"I want Ellen to go looking so she won't be ashamed before the other girls, and I don't want Cynthia Lennox thinking she ain't well enough dressed, and we ought to have let her do it.

As for being beholden to her for Ellen's clothes, I won't." "I rather guess not," said Andrew, but he was sick at heart.

Only that afternoon the man from whom he had borrowed the money to buy Ellen's watch and chain had asked him for it.

He had not a cent in advance for his weekly pay; he could not see where the money for Ellen's clothes was coming from.

It was long since the "Golden Hope" had been quoted in the stock-list, but the next morning Andrew purchased a morning paper.