harsh unnatural voice: "There ain't any use in going on with that."

The folds slipped from Ann Eliza's hands.

"Evelina Bunner--what you mean?"

"Jest what I say. It's put off."

"Put off--what's put off?"

"Our getting married. He can't take me to St. Louis. He
ain't got money enough." She brought the words out in the
monotonous tone of a child reciting a lesson.

Ann Eliza picked up another breadth of cashmere and began to
smooth it out. "I don't understand," she said at length.

"Well, it's plain enough. The journey's fearfully expensive,
and we've got to have something left to start with when we get out
there. We've counted up, and he ain't got the money to do it--
that's all."

"But I thought he was going right into a splendid place."

"So he is; but the salary's pretty low the first year, and
board's very high in St. Louis. He's jest got another letter from
his German friend, and he's been figuring it out, and he's afraid
to chance it. He'll have to go alone."

"But there's your money--have you forgotten that? The hundred