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Show I Her Daughter and His Son A Gnat Married Lift Story by IDAH McGLONE GIBSON 1 ANN -s I IJIST DAY IX THTC CITV. I he nejtt afternoon I hurriedly locked lock-ed the doors of the only home I had over known, not daring to linger over HH the taik lest memories of other days weaken my tourufc. and I hurried toward to-ward lown. Just before the bunk closed clos-ed I slipped In and drew out my money. A little later 1 boarded the train for the city. I did not tell Ken-! neth or Mr. Hulaey that I wa Roinif .1 1 h.id ?mtd so man) "goodbyes" oj old friend! of my childhood that I I - K felt I could simply bear no more. I was lucky enough to net a loner, hr-rth at the station ond went dlrectly to jB Before I left home I had mailed a) jjH note to Mr- Halnev . asking him not ( to tnini-; me ungraierui ana icmr.K nun that when I arrived at my destination and wjs settled In my new life I would let him know where I was and what V . w i was doing. looking back on nil this now. I saw liRK how foolish, how childish I whs, but it ai a mistake of youth If my Spt? mother's death had happened now, in- Mi-j I i ' when I was seventeen, I would havo accepted all the help that Mr J I '-. could kivo me This would tjs5 give him pleasure rind mc Immoasurn- T.jH le Dneflt But Just "t that time I fifl seemed to me that It would be cow- ,IJ ardly to allow any one to do anything for mo I remembered how many Kirls of my own age hud gone out Into the world with absolutely nothing and made theii way. Little did I think a $ I composed mself for tdeep in mv 'kMm berth thai theirs would be my predlco- tier.t er soon that I would have w Wl nothing '. h I pinned the little bag containing jrtfK the thousand dollars which seemed Lmrm bu ruble riches, on the bosom of Wf- my night dresa and resolutely sent my I t ' mind Irto the future find away from 1 the FyjH I did not awaken until nearly noon '. jfd the next r'.n; and -.llthough still some Wjfvl dlatance from the city where 1 had 1 determ'nod to make my start. I a rose I rnV and dressed, taking a few dollars out 's2mSH of rnv llu, no;ird for ,n? da's ex- -U'I penseV. I pl.accd the rest in my stock-1 ing feeling very grown up and mod-, pfiH orn wOmanleh In so doing I had, heard so much of the "stocking I ljK bank" ' i read so much about It ln h , rT ht it seemed to me for 'he first time In my life that I won belnsr very worldly as I puhed the chamois bng toward the top of m hoe. I ate my luncheon leisurely and marveled somewhat at my appetite which 1 satisfied with fruit and cereal, bacon, egs and toast As I neared my destination I begun to RCt a little nervous. Where 6hould I jo1 It WSSi nearl dinner time and beginning to grow dusk. I determined to pick out the bent hotel for the night and leave the details of securing permanent quarters until the next day I learned 1 thf price of the rooms at the hotel with consternation, but nothing daunt-! ed. decided that It would be best for. me to sto where I was for the nighi at lesef I made up nv, mind that I , would go to some restaurar.i for my dinner, even though I was alone, and It was with great trepidation th.n 1 entered one of the largest restaurants I In town, and as I found out af fer-1 wards, or.c of the most expensive As I looked over the menu I realized for jthc first, time tnat a thousand dollars mennt very little to begin life upon' iand I began to be apprehensive. I1 I found that I (lid not have enough monev, outside my stocking bank, to! pay for the most modest little men! Telling myself that I would begin to' I economize the next do v. T ordered stenk nd potatoes. BS I was hunpn '."nd determined to hac tco cream for l"v."irrt As I waited for my dinner to be served, I looked about and wondered won-dered If among nil the young women I 'who seemed so gay and were so beautifully beau-tifully dressed so apparently hrppy and ea re-free, there was one whose heart was a liey ns mine I was the only young woman In the room who was unescorted and I noticed that I the head waller had put me at rather a secluded table I wondered anxiously anx-iously If I had better go to the dross- 1 Ing room nnd get some more monev hei'ore I began to eat. or wait until I had finlslied. Just os I had decided to co the waiter brought mv steak. For some untold reason I became verv nnnnn.i and urter finishing mv steak and before my Ice cream had i been served, made my wav to the dressing room and found that the back seam of mv stocking had given wa . le.ivinfi- .i rip two or three lnchei long- nnd m monev was cone' |