CHAPTER VI.
About this time a letter from home brought her a sharp disappointment.
Ethel was not a good correspondent, but during the homesick winter months she had written several times to three of the girls she had known in school.

Two had gone west, but the other one was still in Ohio and was planning to come to New York, to take a course of training as nurse in one of the hospitals.

In fact it had been all arranged.

And Ethel had not realized how much she had counted on this friend, until now a letter came announcing her engagement to a young doctor in Detroit.

She was going there to live, and her letter was full of her happiness.
Ethel was very blue that night.
But only a few days after this she received another missive that had quite a different effect.