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The Atlanta Georgian
and News
SUNDAY
READING 1
With Saturda
y's Georgian of 1
May
18, 1907. |
YOL. V.
NO. 273.
SUNDAY READING
With Saturday's Georgian of
May 18, 1907.
THE GHOST OF LOCHRAIN CASTLE
A Thrilling Novel of Love, Intrigue, Tragedy and the Mystery of a Famous Diamond
By MRS. C. N. WILLIAMSON, Author of “Tho Lightning Conductor,” Ete., Etc. Illustrated by George Kerr and Frank A. Nankeville.
CHAPTER I.
Elspeth and Her Great Chance.
-I LSPETH DKAN was almost
* ashamed to go again Into the
agency to ask the same question:
s there anything for me?" and to hear
e same answer, "Nothing today." She
sitoted at the door for a moment, but
e had come out on purpose to make
e call, and It was a confession of fall-
e to steal away discouraged.
Elspeth hated to fall, so she sum-
fined up her courage and marched In.
The same young woman sot at tne
me desk, with the same rather wasp-
i expression on her face, Elspeth
mid have envied her a little for her
cure position In life. If It had not been
r that expression. But Klspeth would
t willingly have changed hers (which
is attractive, oven In a greenish lodg.-
g house mirror, with a crack across
e middle) for that other, In spite of
e material advantages which might
’ with It. . „ . .
"Good morning, "Is there — she had
gun as usual, when the young wom-
i with the expression cut her short.
"Tho manager will see you In her
Ivate room," she said, with a nod to-
lrd the door, succeeded Instantly by a
hi Ike gaze of discouragemen t for the
iptlcant who followed on Elspeth s
A "small boy in Uvcry. sitting by the
or In question, knocked, mentioned
e name of. Miss Dean, and after a
arrnur from someono unsesn, invitea
speth to pass through.
Miss SnuthT the man Jif* r ,
ency, looked up^rom ft pile or idlers.
Drawn by Prank A. KanklreU.
Kenrith Looked Her Wsy Occasionally, But She Appeared Engrossed in
Her Book.
•Ah. Miss Dean. It'a you. to It? Iwna
exDoctlnjr you,” she remarked. You
generally come In about thl. time How
would you like to go up to Scotland.
and be a kind of secretary m a big
Hydro?”
Elspcth'a gray eya# opened. She had
dreamed of nothing more exciting than
a place In a Imndon office, and It bad
appeared enorrooualy difficult to get
even that. But Scotland-dear, bcauU-
ful Scotland In August, and a big Hy
dro! It seemed too good to be true.
She wss almost sure It would end In
nothing, but she did not show her Isck
of faith In her attainments and her
luck: she was far too ahrewd a girt.
In spite of her Inexperience, to make
“•? shouKMlke It. I think,” she said
with creditable calmnMS. “Exactly
what would I have to dor
“WelL it's hot Quite an ordinary itc-
rctarUl position," replied Miss Smith.
M You would have to take down the
manager’s letters from dictation, of
JCsi. Let me see. wbafs your rata
per mlauto?"
“A hundred and thirty worda la my
averago speed. I can do a hundred and
fifty for a spurt.”
"Good. But I believe you have only
had home practice as yet"
“I used to work from by brothers
dictation. He could hardly speak too
fust for me."
"One doesn’t lose one s head with
one’* * brother. Whereas with strangers,
and a great many strangers at whose
beck and call you’d have to be, you’d
find It different."
“If you think I am too Inexperienced
for tho place’’— began Elspeth flush
ing.
"frankly. I do think you too Inex
perienced. but you seem a quick-wit
ted, sensible girl, who ought to get
on: and the manager of Lochraln Cas
tle Hydro makes It a point that the
person engaged shall be 8cotch. well
educated, a lady, not over ZB, and—er—
prepossessing. You happen at this mo
ment to be the only young Scotchwom
an I have on my books aa a stenogra
pher. Otherwise I should have pre
ferred some one more experienced and
nearer the age limit mentioned.”
"I’m 21,” said Elspeth.'-
"And look IS, but It can’t be helped.
Mr. McGowan wants tome one at once.
If you go, you’ll have to start tomor
row. Cun you do that?"
^‘Easily," replied Elspeth. who lived
In one room, and whose worldly pos
sessions would all go Into a box not
too large for use os a cabin trunk.
"You say It Isn’t an ordinary place.
What Is there to db besides attending
to the manager’s correspondence?”
"Ills correspondence would probably
be the leust part of your work, as
there’s already a young man who helps
with that; but he has other duties,
bookkeeping and no on, and can’t de
vote his whole time to correspondence.
A local young woman was tried, but
failed, and a new person Is wanted In
a hurry, because there are guests In
the hotel who need eecretarial work
done, and haven't brought their own
secretaries. That ta -why I said you
Continued on Next Pago.
