a much bolder spirit than mine and as each man either put in or pretended to put something in one a cent another a button or a she responded thank you and god bless you i was ashamed to make an appeal to them there for the poor girl so i walked with her a little further on and waited until the blue clad came along and their retired to warm themselves without and within in the saloon in front of which they had been standing i the woman who had taken up the collection and asked her if she could take care of a poor girl who needed help badly and i was struck by the kindness with which she turned and after a moment s glance held out her hand to the girl come with us she said and we will take you where you will find friends even then the young woman appeared too frightened to accept her invitation she clung to me and seemed to by john marvel assistant rely upon me asking me to go with her but partly from shame and partly from what may possibly have been a better motive i told her my way led elsewhere and after persuasion she went with the and i walked home happier than i had been in some time i even took some steps to call public attention to the horrible story the poor had told me of her frightful experience and actually wrote it up but when i took it to a paper � the one that had published my first article � i was given to understand that the account was quite incredible the editor a fox faced man of middle age with whom my paper secured me the honor of an interview informed me that the story was an old one and that they had it thoroughly and found it without the slightest foundation if i wanted further proof of this he said he would refer me to mr g one of the leading lawyers in the city who had conducted the investigation y by the i believe mis would have let me stay on free almost for she was a kind hearted soul imposed on by her but i had been playing the gentleman there and i could not bring myself to come down in her esteem i really did not know whether i should be able to to pay her so when my time was up i moved again to my landlady s great surprise and she thought me stuck up and ungrateful and was a little hurt over it when in fact i only did not want to cheat her and was moving out to the poorest part of the city to a little house on which i had observed one afternoon during one of my the notice of a room for rent at a dollar a week i think a rose bush carefully trained over the door decided me to take it it gave me a bit of home feeling the violet of course is in color and delicacy the emblem of the tenderest sentiment of the heart the all withered when my father died sighed poor and next to a rose bush growing in the sun and dew has ever stood to me for the purest sentiment that the heart can hold i heard shortly afterward of the engagement of miss to the man she used to laugh at but after a single wave of mortification that should have won where i had lost i did not mind it i went out to look by john marvel assistant at the sunny house with the trees and the rose about it and wonder how i could meet miss the room i took when i left s was only a cupboard some nine feet by six in the little house i have mentioned but it was clean like the stout blue eyed woman who with skirt tucked up came to the door when i applied for lodging as the price was nearer my figure than any other i had seen i closed with mrs and the afternoon i left mrs s sent my trunk over in advance it held the entire of my life there was something about the place and the woman that attracted me as poor as the house it was beyond the quarter and well out in the edge of the city with a bit of grass before it and there were not only plants in the windows well cared for but there was even a rose bush beside the door making a feeble attempt to over it with the aid of strings and carefully adjusted the only question my landlady asked me was whether i was a and when i told her no but that i was veiy fond of music she appeared satisfied her husband she said was a i asked if i might bring my dog and she assented even to this fond of animals she said when i bade good by to mrs and my friends at the board ing i was pleased at the real regret they showed at my leaving miss and miss came down to the drawing room in their best by the to say good by miss with her scratch quite straight and miss said if they ever went back home she hoped very much i would honor them by coming to see them while miss with a more practical turn hoped i would come and see them there � and you may even bring your dog with you she added with what i knew was a proof of real friendship i promised faithfully to come for i was touched by the kindness of the two old ladies who like myself had slipped from the sphere in which they had belonged and i was rather grim at the reflection that they had been brought there by others while i 