"I can stand it except when we need it for the services of a doctor. I don't mind having to wear the old dress longer than most girls wear theirs, but when Daddy is in the condition he is and I think there might be some help for him if I just had the money then the lack of it hurts."
"Don't worry," he remarked, endeavoring to comfort her, "circumstances may soon change."
"Circumstances must change. I'll make them change," she said with determination.
"Ruth, I wish I could help in some way. Maybe, if someone would suggest to Stover that he raise your salary he would do so."
"He might. I have worked there a year. He seems pleased with my work but has raised my salary only once and that raise was but ten dollars. Of course, I wouldn't want to ask any of my friends to make a suggestion of that kind to my employer."
The subject of salary was dropped and Ruth remarked, "There was a man in the bank today who said that there is an organizer of the Ku Klux Klan in town and that he wants to organize here."
"I hadn't heard that," he replied, "but I have been reading considerable about Klan activities."
"You haven't read much that was good of them, have you?" she asked.
"Well, yes; I have read of some charitable deeds of the Klan and also of some other good things that they have done."
"The most I have read of them were accounts of where they had whipped someone or given somebody a coat of tar and feathers. Mr. Stover said that it would be a disgrace to the city to have a Klan here. He says that it's an outlaw organization."