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SHORT STORY.

THE MORTGAGE.

BY JOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON.

(Continued from Last Saturday,)

"Ah yes; but that's going to be different!“

But they have! God heavens, they always have!" de exp stu- But Max, Lutie! That'sted. They've decided it with different. Ho's a very unusually an intolerarea and a cruelty that able man-fix Fe tuer. And have been proverbial since lingar I firmly believe that his char et into wiklornesa!" A and traditions will balanco yours as perhaps no American's coul!, 'I didn't use to think so. I wasn'! Lutie's voice rang young and for international marriages. But clear, in that obl rom, so full of I begin to see that when a. Eurg-old books, and it bug'i-hat pean has lived as many years in clear trumpet of hope and pouch America as Tevaner, so that, he {—a swest pang of pride and pity understands our atti e toward to his heart, as he watched her. wr men, and realizes what le bas

They ahan't be seat in the

to combat, if he loves the woman wilderness; we're going to stick enough he can do her a great by och other, now!" deal of good."

"I sco "Ah! You mena he can dis cipline her ? **

Ile me su e! her carefully with his ore, ready now for the com- ing bule.

Marriage is discipline, dear,"

"Well, child, there's a lot of he said quietly. "That is why the people who avoid or miss it roem for improvement, we all are nearly always a little too hard agree, but let's he quite certain or a little ton soft. Now you are int in changing it all you're about as nice as a girl can be going to lungo it right. Fur but you're a little hard, my dear." instance just what is your prop

And you had counted on Yaxoi ion? Th-roman has right to softon me?,"

toniarry a woman while there ise in the world ar other wo "Exactly.""

m n who has what you call a claim on Lim?"

Well, I'm sorry for your theory, father, tar hänever will.” "Never, Latie? Thay's long word. And we've all heard of lovere quarrel-mightu't this be one?

"But we've not quarra led, father. If yon must have it, it's this": I don't consider that Max is free to marry me, for some one else has a claim on him. That's all,"

All? I should think it was: quite enough, my dear!

Lucia trods warily round this sanre, aut com i 'cred,

"If the claim is real, no!"she| said Fo'dly at last.

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"Ah! That's t'a poin! And what constitutes such a el im? And who is to be the judge? Evidently is the man in question, you think ?"

"Ob,no!**

"And quito as evidently, nei ther of the women, I think." She was silent.

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But there was no shock, and he hquestly thanked, Marie Fitch in " No my dear, you must be his heart for sparing him from it. fair. Allowing only the exception "And yet he feels free, himself? of a wri gel and innocent gill Mox is a pretty fair sort of man, and I will answer for it that no you know."

such pathetic creature con have any claim on Max--”.

"Oh, fair!" Iler voice shook with displeasure. "He's fair for! a man, I suppose yen, mean, nct for a human being!

He paused. She was silent. "You don't neeuro Mux tauer of that, my dear ?"

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Of course I am

"The newspapers are fall of one and the novels are full of the ,other," the doctor went on thought- fully," and yet I have never been ablo to persuade the women who come to me, entangled in the re sults of both, to explain them to their daughters! And yet they offer them both novels and news papers every day! I hope, my dear, among your other changes you will change that."

Lucia sighed. "People think girls are "fo'r," she murmured.

"I havo often Fuggested that perhaps they act like fools for that reason, sometimes," said her

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"I think he ought to stick by your eye-sight depends. "I thought not Max isn't that kind either So where are we?her," said Lucia buckily. "Fenul. Personal attention is given to Certainly not at a girl that he is never be happy! It's not right the examination and the fitting free to marry, or he would have and its disgusting, and I wish of lenses that will relieve all married her long ago. So she is I'd never seen him! Oh, father, trouble. The only charge is for not free; that is, he is maried. please let me live with you the glasses. That 'a, she was willing to stake Always !!!

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"Aren't you just a little con fused, dear? If there's any one "I thought not. Alux isn't the situation in life which deals with kind. Well, allowing for that ex men as men, and women as wo-ception, the woman who can have men, isn't this it?"!

uny claira on Max falle inevitably "And how does it deal with into one of two clarere: she is women as women?" she demand either one of unfortunate women ed hotly.

who sells her love, in which case "That's just the point! It's she has undoubtedly been paid for all for Max to decide, apparently," it, or she is one of the unwise wo- "It seems not to be, in this men who has given it when the 0830, at any rate, "he suggested was not free to do so, in which peaceably, for you're deciding case she has invalidated all her it."

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"You can bet I'in deciding it!" she cried, "It's time women get together on this thing, and stuck together.

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Lacia shook ber head dumbly, "I thought not. Max. isn't that kind either! Lucia, use your

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She had slipped to his knea now, and with her bead against his breast felt herself curiously a child again, sniffing the com bined odors of tobacco, lavender- ed linen and Russia leather letter case that memory connected with. so many childish contritione,

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rotten 'foundation. How an I know ?"

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"Not so rotton, after all, dear.

To be Continued.)

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