e with me and
teach me how to act gracefully in society, and all that. There are a lot
of 'poor, but proud' people who would be glad of the chance, I know."

But on this day--after she had left her riding habit at a tailor's to be
brushed and pressed, and had made arrangements to make her changes there
whenever she wished to ride in the morning--on this day Helen had
something else to do beside thinking of her proper introduction to
society. This was the first day it had been fit for her to go downtown
since she and Sadie Goronsky had had their adventure with the old man whom
Sadie called "Lurcher," but whom Fenwick Grimes had called "Jones."

Helen was deeply interested in the old man's case, and if he could be
helped in any proper way, she wanted to do it. Also, there was Sadie
herself. Helen believed that the Russian girl, with her business ability
and racial sharpness, could help herself and her family much more than she
now was doing, if she had the right kind of a chance.

"And I am going to give her the chance," Helen told herself, delightedly.
"She has been, as unselfish and kind to me--a stranger to her and her
people--as she could be. I am determined that Sadie Goronsky and her
family shall always be glad that Sadie was kind to the 'greenie' who
hunted for Uncle Starkweather's house on Madison Street instead of Madison
Avenue."

After luncheon at the Starkweathers' Helen started downtown with plenty of
money in her purse. She rode to Madison Street and was but a few minutes
in reaching the Finkelstein store. To her surprise the front of the
building was covered with big signs reading "Bankrupt Sale! Prices Cut in
Half!"

Sadie was not in sight. Indeed, the store was full of excited people
hauling over old Jacob Finkelstein's stock of goods, and no "puller-in"
was needed to draw a crowd. The salespeople seemed to have their hands
full.

Not seeing Sadie anywhere, Helen ventured to mount to the Goronsky flat.
Mrs. Goronsky opened the door, recognized her visitor, and in shrill
Yiddish and broken English bade her welcome.

"You gome py mein house to see mein Sarah? Sure! Gome in! Gome in! Sarah
iss home to-day."

"Why, see who's here!" exclaimed Sadie, appearing with a partly-completed
hat, of the very newest style, in her hand. "I thought the wet weather had
drowned you out."

"It kept me in," said Helen, "for I had nothing fit to wear out in the
rain."

"Well, business was so poor that Jacob had to