The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-03-05
inderella
to Date.
BY EELEN MAIFIELO.
Copyright. 1906, by May McKeon.
BY ECLEN MAXFlELD.


Westield bank is wrecked They have
arrested Mr.. Hartley and Mr.. Manners,
put that does not help the rest of us.
In short time presume l shall be on
the county. If you had married Dan
Martin, as wanted you to do, 1 should
not be facing this terrible situation,
but you always were headstrong, and
my whole life has been sacrificed to the
effort to raise you as your dear dead
mother would have had me. Even
now Dan is willing to forgive your
folly and marry you. He will have
the house all done over, and his sister
will go to Johns to live, and there will
be only Dan and you and me-
The letter covered five closely writ
ten pages, and Annabel read it through
twice with firmly set lips and dry
eyes. Then very deliberately she put
on her coat, hat and gloves and went
out for q long walk in the snowy park,
where motor cars filed with fur clad
figures few past and laughing children
pelted her with harmless balls Of featli-
cry wilderness. 1t was glorious day,
and when she came back to her dingy
hall room she was smiling, ana the
hard lines had faded from her face
Then She wrote her answer:
My Dear Aunt A1olly--I am so grieved
to hear Of the bank wreck. 1 had not
read OF it in the papers, because we have
been enjoying the. privilege of some spe-
cial instruction under Professor of
New York, and L havc been wording at
the academy night and day. Perhaps the
bank receivers may save something and
IN the meantime you must not worry.
will have the store decided 20 you, and
The rent will more than keep your house
going, and each week l will send you
soIEe of my earnings. am inclosing Il
money order for SO that happen to
have in hand. Have Mr. Gregory ar
range the transfer of the store property
: AS 10 Mr.. Martin, please do not urge that
upon me again. l still feel that l have
some right to happiness, and ] know it
will never come to me through Dan Mar
tin.
Not one word Of reprOach. no re-
minders of dun colorcd childhood
and a dreary girlhOod. spent under
nagging of the most trying sort; no
reference TO the fact that her own
aunts small fortune in the bank
wreck; no intimatiOn that she had
sent almost her last dollar fin the
money order and must now drop her
art studies and seek n position in the
worEaday world. She smiled grimly as
she mailed the letter Her aunt would
accept the sacrifice and wall to Dan
Martin over AnnabGrs lack of appre-
citation
Dan Martin, How she hated every
inch OF his understood person. his
! small beady eyes. his perpetual smile
his weak. re:eding chin! She mailed
fine letter with 4 strange feeling OF
independence achieved, for now she
had paid to her own satisfaction Ihe
debt Of gratitude imposed by her aunt,
! which had hung over her young life
like pail She was free now to work
ont her own happiness.
But for the next week happiness
seemed to move forther and farther
away. In later years she never
! thought OF those days without shud
dering
Tie holidays were over. Nobody
wanted to hire clerks or buy illuminat-
ed cards or telephone records or any
Of the pretty things she painted. The
/ room rent was again due. She might
sell her few casts and painting outfit.
She set her lips firmly and climbed the
stairs to fashionable employment
agency. The manager was sitting at
the telephone when Annabel entered.
She hung up the receiver with an i'm
patient frown.
What do you want-a position as
govcrnesS or companion? Nothing like
that in view; hundred applicants
for every position. Oh. wait a minute!
You look bright. Can You do manicur-
ing and dress hair bit and mend
laces? IF you can do it even halfway,
/ wish you'd try this place. I've sent
the customer Il dozen girls, and they
always part after terrible scene.
The woman's a crank, but you look as
If you had tact"
The upshot was that Annabel. with
- cents in her purse and notice Of
rent due under the door of her hall
room. went to see Mrs. Cartwright
Brown. and that highly strung person
age said With dissatisfaction and sus-
picion in her voice that she would give
the girl a trial.
The Cartwright Browns were newly
rich. The. father had made an enOr-
mons fortune through his own efforts
ana was proud of it. The mother was
so bnrdened by it that she was on the
verge OF nervous prostitution. Annabel
saw it was nerves and not temper and
: toob heart Later she learned That
there were a son and adaughter away
at college who were just Il little
ashamed of their new riches.
Nobody. Annabcl least of all. knew
how it happened. but she became the
virtual head of the Cartwright Brown
! household Mrs. Brown vowed that
she could hire visiting manicurist
and hairdresser, but no one could stand
between her and domestic and social
I worries rs Annabel could.