3013 is on the verge of a disastrous love affair, with a young "swell" who is meant upon Nora's destruction. Acute minded as the girl is in most matters, she is slowly

beginning to yield to the fascination of her admirer, and her

head is turned by the rich gins, umautomobiiggfazxe-aha

tnés. Nora indulges in dreams of'a marriage to a millionaire. in: The man in the case is the‘ dissipated

young Dick Dayton.

»The Dayton's reside at the Monster Apartment House on Riverside Dfiive. She is a bridge bound and dance fiend; he drinking heavily. a habituee of the tenderloin and theatre district. when first married, the young Daytons have been so much in love, that their friends have named them "Dickie and Birdie" and these names have derisively stuck now that they have drifted so far apart. They have no means of supyort, yet spend lavishly, depending upon an annual check obtained by fraud for two veers, from their uncle, John Dayton, the Man from Canada.

Dayton, a baohellor, is passionately fond of children, and is spending a fortune upon educating other people's children.

At the time of his nephew's marriage, he has given the young

' people a check for $10,000. and heartily informed them that

for every child they have he will give them $20,000.

The original $10,000. is blown before the year is out. Dickie and Birdie are having such e good time that they are averse to enoumbering their gay exieteces with children.