He offered me three dollars a day and board, which means dinner and supper, or fifteen for the job; and I took the last offer, as I can make the most at it by beginning early and working late, and we need--' Here he stopped short, for how could he tell Jerrie that the raised roof had taken all his means, and that he even owed the grocer for the sugar she had eaten upon her berries, and the butcher for the bit of steak bought the previous night for her breakfast and his grandmother's.

But Jerrie guessed it without his telling, but with her quick instinct and delicate perception knew that no genuine man like Harold cares to have even his best friend know of his poverty if he can help it.

Forcing back the tears which sprang to her eyes, she cried, cheerily: 'Yes, I know; you are a kind of second Michael Angelo, though I doubt if that old gentleman, at your age, could have done my room better than you did.

I don't wonder Mr.Allen wanted you.

But you are not going to tramp four miles on a hot morning, on nothing but bread and coffee, and such coffee--muddier than the Missouri River! You shall have a decent breakfast, if I can get it for you.