and her sister Susan were the only children of Josiah Carpenter, a wealthy man living in Akron, Ohio. Upon his death the girls found themselves alone and heiresses. Alice, while visit

considerate enough to contract pneumonia and die before he obtained pos

made her home. Archibald loved his mother and begged her to let him pay her rent for the house, b

estment that she made was successful. She had adopted and educated two orphan boys, one of whom had died, while the other was finishing college, after which he was to become a

s law. While his wife was a social climber he was exactly the opposite. He had been known to bring home the most disreputable looking men-men who had been his friends in youth and who were playing in hard luck. He would ask them to dinner without even

and, and at times they had hard work to make both ends meet. Ethel attended a fashionable school and hardly realized what the family sacrificed for her. She made many friends among the wealthy girls of the smar

a young man whose sister went with the set of girls who came to Ethel's teas. His name was Harvey Bigelow. One of his sisters had married into the nobility. He had a large Roman nose and a re

so rude to Mr. Bigelow

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ne thing his nails are too shiny, and that shows his lack of refinemen

ould declare that Ethel was exact