Somehow a
grievous burden had fallen off her mind. Likewise, by some
psychological quirk, the idea of leaving Granville and making her home
elsewhere no longer struck her as running away under fire. She did not
wish to subject Kitty Brooks to the difficulties, the embarrassment
that might arise from having her as a guest; but the mere fact that
Kitty stood stanchly by her made the world seem less harsh and dreary,
made it seem as if she had, in a measure, justified herself. She felt
that she could adventure forth among strangers in a strange country
with a better heart, knowing that Kitty Brooks would put a swift
quietus on any gossip that came her way.
So that Hazel went down to the dining-room light-heartedly, and when
the meal was finished came back and fell to reading her papers. The
first of the Western papers was a Vancouver _World_. In a real-estate
man's half-page she found a diminutive sketch plan of the city on the
shores of Burrard Inlet, Canada's principal outpost on the far Pacific.
"It's quite a big place," she murmured absently. "One would be far
enough away there, goodness knows."
Then she turned to the "Help Wanted" advertisements. The thing which
impressed her quickly and most vividly was the dearth of demand for
clerks and stenographers, and the repeated calls for domestic help and
such.
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