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II SYMPHONIC CONCERT

At the

PENINSULA HOTEL

IN THE GROUND FLOOR LOUNCE.

PROGRAMME. PART I

1: OVERTURE

Ramnatique

Keler Bela

2. VALSE FANTAISIE...M. Glinka

3. MADAME BUTTERFLY

Opera Lyrique......G. Puerint

Interval

PART II.

1. LA SOURCE....... Leo Delibe's

Ballet Sulte

1. I'ns des Erharpes

2. Andante

3. Variniion

4. Donne Circassionne

2. HUMORESQUE

..A. Dvorak

4. SOLVEIG'S SONG .....E. Greig

4. HUNGARIAN RHAPSODIE

CELLO SOLO

D. Popper

By A. Podolsky of Moncony Grand

Opera

Interval.

PART II.

Opern Lyriquer

1. PAGIACCH...

2. POLONAISE

Leoneavallo

.Fr. Chopiu

3. INVITATION TO THE DANCE

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BY MABEL MELLIOTT CHAPTER 1 (Continued). ford?" he asked.

Susan smiled and Buttered Susan united. In some obscure glanes upward from beneath long way the outlook had been lightened.ishes. "Yes," she murmured.

"I suppose like all the girls you "I'm going to have to chrn my living in the meantime," she said. want to go Into the movies,"

"How's your aunt Mrs. Milton muttered, trying to make converan wanted to know.

tion.

ho

"Oh, Aunt Jessie's fine." Susan "I hadn't thought about it,” said frowned a little as she said it. Mrs.Susan. "I'm learning to be a bl Milton's sharp eyes caught the business girl." frown.

That's terrible," barked Ben In Lampman. "I think the men nineties

"As strict ng ever?" she wanted

to know.

Kay

were right.. Susan Bushed and nodded. ME WORIA's place is in the home." Milton clacked sympathetically.

Susan stared. She thought he "Well, as I always say, I don't be must be joking. But the young lieve in bringing up girls too stiff-man was in deadly earnest.

"Makes me sick, seeing these necked," she observed comfortably. "Mine always had a good time. swarms of young girls all over There's Veronica who's got herself down town, morning and night." a good busizud and a nice home he said. "They ought to be in nice out In Oak Park. And Grace out kitchens or taking care of kids." in Pasadena. My girls had lots of "Hello Silly" trilled Rose

this be-Millon. overhearing benax and I encouraged 'em. lieve in it. If you don't see they "tally round, girls and boys, and the have a good time somebody else listen to Ben rave. will. And that may not be so good. | stump again.** Your Aant Jesale's old style like: my mother. My mother thought we ought to sit on the front steps, nl in a row, until we were 30." She laughed wheezity. "Well, none of an did. Both myself and Lide- that's my younger sister-cloped."

Susan smiled in sympathy. "But

•

He's on

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almost pathetic in his desire for approval.

And then Susan "Yes, I do." Int.

told him about her struggles with the demon, shorthand and her fear that she would never conquer what business Aunt Jessie called "the world,"

The young man reddened. Rose grasped his hands and pulled him to his feet. "Back to the piano. you," she sang gaily.

"If that's the best you can do for Sun Carey you'd better pound out one more music and let her dunce."

WILH

1

Ben Lampan growled. "Stick with it. You'll be successful, I can see that. Don't mind what I snid to-night about girls working.

that's behind the times. know From what you tell me you've got a hard row to hoe with this aunt of You've got to strike out for yourself."

Yours.

Susan flushed and stammered

loyally. "Aunt Jennie in all right. inShe just doesn't understand."

I don't particularly want to marry One of the boys Susan had known young," she explained. "I've got in high school. Eddie Wilkins, came to work and help Aunt Jessie be-up and claimed her. Susan felt a cause she raised me and I owe hero. What an uncomfortable sort a lot. I just want a little freedom of PETROR young Lampman and some fun.""

Paldie muttered "That's right. That's right." her car that Ben was "kind of a Mrs. Milton patted her, on the socialist or something." A freak, shoulder. "Now you un along Susan devidel. But a rather inter. hack and start having some. There eating freak. And how he could

some boys there who

wont play! miss you in your pink

Want to dress,"

Now they were at her doorstep. The little house looked shrouded and secretive. For a minute Susan What if was terribly nervous. Aunt Jessie should be waiting up. #hould call out, "Come straight in this minute. Susan Carey!" She had been known to do that.

to

Hastily she held out her hand.

was awfully nice of you

she murmured. bring me home," "Thanks so much.”

Ben Lampman grasped the kaud feverishly. "I want to come and see you sometime," he said.

Sinan fell a distaste for the slon't young man's ardor. “...} know," she said vaguely. "Maybe, some time."

As the evening wore on Susan's eyes brightened and the flush in A bit reluctantly Susan obeyed her checks deepened. She was have Rose Milton, a tall blonde girl wearing a good time! It was too good Ang many blue ruffles, rushed up to to be true. At 11 o'clock she jump-"It her. The rugs in the big fronted up. started. Mrn, Milton and roon had been rolled hack and four foured woman were beginning or five couples were dancing. Not to serve supper, hut Susan dashed to The music of the radio. A dark into the bedroom and retrieved her haired young man was pounding wraps from the mountain of coals out "St. Louis Blues" at the piano on the big beil. in the corner. He played with his:

Rose dawdlod after her, "Honest whole body. Hands, feet, even his ly, do you have to go?" lend moved to the rhythern. Susan Susan pulled on her gloves. "Oh, stared at him, fascinated.

you know Aunt Jessie! She would Rose led her toward the pianist.have the police out searching for me "Ben Lamjamun, here's the girl 1 jt i stayed any longer." told your hout. Susan Cary. She's) "It's a shame," Rose said, "but not a witwit like the rest of us. I'll get one of the bays to take you

home. She has brains. Talk to her."

You mustn't go by your The young man stopped playing self." "St. Louis Blues" in the very "Don't Bother," brogged Susan middle of a mournful phrase and She had visions of a long walk home jumperk up. He was tall and lean with a bored young man who would anal vaguely rumpled looking, be annoyed at being dragged away Susan put her slim hand into the from the feast,

crushing grip he offered her. Soms When she arrived at the front one turned on the radio alter a door she found Ben Lampina moment or two of grumbling on there, hat in hand. "Ruse said you the part of the interrupted dancers were going-do you mind?" he and young Lampman marmured, stuttered. "Want to dance

However, Hen spared her

זי

"I'll telephone," he promised as she ran up the stairs.

Aunt Jessie valled out, “Who was that you were talking to?"

Sokan said, "Just a friend of Rose's who brought me home,"

She crept into her room, turned in the light and moved about as softly as possible, making ready for

bed.

grey eyes and

After she had hung away the pink dress and slipped into her worn old dressing. gown she stood for a long time staring at herself in the mirror. She traced the wing-like stroke of her black brows, She widened her smiled at the effect.

Was it true did she really want to be a business girl? Or was, she just kidding herself because she wasn't popular with the boys RA Rose Milton and most of the other girls were?

She didn't know. This young man, Ben Lampman, hnd discon- Yet his certed and annoyed her.

"It's very kind of you," said ! Susan, politely. But she WHA Susan did. Although she had rather appalled at the prospect of so few opportunities she danced i walking eight blocks with young welk Even this indifferent partner; Mr. Lampman who thought cell ant spoil her pleasur in man's place was in the home. He rhythm. The young man was the and Aunt Jessie would get along rangy sort who bumped into things rather well. and murmured "Sorry" every sol silen. Mrs. Milton's front parlor, mare harangues., He talked desul-obvious admiration had salved a after all, was no bail-room. Chairs; torily of music, of what he wantedure spot in her ego, What had he and tables, leaned out from corners to do. He dreamed of having an

meant by saying he knew she'd be I success? 14 trip the unwary passerby, orchestra of his own "like White-

Susan yawned and just thm After a bit, rather flushed. Susan mots." Susan could sympathize Aunt dessin, to whom every creak Idupped into a chair and Ben Lamp-| with this.

man fauned her awkwardly.

"I think that would be wonder-and whisper in the little house spoke plainly as શ child 10 “Did-did anybody ever tell you¦ Cul," she told him enthusiastically. its mother, called out, "For that you looked like Joan Craw-| "Do you, honestly He Was

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Oh, the morning! As if she'd forgotten the sarcastic shorthand teacher and the difficult test there would be next day, Susan thought of Ben Lampman and 'squared her shoulders. "I'll pass those tests," she said sturdily. "And I'll get a job and make money and put in an oil burner for Aunt Jessic and get silver fox for myself. I'll show them I"

Who it was she meant to show Susan didn't quite know.

Perhaps the neighbours who often said, "Poor Jessie Carey! She's heen burdened nlt her life with her brother's child!" Perhaps it was that ruddy, fair-haired boy nt Block's shorthand school, the one who had been expelled from college, Irrelevantly Susan wondered what Robert Dunbar would have thought of Rose Milton's party. He probably would have been bored to death. Dancing to the radio, eating brick Ice cream from golden oak dining room table, would probably not ft.in with his ideas of galety.

"Wonder what he's really like," Susan speculated just before sho dropped off to sleep.

'She had no notion how soon she was to know about that!

(To Be Continued.)

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