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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
THE NEW GOWN ARRIVES
must have money — where could she turn for it ? Nervously fingering the daily paper, she unconsciously brought beneath her eyes an advertisement that was like an answer to her wild questionings. It was a loan shark's lure to draw just such distracted minds as Mildred 's. ' ' Money lent with greatest privacy to responsible persons, ladies with allow ances :
Why, of course, that was the way out of her trouble ! How fortunate that she should have seen that advertisement ! In a flutter of excitement and hope, she ran to her room, hastily dressed for the street, and hurried out to the office of the hook-nosed gentleman who temporarily relieved the mental strain of harassed clients in return for usurious interest on that momentary relief.
Mildred was somewhat discomfited, to find the office of this dispenser of moneys quite as shabby and depressing as the neighborhood in which she was obliged to seek it. She was more discomfited when she was confronted by a greasy, unprepossessing
man whose eyes stared with the purposeful, unblinking stare of the shark of the deep. As she sat before him, vainly endeavoring to control her agitation, her shallow, unstable character was as manifest to him as tho graven upon her brow. He knew the type so well— the woman of irresponsible principles in financial matters, of uncontrolled caprices, of hysterical determination to reform when in a scrape, and of airy disregard for consequences until fairly toppling over a precipice. He knew the type, and he knew the cent-by-cent value of one thousand dollars.
He looked up John Barton's rating, and he was very suave and quite willing to lend Mildred the thousand dollars she required. She had only to sign an agreement to pay it back at the rate of fifteen dollars a week. Oh, that would be easy! The trembling woman could scarcely get the pen in her hand quickly enough. Then — as a mere formality, you understand — she would please to sign this other paper acknowledging to her husband that she had borrowed the money.
"No; I wont sign that," declared Mildred, drawing back as if from the thrust of a serpent.
"Then you dont get the money/' retorted the lender.
CREDITORS DEMAND PAYMENT OF THEIR BILLS