Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-20

The wolf, ever promling about Saiiy
ballroom door, threatened an entrance
during the days following the loss OF
her pay envelope. Already sally nae
tainted once at the theater from iaSH
of proper food and curt hint from the
manage had warned her that secono
performance Of that kind would ron
her of her meager pay. Sally dared MOI
faint again, and she gritted her teeth
and wonder If body and soul couio
possibly hang together while whole
| week passed.
However, three days had been got
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 subway she
could have had some lunch FOR nve
days. AS 1t was, she had TO ngnt .ne
panSs of hunger and wonder II any one
finding her money would ever return IL.
Philip Turner who had read the ad-
vertisement, ponder-d long and specu-
latively over il. He, surrounded py eV-
cry luxury and the manager OF sue,
cessful restaurant where people dlned
and wined and listened to cabaret
music, felt strangely upset that some
poor working girl had lost tririihs
sum Of IS and that it.w was her al.
Perhaps Philip Turner was half PM
dnIHTOplC ScIsShAlliy lAS "SS
see if the girl who had lost her salary
in white envelope was honest. Iur-
ner's hobby, If hobby it could be called,
was to test human nature. Ii ne rouno
it wanting he only shrugged his mas
siye shoulders and forgot the weakllns.
If the character under his. observation
proved worthy 1t was Philips habit TO
swing the arm Of friendship around
that person and perform his part OF the
bargain Philips friends were legion.
Those whom he had sucf ored Wor-
SHIPPED him.
II will send s. v. c. white envelope
with So in it and tell her found 1t in
the subway" he decided as conclusion
TO his speculations regarding sally
advertisement
It 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 IL: 81
from the theater so weary that the
stairs leading to her attic room had
haunted her all the way home as task
quite beyond her power Of accomplish
ment.
Upon seeing the letter addressed to
herself Sally opened 1t alphabetically.
She was fair too tired to enthuse or to
realize that it might be an answer to
nor ADVERTISEMENT. Iho SOL. - -
money unnerved her for second ana
her slim hand was obliged to seek sup
port for her body.
Sally knew instantly that the money
was not that which she had lost. The
envelope nor the bills were not her own.
She did not for the moment 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 Sa!ly's
half starved face. Turkey sandwich
was the illuminated sign that goaded
her into using the money as her own.
Had Sally been in her right senses she
would not for a second have counten-
anced the action she was perpetrat1ng.
It was nothing more nor less than theft,
but Sally's weary faculties were too
far spent to comprehend that She had
a rehearsal on the following day at 10
o'clock, and without food to eat before
retiring she we'll knew that the theater
would not see her. Her position would
10 and with that-what not? Sally did
not ask herself those appalling ques-
lions. but went to the shop across the
way end when she arrived in her room
again she was faint, but not 30 faint
but that the turkey sandwich set her
on her feet and made sleep and con-
tented girl Of her. =
In the light Of day and with clearer
reasoning faculties Sally felt her posi-
ton 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, and then
it would have to be done in small in
stallments saved from her already
overtaxed salary. Should her own
money be found, then Of course she
could 20 Immediately to Philip Turner
and acquaint him with facts.
It was a very, wan but strictly
straightforward Sally that found her
way to the home Of Philip Turner.
Luckily he was in. His servant led
Sally through sumptuous halls until she
was shown into the library wherein
Philip did his dreaming.
The breadth OF him when he arose
at Sally's entrance quite startled her,
and it was wide open eyes of deepest
blue that met Philips during his first
glimpse Of Sally Van Camp. He smiled
at her timidity and Sally became her
self.
She smiled half wistfully as she
handed back the envelope.
II took. this and used some OF the
money" she told him. 1T is not the en-
velope l lost but 1 was starving and
had to rehearse today. l want to pay
back what l have used when can
She spoke brokenly. for the peculiarly
enveloping light in Philip Turner's eyes
played havoc with her nerves. When
she had told him in detail 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 laughingly. 81
want to see what you can do He