Am trying to push on. Have done my best."
"That he did. There was good stuff in him, lads, and perhaps he was
wanted up aloft!"
A solemn hush held the party. "'I did my best,'" said a trooper softly
at length. "Ah, well, it'll be a good job for all of us, if when our
time comes we can say that with as much truth as he!"
[Sidenote: Mary sacrificed herself to help another. The renunciation in
time brought reward.]
Mary's Stepping Aside
BY
EDITH C. KENYON
"How very foolish of you! So unbusinesslike!" cried Mrs. Croft angrily.
"I could not do anything else, Hetty. Poor Ethel is worse off than we
are. She has her widowed mother to help; they are all so poor, and it
was such a struggle for Mrs. Forrest to pay that L160 for Ethel's two
years' training in the Physical Culture College. You know, when Ethel
and I entered for training, there was a good demand for teachers of
physical culture, but now, alas! the supply exceeds the demand, and it
has been such a great trouble to Ethel that she could not get a post,
and begin to repay her mother for the outlay. She failed every time she
tried to secure an appointment; the luck seemed always against her. And
now she was next to me, and I had only to step aside to enable her to
receive the appointment."
"And you did so! That is just like you, Mary. You will never get on in
the world. What will people say? They are already wondering why my
clever sister is not more successful.
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