Show V jim finally fell for low love V the weekly short story uy by CLARISSA BENTLEY S tom eat oat tensely at lit hie the little writing table for an hour or more writing to his beloved 1 adith sometimes he just fat sat sprawled out in an easy chair be fore the fire idly dreaming of adith who lived right eight aundrel miles away and whom he EUW saw but seldom this keeping bachelor apartments with a it man engaged was mas b ginning to bet get on jims nerves i I 1 or u beeks eien before tor torl was Pil engaged hr lip bad been as jlia jim thought mentally unbalanced perhaps the feature of tom toni iti malady was his fits apparent joyousness he ile eat sat there with fill such on an idiotic expression of happiness on his tood looking face kate hate had in tins file actie office with jim for two no or tl if ree years yeam inice girl kate hate was m what lint he lie thought about her tier it if he thought an tiling business wag was extremely brisk to ward mard spring and it mia ft v apparent one saturday that some special re ports would haie bae to be put through on sunday the president dint tnt of the concern asked jim to attend to them and incidentally suggested suggett ed tn to kate fenwick that the she meet jim at the office to take dictation they began working that flint spring sunday at nine 0 clock and jim was so interested in his work mork that flint he lie never once thought of kate as any thing more than lima an auto automaton miton ul til tit it was past twelve that was nas one tiling thing that made kate hate such buell a good stenographer she nas as never obtrusive use perfume or wear dangling bracale s q or til filsht ht colors they finished their work at about the fame same timo time anil and for no reason in particular jim asked kate what hat she vos uns going to do nest next kate hate looked up blushing blue liing a little and jim felt that perhaps lie had been abrupt tier she had worked like a little steam engine and lie had ner neier thought of her tier as being even human that Is taby m by he lie asked tier to have luli luncheon cheon with him flint there were mere so few alices open downtown on sunday and the she lived far uptown after luncheon luu chcon he asked her tier again eliat she nas as going in to do and again she blushed and said nothing 1 I in gold going to tale a ferry across the aher end then take a walk along file aver bank on the oilier other eldo side he told her tier kate rate said she envied him and so jim asked her tier if it fhe she would mould care to go eulth him film spring in lie air made maile the river bank very beautiful that flint afternoon noon and as jim and kate dimber up and down doan the steep bleep embankments jim held field kates notes round little arm to keep her tier from slipping lie ile made no effort to bo agreeable or oilier other n nise ise to this girl whom hom he lie saw every day but be he begin to realize that it nas i cry ery good to have her with him then they sat on an embedded boulder that looked out mer ocr the river below jim felt as if he lie were a thousand miles an amay ay from the city he lie looked cooled at the shapely datil stretched out on the rock be side him and studied thoe angers tint thit had worked so to efficiently for him that flint morning it seemed the roost most natu in the world to lift tint thit hand up in lili lin and as it flit vcr ver decue he lifted it to lils his lips to kiis ki is it bud denly jim felt awkward he ile felt as if tie lie bad had arrived somewhere without knotting bow how be to had come he ile began to wonder whether he lie could trace his steps back again bhea I 1 hen lie le wondered on dered whether het lier be he really wanted anted to lou aren arant t angry with me are you toti kate hatel I 1 he lie said of course not jim she the mid sold and he lie notice hint that tears fears in her tier pretty brown bromn eyes you know I 1 lne ainars liked you jim and I 1 hate haie always thought you the best stenographer ID in the lie world said sold jim feeling suddenly that perhaps lit had better find and ills fits aa baj back astin as tin hut but kate took her tier hand build aay from him and turned trang tr ins in vain to hide a falling tear 11 1 1 I 1 think much more than tint thit said jim feeling suddenly ery forlorn without that flint little hand in his he lie took it back again and kissed it IL alm ilm 1 so to happy jim dear said aid kate and then without bloing know ins how it happened jim realized that his arms were mere around kate and that her smooth little head lead was resting on his shoulder 11 lie hen jim got back to the apart mont meat at six that night ho he found tom sprawling in an eaby chair before the fireplace in which glowed a few fading embers jim took off his ills light coat and hat and dropped down don in a chair on the oilier other side of the fireplace lor an hour the two men sat there the same rath cr er foolish contented expression written on both cices then when the last flicker of light died from the embers tom roused himself lie suggested having something to eat I 1 something to eat tints right id forgotten stammered jim 1 I lou ou see dd old pal I 1 im M engaged 4 1931 mcclura syndicate i service |