SHORT STORY.
THE MORTGAGE.
BY JOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON,"
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(Continued from Last Saturday)| Tutio stara åt b'ra, horrified. Why, but, father! That's what I-I almost wish bo had!
it's all for That's what waj sho flung out.
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Max that was likely to injure the next generation, you would have heard of it long before now from
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Because you know that. I ahouldn't have been ea delighted with the whole affair and done all I could to bring it about. No, no, my dear. There are many men who, in justica to the next gener-MEIRION, Nos. 9 & 10, Peak,
ation, should never be allowed to marry our daughters, and if our daughters persistently refused to marry them, the race would bless the day that opened their eyes. But Max is not one of them."
"Then you think that I—" "I think that you are suffering from a very old malady, my doar, that was bad enough when your what you mean but it doesn't endured it one by one. Now
Ab, my dear, my dear! I don't doubt it, for a mom "Where ignorance is bliss," ?ent," he assured her.That's And you blame us because we've helped you out, that way, so many generations! Don't you seo that the truth is more im
portant to Max than the fact he might have conreślęd ?"
"I see that be thought so." "Not only that—it is 87,"
Father Do you mean to tell me it's more important for a man to
follow that it's what you're going to get!"
"See here, father," sail cia, sitting firmly in chair of her own now, and looking squarely in his eye Do you mean to tell me that you hourstly think
enoughin't to be as good a
girla ?"..
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to be truthful than to be good ? 2200
"There is no doubt of it,' Lucia as you understand
good."
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"Then it applies to me just as much!” bad N
The doctor reached his arm carefully over her bent head and shook off his long cigar nahi.
"Is that what the suffragists are really gotting at?" he asked," Was it the tchkey all the time?"!
"Father
"My dear girl," he sait dis passionately, not talking to you as a father"I'm talking to
you as a man.
and are or were very near he
"My dear nein! How absurd! How could I tell you such thing?"
But you said a mau had be- ter Ea honest than-good, "
a
Bay!
"Ah! Thu's different, my dear, that's dillerent. And it's just that little difference! that you seem incapable, as a box, of grasping, Now listen to me, and notice that L nothing about ought or must. I have no objections, my child, to shiste men or truth- fäl women-quita "the contrary, in fet! I say, merely, that it the average man were not tionest, the human race, would begin to slide backward, and if the average woman were not chaare, the sooner it slid, the better!"
Luia de
the irritation of a collective griev. Lind you add to its peranal pangs ance, it becomes a greater and more dangerous force, but I can't seo that it is essentially different."
"You moon—}}
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You won't like it, Lacin !". Go on, please, father,"
"It is called jealousy," said Dr. Stanchon quietly, "You used to say, low could you? How could you don't! Now you say: I can't, you shan't! For all "1 kuow, one may accomplish where the other failed, my dear.”
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"But you don't think so?" "I don't say not." "Oh, no! But if I should be- have as Max has--"
Lucia stopped abruptly and bracod heresif for the storm.
**Well, my dear ?"?
Her father's voice was calmly speculative and abo went on,
"If I should behave as lie did, wouldn't that affect the next generation either?'--
I
"More so, imagine, than any pen to it, Lucit!" other one thing that could hap
"Oh, how unjust you are! How sickeningly unfair!
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That's Max's idea, I believe. He enys parents are incap able of it let's prove that he is Ile paused and shook his finger wrong! As a matter of fact, at her. All this from the point
On the officers' recreation have no earthly control over you. of view of the reče, you know",
ground at Portsmouth on the At your age I was supporting my he said, "The only point of view
afternoon of September 10 a family, and you have refused a 1 am at liberty to recognize ions surprise, I unfair? What Rear-Admiral Sir R. K. Arbath- "Unfair?' he repeated, in ob- 100 yards race was run between very fair professional position in You, of couren order to keep my house for ine, . "Of course wint?
Have I to do with it? Did I plan not and Flag Captain Eric Back. this little interlude of human file of Plymouth, for a wager of £2 ing married and having, probab manded suspiciously,
on this particular ball of earth? aside. Admiral the "Hon. Sir) ly, a family of your own. That is! aro.nu in lividualist. You
Anything you don't like you call Hedworth Meux, Commander-in- to say, you are a grown wood, are a woman, to begin with; a
unfair. Don't you understand that Chief at Portsmouth, acted as with every kind of rapacity for modern young woman, to go on since the first seabeasts fought in Judge, and Commander, Palmer, expressing and supporting your with; a modern American young the primeval elime; one great con- of the Submurine Depot, Fort self. I am talking to you as I woman, to finish with. Nothing test has been going on eternally. Blackhouse, as timer. The cor- should talk to any sensible, of course, could be more in one great problem has been sol-petitors ran levol for a good part mature woman. Now! You tell dividualistic, is to how all that ging itself, by rule of thumb, of the way, but eventually Oap- me that there should be one will work out in the next standard of purity and truth for generation, it remains to be seen." through blood and torture and lain Back won by a yard in 12
oppression and frightful mistakes 1-5eeg.'. 'for men and women.
In your!
"Perhaps Leis began that have sent whole races to the own case Max has not met yours; stiffly, they +topped.
scrapheap? The efficiency' slo you therefore claim your right to "Pertaps?" her father re gan is as old as the hills, dear be judged by his. I suggest that
pente encouragingly.
girl, and Nature will scrap' a this claim is one of the logical
NON-JUSTABLE Perhaps I'm thinking of the ex us relentlessly as you will Meux, on the Pacific Station, Sir issues of the modern feminist | movement, a perfectly tenable next generation in what I'm ing cabinet, in your prison re-. K. Arbuthnot and Captain
duing!"
form offices, if she needs to. And Back, both fine athletes, arranged CASSUM AHMED, proposition, and you immediately
I admit that she often has, to a to meet in 20 years' time ond run become greatly abooked. I can-
certain extent and for a certain 100 yards for £3 aside. There time. For what is she after?"
"Porhaps you are,” he answer- not see why you should be. There od politely. She coloured angrily
are either two standards to apply, or there is. one. If there is one, it is either yours or his. You seem to take it for granted that the one will be yours. I merely , suggest that it may not work out
that way.
Bat you don't believe it?" Finnkly, I don't 'my dear,” "Would you mind tolling me why?"
Not at all. Because I know. you know that if there were any thing in your marriage with
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