Putnam patriot., 1913-10-03
CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER VIII.
 Meantime. the girl in Chicago was walking in a new and hard way. She brought to her task a disciplined mind, a fine artistic taste, a delicate but healthy body. and a pair of will ing, if unskilled, hands To her sur- prise, she discovered that the work for which she had so often lightly given orders was beyond her strength. AS the weary days succeeded each oth- CT into weeks. she found that while her skill in table-setting and waiting was much prized. it was more than off, set by her discrepancies in other lines, and so 1t came about that with mutual consent she and Mrs Rhinehart parted company.
 This time, with her reference, she did not find it so hard to get another place, and, after trying several she learned to demand certain things. which put her finally into a home where her ability was appreciated, and where she was not required to do things in which she was unskilled
 Then the son of the house came home from college in disgrace, and began to make violent love to her, until her case seemed almost des- perate. She dreaded inexpressibly to make another change for in some ways her work was not so hard as it had been in other places, and her wages were better; but from day to day she felt she could scarcely bear the hourly annoyanees. The other servants. too, were not only utterly uneompanionable. but deeply jealous of her, resenting her gentle breeding. her careful speech. her dainty per sonal ways, her room to herself, her loyalty to her mistress
 Sometimes in the cold and darkness of the night-vigils she would remem- Der the man who had helped her, who had promised to be her friend, and had begged her to let him know if she ever needed help Her hungry heart cried out for sympathy and coun- sel, In her dreams she saw him com ing to her across interminable plains. hastening with his kindly sympathy, but she always awoke before he reach ed her
 It was about this time that the firm of Blackwell, Hanover & Durham had a difficult case to work out which in volved the gathering of evidence from Chicago and whereabouts. and it was with pleasure that Judge Blackwell ac- cepted the eager proposal from the junior member of the firm that he should go out and attend to it.
 As Tryon Dunham entered the sleep CT, and placed his suitcase beside him on the seat, he was reminded of the night when he had taken this train with the girl who had come to occupy a great part of his thoughts in these days
 All during the journey he planned campaign for finding her. until he came to know in his heart that this was the real mission for which he had come to Chicago, although he intended to perform the other business thor oughly and conscientiously.
 Upon his arrival in Chicago, he in- serted a number of advertisements in the daily papers. having laid various plans by which she might safely com munieate with him without running the risk of detection by her enemy.
 If M. R. Is in Chicago. will she kindly communicate with T. Dunham. General Delivery? Important.
 Mrs Bowmans friend has something of importance to say to the lady who dined with her October sth. Kindly send ad- dress to T. D., Box I, Inter-Ocean office.
 Mary" let me know where and when can speak with you about matter of importance. Tryon b, Record Herald L.
 These and others appeared in the different papers, but when he began to get communications from all sorts of poor creatures, every one demanding money, and when he found himself running wild-goose chases after differ ent Marys and M. R.s, he abandoned all hope of personal columns in the newspapers. Then he began a sys- tematic search for music teachers and musicians. for it seemed to him that this would be her natural way of earn ing her living, if she was so hard pressed that this was necessary.
 It was the evening of the third day after his law work was finished that