CHAPTER XXIII

THE ACCUSATION It was not till the next evening that Rose came to Helen and told her that she had definitely declined Chester Drew’s offer of a big position in his store in Buffalo. Helen had been pouring a second cup of tea for herself. Now she set the teapot down quite suddenly and stared at her younger sister. “You have—told him—so?” she said then, quite slowly. Rose nodded airily, and if there was any regret in her heart, surely it did not show in her bright face. “The letter is on the way,” she said. Helen hes…