ghters found, after his death, that the
settlement of his affairs left them a very slender sum of money. It
was necessary that one of the young women should become an income
earner, and it was decided that Henrietta, since she had a better head
for affairs and more liking for business, should take this share of
their burden. There was enough money to give her a course in
secretarial training in a women's vocational college in Boston and to
support them all in economical comfort until she should be ready to
begin her work. As she was at once successful in finding a position in
New York, they invested the few hundred dollars still left in a first
payment upon a little home in Staten Island, and they were now
carefully husbanding Henrietta's salary and paying off the remaining
debt upon the instalment plan.

It was through Dr. Annister that Henrietta found a good position so
quickly. He and Dr. Marne had been classmates and warm friends during
the years of their medical training, and afterward, although one had
gone to New York and become one of the famous specialists of his
generation and the other had sunk into the obscurity of general
practice in a small city, they had kept up their friendship in a
desultory way, with occasional meetings at medical conventions and now
and then a letter. When Dr. Marne died, a missive came from his friend
that seemed so simple and genuine in its feeling that it deeply
touched Henrietta, to whom fell the duty of answering it, because of
her mother's stricken condition.

The memory of that letter and a warmly reverent feeling for the
friendship that had called it forth stayed long in her heart. And at
last, when she was ready to try conclusions with the world, and felt
sure, with the usual conviction of youth, that it would be much better
to go somewhere else to begin, she wrote to Dr. Annister, telling him
briefly her plans and hopes and what her training had been. And the
famous Dr. Philip Annister interested himself in the daughter of
his old friend, and at once found for her a well-paid position as
secretary for Felix Brand, his prospective son-in-law. Mrs. Annister
also showed much kindly feeling for the girl and often had her stay
overnight at their home for a visit to the theatre or the opera.

Between Mildred Annister and Henrietta there existed a friendship
which made up in outward warmth what it lacked in depth. For Mildred,
with her woman's heart but lately awakened and fille