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Nice Evening Miss Evans
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"Scrap paper,” he said ruefully. “I; "There's lots to do," he "tokt. - her wouldn't know a steak if I saw one, cheerfully. (“Let me take over the Events, as always in that house, I'm so devilish broke all the time. i house. I've been figuring. The whole meant Mrs. Aimsimore. She was feel-
"Are you?” she said as though that: trouble is that you've got the wrong Fing very low about the house. Mr. mattered not at all “Come in, you people in here. We ought to give the
Forbes had written her a letter. A poor darling.”
į house a good shaking, like a furnace, men, nasty letter. Eddie, stopping They stood together in her little and jolt everybody down into the on the way up to explain that hall, forgetting self and thinking of apartments they're paying for in- conkdn't quite pay his rent again, each other. Saying nothing at all, stead of the ones they wish --Chey found her sitting in
a sort of nest they got better acquainted in that could afford.” That'll leave the most she'd built of scribblings, looking ninety seconds" that many people can expensive ones empty, and we'll rent most-wretched and bewildered.
{in years.
them to the right people.”-
*Well, I'll just give it all-up," she| "I could have done it. If you hadn't "Oh, I couldn'%,” she said wearily. said, letting out an explosive sign. mentioned the chicken,” Eddie said. "It's just too much. I'm all worn out “It's just too much for me and If “That undid me.”“
with it esn't make it payta
**""Chicken ? ****, Ok”. Arlle looked. He shoved his way into her living “Give it up *** Eddie said. Give stricken with apology."Well, it would room and persoaded her to let him what up?"
have been a chicken in six months try it out. The old light of enterprise "Why, the house. I just close it or so. Now it's only an egg. Then began glowing in her tired eyes or let the bank grab it or something they both did langh, and all the fear again. At last Mrs. Ainmore had {I'm sick and tired of it.”
[someness of prize money, getting very found masculine corroboration for Eddie went cold all over. It was low and Mrs. Ainsmore about to close her plans! one thing for him to contemplate her house and jobs that just didn't swell. Fl- just let you handle giving up, but when Fate herself pay enough to live on, became the everything the maid after an hour's said it (all the tenants though of minority. For the majority was excited talking back and forth. Mrs. Ainsmore as Fate) that was youngness and the zest of getting to won't interfere at all. · Fil, make you something to worry about.
know each other at last and brave a sort of manager. With a salary," “You mean we'd just move
aat ?" to-morrow-and sweet to-night---| she said magnifcently, already seeing he cried
-She wore an organdie apron, fragile herself liberated from all this tire Mrs. Afasmare nodded gloomilly.jaa a flower, and she made Httle some business. Seeing herself In She showed him the tangle of figures feminine clucking sounds as she za fact, in a backless bathing suit, loung and the one which popped up every about, filling up the teapot, cutting ing carefreely on some beach while month and had to be knocked down the bread in small triangles to pay-Eddie struggled with those hideou by a" figme squeezed out of some chologically multiply the quantity. rents and all the sund-y-diseases that “She shouldn't be wasting her time seem to attack the plumbing and on paint," Eddie said to himself. "The fighting of old palatial houses. Once should be cooking for me. To-morrow again it all looked possible on paper. get a man-sized job somewhere But this time the figures were writ- and bay her all kinds of stutt" ten in a man's bold handwritting, and delightful breeze seemed to be blow-Mizs. Ansmure had faith in that kind ing all along his spine, just under of magic.
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"But we can't do that?" Eddie said. “We're got to think of something."
down beside Mrs. Ainsmore, and be gan sorting out her scribblings.
“Well, no wonder,” he said as his skin, and be felt fulf of power and! "You'll have to tell a lot of people he'd made a discovery. "You've got courage.
to move," she said with a little sigh. people in here who can't afford to They sat on either side of Arlie's**TI tell 'em he said jubilantly. little table, with lighted candles beer begin at the top flour with Miss live here."
"But nobody can afford to live, tween them and a handful of petonias Evans these days, she said sadly. "I keep from her window box between the She's two months. behind,” Mrs. hoping something will happen.” / candles. The tomatoes were daintily Aismore confessed wearily.
And "That's the trouble with every- thin, so you'd never have guessed-the-Hodges are four months, and the body," Eddie said sternly. "We're was only one tomato, and the garden suite is five months*-
that pretended to be a chicken was "Out with 'em all,” “Eddie-said
appreciate. That didn't matter to him
The rest of the night he laid out his campaign. He'd give up his job if need be, but he knew he could fill the house with paying people.
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gardens, or something. Some of 'em tiresome "Tm just going to let I take light mest and no gravy, may even have to get married." He somebody else worry about it," she Eddie said, drooling, practically, at fat a hilarious glee at this adorable said. "I'll go down the Cape and the thought of the gravy. "Well, some jest which Mrs. Ainamies couldn't everyone else can move where they day we will have gravy." {please."
"With lovely lumps in it" Arbe Suddenly Eddie saw how useless it promised. was to try to reason with her. He
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hesa 30 acute that he felt slightly ill a little gidlerin b
tablashed in the sky, be dressed As soon as "dawn was respectably and went out to see about his new business. By two o'clock he'd rented
"Who's there?” she'd say. "Owner's agent he'd tell her. "Here's yours notice to vacate the apartment.”.
“But but ** she'd sky, ~; not knowing how to take the joke, k
"You're to move scross the hall
son. He's looking for a
Perhavs he'd not eaten enough lately, "I can see you now, lying with They'd probably go along just as what with one thing and another. your little head in a pool of baithey had, and then, after six months, Just hen a little sprig of song he said. "And I can smell your clems, when she'd got reconciled to him. bloomed in the silence, and he heard is flowers. Bart her knew it was they'd marry. His head swam Arbie rattling her neat little trash the clematis or even the stars he possible
|the thought, but to-day anything was). basket. Automatically he jumped up, smelled, but the incense in his, zowa But when he knocked at her door,). seized a paper bag blew it up and heart. slightly crumpled it so that it looked They were quiet for long times, it retreated under his hand and fulligh
He dished out into the ball because the things they thought of g open. The big room was Time supty. Mrs. Anamore's furnishings with it just as Arlie was Bending saying couldn't. ́de anid yet. over to empty something He pre must pass first, somehow. A little were there, but the life had gone out tended to be doing the same thing.""éaltnfar" stood - un-the desk
of them All the little hangings, and
He
"I ought to have a dog, he said Eddie's band. He picked it up and Azlie's pictures, her doll she'd had since" she” was seven, her very smell These steak scraps are too good to looked at its full, ordered pages of soap, had zone and left the nisce throw away.”
June, July, Augar- there they lay? He could have my chicken bones waiting to be lived, written with quite dend. He ran into the room. meaning to-night illegible, but sur calendary so diuli, of promises, wES crying her tiszta -/Even--the little too," Arlie said, "and I might and predictable as to-morrow's sun gose from the desk bim some of my biscuits and gravy Sure, that is, if he could fat keep
"Is that what you're having-for.
"If she's gone, what in heck am dinner?" Eddie said. "Gosh, I didn't this girl close enough to accomplis doing in the real-estate-* business?” even know they made such things me, he said, is faway stub doing in ady business ?” › «He was the miracle pulsing in his heart be cried to himselfort "what am 1 any more.” She smiled, and he could see from that smile that she was one Just shift a few of these little peces parting with the exort to keep from of those old-fashioned little cooks What will we be saying on this page, wanted to laugh at the absurd humor
and everything would be different making funny, sobbing-sounds. who love to lean on their elbows and watch a man devour their handiwork and this?" He new that or sled a "Here he'd lived in the place He felt quakey inside, just thinking pages, whether he said it aloud, he couldn't afford and starved him about that chicken, about those tea to himself, he'd be telling her he loved self for weeks just to be Dear enough der biscuitse swaming in delicate her and loved her. gravy. They talked ́a minute-of But Arlie knew nothing about such to get acquainted with her.. And mystery. Se reached for the calen here now, when this crazy house now, when he could afford to live dar and looked earnestly at the pages suddenly his friend, he partner, “I must get back," she said at last to come, and whether she was hear the business that made it possibi
wouldn't want that chicken to get ing the nasocken. sentences those for him to be new too brown, in the oven,
her, she'd gone: months would bring, or whether she Just when he'd. She went in almost reluctantly, was merely computing how much her near him that was the
2. May to and be heard the door close as though longer her poor little prize money point she'd gone it were a book too delightful to stop would last, Eddie could not know: Hef Airsnore's reading "He stood in the hall and did know, however, than any other baboof silah thought a minute; this was the last girl in the world would bays made Andesirableytenants, probably BeA night perhaps. To-marzow Mrs. Aina Ittle fippant apartee, but not Ardle, go down and tell her more would give them notice. He of the silken hair and the satin eye-down
he'd go ran to his own studio and snatched nak. Azne knew the sweet rhetoric cup-g' handful of pencil andra aliny little tin cup; and-before he could lose his courage, he tapped-boldly Arlie's door.
| this-and-that, deliriously,
Almost as if she had been standing there waiting, the opened it immed |átely: » Herhield"
the pencile ried to speak, cocked ay-his mouth in a-lopested amile that Intended to be gay and white about, this Gray wate. But then he couldn't smile, because suddenly” saw that he was a bervar, blind æft love, hoping she'd' throw.
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