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PAGE SIX
HARRIET PIPER
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
Copyright by Kathleen Norris
CHAPTER Xll—Continued.
—l2
Harriet had not dared to hope that
they would accept the situation so
juietly, or that the world would.
There were callers on the terrace
every afternoon, there were pleasant
congratulations and good wishes,
there were a few paragraphs in the
tocial weeklies. Richard had for
Fears been too busy for mere enter
taining, and the dinner parties and
luncheons to the new Mrs. Carter, lit
was generally felt, must wait until
next season.
To glance at the gold ring on her
Anger made Harriet feel es if a hap
piness almost shameful was bared to
rlew. Her new position, modestly as
•he filled It, was yet a high position.
She saw Richard's growing affection
and trust, If he did not. She could
afford to wait.
“But when are you and Dick Carter
going to dine with us?” Mary Putnam
said, one afternoon, at tea. Madame
Carter, whose Victorian ideal of ro
mance was not at all dissatisfied with
the idea of the employer marrying his
daughter’s beautiful governess, smiled
significantly. •
“They’re very odd lovers, my dear,"
?he said to Mary with an eloquent
glance. Mary laughed, and looked at
Harriet, whose face was suddenly
crimson, though she tried to laugh,
too. The visitor, with instant kind
ness. covered the little break.
“Whenever they’re ready, they’re
going to dine with me!” she said, pat
ting Harriet’s hand with real affection
and understanding. But Mary was free
to reflect. She had the eyes of a con
tented woman, freed from her own
problem for those of others. “And Har
riet is certainly mad about Richard,”
Mary mused.
But with the rest of the world she
had to decide that there was something
in the affair that she did not under
stand.
• • • •* • • •
When everyone else had gone from
the terrace, and the late afternoon
light was throwing clear shadows
across the warm red bricks, Nina and
Ida Tabor remained, talking. “And
now we positively must go in, Nina!”
Ida said. “We’ve wasted tills whole
afternoon! I have to get packed if
I’m going to the Jays’!”
“But you’re not going to the Jays* 1”
Nina said in soft, sweet, confident re
minder.
“But I must, darling!”
“No, you mustn’t!”
"But, dearest, I truly have to— **
“But, Ladybird,” Nina laughed hap
pily, “I sent them a message this af
ternoon that you were staying with
me! So now,” she finished trium
phantly, “that’s settled 1 And we’ll go to
bed early, with books, and talk, and
maybe creep down for something to
eat about eleven, as we did that other
night—”
“Nina,” Mrs. Tabor said, in a new
voice, interrupting her, “you didn’t tel
ephone Mrs. Jay, did you?”
“Indeed I did!”
“Well, then, you were extremely im
pertinent and officious,” said a new
voice, that Nina hardly recognized.
Poor Nina! Harriet found her sob
bing on her bed, half an hour later,
and took it for a sign that the wound
would cure, that Nina did not resent
her sympathy and comfort. Nina was
still heaving with deep sobs, albeit
taking steps toward a hot bath and a
becoming gown, when Ida went away.
Her farewells were made only to the
composed interloper, who went with
her pleasantly to the hall door, and
turned hack with some remark for
Bottomley that was in the perfect tone
of the mistress. Ida’s heart was hot
within her as she looked her last at
Crownlands, in the mellow light of the
summer twilight.
CHAPTER XIII.
Royal Blondin presently came to pay
his respects to Harriet in her changed
position. Nina had told her that he
had been forbidden the house, In De
cember; they had seen him only two or
three tlmoi- since their return from
Bermuda, and then accidentally. Har
riet was thankful to believe the affair
between him and Nina well over. The
girl was growing up now, there were
other men in her world, and for the
list of her eighteenth birthday party
she bad merely mentioned his name
among others.
Three days before the garden party
that was to mark the girl’s anniversary
Royal drifted in with the assurance
that was quite characteristic of him.
He rarely accepted an invitation, or
waited for one. Perhaps he was clever
enough to know that half his acquaint
ances detested him theoretically, but
were glad to have him about. Nina
and Harriet came in from an after
noon at the club to find him playing
with languid hands at the piano, and
he lazily rose to greet them. While
Nina was there, his attitude toward
both was pleasantly impersonal, but
his suggestion, which was more like a
command, that she run upstairs and
dress early, so that they might have
• talk before dinner, sent the girl fly
ing. and he and Harriet could speak
more freely.
. “Well Han let, I congratulate you!
Hqw does it feel to be a married wom
an? I saw your name in an evening
paper; of course 1 was delighted for
you.”
“Money and position don’t really
mean much to me,” Harriet said, unen
couragingly.
“My first sensation,” Blondin went
on, “was 1 one of satisfaction. I thought
to myself that my own cause, with
Nina, was safe now. That you trusted
me, and I had every reason to trust
you.”
Harriet looked away for a brief
silence, brought her eyes to his face.
She felt suddenly sick.
“Roy, you’re not still serious about
Nina?”
“I have never been anything else,”
be said, delicately.
“But—but why?” Harriet asked.
“I like the girl,” he reminded her
“Money and Position Don’t Really
Mean Much to Me,” Harriet Said,
Unencouraglngly.
pleasantly. “I hope she Is not entire
ly indifferent to me—”
“Indifferent! She’s at the age that
marries anybody!” Harriet said, indig
nantly.
“You give me hope,” Royal said with
a bow.
“Her father very violently opposes
it,” Harriet said, after a troubled
silence.
“I am well aware of that, my dear.
Her father forbade me the house last
December. I submitted; the girl sub
mitted. But we made our plans. I
fancy we will not have any difficulty
now.”
“You mean that you are engaged?”
“An understanding. We have corre
sponded, seen each other now and then
through Ida Tabor. It’s,” he smiled,
dreamily, “extremely romantic, of
course,” he said.
Harriet felt she could have killed
him.
“You understand that she won’t
have one penny, Roy. I know her fa
ther. He won’t yield. He’ll forbid it;
he’ll not hesitate. If she does it
against his will, she will have to wait
three years for her money. Three
years—! Roy, she wouldn’t be happy
three weeks! Mr. Carter spoke to me
about it the only time we’ve spoken of
you. He said that he was glad the
affair had ended naturally; that you
were not the man to make Nina happy,
and that he would rather have her suf
fer anything, and find out her mistake
at once, than have her heart broken,
and her money wasted, through sev
eral wretched years!”
Blondin had listened to this quietly,
his eyes moving from her lips to her
own earnest eyes, and wandering over
her animated face.
“I count on you to be my advocate,
my dear Harriet,” he said, after a mo
ment’s silence. “Richard Carter be
lieves in you; he has great faith in
your judgment. If you represent to
him that you believe this to be a wise
step all round, we shall have no
further trouble—”
“I can’t honestly tell him so, Roy!”
the girl interrupted.
“Can’t you?” Blondin said. He
looked across the open hallway to
Nina, descending in fresh ruffles and
ribbons, and raised his voice. “Here
she is—looking like the very rose of
girls! Come on now, Nina, you aren't
going to belong to anybody else but
me for a while!” he said. But as he
turtied to leave Harriet, he added
again: “Can’t you? Think it over.”
• • • ft • • •
The girl thought it over with a mad
dening and feverish persistence that
presently caused her a sensation of
actual sickness. Vague speculations
churned and seethed in the weary
brain that could find no beginning and
no end to them. To have made a
clean breast of the whole matter
months ago would have meant a de
licious sense of freedom from re
sponsibility now, but then under thooe
circumstances would she, Harriet,
have been here now? Certainly, even
in the present purely technical sense,
she would not have been the second
Mrs. Richard Carter, nor would she
held her present position of- trust
and responsibility.
While Nina and her lover murmured
on the terrace Harriet brooded on
these things, and after dinner that
evening she gave Richard so sharp a
warning that he sent at once for Nina,
and with a clouded brow and angry
eyes briefly requested Harriet to be
present while he spoke to her.
Nina came at once, with an inno
cent expression on her rather heavy
young face. She seated herself near
Harriet, and her father went to the
point at once.
■'“Nina,” he said, seriously, “you saw
Royal Blondin this afternoon, didn’t
you?” And as Nina answered only
with an ugly glance at Harriet, the be
trayer, he added, “Didn’t I ask you
not to see him any more, several
months ago?”
“Yes, you did,” Nina said, in a low
tone, and with a heaving breast.
“I hope, and we all hope, that you
will marry some day,” Richard said.
“But . you are too young now to make
a w’ise choice. And until you are a
little older, you have to take my
word for it that such an affair would
only lead you to misery and regret.”
Nina mumbled something bravely.
“I didn’t hear you,” her father said.
“I said, I didn’t see what you could
do about it!” the girl repeated, des
perately.
For a few moments of silence Rich
ard merely looked gravely at his
daughter. Then he clasped his fine,
hands on the desk before him, and
cleared his throat.
“I cannot do as much as I should
like, Nina,” he conceded, “but I shall
do what I can. But first let me ask
you: have you promised to marry Mr.
Blondin?”
Silence. Nina looked at the floor.
Richard repeated his question.
“Yes, I have —and you can’t kill me
for it!” Nina said, and burst into
tears.
“Well,” the father resumed, when
Harriet had supplied a consolatory
murmur and a handkerchief, “I’m
sorry, of course. Mrs. Tabor carried
letters between you, did she? You
met him occasionally?’
“Two or three times,” Nina said,
sniffing and drying her eyes busily.
“You know my reasons for disliking
him, Nina,” her father said. “He is a
man more than twice your age; he
has a certain sort of unsavory reputa
tion in his affairs with women. He
has no income, no profession, no
home; all those things tell against
him. You’re only a child—”
“I shall be of age Tuesday!” Nina
burst forth, resentfully.
“You wIU be of age Tuesday. True.
But you will be my ward, as far as
your Uncle Edward's legacy is con
cerned, for another three years. Now,
Nina, if you persist In this folly,
against my most earnest advice, I can
only forbid the man the house, and
lock you in your room in the good old
fashioned way. That I shall do. I
shall then give out to the world —that
has already had a rare treat at the
expense of the Carter family—the
news of my utter disapproval of the
match. If you manage the marriage
in spite of me, I shall forbid you and
Blondin my house, and as a matter
of course use my right to withhold
the payment of your legacy for three
years, and stop your present allow
ance, and your credit with the shops.
That’s all I can do! And I do
Nina.” said Richard in a softer tone,
“I do it to hasten the inevitable, my
dear! I do it to bring you back to
your father sooner instead of later; to
give you only one year, of disillusion
ment and suffering, instead of seven
or eight!”
It must be a brave girl, thought
Harriet, who could persist in any
course, after that. But Nina had the
impregnable armor of ignorance and
pride, and she only sniffed pathetical
ly again, and shrugged her shoulders.
“You do everything in the world to
make my marriage a failure!” she
said with the irrepressible tears. “And
I suppose you'll be delighted if it is!
And I don’t see—if a woman can
marry a rich man, why a man
shouldn’t sometimes be glad if a girl
has money! I’m proud to help him
out, if he’ll let me. He says he won’t
—why, we had planned going—well,
just everywhere, Honolulu and south
ern California and just everywhere,
only now he won’t go! He says he is
going to stay right here, and take a
position with an art magazine that he
just hates, and work it all off—before
we go, if it takes years—”
“Work what all off?” Harriet asked,
simply and quietly.
“This money that a friend of his
really lost, but he has taken it upon
himself,” Nina answered, a little molli
fied. “It was eleven thousand dollars,
and he has paid off about four, and
anyway, I hate so much talk about
money!” she finished, angrily.
“My dear,” Harriet said, as Richard,
with a troubled face, remained silent,
"It isn’t the money that we are worry
ing about Why, ask your father,
Nina! Ask him if he wouldn’t write
Royal Blondin a check for any sum to
day, any sum, if you and he would
promise solemnly to wait three years
mure. You win only oe twenty-one
then. Nina, still such a child!”
Harriet paused, glancing at Richard
for encouragement; he nodded eagerly,
and she went on:
‘•Marriage is a tremendous thing.
Nina, and the only thing that makes it
right—”
‘‘lf you’re going to say love,” Nina
broke in, scornfully, “you didn’t marry
Father for love I”
‘‘l was going to say mutual under
standing and respect,” Harriet said,
quietly, but the splendid color flooded
her face as she spoke, “and you do not
understand life. Nina, or men, or mar
riage. Royal Blondin Is a charming
man, and a gifted man, but he is an ad
venturer, dear; he is a man who has
lived In all sorts of places, known all
sorts of persons, accepted all sorts of
queer codes. There are coarse ele
ments In him, Nina, things that would
utterly sicken and frighten you 1 Your
father Is right; you would be bark
with us in a few months or years, per
haps with a child, perhaps shattered in
body as well as soul —not free to take
up your life again with Ward and
Amy, but scarred and embittered and
changed— !”
“My God, how that woman loves the
child?” Richard said to himself,
watching her. To him she seemed in
spired. Her eyes were blurred with
tears, her voice shaking, and she had
leaned over to clasp Nina’s hands, and
so hold the girl’s unwilling attention.
“Nina, can’t you trust your father
that far?” Harriet finished. "Can’t you
realize that a man like Royal, embar
rassed for money—no matter if he
truly admires you. and truly means to
make you happy—can’t think of you
without thinking also of what your
generous checks are going to mean to
him? Write him a check for eleven
thousand. Nina, as a consolation for
delaying the marriage a year. Try
it!”
Nina rose to her feet. Her trembling
mouth was desperately scornful, and
her eyes brimming, although she
fought tears.
“I don’t know why my own family is
the first to think that nobody could
possibly love me for myself 1” she said,
in a breaking voice. “First Harriet
ruins my friendship with Ladybird—
and then —then —!”
“Listen, Nina,” her father said. He
and Harriet had come around to stand
beside her, and he bad encircled the
shaking and protesting shoulders with
his arm. “I have just telephoned Fox
to make reservations for me on the
next Brazilian steamer. I shall have
to be a month or six weeks in Rio de
Janeiro every year now. Now, I’ve just
been wondering why you and Harriet
don’t come with me this first trip? We
stop at the Barbadoes and Bahia; It’s
a magnificent steamer —swimming
tanks and gymnasium; you’ll love it.
and you’ll love a touch of the South
American countries, too, a chance to
try your Spanish. Why not put off this
marriage idea for a year, come along
with me; you’ll make steamer ac
quaintances, you'll broaden out a little
bit—**
“I won’t go anywhere!” sobbed
Nina, wildly, turning for flight, “be
cause I'm going to kill myself!”
Harriet only waited long enough
after her dramatic exit to give Richard
a reassuring nod. Then she hurried
after Nipa.
The girl was sobbing on her bed, and
for awhile she answered Harriet’s
soothing touch of voice and hand only
with angry jerks. Then they fell to
talking, and Nina confided for the first
time fully In the older woman. Royal’s
letters, his exquisite cards, sent with
flowers, the poems he had written her;
here they all were. Harriet sympa
thized, sighed, and consoled her af
fectionately. ‘Presently she was able
to suggest a new thought to Nina, one
that could not but be palatable to the
girl’s hurt spirit.
"You see, you’re only seventeen, Ni
na,” Harriet said, “the age when most
girls are still in the schoolroom, long
before they have affairs! Well, you’re
not Interested In college, so that ought
to give you three or four clear years of
girlhood. You’re bound to have other
affairs, you’ve proved that! You go
to South America—perhaps there is
some ’nteresting man on the steamer;
you go to Canada —to California; the
world is yours. Now, Royal is differ
ent. He is an experienced man of af
fairs; he will always have an attrac
tion for women, and they for him. You
aren’t his match, now, Nina. In a few
years you may be—”
"I’m Dot jealous 1” Nina said, proud
ly. But Harriet smiled.
"Yes, you are jealous. You wouldn’t
be a real true jvoman if you weren’t 1"
she accused. A reluctant dimple tugged
at Nina’s pouting mouth. She did not
dislike the idea of potential despotism,
of the traveled, experienced woman of
the world, confident of her charm.
"If I offered a check to Royal, do
you suppose he’d accept it?” she re
marked, after dark musing. She was
sitting on the of her bed now, and
Harriet was brushing her hair.
"If you really are worried about his
business affairs, Nina, why not try
it?” Harriet suggested, sensibly. To
this Nina returned a pouting:
"I’m perfectly willing to try It 1”
And as a great concession she added,
with a sigh: "And I’ll tell him what
Father thinks I"
"Now you’re talking like a woman
who has herself well tn hand I” Har
riet said, approvingly. "When are you
to see him?”
"He's coming over especially to see
Father tomorrow,” Nina said. "I sup
pose I might ns well go down.” she
added, eyeing herself gloomily in her
mirror, “for Ward and that boy seem
absolutely at a loss for amusement I"
"And I’ll be down presently," Har
riet said. But when Nina was gone
she walked slowly to her own dress
ing table, and sat down, and regarded
herself steadily, and with heavy eyes.
Unexpectedly, here between the lam
ily dinner and the early going to bed,
on a June evening, a crisis in her life
was confronting her, and she knew
that she must meet it.
Ward’s guest was only the young
Saunders boy, who had been with
them constantly last summer, and who
was of absolutely no significance in
their lives. And yet Harriet had been
introduced to him all over again as
“Mrs. Carter” —there was no halfway,
in the eyes of the world at least. In
this relationship of hers with Richard,
and she must begin to take her place
in the family.
“Mrs. Carter!” Harriet loved that
distinction as if the title, the signa
ture, and the dignity had never been
vouchsafed to womankind before/ She
had marveled at her old self, that had
taken "Miss" and “Mrs.” with cheer
ful Indifference —why, there was a
world-wide chasm between the two!
Just to have this silly Saunders boy
call her Mrs. Carter, as a matter of
course, was to receive the accolade
that gave her all her longed-for
dreams in one. It was the name of
the man she loved, and, even though
In a shadowy and unloved way. she
liked the title that made her his.
And now she owed him the truth,
the whole, painful, humiliating story.
If she had told him months ago, so
much the better and braver woman
she! She had not done so; she had
been fighting Nina and his mother
then; she had been afraid. But she
was not afraid now; he could forgive
that long-ago girl of seventeen be
cause her advocate was the woman of
twenty-eight, the finished, cultivated,
capable woman who had served him
and his house, who must win his re
spect back because she loved him with
every fiber of her being.
The words in which she would tell
him came to her in a rush. Why—lt
was nothing! It was less than noth
ing. In half an hour she would be
back here in her room again, with all
the past clean and straight at last,
with the cloud gone, and with her
whole sou) singing with hope of the
glorious future. For a moment she
knelt by her bed, her face in her
hands.
She rose to her feet. There was a
tap at the door.
It was Bottomley. "If you please,
’m —Mr. Carter would be so much
obliged if you would step down to the
library, ’m.” Harriet gave herself a
parting glance, and followed the man
downstairs. -
“Courage!” she said to herself, with
her hand on the library door. “I’ve
exaggerated and enlarged upon this
thing too long! I’ve imagined It into
an importance that It really hasn't at
all1”
Richard was back at his desk; he
smiled and rose as she came In. There
was another man in the library, who
rose and faced her, too.
And when Harriet saw him she
knew that she was too late. It was
Royal Blondin.
A dizziness and sickness came over
her as she went slowly to the chair
opposite Richard. She touched the
desk for support as she sat down, and
felt that her fingers were cold and
wet.
“Mr. Blondin has come to talk to
me about Nina,” Richard said. Har
riet somehow moved her dizzy eyes
toward Blondin, and she smiled me
chanically. But she bad to moisten
her lips before she could speak.
“I see!” Her voice sounded hor
ribly choked to her; she could find
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"You Aren’t His Watch, Now, Nina. I»
a Few Years You May Be.”
nothing to add to the meaningless
»words.
“Mr. Blondin asks my consent to an
immediate marriage.” Richard said.
“You know my objections to that.
Harriet, of course! We have Just
been discussing them, as J explained
to him. This Is a painful matter to
me, and I regret It. But Mr. Blondin
has given me no choice but to tell him
frankly why I think him an unsuitable
husband for my daughter. I have told
him exactly what my procedure will
he in such a case, and I think we un
derstand each other!”
Royal was smiling the serene,
dreamy smile that was characteristic
of him.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1922.
P* KITCHEN i
| CABINET
f *********—
Copyricht, 1813. Western Newspaper Union.
Each real home should be an Insti
tution of society so managed that the
beat and most efficient citizens may be
given to the community.
GOOD EVERYDAY DISHES
Honey Is not only one of the most
wholesome of sweets, but medicinal,
and healing in Its quel
itles. It is especially
good for a cough, and
one person suffering
from catarrh was entire
ly cured by working
with bees and eating
honey every day. When
It 13 made on the place
it may be used more
freely and can take the
place of sugar in many
5
dishes, often being an improvement.
Honey Mouses. —Beat the yolks of
four eggs, then add one cupful of
strsJned honey. Heat gradually, stir
ring constantly until thick. Remove
from the fire to cool, then add the
stiffly beaten whites of the eggs, a
teaspoonful of almond extract and
one-half cupful of shredded almonds
with a pint of whipped cream. Mix
well, pack In ice and salt and freeze
without stirring.
Honey Muffins.—Sift two cupfuls of
flour with two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder and one-half teaspoonful of
salt. Rub In two tablespoonfuls of
butter, add two well-beaten eggs, two
thirds of a cupful of honey and five
tablespoonfuls of milk. Mix well and
pour into well-buttered pans, filling
half full and bake in a moderate oven.
Honey Breakfast Toast. —Beat one
egg, add an inch of salt, two table
spoonfuls of honey and one cupful of
milk. Dip half slices of stale bread
in this mixture and fry tn a little hot
fat. Serve with honey and butter.
Green Apple Soup.—Chop ten sour
apples without coring or paring and
cook in two quarts of water until a
smooth pulp. Strain, return th®
liquid to the kettle and thicken with
four tablespoonfuls of arrowroot
stirred to a paste with four table
spoonfuls of water; add to one-half
cupful of the apple pulp, then add to
the kettle, stirring until it has boiled
and cooked the starch in the arrow
root. Add a dash of white pepper
and two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Just
before serving add the juice of half a
lemon and garnish with lettuce in
small rounds and scattered over the
soup like confetti.
When lacking cream, the yolks of
fresh eggs beaten and added to milk
makes a good substance for cream in
coffee.
Bran Griddle Cakes. —To two cup
fuls of bran add four teaspoonfuls of
baking powder and one cupful of flour,
one egg and one-half teaspoonful of
salt. Mix well and pour Id enough
sweet milk or buttermilk to make a
thin butter. Bake quickly on a hot
griddle. Serve with butter and maple
sirup.
May we have the wit to discover
what la true and the fortitude to prac
tice what is good.
What we call Luck
Is simply Pluck,
And doing things over and over;
Courage and will
Perseverance and skill
Are the four leaves of Luck's Clover.
HELPFUL HINTS
To remove cakes from the pans, turn
each cake upside down as soon na It is
taken from ths
oven; cover the
bottom with a
wet cloth and
steam for a few
minutes. Then
run n knife
around the edge
and the cake will
come out easily.
Always keep a box of corks in the
kitchen to use when a cork breaks.
One is constantly adding to the col
lection. or It is possible to buy a few
of assorted sizes to start the collec
tion.
Corner shelves a few inches from
the flopr may be made to hold shoes.
This part of the closet space Is not
used and the shoes are always to be
fo»»nd In a hurry. To keep shoes In
gO\.J "hape, always put In the shoe
trees as you set them away.
Cream will whip very quickly if you
use five drops of glycerine to a pint of
cream. Added to chocolate when
dipping bon-bons it gives them h gloss. (
and they will harden more quickly.
Use an egg beater when making a
cooked salad dressing or a custard,
beating well while it Is cooking In the
double boiler. The dressing will be of
much smoother texture than if stirred
with a spoon.
When planting small seeds, put them
In a shaker wtth large holes. Tb<‘
seeds may then be scattered more
evenly.
White hoee that have become yellow
may be uyed any color to match a
gown, saving the price of a new pair.
The lids from lard cane and other
small cans can be enameled and de*'°-
rated in some simple border, making
nice little eooaters to use for serving
lemonade. Dip the cover tn the enamel;
it makes a better surface then using a
brush.
When preparing grape fruit for sa
lads, plunge it in boiling water, then
dip In cold; then the peeling will be
removed with ail the tough inner white
portion very easily.