Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-16

ON the death of his father, young Donald
~ PendletOn finds that by the terms of the
up in trust. The only thing bequeathed to
him is his fathers house and its mainte-
nance. Donald's present means consist of
twelve dollars and sixty-three cents, and he
soon reduces this to thirteen cents. To add
to his predicament. he is engaged to mil.
lionaire's daughter. He accepts the offer of
his fathers executor to get him $25-a-week
job in the banking house of Carter. Rand
4 Seagraves, and reports for work imme-
diately. Going into dairy lunch to spend
his last thirteen cents for food he finds him
self sitting next to the firms stenographer,
Miss Sarah Winthrop. She insists on lend
ing him two dollars until payday. He calls
on his fiancee that evening and tells her his
days experiences. She admonishes him to
hurry and make his fortune by spring, so they
can get married. In the days that follow,
Donald usually lunches with Miss Winthrop,
whom spite of a rather skeptical attitude
toward the men she has met in offices-de
cides to help him to success. So, when
Donald arrives late at the Office one morn
ing after a dance, she makes an opportunity
to tell him he must sacrifice society If he is
to succeed in business. Donald agrees, but
he finds it impossible to break engagements
made for him by his fiancee, who doesn't
understand business. Miss winthrop decides
that Don's friendly attentions must be
stopped to avoid office gossip, and she finds
new lunching-place.
As far as Don was concerned, Miss
~ Winthrop, instead of merely
~ changing her lunch place, might
L y just as we'll have taken steamer
and sailed for Europe. He saw her at her
desk every morning when he came in, and
she always looked up and nodded-as she
did, for that matter, to every one, includ-
ing Blake. Then she turned to her work,
Al. tl,.>
next morning. AS far as he was able to
Judge Miss Winthrop had completely and
utterly forgotten the preceding weeks, and
even the incident that led to this dis
astrous climax.
But the situation that left her so I'M
affected got on Don's nerves. He was by
nature too much of social being to en-
dure being left to himself very long. This
lunching alone day after day was dreary
affair. The egg sandwiches began to pail
upon his taste, and he felt that he could
not have eaten an eclair had he been
starving.
Sometimes he had only cup of cof-
fee, and then hurried out and wandered
about the streets for the remainder of
his hour. 1t was long hour-a tedious
hour. Most of the time he spent in the
hope that, by some lucky chance, he
might meet her. He did not hunt for her.
He avoided her usual course. If he met
her, it must be honestly by chance. But
he never met her. He passed thousands
of other young women, but he never met
her. He used to return to the Office
sometimes doubling that she existed.
But at one o'clock she was always there
back of her machine.
LIE spent good deal of time that week
4 with Powers, and seemed to make
some progress. He had now definite
knowledge of bonds and notes, and had
even mastered, in general way, the i'm
portant details of some of the issues the
house was handling. Twice he had taken
home his papers and actually spent sew
eral hours upon them. Some of them he
knew almost by heart. 1t was encourage
ing but it would have been much more
encouraging if he had been able to tell
Miss Winthrop about it.
Somehow, he did not feel that he really
knew those things until he had told her