strive after clean living and morality mr accompanied them to the all smiles patronage and while the clerks turned their heads to follow joe s retreating figure and to night joe mr asked anxiously as they waited at the shaft how do you feel think you ll do him the game sure joe answered never felt better in my life you feel all right eh good good you see i was just a � you know ha ha � goin to get married and the rest � thought you might be eh a trifle � nerves just a bit off you know know how married is myself but you re all right eh of course you are no use asking you that ha ha well good luck my boy i know you ll win never had the least doubt of course of course and good by miss he said to gallantly handing her into the hope you call often will be charmed � charmed � i assure you everybody calls you joe she said reproachfully as the car dropped downward ji y the game why don t they call you r c mr that s no � more than proper but he was staring at the boy and did � � not seem to hear ii c what s the matter joe she asked with a tenderness the power of which to thrill him she v knew full well oh nothing he said i was only thinking � and wishing wishing � what her voice was itself and her eyes would have melted stronger than he though they failed in calling his up to them then deliberately his eyes lifted to hers i was wishing you could see me fight just once she made a gesture of disgust and ji y the game his face fell it came to her sharply that the rival had thrust between and was bearing him away i � i d like to she said hastily with an effort striving after that sympathy which the strongest men and draws their s heads to women s breasts will you again his eyes lifted and looked into hers he meant it � she knew that it seemed a challenge to the greatness of � love it would be the moment of my life he said simply it may have been the of love the wish to meet his need for her sympathy and the desire to see the game face to face for wisdom s sake and it may ji y the game have been the call of adventure ringing through the narrow of existence for a great daring thrilled through her and she said just as simply i will y i didn t think you would or l i wouldn t have asked he confessed as they walked out to the but can t it be done she asked anxiously before her resolution could cool oh i can fix that but i didn t think you would o the game i didn t think you would he repeated still amazed as he helped her upon the electric car and felt in his pocket for the fare chapter ii chapter ii and joe were working class in an made up largely of and wretchedness they had kept themselves and wholesome theirs was a self respect a regard for the and clean things of life which had held them aloof from their kind friends did not come to them easily nor had either ever possessed a really intimate friend a heart companion with whom to ji y the game and have things in common the social instinct was strong in them yet they had remained lonely because they could not satisfy that instinct and at that same time satisfy their desire for and decency if ever a girl of the working class had led the sheltered life it was in the midst of and she had all that was rough and brutal she saw but what she chose to see and she chose always to see the best avoiding and without effort as a matter of instinct to begin with she had been peculiarly an only child with an invalid mother upon whom she attended she had not joined in the street games and of the children of the neighborhood her father a narrow little ji y the game clerk domestic because i of his inherent i m l t � ity to mix with men had done his full share toward giving the home an atmosphere of sweetness and tenderness an orphan at twelve had gone straight from her father s u funeral to live with the in their rooms above the store and here sheltered by jn kindly she � la earned her keep and clothes by waiting on the shop being she was especially necessary to the ji y the game who would not run the business themselves when the day of their sabbath came around and here in the little shop six years had slipped by her acquaintances were few she had elected to have no girl for the reason that no satisfactory girl had appeared nor did she ji y the game choose to walk with the young fellows of the neighborhood as was the custom of girls from their year that stuck up doll face was the way the girls of the neighborhood described her and though she earned their enmity by her beauty and she none the less commanded their respect and cream she was called by the young men � though softly and amongst themselves for they were afraid of the ire of the other girls while they stood in awe of in a dimly religious way as a something mysteriously beautiful and for she was indeed beautiful springing from a long line of american descent ji y so the game she was one of those wonderful which occasionally appear all precedent of and apparently without cause or explanation she 