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Show A MOVING STORY By HELEN A. HOLDEN j chimoji i From force ef habit StoteMierry dropped In his ticket and started dawn Ihr, sabway stairs. Half wny he noticed no-ticed lh crowd on the platform below. be-low. lie would go until he was too weary to think. Thenj perhsps, he could sleep. It wns maddening to have something on ouc's mind Hint would not be for-gotten for-gotten mncthlng unpleasant to be gone over and over. When he finally left the subway he found himself in no, entirely strange pari of the city. As far as he could tsee the street was deserted. This suited his mood. He pulled down his hat more securely on tils liend and started on his tramp. "Willi due apology to The Broad White Way, where am I?" lie queried. "I surely cntntt uptown la that subway." sub-way." , When he cnn'ie to n theater he scarcely hesitated. Itn doors were Invitingly open. "Some Jn!!r play." (nought Stotes-berry Stotes-berry to himself, "will perhaps put me on my feet agnin." Tho play had already begau. The bend of the house and Just entered the stage. Harassed nnd worried with tho cares of buslticcs lie cxine lu looking look-ing for sympathy from the sssemblod family. Btuteiherry did iwt wait fr more. Hrliing his hat and cost, he escaped. "If it begins like Hint, wlmt will It be when the rilmsx Is rrnched?" he groaned. Wrath Qlled his soul ns he again hurried along, the street, lie wanted ho mdeh to forppt. Why did fate con-iplre con-iplre to keep , him reminded ot his trouble?' , , A Utile fucther on n brilliant sign announced "Motion Pictures." VThnt promise well." SHU, after lds former unhappy experience, Stoteshurry hesitated. "Anyway, It .would be , something to know Just what n moving-picture' show' "ls'llke." Pll chance, It. If It comes to the worst, I cnu escape." . StoteBburry paid the required dime, entered but did not take off his coat. It IiIh stay were to be as short as It bad been nt the theater, It would hardly bo worth while. "Orchestn of one!" lie wns sitting on a Hoe with n young girl nt the piano. "Does sho keep up that pace, nil through Ihe performance? Couldn't Could-n't I Yet her hands look It. The veins ore nil standing out about a yard. "What would possess a girl to do a thing like Hint?" lie had forgotten the pictures In his Interest In the girl. "Nice looking, too. But doesn't she look uil In? Never In my life saw any one so fugged her face, her hands, her whole attitude. ' "Wonder what her tragedy Is? It's a bad ono, or she wouldn't be plnjlns her thirty knots an hour, for, I wonder, won-der, how many hours a day, anyway?" Kven when she passed her left band wearily across her forehead her right carried on the air without Interruption. Interrup-tion. Ouce she swayed as though she vrnnlfl fntl. "Why doesn't someone stop her?" Stotesbcrry felt righteous Indignation. Insane. And she has to keep on playing those Jig tunes probably half the night." With Its. customnry abruptness, the I curtain announced a few minutes intermission. in-termission. The tired hands came to a stop. The exliastcd girl leaned her head wearily wear-ily on them s they rested on the pin no. The girl fell over In n dead faint. SluU'sherry was the Urst to reach her. Irt a few minutes It was all over. Stoteaherry )iad Insisted on tnfclug the gtrl dlrecHy home'. The" manager stonnlly refused. With n grateful glance nt Stotes-berry, Stotes-berry, tho girl declared herfiirif all right. She wouldn't for anything break up the show 1 She promised dot to faint again. He had started out to. forget. In the light of another's troubles his own had been forgotten. Now, as ho remembered re-membered theui, a wave of sham came over him. Ho had been busy trying to forget A paltry twenty-five thousand he had uuidc hi Wall Street that day. His disappointment had been overwhelming overwhelm-ing he had counted on fifty thousand. thou-sand. Tho girl Insisted on walking. It wns not far to her home, and she needed tho air. "I can't tell you how sorry I am," Stotusberry dul not knuw Just how to put It. "But I think If you know all the circumstances It would probably uut bo nearly so bad as you tmaglue." "Oh, It could not be much worse," replied tlie girl wenrlly, "It's all over, and ihert-N uo uo thluklng nhout It." "Hii's Just mad cleau through. And there ure plenty of others waiting for the Job. "Me and To'" went out skating at six o'clock this morning. Tom had to go to work nt seven, but thelce wu so good I stayed out all morning." 'Tom Is?" suggested" Statesbcrry. "Yes," replied tho girl, "as soon as he gets n roUo we're going to get married. mar-ried. "Being out In tbo air nil morning made me eo sleepy I could hardly keep tuy cyos open In that hot place. It got worse nnd worae (111 I couldn't fight It any longnr. so I Just dropped off for a few minutes." 9 - |