The Adventures of Sally

that any one mortalshould have been able to spread such universal happiness as she had doneby the simple act of lending her brother Fillmore twenty thousanddollars. If the Millennium had arr

of drama. Most of them had played in pieceswhere much the same thing had happened to the persecuted heroine roundabout eleven o'clock, and the situ

be lifted on Tuesday at the latest; whileno less an authority than the cigar-stand girl at the Pontchatrain hadinformed the man who played the butler that Toledo and Clevelan

It may have been an optical illusion,but he appeared to Sally to put on at least six pounds in weight on thefirst day of the new regime. As a serf looking after paper-knives andother properties, he had been--for him--almost slim. As a

ndit puzzled her why she was not. But whatever it was that cast the faintshadow refused obstinately to come out from the back of her mind ands

eFillmore, he was a man who responded to the sunshine of prosperity. Hi

y through the pleasant woodsand fields by the

rate, found nothing wrongwith life. He held fort

ll show 'em!" His jaw wassquared, and his eyes

w warmth ofafternoon. The sun had gone behind the trees, and a cold wind wasblowing up from the river. And quite suddenly, as though it was the windthat had cleared her mind, she understood what it was that had bee

a race which they muststrain every nerve to win, regardless of what they missed by the waysidein their haste? Fillmore--Gerald--all of them. There might be a woman ineach of their lives, but she came second--an afterthought--a thing fortheir spare time. Ger

n a year in New York. Everybodysays it's good... if it does get over, they'll all be after me. I..."Sally s