Show TWO HEARTS THAT BEAT BLAT AS S ONE CHAPTER III if CONTINUED FROM PAGE L IT was with a throbbing heart and quickened breath that Mary entered the theoffice theoffice office of ot Matthew L. L Minch and Sons that morning Upon her ability to please Mr Minch would depend her chances of keeping the position as also j would ld T. T Jamies Jamie's arnIes arnIe's coming Poor dear Jamie she thought II How 6 lonely he must be without me If on only only only- I y- y But her musings were cut short by bythe bythe If r the entrance of the office boy from the i inner room with a Say want T To To o her Will you kindly inform Mr Matthew L. L Minch that Miss j A McGregor has arrived he answered giving us Yer dont don't want i I the old man His feet dont don't track Yer want Mr Wait till I phone t thim him up a chair across the floor with witha a marvelous dexterity that showed an immense amount of practice he bolted from the room before she could say a word f With a contented sigh Miss McGregor McGregor McGregor Mc Mc- Gregor sank to her waist into the richly The elevator was out of order and Miss McGregory had to walk up the sixteen flight of stairs leading to the office office t f Note the change of name Mary seem seemed d too much like the name of a lady cook-lady so like a real American girl Miss McGregor improved upon the name her godfather had given her upholstered chair Carefully arranging i her skirts in graceful elegant folds in such a way that it showed her pretty feet to advantage she leaned leane back in inthe inthe the chair and awaited the coming of Ij young Mr Minch The clock upon the k y mantle ticked off the seconds and the theY Y minutes and she began to be impatient t She knew it was bad form to gaze fi around the room so she she did not observe the tall but well proportioned and handsome handsome handt hand hand- t s some me man who had enter entered d by the outside outside out out- side e door He had come in In response to the telephone message of the office boy i and though prepared to meet the new news fr s female keeper book-keeper he was not prepared f. f to see such a magnificent creature as asi was now before him He could see but i little of her face for her back was partly turned toward the door but her beautiful r ful auburn hair which fell in profusion ri down her back and the delicate whiteness whiteness whiteness white white- ness of her cheek seemed to him hin the I r. r acme of perfection Perhaps it w was s the intense gaze of the young man or perhaps her foot was asleep which caused Miss McGregor to i. i turn Ah she said as she arose with the theair theair air of a queen and flicked a aa small speck of dust from her her sleeve II I I had not heard you en enter ter j I I only just now came I he replied astonished to see in the new bookkeeper bookkeeper bookkeeper book book- keeper the lady of the carnations II Are you Miss iss McGregor This was an easy matter Her skirts were lined I with Chamois which keeps skirts forever crisp and new The writer has received no commission from the Fibre Chamois people people people-as as yet t f Miss McGregory was an assiduous reader of Ruth Side Talks with Shop ladies in the Gen Home Journal 1 t She had twelve pounds of it with her and more at home in her trunk t This is is her receipt Lemon juice daubed on the face just before going to bed and removed in the morning with tepid water H The writer disavows all connection with the stories r I the hero may tell the heroine 1 I am and you are young Mr Minch i iI I I had expected to su suppose see your father He told me I was to begin my work this morning Perhaps you cantell cant can tell me what I am to do Certainly he replied Until no now it has been my duty to keep the books books' of which you are to have charge My father thought the duties to arduous forme forme for forme me however and so has engaged you to take my place If you are so very anxious anxious j ious to begin I can initiate you into the mysteries at once In the future though J you will not be expected to be here I before eleven It Jt is unhealthful 1 to be out before the day is well aired 1 1 There is nothing so disturbing to noble and the cultivation of l serenity the finer instincts as being shot out ino a raw and unaired morning But come into the private office your office your private office in inthe in inthe the future future and and let me show you the books Mary listened to Mr Minch with open mouth as was her her habit t and then followed him into the other room j j Under his guidance she soon became i 1 1 familiar with the work that was expected expected- of her and found that it was not as ashard ashard 9 hard as she had imagined it would be Both Mr Minch and his son did all in j their power to make things as pleasant for her as they could and but for the sneezing caused by the pepper and spice spice- laden air her life would have been calm and serene One day after having been at work for nearly a month Mary remembered that she had not been to visit her friends the Langfords since her quarrel quarrel rel reI with Bessie So that evening she dressed herself in her scarlet de creme-de- Lou on silk with the shirring up the Young girls should not be led astray by the story for not in in all offices do they strike such a snap t See Chapter II page second column third line from bottom J Bessie had insisted that girls with freckles are es especially especially es- es brilliant talkers though deficient in intellect 1 back and the orange colored cascade at atthe atthe atthe the side and putting on her diamond necklace which she had been able to two dollar half a-half-a- buy buyout out of her week salary she started out Since the Langfords lived but a few blocks from Marys Mary's new boarding house she decided to walk and save cab hire With the money so saved she could buy buya a couple of new diamond rings She was so much occupied d by her thoughts that she did not notice a man along the opposite side of the street on a bicycle He had seen the flash of her diamonds as she left the house and had decided to become the owner of them so when Mary ent entered red a particularly dark street he suddenly appeared appeared ap ap- before her and demanded them of herN herNot herNot her N Not at for Joseph she said as with a awell awell awell well directed blow she sent the fellow fello sprawling in the gutter t II Ill Ill I'll have your life for or this he shouted struggling to his feet But Mary had pulled a 48 calibre revolver from her hip pocket and coolly ordered the villain away II Ha Ha ha laughed the thug II your your diamonds will yet be mine Look be behind behind behind hind you Glancing hurriedly around Mary saw four stalwart men advancing toward her There could be no doubt as to their in in- With one convulsive spring she leaped into the saddle of the bicycle which the first villain had placed leaning leaning leaning lean lean- ing against the curb and pedaled away She had not gone far however before one ne of New Yorks York's mounted police rode up to her and struck her on the head with his club She was riding along without a light II Lynch her shouted the mob which had nad gathered around Cab Cab hire is is almost as high in in New York as in in Salt Lake City t See N. N Y Sunday World August 3rd 1893 No said the policeman II Let justice justice justice jus jus- tice take its course and he led her hex away to the city Bastile i As the heavy iron doors of her cell closed behind her Mary fell weakly to r the floor Home Scotland Jamie she murmured and then all became dark How long she had been unconscious she knew not and then again she heard the doors open and another prisoner was thrust in Silently she walked toward him By Bythe d F the dim light of the lantern which hung in the corridor outside she saw the strawberry mark upon his left temple II Robert she cried as she fell upon his neck II How came you here II Ah Ah Mary Marv j answered her brother h for it was he II It I t would be too long a astory astory astory story to tell now Wait till the next chapter when we are out of this horrible place And he looked around and shuddered I Mary sat beside him on the floor and T. T held his head in her lap When his deep breathing announced that he slept she crept around the room to see if she could find some way of escape Slowly she made her way around the cell moving moving moving ing her hands as high up on the wall as f she could reach but discovered nothing When she again came to the place wh where re she had left her brother she Knelt nelt at his side and wept silently Meldorf Heide 00 |