Her Father's Daughter

ild is lovin

child must work

y as she entered the kitc

urday? And a devilish piece of luck it was, for I have been hustling ever since. It's bad enough to have been

as always, turned a

e canyon ye're having today? Shall I be ready to be cooking up one

up a warn

t you be forgetting yourself and saying anything lik

your pa had ever gone through with, that was the worst, but that last mess ye worked out w

itchen in a wild war dance. Her gayest laugh

eral things, Katy. First, anything you need about the house. Next, I am going to empty the billiard room and sell some of the excess furniture of the library, and with the returns I am going to buy me a rug and a table and some tools to work with, so I won't have to clutter up my b

as bragged to me behind your back what a fine little driver he was making of ye. I don't know a girl of your age anywhere that has less enjoyment than ye. If it would be giving ye any happiness to be

uth is, Katy, that you can't drive very slowly. You have got to go the speed for which it was built. But I have had my training. I won't forget. I adore that car, Katy, and I don't know how I have ever kept my fingers off it this long. Today it gets a bath and a facial tre

. "Ye're planning to speed that thin

y. I feel in my bones that I shall have enough money by night to get

ould just be tickled to pieces

ss Katy's lips and gathe

a male biped is coming to this house, and he's not coming to see Eileen. His name is Donald Whiting, and when he tells you it is, and stands very straight and takes off his hat, and looks you in the eye and says, 'Calling on Miss Linda Strong,' walk him into the living room, Katy, and seat him i

Katy; and then she stopped and shut her lips tigh

h, and if that isn't sufficient, I may possibly figure up some way to do some extra work that will bring me a few honest pennies, so I can fuss up eno

dry and hard, she gave it a bath of olive oil and wiped and manipulated it. She cleaned the engine with extreme care. At one minute she was running to Katy for kerosene to pour through the engine to loosen the carbon. At another she was telephon

known that the value of books had risen with the price of everything else. The man with whom she dealt had known her father. He had appreciated the strain in her nature which made her suggest that he should number and appraise the books, but she must be allowed time to go through each volume in order to remove any scraps of paper or memoranda which her father so frequently left

l your tummy can hold. Now let me see. What must I do next? I must get you off your jacks; and oh, my gracious there are the

off the jacks. She was lying on her back under it, filling some of the

ear are common

expected. Linda never before had had a caller and, as always, Eileen was absorbed in her own concerns. Had she got the rouge a trifle brighter on one cheek than on the other? Was the powder evenly distributed? Would the veil hold the handmade curls in exactly the proper place? When the bell rang her one thought might have been that some of her friends were calling for her. She opened the door, and wh

stood buttoning her gloves; a wicked and

garage, but if he is, he's the best imitation of th

n time to be informed that he might wear common-sense shoes if he chose. At his step, Linda rolled her bl

breathlessly. "I forgot to

rk in any kind of costume; but soon Linda realized that Donald Whiting was not paying any particular attention either to her or

!" he cried. "I

nd her head for

mness of complete recovery. "And it's just about r

off his coat, and sent it flying after the hat. Th

vely. "Gee! I have never yet ridden in a Be

f she had it well filled. "Sure, but there's no use in you getting into this mess, because I have on

id Donald, "if they were all

ning like a watch when it went to sleep. B

en?" asked Donald,

years," ans

rted a circuit of the car, kic

illed them?

ant to start the engine until

nd then, if it is all ready, there ought to be a garag

w blocks down the street where Dad always had a

t, then," s

e car and stood up, wiping

tires cost now?" s

t a set; I would get two. I would-put them on the rear wheels. You might be surpr

in a relieved tone. "That

till I clean up so I am fit to go on the streets

laughed

I heard," he said, "I did not for

ome so excited about cleaning up the car that I let time go

along and jump into something, and le

brakes. She stepped to one side of

n you go around to the front, and I'll let you in, and you can

ing here; I don't believe I ever saw half of it before." "It's Daddy's and my collection," said Linda. "Some day I'll show you some

ours?" asked Do

e are improved models, but Daddy had driven this car only about nine months. It was going smooth as velvet, and there's

"It looks like some little old c

ted something. We'll start carefully, and we'll h

d Katy with everything edible that the hou

at are you doi

same kind of lunch I would for Miss Eileen. Will ye

and the thermos bottles and don't stint yourself, Katy. This is a rare occasion. It never happe

ve," said Katy; "but I warn you right now I am

nner. In memory of hundreds of times that we have eaten bread and mi

very short time she emerged, clad in a clean blouse and breeche

Linda, "to shade my eyes. The gl

carried it back to her room and, standing at the glass, tried it on, pulling it down on one side, turning it up at the other, and striking a de

red, Linda," she said. "But, oh,

s searching, and she deftly slipped out a narrow scarf of Roman stripes with a deep black fringe at the end. Sitting down, she fitted the hat over her knee, picked up the dressing-table scissors, and ripped off the band. In its place she fitted

she said, "I know you I would be p