The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-05-09

mo; they rere not nine," she replied.
Conway is the last man in the world tc
wish to be hard on woman-a young
woman, his uncle's widow. He will
mot expect or wish you to leave such
purely personal things as these behind. "
II prefer it, " said Mary.
"Most ladies in your circumstances
would have stripped the house, j" he per-
sisted, land would have left nothing
but the bare chairs and tables"
perhaps. but am not one of those
ladies, and besides l wish to take moth
ing away to remind me of-of'-
"Yes?'
"That once lived here, she said,
with sudden fash of feeling, the first
that she had shown.
"Oh, we'll, of course if that is the
way the'-he had been on the point Of
saying "the cat Jumps" but broke the
homely smile off short-"if that is how
you feel, Mrs. Conway, it is no use my
suggesting anything else.
but it is very kind Of you to feel an
interest in me- said Mary, smile
breaking over her face for the first time
II shall never forget IT, thank you"
A few minutes later she had passed
out of the houseand away from her old
life forever.
She had made her plans carefully
with a view to furthering her resources
to the uttermost-s she had taken single
room in a respectable house in Blooms
bury. She was not destitute, for she
had still nearly e100 to call her own.
Mrs Hamilton's life had been insured
for a sum which had almost covered the
cost Of her illness and burial, and Mary
had bought her mourning with keen
eye to economy; in fact, she had spent
and meant to spend nothing that she
could possibly avoid. She knew that, if
need be. she could live for year on her
little store, and she knew, too, that it
was totally different thing to seek
living free aud independent, as she was,
to seeking it while tied and-hampered
with an invalid mother.
But she did not find it an easy thing
to drop into pleasant, comfortable po-
sition, such as she wanted, by no means.
For several weeks she tramped to and
fro, here and there, always seeking
something more or less indefinite, a
something which she found 1t difficult
to describe in words.
Then she pulled herself up short and
began to think the situation out in
different way, and she came to the con-
clusion that she could not go on in this
vague, indefinite way; that she must
make up her mind to follow certain
course, and she must follow it. The
question was what. She went over all
the openings which she had already
tried to follow up, and she came, after
much anxious cogitation, to the con-
clusion that there were only loft to her
now either Of which she might take as
her meter and train herself to become
proficient nursing and typewriting.
She inquired fully into the merits
and dement's Of both. She found that
she could properly qualify for nurse
under training of at least three years.
Even then she would not have got to
the top of the tree and it was more
than likely that long before three years
had gone by she would have broken
Town, for she was not physically or
,onstitutionally an especially strong
person. If all the tales she heard of
hospital or infirmary training were
rue, she felt that month or six weeks
would about show her how fruitless it
vas for her to attempt career of which
magnificent health and nerve are the
'ery first requisites.
Ito Be COntiuued,)