The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-04-26
SHE OWED
FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS
G0 BY D. J. walsh,

ADEl4AIDE mao ha0 pracIlcai
mind. Of course, it would never
j have happened. But as it was.
when her hopeful little millinery
shop died slow death aud left her
in strange town with $50 and a ward
robe trunk. she had no more idea what
TO do than If she had suddenly been
called upon TO carve the Black Hills
memorial. To make il worse she owed
500 to the Collins wholesale house,
whose officials wrote firmly that Au-
| gust the first was the last date on
which payment could be accepted. And
| August the first was one week away.
Adelaide made a face at the letter,
and frightened her eherry-blush lips
How could Adelaide Lowell, to whom
even shorthand and typewriting were
inexplicable mysteries, and who fed
stray kittens her breakfast cream and
staked small boys to dog licenses
how under the blue heavens could
Adelaide Lowell obtain $500 in one
| week?
@Well," said that young lady, I'M
curling her taut little figure from the
one deep chair her room boosted
something will have to turn up"
A long-legged French doll, dangling
by one leg from the lamp cord, regard
ed her sympathetieally above shock
of henna hair. But nothing turned up.
And suppose" Adelaide further
remarked, that l must go out and find
that something" She brushed the wave
back into her hair. tilted a provoca-
tive scarlet hat over her left eye and
| Jared forth.
Ii was mere chance, of course, that
that same provocative hat should
leave Adelaide's head at the first
windy corner, while she meditated on
what price the wardrobe trunk might
bring secondhand, and tumble across
| the sun-flecked sidewalk until it came
| to a precarious halt well out into the
street. Some man made foolhardy
dash after it, captured it, and came
! triumphantly up to Adelaide after the
manner of men. He was very tall. she
saw in the hurried moment of her ap-
praisal. and rather young, with an
| alert courtesy that delighted her. She
smiled at him with an extra flicker of
her lashes, and observed that his ans
wering smile lighted a darkly serious
| face. But he had not the slightest re-
semblance to $500. Adelaide jamaed
on the hat and departed.
Doubtless it was chance, too, that
made Mile. Helene, telepathist extra
ordinary and otherwise known as He
lene 10 Peterson, slip and wrench her
ankle moment later and a half-block
| farther on-so near that Adelaide
helped her. protesting, into her own
room and into the one chair. While
I Adelaide applied bandages and ice
packs, Mile. Helene sobbed.
And only to think" she lamented
for the sixth time. that I've come all
/ the way from Grandview for a one
/ night enga cement at the Guelick club,
and now at the last moment, with res
eryations simply flowing in, ! can't
appear!" She collapsed into tears
again.
Adventure was leaping in Adelaide's
blood. "The worst of all is, they'll
probably think you're shamming." she
said comfortingly. Are there many
reservations so farT
There were nearly 800 at s. each.
But it was not that which broke Mile
Peterson's heart; il was the damage
70 her so far spotless career. She
wept great splotchy circles on Adel-
aides best pillow at the thought.
"WelI," announced Adelaide when the
time was ripe, its rather unusual,
but l suppose might arrange to I'M
derstudy for you, for-shall we say
one-third of the receipts? Since we
are both comparative strangers in
town think ii is possible" She mas
saged the swollen foot demurely.
So ii was that while Mile. Helene
still in AdeIaide's gay little room con-
graduated herself upon having en-
countered a member of her own pro-
fession. Adelaide herself was shiver-
ing in ar anteroom at the Guelick.
club. and wondering what she would
do when the performance began. Her
closest acquaintance with teIepathy-
shades of the Yogi philosophers-ha
been cultivated in circus side shows !;
she was utterly at sea.
.sThe thing to do" she decided. is to
90 as far as | can before | stop, and
maybe something will turn up"
Something did turn up as she and
her dubious assistant. the latter i'm
perfectly Modified by Nine. Helene's
note, entered the crowded clubroofn
The dark young man of the hat epi-
sode turned up and seated himself on
the front row. in a place apparently
reserved.
Adelaide sat down rather weakly
and was blindfolded Some one from
the audience came and felt the blind
fold. and remained at the assistants
request. TO make ssre of the integrity
OF the performance. Adelaide decided
that at the last moment she would