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10 SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH AUGUST 18, 1923. LILIAN By Arnold Bennett (Copyright, 1923, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Lilian felt all the soft, cruel, un pposable force of Miss Grig's individuality. She vaguely and with inimical deference comprehended the secret of Mfss Grig's in business. Youth and beauty and charm, qualities so well appreciated by Felix, so rich in promise for liilian, were absolutely powerless against the armor of Miss Grig. And yet Lilian was not cast down.

On the contrary, she was quite uplifted and agreeably excited, and her brain was working on lines of which Miss Grig had absolutely no motion whatever. Miss Grig, obviously truthful, had said that she had tried to prevent her brother from coming to the office on the last night but one. Miss Grig had been ready enough to let X.illan stay till morning without a word. But Felix had told Lilian that he had come to the office to warn her at his sister's urgent request! Why had Felix lied? The answer clearly was that he had had a fancy to chat with Lilian alone, without Lilian's suspecting his fancy. And, in fact, he had with Lilian alone, and to eorae purpose.

The answer was that Felix was genuinely Interested in Lilian. Further, Miss Grig suspected this interest. Finally Miss Grig herself had confessed, perhaps unthinkingly, that Lilian was not without innu ential attributes. The phrase "espe tially for a girl like you" shone jn the girl's mind. To Lilian's practiced sense there was throughout the office an atmosphere of nervous disturbance.

She J'elt sure that before the end of the lay the electrical fluid would concentrate itself in one spot and then explode in a tense, violent, bitter nnd yet only murmured scene between two of the girls In the large oom unless, of course, she herself tind Millicent happened to get across one another. fiprtie Jackson came in. She was a tall, well made girl of 28, and she lield herself rather nicely. She was cheerful, and of an agreeable temper as placid as a bowl of milk, tshe loved her work, regarding it as of real importance, and she to be entirely without ambition. Lilian's attitude toward her senior colleague was in various respects critical.

In the first place the poor thing did not realize that she was growing old already approaching the precipice of thirty! In the second place, though possessed of a good figure and face, she did nothing with these great gifts. She had no desire to be agreeable; she was agreeable unconsciously, as a bird sings; there was jio merit in It. She was not uninterested in men; but she did not talk about them, she twittered about them. To Lilian, she had the soul of an infant. And she was too pure, too ingenuous, too kind, too conscientious; her nature lacked something Sundamental, andLillan felt but jould not describe what was cave by saying that she had no kick In either her body or her soul.

And now Gertie straightened herself, stuck her chest out bravely, according to habit, and smiled a most tfriendly greeting. Behind the smile 3ay concealed no resentment against Lilian for having failed to appear 1 1 mmnlnir OTIfl Tlt tin mo jjrcviuus 3 ii oral superiority aa a first class devotee of duty. What lay behind it, and not wholly concealed, was a grave sense of responsibility for the velfare of the business in circumstances difficult and complex. "Have you seen Miss Grig?" she asked solemnly. "Doesn't she look simply frightfully ill?" "She does," admitted Lilian, "she oughtn't to be here!" "No!" Gertie agreed.

"No! And in't iroins to be here either! Not it I know it! I shall see that she goes back home at lunchtime. Bhe's quarreled already with Mr. jrig Ing up." "Do you mean at home they quar teled?" "Yes. He got so angry that he eaid if she came he wouldn't But the came all the same." "Miss G. must have told Gertie all that herself." Lilian reflected.

"She'd never be as confidential with me." "We must do all we can to help Ihings," said Gertie. "Of course!" agreed Lilian. Nevertheless, Lilian appreciated profoundly the heroic madness of Miss G. in defying common sense and her brother for the sake of the beloved business. Gertie saw in Miss act nothing but a piece of naughty and sick foolishness.

But In contemplating Miss G. Lilian uneasily realized her own precarious ness. Miss G. was old and plain save that her eyes had beauty), and yet was fulfilling her great passion and was imposing herself on her environment. Miss G.

was doing. Lilian could only be; she would always remain at the mercy of someone, and the success which she desired could last probably no longer than her youth and beauty. The transcience of the gifts upon which she must depend (Tightened her but at the same time intensified anew her resolves. Ehe had not a moment to lose! IX Collapse The two girls had not settled to (cork when the door of the small room was pushed cautiously open fcnd Mr. Grig came in as it were by Health.

Evidently he was secreting himself from his sister. He shut the door, and in the intimacy of the room faced the two girls. "Is she in there?" he snapped. "Yes," they breathed. "Oh! Mr.

Brig, she ought never to have come out in her state!" "Well, it, of course she oughtn't!" retorted Mr. Grig. 'Didn't I do everything I could to keep her at "Oh! I know you did!" Gertie agreea. one ioia me. "Look here, one of you must go to her and tell her I'm waiting in a taxi downstairs to take her home, and that I shall stick in it till she gives way, even if I'm there all day.

You'd better do it, Miss Jackson!" "Yes, do, Gertie! You go," Lilian leconded the instruction. Then: "What's the matter. Gertie? What On earths the Mr. Grig stepped out of the room on tip toe. A Ion? time elapsed.

Then the floor of the principals' room opened and Lilian, discreetly peeping, saw the backs of Miss Grig and Gertie Jackson. They seemed to be sup fiorting each other in their progress oward the outer door. How had Bertie managed to beat the old fanatic? Alter a little pause she went to the window and looked at the pavement below. The taxi was there. Two foreshortened figures emerged Irom the building.

Mr. Grig emerged rom the taxi. Miss Grig Mas in Buced into the vehicle, and to Lutein's astonishment Gertie followed aer. Mr. Grig entered last.

At 3 o'clock she was summoned to the telephone. Mr. Grig was speaking from a call office: "Miss Jackson ill too, the doctor says," he announced grimly. "So she has to stay here, a nice handful for me. Tou'd bettter carry on.

I'll try to come up later. Miss Grig said something about some accounts I don't know." Lilian replied with soothing sympathy and allegiance, and went with dignity into the principals' room, now for the moment lawfully at her mercy. In the evenng Lilian, after a day's urgent toil, was saturated with bliss. She had dismissed the rest of the staff at the usual hour, firmly refusing to let anybody remain with her. Almost as a favor Millicent had been permitted to purchase a night's food for her.

Just as the clock of St. George's struck eight, it occurred to her that to be found by Mr. Grig in Miss Grig's place might amount to a grave failure in tact; and she removed all the essential paraphernalia to the small room. She was positive that he would come. She would hear the outer door open; she would hear his steps; and he would see her, falth i fully laboring all along for him.

For tnis hour sne naa maae a special toilette, with much attention to her magnificent hair. She looked spick and span and enchanting. Nor was she mistaken. Hardly had she arranged matters in her own room when the outer door did open, and she did hear his steps. The divine moment had arrived.

He appeared in the doorway of the room. He had a marvelous charm and his expression was less worried. He was almost too good to be true. She greeted him with a smile that combined sympathy and welcome, fidelity and womanly comprehension, the expert assistant and the beautiful young Eve. "I do hope you aren't thinking of staying, Mr.

Grig," she said next. "I'm not going to say. Neither are you," replied Mr. Grig curtly. "We'll shut the place up." "But we're supposed to be always open! Supposing some work does come in! It always does Tears came into Lilian's eyes.

She had expected him, in answer to her appeal to him to depart, to insist on staying with her. She had been waiting for heaven to unfold. And now he had decided to break the sacred tradition and close the office. She could not master her tears. "Don't worry," he said in tones charged with tenderness.

"You've been splendid. But I had to promise Isabel I'd shut the office tonight. She's in a very bad state and I did it to soothe her. You she hates me to be here at nights thinks I'm not strong enough for It." "That's not her reason to night," said Lilian to herself. "I know her reason to night well enough!" But she gave Mr.

Grig a look grateful for his exquisite compas sion, which had raised him in her sight to primacy among men. On the way to the Dover street tube she did not once glance behind her to see if he was following. Great Joy A fortnight passed. The two patients were getting on well. Mr.

Grig's attendance grew more regular, but he did little except keep the books and make out the bills; in which matter he displayed a facility that amazed Lilian, who really Was not a bit arithmetical. One day, entering the large room after hours, Lilian saw Millicent typing on a machine not her own. As she passed she read the words: "My darling Gertie. I simply can't tell you how glad I was to get your lovely letter." And it flashed across her that Millicent would relate all the office doings to Gertie, who would relate them to Miss Grig. She had a spasm of fear, divining that Millicent would misrepresent her.

In what phrases had Millicent told that' Lilian had sat In Miss Grigg's chair. Was it not strange that Gertie had not written to her, Lilian, nor she even thought of writing to Gertie? Too late now for her to write to Gertie! A few days later Mr. Grig said to Lilian in the small room: "You're very crowded here, aren't you Two new girls had been put into the small room, being of a superior sort and not fitted to join the rabble. "Oh, no!" said Lilian. "We're quite comfortable, thank you." "You don't seem to be very comfortable.

It occurs to me it would be better in every way if you brought your machine into my room." An impulse, and an error of judgment, on Felix's part! But he was always capricious. "I should prefer to stay where I am," Lilian answered, not smiling. What a letter Millicent would have written in order to describe Lilian's promotion to the principals' roohi! Often, having made a mistake, Felix would persist in it from obstinacy. "Oh! As you like!" he muttered huffily, instead of recognizing by his tone that Lilian was right. But the next moment he repeated, very softly and kindly: "As you like! It's for you to decide." He has not once shown the least appreciation of, or gratitude for, Lilian's zeal.

On the contrary, he had been, in the main, querulous and censorious. But she did not mind. She was richly rewarded by a single benevolent inflection of that stirring voice. She seemed to have forgotten that she was born for pleasure, luxury, empire. Work fully satisfied her, but it was work for him.

The mere suggestion that she should sit in his room filled her with deep joy. In to morrow's instalment Lilian suffers a loss and finds a consoler. VALLEY RAILWAYS WILL NOT ERECT TERMINAL IN CITY Lemoyne, Aug. 18. A report that the Valley Railway Company had planned to go ahead with the construction of a terminal for cars of the West Shore and Cumberland Valley divisions in Walnut street.

Harrisburg, was flatly denied by C. H. Bishop president of the company to day. The report has been general since the Dauphin county court declared an ordinance of the city council barring the cross river cars from the square valid. Mr.

Bishop said he did not know of any plan to go ahead with the terminal and that nothing would be done at this time, the company not having sufficient funds for this work at nrMant. L. TWO TICKETS emch re awarded ttie two dJly Pithy Prpaph winners, bi dditipn 5 "'a 1 nitde. Any reader of the Harrisburg Telegraph la eligible. The ticket award ia made possible through the klndneas of WUmer vinpent.

hlch allows the winners to aelect tickets lor either the Colonial or victoria theaters. Winners are announced daily and will receive their tickets upon presentation of the announcement to the Business Manager of the Harrisburg Telegraph. The cash award will be announced each Sat arday night. To day's winners are: G. B.

of N. and Annie H. IX THE BOOK Little Luther (reading his story book): "Aunt Helen, you must be awful wicked." "Why?" frowned his relative. "Because it says here, 'The good die KATHLEEN, Pen brook. WET AND DRY Here's to you as "wet" as you are; Here's to me as "dry" as I am, But as "dry" as I am and as "wet" aa you are, I'm as "wet" as you are as "dry" as I am.

SAM. BEARS BURDEX Mall Carrier: "No man suffers more on account of other people's bills than Friend "How's Mail Carrier: "Daily I bear the burden of them all." MRS. J. T. DUNFEE, 1515 Green street.

JUST REFRAINS "Does you still refuse, sah, to pay me dem $2.00 ah done loaned you de Lawd only knows when?" "Nussah!" dignifledly replied BrotherBogue, "Ah doesn't refuse. Ah jes' refrains." M. A. Pen brook. NOT HIS FAULT Long: "Did you give him the high sign?" Short: "Well, I did the best I could." TILLIE, THE TOILER.

THE CUSTOMER An agent going into a drug store one day, to the little boy clerk said: "Buddie, who does the buying?" The Boy: "The customers." JOHN I. PRIGG. 20 South Sixteenth street. Hot amv Ats him I kjUQJJJXIS When Vo' A Money am Hold op r'' Friend Al: Well Al it is all off as it tome oat in the papers this A. M.

that I was marred the day I beat Washington and if I could fine ont who gie nie away I would knock them for a corps and I hate to (o over to the ball pk. as Gleason will kill nte for put. tine it over on him and maybe ask for wafers on me and that would be a fine thing to get sold to some'minor league ith a new bribe on my hands. Jack Keefe By Ring Ltrdnef TO. MRS.

TO UMV eBACH TO PKHO OUR I CO VACATION By H.J. Tuthill 'T 1 AMO IT THs NBARS, V01TH GLASS JUST LAZY "Doctor, if there's anything the matter with me, don't frighten me to death by giving it a long scientific name. Just tell me what it is in Plain English." "Well, sir, to be frank, you are iazy. "Thank you," doctor. "Now, tell me the scientific name for it; I've got to report to the missus." MRS.

WM. ARTHUR GREY, Camp Hill. DAZZLING TIES Friend Neighbor: "Such vivid neckties your husband wears They're simply dazzling." Mrs. Styles: "Yes, his idea seems to be best be the tie that blinds." M. A.

Enhaut. CALL IT RIGHT Teacher: "Jim, who was it never mm a lie New Scholar: "The man who always told the truth." Teacher: "For goodness sake what school did you come from." Jim: "The one before I came here." G. of N. F. MORE EXPLICIT PLEASE A Londoner looking overe a country estate was startled by a peculiar screeching noise.

"I say, old fellow," he asked the agent, "What was that?" "An owl," replied the agent. "Oh, dear me, my dear man I knew that but what was 'owling?" MRS. D. Highpsire. RELIEVED A man living in San Francisco, received a telegram, collect, from a friend in New York.

After paying the money he opened it. It read: "I am enjoying perfect health." After reading it he got a large hat box and Ailing it with bricks, sent It by express. C. O. to the TO Js Leases I USCO TO THBRE WHEN WA MOfU EKCUOS1VE PO k.T FSM HEAft, OVftftttON THS MlOOlCr WS.

2 New Yorker. In It was a note ran as follows: "This is the load that feu oft my heart when I received your telegram." R. C. Reser voir. JUST A HINT Jack: "What your favorite tree.

Miss Dora?" Dora (as the clock struck 12): "The Maple. You know it leaves early." SAM. PARADISE FOR HIM Facetious Traveler fpoklng his head out of the window) place is this?" Native (leaning against the depot): "Paradise, suh." Facetious Traveler: "It Is eh? Well, this is how far from where?" Native: "Half a mile from the distillery, suh." A. REESE. 1525 Fulton street.

HEAD NOISES Boy: "The first dally newspaper oi records seems to nave been run by Julius Caesar in Rome, about 59 B. Girl: "He must have been a good editor. Mamma: "Yes, his name is in the daily newspapers every day; only last evening I told father they should get him to come to West Fairview to talk with the children." BOX 83, West Fairview. MISTAKEN IDENTITY "I wouldn't drink out of that cup," said little Willie to the well dressed young visitor; "that's Lizzie's cup, and she very particular who drinks out of it." "Ah," said the young man, as he drained the cup dry, "I feel honored to drink out of Lizzie's cup. Lizzie is your youngest sister, isn't she?" "Not much.

Lizzie is my dog." M. E. T. THERE'S A REASON "Hey, where you groin', Bill?" "Sh I heard they found a quart three thousand years old in King Tut's tomb." ALBERT SUTCH. UNAPPRECIATED ADVICE A wealthy motorist, while traveling through a Mississippi town, approached a gasoline station only to find the tender a lazy country boy.

were, Doy, said the motorist, "I want some gasoline. And get a 6AUMV 8SAOH 62. MOON MULJUNS Just one of Moon's hobbies V4CLL.60Y, I see vou PUT IT OVER ON Ml OA AT TUB WB' Q01NS SANfTA QLAOe AT IMS SAMS TIMS 'cause we ain't got a drop o' gas in the place." SAMUEL B. CURRAN. Camp Hill.

DREAM Hiram: "I dreamed I owned a fine automobile." Jake: "You must have had a horseless nightmare." TILLIE THE TOILER, 1923 Moltke street. COW'S SKIN USE Teacher: "Who can tell me what a cow's skin Is used for?" Sammy: "I can, teacher. It's used to keep the cow's meat in." EDGAR BRANYAN. Overview. DIFFERENT LANGUAGES "My brother has taken up, French, uerman and Spanish.

"My goodness! Where does he Study?" "He runs an elevator." ANNIE WHAT'S IN A NAME Miss Simpson: "And Is your charming daughter convent bred?" Irate father (in receipt of bills): "No, college loaf!" C. H. B. RECIPROCATE M. "I paid $10 a few days ago to eliminate the knocking in my machine; now It's just as bad as ever." Mechanic: "Doctor, I may say the same of my rheumatism, which you treated.

So we might call it square. CHARLES B. THAT SAVING NAIL The nego sexton of a little church in the South got up on the roof and replaced some broken shingles. He didn't like to acknowledge that the steep slant of the roof alarmed him, so he climbed up toward the broken spot. A passerby called out: "Hello Sam!" Looks like its ticklish work for you cllmbin' toward heaven!" Sam relaxed his caution for an instant, and started to slide down the roof! Loud and fervently he was heard to cry: "Oh, Lawd! Save dis niggah! Lawd Lawd, save dis nig nebber mine.

Lawd! My Dritcnes done kotched on a nail!" ROSCO Highpsire Vou'LL ftSK FOR 3 41 Ml NSS. QA5 QVIB IT VJVTW INt ,1 COTTON vjuunnie YIvXin Tr. Of AR voO T5AiSMG This "TCRil3t.e move on you. You'll never get anywhere in the world unless you push. Push Is essential.

When I was young, I pushed and that got me where I am." "Well, governor," replied the boy, "I reckon you'll have to push again. IHINK Ate I FeR6oT7 A'. STRAIGHT TlfSE, PAP! CAtB A FTONTBP in STAftreo To CRV Harp? HOUSEHOLD HINTS By MRS. MENU HINT Breakfast Steamed Apples Rolled Oats Omelet Toast, Butter Coffee Luncheon Escalloped Cheese Carrot Salad Baking Powder Biscuit Prune Whip Oatmeal Drops Tea Milk Dinner Baked Chops with Bread Dressing and Potatoes Lettuce with Mayonnaise Bread and Butter Raspberry Custard Pie The menu for breakfast gives a well balanced meal. The apples give vitamines, cereal and toast starch, and the omelet gives the desired protein.

For luncheon the cheese is the protein; carrot salad, vitamines; biscuit and oat meal drops, carbohydrates; prune whip. protein and vitamines. For dinner the meat gives us protein; the potatoes and dressing are carbohydrates; the salad, vitamines and the pie both starch and vitamines. TODAY'S RECEIPTS. Escalloped Cheese Take three slices of bread, break into small pieces, butter a baking dish; place a layer of bread crumbs, then a layer of grated cheese, salt and pepper to taste, having a layer of Dreaa crumbs on top.

One eighth pound cheese is sufficient for the above amount. Mix one well beaten egg with a cup and a half of milk cur over bread and cheese. Bake in hot oven. Baked Chops Prepare plain bread dressing as follows: Remove crust from one half loaf of baker's bread, slice and pick in small bits, season witn salt, pepper and saee Melt two tablespoons butter in one ouarter cup hot water and add gradually to bread mixture, mixing well. Add one beaten egg.

Into a deep baking dish, well buttered, slice as many potatoes as desired JW" r.v Mb nil' Si PICK. I EFFECT MORTON add sliced onions, season. Cover with bread dressing and lay sea soned pork cnops on top. Add one half pint water and bake until potatoes are done. Raspberry Pie One pint rasp berries, yolks of three eggs, one large cup sugar, one heaping tablespoon corn starch, one half cup of milk, stir together yolks of eggs, sugar, corn starch and milk; then empty raspberries into mixture and sur an logeiner.

four into pie shell and bake. When done, beat whites of eggs, sweeten to taste, spread on top and return to oven to brown. This makes two pies. Any desired fruit or berries could be substituted for the raspberries. CAKE FILLINGS Caramel Filling Use brown sugar Instead of white, or add two tablespoons caramel syrup.

Cocoanut One third cup fresh or grated cocoanut added when taken from fire. Chop Suey One fourth cup each, of raisins, nuts and cocoanut. Chacolate One fourth cup of ground chocolate or one square of melted chocolate. Date or Fig One fourth cup of! chopped dates or figs. Jam Add two tablespoons jam to filling.

1 Lady Baltimore Five figs, one cup chopped pecans, one cup raisins. Cut. Nut One third cup chopped nuts. Orange Two tablespoons of finely chopped candied orange peel. Pineapple Use three tablespoons of pineapple Juice instead of water.

Praline One half cup finely chopped, cooked or steamed prunes. Prune Almond One half cup of finely chopped cooked prunes and one third cup blanched, chopped almonds. IRISH LACE POPULAR New York. The rejuvenated popularity of Irish lace, this trimming is being extensively used to day on lingerie. Sheer white bastiste is almost loaded down with Irish lace insertion, medallions and edging.

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