Show E TEST HIT T OF CHARACTER by DOROTHY DOUGLAS copyright 1315 1915 by tho the mcclure newspaper syndicate sally van camp came home in a state of 0 complete exhaustion from rehearsal hear sal since the losing of the envelope with her salary in it she had been forced to go about her strenuous d lays days with scarcely enough food to nourish a canary and to sin sing and give forth rth her vitality as it if till the lack of 0 tood food were a thing ot of no consequence the pitifully small salary she sha drew tor fa r singing every night and two afternoons a week in a big musical comedy chorus was all she possessed ln in the way of financial support it took her every penny to spread out over the week so that at the end of those seven days sally would have starved save tor for the tact fact that another pay day aril arrived ved however three days had been got through had sally not spent fifty cents on an advertisement in the lost land and found column after she had dropped her pay envelope in the sul sub way she could have had some lunch for five days As it was she had to tn fight the pangs of hunger and won der if anyone finding her money mones would ever return it philip turner tumor who had read the advertisement pondered long and speculatively over it he surrounded iby by every luxury and the manager of 0 a successful restaurant where people dined and wined and listened to cabaret music felt strangely upset that some borne poor working girl had lost a trifling sum of 8 and that it was her all perhaps philip turner was halt philanthropic certainly he be was curious to see it if the girl who had lost her salary in a white envelope was honest turners hobby it hobby it could be called was to test human nature 1 I will send S V C EL a white envelope with 8 in it and tall her I 1 found it in the tha subway be decided as a conclusion to his speculations regarding sallys advertisement it was as the fourth day of sallys enforced fast when hen the letter from philip turner arrived with the envelope she had come home at 1130 10 from the theater so weary that the stairs leading to her attic room had haunted her all the way home as a task quite beyond her power 0 ot f no BO upon seeing the letter addressed to herself sally opened it apathetically she know knew instantly that the money was not that which she had lost the envelope and the bills were not her own she did not tor for the moment doubt that the envelope had been found and sent to her as supposedly the ona one she had lost across the street a midnight shop flaunted its blaze 0 of light into sallys halt half starved face turkey sandwich was the illuminated sign that goaded her into using the money as her own when she arrived in her room again she was faint but not so faint but that tha t the turkey saad sandwich set her on a eon con teritha girl ol of her ber in the light of day and with vita clearer reasoning fac faculties sally felt her position keenly slue slid nad had deliberately used the money of some other person and she would not be able to repay that money until three days later it was a very wan but strictly straightforward saly sally that thai found her way to the tome of philip turner luckily he inas alres in ills his servant led sally efa cu hills halls until she was shown into the iho ilbery wherein philip did lis bis dream dreaming ilig she smiled halt wistfully as she handed back bach the envelope 1 I took this and used some same of the money she told him it Is not the envelope I 1 lost but I 1 was starving and had to rehearse today I 1 want to pay back what I 1 have used when I 1 can she spoke brokenly tor for the peculiarly culi arly enveloping light in philip turners eyes played havoc with her nerves when abe had told him in detail all that he demanded of tier her he took her to the big drawing room and himself sat down at we the piano now sim he said laughingly 1 I want to see what you can do it if you please me I 1 can give you an engagement encasement ga to sini ring in my imy restaurant for so I 1 a sallys slim hand band sought support even as it had when she had seen too the money in lu her letter she smiled Binl led however lana ana philip watched the dawning happiness that he wa was one day to bring into his own and sallys sally life neither of them know for th the second that love was weaving them into its net but sally did know mow that she was going to sing as she had sever mever sung for anyone else when she had finished philip sat silently looking at tier her 1 I could easily make it a hundred hebald he said finally but you might only slag sing a few weeks for me and go ott off to the continent or something like that he ended laughingly for sally w was as very near to tears there is no use in my trying to thank you she said softly philip did not tell her until long tafter after they were married that ho be had 1 wanted to test her cha cater even I 1 so sally saily only moved nearer him ana dropped her nead head on hla his shoulder |