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16 the receiver. "We have some one. I'll send her right down."

Ada had not intended to take a position until fall. Already the city was hot and stifling. It was near the end of the term at the business college, and Ada had been looking forward to the long, leisurely mornings again in store for her. But the position would be only for a week. Miss Smith assured her of that. It was a splendid opportunity for a little practical experience. It seemed, too, as if heaven must be on Ada's side, so to arrange matters that upon the occasion of her first trial her father was safely in Chicago on a business trip. If she should be detained by her employers, so that she was not at home by six o'clock, he would not be there to discover her. She agreed to try the position. The instructor gave her the name of the firm and the address written on a card:

"Belden & Roper—Insurance Agents."

But that was her own father's firm! Surely she could not go there! But why not? No one knew her at her father's office. She had been there only once, and then at night, after every one but the watchman had gone. Her father was in Chicago, and would be for some weeks yet. The same spirit that used to flash up in her when she was a child on roller-skates or a bicycle, to cross