Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 26, 10 December 1913 — Page 10

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 1913. Married Life the Second Year The Gold Witch By Stella Flores

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BY MABEL HERBERT URNER. Helen took off her coat and put it with her hand bag and bundles on a chair beside her. Then she drew out her gloves, untied her veil and leaned back with a sigh of relief. She was tired, very tired. H was the last day of her Christmas shopping. She had started out at 10 this morning. Now it was about 2 and she had come up to the restaurant on the top floor of a big department store for a light luncheon and a lew moments rest. The place was crowded. Everybody looked tired and eevrybody had bundles. The waitresses were rushing back and forth with orders of chicken patties, lobster salad, chocolate eclairs and all the other things that women have when they lunch alone. Helen ordered tea and chicken broth as something quickly served and eaten. The waitress put it. down before her, scribbled off a check for thirty cents and hurried on. Helen Hipped at the broth slowly. It was interesting to watch the women and they were all women. In the whole of that huge lunch room there were hardly half a dozen men. And whHt tired, worried unattractive looking women. Instinctively she drew out her pocket mirror, smoothed her hair and rubbed a. leaf front a powder book over her face. There was nothing that made her more uncomfortable than a feeling of untidiness and a consciousness of a shiny nose. She was not rested; she would have liked to have lingered longer over the lea, but there were still many small things to be bought and it took so long now to be waited on. Slowly she drew on her gloves and gathered up her packages. When she opened her purse to pay the check she suddenly discovered that Instead of having a ten dollar bill and some change she had only the change! THE LOST MONEY. With a sick sinking at her heart she searched restlessly through her purse, handbag, muff and under the lablt. Again she searched through her ptirse, handbag, muff and under the table, but still no bill! Woman-like she was futively repeating this process for the third time when the waitress came up. "Lost anything, ma'am?" "Oh," excitedly, "I've dropped a ten dollar bill somewhere! I don't knowwhere." "Did you have it here, ma'am?" "I don't know where I had it last. I only know I started out with fifteen dollars a ton-dollar and five ones and I've only spent the five." And again Helen began her nervous search through her purse, hand hag, etc. It is a curious fact, that when a woman loses anything she will search over and over again in the same place and in the same way Now the head waitress came up with perfunctory sympathy and a perfunctory moving back of chairs and looking under the table. With a last lingering look about, Helen went down to make inquiries at the lost and found department. And yet she felt the hopelessness of finding it there. "No ten dollar bills have been turn-

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Tom and the cockatoo are mortal enemies, but the Gold Witch adores the bird, and watches it carefully. At last Tom gets his opportunity and bribes a small boy to steal the bird while the Gold Witch sleeps on in blissful ignorance. Then Tom hurries out and buys up the best flowers and candies in the neighborhood.

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ed in here," said the man at the desk, with a note of amused tolerance in his voice, that any one should expect there would be. And Helen hurried on. Where could she have lost it? she asked herself for the twelfth time. Did she drop it out of her purse when she was paying for sme purchase? Or could she have given it out as a one

dollar bill? At length she started to leave the store. She might as well go home; she had no heart to shop any more now and no money. Her mind was full of all she culd have bought with the ten dollars. As she made her way out of the shop every attravtice article she saw now stood in her mind as something she might have had if she had not lost this money. COULDN'T ASK FOR MORE.. Helen was not mercenary as all this might imply. But above everything she dreaded to ask Warren for money. It was a humiliation from which she had always shrank. Each month he gave her a certain amount for the house

and for herself. And she always managed most carefully to keep within this amount, preferring to do without; many things rather than ask him for more. And now. she was short part of the money he had given her for the family Christmas presents. She had figured it all very closely. It was all she could do to manage before and oh. it was not fair that this should . have happened now! A sense of bitter resentment possessed her. If only she could put it out of her mind! She had somuch work, so much planning to do the few days that remained before Christmas and she knew this loss would be constantly on her mind. She remembered having heard some one say that when one lost a dollar they usually spent ten dollars worth of time worrying about it. That it was

not the actual loss that counted so much, but all that was "thrown in after" in worry. And Helen realized that this was what she was doing now and would do and that she would not help it. Then suddenly she foucd that she had cone four blocks beyond her

street. Clutching her packages she left the car and hurried back almost ready to cry with vexation. And then she waited to cross the street a taxicab passed by so deliberately close to her that it almost brushed her dress. As

she jumped back the driver grinned maliciously and passed on. This is a common occurrence that tends to irritate anyone hwever benign

their mode, and now it made Helen furious. With an indignant glance after the speeding machine she hurried across to be almost run over by anoth

er cr which whirled unexpectedly around the corner with a startling fiendish snort. The final straw came when she

reached home and threw her packages on the couch. One was missing! Oh. what else was going to happen on this dreadful day!

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