Show r ION bornet terp EFF had a pocketful ot of nickels I 1 J but he followed her to the change i booth ild ho stood behind her in the f line ills his eyes noting every mail from her soft short black curls to her doll size suede shoes lie ile even k approved of her hat a warm plum u i color the exact shade of coat and lie ile was so BO busy with his that he tailed failed to notice the nickel j she rho let left I 1 in n the worn wooden cup in i the shell shelf illey hey lady the money changer yelled after her you left your 1 change affif she must not have heard the man s far tot she e was a aready dy through the turn asi i 1 stile end and was disappearing down tile the A stairs to the platform jeff tried tiled to make his voice sound casual its as he i told the tha man ill give it to her the iho man grinned sure dont blame you jeff tumbled ambled in his hasto haste to get I 1 through the tha turnstile lie ile follow followed pd P II 11 her downstairs and spotted her in I 1 11 ll the middle of the crowd on the platform ap y I 1 watching the P F train roll in t your change ho he panted you left your change at the tha booth aft silo stared up lip at him and thelin the lm f pact of the incredibly dark velvety i eyes tossed hla hift heart into hito tomo nome TOBY rosy world farbar tar far away desperately f he searched arched ne for the smooth brilliant exactly right thins thing lie ho never could think to io bay until it was waa too late but you left your change he repeated Inan inanely clys and bel held dout out the nickel why thank you very much she said aid and her yoke was luct just what it should have be enlow and soft ott and sweet illow how nice of you to chase chasa after met mel oh all right he said 1 I I 1 and there he ha auck silo she smiled rather vaguely at him walled waited a minute and started to turn 1 away when he tailed to think of any thing elso toBaY to say wait cleasel pl easel ho he shouted at her 11 he e dian didn t need to shout Kho uthe was right beside her so close that gilld tha crowd rushing out althe of the train throw threw her against him mm for a br breathless bathless mo moment mentho he saw her tiny hand clutch at till his coat smelled the wonderful sweetness of her perfume its an sho 06 i laughed up tip at him ile he supported her elbows and helped her catch cat chhor her balance I 1 r tats teems seems to bo be your day tor for t rescuing me she aha said thanks again before he could say another word she eho was inside the car and the door 0 was wad closing then he be realized ho he badt found out her naple nania or any thing about her except that her left hand band was innocent of r ings rings wed wadding dicig or otherwise ile ha darted down the platform and found a last late closing door it help much to hn know aw that he t was waa on too the same train with her one that thai he had no on it if was jammed and he ha struggled hopoi hope i hessly to get back to her car cap ile ha died it thousand de deaths achs at aith street and afraid the he would got get offard iid he would miss her in tha ha mob it happened at west ath street but he bo saw her in timo almo and bounded otter tier her down tho the stairs to tho the sixth uvo ave nuo DUO platform barely keeping her in might lie ile thought she eho looked tight right at him just before she wheeled and ran back up the stairs iiona the afraid of me roe might peg me for a wolf lie he told hm himself self no ko thais probably yen see me ile he chased back up the tha stairs glair sto to find that she was wag not on the downtown platform ile ha looked behind tho newt stand at both ends of the tha long plat form foresha sha afis sot t in elgh it dawned on him to look lock across tho the tracks at the uptown platform where he saw her just before the tha train pulled in ile ho skidded all the way down the stairs landing in an ungraceful and thoroughly disgruntled heap nt at the bottom by the time he untangled his long arms and legs and got across the mezzanine floor and back up the uptown st stairs airs tho the train was pulling outland silo sho was gone lie ile was sunk stymied and he have the rc remotest chance of catching her of finding out what i any half wit should havo have asked her before he returned the precious nickel who was shet shel where did the ille live did she trav travel elthe tha same route every day did she work did she shahe ho have the tha slightest eiffe as a to how to find her again ever cursing himself tor for a bil blithering idiot he stopped on the next train that came caino along might as well go back to street and ride his usual train back bach to his hl lonely room and hit jonellen io jo neller thoughts OS Of course lie ho decided to beai be at that change booth every day for the rest of his life it ne cossari until he be found her again ile he pondered on an ad to run Inthe to the times will mill the beautiful lady with the dark eyes who for got a nickel at the tha change changa booth at street on the nighton night of back lat fat streett tract he be stood gloomily staring at her tw for several minutes before ho he realized it she bho was on OB the iho downtown down towa platform again talu tt right where ile he had first muffed his chance with this girt girl he had dreamed all of his life of borno day meeting she he was wai talking to a man so BO absorbed that she even glance in his direction once more jeff dashed upstairs downstairs and along the tha platform until at last he could reach out and grasp her arm slid she looked up then surprise widening her dark eyes and lot let out a bloodcurdling blood curdling scream ro po sho she backed away from him still screaming end and started toward a bauo uniformed subway guard |