The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-14

when she stood there. Her excited call
rang through the silences, the girls
"Hushv' ensuing. 1t was pitiful to
hear the appeal Of her young voice in
it's imperative soothing.
| One morning her mother knocked,
entered and stood before me with the
light in her eyes and on her face, not
DID, but rapidly growing so.
stopped my work to listen.
"I've spent every cent on the furni-
ture this month";" she commenced, land
today is my rent day
"How much is due?
| She named the sum.
1t staggered me somewhat. l studied
the situation from all sides. Already l
| was four weeks in pawn. with no hope
that could see of getting out. If she
were bodily elected l should lose that
four weeks board. If gave her what
amounted to another four weeks board
I saved the first at the risk of losing
the second.
Being writer, had no money to
| lose. But remembering how when /
| first began often knew what it was to
experience the vacillating feeling Of
not knowing where my board money
was to come from exactly; remember
ing also how, still being writer, at
any moment the thing was liable to
reoccur, l went to my desk, and, draw
ing out a check that had been passed
through the grating of the dining
room window that morning, warm
from the signature of a gracious editor.
l handed it to her.
"You have saved my life" she said.
though hardly think it was quite so
bad as that made it out to be.
She came back from her landlord
with face that beamed.
'If you could have seen him look at
that check she calculated. "'Who is
this you have boarding with you" he
asked, and answered, a woman who
writes for many magazines
"Who writes for many magazines" !
corrected. land gets her stuff accepted
by few"
Its all the same" she declared,
with Il toss of her head (but 1t isn't.
I'm proud of YOU
The days that followed went by for
me OH wheels that were oiled, but for
Muricl they went less OILY.
"To Think" complained her mother,
that | am doing it all for her sake,
and she annOys me SO! l must scream
at her morning, noon and night to
make her mind"
IF you are not careful" l advised
on day when felt like advising,
which, happily, isn't often, you'll
have the contrary effect of dashing
down this house of cards you are wear
ing yourself out erecting"
And then Muriers beau came down
from Hartford. 1t happened like this
l had been out shopping somewhere
Returning, l was amazed to find the
= card gone off the door and the old pa
per, more jagged. more disreputable
than ever, pasted zigzag across.
Muriel admitted me. Somehow l new
. er felt the need of Il servant in tina
house, Muriel was so beautiful, open
, ing the door.
Flows this, Muriel?" asked. "Wha
made you put the old card bacl
- again.
y "Hush." she whispered. "Wait ant
I'll tell you
pecpcd through the double doors O
the parlOr, and there sat her beau from
Hartford
e rushed upstairs, and by and by sh
followed me. stood in her old positiO
with her back against the shut doc
and began explaining.
u II wasn't going to try to fool him,
she said. IF he really cared for me.
- thought he'd care for me in spite Of i
and if he didn't care then the gam
' wasn't worth the candle. So told hi
all about it-how we kept boarders fC