vide them with a bare living and here she had by hardly turning a hand accumulated practically his whole year's salary in a couple of hours.
Carmelita did not believe that there is any special virtue in money earned by arduous toil. In Wall Street, where Dudley spent his days, there were men making fortunes in a few minutes by much the same process as she had acquired this miraculous five thousand dollars. She picked up the check and experienced anew the delicious thrill which the unexpected possession of it gave her. The money had been taken from other people who could doubtless easily afford to lose it. And she needed money so badly.
There are times when yielding to temporary temptation seems the easiest and most natural act in the world.
In the end Carmelita kissed the photograph of her good-looking American husband and, snapping off the bed-light, went to sleep.
