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It has enabled me to do so much
that otherwise I could not have afforded. There is only one
hundred and seventy-six dollars left. Most of it though, is merely
loaned and perhaps will be repaid. Anyway, I shall have nearly six
hundred dollars for my work as secretary of the Food Commission,
and I shall give half of it to this fund."


CHAPTER XXX.
A "COMEDY."

When the season began again, Miss De Voe seriously undertook her
self-imposed work of introducing Peter. He was twice invited to dinner
and was twice taken with opera parties to sit in her box, besides
receiving a number of less important attentions. Peter accepted
dutifully all that she offered him. Even ordered a new dress-suit of a
tailor recommended by Lispenard. He was asked by some of the people he
met to call, probably on Miss De Voe's suggestion, and he dutifully
called. Yet at the end of three months Miss De Voe shook her head.
"He is absolutely a gentleman, and people seem to like him.


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