The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-19
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Stairs
|abrupt Meeting and
What 1t Led To
|CLARISSA MACKIE

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|CLARISSA MACKIE 3
ko-oo-o-oo AS 1920
uas a windfall In the home
l. wayland. In the free rural
box Linnie found a letter
Iorneys In New York announc-
rreat-uncle Of hers had died
her a legacy. 1t was not
a legacy-only $5O0-but 1t
an enormous sum to Linnie.
ried the letter into the house.
her radiant countenance the
Fere informed that something
pened.
ST excitement over, the ques-
90 What are you going to do
Every one had a different
|on. One said. You'd better
milliner's shop; you're so
hat trimming" Another sug-
trip. This probably would be
chance Linnie would ever
seeing anything of the world.
Egestions were of all kinds.
actical. some ridiculous. Lin
the only one who proposed
but she had an idea of her
be had seen travelling theatri-
panies and had been seized
eSire to distinguish herself as
IS.
was plenty Of time to consider
Ter, for the division of her I'M
ate was slow, and it was a
bile before she received her
II was hard for her to realize
small a bit Of paper could
/ so large an amount. When
ved 1t her mind was made up,
announced to her family and
that she was going to New
study for the stage.
had been a hubbub about the
nie should spend her legacy,
5 still more of a one now that
decided upon a method of do
Those who advised her had no
m &c on which to base their rec
btiOns. However. most of
! known of some country girl
tried to make an entry into
eer who had either returned
disappointed or had never re-
i all. But not one. had ever
lrd of as even a mediocre ac-
But Linnie argued that she,
nough money to enable her to
some time without earning a
d, would have q much better
SO to New York she went to
be an actress.
st hole in her $500 was made
Pre-. The second and a larger
made by some lessons she
p one who declared he could
actress of her within a few
But the few months passed
found she had scarcely MADE
lng. And yet her legacy was
gone. She tried to get an
ent on what she knew, but
applications a deaf ear was
wv commenced q period OF
and rags. The poor girl
erself this and denied herself
y day cutting dewn her menu
81 there was nothing left but
and milk. The sight of eata-
layed in the windows of res.
made her all the hungrier.
new If she yielded she would
&c Oh the few dollars that re-
her.
pciency In clothes troubled her
as the shortage In food. If
aNeeds like success, nothing
lallllre. Linnie's forlorn ap-
Indicated that she was one of
IS failures and was by no
ecommendation. When those
she applied for an engage
her tawdry apparel they
deaf ear at once.
Jung she opened the door of
'euroom and peered out into
nghted corridor of the top
: basement delicious edors
ao' with mint sauce, noated
aus TO taunt hungry Linnie.
rented rooms and furnished
'aect people, but she requir.
BOARD be paid weekly with
promptness. So Linnie
seO to keep the han room
z meals outside.
sue needed the dwindline
uey to keep a roof over hel
and one can eat around
an paying 81 Per week tc
VINO had made a luncheon
-eais that day, Fyew fright
J. !, and wondered If she dared
o ue eggs she had bought or
rone that night.
aaht smell a boiled egg
e as she withdrew hel
'Aed her door. st shall Try
sui out a little gas attach