Show V jim finally fell for fot low love V the weekly short story by CLARISSA BENTLEY tom nat at tensely it lit the little writing table for or an hour or more writing to his hi beloved edith sometimes be 50 just sat at sprawled out la in an easy chair before the bre fire idly dreaming of edith who bo lived eight hundred allies miles away and whom he be saw aw bat but seldom this keeping bachelor apartments with a man engaged wai was beginning to get on oil jim a new nerves I 1 or week weeks even before tom was as engaged he bad been as a jim thought mentally unbalanced perhaps the worst feature of tome tom malady was his app apparent areat joyousness he ile sit it there with such ao an idiotic expression of happiness on his good looking face kate fenwick bad had worked in to the lime saml office with ith jim for two or three yeara nice giri hate kate wae was what he thought about ber her if it be he t bought anything business was wa extremely brisk toward spring and it wax apparent one saturday that come some special cial report reports would bare have to be put through OD on sunday the president of the concern afkend jim jhn to attend to basked them an and incidentally e itally suggested to kat hate lenwick that she he meet jim at the office to take dictation they began working that pring sanday sunday at 0 clock and jim waa was so 0 o interested n u his hi work that he never cover once thought of hate as a any thing more than an automaton an til III it was wa past twelve that was one thing that made kate uch such a good stenographer she as never obtrusive t use perfume or wear dangling bracelet bracelets or bright colors they finished their work at about the same time and nd for no reason in particular jim uvel asked hate what hat shel ho was wa going to do next kate looked op UP blushing beuthin blu thin a little and jim felt that perhaps ho had been abrupt ft ith her she bh had worked like a little icaro taano and be bad had never thought of her as being even human that to t will he asked her to 0 o have bare luncheon with him there theft were to so hw iilah open downtown oa 04 subray and she the lived far ar after luncheon bo he allied asked her again hat bat she he was go 0 to do anil bicain ahe she blushed and said in id nothing bothin ral going la to take a ferry across the river and then take a walk alone along the river bank on the other tide side be told her kate hate sold she he envied him and so 10 jim asted her if the he care to co to with iab him spring in the air made the riter river bank blink very beautiful hit that afternoon and is As jim and kate kato climbed op up and down the steep embankments jim held kate kates round little arm to keep ber her from lipping slipping lie ile made no effort to be agreeable or other wise to this girl girt whom he aw saw every day but he began to realize that it w was an very food good to hare have ber her with him then they eat sat on an embedded boulder that looked out over the river 1 beloi below jim felt as a it if he were a thousand miles away from the city lie ile looked at the tile shapely hand stretched on oat t on the rock beside him end and studied those fingers that had worked so efficiently for him that morning it domed teemed the most natural thin thins 2 in the world to lift that hand band up la to his hi and aa in it felt very docile he be lifted it to bin his lips to kiss it sad bud denly jim felt awkward its H felt ai as if he had bad arrived somewhere lome where without knowing how ho he bud bad come cons lie ile began to wonder whether he be could trac trace his back aran then he be wondered on dered whether b he really wanted to you aren arent t anery angry with me are you soll katel be said of burve not jim she cald and he doti noticed ced that tear tears teamed gleamed in to her pretty brown eyes you know I 1 have always liked you a JIM and I 1 have slagle thought you yolk the best stenographer in the world said jim feeling suddenly ud denly that perhaps ill h had bad better find his ay back again put rut kate hate took her hand band away from him and timed trying in vain 1 to hide bids a railing tear 1 I think much more t than ban that aid bald jim feeling sullenly ud sud lenly very tor for lorn torn without that little hand in his lie its took it back azain again and kiss kisell it I 1 im in 10 bam Jim dear mid said r kate att and arad then without knowing how it hap bapp happened pe ened n ed JI jim ni te realized al lied t that t till his armi arms were w ere around kate and a hal 1 I 1 that her a little head w waa s a resting on bis his boulder shoulder when jim sot got back to the apartment at six that night he found toni tom sprawling ling la in an easy chair before the fireplace in which flowed glowed few ailing fading embers jim took od oft his light coat and bat hat and dropped down in a chair on the other ejde ot of the fireplace I 1 lot or an hour the two men sat at theretha the rethe P rame tt m Is rath mill er foolish contented e expression i p ress to 13 written on both faces then the n when the last dicker bicker of light died fro from n i the ember embers tom roused himself f lie ile suggested having something to eat cal I 1 something to eat that a right id forgotten stammered itam JI m you see ee old pal I 1 in engaged aa pr W g I 1 |