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BEACH CLUB GIRL

CHAPTER XXII

By MABEL. McELLIOTT

proverbial last straw fast elkappeur-¡ ing. I was too Into 'now for Bools-to We must see each other soon pretend she hadn't seen Inabol. The gain, was the burden of Innbel's other girl's warm, welcoming hand sang. Beats, agreeing, still fent the was in here. Her bright eyes were barrier between them. The old foot- full of friendly interest. It was as if cold could not be regained, however the months between their last meeting | strong the bond was. Her new life. was too confused and too uncertain for "Why, Boots dear,” Inabel

said again plans: At length she promised to and again. "But how terribly nice! telephone, to write. Her own address And

had been thinking of your she did not give. They were moving But I didn't know you were in New may-day now, she said. York. I hadn't the least idea.

did not exist.

"We were to have gone to Florida before this," Boots offered vaguely, walking along beside her, but we're still out on Long Island. Out on Long Island" on the whole, than "Autoria.'

sounded rather better, was polite; Isabel did not ask where Innbel on Long Island the young Lunds were living:

Boats blessed her for the omission.

"Will you have lunch with me?" Isabet bubbled, "Here I was, huting

pan on its hooks she heard Runs at the door. He came in briskly, bringing a breath of cou, tresn nr. With him.

"The boy wonder!" He thumped himself on the chest.

Boots ran into his arms. "You've got something?"

"Yep!" lie held her off at arm's longin. "A club at Miami. Beiter than the one last year."

Boots danced in sheer excitement. "Miamit I've never been there."

"Io on a minute, kiddy. I can't take you with me. You'll have to stay behind--for a while at least."

(To Be Continund.)

back to the shabby fat. Somehow

It was difleult after all this to go had never seemed so sordid, no de Anitely run-down-at-the-hoek before Gloria was at home, spreading pattern NEW YORK STOCK remnant of printed silk all over the papers and a gnudy purple and red slik

ving room floor.

"Russ called." Gloria looked up to you he thought he had something lined Any abstractedly. "He said to tell up and he wouldn't be home for sup

to cat alone you know me of oldi-per." and

all thatically starving to death and Boots sat down in the tufted plush

unch was just about to stop for "But I forget about it, shopping.”

ncheon myself." Boots sald brightly,

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YESTERDAY

The following reports on the New chah, the springs of which were nl-

been re- ready sogging. The collecter had sol York stock market have received the full amount for this chair ceived through Megers, Swan, Culbert- up to date She took off her hat and son and Fritz: The-Wall Street Journ was a lie. Of course it was a He, ran her fingers nervously through her al report on yesterday's markets: LIVERPOOL SERVICE But she couldn't tell Isabel the truth; hair. If Russ weren't home until late Stocks were unsettled, due

California

ATREUS Altarea couldn't say she had been looking for it meant an entire evening in Gloria's wide break

whort a Job in Lincy

company. The prospect, especially which was largely owing, to "This old suit," she said with a after Isabel's amusing chatter, was selling on fearn of the election of Mr. NEW YORK SERVICE

Sinclair 2. Governor of rippling laugh she hope fervently was well nigh unbearable. Russ made Unton convincing, "is positively moldy,

I this life tolerable for her. Without California. Towards the close, how-:

4ever, selling pressure caned had to get something to wear.

and him there was simply nothing. things for the south, too, although

She hung up her things neatly and any issues staged a rally., Bonds they're not showing much in the elegan to mend her other pair of stock were irregularly lower, excepting yet. Too early."

ings. If there were only some banka nlied States Government Isaac, Banks, Insurance Companies and Label nodded sympathetically. She about, she thought wildly. finishing which improved on good buying by

plano.

Stacks on other institutions.

the had her arm linked in that of her that task. If there were a friend. They were opposite one of of her Buter-in-law's scissors met her

Exchange were downward. those big, plate-glassed tea-rooms so

Whent prices rullied, due to reports In the lent to feminine hearts. Isabel, uid arn. No wonder people in these little of a heavy Flour business ing her, wheeled expertly through the oxes of fint sought the movies East and in the South-West. shopping throngs, steered her through else to do, nothing else to lack for means of escape. There was nothing the revolving doors. Boots protested ward to faintly.

"Please take time for just a bite. Please!"

Isabel

begge prettily. Boots, thinking of the lanp quarter in her flat change purse, shuddered ins wardly. But the next words

re- assured her.

only the nipping soun

when

andl

5. C. & F. New York office:- The stock market recovered well from selling early in the seaniom The Standard Oil Co. of Indiana has re- A gallon. duced prices by 1 cent The United Fruit Co.'s cornings for

"Shall I fix things for diarter?" Gloria shrugged. "Well, I got some sausage and there's a can of corn."

Somehow Boots got through the the months ended September 20th rest of the afternen; the early fall totalled $18,621,000, against $9,087,- 100 during the corresponding period evening closed in. Lights winked of last year. Business done: $10,000. "It's my birthday. I want to splurge all the square windows. Children.

New York and Chicago commodity bit, faddy gave me $20," said huddled around a bonfire in a vacntit reports received through Messrs. Isabel answering the black-frocked lat at the end of the block. The pros. boste nad and following her to a pect was dull and uninteresting, but table for two. "Let's have the cream-Roots from her perch envied the stall chicken and the double chocolate struggling figures milling about the tercream enke. Member how we scarier dare, tasting the good smell af wood smoke and burning fingers in their attempts to take toasted marsh- mailows from the end of the stick.

used to love it?"

So it was Isabel's party after all Over their heuped plates the two girls reviewed, explained, murmured.

she

paid.

Swan, Culbertson and Fritz:-

en-

Cotton: The possibility that here will be nu Pool sales wAM

urging factor and the market Khowed nine recuperation. “We be lieve that the market has discounted the considerable increase in Monday's overnment crop estimate and, if the report is not unexpectedly higher. better market is probable. It is reported that bids for Pool cotton oiled 800,000 bales, but not over 100,000 bales were sold, if any.

"You haven't seen your mother?" at

Up at archneck, at this time of fast Isabel asked with gravity.

year, leaves were heaped in grent miles Buota shook her hend. In spite of for burning. Her mother, in her old her manful efforts her eyes swam in seray sweater and a well-worn tweed

Grain: Chlenićo advices state that mist. Her

volec thickened.

skirt, would be raking, too, in the haven't really—dured,"

fower garden, setting a match to the the upturn was due to heavy Flour beine reported. "Daddy's so mad at me.

I wrote her neat piles. Boots felt a lump in her and export sales twice.

throat at the thought. Isabel's words The tone was better. Optimism re- She didn't answer-" "She doesn't dare." Isabel told her, had tugged at her heartstrings. Her arding the long-term satinok per- her own eyes watering in inpuisive mother du miss her, fretted over her.sists in same quarters and the market Fympathy. "I do think your father is Why, sometimes at night she woke up appears to he technically sound, but being mean about

in a cold fright, shivering at the we consider that some decided im- it. Why. people

provement in foreign newa is neces- elope all the time. There's nothing thought that perhaps she would never sary for any substantial recovery. terrible about it. He's behaving like

see her mother again.

Dow Jones Averages; Axtone age father

"I don't blame him," Hoots said would do fine things, make something 30. Industrists thickly, palafully, glancing down at big of himself. Then she wouldn't be 20 Bails her slim linked hosts. It was

ashamed to go back home, face every-20 Utilities shock. If I tunel it to do

body. She had been foolish, hadn't-10-Bonds- arain

given her marriage sulllcient con- 11-Commodity Index 17 Lending

Amer. Can Amer. Smelt & Ref.

H

aver

She shook of the sick fancy.

Russ

"You'd tell them all about it. sideration beforehand. But she would know," supplied Isabel, trying, tashaw them some time that it had all restore a more cheerful atmosphere,been for the best. "But you know what I'll do if I were

от Lou came in and lights went In your place? I'd go up there some garishly, brilliantly all over the small slay, see my mother and fix everything square rours. The smell of frying n. Just don't pay any attention to gent and bubliling corn permeated the him, advised Isabel gaily. "Aud apartment. once your mother sees you-why, she misscs you frightfully, you can im ngine everything will be all right.

"I could kill myself when I think of hurting her that way," Boots safd youthfully

Isabel patted her hand. “You take the train up there some morning why your father is safely out of the house. she said. "Everything will be simply | fine. See It isn't."

|

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"Aren't you hungry?" ▼ "No. Not very. " Boots, hesi tated over the words—“I met ån okl friend. She took me to lunch."

Gloria's eyes lighted avidly. "The Ritz, huk?-- Guess-you-can-i-see our jents.” Her face looked mean, looked curlous in the bright inre of the overheat Axture.

"No," Boots said quietly, “Just a tearoom."

Boots, thinking of her empty-parke. | Lou ate quickly, noisily, nut jolning of the fure to Larehnezk, nodded dina- in the conversation. He did not be- ly. She couldn't tell Trabel thout love in "Jawing" at meal time, he that, though. There were some things | often said. Eating was a serious you simply kept to yourself.

business.

They clung to each other on 'part-1 Boots offered to wash the dishes and ing-Isabel In agirlish jumble of Gloria, anxious to get back to her warnings and whispered nfection, basting, did not protest. At nine Bonts as a drowning man who sees his o'clock when she was hanging the last!

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