South Bend News-Times, Volume 37, Number 151, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 30 May 1920 — Page 34

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THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES

Moving Day

By Isabel Frost

It had never occurred to Alice Barton that her landlord would not trmi her Indefinitely, von though she bad not taken the time to apprla him of her Intentions. .She l;ad meant to drop In tho cfiice on her way to lh fetation and tell his elave et the defile that thy mlsht renew her lea.no; but it was pourln? pitchforks and rhe had to make a train: therefore ehe trusted to luck and th1 landlord's Intuition. When ehe returned on May l h" encountered larpre packing canes In her hall, also a youmj man In shirt -sleevta wrestling with the same. "I'll have then cut of the way In Jxut a minute, so you can fret by," h told her, pleasantly. "But I don't want to fret by," sctld Alice frigidly. "Thank you. I merely wlnh to fc-et Into my apartment." He looked at her In surprise. "There seem to bo some mistake here, I rented thU apartment tinder the Impression that It was vacant," he explc-lned. "Trom May 1 for nn year. I'm Just moving in." Alice's face turned a phade palrr. Manners were Instinctive second nature to hr. and f-ho forced hT.-elf to veak vr ry juitly. "Would you mind letting jrlancf around to pee If any of my things hive l-en left here.'" lie was delighted to admit her. Already the, place was taking on a masculine air, a peculiar, corsplcuous laxity in the arrangement of it furrlture. Sh had only left a f-v of her pictures and cushions around, and the little tea servlco on the willow table in the corner. "I believe Paxton said eomethlntj about there being1 a few things left that belonged to the former tenant." the stranger fald. awkwardly, noting her roving glance. "I've twen awfully areful not to disturb anything. Is thre anything I can do to help?" "May I phone th office?" Alice ar-ked. a hit helplessly. Pax ton's voice was suave but firm. He reminded her that they had written several times, lnqu'.-lng her intentions on the renewal of her lease, and she had calmly Ignored

thf m. "Have you anything else left In the building?" she afked. "No. 1 am very Eorry, but there Is nothing at rll left. We waited until the very last moment for your decision, but Mr. Kleves wished the

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No there was nothing they could do. She thanked him and hung tip the receiver. Drawing of? her gray uede gloves, i-he looked around her a bit tiredly. It had been quite a trip up from Spring Lake, and Jhe had counted all the way on the comfort and relaxation of her own snug little r.eyt. "I'll pack up my thing-a right away," .she said. "You won't do anything of the Fort." lie put on his coat and, looking ur. at him. she suddenly discovered that her untimely tenant was a youth mighty good to look upon. "I shall not retain the apartment," ho told her. resolutely. "It was beastly of them to rent It without your knov.'lMU'e. I'm' going over to throw the whole thing up." "Iiut you can't, you know. Not If you'o Figned a lease." She laughed rather wearily. "If you don't mind. I think I'll make a cup of tea for myself, before I pack my dishes. Wont you join mo?" liefere, the impromptu tea was half over, Fho had made several enlightering discoveries. First, Mr. Reaves was a Yak- man, the same class as her brother, Tom. This in itself would have warranted her In accepting almost any favor et his hands. The time slipped away while he told of Tom's initiation Into their fraternity, and then she found herself reading to him Tom's l.tst letter frm France, where he had joined the aviation corps. "Of course, you understand." he told her, whec they had finished tea. "that I can't possibly let you go out of hero. If they won't let me step down and out, I shall sublet to you. May T bo your landlord? Please say yes. A fellow can pick up quarters

anywhere, und somehow this whole place see ma to fit you. I guess that .

was why It took me so in the first place. It seemed so sort of homelike and Inviting." After he had jrone Alice settled herself with a sigh of relief. Ho had

been no fine and fair about it all. J

Then she looked up over the mantelpiece. In his haste to jet away he had forgotten to take down a tall photograph of himself in guardsman uniform. For several days she found herself stopping thoughtfully, whatever she happened to be doing, to look up at the fine, manly, boyish face. She wrote to Tom, telling of the accidental meeting, and asking him if ho remembered Dick lieeves. class 12. Yale. The answer did not come back for nearly two months, and In that time Dick had securely established himself as a landlord who bestowed remarkable attention upon his tenant. He called freQuently. Usually at tea time, and the days when he did not come Alice found herself missing him. Then came the letter from Tom. Sho never forgot the moment when

p.he opened it. Just after Dick had

gone. "He's one of the finest old chaps I ever met, but he got into a mix-up at college with a girl who blew into town with a road show. I guess she was a square little kid all right, for she never tried to hold Dick, and told him he was making a fool of himself for nothing. His old man went mad over the affair and cut Dick off without a cent. He stuck it out, though, working his way through his last year, and took his degree. I don't know what became of the girl. Frankly, I think sho did him a good turn, as the old man had millions to bum. When Dick landed on his uppers It made a man of him. I believe he's working now In his cousin's amomoblle factory, learning the business from the ground up. I'm glad you've met him." It was two weeks later. With a woman's intuition, Alice had known the moment wa ahead of them, when she would either have to givTf up her Mib-lease or else admit another tenant. Dick's eyes were eloquent. They told her plainer than any words could hifVe done all that she meant In his life. He Fat on the window seat looking down at Gramercy park. The children In their gay dresses bobbing

around looked like animated flowers. Around the corner on Nineteenth at. a street piano was playing some rollicking popular air. ,,Allce.,, ho said suddenly, with a touch of desperation in his tone, "I've got to tell you something. Something I'm mighty ashamed of, now that I've met you and known the real thing. Maybe I'm wrong, but It seems to me you ought to know before I ask you to be my wife." Alice bent a little lower over her embroidery as she sat In a dark green willow chair beside him. "I've heard all about Peggy," she said, quietly. "Tom told me. I like you much better as a worker, Dick, than as you must have been before she switched your life into the manlier way of Independence. Was that all?" She glanced up at him with a little mischievous smile of inquiry, and Dick left the window feat. The following morning Mr. Paxton glanced up from his desk. Dick's tone was very decisive. "We wish a few alterations made In the apartment. Miss Barton and myself. We will be married on the 15th and It will have to be in shape by the time we get back from our honeymoon."

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Great Deed. We all want to do some great thing to do what prophets, saints, heroes, and martyrs liave done. But the small thing, the commonplace thing, the little trivial duty, the thing that has to be done out of everybody's sight In the routine of business, home or school that seems poor work to do for God. But it is what 1.4 wants us to do. C. J. Perry.

Parcel post distribution of foodfluff would be more of a success if the food was delivered oftener the same week It is mailed. Kokomo Dispatch.

Who wants mesages from Mars, anyway? We've hardly had anything else for five years.- Ht. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Sailors Carry on Ardent Courtship Via Wireless, Report Says. SAN FRANCISCO. May 2 J. For several days wireless operators :n the short stations and aboard ships at sea In the vicinity of San 7Yaiciico were Interested lbteneis to some of the sweetest messaa ever flashed through ether. The explanation of Cupid's monopoly of the air lanes came with the arrival here aboard the liner Chinyo Mura of Miss Helen T. Edmonds, recipi?-T. of two score aerograms from hir ilance, Grafton B. Perkins of New York. The aerial "disturbance" began a. soon as the Shinyo came within the San Francisco zone. Messages with Croid's code words of "sweetiepeach," "honey," "snookuma" and the like started to flash through space between the Shinyo and the short. In other words. th ship's sparker sent and received some real sparkling messages, with a result that MJhs Edmonds, who is a daughter of Mrs. F. E. Edmonds of Grand Rapids, Mich., on the ship's arrival announced her engagement to wed Perkins. The romance of the young couple started several months ago aboard the army transport Thomas, when Miss Edmonds went from here as a nurse and Perkins sailed as a major of artillery.

"Work and be happy," says Uncle Joe Cannon. Let congress set an example of it for the country.

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