The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-02-27

enced shopper. She went straight to
the millinery department and arranged
to have the hat boxed and sent to the
address Durham had given her.
1t had cost less to express the hat
than she had feared. yet her stock of
money was woefully small. Some kind
OF a dress she must have, and a wrap.
that she might be disguised, but what
could she buy and yet have something
left for food7 Lifting her eyes, she
saw a sign over a table-"Linene
Skirts, rs cents and ST.
Here was a ray of hope. She turned
eagerly to examine them. Piles of
somber skirts, blue and black and tan.
They were stout and coarse and scant,
and not of the latest cut, but what mat
tered 1t? She decided on q seventy
five cent black one.
Growing wise with experience, she
discovered that she could get a black
sateen shirtwaist for fifty cents. Rub |
bers and a cotton umbrella took an |
other dollar and a half. She must save
at least a dollar to send back the suit,
case by express.
A bargain-table of odds and ends of
woollen Jackets, golf vests, and old
fashioned blouse sweaters, selling off
at a dollar apiece, solved the prob
lem of a wrap. She selected a dark
blouse, of an ugly. purply blue, but
thick and warm. Then with her pre-
cious packages she asked a pleasant
faced saleswoman II there we're any
place near where she could slip on a
walking skirt she had just bought to
save her other skirt from the muddy
streets. She was ushered into q little
htting-room near by.
Rapidly she slipped OF her fine, silk
lined cloth garments, and put on the
stifr sateen waist and the coarse
black skirt. Then she surveyed her
self, and wal not i'll pleased. There
was a striking lack Of collar and belt.
She sought out a black necktie and
pinned it about her waist. and then,
with a protesting frown, she DELHI
erately tore a strip from the edge Of
one Of the fine hem-stitched handker-
chiefs. and folded 1t In about her neck
IN a turnover collar. The result was
quite startling and unfamiliar. The
gown, the hair. the hat, and the neat
} collar gave her the look of a young
nurse-girl or upper servant. On the
whole, the disguise could not have
been better. She added the blue wool
len blouse. and felt certain that ever
!, her most intimate friends would moi
recognize her. She folded the rain
t coat. and placed 1t smoothly in thu
suitcase, then with dismay remem
bered that she had nothing in which
to put her own cloth dress. save tn,
few inadequate paper w~rappings tina
had come about her simple purchases
She folded the dress smoothly and lai,
q 1t in the suitcase, under the raincoat.
X She sat down at a writing-desk, II
the waiting room, and wrote: II An
n safe, and thank you" Then sh,
paused an instant, and with nervou
& haste wrote Mary" underneath. Sh
opened the suitcase and pinned the pa
IS per to the lapel Of the evening coat
10 Just three dollars and sixty-seven cent
a she had left in her pocketbook afte
er paying the expressage On the suitcase
At her first waking, in the early gra
lie hours of the morning, she had locke
O her predicament calmly in the face
She had gone carefully over her ow
ut accomplishments. Her musical attain
er ments, which would naturally hav
e, been the first thought, were out of tn
question. Her skill as a musician wa
r. so great, and SO we'll known by he
m enemy, that she would probably b
traced by 1t at nce The same arg
he ments we're rue II she were to a
tempt to take a position as teacher
governess, although she was thorougl
ly competent to do 80. A servant
place in some ones home was the on,
thing possible that presented itself
her mind. She could not cook, nor
general homework, but she though
she could fill the place Of waitress.
with a brave face, but q shrinkir
heart, she stepped into a drug sto,
and looked up In the directory the a
dresses Of several employme
agencies.