The herald., 1895-07-20
nard Is going to marry the PROCTOR s,r.,


asked ono of them.
did 1 know IT. haven't heard any
thing else since yesterday. You've got 9
smart lot of people around this hotel. I've
besn on to that for six weeks, and every.
body else around here was picking Mr.
Branford. He wasn't in 1t at any stage Of
the game. ! remember the day Miss Proc
tor came here with her father. I took
them up, and Mr.. Maynard went up the
next trip. He says to me, Who's the new
grip and / told him she had come to
Chicago to study music. He says to me,
She's a dandy That's the first time
ever heard him say anything about girl
in the house.
well, spose 1t was q week after that
both Of 'em got in the elevator together.
Mr.. Maynards q good locker, you know,
but shy of women. He took off his hat
and kind O. turned his back to her. let
him off at the second, and saw her look
Ing at him, SO spoke up and says, That's
Mr. Mnynard.' She laughed and says to
no, Who's Mr.. MaynardY told her he
was good fellow, and then, just for kid.
I told her what ho had said about her.
She blushed and said. The idea! YoH
know how they can do 1t amt been
EuIHlHR I'LL ClSNdtOE lOT WV yCdAo Ao1
nothing. If you want to stand in with
women, just tell 'em anything you hear
real nice about 'em-understand? 1t makes
'em awful mad, but they remember you Mt
Christmas.
The very first ball that Miss Proctor
went to she made big hit That's the
night Mr.. Branford got stuck. could
see it, He marched her all around tho first
0oor bora y,I ,, rlv lE ad orp, off how
We run the elevator late that night and
when 1 took her up she asked mo If Mr..
Maynard over went to the Saturday night
dances. ! told her no-that he didn't care
much for girls. AS soon as l got a chance
told Mr.. Maynard what she had asked
me, and be wouldn't believe it at first. II
was none of my business, of course, but
he's nice man and amt stuck up ovef
his money and he's done me many good
turn, and thought 1 d put him onto this
girl asking about him. Mr.. Branford's
all right, too but he makes me kind of
sick at times.
Tho first dance after told Mr.. May.
nard ho came down looking out of sight in
his full dress suit and loafed around the
office like a chump, instead of going in
where she was. Purity soon she came out
Wluu AhI. loIdAloAu oLu saw Aul.
l guess she must have asked for an intro.
duction. Anyway they went over, and
Mr. Branford gave her the knockdown to
a beet, and she had to do most Of the talk.
ing. s'pose he didn't ask her to dance.
Anyway some one else came after her, and
he went into the billiard room.
THAT wss about the time that Willie
hat cA~ vrI ~
with the girls) began to make hard play
guess she had lots Of fun with him and
was ready enough to wear flowers If he
wanted to send 'em, but know all the
time that she WASH stuck on him. When
she'd leave him and set on the elevator,
he'd grin at hcr and say in that soft way
he has, 'Goodby! and she'd say Goodbyp
but as soon as we got past the first floor
she'd laugh out loud and I'd have to laugh
too. She knew all the time that I was on.
"Mr. Maynard met her once in awhile
in the elevator, and she acted different
with him. 1 amt very keen, but think
! could have caught on quicker than he
did that she liked him. but didn't want
to tell him SO in just so many words. He
didn't really act like a sucker. He's been
around too much for that. But she'd
tnTOW OuU lltule Minus, anu ne ulun beeUl
to understand what she meant.
"That man didn't know how strong he
was with the girl She could SEQ that he
was all right if he'd only get his nerve.
About two weeks ago l says to him one
day, Mr. Branford's rushing Miss Proctor
pretty hard He says, Yes, 1 spose they
are engaged RatsP I says She don't
care for him. Well, he says, she's
l. III Al, IL
him that was because no one else sent her
any. Next evening she came to me and
said If l saw Mr.. Maynard to tell him that
she wanted to see him. l took him up in
a little while, and she met him in the hall
wearing a big bunch of roses, and l saw
her take one and pin it on his coat. That's
something she'd never done for Willie.
Mr.. Maynard was jollied up that even
ing, but the next evening he came III
from the billiard room and found Miss
Proctor and Willie promenading around
here, and 1 could see in a minute he WAS
sore. Then he done something that para
lyzed me. He walked over to sofa and
began to talk with that Miss Morrison
that wears the glasses. I guess she was
surprised, too, but she was tickled all
right. I'm here to tell you there amt a
woman in this hotel that wouldn't have
been tickled. I could see Mr.. Maynard
look at Miss Proctor when she went BY
and then she'd look at him. Willie and
Mist Morrison didn't cut any figure at all.
They thought they did, but they didn't
Now, the rest of this is on the q. t..
and Mr. Maynard would kill me if he
thought told any one. That same night
when he went up says, Mr.. Maynard
excuse mo for saying it, but Miss Proc.
tors stuck on you He looked foolish ond
says, Who told you that" said I'd had
my eyes open, and that she went around
with Mr.. Branford because she couldn't
get away from him. Next night he faxed
up and went to call on her, and that's
how he got her before he had taken her to
a show or dance cr anything. Did you
hear about Mr.. Branford giving up his
room2". ".-Chicago Record.
NESTS.
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