and ber uncle all the
things sbe wanted. ...
3be began to sing as she came up
the neglected old drive, under the
old-fasbloned portico. Sbe had lin
gered so long that a bait bour had
passed; It was quite dark. She was
singing one of the songs sbe would
do at Kay's. It was a song of an
older day, a funny old thing of the
seventies that bad been a show
piece of her grandmother's:
"Jmt as sure ae It la halt past
eight
8omoneTi tapping at the gardes
gate ..."
It was her signal to Uncle Wll
Ham. Sbe knocked on the big front
door.
Let me In, let me In, Cncle Wll
Ham! I haven't any free bands."
HER uncle's slow foot and tapping
crutch trod down the unseat
ball ant' a gaslight wakened. Sbe ran
tbrough the opened door, laughed.
kissed him above ber bright-colored
load. -
'Oh, I'm late," sbe said, "but you
can't think how heavy young treet
are! And I met a young man oh!"
She stopped. She colored all ovei
"And I met a young man ohl"
larllng. Gentlemen Ilk them," she
tad ssld Invariably over all the yeara
iris could recall. As Invariably her
lather had added gayly but Insistent
ly. "Iris Isn't to marry. I want her
ill to myself."
Nona of It bad seemed very Imme
diate to Iris. Rer young vitality and
atrength made living a pleasure In
Itself, si long as nothing Immedi
ately annoying came along, like a
party she couldn't have good clothes
for, to make the dark side of the pic
ture more real than the bright one:
the garden, the loving old aunt and
unole. the library books, the piano
to play and sing at, and all the vague
belief In a lovely and fortunate fu
ture, with tbe right lover, gentle,
gracious, magnificent to everyone
but her; the lover partly out of
books a little out of movies, but
more from old stories of ber grand
mother's glories and adorers.
There were town boys and there
were moments when ber father and
aunt bad relaxed guard, and she bad
been undo love to In brief awkward
phrases; there were boys who by old
Uncle William's connivance stole off
with her now and again to movies,
to a ball game In Philadelphia. But
they were not the Prince.
IT WAS more curious than they
kuew Aunt Ella Insisted on "con
tact with society," "ease of man
ner." There wore Invariable teas and
suppers to which sbe went with ber
aunt; Mrs. Cadwallader'a ancient
house. Mist Deborah Wayne's, Mrs.
loslnh Worrell's. It nover etruck
Aunt Ella that these might not
iniuso Iris as much as they did her
self. It occurred to only one person
-Uncle William.
He it was who plunned Iris's small
scapes, who. In splto of Ella's Arm
sold oo all money for ths use of Law
renre. Iris's father, squeexed tiny
turns out now and again to buy Iris
I Icngli of silk for a dress, or a pair
f rayon stockings.
He hadn't beeu able to do much of
:ate. MIrs Ella was more stringent
:han over; she was talking about a
aeir.orial tor her dead brother.
"Oh. well, mnyhe I can find some
thing In one of (he trunks of old
slothes In the garret lo let down this
her, so that It telt like a Ore. There
towering easily behind her uncle's
stooped black should ti. stood the
man to whom; supposing she would
never see him again, sbe had told
more of her affairs than she ever
bad told anyone In her life before.
"Thlr," said Uncle William's mild
slightly-apprehensive voice, "la Mr.
Black. He Is going to board wltb us.
darling. This Is my niece, Iris, Mr.
Black."
"I've met Mr. Black," said Iris In
a choked furious voice. "I Oh, yon
hadn't any right tot"
The bright load of blossoms
crashed at the feet of the two ae
tonlahef men: Iris was gone, flying
up the steep old stairs.
"Deal me," said mild shabby
courteous Cncle William. "I must
apologise for my niece's excitement
It Isn't at all like her."
"I think It la!" said Morgan Black
Internally. Aloud he replied politely,
"I auppose she was startled at see
ing a stranger."
"Sie Is a very brilliant girl, and
It Is possible she Is becoming a trifle
temperamental," said her uncle, as
It thla idea were sew. "She haa nev
er behaved like that before."
Morgan Black smiled Instead ol
replying: which pleased Uncle Wil
liam. Since Aunt Ella had decreed
the taking of a boarder, this sllenl
young man was better than most.
Iris, meanwhile, had taken cover
In her bedroom. It was large, like all
the rooms. It had an old-fashioned
brass bed, hideous but comfortable,
with a mended whit honeycomb
counterpane.
A handsome overelaborate ma
hogany bureau of the lata aeven
Ilea, with tbe rocker and marble
topped table which belonged to it
and a dejected golden-oak morrli
chair which didn't, stood out sgalnst
all Iris's Inexpensive efforts toward
modernity.
Sometimes she was proud of wbst
she had done with the nnpromla
Ing place; sometimes, as now, she
bated it.
(Cetrrll. "!. HftstH HMtmsr)
Tomorrow, Moroan and Iris have
their first meal together.
STATE EMPLOYES
USING TELEPHONE
TOO MUCH-MARTIN
SALKM. MJirch (AP, Oor.
ernnr M it run (Wlnrev, the nut de
pnritiifiiU of Orcpnn were on "(a!,
phone jnp, whlt-h I urn plng to put
t.t.np in He in arte the tatmrM
today following ft survey of the re
cent report made the rxwrd of con
trol on telephone cost by the pub
lic utllltlr commlfMiunr.
Abu?1 of the t.plione prlvtlrRe.
pc-tfriiiy ion dltnr call.
ehsrply rrutriwsl rr the governor,
unit hp declared he had directed
a a, Wbuton, hi cxecutlvt
secretary, to send out a question
naire to corer Installation um
of all phone to aurertaln what, can
be done to economlre without actu
ally hampering efficiency.
The report of the utilities com
miaioner ahowd tbe total cmt of
telephone aerrice to the stt ap
pmumated MVOOO a year. In analys
ing the report the governor stAted.
"In Portland w have been spend
ing about e'-iNVOOO a year, of which
17.000 t on exchange nervlce only:
in fiitlem. 27.000, or winch M.ooo
la on exchange aerrlce alone, the
capital showing eftooO Iraa In f -change
than tn Portland; In CW
ralim. 13.000: m Eugene, U.ooO;
in Pendleton. 1000; In Klamath
FaUa 1A00." The phone eou at the
higher Institution of learning were
particularly stressed by the. torr-ernor.
Permanent i.m. Eaxter Special at
Cook' Beauty Chop Hotel J ark son
Phon ei. Maxy Cook Cordl OS
a aid.
SENIOR HIGH GIRLS
FACE BOSy WEEK IN
LEAGUE ACTIVITIES
Tomorrow will ae the beginning of
activities for the nnu4 OlrU league
week et tbe Senior high school. The
OlrU' league extend an Invitation
to ail parent to attend the func
tion arranged throughout the week,
and eapeclally the assembly Wednes
day. Program for the week I a follows:
March 30, Boy' and Girls' League
council luncheon; April 1, Girls'
League assembly; April 2, style show
and tea for mother at one o'clock;
April 8, OlrU' League annual Leap
Year dance.
League officers In charge of ar
rangement are Mildred Buckles,
chairman; Aklko Sato. vice-president;
Flora Scheela, secretary; Delia
Mae Dale treasurer. Mis Maurlne
Carrol! and Mis Alice Bpurgln will
act a advisors, and assisting faculty
member are Mies Ploy Young, Mm
Carin Degerrnark. Mis Elizabeth
Crlaell, Mr. L, A. Mentzer and Mr.
Kenneth Wood.
Committee chairman are: Mary
Lou Long, programs for week; Beuy
Panke, decorations for tea; Belty
Purdln, style show; Jean Adams,
decorations for style show; Lois
Remington, editor for the Girls'
League edition of the Hl-Tlmes;
France Daly, assembly program; and
Carol Scheffel, decorations for dance.
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