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BREAD ON THE WATERS By A. M. Davies Otfden Copuilflht. 1904, bu A. M. Davies Ogden As the footman turned to comedown the steps after leaving: the cards he had held Miss Mallory leaned back in the victoria with a sigh of relief. It had been a long, tiresome afternoon, but she had used her last card now, and, these people being fortunately "out," she would go home and forget her thoughts, for somehow Roland Hu- mason had been much in her mind late ly. Strange that after three years of absence the recollection of his car dark eyes and clean cut features should linger thus vividly. And again Miss Mallory sighed. Why had he gone so suddenly and sent no word? Looking up to give the order for home, the girl suddenly be came aware of a woman standing but a few feet away with gaze hungrily fixed upon herself. As their eyes met th woman came slowly forward. "Will you lend me $5?" she asked ab ruptly. The voice was sweet and well modulated, as Miss Mallory noted through her surprise. Nor did the wo man's appearance suggest that of a beggar. The girl hesitated. She had always been cautioned not to give in the street "Indiscriminate giving is the ruin of many," was her father's dictum. Yet in this case there was a curious, half wild look in the woman's eyes, as though she were enduring Borne strain almost beyond her strength, and Miss Mallory felt her sympathies quicken. Roland Humason would give his money. He never refused to help a woman even while he laughed at himself for a credulous simpleton. Swayed by an uncomprehended im pulse, the girl pulled out a crisp five dollar bill. "Take it," she said gently. Into the tired face opposite leaped a light of wonder, almost fear; then the tense lines relaxed. "Thank you," was the simple re sponse, but Miss Mallory could feel all that was compressed into the words. "I will send it back. You shall see. But you must give me your name." More to humor her than from any ex pectation of receiving the money, Miss Mallory glanced Into her cardcase. It was as she thought Iler own cards were all gone. Hastily pulling out one of her father's cards, she scribbled her name and address on the back and held it to ward the woman. "Here," she said kindly. Then, with a nod to the expectant footman, who "WILL TOC LEND ME $5?" SHE ASKED AB ISLPTLY. stood watching with severe disap proval, they were gone, while the wo man, the slow tears welling into her tired eyes, turned steadily iu the direc tion of the nearest ferry. All through dinner and into the next day the woman's face haunted Miss Mallory with a strange persistency. She could not feel that she had done wrong. If ever person looked in need of help thai woman had done so. The girl was conscious only of a regret for not having questioned her, tried to find out something about her that real assistance might be rendered. Hut there had been an air about the stranger, suppliant though she was. which for bade intrusion upon her personality. Lying near the window In the gather ing dusk, Miss Mallory let her fancy wander whither It would, wondering a little at the odd tangle in her thoughts which seemed somehow to link this wo man to Kola lid Humason, and then, looking up, she saw him coming across the room to her. For a moment 6he stared. Incredulous, but his warm band clasp was very real. The butler told me that I should find you here," he exclaimed in a glad voice. "Oh, how good It Is to see you gain!" The girl, recovering, drew her hands away. "How do you do?" she said, with rhllly civility. The man's expression 1 cnnnRtwx. "Pardon me," he returned more form ally. "The excitement of being here must have gone to my head." Miss Mallory's lip curled. "There can hardly be much excite ment in doing what you could have done any day In the last three years," Bhe declared a bit disdainfully. Hu mason's color deepened. "No," he said simply, "you are wrong. I have not been in New York. Three years ago my father died," he added. meeting the surprised" question in her eyes. "It changed all my life. I found myself with my mother and a widowed sister to care for, left with barely a pittance. It was necessary I should try at least to carry on the old busi ness at home. I came to bid you good by, and you were out. And what could I have said? You, beautiful, courted, the only child of an Indulgent father; I merely one of the many who sur rounded you. How could I dream that you would ever spare me even a thought? So I went away, resolved to forget. And then" "Yes," queried the girl as he paused, "and then?" Her eyes were hidden, but there was a note in the soft voice that aroused his courage. "I found out that I could not for get" said the man. "Yet what claim had I? And then, yesterday oh, how can I thank you properly?" he broke off earnestly. "Yesterday the woman you helped she was my sister" speak ing with steady tone. "Not long ago her child died, and, half mad from the loss, she came to the city, resolved to destroy herself here, where we would not know of it. But when she reached New York the commonplace, everyday aspect of things seemed to calm her mood, and her resolution faltered. Yet she had expended what money she had, not even the price of a ticket home being left. Determining to put fate to the test, she wandered about, seeking a familiar face my sister alone in this great city, where she knew no one resolved, should her plea for help be refused, to put an end to her life. And then she saw you." For a moment the man was silent as a shudder seized him at the thought of what might have happened. "Oh, if she had not met you if But I dare not think of it. I I have a pho tograph of you. I bribed your maid for it," he confessed shamefacedly. 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It was the card up on which she had scribbled her address. "Turn it over," as the girl seemed be wildered. A low cry broke from the red lips. "Oh," she stammered, while the color flooded up to her pretty curly hair. "I I was in a hurry. I thought that it was one of father's. I" Her confusion in creased pitiably. But the man's strong clasp had again caught the fluttering little hands. "I "thought that If you had cared enough to carry a man's card in your cardcase for three years that you must have cared a little for the man him self," he said eagerly. "Was I wrong, sweetheart? Are you going to send me away again?" The girl, her eyes fixed on the betray ing bit of pasteboard whereon in fine script ran the words, "Mr. Roland Hu mason," drooped her head. "No," she answered shyly. "Please please stay." Too Much For the Cook. 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