Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill JUNIUS CUTTING asked me not to make known my engagement until he was ready to publish his cast, so I told no one beyond Aaron and my dresser—that is, not outright. I had quite a struggle with my conscience before I told Frederica. She was not my dresser, but one of the best friends a girl ever had. She cannot act much, but then she is quite pretty, and always wanted to go to London, only she never could save up enough money. Once she saved forty dollars and sent it to her father to invest, but before the money-order reached him she had wired for it. She came to the conclusion that she might just As well enjoy herself while she was alive, and I was, in a way, responsible for this decision of hers. I had been the entire winter before saving two hundred dollars over and above what I would need for my summer expenses, and I took that down to a Wall Street office where I had learned they did wonderful things with money. Fredericawent with me, and she heard me tell the man that I was a poor girl, and that unless the goldmine was a very good one I didn't want him to take the two hundred. He said it was one of the deepest mines in the world, and it must have been, for the sum I put into it has never come to the surface yet. Still, I enjoy my papers and carry them everywhere. Once I was offered a penny a share— I had paid five dollars—but I took them out and rustled them lovingly and decided to keep them for their good looks. Frederica was very scornful of this decision. She said she would rather have had the forty cents and bought a cake of French soap, but, as I have said, she is never able to save any money, and no one should follow her advice. It was my custom to carry my money to Aaron, and he had made me take out a large endowment policy as well, so as to force me into savi... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.