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heart between the turbulent nights at the Floradora.

“Life is funny,” she mused. “Take Alexander Pantages and me. You've heard of him. Well, he was just a young Greek waiter and general handyman around the Floradora for years; and it was a poor night that I didn’t make as much on dances alone as his monthly wage!”

My mouth must have dropped open in surprise, for she laughed heartily.

“My dear, you don’t think girls worked at such a place as that just for the fun of it! A dance lasted only a few moments, and it cost the man a dollar. We girls re- ceived half for each dance; we got a com- mission of 25 cents on each drink a partner bought, and a dollar on each bottle he pur- chased. Besides that, we were paid a salary of 25 dollars a week.

“Of course that wasn’t all velvet, by any means. We had to be beautiful, and dress like princesses. We thought nothing of paying 20 dollars for a pair of slippers to

wear one or two nights, or as much as 500

dollars for an evening gown. Still, I was the Doll of Dawson, and I made money.

“T saved quite a bit, too; but look at me today. Alexander Pantages became a rich theatre magnate—and here I am, an old woman just one step from the poorhouse!”

“You sweet little goose,” I told her. “You made money for a few years, and now you're broke; but that’s not because you spent too much, it’s because you were just too darned big-hearted for your own good!”

I knew that what I said was true: I knew that she had given away her two prized nuggets, the largest ever found in the Klondike, to the Sisters of Mercy, so that little motherless children might have food and care: I knew that she, like Sam Bonnifield, had given thousands of dollars to friends and strangers, alike, who were in need: I knew that, only a few years ago, she had given ‘away a thousand-dollar lot for only the dollar necessary to make the transaction legal, because she felt sorry for someone who wanted to build a home and hadn’t the money to buy a lot and build a home, too.

“And don’t forget, when you make com- parisons,” I reminded her, “that you could have married wealth. Alex Pantages got his first theatre as a wedding present from his wife’s father. And others followed when his wife inherited her father’s fortune.”

“You knew Alex, too?” she asked in surprise.

“Yes, I knew him. I knew his wife, too —years ago.”

“Tt’s a small world, after all!” she re- marked philosophically. Then suddenly her mood changed. She was no longer the Doll of Dawson; her few brief years as a happy young wife, and the hectic days at the gaudy Floradora were forgotten. She was again the little old lady I had found clean- ing an apartment the first day I called.

“You know, my dear, I’m going to miss you terribly when you go back to Nehenta

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