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Show In Furnished Rooms . Br EDITH H. OLIVER (0, Wtsttra Nwppr Union.) AT FIFTEEN Adolpbus Doduon be-came be-came a messenger In the Nth National Na-tional bank. He was promoted slowly, but steadily, untU be had good position, posi-tion, and In the process he met Lucy Hears and fell la love with ber. He was an earnest young man ; neat, methodical, reliable and thrifty, so thrifty, Indeed, that h resolved not to tell Lucy of his lore until he bad another an-other promotion; but when this occurred oc-curred Lucy had gone away. He had lost her and his heart ached. Adoli,hus had always lived In furnished fur-nished rooms; he bad dreamed of a borne with Lucy, but now that was dead, loat forever. He lunched at the Eureka restaurant There was a story that the engineer In the factory at the rar blew the noon whistle without loosing at nia watch when he aaw Adolphus hang up his coat and hat on his own particular peg In the corner. Adolphus came In one day prepared to go through his Invariable routine. He took oft his overcoat and huug It on his arm; he took off his bat; he drew the folding nickel-plated coat hanger In Its neat black case out of his pocket: pock-et: patted his 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 staring at a small figure In gray that hung a gray coat with a big gray collar on his own excluHlve peg. HU own exclusive chair tilted against the table advised the world of lta high mission, but the gray figure tilted It onto Its four legs, sat In It and reached composedly for the menu. Adolphus stood there holding his coat and hat and the folding nickel-plated nickel-plated coat banger la Its neat black case, when the gray figure turned towards to-wards blm, and In an Instant all the lonely years cried out In one word "Lucy I" He dropped his lmmaeur late garments upon the floor and stammered stam-mered forth an Inarticulate flood of love and longing. It was Indeed Lucy. They ate an ecstatic meal together and agreed to meet and eat another next day. They met every day after that in the Eureka, progressing by timid primly prim-ly conventional steps through the calling call-ing of first names, the almost agonising agonis-ing delight of surreptitious handclasps, hand-clasps, until one day Adolphus spoke the words that had been on his lips for so long, and he thought It Just exactly ex-actly what It should be when she said she would answer him In a week. "I'll call for you darling," he said, in a trembling voice. "We will go out to dinner and take a taxi drive up Riverside drive afterward." Lucy murmured something he could not bear. "I can't hear you darling and how fortunate I remembered that you have never told me where you live." Lucy murmured something else that he did not hear she was so adorable. "I can't hear you, dear; write it on my cuff." He thrilled as her soft fingers touched his hand and his own closed over them and the happy cuff. Only one week and he could hold them as often as he wished. For the first time In his life Adolphus 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 thinking of all the wonderful years ahead together, lay so long that the gray dawn peered In at him before he , went to Bleep. The sun had been peering peer-ing at him for some time before he awoke, and he had to hurry off to the bank without any breakfast and feeling feel-ing horribly disheveled. He was disturbed dis-turbed all through Jala work, too, by the remembrance that It was the laun-dryman's laun-dryman's day, and he had not left the things for him. . That, at least, was all right, though, for his landlady had given them and made out the list In duplicate, Juat as he. Suddenly the world turned to a black chaos of despair de-spair as he remembered that the address ad-dress waa on the cuff of the shirt that bad gone and he had not read it t He rushed to the laundry ; but it had gone to the main depot at the Bronx. He suffered hours of ignominy In overhauling 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 apprising him instantly of Lucy's appearance, ap-pearance, but all to no avail. Lucy meant to keep away In her adorable modesty until the week was op, and then she would wait and he would not come, and what could she think except that he bad deserted her. On the day that was to have been the happiest of his life be went mechanically me-chanically through his work, and with despair in, his heart sat long after be knew it was hopeless in the Eureka. Somehow , the hours . dragged themselves them-selves along elx o'clock - came the bour when he waa to have called for her. He went to his room and sat there, staring out Into the falling dusk.' It was all over; he would never see her again! With no definite Idea beyond be-yond escape from himself . and bis misery he seized his hat and ran downstairs. down-stairs. Someone was fumbling outside out-side the door with a latch key, he tore the door Impatiently open and Lucy walked In, all sweet confusion whn she saw him. "I'm so sorry to be late," ne said, "but I won't be a minute. If you don't mind 111 Just run up and change my hat." Adolphus stared at her. "Bun up," he said stupidly. "Yes," said Lucy, "my rom la mm the top floor." |