Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-04-15
TEST OF CHARACTER
5y DOROTHY DOUGLAS
Copyright BIS. by the Mcclure NewsDa-

velope with her salary in II she had
been forced to go about her strenuous
days Nith scarcely enough food to
uourish a canary and to sing and give
forth her vitality as II the lack of
food were thing OF 10 consequence.
The pitifully small saiary she drew
for singing every night and two
afternoons a week in a big musical
comedy chorus was all she possessed
in the way OF financial support. II
took her every penny to spread out
over the week, so that at the end OF
| those seven days Sally would have
| starved save for the fact that another
pay day arrived
However. three days had been sos
through Had Sally not spent fifty
| cents on an advertisement In the lost
| and found column after she had
dropped her pay envelope In the sub
way she could have had some lunch
for FIVE days. AS 1t was, she had to
| fight the pangs OF hunger and won
der If anyone finding her money
would ever return it.
Philip Turner, who had read the
| advertisement, pondered long and
| speculatively over it. He surrounded
| by every luxury and the manager of
| a successful restaurant where people
dined and wined and listened to cab
aret music felt strangely upset That
some poor working girl had lost a
trifling sum OF IS and that 1t was her
all
Perhaps Philip Turner was half
philanthropic. Certainly he was curl
GUS to see If the girl who had lost her
salary in a white envelope was hon
| est Turner's hobby. IL hobby it coul6
be called, was to test human nature
81 will send s. VIC. a white en-
velope with IS in 1t and tell her
| found 1t in the subway" he decided
as conclusion to his speculations
| regarding Sally's advertisement.
1t was the fourth day of Sally's en-
| forced fast when the letter from Philip
Turner arrived with the envelope in
closed. She had come home at II: 30
| from the theater so weary that the
stairs leading to her attic room had
| haunted her all the way home as q
| task quite beyond her power OF &C
complishment.
Upon seeing the letter addressed 10
| herself Sally opened 1t alphabetically.
| She knew instantly that the money
was not that which she had lost. The
| envelope and the bills were not her
doubt that the envelope had been
found and sent to her as supposedly
! the one she had lost.
Across the street a midnight shop
Haunted its blaze of light into Sal
ly's half-starved face Turkey sand
| wich" was the illuminated sign that
goaded her into using the money as
her own.
When she arrived In her room AGAIN
| she was faint. but not so faint but
| that the turkey sandwich set her on
her feet and made a sleepy and con-
tented girl Of her.
In the light of day and with clearer
reasoning faculties Sally felt her POI
sition keenly. She had deliberately
used the money OF some other person
and she would not be able to repay
that money until three days later.
1t was a very wan but strictly
straightforward Sally that found her
Luckily he was in His servant led
Sally through sumptuous halls until
she was shown into the library where
in Philip did his dreaming.
She smiled half wistfully as she
handed back the envelope.
Il took this-and used some OF the
money" she told him ut is not the
envelope l lost, but l was starving
and had to rehearse today | want to
pay back what have used when !
can" She spoke brokenly, for the pc
culiarly enveloping light in Philip
Turner's eyes played havoc with her
nerves. When she had told him in de
tail all that he demanded Of her he
took her to the big drawing room and
himself sat down at the piano.
Now sing" he said, laughingS.
Il want TO see what you can do. II
you please me, can give you an en-
gagement to sing in my restaurant
for $50 a week"
Sally's slim hand sought support
even as II had when she had seen
the money in her letter, She smiled,
however, and Philip watched the
dawning happiness that he was one
day to bring into his own and Sally's
life Neither OF them knew for the
second that love was weaving them
into it's net, but Sally did know that
she was going to sing az she had
never sung for anyone else.
When she had finished Philip sat
silently looking at her
q could easily make it hundred"
be said finally, but you might only
sing a few weeks for me amigo on
to the continent or something hks
that, he ended 2ughingly for Sally
was very near to tears.
There is no use--in my trying to
thank you" she said. softly
Philip did not tell her until long
after they were married that he bad
wanted to test her chacater. Even
so Sally only moved nearer him ana