Show wt W t ad that brought results 1 8 1 1 by H IRVING KING i I 1 M by mcclure newspaper syndicate paul read the newspaper clipping over for the hundredth time it was as an advertisement offering a large rey re 1 ward for information concerning the whereabouts of claudia bogartz a young lady who had mysteriously dis appeared from the home of her wealthy parents in a western city he had cut it out of the paper the week before because there was something in the description of the missing heiress which suggested to him a face and figure with which he was familiar familia r the face and figure of the young lady who occupied the rooms over his in the once fashionable brownstone house BOW mow devoted to apartments suitable for light housekeeping paul did not indulge in light housekeeping he lived where he did be cause the rent was low but his up stairs neighbor did indulge he knew for he frequently met her on the bairs with her arms full of bundles the name of the young lady was margaret downs the janitor bribed by numerous cigars had told h him im that miss downs had lived in her present apartments for three weeks counting back paul figured that her arrival in the house was timed about three days after the disappearance of claudia bogartz from the first time that he had met her on the stairs paul had bad taken a deep interest in the new ten ant A bowing acquaintance sprang up between them almost before they were aware of it t certainly miss downs was good to look upon and paul liked to hear her moving about over his head it gave I 1 im a sort of comfortable homey feeling HP lie was quite content with life until I 1 is eyes tell fell upon the advert and d s tu bed the pleasant current of his soul the more he saw of margaret downs the more paul was conNin convinced ced that she was none other than the miss ing heiress one has ha only to look at her to see he told himself that sl e Is out of her element in a place like this that she had been reared amid the most refined social surroundings the question was what was his duty under the circumstances clearly to notify the proper person that lau dia bogartz was living at such an ad dress under the name of margaret downs but if he did so there was an art end to all those pleasant meetings on the stairs to the sound of her little feet pattering about over his head to all the dreams he had ancor ly been dreaming A word from him and margaret downs would be wafted away as claudia bogartz into a social and financial realm where he could not follow as yet if only his genius had already burst the chrysalis of the ar s office where he be was employed and the name of paul hemmingway had become famous as it one day would he might restore the young lady to her own world and gayly trip thither with her but as it was paul was torn between duty and in cli nation it occurred to him that per haps she had left home to avoid some unworthy suitor whom her parents were trying to force upon her and in restoring her to her I 1 ome he might be restoring her also to the peril from which she had fled I 1 worry over the problem which confronted him was beginning to deprive paul of his sleep and his appetite when an accident oc burred which brought matters to a crisis one afternoon he came into the house to meet miss downs dovins on the stairs distractedly looking for the lan jan aitor who was nowhere to be found the workout packing of a faucet in her kitchenette had bad given way and margaret was unable to stop the th e flood which threatened to deNa devastate state I 1 her apartments gallantly the young knight rushed to the rescue of the distressed damsel he found the place under the sink where you turn the water off procured a monkey wrench and a new packing and presently had everything in order again then he be helped mar garet mop up and they laughed and talked over their work becoming quite like old friends she thanked him of course profusely for his timely aid and then after hesitating a little asked if she might offer him a cup of tea saying laughingly he had earned it paul accepted the proffered hospi bality trying his best to conceal the rapture the invitation gave him in the midst of their lively talk over the bread and butter and tea paul sud denly remembered the problem with mth regard to his fair hostess which had been oppressing him and fell s lent what Is the matter exclaimed mar garet gazing at his anxious and per flexed face Is the t tea ta a so very dread ful lull no it isn t the tea stam paul its it s oh hang bang it all excuse me miss downs but do you know anything about that and taking the clipping from his pocket he handed it across to her A she read it and then raising her eyes to his with a puzzled expression said why aes cs of course but how should you know that I 1 had any tiny con lection with this advertisement its true then groaned I 1 laul aul what Is true she asked that you are claudia Bog bogartz artzi margaret buried her face in her hands bands and her shoulders shook con poor thing she is weep ing thought paul I 1 lama am a brute but margaret recovering I 1 ersela assumed a serious look and said well sir suppose I 1 am what then 44 well tl en sighed paul it would break my heart but I 1 suppose you ought to go 0 o I 1 ome agitation had bad made him reckless but she ignored his allusion to a broken heart and assuming a didactic air said mr hemmingway I 1 have always heid held that not one person in a hundred Is capable of reading a news nes paper intelligently this Is the adver ti of 0 a story and not of a miss ing heiress there were vere two lines under the seeming ad which read for the solution of this mystery read clarkin s great story in mcguffey s magazine these I 1 see you have not cut out with the rest probably you never noticed them I 1 I 1 dian didn t confessed paul meekly I 1 am a stenographer in the adver office which handles the me isic guffy advertising g she went on and copied this advertisement advertisement on my type writer that s how I 1 know I 1 didn dian t realize before however that the young man who wrote the copy had used a description of me for his mythical claudia she was eU evidently dently annoye annoyed d paul was visibly relieved and they were soon laughing together over the whole affair with such a beg beginning nning what courtship could fail fall to progress to a happy conclusion paul Is now a celebrated architect but he and margaret were married years before he became famous |