Show friiz fritz a goad matchmaker by LEETE STONE 10 mf 0 av 1 t tide e ot 0 the font hour jn word rd step ie p that tha t led to I 1 rita rit greenwich allace 1111 age bookshop wen iraln creaked stacked clacked alli duety dusty books magazines an I 1 nil oil I 1 VI vii bortan print prints A bell jingled pasted hen ben tie black door creaked inward ing a deep rectangle of twilight dim obscurity this as i a dark manso leun room wit wita a all manner of books grote grotesque ique ly plied tumbled and shelved la in every conceivable 1 crevice of 0 pace space gaunt count eray gray bearded arit E rutx as roon mon arch of all these forgotten fors otten relic relics of faded for years he had lived and had saved enough to buy a tenement froni from the carrien carri ln s of thia this literary tomb annette abbey lived in green 1111 hinge age but she lie was wai not of it she had drawn a brench mothers root lier humor from a shaken tint hat of aralts with the tile other childish hand she eb had snatch a father athers i mental an I 1 ihre one dy day annette ayed bayed the for door of krit i rii entered the dim room where aeed and greeley must haic hate drowsed in a ite bellum dis d ill is a bearens in her graceful crace ful hind a film allm lavender hued tolumbe irita arl asa thou ht fUlly mast lenting his t toon oan cheese an ani I 1 onion union san binl 1 idelt rK lIning in a chair that one perhaps antl I 1 ad rocked eyes upwardly Inelli ted admiring a hang lian lag brinle t f calebs colt teb that valence valance I 1 hit fill shelf of musty black bound armoni s from the tand stand frau lein nl nahl kisr wart 11 ho he barely glanced at tho dri girl I 1 lib I 1 k mice voice ambiguous and of old ille like the title alla on an his bl ehl rii lly book of poe oel 1 six lie aint emited in and extended exten Jed fifteen cents ach ch sor fritt fritz laid mid aside its a sand alch and leaned a little forward fraulein lein will then take tilt her poems as a little gift from frite ariti thus started the friendship 0 of f frits fritz and annette A certain adly alie alto sto toiled plied in to cheer the old dealer with a epa rUIns funny inee dute chi ut a lillace character they laughed together oB ether footsteps aparo sched from in front an extremely serious faced young map found the rim of dull ellit frits fritz sanctum he ile bal balanced bala nied anted a book oa on fill palm 1 I 1 found this or oil the fifty tent idt counter he raid said scarcely above it vil villiner liper as one making a confession its my novel and id I 1 bate hate its being homeless rm a trifle knort whort today III you die tile ur lie tile c clu ngel I 1 I 1 ath alth a merry rising inflection an all dette nette contributed just how I 1 felt bout about my a lly ily old poem poems hut but joure you re viar af over 0 er me n i I 1 found my book on tin the title n cent bland stand the youth faced her with a it tey bol ish hesitant smile are you kidding me or d you agats ao it iff I 1 kriti cleared his with threat guttural tut tural mp rap and readied reached for the long stemmed cherry cherrywood wood pipe lp with the carved bowl meli june junt herr fritz with pleat pleas ore ure bould hate have you the book accept so it happened happ ered with this almaa adwa baill ing ng little rr aulta tour friendship both of yon you I 1 ask I 1 am much muth alone come often and our frankli Fran Fra klo ulela v tench os as laughter lauth ter the two yount p orle strolled trolled troll ed between the books and out in ani animated mateJ conversation coner atlon frits bearded chin sank into a time ellawea cella lold collar and his eyes really closed in to benicia reverie time fostered rare between tic tie tuo young writer writers and the nid old boik nian 0 e a at iv berul I 1 and nil annaf tte fiill on penetrate the tile murky of brIn brinl glitz nit a it bromil wt piter bas bag stuffed halli lilt delica lesten delle delicacies acim all three voce p eded between bites to recon stra t the tile world of letters nearer to their heart hearts i desire often fritz would tell of his life at over the duel that had left a crooked heck cheek scar nearly burled by the beard benign rutx itz laughans ns nig annette and the so serious geraldl later gerald luf ormid annette that be he would renounce laetit writing and free langlas in faor favor of a forty a abek job in a bank tf if she he would do him the honor to marry him good old Sobe ralles of ourse ill worry you I 1 loe love put youl but dut you austn I 1 give up writing lets wait until we make enoish to marry worry by our writing 1 ft I on 1 be long I 1 or gerald I 1 I 1 et a zo so talk to arltz lie ile 11 know I 1 van to be married frits but were rot too peorl poor both chorused standing stand inz before the tb old id german ach in so I 1 knew I 1 knew mu mused fritz eyeing the red bellied stove you bust rite lder kovl 1 wa fra lc ing a lip pipestem estem at gerald Ito to you mus write too you must five give it dreams and daring and oad you a ful gli clance lince at annette tj you mast must ire it he be lilt and laul ter of your eyes the two held hands in al fenee like two school children it iss lag an order A COM 1 I fritz III dis novel publish thumb and forefinger fished for and found a crisp crackling crack linx note tots idere lei tag mcney I 1 ela elm tillara til larl first royal tie lesl I 1 |