Her Father's Daughter

n the floor-level macadam road; in her own eye she scarcely grazed it. The smooth, easy motion of the car, the softly purring engine were thrilling. The speed at which she

sed him to take the books she had provided and lock himself in his room and sweat out some information about Monday's lessons which would at least arrest his professor's attention, and lead his mind to the fact that something was beginning to happen. And

n?" questioned Dona

in the morning if you want, and we'll take a lunch and go for the

at you're interested in tak

red Linda, "we'll combin

with another me

hen Linda told her that the old tires had held, that the car ran wonderfully, that everything was perfectly safe, tha

started down the hallway, when she

omething Miss Eileen bought and thought she would want tomorrow,

box. It did look so susp

f a dress I saw that I thought perfect. It suited me better than any other dress I ever did see. It was at

our name on it if she me

r it is my dress or not," said

untying

d Katy, "Miss Eileen's s

herself to save the fees. Glory be! This is my dress, and there's a petticoat and stockings to match it. Why, the nice old thing

s in the other, her face flaming. Katy drew herself to full hei

authoritatively, "ye go right out and get into tha

nywhere and I have no m

eed. Ye go to the best store in Los Angeles and come back here with a pair of shoes that just match those stockings,

g I learned better than any other lesson about driving a motor car. Thr

e skirt to L

, but it ain't as short as Eileen and all the rest of the girls y

g as she lifted the jacket

t be wearing that! The sleeves do

lbows; but it's a piece of luck I tried it on, for it reminds me that it's a jacket suit and I must have a blouse. Whe

selected a pair of low oxfords of beautiful color, matching the stockings. Then she hurried to one of the big drygoods stores and bought the two waists and an inexpensive straw hat that would ha

aid Linda, "to have E

irt plain. Where a fold lifted and was strongly lighted, it was an exquisite silver-gray; where a shadow fell deeply it was gray-brown. The coat reached half way to the knees. It had a rippling skirt with a row of brown embroide

!" she ch

and you're just the colleen to wear it. My, but

ay. Then she read a letter from Marian that was waiting for her, tel

t Nicholson and Snow's is just fine; he is helping her all he can, on the course she is taking. And she wants us to look carefully everywhere for any scrap of paper alon

out her hand

p. And if I had seen a sheet flying around the yard I would have picked it up. She just must be

hook he

had her heart set on winning that prize and it would be a great help to her, and certainly it was the most comprehensive and convenient plan for a house of that class that I ever have seen. If I ever have a house, sh

or maybe he is with her. Ye needn't waste any sympathy on him. Eilee

r three acres of land that Peter Morrison most coveted on the small plateau, mountain walled, in Lilac Valley, was in escrow. He had made a payment on it. Anderson was working on his plans. Contractors had been engaged, and on Monday work would begin. The house was to be built as soon as

and a full gasoline tank, slid from the driveway and roll

a, "and I'll scout around Sunland a bit and see if I can fi

n trails, and through canyons connected by long stretches of motoring that was more like flying than riding. She w

s. "I think myself that this dress is a trifle too good for school. When I get my allowance next week I think I'll buy me a cloth skirt and a couple

carcely believed that it could. And, too, she had very serious doubts about the dress. She kept thinking of it during the day, and when Eileen came, in the middle of the afternoon, at the first

t know at the time that I was going to Riversid

to do battle for th

the one Miss Linda was tellin

e admired was sure to be right. She said there was a beautiful dress at 'T

the dress for he

able dress for sch

t it was just the spittin' image of fi

ow about it?" d

s Linda's had a dress. She thought ye'd done yourself proud and sent it for her, and she put it on, and a becoming and a proper thing it was too! I advanced her the m

ce was a sickly white and the rouge spot

to tell me-

or obedience or love from the kiddie, ye better never let her know that ye didn't intend it for her, for nothing was ever quite so fair and right as that she should have it; and while you're about it you'd better go straight to the store and get her wh

on Katy in a

see how quick you can get out of this house. I have stood yo

her red chin, and a steel-blue lig

else. Half of this house and everything in it belongs to Linda, and it's a mortal short time till she's of age to claim it. Whichever is her half, that half I'll be staying in, and if ye manage so as she's got nothing to pa

intimidated. Like every extremely self

orders," she said, "I'll

jaw shot past the upper, her doubled right fist shook p

chance at him, don't ye think I won't be tellin' him what he has lost, and what he has got? And as for taking orders from him, I am taking my orders from the person I am working for, and as I told ye before, that's Miss Linda. Be off wid ye, and primp up while I get my supp

down by the well-known process of slamming pots and pans for h

er temper, and to kape cool, and to go aisy. Look at the aise of me w

nt to the consummation of preparing a par

f Donald Whiting, and she had noted the flourish with which he raised his hat when he saw her at a distance, and she knew what he meant when he held up a book, past the covers of which she could see protruding a thick fold of white paper. He had foresworn whatever pleasure he might have thought of for Sunday. He had prepared notes on some subject that he thought would further hi

a rather sulky v

ed, two step

hold me! I never did have a more becoming dress, and Katy loaned me money, till my

way. Eileen gripped the br

ress, but You're always howling about things bein

and colors in the high school today. As soon as I get my money I'll buy a skirt and some blouses so I won't have to wear this

our's reflection previous to Linda's coming, she realized that she had reached the limit with Katy. If she

e, but the first thing we did was to run into that inflated egotist calling herself Mary Louise Whiting, and like a

ot suppress a chuckle: "Of cours

have told unanswering walls her tribulations. It would have been better if she had done so. She might have been able to

y please about Mary Louise Whiting being a perfect lady but she is a perfect beast. I have met her repeatedly and sh

a. "Poor John! I see his second f

tification. She had not inte

ck for her to take possession of a man of my party, and utterly ignore me. She has everything on earth t

uainted with you. You have an unfortunate way, Eileen, of defeating your own ends. If you wanted to attract Mary Louise Whiting, you missed the best chance you ever could ha

outh fell open. A ghastly gre

ou mean?"

Whiting was calling on me, and yo

head, and she broke into deep and violent sobs. Linda stood looking at he

what she had done, and she was unprepared for Eileen's reply: "That sca

nda gravely, "I want