![]() The next day, when I called, she told me the lady she'd in mind was a niece of hers, a Mrs. Come in tomorrow and we'll talk about it." She asked me what ailed me to look so white, and when I told her, "Why, Hartley," says she, "I believe I've got the very place for you. Railton, a friend of the lady that first brought me out to the States, met me one day and stopped to speak to me: she was one that had always a friendly way with her. It did though - or I thought so at the time. ![]() Most of my money was gone, and after I'd boarded for two months, hanging about the employment agencies, and answering any advertisement that looked any way respectable, I pretty nearly lost heart, for fretting hadn't made me fatter, and I didn't see why my luck should ever turn. I'd been three months in hospital, and when I came out I looked so weak and tottery that the two or three ladies I applied to were afraid to engage me. ![]() ![]() It was the autumn after I had the typhoid. ![]()
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