Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-15
luxury of adding a trihe to your
Thank you!" I murmured.

Thank you!" I murmured.
His arguments had made the
whole matter look differently to me.
He had classed Tom and me to-
gether-and had spoken as if he
took the same type of interest in
each of us.
THE wrap I chose for you is
blue" he told me. 1T is the same
tint as that cushion on the chair in
the library. 1 remarked once that
it just matched your eyes. Do you
remember"
did remember, and nodded, vex-
ed at feeling my checks flush.
THE maerial OF fthe cloak is not
he said, "for you will want it for
spring and summer. In the fall you
shall have something heavier-with
fur on it, perhaps"
l suspected that he was teasing
me, and did not know how to reply.
You see," he explained, II am
obliging you to discard your black.
Changing back to colors would
mean your getting many new things,
but I am raising your salary-so it
will be quite possible for you to get
white and colored dresses instead
of your black ones. Now don't pro-
test! I meant to increase your pay
anyway at the end of three months
if you gave me satisfaction. And
you dol"
Many Changes
I returned to my room that night
with my thoughts in a very different
channel from that in which they had
run before l went down to the draw
ing room. ! could hardly realize
the changes that had taken place in
the past few months. / deliberately
reviewed these changes.
saw myself as I had been before
I came here--poor, plainly dressed,
living from hand to mouth, dis
pensing with all luxuries-uncertain
when I had secured this position IL
would be able to keep it. And now,
here I sat in this delightful room in
which I lodged, surrounded by
beauty and comfort, living in hand
some house, eating the food that rich
people eat, driven about in an auto
mobile, dressed prettily and treated
as an equal by the parent of the
child who was my charge. Did any
girl ever drop into a more fairy-story
like condition?
1 believed that I was happy, and
yet had a vague sense of uneasiness
as 1 recalled something that my en-
ployer had said to me when he
bade me goodnight.
'I shall mention to Mrs. Gore that
I have raised your salary" he re-
marked, land that you certainly
earn every cent you get. I shall eX-
plain to her also that you will, be-
cause of that raise, be enabled to buy
such clothes as you will need this
summer. Does Mrs. Gore know that
you have no money of your own
that is, that you are quite dependent
upon your salary?"
mo-" I said truthfully, "I have
never told her anything about my
private affairs"
"And you haven't told me much
but l have guessed what l did not
learn from your former pastor and
your fathers physician" he observ-
ed. You see, made sure that you
were just what I believed you to be
when 1 engaged you. But TO re-
turn to the subject of Mrs. Gore
as she knows nothing of your fin
ances, there is no need of explaining
to her that the trifies I give you are
not bought by yourself. Don't you
think so?'
Perhaps" I acquiesced.
I was young and foolish, and the
thought of the new clothes made ME
glad. was not sorry 1 was to look
dainty next summer at Hillcrest
when Hugh Parker would be there.
Somehow. when l thought of myself
as attractively dressed, l reflected
more on what Parker would think
OF my appearance than on what my
employer would think.
Was that ungrateful? I wonder
ed. Or was it only because youth
turns naturally to youth for appro-
baton and admiration?
ITO De Continued.)