Show 1 IS STUDENT LIFE they tried to learn from the station where the old man had agent I Knight tickets to but he told them frankly that he had been paid to keep his mouth shut and would keep it shut so without the slightest clue to the destination or residence of the girl the lawyer was forced to leave and every effort he had made to locate her since had resulted in failure He had w'ritten Mrs Barret several times hoping that a note had been sent but her I answers were always negative couldn’t see that he had any special reason to hope for anything but her thanks for having been dragged out of the wet if he ever found her and I lost some of my respect for him Three weeks ago he came into the I wras busy restudio as usual He touching a pile of negatives took half of them and got his head under the cover of the other stand We chatted pleasantly until w'e had each finished several plates Suddenly he let out a howl and when I got my head out of the stand he was dancing around like a wild man with a negative clutched in You see when you both hands look obliquely onto the sensitive side of a negative the image will often appear positive exactly as in the finished photograph He shouted “This is the Kid” and after a while cooled down enough to ask me where I got it It was one of the week’s “brew” She had ordered one of my best mounts and was due to call for the photographs on the following dav lie spent the rest of the day finishing them and it was the most artistic job the old studio had turned out in a long time And I never saw such fool confidence radiated Happiness from him like heat from a July sun I had to kick him out when it came time to close up He wanted to stay there all night to be sure of being there next dav I got him out finally but he carried off all the photographs and the negative He had been walking up and dowm the sidewalk in front of the studio for an hour when I got there the next morning and after I let him in he w'alked around the rooms until I was almost as crazy as he was He did something new every time anyone started up the stairs She got there at last just before noon There was a collision and it wasn’t very far on her side of the middle line of the room I went into the dark room and developed a dozen negatives What I can’t figure out though is how he managed that kind of an understanding in the ten minutes rocks they w ere together up on the Now' I was tw’o years — ” Mollie Dauber came in |