Polly in New York

ed into Polly's room for the time being, it seemed difficult for Eleanor to foll

there was no time lost before tumbling into bed. Eleanor found it very hard to keep h

ington's scholars. Polly and herself were in this group, and Eleanor planned to get it int

ephone stand in the corner of the living room. "I hope to goodness no one upstairs

this 100

Mr. Dunla

d she would call

n't do! I w

on't believe you!

e quick about it!" snapped Eleanor, feeling quite irritable becau

-editor?" now aske

p-the reporter you assigned on

would wait to take some important no

tly like that fresh reporter who spoke to me a moment ago. I

convinced her she was right, and she hissed through the telephone: "If you knew who I was, you wouldn't keep me sitting in the cold like thi

ompetitor from getting the story, the unknown was

and herself, and why they were now studying in New York. She talked for half-an-hour, praising Polly and her wonderful charact

that in-we go to p

here and get this photo of Pol

ing edition?"

pany the story

know how long it takes to m

d 'a photograph

n give it an acid bath, then etch and rout, and mount-and it all takes time

paper. Of course, I never stopped to inquire into what process

e morning and I'll see if there is enough inte

ll. I'll

. I'll show you through the engraving pl

you-g

aced the photograph back on the shelf and crept upstairs again. She jumped into bed shivering, after being exposed s

sleepily. "Thank goodness, we do not have to go to school for a wh

ol-le-ee!

runted Polly

'll be right back to breakfast, Mrs. Stewa

ry about the fire, and she jumped out of bed. "I'm going to hur

lazily. "I don't care what they

e've got to keep a date with Mr. Fabia

show us how carpets are made. I forgot that exhibition was to-day." And Po

s grinning teasingly, as he tried to keep a great mass of morning papers from s

face! Who is it?"

t is you, my dear,"

, can't you go down there and horse-whip them? I never looked l

the morning paper, but now she laughed. "Oh, if I looked like that pi

laughter. They, too, stared at the oval-framed pictures said

pers get those two pictures?" asked Polly

on in the world. In the package indexed under the proper name, are one or two 'cuts' ready to use in case of a hurry. Then when a pe

y kind. If something comes up that brings the thing to the public

raphers. They buy a hundred in a job lot, and if they want a picture and can't secure a l

rls see their faces in the paper. It will prove almost as

plained the methods of many newspapers, and now he exclaimed:

Read it to us," beg

ght on the head, all right! But where

commanded Eleanor, hardly able to

ring by his reading, either. When he had almost concluded, P

had no more right to print that than those other men had to

ith a penetrating look. "Nolla, did you tell that young rascal this

k the butler if I ever did! He stood righ

believed she was innocent of any such plot; s

When we saw the pictures of the two heroines, we feared some dreadful thing had happened to distort their faces so tha

nks; a good night's rest has brought back their natural looks. The faces in t

wanted to congratulate you girls on trying so hard for th

speaking. "Oh, good-morning, Anne. Have

in at midnight, and if you're up as early as this, I'm sure

and hung over the 'phone so they

kets for the show, to-night, and th

n on a week-end party," Eleano

father and my mother, in case the

mean that?" Jim's vo

let the girls fib for themselves," laughed Anne, gettin

y quivery thing!" cried Polly, quickly placing the telephone a

until a clicking in her ear notified her that someone wan

Eleanor to the

34 Madiso

es

speaking. Is this o

o you think of the story in the paper-an

ast. My wife and I wondered how that you

really had seen her wink at Dunlap. "My, but I'm thankfu

ront door to watch the fire last night, they laid them upon the hall table. James saw them there, l

our house, the pictures were completely forgotten. As the young reporter went out, James saw Miss Eleanor take h

ss, and Gladys, the upstairs girl, as heroines of the fire. Maybe

r the mistake, and then she said: "Do you suppose I handed

d the work on the pictures so as to have them in the morning's paper. He most likely believes that that was why you ran

s asked. Then she decided that Mr. Ashby must have heard from Dunlap that morning, and was told how she had added m

njoyed the play that night, and then the boys ou

e Latimers'. Then they would go for an automobile drive, and in the

. They begged to attend Mr. Fabian and the girls in the afternoon at the

ern decorator must do and know to succeed. In the afternoon the boys wanted to take in a matinee, but the girls were invited to dinner

without asking us, understand!" declared Jim, when he

nd chaperones do it without our know

eek; so for the few days we have at home we want you girls to pass up all o

keep on the go continually, every afternoon and evening, with

et them?" demand

'picked up' at an art sale. But we have ma

school, you know, there are loads of young men;

to these dry lecture affairs?" jeered Ken

d Jim barely managed, through his father's kind auspices, to meet Mr. Dalken

s to be present with Polly and Eleanor at the Ashbys, that evening. But the boys never knew that their benefactor

chool-friends were eager to have them at teas and parties and matinees, but all these had to be refused with regrets. Eleanor

ed Polly,

you suppose they have told each other? Lots of those girls travel around together, and they talk everything o

se of the education you've had in Bob's school. Now I don't believe those girls ask us just to cater to us because we are popular. I think they really like

g more, but she did