The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-22
CHAPTER 22. SUDDEN DEATH

CHAPTER 22.
 SUDDEN DEATH | How could people without mon ey manage to live? Sondra asked herself.
 People like Cass, for instance, it was a generally accepted fact that he was eternally broke, and yet he managed to live and to enjoy himself Of course man was different, and yet she felt a great curiosity to know how Cass existed.
 Perhaps Anderson really helped him after all--he was the soul of generosity and Sondra knew that the two were friends. Six weeks-two months ago she would have gone to Anderson unfesitat- ingly, and told him of her posi- ton, but not now; she knew that in the light of their new and changed relationship she would rather die than let him know.
 I've no longer any friends to lose so what does it matter what I do?" she asked herself ruefully, and with fresh courage and deter imitation she went downstairs, paid her hotel bill and told the desk clerk that she would be leaving at the end of the week.
 Then she put on her hat and coat and went out to look for a cheaper abode.
 It was beautiful morning, and Sondra's spirits rose as she walked about. She avoided the park, which she knew might be full of people she knew, and at the end of the street she climbed on to a bus that was going northwards.
 She had heard vaguely that hardup people often found mex pensive havens in Cass's neighbor- hood, and at any rate it would be new and amusing experience after the life of luxury and safety she had been accustomed to lead.
 She wondered where Flora was, and felt a sharp longing to see her. It would have been fun if they could have shared their new independence together
 When one door shuts, another always opens"--the words seemed to follow her through the sun shine and she found them com forting
 After all I'm young and fairly strong-there must be some way to find work I can do"
 How concerned Mark would be when he got her letter telling him of this new, strange unheaval in her life.
 It would worry him to know that she was alone, even though she had not let him know the true facts of her position-Mark had always taken it for granted that she had plenty of money.
 We'll she would let him think so for the time being at all events-and then if things got too utterly hopeless, she could always go to him.
 She left the bus and walked along lost in thought.
 It would be amusing not to tell anyone of her new address-she ,,rov, JoraJ ,ryl,o+ Apdarcor u,o,,1J think when he discovered that she had vanished; possibly he would not care, or would merely feel re- lieved.
 Her thoughts scared ahead into a fantastic future She might pos sibly make money some day and be able to repay him all that he had lent her; things like that did happen in life in the most sur prising fashion-of, it would be a great triumph if she could ever show him that she was not so mercenary as he must have be- lieved her to be.
 Did other girls take money from men?-She had never troubled to ask herself the question before, and it vaguely troubled her. But Anderson had always been so delicate about it aql-she had never once felt under any obliga- tion to him until she realized fhat his devotion to her had changed It made her vince now to think of his sudden coldness; why was it? Why was it, she asked herself, restlessly.
 She turned a corner hurredly and cannoned into man ap-