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The drift of events for a period of five years carried Lester and Jennie still farther apart; they settled naturally into their respective spheres, without the renewal of the old time relationship which their several meetings at the Tremont at first seemed to foreshadow. Lester was in the thick of social and commercial affairs; he walked in paths to which Jennie's retiring soul had never aspired.
It is almost certain that she would not have had the courage to say anything if he himself had not brought up the subject of Jennie's appearance. "She doesn't look well," he said. "There seems to be something the matter with her." "Oh," began Mrs. Gerhardt, visibly struggling with her fears, and moved to make an end of it at any cost, "Jennie is in trouble. I don't know what to do. She "
Helen did not bring in many members of the Upedes; indeed, just then they all seemed to keep away from Duet Two, and none of them spoke to Ruth. That is, none save Jennie Stone. The fat girl was altogether too good-natured and really too kind at heart to treat Ruth Fielding as Jennie's roommates did.
But as he was passing Jennie's house he looked toward the porch, and there he saw Joe's Nodding Donkey. "Oh, golly!" whispered Jeff to himself, "dis yeah is mah chance! I kin git dat Donkey, suah!" Sneaking along, Jeff softly opened the gate and went into Jennie's yard. On tiptoes he approached the porch where the Nodding Donkey was slowly shaking his head up and down.
"It must be understood," he said, addressing Jennie, "that the analysis is but roughly made. I intended to devote the night to a more minute scrutiny." "All I want at the present moment," said Jennie, "is a rough analysis." "There it is," said the chemist, handing her the paper. She read, Jennie's eyes sparkled as she looked at the figures before her. She handed the paper to the Princess saying,
"Jennie good-by to-day." This roused her from her revery, and she called to her mother, "Why, I forgot to drop in at Jennie's this afternoon, as I promised." "How annoying! When you know how sensitive she is and how angry she gets at any neglect." "I can run out there now. It is light enough." "But it will be dark in less than an hour. Louis, will you go out to Jennie's with Ruth?" "Eh?
There are those who will say that for cases like Jennie's there are soup kitchens, Y. W. C. A.'s, relief associations, policemen, and things like that. And so there are. Unfortunately, the people who need them aren't up on them. Try it.
The neighbor's daughter brought over the paper, and Jennie's heart stood still as she glanced at the title-page. There it all was uncompromising and direct. How dreadfully conspicuous the headline "This Millionaire Fell in Love With This Lady's Maid," which ran between a picture of Lester on the left and Jennie on the right.
As she opened out the paper she saw the great black headlines that extended across two columns, and the news itself dated not from Venice, but from Vienna, was in type much larger than that ordinarily used in the paper, and was double-leaded. The headings were startling enough: "Dear me!" the Princess cried, peering over Jennie's shoulder at these amazing headings, "how like home that looks.
Jennie walked into a department store, picked out the oldest and most stationary looking floorwalker, and put it to him. The floorwalker bent his head, caught the word "food," swung about, and pointed over Jennie's head. "Grocery department on the seventh floor. Take one of those elevators up." Any one but a floorwalker could have seen the misery in Jennie's face.
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