The Carlisle independent., 1917-05-24
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those advertisements whose require ments she felt she could fill. She wore her shoes out tramping the streets of Oakland and San Francisco. | At office after office she applied for work, only to be met with refusal when her lack of qualifications be- came apparent. Then she tried the stores, in the hope of securing a place as clerk until something better offered, but it was the dull season and the sell ing forces were being reduced instead of increased. Hook, though he man. | aged to retain his habitual cheery smile, was meeting with no greater | success, for there is little work that one-armed man, no matter how will | ing he may be, can do. This was | driven home to him time and time again as he applied at employment bureaus, contractors offices, ship, lumber and coal yards, only to be curtly turned down when it was seen he had an iron hook instead of left hand. At the end of fortnight the | gloom of Encouragement hung like a | cloud over the little cottage in Valda- l via and, though the wolf was not. yet lized that he was not very far away.
 Two days before the wedding Hope called at the Machin home to see the presents, which had been steadily pouring in.
 Miss Langham is calling on Miss Machin," said the man who answered l Hopes ring. But I'll tell her that you are here, sir"
 | Don't disturb her," said Hope. 'I'll wait in the library until Miss Lang ham leaveS.'
 Dropping into an armchair he picked up a magazine which he was idly perusing when his attention was | distracted by the sound of voices com- ing from the adjoining room, the door of which was ajar. This room, he knew, was 1nez' room where she was accustomed to receive her friends. The voices he recognized as those of his fiancee and a girl friend, Lucy Langham, but it was not until he heard his own name that he lowered his magazine and, unconscious of his eavesdropping, sat with alert ears.
 "Your Lieutenant Hope is a perfect dear, Inez," he heard Miss Langham saying. Everyone is crazy about him. We are all wondering how you happened to get him. He's so quiet and serious-not at all your sort"
 If l tell you how it happened will you give me your word never to breathe it to a living soul, Lucy?" came Inez' voice through the half-open door.
 'Of course I won't repeat anything you tell me, dear," said Miss Lang ham.
 "Well, it's really awfully amusing said IneZ, and Hope could hear her laughing softly. T met him last sum- mer at Abernethy's. They had a house party, you know, at their camp on Lake Placid. One afternoon Jarvis and I started to climb Whiteface mountain, but we lost our way in the | woods, and, to make matters worse, terrible storm came up. Fortunately we found a deserted cabin '. and there we spent the night. Jarvis be- haved beautifully he never slept, keeping guard all night, though we had to remain there till morning. There were only two rooms in the | place. slept on the bed in one of l them and he insisted on sitting up in | the other. The next morning we man. | aged to find the trail again and made our way back to the Abernethys, who were worried to death about us. knew perfectly we'll how they would all raise their eyebrows if we told them that we had spent the night to- | gether in a deserted cabin, so I per suaded Jarvis that we had better tell them that we had spent the night to- | gether with the Lees, who have a | camp on the lake. A few days later the camp party broke up without any one suspecting anything. Jarvis was ordered to the Pacific coast and I never expected to see him again. But last month when I was visiting Lucille Allen in Washington, sat at dinner one night next to very well-knOwn lawyer. He had had more champagne than was good for him and he was very talkative and confidential. In the course of our conversation something was said about Jarvis and the lawyer remarked:
 "That young man is going to be one of the richest officers in the navy one of these days
 'Nonsense,' answered. I happen to know that he hasn't anything ex- cept his lieutenant's pay
 "'And happen to kpow.' said the lawyer, that he is thes sole beir of Theodore Wickham'
 "'Not Theodore Wickham, the steel magnate?' I asked.
 "The same.' said he. He is Jarvis Hopes uncle.'
 "'How do you know all thisY" asked him.
 "I know it. he replied, because we are Theodore Wickham's attorneys