Farnham attended a meeting of the library board,
and presented the name of Miss Matchin as a candidate for a subordinate
place in the library. There were several such positions, requiring no
special education or training, the duties of which could be as well
filled by Miss Maud as by any one else. She had sent several strong
letters of recommendation to the board, from prominent citizens who
knew and respected her father, for when Maud informed him of her new
ambition, Matchin entered heartily into the affair, and bestirred
himself to use what credit he had in the ward to assist her.
Maud had not exaggerated the effect of her blandishments upon Dr.
Buchlieber. The old gentleman spoke in her favor with great fluency;
"she was young, healthy, active, intelligent, a graduate of the high
school."
"And very pretty, is she not?" asked a member of the board,
maliciously.
The Doctor colored, but was not abashed. He gazed steadily at the
interrupter through his round glasses, and said:
"Yes, she is very fine looking--but I do not see that that should stand
in her way."
Not another word was said against her, and a ballot was taken to decide
the question.
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