d her heart in addition,--but Ernestine loved her still.

* * * * *

"Can I put you down anywhere?" Kemp asked, as his car came up to the
curb.

"No, thanks--I'll walk."

"Remember when you want some money for your new business to come and see
me!"

"I owe you too much now."

"Oh," he said good-naturedly, "that account is wiped off. The
partnership's been dissolved."

"That ain't the way I do business."

"I wish more of my men customers felt like _you_," the banker laughed as
the car drove away.

Ernestine plunged into the drizzle, and while the Sunshine Special was
hurrying the old-fashioned woman westward to the golden slopes of
California, with her pretty

"face that burned the topless towers of Ilium,"

the new woman plodded sturdily through the mucky Chicago streets on her
way to the eternal Job.

Milly was settled at last, and, let us assume, "lived happily ever
after."

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

THE HEALER

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Inter-Ocean._

"Mr. Herrick's finest."--_Omaha Herald._

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but also with having carried out his object with great artistic
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TOGETHER

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A LIFE FOR A LIFE

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THE GOSPEL OF FREEDOM

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