The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-08-23
Ia LIFE COMPANION
by HELEN A. ROBERTS.

| Copyright, 1918, By the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
'Wanted- Companion for young
lady. Must be well educated and have
best OF references. Apply at 69I Ma
pie avenue. city"
There" sighed Olive, as she read
the above advertisement. I've got to
get o position, and / might as well
start and look for one now. / GER
tainly have had good education. Mr.
Lawrence viii give me good letter OF
reference"
About six months previous to this
| time, Olives father had died, leaving
| her alone except for his old school
chufn Ted Lawrence. He had left no
Will and Olive. always supposed to
| have been wealthy, had to find some
means Of supporting herself. Some
of the town gossips had said that old
ssTed' Lawrence had something to DO
| with Ii, but nothing further was said.
When Olive had shown Ted Law
renee the advertisement, he thought It
| fair place for girl of her standing,
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| After short talk with her adviser,
Olive started for the house on Maple
| avenue. In answer to her ring at the
/ door, maid appeared and showed her
| In to the lady OF the house, who was
| Miss Madison. Olive introduced her
SELF, and after few minutes Of con-
versation with Miss Madison, was
hired.
/ During the next six months. Olive
and her mistress travelled great deal.
Then, suddenly. they packed up to
leave for home. olives employer ex-
planned that her brother, who was in
training camp, was coming home for
| short furiough, and that she was go-
/ ing to give dinner In his honor.
Olive was somewhat happy. as she
would be able to visit many OF her
old friends, and most Of all, her old
/ friend, Ted Lawrence.
During the time that Miss Madison's
brother Ralph was home, Olive had
very little to do, as Miss Madison was
1 quite busy entertaining her brother.
The night of the dinner. Olive was
/ out walking on the large lawn chat
surrounded the Madison home, and
/ she chanced to meet Miss Madison
1 and her brother OF course, they We're
! introduced, and Ralph upon finding
/ that Olive was his sisters companion
| (whom he had heard much of), insist
| ed that she join them at dinner.
Al few minutes later, as she was COM
| Ing down the stairs to go into the din
| Ing room, the maid handed her tele-
| gram. Looking first at the signature,
she saw that 1t was from Ted Law
| renee. "Come to my office at your
earliest convenience, 1t read. Being
| quite anxious TO know what the tele-
| gram meant, she excused herself to
| the hostess and left at once for the
office. When she arrived there, he
/ quietly asked her to sit down as he
| had some good news for her.
| "Olive, 1t was year ago today that
/ your father died, leaving will in my
/ possession, not to be opened until one
| year after his death. 1t leaves his en-
tire estate to you. Now, you WILL of
course, give UP your position with the
Madisons.
Olive was happy and yet she was sad.
She was glad that she didn't have to
| support herself any more, and yet She
didn't want to leave the Madlfons.
i The next day she informed her EN-
| ployer of what had taken place the
evening before. They were all glad
and yet they wanted her to stay with
them. as they had got to like her in the
i short time that she had worked for
them. Olive thought 1t over and told
them that she would stay few months
longer.
It was aome six months before Ralph
came home again and still Olive was
4 In the employ Of Miss Madison. Ralph
i and Olive had become quite good
friends and had been corresponding
with each other since the last time
Ralph was home. This time when he
came home 1t was Olive who was busy
i entertaining him. One evening when
he was home he asked Olive to take
short walk out in the garden, and
/ just before they turned to come back
!, Olive fold Ralph that she was going
] to leave his sister. Olive was little
bit disappointed when Ralph didn't
say that he was sorry, or even try to
induce her TO stay, but on the contrary,
he looked happier, and turning square
around. faced Olive and said: 'T've
/ been looking for a companion for life
and you're the one want. How about
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| Olive hid her face in his arms and
!, nobody but Ralph heard what she said
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