Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-01

1t was huge trunk, strongly made and
much Travelled. II was battered and
SCARED and covered with many labels.
And 1t looked oddly out Of place in
Helen's dainty blue and white spare
room"-now rented room at q week.
With something, like a sigh, Helen
Strengthened down the rug, adjusted the
blind exactly even with the window sill
and gave one more glance in the closet TO
see II the shelves were dry. Everything
had been taken out that morning and
Della had washed off all the shelves. The
bureau drawers, too. had been emptied
and lined with clean white paper. And
now the room was all ready for It's new
occupant, who had said she would come
about s q. ... .-.. ~ -.-. 10
Eight dollars a week. All morning as
Helen worked she had been thinking
OF what she might do with that money.
With her training In economy she could
make IS a week go very far. And u
was this that had decided her to take
AIRS. Morrison in spite OF the feeling
that she was not at all the person she
would have chosen for a roomer. But
after all she would be there very little.
she VIE a buyer of millinery, ana would
leave early and not get home until late.
Helen had come in contact with very
few business women, and yet she could
not help thinking how different was MIS-.
Morrison, with her rouge and powder and
rather striking clothes, to the severely
main and businesshke person she had
always pictured a buyer to be.
Az vet no one but Della knew Of This
..roou, renting" venture. And until she
had tried it for a week or 20, Helen did
not want any one to know. Warren. OF
course. was not TO know at all His last
letters inferred that he would /have to
stay out there at least twoS months
longer. And Helen had rented the room
with the understanding that It might be
for only two months.
Two months at g week would be
little over ss4. To Helen that seemed Just
now a great deal of money, and worth
all the possible discomforts Of having
q roomer.
At least Warren would have TO send
her no more money for personal ex-
penses. The s. would more than meet
everything she would need for clothes
and extras for herself and winifred.
II was almost before Mrs. Morrison
came, Della opened the door. and as
Helen heard her hurrying through the
hall TO her room. she could not help won
dering where she was going to have her
dinners. She had made no inquiry as TO
any restaurant or boarding house in the
peighborhood- But perhaps she would
dine somewhere downtown before she
came home. And this evening she would
probably spend in unpacking and fixing
up her thinss
Helen was just finishing her own sim
pIe dinner when there was q knock on
the tining-room door. She opened Il to
a vision Of white furs and satin- For q
second she hardly recognized Mrs Nor
siIken scarf over her hair.
Can you tell me the nearest place to |
phone for taxi7'
Helen flushed. In the few times they |
had ever had tad. Warren had or
dered IT. -.-
why. don't think know the number.
but the telephone boy viii probably |
know"
oh. yes-xhere did you say your phone
was. Oh. here 1t is" seeing it on the
wall by the hall door.
Hello. VIII you order me taxi? Yes.
right away" And then turning back to
Helen. oh. Mrs Curtis. may 1 ask you
TO put a pitcher for drinking water in my
ROOM always have to have it by my
bed at night"
why certainly an-=e-@i H.ls-