Show I Eis DEVOTION I Jamie the office boy was growing I the long Irons UTI It was not merely tn It was tho look In his eyes life ixmimthetlb little bteuoRiapher as six cNtiartPil u hand niliror from ih middle drawer chanced to i tics Inmle outing his luncheon gamlwlrh In SomelhliiK new iii hind the screen Ms api malice ell light lien Interest d stupi pil patting the heavy brown Iirnid which she wears like a coronet oxer > hear and walking os 10 her pretty I took a chair near him ilhnt Is It Jamie she asked con Ililentlnll Whats what 1 he temporized meeting her gaze Then she knew that a new star hart come Into his sky and that his eyes were shining with the reflection of Its I brightness Its borne girl she asserted and i smiled at him contngly The whole olllce force confides In the stenographer stenogra-pher She has a waIts wa-Its the only girl said the boy unabashed HP was gazing abstractedly abstract-edly at his next sandwich Miss Wellner studied him Jamie she said once there was a king lie offered a prize to the one of his subJects sub-jects who should make tho wisest remark re-mark So all the wise men tried their best and got up a lot of profound longwinded speeches Hut at last one man put five simple short words together and the king thought his remark re-mark was so wise that he gave him the prize on the spot Vhittdem sur1 Jamie inquired with automatic politeness His thoughts were far off lie bald This too will pass away H Jamie was listening now The story had filtered through his dreams and the last sentence startled him Say that again be demanded This too will pass away Hm letiiiucd Jamie beginning on his sandwich Dont your fiet When the stenographer came in from luncheon the next day she found Jamie behind the screen again still with that look on his face Whats the filling In your sand Niches she asked Green cheese and rainbows He smiled Indulgently as she dropped Into a chair near his cornet Come why dont yet tell me her name she began Dont know It myself yet he an j sweied composedly Only saw hei at a show Hut I know a follow that knows a fellow that know her A few days later he emerged from behind the screen on tiptoe Want to see her hauJwiltlng ho vhlspeied to the stenographer A letter she exclaimed greatly amused Well Jamie you certainly are coming on Tlsnt to mewell I guess not Its what she wrote to a fellow I know Then how did you get it 1 Oh IIP didnt want it It throw s him down you know Hed asked her to go to a show but she was going with two others already Twasnt her fault Two others My 1 jea1 She has to do that way Shes popular I tell you But do the boys like that Like It They take what they can get Theyd hang on to a windowsill by their teeth any time just to look at her Say Im going to be Introduced Intro-duced tonight You wait The sympathetic stenographer w r nt away for a vacation next day She had been devoting considerable thought to a man who wasnot like Jamie Now that she bad decided that he was not worth thinking about she found herself needing change rest diversion The firm that employed her appreciated her services and told I her to stay away until she was ready to come hack After six weeks she walked Into tho office acnln hrlfiit D and courageous Everything else seemed so different to her that she was startled to find the look In Jamies eyes unchanged Is it the same girl yet she asked him at the first opportunity His boyish eyes rebuked her Who else he asked Jamie you child she cried impulsively Im-pulsively The dews still on you I can bee It sparkle Spose you mean Im fresh and green 1 I mean that I wish I knew a few grown up men just like you Jamie understood without understanding under-standing and It moved him to pull out his gunmetal watch Ill let you look he said opening the back lid A smile curved her lips as she glanced at tho crude little i picture Her own likeness had been In time lid of several watches so she was less Impressed than Jamie had Intended her to be But as she met his blue eyes again her manner turned mother Iy Remember Jamie youre only a boy she warned him Surely yon dont imagine that shes yours to keep Im not saying he answered cau tlously Hut his face glowed with hope as ho added Two other Eel lows and I have cut out all the rest I You waltChlcago Dally News I |