LADIES-IN-WAITING
to-morrow on an early train and sailing Saturday from Southampton.”
“Oh, the world is not lost entirely, then!”—and Appleton leaned back and wiped his forehead. “What has happened? I ought never to have gone to London.”
“She had a cable yesterday from her Brooklyn church, offering her a better position in the choir, but saying that they could hold it only ten days. By post on the same day she received a letter from a New York friend—”
“Was it a Carl Bothwick?”
“No; a Miss Macleod, who said that a much better position was in the market in a church where Miss Tucker had influential friends. She was sure that if Miss Tucker returned immediately to sing for the committee she could secure a thousand-dollar salary. We could do nothing but advise her to make the effort, you see.”
“Did she seem determined to go?”
“No; she appeared a little undecided and timid. However, she said frankly that,
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