SHORT STORY.
THE MORTGAGE.
BY JOSEPHINE DASKAM BÁCON.
(Continuid from Last Sätürday) | At luncheon be studied her carefully. Were those dark rings under her eyes, or only the shadows of the dark New York dining room? Was her voice a little lat, or were those the tones she dedicated to Potts," the worst hated butter in New York," in Max Fettaber's phrase? Lucia had always been a little un- necessarily severe with servants.. Is this the best the cook can do?" she inquired icily, turning over a 'rather thin chop with a scornful fork.
"Fll inquire, Miss Stanchon." "Because if it is, I'll buve ́somɔ ould meat. If the doctor is willing to eat that sort of stuff, all right. I'm not.".
Very good, Miss Starchon, I'll tell her."
And if that smell of burning I catch when you open the door is the souffle, Potts, you might add that I'll have some compute needn't macaroons-you serve it at all."
and
Yes, miss. Very good.". Really, my dear, I think you're a little hard on Kathuriae," Lucia scowled. "You don't understand the situation at all, fathar. There's a mission on at St. Vincent's, and that woman is out at all hours. I don't care how religious she is, but there is a limit, and every single thing ́abe's cooked this week has been baraed. It's simply got to stop.
Polts brought in a small, apologetic omelet and murmured something about stewed apricots
I was asking what you meant by suggesting that there might not be any change," he answered patiently. There was only one way to take Lucia-her own.
"Ob!".
She dropped two bits of sugar into his pet "hundred-headed" cap and poured the coffee slowly over them.
"Mattie Forsythe got a pot just like this for a bridge prize yesterday," she observed, handing him his cup, "and now she's got to match it, she says, so she's faricué. I only meant that you may not get rid of me after all."
"Lucia!"
"Dear me! Had you set your heart on it to that extent, dad? I'm sorry!
"My dear girl, I think you know just about how much want to lose you! But I honestly believed that Max was the safest man I knew to trust you to. I mean, I thought you both stood pretty fair chance".
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"So did 1," she admitted briefly, "but I've changed my my mind. That's all."
"Oh, that's all ! !!
"Well, isn't that enough?!' "That depends, he Buid thoughtfully. "Has Max changed his, too?"
She smiled easily too easily, he thought.
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"Hardly," she said.
"Is there any special reason, Lucia," he began carefully," or perhaps you'd rather not discuss it?"
on account of the defective draft "Frankly, I wouldn't, father, of the range and the lateness of she answered. Not because the plumber's recent visit, Lucia mind, but because you would, sniffed haughtily and the incident and it wouldn't do any good. would have been closed had not We've had it out, and it's all her father smiled quizzically at over, and we're perfectly good her and leaned over his elbows, friends, and and that's all." refusing the expiatory macaroons with's nod.
"My dear," he said, "just what is Mex's income, did you tell me?” "I don't remember telling you," she returned, unyielding to
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"And you're thirty and I'm sixty, and I couldn't understand,
suppose?"
She gulped down her coffee and went over to him.
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No, they're not, quite such a gamble, fortunately" he answer- ed, patting her shoulder,*
And yet every man wants a Bon ?"
"Of course."
She got up from the arm of the chair and poured herself more coffee,
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The whole thing is frightfully unfair!" she burst ont, and be sit led back contendly.
"She'll tell me now, be thought. "Dear girl," he said, "your are thirty years old, and fairly sensible, as things go. What's the are?
"You'll see the use!" she threatened him, half mooking: half serious...
"You'll ɛce the use, when wo
teach you to talk more about buman beings, and less about men and women!"
"Then, my dear, mind that when you populate the globe, you produce human beings they somehow and not men and sound terribly Franken toinish, women!" eaid Doctor Stanobon:
"Oh, I know what you mean, she threw at him," but what can we do, as things are now? How can we help it?"
"You can't," he said placidly. "So what's the use ?"
She pressed her lips together and sat sullen.
"I understand, then, Lutie, that you expected to marry a human being and found he was a man?" "If you choose to put it that way yes,
* 'You'll never fiod's finer man
than Max l'ettauer," said he.
"Possibly; I don't deny it."
"If only she'd rage about it or ory!" he thought helplessly, "but they're so hard, so hard!
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That's all right, father," she
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He pat his arm round her and and I think you could have stirred his fee.
managed him. But Max-ah, "When you have a son, dear," that was different. He under- he began, "and he treats you like stands you, Lucia. And he likes an elderly baby, you'll see how you for what you are, not what had hardly more than half of much you want to 13 saved! you look like, remember." and we weren't living in New Suppose you tell me. You're all "Doesn't Van? York. But then, our ideas weren't I've got, you know, and nobody's "I doubt it." Vin likes you be- The young affairs on earth can interest me cause you're a healthy, good- yours-or, Max's. men are spoiled nowadays, you so much as yours-not even my looking young woman; because know. Don't you think it would own."
like hookey and tenuis, and be wise to begin to lower your "I was afraid you'd feal that beöause you can dance till three ideale a little, in the matter of way," she acknowledged. "But in the morning. And that's quite domestic tarvics, Lutie? Thinge 1. aban't have any son, father. as it should be. And you know, will be a little changed, you They're a little too dhaney." of course, what all that really
"Of coures they are," he said promptly so is anything worth having Do you suppose if a guarantee same with em, you'd bother with 'em ?.”
know."".
"I'm not it all sure that there will be any change," she said casually, but with one of her quick side glances,
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Doctor Stanchon caught his breath sharply,
What do you mean, just ?"
he asked.
The doctor détests that rook- candy, Potts haven't you dis covered it yet? Get some cube- And please bring the angar. Bilver Bervice. I prefer to pour it myself. What were you say. ing, father?"
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She smiled.. "There's something in that! said she.
you
means?"
Wh-what?" Suddenly Latie felt young, very young, and very much disposed by fate.
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