Show the SALLY by D I 1 walsh SMILE copyright service MRS PINNEY had called to 1 l see miss bowman and the two women were in close conversation in miss bowmans private office miss bowman was chief executive of the governing board of the hospital and mrs pinney was a director well it simply has come to this miss bowman said wiping bipin 9 her eyeglasses nervously well w ell have to close the hospital it if we cant get something to run it on the citizens have done nobly nobly but they cant do everything it remains for or some moneyed person to come to the front front now like mrs chichester suggested mrs pinney mrs pinney was a small eager woman who looked rather worn from the long continued struggle of keeping the precious little hospital going on next to nothing a year yes mrs chichester she is our richest citizen she could give and never feel it but would she theres the question im m afraid s she he ive approached pro ached her unsuccessfully so have I 1 moaned mrs pinney well you cant force a person to give up her money certain I 1 suppose its hopeless 1 I dont know about that ive been thinking id send sally drew to her and see what good that would do sally crewl mrs pinney jumped I 1 ashes the very one ill see her this afternoon sally drew was a tiny woman with hair like snowy wool and a pale pointed little face her eyes were wonderful so bright so black so alive they danced in hereace her face but her smile was more wonderful than her eyes the smile came now at sight of mrs pinney 6 Ju J lial she cried come right in in S sallys a allys small living room so old cozy and withal so well suited to sally herself julia pinney told her story well what do you want me to do sally asked 1 I want you to go to helen chichester c and get her to give us that will keep the hospital running for one year after that but well hope sallys smile vanished she was silent an instant ill go of course she said quietly mrs pinney arose sally youre a dear if any one can do it you can you are our last resort at 9 just as mrs pinney was ready to fly to pieces with suspense sally walked in the sally smile was bright indeed 1 I get away sooner helen let me come you see we spoken before in thirty years what gasped mrs pinney thirty years doddea nodded sally 1 I did hate to go but after I 1 got there it was all right heres your money she drew a check from her handbag and gave it to julia fifty thousand doll doUar arst sl mrs pinney could just articulate but we hoped your smile would do iv it it did sally grew grave thirty years ago helen got the man I 1 wanted but no one ever knew it except her and me for or the day she was married I 1 pinned on my smile and ive worn it ever since she paused reflectively she says say she was puzzled for thirty years over my smile we made a fair exchange I 1 told her how I 1 got it and she gave me for my secret herbert chichester had only lived five years but he had lived long enough to spoil the lives ot of two women his wife had grown selfish and sore but the woman she had won him from had pinned on a smile that had brightened a whole community |