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The heroine was a simple little country girl--just not as simple as she looked. She had two rural swains. She never meant to marry either of them, but she found them useful because she flattered them and induced them to instruct her in stenography and bookkeeping. As a result of what she learned from them, she secured a position in the office of a daring Wall Street operator and became his confidential stenographer. In the course of time the operator found that he might have trouble with the U.S. government because of certain business deals in which he had been interested, and he feared that if his young stenographer were called as a witness before the grand jury, it might go hard for him. He handed her a large sum of money and told her to go to Canada and enjoy herself. The simple little country girl didn't agree, telling him that he conscience would not permit her to run away. He protested to no avail and finally she played her trump card, telling him that a wife could not testify against her husband. It was a case of marrying his stenographer or going to jail, and the Wall Street man chose the former alternative. She was a pretty little stenographer, and the kind of a girl who would make a good impression anywhere, so he figured that things might have been worse. Although the girl achieved success through selfishness, selfishness was her ruin, for not caring for her husband, she plunged into extravagance, and ruined him in the course of time. Then she was left alone, heavily in debt, and often regretted that she had not done like her little sister in the country, who married for love, and although she had little money, was always happy and contented.

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