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ELIZABETH'S CAREER By Katherine Howe "I'm sick of your nagging and jeal ousy!" Elizabeth Farley gave a defiant look at the young man, whose plead ing, honest eyes sought to have con vinced her of the reason and sincer ity of his argument. "Dear, it's not meant to be ilagging. It's only that I want to keep you from trouble and unhappiness. May be I don't put it just as you'd like it but T mean right." "But you can't understand," she cried. "I'm determined to make something of my life. "What's the use of having a talent if you don't use it? You- said yourself I could act" "Yes, I did. I think you were some actress in that play we gave for the Belgian sufferers but that's differ ent." "Oh, yes, it's different if you work like a slave and give your services for charity. But I want to make my living." "You know you don't have to . I I want to make the living for you." "Yes, Earle I know but I can make more than you're earning. Why lots of actresses get $100 a week." "Yes, and lots don't get more than twenty-five." "Oh, well, if I begin at that I'll soon show them I'm worth more." "Look here, Elizabeth; it's that ac tor, Winter! He's been telling you these fairy tales, he's been trying " "Stop there!" stormed the girl. "Hw do you know what he has told me?" "What do you know about him?" "Well, I guess Elsie Burns knows about him! She introduced him to Tne." " she used to know him ten yearo c ;o, when she was just a Md." "Well what have you 'to say about him?" the retorted. "I dou'fc like the look in his eyes." "That's lots, isn't it?" 4nd the girl turned angrily from him and walked away. Earle Terry looked after her, standing still in his perplexity. His face was white and set with the ag ony tugging at his heart. For a year he had loved Elizabeth with all the intensity of a deep, earnest nature. Six months they had been engaged, and now this cloud threatened to burst into a storm, wrecking his hope of happiness. , Elizabeth was only a trifle over 18, but her parents being in moderate" i She Listened. circumstances, she had felt on leav ing school she must do something to earn her living. But an indulgent father and mother had wished her to first njoy her release from studies, and when Earle Terry, a teller in the one bank of the little town, began to pay her marked attentions, his suit was regarded with favor by Eliz abeth's father, who knew the steady, industrious character of the young man. uiaMB& V