Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

pose it. Late in the afternoon old Mr..
Graham called me in and said3
"Samnis, here is a box of chocolates.
] wish them delivered to the person who
so delicately remembered me yesterday.
You need give no name. / think the !,
person will understand"
The chocolates went up to Mr. VAS
soon. He smiled like June morning.
but asked no questions. 1t took me
three days more to get the conspiracy
down fine, but at length all was ready.
That is, Mr.. Wassoon and old Mr..
Graham appeared simultaneously en-
the fourth floor as the clock struck II.
Each one of them decided to take Miss
Alden out to lunch. 1t was a couple
of minutes before they noticed each
others presence. Then Mr.. wassoon
looked at Mr.. Graham and uttered a
'humphl" Mr.. Graham repaid him
with two ''humphs" Then Mr.. Was
soon said:
There ought to be lynch law In this
NOQAbA9 AOA NVllaAA Q4Q
And if there was you'd go up TO a
limb before night" said Mr.. Graham.
AT that moment Miss Alden came out
to go to lunch. Both men smiled and
bowed. Both advanced. Both OBJ
served in the same breath that 1t
would give them the utmost pleasure
to escort her out to lunch. She looked
from one to the other in surprised
way and then drew herself up and
said:
Permit me to pass, please. / do NOT
know either one of you!"
She passed. She had been out OF
sight two minutes before either OF the
men had recovered from the shock.
Then Mr., Wassoon turned on Mr.. Gra-
ham and shouted
'You old viper of the jungle. but you
have been poisoning this woman's
mind against mel"
'You cockeyed buzzard of the plains,
but you have slandnred mel" yelled Mr..
Graham.
''You miserable liar!"
rIou black hearted scoundrel!'
Then they pitched into each other
and banged up against the walls and
rolled over the floor and 1t took five
men to separate them. After ii was all
over NJ. Rasher, the agent OF the
building, sent for me, and when told
him how 1t was he looked at me for a
long time and then said
''Sammis the owner Of sky scraper
is great mana great man."
''Yes, sir, he be-"
"And the owners agent is a great
mana great man."
Eyes, SIR
"But an elevator boy who knows his
gait is greater than the two rolled into
one. You seem to be doing well for a
fatherless boy-very we'll"
Two days later Mr.. Wassoon caught
me on his floor and stopped me to ask:
"Sammis, did / understand you TO
say that you were fatherless?"
Eyes. SIR"
"And struggling to pay of a mort
gage on the widows homer
Eyes, sir"
well, here's a dollar on the mort-
gage, and as / have no son OF my own
you can call me papa. wouldn't 20
shouting all over the building IL / were
you, but any time you feel lonely, Just
slip up and I'll pat you on the back
and call you sonny and cheer you UP.
No more put up Jobs on your papa.
Sammis. Ta-ta.'
And an hour later old Mr.. Graham
put a dollar into my hand and whls-
pered:
For the mortgage, Sammis, and be-
tween you and me III be a father to-
you. We won't say anything outside,
but as father and son wen work to-
gether to bring that old villain Of a
Wassoon to justice. Have an eye on
him, Sammis, and remember that my
Office hours are from O'clock a. m. to
5 O'clock p. m. and that as your adopt
ed father, shall always give you well
come"
I don't like 10 be mixed up in rows
and conspiracies and interrupt the har-
mony which should exist between ten
ants but every employee OF sky scraper
must take a position and maintain Il
and this village isn't getting very far
ahead Of
SAAfMTS,
The Elevator Boy.
Copyright, 1889, by G. B. Lewis.)