He was pleased to see that she had been so saving.

And her clothing account--little enough he admitted for four years and six months, $300.00.

All incidentals for the whole time, $50.00--this with her balance made just $900.

That left $2,100.00.
"Twenty-one hundred dollars unaccounted for, young lady!--besides this nest egg in the bank--I'd no idea you were so wealthy.

What have you done with all that ?" "Given it to you, Father," said she quietly, and handed him the third sheet of figures.
Board and lodging at $4.00 a week for 4 1/2 years made $936.00, that he could realize; but "cash advance" $1,164 more--he could not believe it.
That time her mother was so sick and Diantha had paid both the doctor and the nurse--yes--he had been much cramped that year--and nurses come high.