The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-06-20

week superior to the man in the same
position?"
I'm most cases, l suppose she is,
admitted Warren.
Then don't you see how limited are
Miss Perry must be at least twenty
five or six. Oh, | can understand
She has waited this long and has not
had any better chance, and now
Well she doesn't have to marry
does she?" CURLY. She has got a good
job. Why chuck it for some no-ac
count fellow"
ooh, that is the woman of it," unused
Helen. sadly. She wants to feel thai
she BELONGS to some one"
Warren pushed back his chair with
an impatient gesture.
Huh! Belonging to some one or
SIS per isn't what it is cracked up tC
be. She had that much to spend or
herself Wait until she tries to make
it pay the rent, the grocer. and al
the other bills. She is making the mis-
take of her life"
WAS SHE?
Was she? Would Miss Perry be
happier in marrying this man. il
knowing something of the wonder o
wifehood and motherhood, even though
many hardships came with it? Or hat
she better keep her Independence. hel
comfortable salary, and her prospect!
of oldmaidhOOd?
All morning Helen's mind rcvOlvct
about Miss Perry. She was neither
very young or very attractive, yet ;
girl of unmstakable refinement |
was hard to think of her as being en-
gagged to spOrty-lOOking youth.
Soon after luncheon Warren called
up about some papers. He though
he had left them in the inside yes
pocket of the suit he had worn yes
terday. He held the phone while
Helen looked.
Yes, they are here
"All right. get a messenger, viii
you, and hustle them down"
why, dear, can't | bring them my
sell? | am coming down this after
noon about those cards-you know
want to try your engraVer this time.
/ All right. but don't make it late
than four
| Helen had thought only Of savins
the needless expense of the messenger
| but now she realized she would SCI
Miss Perry. She wondered if sh'
would speak of her engagement.
1t was half past three when Heller
entered the towering United Trus
building. on the seventeenth floor o
which Warren had his offices. AS sh
went up in one of the huge bronZ
! elevators, she thought of Miss PER-
: coming here day after day.
HELEN UNDERSTANDS.
Wonderful as was the atmosphere 0
this great office building with its III
! ceasng hum and activity-it was no
! IJal la,
! could understand how Miss PER-
might be longing to leave it all 70
/ a little home of her own-even thOug1
that home meant only the cheapest o
, tiny flats.
! Down the marbled hall, and Hele
paused before the door of Warren
office. The outer room was empty
She started into his private office the
paused. 1t was Miss Perry's voic
! talking over the phone.
"Of course the rooms are not Yer
large, and it is four flights up, but
is better than anything else we hav
/ seen at twenty. And the janitor sal
they would re-paper the living room.
"Oh, what do you think Mr.. Curt
asked me this morning? If | hadn
. better get woman to do my house
work. and not give up my position
OF course, | said you wouldn't hea
to that
why, Will II thought you were s
positive about my not going on.
There was an unmistakable culver i
ner voice, Il thought you had decide
was to give this up?'
of COURSE, we can manage, An
if you are promoted this fall we ca
nave wonderful little home! An
that is what | want-a home. DO 70
know" hopefully, Il think might &c
some copying to do there? ! COul
rent a machine, Mr.. Curtis would civ
me any extra work he had, and | knoN
several other lawyers. Oh. | wOul
love to do that. 1t is only keeping o
with the office work that | dreaI
Somehow II wouldn't feel quite ma
RED
The door opened, postman ente