The Press., 1885-08-06
Then she spoke rapidly, still in the same

Then she spoke rapidly, still in the same
 suppressed voice:
 sssDon't be angry with me, please. Don't misunderstood me. l could not
 help speaking. could not stand by and
 see such thing done-an honest man de-
 liberately taking the road to ruin. No,
 not deliberately. don't believe you re-
 allze. I don't believe you have thought.
 But you must ' she went on, with gather
 ing force. She's a tremendously plucky
 little piece of humanity, and can fancy the glow that came into her cheek and the
 fire that lit up her large blue eyes. "'You must stop-now at this moment
 and rehect,' she continued. Don't
 think I'm forgetting my place. But sit
 ting here I've noticed many little things.
 It isn't quite safe to imagine that women
 holding my positiorrare always unaware of the meaning of what goes on around them,
 or of the business transactions which they
 are instrumental in transmitting. know
 much better than you can perhaps believe
 just how you are placed at this moment,
 MT. Blank, and want you-I warn you
 to pause. I suppose some women would
 be afrald--would not interfere that IS not
 possible for me. My conscience would re- SeAoS oAASA0
 tion of social differences Men and wo-
 men are all brothers and sisters in one way.
 I speak to you now from that point of
 view. Stop-pause-for heavens sake !
 ''She got up and caught him by the
 arm. I don't suppose she thought any
 more of his identity at that moment than
 if he had been disabled and tipsy beggar
 instead of very handsome, dashing young
 fellow and heir prospective to old Mr.
 Blanks millions She had only one idea Ito save soul. There are just few such
 women.
 'sAs for Sam, all this had a curious ef-
 feet upon him. He was simply dazed. The strain of the last few months, the un- easiness, the sleepless nights, the sudden ness of this scene, the consciousness of
 discovery proved too much for him. 'Please-say you will stop now-right here,' said the 2 rl,~with eager insistance.
 ''Sam looked down into the fresh, hon. est face, with all it's soft lines hardened in
 to firm, pressing determination, and sud denly threw himself on chair before Miss : Lows desk, and hiding his face in his , arms broke right down. Overtaxed nature took it's revenge.
 ''At sight of those heavy, so11ndless sobs, little Miss Lows face for the first l, time showed faint touch of personal con- sciousness. But it was very fieeting. She had saved her man-I am sure that's the way she put it in her straightforward practical, democratic, little heart-and thai was the principal thing. She tied her bon
 net strings with quick fingers. Her eyes 5 shone. She stepped up to her employers son and touched him gently on the shoul 3 der.
 "'Tell your father,' she said, briefly That will be the safest way out of the 3 whole difficulty. It may be hard, but yor ought not to mind that. ''There was perhaps faint trace of con : temptuousness in the last words, but if so . little Miss Low was probably quite uncon l. scious of it herself. She ahurrled out O , the now deserted office and into the bust Il ling, crowded street.
 i. "The ponderously handsome residence 5 of old MT. Blank witnessed very storm. 3 interview that night Sam was complete ly tanned. He had gone to his father ant l done precisely as that girl, to whom he hat
 never spoken twenty words in his life be U fore, had bidden him. e "Old man Blanks fury was something t. Q be imagined, but not described. He talk ), ed of publishing his sons disgrace in thu : newspapers, of publicly disowning him s etc., etc. He thought better of these ex treme measures before putting them int effect, but the consequence of young Sam follies came upon him heavily enough t nevertheless. His father put him out o > the firm and temporarily out of the house ], on these two points the outraged old gen [ tleman held firm. Let him shift for him self,' he shouted, and drift for himsel '' Sam did,
 l. 'sIt was not easy work by any means 1ox @o k,o% s Jr., ex-member of one or two fashionabl y clubs, great connoisseur of horses, goo wines and women, and so forth and s 7. on, found life made up of sterner realitie u within the next year or two than he ha 't certainly ever before imagined. But Sar IL came out all right. The fact was, ther "a was rlenty of grit in the fellow, and th IS IS experience brought it triumphantly 10 tn II surface.
 a "Old MT. Blank gave in after a time, $ o was to be expected. The old gentlema D. had grown broken and feeble with grievin n after his dismissed black sheep. x s'Sam had been reinstated in the paterl 'o al favor and all it's advantages some si K months when he one day sought out lit E Miss Low. He found her looking eve a' prettier than two years before. Withol any preliminaries whatever he asked her y De ms Wife.
 re ''She looked at him moment attentiv H. ly. You know nothing about me, sl ., said.
 lt "'I know that you saved me from b as coming 8 blackguard as surely as woma ss ever saved man. I shall always reverend Y you as the bravest, the truest-' 'o ''She interrupted him.
 It "'And I don't know you-very we'll aS she said, eyeing him keenly.
 E. "There was no disillusion for Sam t- er her quiet little matter-of-fact way. SE le looked extremely pretty at the same tim' E And he had spoken the truth it had b. y come the faith of his life to reverence he u u "'No; and what yon know is not to m Il credit. But I can say l have change II II within the last two years. If I was nc ~ sure of belng different fellow from whs II was then wouldn't come to you thu 'e now. I don't expect you to care for m 'r a now. I only want you to give me E chance
 u 'And the chance was given" conclude u Bacon. Little Miss Low is now Mrs Samuel Blank, Jr.'' y A clerk for Welcome A. Smith, a No n n wich grocer, carelessly picked up bunc w of roxu1xy olersx1a5 E,ononoo oa1 la ha1 iy,e