Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-31
DAILY STORY
MY LONG CHERISHED TRIP.


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From the time | was little girl
desired to visit Europe. but since was
was no prospect of my wish ever being
gratitied When l was fifteen years
old began to save money for the pur-
pose and by the time I was twenty
two had sufficient amount to enable
me to purchase Il second. class passage
out and back and remain abroad six
weeks. My friends and reIatives-I
had no advised me to put my
savings out at interest rather than
spend them in any such fashion, but
replied that | had saved them for
purpose, would not have saved them
without the purpose and did not be-
lieve IN such wcathcrcock course rs
they advised. Besides. | maintained
that fate did more for persons who
were floating on the surface than for
those underneath and out of sight,
whereupon they assumed that l hoped
to meet some rich man who would
marry me. This was unkind. for l am
and was very plain.
was not To be deferred by SnCers
and sailed with the early summer he
gira. We had rough passage, and
the person with whom l was obliged
to room. n woman of fifty. was not
only seasick, but really i'll. There WAS
no one but me to look after her, and
l must either do SO or see her suffer
without attention. l gathered from
what she told me that she was going
abroad for her health and had no def
mite plans for travel. When we reach
ed port she begged me to let her go
where | went. told her frankly that
| had counted on my trip from child
hood. had been seven years in saving
the few hundred dollars required TO
make it, and to spend my time taking
care of sick woman who evidently
had no money to purchase attendance
and comforts would be a terrible sac
rifice. but when we came to leave the
steamer the poor woman was so desc
late that | hadn't the heart to leave
her alone | took her with me to Lon
don and to the same apartment house.
The result of this move was that. in
stead of seeing the sights of the Brit
iSh capital. the time | had laid out for
the purpose was given to Miss Tiff
that was her name-and the only way
l could get out was to hire cab and
take her with me. | inferred that she
could not afford the expense, for she
never offered to pay the fare. Finally.
desiring to go to Paris, proposed that
she should 90 to Il hospital. This she
refused to do, but said she had Il rela-
tive in Paris and if | would take her
there she would not ask me to do any
thing more for her. AS l was going TO
Paris it was iplrsessible for me to re-
fuse to allow her to go on the same
train. So l consented and, making Il
| virtue of necessity, nursed her all the
| way.
The day after we arrived she gave
me her relatives address, and | called
| at the house. The relative had gone
away from there and had left no ad-
| dress. l went back to our apartments
and found Miss Tiff in great agony.
| called for doctor. who pronounced
| her very sick woman who would
likely need physician for long pc
| Rod, and before he would do anything
for her compelled me to pay his bill or
n large portion of 1t in advance. Miss
| Tiff was too i'll to consult in the mat
| ter, and-well, I took what had saved
for my continental trip and gave it to
n French doctor l never had seen be.
fore in payment for services he had
nothing whatever to me.
The only convenient thing Miss Tiff
did was to die in time to enable me