The Washington herald., 1915-02-18
DAILY SHORT STORY.
PHILANTHROPIC PHILIP.
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS.

Sally Van Camp came home in a state
Of complete exhaustion from rehearsal
Since the losing OF tn. envelope with heI
salary in * she had been forced to &c
about her strenuous days with scarcely
enough food to nOurish a canary and t'
sing and give forth her vitality as i
the Iaci; of food were a thing of no con
sequence.
The pitifully small salary she drew fol
singing every night and two afternoon:
week in a big musical comedy Choru:
was all she possessed in the way of finan'
cial support. Each penny of it was care
fully melted out to snatch what she could
OF life while body and soul seemed eve,
ready to part-su great WAS the struS'
gle. IL took her every penny TO spread
out over the week. so that at the end OF
those seven days Sally would hav.
starved save for the fact that another
pay day arrived
The wolf ever proving about Sally's
ballroom door threatened an entrance
during the DAYS following the loss of her
pay envelope. Already Sally had faint.
ed once at the theater from lack OF
proper food and curt hint from the
manager had warned her that a Soc
ond performance of that Kind would roh
her OF her meaCer pay. Sally dared not
faint again. and she Gritted her teeth
and wondered if body and soul could
possibly hang together while a whole
week passed.
However. three days had been got
through. Had Sally no. spent 20 cents
on advertisement in the lost and
found column after she had dropped
her pay envelope in the subway she
could have had some lunch for five days.
As it was she had to fight the pangs OF
nj N
her money would ever return it.
Philip Turner. who had read the ad-
vertisement. ponder.d long and specu-
lative,y over IL. He. surrounded by
every luxury and the manager Of suC-
cessful restaurant where people dined
and wired and listened TO cabaret music,
felt strangely upset that some poor work
ing girl had lost trifiing sum OF s.
and that it was her all.
Perhaps Philip Turner was half phi
lanthropic Certainly he was curious to
see If the girl who had lost her salary
in white envelope was honest. Tur-
ncr's hobby. II hobby it could he called.
was to test human nature. n he found
1t wanting he only shrugged his massive
shoulders and forgot the weakling. If
the characte under his observation
proved worthy il was Philips habit to
swing the arm OF friendship around that
person and perform his part of the bar
gain. Philips friends We're legion. Those
whom he had succored worshiped him.
Il will send s. &. V. white envelope
with s. in Il and tell her I found il in the
subway" he decided as a conclusion TO
his speculations regarding Sally's adver-
tisem"nt
II was the fourth day of SalIys en-
forced fast when the letter from Philip
Turner arrived with the envelope irClosed.
She had come home at II 80 from the
theater so weary that tn" stairs leading
TO her attic room had haunted her all the
way home as a task quite beyond her
power of accomplishment.
Upon seeing the letter addressed TO her
self Sally opened ii alphabetically. She
was far too tired to enthuse or to realize
that it might be an answer to her adver-
tisement The sight of the money I'M
nerVed her for a second and her slim
hand. was obliged to seek support for her
body
Sally knew instantly that the money
was not that which she had lost. The
nor the bills were not her own.
She did not for the moment doubt that