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Show In Furnished Rooms By EDITH H. OLIVER (, HIS. W.iUrn Nwapapr Union.) AT FIFTEEN Adolphus Dodson be- came a messenger In the Nth National Na-tional bank. Ha was promoted slowly, but ateadiljr, until he bad a good portion, por-tion, and In the process be met Lucy Ileum and fell la love with her. He was an earnest young man j neat, methodical, rel'able and thrifty, to 1 thrifty, Indeed, that he resolved not to tell Lucy of hla love until he had another an-other promotion; but when thla occurred oc-curred Lucy had gona away. He had lost her and hla heart ached. Adolpbua had always lived In fur- nlahed rooms; ha had dreamed of a borne with Lucy, but now that was 1 dead, loat forever. He lunched at the Eureka restaurant There waa a story ' that the engineer In the factory at the f rear blew the noon whistle without looking at his watch when he saw I Adolphus hang up his coat and hat on i his own particular peg In the corner. j Adolphus came In one day prepared to ; gc through his Invariable routine. He t took off bis overcoat and hung It on , his arm ; he took off his hat ; he drew the folding nickel-plated coat hanger la Its neat black case out of his pocket: pock-et: patted hla tie; smoothed his hair-There hair-There was a soft flurry of gray beside be-side him, a delicate breath of perfume floated through the air, and he found himself ataring at a small figure In gray that hung a gray coat with a big gray collar on hla own exclusive peg. His own exclusive chair tilted against i the table advised the world of lta high miaslon, but the gray figure tilted It onto Its four lags, sat la It and reached composedly for the menu. I Adolphus stood there holding his I. coat and hat and the folding nickel- plated coat hanger la lta neat black f , case, when the gray figure turned to- I wards him, and In an Instant all the I i lonely years cried out la one word "Lucy I" He dropped his Immacor I' late garments upon the floor and atain- I - mered forth an Inarticulate flood of It love and longing. I , It waa Indeed Lucy. They ate an (ecstatic meal together and agreed to meet and eat another next day. j I They met every day after that la I the Eureka, progressing by timid prim s' ly conventional steps through the call- ; I lng of first names, the almost agonli- I lng delight of surreptitious hand- s ! clasps, until one day Adolphus apoke j. the words that had been on hu. Hps for so long, and be thought it just ex- , , actly what It ahould be when she said , J ahe would answer him la a week. "I'U call for you darling," be said, 1 ! la a trembling voice. "We will go out . i to dinner and take a taxi drive up f Riverside drive afterward." j Lucy murmured something he could ' aot hear. t J "I can't hear yon darting and how ' I fortunate I remembered that you have I never told me where you Uve." I Lncy murmured something else that I be did not bear she was so adorable. '! "I can't hear you, dear; write It J oa my cuff." He thrilled as her soft I fingers touched hla hand and bis own i cloned over them and the happy cuff. 1 Only one week aad he could bold them j aa often aa he wished. I For the first time In hla life Adol- , . phus Dodson could not go to sleep that night. He had found Lucy again: '; they were engaged; they were going to be married. He lay planning and 5 thinking of aU the wonderful years ahead together, lay so long that the gray dawn peered in at him before he s ' went to sleep. The sun had been peer ing at him for some time before he awoke, and he had to hurry off to the bank without any breakfast and feel-lag feel-lag horribly disheveled. He was disturbed dis-turbed all through hla work, too, by . s the remembrance that It waa the laun- dryman's day, and he had not left the things for him. That, at least, was all right, though, for hla landlady had I given them and made out the list In . duplicate, Just as he. Suddenly the world turned to a black chaos of de-l de-l apalr as he remembered that the ad- 1 dress was on the cuff of the shirt that ' had gone and he had not read It 1 He rushed to the laundry ; but It had gone to the main depot at the Bronx. He suffered hours of Ignominy in over- hauling uncounted hampers of other people's shirts. The next day he went early to the Eureka and established a costly and far-reaching system of espionage for f ' apprising him Instantly of Lucy's ap pearance, but all to no avail. Lucy meant to keep away hi her adorable modesty untU the week was np, and then she would wait and he would not come, and what could ahe think except that he had deserted her. On the day that was to have been the happiest of hla Ufe he went mechanically me-chanically through bis work, and with despair In hla heart sat long after he knew it was hopeless In the Eureka. Somehow the hours dragged themselves them-selves along ix o'clock came the hour when he waa to have called for her. He went to his room and sat there, staring out lato the falling dusk. It waa all over; he would never see her again I With no definite Idea beyond be-yond escape from himself and hla misery he seized hla hat and ran downstair. down-stair. Someone waa fumbling out-alde out-alde the door with a latch kay. he tore the door ImpaUently open and Lucy walked In, aU sweet confusion when ahe saw him. . x Tm so sorry U be late," ahe said, "bnt I woat be a minute. If you dont ,, mind HI Just run np and change my hat" Adolphus stared at her. "Run np, he said stupidly. "Tea," said Lncy, "say room la the top floor." |