Show ef r O OrrL r-cv r fD y A STORY OF OFA OFA OFA A GIRL GIRI GIRIo of o TODAY THE TITE HOUSE DETECTIVE E I 1 haven't hIL a relative In the city ly 1 answered Until now I had not sounded the depths of ot my condi condi- condition condition condition tion In my despair I was about to ask osk the woman It if she ahe would loan me enough h money to telegraph my when I 1 heard another ol voice e eat at the door asking for forme me The at- at attendant attendant at attendant said They want you OU miss Not knowing who they were and I aco scarcely I went for tor forward ward It seemed to me that noth noth- nothing nothing ing could be worse than what Thad already experienced I 1 In the last half hour hour hour- but worse worse- worse was was as to come comeI I found the waiter and aman with witha a peculiarly hard rd countenance standing Just outside outside- tho oman dressing room The he waiter walter seems to think you were ill III miss Can Can we be beof of any to you I am not III but Ive I've lost all my money The waiter walter held out the the tho bill tormy for formy formy my dinner to the map man maHe He scrutinized It carefully and then looked at me searchingly You may mayuse may use the house p phone one to 10 telephone your friends he be of- of offered of offered I have no friends here I am alone In the city The man looked me over Ill I'll take you yeu to the Hie manager r he he saId aid Although Iwas I I wils was terrorized as J I had never been before I could not hot help noticing noticing- g that as we e walked through the dining room to th the theoffice theoffice office we e attracted d much atten atten- attention attention tion but It t was was os not until I had faced the manager er tid realized that I had been a 11 de de detective t attached to the restaurant that I understood why the people looked at me Clement Sterns Sterne as I learned his ramo rama later was wao en an unknown an-unknown unknown type tITe of man to me mO He lie seemed to think that a young oung unprotected unprotected- d woman was a legitimate object of ot his at tendon I felt myself turning al alternately white and red before his sorrowed eyes Sea So youve you've been trying to beat tb the restaurant w were re his first word I your beg pardon pardon- pardon Well you ou came tn no here and or ordered dered a an n expensive eXP e dJ dinner ner for which you cannot pay No No sir I cannot I answered I thought I J had bad two hundred and andI I fly dollars In bills b bill lIa In my my bat bag at atI I when when I 1 came came In and only only dUcov discovered ered cred tl a that t the tho bag was gone waiter the walter waiter was out tot for my leo ice cream Copyright by NEA Service Inc Ine as M ft A cheat |