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FRIENDS IN NEED.
"Now, papa," said Clara that morning, wrinkling her brows and putting her finger-tips together with the air of an experienced person of business, "I want to have a talk to you about money matters." "Yes, my dear." He laid down his paper, and looked a question.
"Kindly tell me again, papa, how much money I have in my very own right.
You have often told me before, but I always forget figures." "You have two hundred and fifty pounds a year of your own, under your aunt's will.
"And Ida ?" "Ida has one hundred and fifty." "Now, I think I can live very well on fifty pounds a year, papa.

I am not very extravagant, and I could make my own dresses if I had a sewing-machine." "Very likely, dear." "In that case I have two hundred a year which I could do without." "If it were necessary." "But it is necessary.

Oh, do help me, like a good, dear, kind papa, in this matter, for my whole heart is set upon it.

Harold is in sore need of money, and through no fault of his own." With a woman's tact and eloquence, she told the whole story.