Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 314, 15 November 1918 — Page 5

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A NARROW ESCAPE. M'serably Ediih crept Into the bouse too preoccupied with the loss of her hand tag even to ask whether the children had been given their afternoon lunch. At all events, hey were playing contentedly in the backyard with the mechanical jim-cracks their Uncle V m . m a. t t

iea naa maae lor mem in ais myeiium wonder of a workshop. Sounds of hammering came from the cellar where

.Ned was busy with his engines and Btop-cocks. From a neighboring tennis court floated young folks' laughter and . the fay ranter of carefree spirits. To Edith it seemed as if nobody had trouble to bear but she. How could fate deal her this last stinging blow of the lost money, the lost opportunity of turning it to profit, when she alrendy had so many perplexities? - She let her breath out In a long, miserable s'gh of attempted resignation, mechanically took off her things and began to get dinner ready. What n wc'-tv dHier seemed, when she owed the butcher for the very chops they would eat, the grocer for the very four and sugar and butter that would go Into their meal! . How should she ever make up the J50 she had lost in her purse, which was to have gone In with Lil Blake's money in the venture of that "absolutely certain war industrial" that Lil guaranteed would "double in three days!" What a mercy it was that John need not know about her foolish attempt at finance! At least it was Borne comfort that John need not know. At dinner Edith grew almost hysterical In her effort to seem in normal spirits. She thanked heaven that no one appeared to notice there was a load upon her mind. But when later in the evening the doorbell rang a long, nerve-racking buzz she Jumped with uncontrollable terror, and to cover confusion, ran to open the door. It would be Lil Blake, of course, and Edith must warn her not to say a svllsble of the afternon's misadventure. But it was not Lil Blake. A man stood there, a man whose face seemed vrguely familiar. "Good evening, Mrs. Ferrol." he began, smiling pleasantly as Edith, gathering composure as best she could, invitpd him in from the dark porch. "I guess you know me, don't you?" he looked from Edith to John, who had come forward and noted at once from the raai'n blue uniform and brass butons that he was a train conductor. "Surely," ald John; "sit down, won't yru. friend?" But Edith was dumb with mingled surprise and a sudden wild hope mixed with consternation. For the visitor was holding out her own little velvet handbag with its beaded initials "E. F. F." that she had worked upon it , herself. "We conductors can mostly remem

ber faces and names it's our business. So when I came across this bag after the ladies' shopping train had emptied in Jersey City I matched up the letters on it with Mrs. Ferrol's name, because I remembered she went to town on the 1:18 with Mrs. Blake. I grabbed it up for safekeeping, and when I finished my last run I thought I'd stop by with It on my way home." Edith took the bag. shaking tho bluecoated man's hand fervently as she did so. He had not given any hint of the wad of bills the bag had held, and Edith began a voluble speech of thanks to keep him from saying anything more. What luck that she had been there to pet hold of the bag instead of John, who would naturally have opened It! Of course he would have wondered at the $50, and of course Edith would have wretchedly blurted out the truth, and there would have to be explanations and rebukes and a scene and tears and general unhappiness. Now, he needn't know anything of the whole horrid business. But the lesson was there. Edith had come to her senses. She would do no more risking of her poor little house money on Lil Blake's Wall street tips. John went out to the porch witn the fairy godfather conductor, pressing cigars upon him since he refused all hint of any more valuable reward. And Edith buried her face in little Jack's fat neck when John returned. "Gee, you were darn lucky, Ede," said John. "I wonder," thought Edith, whose mind was back again at its problem of how to raise the money to repay Ned's debt to Fenn. (To be continued.)

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