Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-05

is to be hungry when you are going
to have something to eat-and when YOU
aren't"
Agatha sighed.
Il don't see.' she reflected, how we
were both so crazy as to carry all our
our ALL as the novelists say, in our
bags. And then to lose both bags. OF
course, We left them in the train when
We changed cars. And after Brother
James had SO warned us-I don't see
how 1 could have been so stupid-but
1 was
Wouldn't Jim be-intolerable, YOU
know continued Agatha, IF he were to
find out, Yet it isn't so much to lose.
really; l was down to twenty-odd dol
lars; L know because 1 had been SO
careful TO carry the big notes in my
secret pocket, and 1 took them all out
to pay for that Hepplewhite table; and
1T didn't seem worth while to put back
only two notes; so l was carrying them
in my bag
Il did that very thing" said Dorothy,
but, oh, dear, mine was fifty" Then,
with sudden inspiration, I'VE might
pawn our jewelry," she said. We've
got some rings and our watches with
us"
But Agatha shook gloomy head.
You forget that there no pawnshops
in this out-of-the-way village-it would
be dissertation to this prim old street"
We'll, there's one thing don't let us
do if We have to go without all three
meals; don't let us wire to brother. He
was so sure that 1t was foolish in us to
go poking off to New England village
for antique furniture. Don't you re-
member how he insisted on our taking
Theresa or Amelia, and he prOphesied
We should be sending him a wire for
money or a trained nurse, or to get us
out of Jail, or-something. and you said
they wouldn't receive a telegram of dis
tress from us unless it We're a matter
of life and death? Let's not give i'm
That's the spirit exulted Agatha,
embrac cling her We'll find a way out
Dorothy knitted her brows. Very love-
ly dark brows they were, darker than her
dark-brown hair Their thick dusky arch
and her long black eyelashes gave her
violet eyes something Of mystery and APP
peal and made the sweetness of her face
plaintive. She was very slender-too sien-
der-and there was touch of languor
in her graces. Indeed, Dorothys health
had given her sister anxious hours of late
The girl grew paler and thinner all the
time; she was 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 turn
ed very serious. The fact is said he
soberly, you very rich people all live
unnaturally stupid lives. Now you've got
to think Of something different enough
from what you've been doing to catch her
interest for long enough to put q few
pounds of flesh on her bones
You mean a trip-she and with no
one but a maid"
Just yourselves, without a maid. Give
her something to do if it's only her hair.'
And he was gone. irritably chewing his
cigar. He had not suspected any clue to
Dorothy's unhappiness-or spared her the
mention if he did suspect. But Agatha
knew. She knew that Dorothy had made
a hero Of their distant cousin. Ned Went
worth, ever since they were children to-
gether 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 -four
ished during the whole Of his college
course. And Agatha -one day came across
a charred bunch Of newspaper notices in
her sisters fireplace about the famous
foot ball quarterback, the promising young
reformer. the brilliant young lawyer. THIS
was only a little while before the doc
tors talk Agatha put up a brave front
to her father and her brother. But IN
wardly, she was as aroused as the doc
tor.