Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-14

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At this they both laughed.
cts curious" Dorothy continued
chow different it is to be hungry when
you are going to have something to eat-and when
you aren't"
Agatha sighed
81 don't see," she reflected, chow both so
crazy as to carry ali our-our all as the novelsts
say, in our bags And then to lose both bagsl OF
course we left them in the train when changed
cars. And after Brother James had warned US
] don't see how could have been stupid-but
wasl"
'sWouldn't Jim be-into1erabe, you know" con-
4nued Agatha "if he were to find out! Yet it
isn't so much to lose, really; l was down to
twenty odd dollars; know because had been so
careful to carry the big notes in my secret pocket,
and took them all out to pay for that Hepplewhte
table; and it didn't worth while to put back
only two notes, so I carrying them in my bag
81 did that very thing" said Dorothy, "but oh,
dear, mine was hftyl" Then, with sudden nspira-
ton, I'VE might pawn our jewelry" she said We've
got some rings and watches with US"
But Agatha shook gloomy head. "You forget
that there's pawn-shop in this out-of-the-way
vlage-it would be dissertation to this prm old
street"
"Wer, there's one thing don't let do if we have
to go without all three meals don't let us<wire to
brother He was that it was foolish in us to
furniture Don't you remember how he insisted
on our taking Therese or Amelia and prophesied
should be sending him wire for money or trained
nurse or to get us out of the jail, or-something;
and you said they wouldn't receive telegram OF
distress from us unless it matter of life and
death? Let's not give in!"
"Thats the spiritl" exulted Agatha, embracing her.
"We1l find way out.
Dorothy knitted her brows. Very lovely dark brows
they were, darker than her dark-brown hair. Their
thick usky arch and her long black eyeashes gave her
violet eyes something of mystery and appeal and made
the sweetness of her face plantive. She was very
slender-too slenderand there touch of languor
in her graces Indeed Dorothys health had given her
sister anxious hours of late The girl grew paer and
thinner all the time; she easily tired and she was
far too docile when the doctor put balls and dinner
dances under the ban.
He had known Dorothy all her life and he fumed
over her apathy Then he turned very serious. The
fact is said he soberly, you very rich people all live
unnaturaly stupid lives Now you've got to think of
something different enough from what you've been do
ing to catch her interest for long enough to put few
pounds of flesh on her bones"
"You mean trp,-she and with one but
maid?"
Gust yourselves avithont a maid. Give her
thing to do if it's only her hair !" And he gone,
irrtaby chewing his cigar He had not suspected any
clue to Dorothys unhappiness-or spared her the men
ton if he did suspect But Agatha knew. She knew
that Dorothy had made hero of their distant cousin,
Ned Wentworth, ever since they children together
and he had saved her from the mad dog, The year
after he graduated from Harvard they had suddenly
broken off the correspondence which had hourshed dur
ing the whole of his college And Agatha one
day charred bunch of newspaper notices
in her sisters fireplace about the famous football quarter
back, the promising young reformer, the brilliant young
lawyer. This only little while before the doctors
talk Agatha put up brave front to her father and
her brother. But inwardly she aroused as the
doctor
The sisters went to Massachusetts, together, on
search for some wonderful old furniture among it no
less than Hepplewhite scrutoir given by Horace
Waloole himself to Philip Wentworth one time gov
ernor and descending through him and long line OF
Colonial worthless to Mrs. Hannah Wentworth Prem
tce who being stricken in years, with no offspring lett
her. announced in the public prints that she would sell
her furniture to any descendants of the old
who could pay her price and satisfy her ideas of their
fitness to Colonial furniture.
Therefore, they had to the old home of the
Wentworths and, it happened, they had sheltered
themselves under the roof tree pf Mrs. LovePrentce,
daugher-n-law to Madam Prentice of the furniture.
For two days Agatha had submitted to Madam Prem
tees inspection herself only coverty inspecting the
furniture By that time the Westerners felt of
isolation and chilly dsrust They rather glad to
20 to Boston and hunt furniture. 1t their re-
turn to the village the preceding forenoon that they
had lost all their money
Agatha had paid Mrs. Prentice in advance for the
lodging so the sisters felt of a roof their
heads for at least week They had been getting their
meals at the the village boosted, paying for
each meal as they got it.
Naturally, under the circumstances they had not
lunched nor dined-nor breakfasted. Now Agatha
looked anxiously at her delicate sister Don't you
worry sweetheart" she said brightly, only, go i'm
mediately back to bed. You'll see. I'll fetch you
something in little while" AS she spoke she was