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TEE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
MILDRED VOWS NEVER TO INCUR DEBTS AGAIN
the miserable story. Once his comforting sympathy had unlatched the wicket of her confidence, she laid her frivolous, undisciplined soul bare. He could hardly place her. The irresistible attractions of luxuries, to which she confessed, were not wicked genii that held her in peculiar and individual thrall. A host of women that he could name were treading the scorching plowshares of financial and social ruin thru yielding to that same fatal attraction. But these had all been of the world, worldly. Now, Mildred was not ; she was a devoted and tender mother and a fond wife. If Richard felt for her more than the prescribed affection due a sister, it was not owing to any conscious coquetry on the part of Mildred.
So she baffled him ; and, in piquing that faculty of his mind that busied itself with classifying and labeling things, she unwittingly acquired a new interest in his eyes.
"Why, you poor little woman! I am awfully sorry for you ! " he began earnestly. ' ' But dont you know that
you should have told me all this long ago ? What is a friend for if he cant help you when you need him ? Now, just save yourself the trouble of refusing— I'm going to lend you that thousand. ' '
"Oh, no, Richard! I couldn't accept it from you ! ' ' protested Mildred.
' ' Now, listen to reason. I have much more lying idle in the bank than I can use. I am going to make you out a check, and that ends the matter."
He took out his check-book. When he had finished writing and handed her the slip of paper, she said : ' ' Richard, I am so grateful to you ! And I am going to pay you back in instalments out of my allowance."
"You are going to pay your debts and promptly forget all about this accommodation — I wish you to. I want to see you your old happy, carefree self. ' '
Mildred had never experienced a keener joy than was hers that afternoon, when she went the rounds of her creditors and paid her obligations. It was an incense to her recently out