The Washington herald., 1916-05-14

the employment bureau of a big depart
ment store. She had had nothing to eat
since breakfast and then only glass Of
milk and a couple of rolls.
So, as she stood there in the long line
of applicants, tired. footsore and weak
from hunger she suddenly collapsed in Il
faint
When she came to herself again. she
was living on a couch in one of the retir-
ing rooms of the establishment, while a
! couple of saleswomen hovered over her
with a bottle of smelling salts.
The manager of the department, a big,
pompous man, hustled in and took a look
at her.
"Ah. coming around all right, chg
He seemed kind. and so as he shrewdly
| led her on to talk. it was not long until
Amy had acquainted him with the many
details of her long struggle for work, and
had also revealed to him how utterly
alone and friendless was her state.
We'll, welf'' he patted her hand gently.
! Il shall certainly have to try and do
something for you. Call around tomor-
/ row morning about ten o'clock when |
have more time to talk with you"
"Or. say" he added as he walked with
her in a casual fashion to the door. come
! to think Of it, | won't have a moment
to spare in the morning. | wonder II 1t
would be possible for you to drop up to
my apartment and have a chat with me
this evening. Here is the address" He
slipped a card into her hand as he spoke.
/ Amy eagerly asSented. She was en-
. tirely willing TO meet his convenience,
she told him. And so that night all un-
suspcCting she went to the address lie
| had given her.
The next day girl with wide blue
eyes in which lurked a shrinking horror
and mouth whose tender curves were
dropping and forlOrn, wandered through
| New York debating in her despair whether
she would throw herself into the river or
into the gutter OF one thing she was
certain. she could never go back to Leap
! ing River or even to the lodging house
where she had been stopping in New
York
! In the cnd-perhaps because the love
of life is strong even when all else is
gone, and because she was tired and
hungry and had no place else to go--she
crcpt back to the department manager
from whom that morning she had tiun;
herself away with words OF utter loath-
ing and contempt, and this time she
stayed
And the pity OF 1t Was that at the lodg-
ing house she had deserted, Jock Mccall
was besIeging the door in the effort to
get some information in regard to her,
| for in spite OF his silence he had never
| forgotten or waverCd in his determination
to come back and get her
! For q time, when disbursements fen
| thick about him, and it seemed that he
| would never get on. he had been too
! hca ftSick to write and then after that
he had fallen i'll and had been in the hos
pitaI for many weeks But at last with
health recovered, he had managed to an
mex a small job in his own line, and had
| shown such marked capabilities that lie
had Occn rapidly advanced through SIC
cessive promotions until now he was an
assistant superintendent with excellent
prospects of an even higher boost
! He had saved his money seduiOuslN,
and as soon a. he felt that he had CROUCH
he came back TO Ieapins River
AS he walked up brskly TO the factory,
old jeremiah Mccall from his window
saw him like another father Of whom
We are told. while he was VT 4 long
way off" But unlike that other father.
jeremiah did not go ON, and rau u"Cn
the neck of the returning prodiSa'. On
| the contrary he sat stOnily stu with his
hard eyes fixed upon the framed toNt
The Wages of Sin Is Death. And he
! did not change from that attitude ~ en-
when his boy entered the room.
Jock hestated Il moment on tn" thresh-
old: then as he realized the siEninCarCe .
/
toward him his head went up, and ne
stepped quickly forward to lay IN en-
velope on his fathers desk.
/ Il am returning. sir" he said. with in
/ terest the five hundred dollars I orr-
rowed from your safe. ] considered then
and l consider stll that the moHcy was
/ justly due me: hut | am no longer in
| need Of any assistance rom you, So ]
| have brought it back"
There was no answer. nor did the old
man change in any degree his s,if -o~-
| Of disaDprOvHl Jock waited a mum"Nt
! for som" word snnl" sign Of ,i"IdinE
/ thcn with his head thrown M higher than
ever, ne Stalkcd from the room.
This first duty accomplished. lock lett
/ jho ia tory. and FASTENED to Ine cottage
! Of Mrs. Prentice. Had it been tn" otrrr
way about and he had been ,Hus IN
, formed Of old Jorcmiahs 8 urvy trick in
securing the discharge Of the -irl from
! Jordun's his visit to his father might
! have been of less pacific tenor. Ae it
was, so great was his disappointment
! over finding Amy gone. and so no: his
! resentment over tho cause Of her leaving
{ that j" was strom-ll tempted TO rrtu"I
! to the factory and give his tath"r what
| he called 'On, good haWinG out.
! lie had. however. but twelve llinutes
| in which to catch train for New York,
and therefore rclt Obliged to deter the
interview until later occasion. At the