weeks' salary between me and starvation--all on account of my looks. I believe I'll go and teach in a convent, where there are not any men to be rendered hysterical by my appearance."
And she gave a terrible glance at Horace, and then feeling she had been too severe she beamed at him--beaming at Horace was perfectly safe—and added, "I've always liked you, Horrie; but I have no use for your sex--especially as employers; they are too emotional."
"And what would you say, Pearl," said Horace in a deadly impartial tone, "if a man offered you a job, and in the first interview told his life's story, asked you to write to him every day and promised you jewels if you stayed on the job until he got back--what would you say?"
"I wouldn't say a word," answered Pearl. "I'd take to the tall timber. I know that kind."
"You are both absolutely ridiculous," said Augusta haughtily.
"You are absolutely right," said Horace.
"You don't mean to say that someone has been trying to wangle Augusta away from you, Horace?" asked Pearl, generously abandoning all interest in her own problems for the moment.
The two others said no and yes simultaneously, and began to pour out the story. Augusta's point was that Horace did not