face of this however ci it a book myself that i had courage to do that which i earnestly believed i do as we stood over the looking at the i first with the strings of her apron and then later finding no opposition allowed my hand to rest gently at her waist still no sign of opposition or even consciousness i from head to toe then i closed my arm gently about her waist and when it became tight she looked up and smiled you d better watch out she said some me may come do you like me a little t i pleaded almost choking i think so i think you re very nice anyhow but you mustn t die said some one may come in and as i drew her to me she pretended to resist her cheek against my mouth as she pulled away she was just in time for c � � came into the back parlor and said oh there you are i i wondered where you were i waa just looking over your said yes i added i was showing it to her oh yea laughed my sister you and al � i know what you two were trying to do you i she exclaimed giving me a push and al the silly she has a beau already she laughed and went off but i satisfied with myself into the adjoining room beau or no beau belonged to me youthful vanity was swelling my chest i was more of a personage for having had it once more proved to me that i waa not to girls chapter in i asked when i should see her again she suggested the following tuesday or thursday asking me not to say anything to c i had not been calling on her more than a week or two before she confessed that there was another a telegraph oi to whom she was engaged and who was still calling on her regularly when she came to our house to spend christmas she said it was with no intention of seeking a serious though in order not to the sense of opportunity we boys might feel she had taken off her engagement ring also she confessed to me she never wore it at the store for the reason that it would create talk and make it seem that she might leave soon when she was by no means sure that she would in short she had become engaged thus early without being certain that she was in love never were happier hours than those i spent with her though at the time i was in that state of and change which most youths who are to discover what they want to do in life on christmas day my job was gone and the task of finding another was before me but this did not seem so grim now i felt more confident true the manager of the herald had told me to call after the first of the year and i did so but only to find that his suggestion of something important to come later had been merely a to secure eager and industrious service for his when i told him i wanted to become a he said but you see i have nothing whatsoever to do with that you must see the managing editor on the fourth floor to say this to me was about the same as to say tou must see nevertheless i made my way to that floor but at that hour of the morning i found no one at all another day going at so complete was my ignorance of news a book about myself hours i found only a few individuals at scattered in a room city boom one of these after i had asked him how one secured a place as a looked at me and said you want to see the city editor he isn t here now the best times to see him are at noon and six that s the only time he gives out i thought � so that s what work is called and i must come at either twelve or six so i away to return at six for i felt that i must get work in this great and fascinating field when i came at six and was directed to a man who bent over a desk and was evidently very much concerned about something he exclaimed no nothing open sorry and turned away so i went out and more than ever who was i to attempt to venture into such a as this � i a mere by trade t i doubt if any one ever the mouth of a cave with more feeling of uncertainty it was all so new so wonderful so mysterious i looked at the polished doors and marble floors of this new and handsome newspaper building with such a feeling as might have possessed an slave examining the walls and the doors of the temple of solomon how wonderful it must be to work in such a place as this i how shrewd and wise must be the men whom i saw working here able and successful and comfortable i how great and interesting the work they did today they were here writing at one of these fine tomorrow they would be away on some important mission somewhere taking a train riding in a car entering some great home or office and some important citizen and when they returned they were congratulated upon having discovered some interesting fact or story on which having reported to their city editor or managing editor or having written it out they were permitted to retire in comfort with more compliments then they resorted to an excellent hotel or to refresh themselves among interested and interesting friends before retiring a book about myself to rest some as this filled my brain despite the 