THE

REAL ADVENTURE By HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER

Copyright 1816. Bobts-UerriH Co.

ROSE STANTON ALDRICH MAKES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR HERSELF DURING REHEARSALS OF THE MUSICAL COMEDY IN WHICH SHE IS TO BE A CHORUS GIRL AND FINDS HAPPINESS

Synop*!*.—Rom Stanton, of modtrate ctrcum*ULn<*« nurrlea wealthy BMncy Aldrich, cn abort acquaintance, and for more than a year Urea In Idlencaa and luxury In Chicago. The life pull, on her the longa to do something useful, but decide, that motherhood will be a big enough Job. She ha. twin*, however, and they are put Into the care of a professional nurse. Ko*? again becomes intensely dlMatistied with Idlenesa. so over the violent protest of her doting husband she disappears Into the bulneM world to make good on her own Initiative, gets a Job In the chorus of a musical comedy In rehearsal and Uvea under nn nsiumed name In a cheap rooming house. She Is well liked by the .how producer because of her Intelligent efforts and he commlsher to help costume the chorus. Her fashionable friends think she has gone to Chllfornln on a long visit.

CHAPTER XVII,—Continued. j She found the other girls on the

— 12 — Potot of departure. But Edna offered lt«*e. arriving promptly at the hour | to wait for her.

agreed upon, had a wait of fifteen minutes before any of her slsti tb- sextette or Mrs. Goldsmith arrived. “1 don't want anything Just now." she told the saleswoman. Nh. hadn't. In these few weeks of Clark sirect. lost her air of one “who will buy If she sees anything worth buying. In fact tha saleswoman thought, ‘•’trectly. that she knew her. and .bowed her the few really smart thlugs they had in the store—a Poiret evening cwu. o couple of afternoon frocks from Jennie. There wasn't much, she admitted, it being Just between

The rest of the sextette arrived In I air and a trio. One of them cqoealed "Hello. Dane!" The saleswoman was >h«rk«-d on seeing Bose nod an ackniwledgaaot of this greeting, and - about that time they heard Mrs. G-il-lsnilth explaining who she was and tb. naturs of her errand to the man-

Bg>*r.

The sort of gowns she pres illy beg : • I ittlmlng over with delight, and ordering put info the b«.p of posab blluies. were horrible enough to have drawn a protest from the wax figures t the windows. The more completely tl - ' uudamental lines of a frock were dvgulsed with sartorial scroll-saw “'■rk. the more successful this lady felt It to be. An ornament, to Mrs. G'HdwjIth, did not lire up to Its possibilities. nnleas.lt In turn -ere decorated with ornaments of Its own; Ilk.* the fleas on the fleas of the dog. Bose spent a miserable half-hour worrying ove' these selections of the «.fr of the principal owne*- of the «huw. feeling she ought to put up Nome sort of fight and hardly deterred by the patent futility of such a course. All the while she kept one eye on «h ■ door and prayed for the arrival of

John Galbraith.

H.- came In Just as Mrs. Goldsmith tmieiied her task—Just when, by a I'r.- eM 0 f atudious elimination, every I —able tnlng in the store had been oi'Yiirded end the twelve moot utterly hopeless ones—two for each girl—is Id ■ vide fne purchase. The girts were d‘-patched to put on the evening frocks ,: '*t. and were then paraded before

th • director.

He u diplomat and he was quick hl» feet. Rose, watching his face ' y closely, thought thst for Just a "I'' 11 "“fund ah# caught a gleam of Ineffnble horror. But It was gone so kly ahe rould almost have believed jt she had been mistaken. He didn’t - v much about the costumes, but be •a'd It so promptly and adequately thM Mrs. Goldsmith beamed with pride. S! -‘ ^Qt the girls away to put on the !! ‘*-r set—the afternoon frocks; and • more the director's approbation, ish laconic, was one hundred per

vimt pure.

"Tliat'a all." be said In sudden dls*«il of ths sextette “Rehearsal at • -U thirty." 1 of them scurried like children «>ut of school around behind the set vnu-ns that made an externporane'liesstng looni. and began chang10 0 mad scramble, hoping to get ‘•'"J and to get their dinners esttn ' enough to enable them to see the b iH at a movie show before the 4 ' tdug-a rehearsal. Hut Ruse remained banging about. **uple of paces sway from where ■bralth was talking to Mrs. Gold ,h The only question that remained. he was telling her. was wbeth- ! '" r 'vlertlocu were not too—weU. : effned. genteel, one might say. for

stage.

Me waaut looking at her as he ■—d. and presently, as his gnse wan- , sbont the store. It encountered * fac '‘- She hadn't prepared It 'he .-tiixmnter. and H wore, hardly : a of huriorous apprecUHu sentence broke, then comit^lf. She turned away, but u, * tT ‘■•omeut he called out to her; j-re waiting to aee me. I»an*r 1 '1 like to speak to yon a mlnnte." ' wil l “when yon have time" A' 1 right. Go and change your ,0 * Its aald

'No. you run along." Rose aald. “I've some errands, and I don't feel like Ing a movie tonight, anyway." Edna looked a little odd shout it. but hurried along after the others. A saleswoman—the same one the manager had assigned to Hose, under the misconception which that smart French ulster of hors had created when she came Into the store—now cami around behind the screen to gather up the frocks the girls had shed. “Will yon please bring me." aald Bose, “the Poiret model yon showed me before the others came In? try it on.” The saleswoman's manner was different now. and she grumbled sot thing ebont Its being closing time. "Then. If you'll bring It at once .. said Rose. And ths saleswomar went on the errand. Five minutes later. Galbraith, from staring gloomily at the mournful heap of trouble Mrs. Goldsmith had left on his hands, looked np to confront a virion that made him gasp. “I wanted you to aee If you liked this," Bold Rose. If I like It r he echoed. “Look here! If yon knew enough to pick things like that, why did you let thst woman waste everybody's time with Juu» tike OUsT Why didn’t you help ter out?" “I couldn't have done much." Rose said, “even If mr offering to do anything hadn't made her angry—and I think It would have. Ton see. she's got lots of taste, only It's bad. She wasn't bewildered a bit. She knew Just what she wanted, and she got it. It's the badness of these things she likes. And I thought . . She hesitated a little over this ... “I thonght Out It would be easier to throw them all out and get a fresh

start."

He stared at her with a frown of curiosity. “That's good sense.’ said. “But why shonld you bother to think of Itr Her color came np perceptibly as she answered. “Why—I want the piece to succeed, of course . . Rose turned rather suddenly to the sales woman. “I l»h yeu'd get that little Empire frock In maize and cornflower." ahe said. "Pd Uke Mr. Galbraith to see that. And the saleswoman, now placate.:. bustled away. This thing tha: I've got on," aald Hose swiftly, "costs a hundred and fifty dollars, but I know I can copy It for twenty. I can't get the materia exactly, of course, but I can come near enough." "Will you try this one on. miss?" asked the saleswoman, coming on the scene again with the frock she had been sent for. “No." said Rose. "Just hold It up.' Galbraith admitted It was beautiful, but wasn't overwhelmed at nil as he had been by the other. It's not quite so much your style. Is It? Not drive enough?" ‘It Isn't for me." said Rose. “It's for Edna Larson to wear In 'Jut •AM Alone' number for the sextette.* Galbraith stared at her u moment. Then. “Put oa yonr street things," he said brusquely. “I’ll wait."

K^sd of ^ ‘ r * V ‘" t ^ loss and we can *£ e°oSn k Z St!- m . 1,07 lh0 - th * t Ooldamith picked Vince *° f 00 ’ cat ' or oth * r » ^ will do as well, at

l r I think that saving will be ns they walked d»wn the east side ..f doci.rive with them."

V* -U»l Wr I—»- -But So too knew . co«mn,rr

don't look well on the stager "Probably not." be said. “No. she

wont be convinced, and If I know Goldsmlih, hell say his wile's taste U good enough for him. So If ws want a

change, we've a fight on our hands." The way he had unconsciously Phrased that sentence startled him

little.

The question la" he went o_ “Whether they're worth making a fight about. Are they as bad as I thin* they areT' “Ob. yes." said Rose. “They’re dody and fourth-class and ridlcnloos. i course I don't know how many people In the audience would know that." 'And 1 don't care." said John Galbraith. with a flash of Intensity that made her look around at him. “That s not a consideration I'll give any weight to. When I put a production under name. It's the best I can make w.th what I've got. When I have to tali* a cynical view and try to get by with bad work because most of the people out In front won’t know the dllfeivcc,-. Ill go out to my little farm oa Long Wand and raise garden truck." There was another momentary silence. for the girl made no comment at all on this statement of his credo. But he felt sure, somehow, that she t-nderstoud It. and presently he went on speaking. "Would it be possible, do you think, to get better gowns that wotud a.-o be cheaper? That argument would bring Coldsnflth around In a hurry. It's ridiculous, of course, but that's 'he trouble with making a production for amateurs. Ton spend more time fighting them than yon do producing the

show."

T don't believe," aald Rose, “that yon could get better ready-made costumes a lot cheaper. the two or three we might be abl- to find wouldn't help us much." 'And I suppose.” he said dubiously. 'It's ont of the question getting them any other way than reedy made; that Is, and cheaper, too.” The only sign of exdtemaot was In the g' rl's voP-e when she an-

CHA°TER XVII1.

A Business Proposition.

Bossing around In the back of John Galbraith’s mlad was an unworded protest against tho way H.wo bad Juat killed her own beauty, with a thick white veil. So nearly opaque that all It let him see of her fa- e was an Intermittent gleam of her ryes. The buU ueis between them was over, and all she was waiting f-*r was a word

well and go swinging sway down tbo avenue. Still be didn't apeak, and ahe moved a little restlessly. At last: "Do you mind crossing the street?" he asked abruptly. “Then we can talk as we walk along." She must have hesitated, because he added. "It's ton

cold to stand here."

"Of course." she aald then. All that

I made bar hesitate was her sur- i picked o

swered. was a tort of exaggerated mat-ter-of-factneaa. T could design the costrmve and p. V nr; ths materials.' she said, “but ws'ii have to get a good sewing woman—perhaps more than one—to get them done." He wasn't greatly surprised. Perhaps the notion that she might suggest something of the sort was respou-.M*-for the tentative, dubious way in which be bad said he supi>osed It couldn't be done. “You've had—experience In designg gowns, have you?" Galbraith asked. "Only for myself." ahe admitted. "Uui 1 know I can do that part of It. Pm not good a: sew log. though"—she retorted to the other part of the plan. ''d bate to bare somebody awfully good, wbo'd do exactly what I told

IT."

"•Fh. that can be managed." he said a l.'tie absently, and at the end of a all.nee which lasted while they walked a whole block ; T was Just figuring out way to work It." be aald. exjdalnlng hta silence. "I shall tell Goldsmith and Mock (Block was tb# Junior partner in the enterprise) that I’ve got bold of a costumer who agrree to dellsrr twelve costumes satisfactory to me. at an average of. say. twenty p,r cent Mrs. Goldsmith

IX Ihsy aren't saUafaetory.

Bom* asked. "Ton'r# ths costumer." said Galbraith. "To* design the costumes, buy the fabrics, superintend the making of them. As for the woman yon speak of. well get the wardrobe mistress st the Globa. I happen to know she’s competent, and she’s at a loose end Jnst now. because her abow is closing when ours opens. You'll boy the fabrics and you’ll pay her. And what profit yon can maks ont of the deal, you're entitled to. HI finance yon myself. If they won't take what we show them, why. you’ll be out yonr time and trouble, and PH be out the price of materials and the woman's labor." “I don't think It would be fair." she said, and she found difficulty In speaking at all because of a sudden disposition of her teeth to chatter—T don't think It would be fair for me to take all the profit and yon take all the

risk."

"WeU. I can't take any profit that's clear enough." he said; and she noticed now a tinge of amusement In his voice. “You see Pm retained—body and soul—to put this production over. I can't make money out of those fellows on the side. Bat you're not retained. You're employed as a member of the chorus. And. so far. you're not even paid for the work you're doing. So long as you work to my satisfaction there on the stage, nothing more can be asked of you. As for the risk. I don’t believe It’s serious. I don’t think yon’U faU down on the Job. and I don't believe Goldsm'th and Block will throw away a chance to save some

money."

And then he pressed her for an Immediate decision. The Job would be a good deal of a scramble at beat, as the time was short. They had reached the Randolph street sod of the avenue, and a policemen, like Motes cleaving the Bed ssa. had opened a way through the tide of motors for a throng of pe-

destrians.

“Come across here." said Galbraith, taking her by the arm and atemmltig this cutrent w"S her. “We've got to bare a minute of shelter to finish this up in." and he led her Into the north lobby of the pnbUc library. The st..le. baked air of tha place almost made them gasp. Rot. anyway. It was quiet and altogether deserted. They could hear themselves think In there, be said, and led ths way to a marble bench alongside the staircase. Bose unpinned her veil and. to his surprise, because of course she was going In a minute, put It Into her Ulster pocket. But, curiously enough, the sight of her fact only Intensified an Impression that had been strong upon him during tLs last part of their walk —the Impression that she was a long way off. It wasn't the familiar contemplative brown study, eitbir. There was an actlvj. eager excitement about It that made It more beautiful than he bad ever seen it before. But It was as if she we-e looking at something he couldn't see—listening to words he couldn't hear. "WeU." he said a little Impatiently, ‘are you going to do It?" And at that the glow of her wa* turned fairly upon him. "Yea." ahe aald. “I'm going to do it. I suppose I mustn't thank you." she went on. "b<- I cause you say It Isn't anything you're doing for me. But It 1»—a great thing for me—greater—than I could tell you And I won’t fall. Yon needn't be

afraid."

He counted out a hundred and twenty dollars, which he handed over to h t. She folded It and put It away In her srrislbsg. The glow of her hadn' faded, but once more It eras turned on something—or someom until he rose a Uttle abruptly from the marble bench that ahe roused herself with a shake of the head, arose too. and once more faced him. 'You're right about our having hurry." ahe aald, and before be could find the first of the words be wanted, she bad given him that curt farewell nod which from the first had stirred warmed him. and turned away toward the door. And she had never seen what was fairly shining In bis face. Sbe cooldnt. of course, have missed a thing as plain as that but for a com plete preoccupation of thought and feeling that would have left he' oblivious to almost an) thing that could happen to her. The flaming vortex of thoughts, hopes, deal res which enveloped her was so Intense as almost to evoke a of the physical presence of the .•object of them—--f that big. powerfulI'.nded, cleen-soul.il husband of hers w bo loved her so rapturously, and who had driven her away from him bccau»c

rted association of him with It. That all thonghta and memories of him must necessarily be painful, she had

taken for granted.

But with this sudden lighting np of hope, she flung the closed d-wr wide I and celled her husband back Into her I thoughts. This hard thing that she i was going to do—this thing that meant sleepless nights, and feverishly active days—was an expression simply of

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nominal. oru—Spot.

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her love for him—s sacrificial offering 1? *?'*• N° * mixed. 12.41 H both c I f

to be laid before the shrine of him " ** ' or *'

In her heart.

Yet. the fact that Rose's heart was raring and her nerves we.e tingling with a newly welcomed sense of her

lover's spiritual presence, did not prevent her flying along west on Randolph street and south again on the west side of State, with a very dearly visualized purpose. Half an hour later she hailed a passing cab and deposited In It one dr.ssmsklng form, a huge bundle of paper cambric—In black, white and washedi ut blue, and her own weary but still exrtted and

exultant self.

It was after eight o'clock when she reached her room Rehearsal wss at eight-thirty and she had had nothing to eat since noon. Bnt she stole the time, nevertheless, to tear the wrappings off her “form" and gaze on Sts respectable nakedness for two or three minutes with a contemplative eye. Then, reluctantly—It was the first

time she had left that room with re : ard white. SlfiSlt, No. 3 white. SO© Inctacc*—she turned ont the light and 96 H: No. 4 white. <i9&<>9>4

York.

Oats—Spot, quiet; standard, SOtfcu. Butter 'ro ornery, higher

exlrmj - ♦O'wOtlc; creamery extras (92 score). 40; firsts. 3S©39M; sec-

onds. 37 V 838 V

EkR»—Fresh-gathered, extras. 39© 40c; extra firsts. 376?*: Brau? 34© 36; seconds. 30©33; State. PeanayW vanla and nearby Western hennaty white* .fine to fancy. 47©4S Stmts, Pennsylvania and nearb> hennaiy

browns. 40©44

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tions are omitted

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hurried off to the little lunch room that lay on the way to the dance hall.

It was daring that first rehearsal,

which she so narrowly missed being late for. that she got the general schemes for both sets of costumes. She began studying the girls for thrir Individual peculiarities of style. Each one of the costumes she made was go-

ing to be for a particular girl. At last when a shout from Gal-

braith aronaed her to the fact that She had missed an entrance cue altogether, In her entranced absorption In these visions of hers, and had caused that unpardonable thing, a atage wait, she resolutely damped down the lid upc- her Imagination and. until they >*re dismissed, devoted herself to the

rehearsal.

Bnt the pressure kept mounting higher and higher, and she found herself furiously Impatient to get away, back to her own private wonderland, the squalid little room down the street, that had three bolts of cambric In It and a drev-ma’ier's manne-

Rut'er — Solid - packed creamery, fancy, special. 42c; extras. 41 642; exirs flr»t«. 40; first*. 39; seconds, 36; nearby prints, fancy. 45. do second*. 39660: special brand* of prints weir average extra. 43644; do. flreta. 41842: do. Jobbing at 48831. Eggs — Nearby firsts. $11.10 per standard rase; nearby current receipt*. $10.80 per ra>-; do. seconds, $9 456 9.75 I*er case; Western firsts. $11.10 per case; do. Unit*. $10.80 per case; do. second*. $9.45 09.75 per case; fancy. selected. carefully candled egg* wen- jobbing at 45 6 46

per dozen.

Cheese — N. w York, full cream.* fancy, new. 22He; specials, higher, do. choice, n.-w. 21V022; do. fair to

good. new. 216 21H-

Live Poultry—Fowls, as to size and quality. 21623c; roosters. 16617; spring chicken*, no. I^-gboms. plump, yellow-skinned, weighing IV©2 lbs apiece. 26617: smaller size*. 24©2S; Leghorn*. 20624: ducks. Peking. 19; do. Indian Runner. 17618; pigeons.

quin—the raw materials for her magic! old. per pair. 2562*: do do, y oung.

Rose couldn’t draw a bit She j per pair. 20622. hadn't the faintest Impulse to make a

beginning by patting a picture down BALTIMORE. — Wheat — Contract on paper and making a dress from It opened quiet and steady; No. 2 red afterward. She couldn't hav. told Jnst ! *oft spot. $2.25: August No. 2 red soft,

why she had bought those three shade* ; *2 20

of paper cambric. Corn—Cob corn, nearby yellow, on What the had felt of course, at the •P ot - at 810 75011 barrel Spot mixed

very outset was the need of something | con >- * : so

to Indicate, ronghly. the darks and , Oat* — Standard white. 911,092c;

light* In her design. And. short of the Na 3 white. 916 91V.

wild extravagance of alashlng into the Egg*—Mary land. Pennsylvania and fabric* themselves and making bet i nearby first*. 33c; Western firsts, 32 mistakes at their expense, she could 633. West Virginia first.-. 32 6 33;

think of nothing better than the I Southern firsts. 31632

scheme she chose. Live Poultry—Chickens—Old hens. Rehearsal was dismissed a Httle « i bs and over. 22c: do. do .mall to early that night, and she was back In - medium. 21; do. do. white leghorn* her room by eleven. Arrived there. old roosters. 12613; spring. 2 lb. she took off her outer clothes, sat ov ^ r . :9; d o. 1*02 lbs. 27©2|; own cross-legged on the floor, oud d o. smaller, a. to site. 25 6 26. do rat to work. whtt ,. p-jeks— When at last with a little sigh, and young Peking*. 3 lbs -nd over 23treraulously smiling acknowledge do . puddle, do. do. 21. old mu-covy‘ meat of fatigue, abe got np and looked ; j 0i do _ :i; d o. smaller. 1S019 old.'

at her watch. It was four o'clock In iggig the morning. She'd had one of those experiences of which every artist can

remember a few In hit life, when it 1* Impossible for anything to go wrong: when the vision miraculously better* Itself In the execution: when the only difficulty Is that which the hands have In the purelv mechanical operation of

keeping up.

Potatoes—Good potatoes quoted at 82.25 6 2-50 per barrel on the wharves.

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Thera come* Into Roae'a Ilf* a new crtala which means mere hard Wwric and much worry. The next installmen: covert important developments In the story.

•TO BE CONTINUE!

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Luminous Eyes.

Cats among mamma!*, and owls among bird*, says W. H. Hudson in his

1-ookTdle Days In Patagonia." are the nnd butcher*'. $15,400 M. light. $14.78

most highly favored of any creature* 015.75: pigs. $8016

In tha matter of luminous eyes. "The Cattle-Prime fed steer*. $13©12.7S;

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been complete.—Outlook.

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that rapture was the only thing he U one of the most dlsUuwould share with her. guished landscape gardener* of her sex Since ahe had left hli bouse and m ;br country, and she ha* done no begun 'his new life of her*, ahe h id table work In laudscais- effect* for the as beet ahe could, been fighting him ; Wellesley ground*, far several groat out of her thoughts altogether. She . i-states in Chicago and also In gnwter bad shrunk from anything that our*. Uuston.

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