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A lu f Leo feo J Nome foble C 7 B Burnett urn r THIRTEEN words i in n age agate type and that's about th the r smallest of all did for Oliver McNabb l what his halting tongue refused to do Sara Hatch found it difficult- difficult impossible to to resist the power of the press so Oliver and the want ad columns had their way r. r r v INK NE E morning s she h e was W whistling h. h 1St 1 mg ever er so O i Vy lI lightly the the chorus of a merry rry air with i f t he her bex lips screwed crewed up devilishly ly her eyes 1 f sparkling merrily Oliver Oli McNabb Me hadn't noticed her the first morning nor morning nor the second O Olt the tile theL L j third morning zi n never hever ever a bulging spring R f. k morning a glimpse of ht he her black eyes Lyes and spatter of freckles as she brushed brushed by had t. t r caused him bim to single her outI out 1 I L r Her lIer lacy Incy white waist picked up fog far fifty- fifty r nine cents somewhere but which he ho regarded regarded re- re as a creation of real her patent leather shoes criminally out ut of style but which appealed to tb him as pert pert and her heri i i C. C independent nose not snobbish but just r 5 properly independent independent these were all no no- nor It f tired in iu their turn from the country pert per- per t haps hags McNabb was from the country but more i than two years ears in the city's howling mart marthad had given bim him no little urbane ease and perspicacity lIe He was twenty-five twenty and inI intended intended in- in I a tended to make something of himself Ha He was vas employed in a pipe-organ pipe factory To whatever heights Olivers Oliver's tendrils f of aspiration may have climbed he lie had to punch the time-clock time at the shop entrance t 1 not later than thirty seven-thirty every morning ag t except Sunday On his way to work he passed daily aily through h the square in front fronts F of the city ball hall To arrive at the factory facton s r r on time he had learned from experience that it was vas necessary to leave lea the park by seven At this hour many were hurrying to their r various places of employment Suddenly the girl irl had bad floated into the stream Others i. i of her sex who rushed by at this hour hourt t tended to be bo bent and hardened Her lIer f wholesome freshness stood out and her appearance in the same place every morning morning morn morn- ing naturally impressed an impressionable young man She walked rapidly and looked straight ahead But young McNabb there is no use p. p denying was more debonair than the others Q Youth is is susceptible and the girl was not old Thus at nt the end of a few wee weeks she sher r nodded slightly when he raised his hat W No o harm in that surely Sometimes one would be a trifle late and if c their paths would cross at one side of the park or the other Usually however the first hen heavy y thud of seven would sound from the city hall clock dock when they passed at the ornate fountain which marked the very r center of the square Both recognized thatto that thatto to meet at this exact spot was a mark of t punctiliousness Once when McNabb was almost vat out of the park and bo he walked 1 r slowly tearing fearing she mi might ht not net come at all z he met her almost running at nt the edge of ot the square farthest from her destination lIe He supplemented the raising raisin of of his hat with ith a lemark remark Late today arent aren't you She laughed laughed genially You just wait l' l Ill I'll make up for it tomorrow were the words be he caught So on the next morning he delayed purposely and let her m meet et him just as he entered the square She raised a finger in natured good rc re- re I tell she pro al There didn't didn you F chided him T WAS ens easy after alter that Now and then IT he would add a n scrap to his knowledge e of her She said her name was Sara Sara Sara-Sara Sara 1 Hatch Yes from the country and proud f of it Where here did she work Oh very ery well fr if he had to know know-in know o in a laundry u r office of dirty clothes Assured this man that he be could have c his shirts by toni tonight ht and that woman that her laundry her her laundry would be ready by tomorrow She refused to give her ter address He lie didn't press her They accepted Uns it U as ns an nn carl early morning acquaintanceship It was different and find refreshing They both cau caught ht the humor and peculiar romance of it I f But nut this relation this friendship was was like liko all others in that such things are never nc stationary Sunny harmless amities have e to be bo poked ahead continually by the relentless god of perpetual ch change i I Oliver er took on a striped bow tie There were many things which crept into his t toilette that might have been omitted without without with with- out sacrificing respectability Gradually quietly this seventh hour caprice caprice caprice ca ca- ca- ca price which the sophisticated Oliver regarded regarded re re- lightly at first clime came to bo ho a thing thins Of his Ids life He actually found himself look looking ng forward from one ono morning to the next lIe He believed that the big things thins g in I life e are gained by talon taking g chances so he gambled ono one morning when they met at the fountain Would you come a few minutes early tomorrow She came It was was a summer summer morning of splashing brightness They sat on a green bench close to the walk opposite the fountain They had never sat together before It thrust them into a different relation T They ey became be became be- be came aware that they were sitting here in the park chatting commonplaces at a ridiculously ri ridiculously ri- ri early hour for the sole and obvious obvious obvious ob- ob purpose of enjoying of-enjoying enjoying the company of each other S SAnA ARA was no blusher but she found herself herself her her- self fighting a blush And the blush won by big odds McNabb didn't notice however however however how how- ever his own nervous ecstasy demanded too much attention If he had held her panting in in his arms on a palmed balcony by moonlight he could not have experienced a n wilder delight than he did experience inthis inthis in inthis this boundless license of having her here hereon on the same green seat with him him fumed freshness black freshness black black hair hair hair-a a girl girl girl- The clock boomed the first fast stroke of seven Pshaw 1 I They hurried away awny It was more natural the next morning The naturalness increased It became a n happy little creed The fountain was the shrine seven th the hour He lIe tried to wring from her permission to see her at nt night Dance No She liked shows didn't she ehe Her IIer eagerness was obvious but her re refusal refusal refusal re- re was uncompromising A morning affair affair affair af af- af- af fair she decreed lIe He complied graciously Sometimes they had but a n few seconds to together together together to- to gether sometimes a n few minutes occasionally occasionally occasion occasion- ally a quarter of an hour never hour never longer than that It was past seven when they left the park on a few mornings making them both late Perhaps that was the reason Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps it was the fiendish ogre hard times which laughed an impish laugh into the laundry and pipe organ businesses Whatever Whatever What What- ever it was was- Oliver McNabb suddenly found round his job han hanging ing on a n thread The t thread rend didn't hold All in a day be he was whisked ed from employed to unemployed Sara Hatch was a good office girl She was as successful as any one the laundry ever er had bad in convincing a n flustered who rolin hn worn size sixteen collars i. i 1 I v i t. t rl i f fi f j L Lf f 1 j it f f f i r. r 1 m i I I f fJ 4 5 W WJ J I t. t f J I M t y t M b. b S J t i f R ft r v x r I A f. f p T r T f l z a 1 if Y fy y fi y i l' l Y f J P r. r I II I. 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D f I r. r Y that ho could easily adapt his neck to the fourteen and a half size which came in in his package Nevertheless in the the latter part of the summer the e laundry management saw saw fit to reduce its office force Sara had to to go The girls girl's tragedy occurred a week following follow ing Olivers During that week he continued continued continued contin contin- to make his hig morning trips at the usual time without apprising Sara of his dis dis- charge He lie assumed that another job would bo ho available immediately At the end of a week however the the gravity of the situation dawned upon him They were both duly serious when they met at the ten minutes to seven Both Both had bad been job Are all of those people out of jobs she Je asked indicating the prostrate forms of wretches scattered about beneath the parks park's maples Some had slept there all nIl night and presented weird contortions Others lay flat with arms outstretched outstretch d like the groaning gronning wounded of a n battlefield Some were getting up lamely and crawling away to suffer suITer the heat hent of August in another another another an an- other place All out of jobs he assured her McNabb l had one hand in a coat pocket and twisted his finger about a newspaper clipping which called for a strong stron bright earnest willing bodied able young man with good habits who could play pIny a trombone to work in a paint sho shop He lIe could coax a few notes from a harmonica but was wall sure that a n trombone ne was beyond him One must have experience to get a job I 1 suppose she And experience to get a job he sup sup- plied Helped t to o Keep oe BOOKS and ana onu tool lOO m In pu Ao packages s b U Y Y n nn V fJ ii Y r ru 9 f ii J. J lh I Io 1 u m 1 1 m tr 7 J rF r 5 F S r hT I n r d dR R t x v s' s Qt Fd J f t s k They sat on the tl lC green bench close to t 0 the walk wall Ii r Il r w t r She uttered a little scream And you too you too you you you Sara fussed with her Iler handbag which contained contained con con- lined a n want ad nd clipping asking for a woman with thirty-eight thirty bust measure to act as a demonstrator Sara was but a thirty six No it could ne er be done The crock clock struck seven She must hurry she said Mr felder couldn't stand it to have his em em- late IntI Discharged a n girl in the mangling mangling mangling man man- gling department yesterday for that very verr thing Lovely ely man to work for but such sucha a temper sometimes 1 He lie must hurry too Mr Himmelblau Himmelblau Himmel- Himmel blau blau But she was away awny She went two blocks beyond the park and circled back to her rooming place She lay flat fiat on h her r back on the sagging cot and heard Mrs Irs Riley niley yell across the alley to toa toa ton a n neighbor that she was vas going to have hn c cabbage cabbage cab cab- b- b bage for dinner Oliver also detoured He lIe bought a newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper and sat on the front porch of his rooming house studying it until the old lady came out to scrub and drove him away It was just the incentive he needed WANTED Men WANTED v Men to till fill thousand of ot ea easy jr Jobs job 85 to 1250 1260 a II month for toe tle right parties partin Well Yell maybe it was true WANTED WANTED r young man with good av- av at line for tor selling must be a hustler A No 1 l line Gas irons WANTED WANTED Men Men to learn the tha barbers barber trade the world needs more barbers barben It It offered no immediate remuneration Anyway it didn't appeal WANTED WANTED Bright Bright man yount as a bre bread wagon driver must speak three language lIe He passed this one up at the start He TIe tried them all day after day l nut Dut ut there were six dx columns of Situations Wanted and a scraggly half-column half of Help Wanted Wanted Male There was a waiting list in the few cases where he might Name and address please You'll be notified when your turn comes Oh yes pretty long Ji list t. t With that an officious secretary would call th the interview to a peremptory c conclusion S U SAnA'S ARAS ARA'S experiences were similar It was wasU interesting to read that an aigrette had been lost between Wabash and Sixteenth on the evening of the twenty-first twenty and that a a. graduate masseuse in Swedish massage masage massage mas mas- sage age and sand medical gymnastics desired a position position position tion but it did dill not help her And she needed help If she had only been black or Japanese or a lady Indy chauffeur or a n middle aged widow or a manicurist and chiropodist with witha a following According to the want ads her services would have been in immediate demand if if she but had any of these Once she obtained a position as a pastry cook Now ow it was this way Sara was an estimable girl irl her disposition was beyond be- be yond jond reproach her character was undefiled undefiled undefiled unde- unde filed she could bake bread but pastry- pastry no nol Morning after aller morning the girl appeared in the park her handbag stuffed with clippings clip clip- pings Morning after aller morning Oliver Oli met her her there want ads in every pocket Sara was not naturally deceptive but she wanted want d dIc McNabb Ic abb to think she was getting settin on She told him that she had been promoted promoted promoted pro pro- to head hend girl at the office A day or two later Oliver not wishing to be excelled excelled ex ex- ex celled announced that the company had taken him in from the tho shop and given him hima a desk in the sales office 1 Saras Sara's skirt and she had but one was growing rowin Her lIer straw hat bat was becoming becoming be be- coming conning dreadfully unseasonable Continued washings had revealed that her nine fifty cent waist was a nine fifty-nine cent waist Nor Kor were Olivers Oliver's trousers in the best possible state of preservation It was the last of August It was the middle of September It was the latter part of September The days grew alarmingly alarmingly alarm alarm- short People hurried more rapidly The stores tores were showing overcoats and furs Thanksgiving was suggested and Christmas was intimated Every day the family of the unemployed took in more members Now and then Oliver and the girl would get a n job for a day or two but when October stared stored from the calendar Olivers Oliver's savings had dwindled to a a few dollars and Sara could pay room rent for but one week more The city which had bad thrilled her sickened and frightened her as the mercury went down Oliver had a thought or two of the country himself As a last resort he could go back IT T WAS a morning of ot penetrating chill one of those thos fall mornings on which rain would have been colder than snow A wind caught up some dry leaves from the dull brown lawn of the park and scraped them across the cement walk where some stuck in a rift at the edge of the fountain People scurried along with their heads bent Few wore overcoats They looked worried They were worried McNabb en came me five minutes early He lIe halt half intended to confess confess con con- fess fees this morning that he had been coming at seven all nil of this time just for her He ne knew that she would admire him bim for it lIe He wondered just ejust how she would express express ex ex- ex press her sentiments when she learned that he had been making sacrifices all along He lie would tell her he was going away to away to the country that country that he would remember her her- that sometimes perhaps perhaps- It struck seven The last quaver of the seventh se stroke e ap orated Where was Sara Had she lost her position Then far down the walk he saw her Iter com com- ing As she came nearer and nearer it seemed somehow that she was changed He lIe hadn't noticed it so much until now He lIe recalled how bow she looked those spring mornings Today loday she was stooped or smaller or something Poor girl she the ought not to work |