Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-24
DAILY SHORT STORY
Compromise.
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"The new tenant I'm not going to
move"
1.-THE agent must have misunderstood
you
Il have a written lease"
80 have IT, said feminine voice in
the hall, and a young, pretty and taste
fully dressed woman stood in the door
way.
"a lease to these apartments?"
Yes, a lease to these apartments
from May 1, 1903, TO May 1, 1904
1.-The agent has Numbered"
In what way?'
He has issued a lease to me for the
same term"
"'Wen? What are you going to do
about it?'
THAT is very difficult to decide.
Were you not a lady-and, permit me
to say, very charming one-I would
tell you to go to the
But l am lady, and have no in
tention of going to any such place.
Come, l want to get my things in at
once. The first van, containing the
kitchen utensils and table stores,
should be here in an hour. 1 need my
luncheon
81, too. am hungry, having had no
breakfast l have all the parapher-
MALTA for a meal. but that COMPOUNDED
cook of mine has been taken i'll. She's
always ill. Were it not for this would
relieve your hunger"
I'll get you a luncheon
"Bless you, madam. my stomach
yearns"-
"An apron"
There is the kitchen. You will have
to ransack for what you want"
The lady disappeared, and the man
sat waiting in the dining room. Pres
emily he went to, a closet, took out
bottle and raped at the kitchen door.
You must keep out of here. We
have no chaperon. l am for the pres
ent your servant"
Put that in the ice box" And he
handed her q bottle of champagne.
Catching a glimpse of her through the
partly opened door he saw that she
looked very neat in n clean white cook
ing apron she had found and a paper
cap she had made. Then he went back
and listened to the sputter of broiling
chicken and the preparations generally.
Cant help yOu?" he asked, going
to the door again, really to catch an
other glimpse.
Not unless you care to set the ia
BILE"
How stupid of me not to think of
itv' And away he went to the closet
for the linen, to the buffers pantry for
the dishes and to the sideboard for the
silver. Presently the kitchen door
opened, and the new tenant. with her
sleeves rolled up. showing a pair of
plump. white wrists, a dish in each
hand, entered:
You have forgotten the glassesr she
exclaimed.
$50 1 have Here they are"
"And the pepper and salt and the
carving knife and fork and a lot of
things"
He hustled about till the wants were
supplied; then they sat down to table,
he having brought the wine and open
ed it.
"Broiled chicken, French fried pota-
toes and champagne said the new
tenant THAT is better than if the
supply were taken from my van."
''It is the company that especially
pleases me-
THANK you. Now, let us proceed to
business. We must settle the matter
of the occupancy of this fiat"
What do you say to a compromise"
asked the present occupant.
II would agree to that"
every well; on what basisy"
You leave the fiat to me-
HIM That would be rather one
sided. Suppose, for instance, you take
me to bOard?"
THAT would be impossible. l am
busy all day at my profession. L am
an artist. l have no time to devote TO
the affairs of Others"
And 1 am journalist. All my time
is devoted to the affairs of others"
81 see"
"Then there is no way but for me to
destroy my lease"
You might retain a room for a few
days till you eau secure other apart
ments."
Very well, we will compromise on
that basis"
"wilI you move your furniture this
afternoon
For heavens sake, where shall
move it?'
True InlS IS very ulSaSreeaDIe
episode"
''By the bye, we have been talking
all this time not knowing each others
name"
eff you will hand me that bag will
give you my card
He did as she suggested, taking his
own card from his pocketbook. When
the two pastebOards lay on the table
both looked up astonished.
MY little sweetheart OF twenty
years ago.
1.-The boy who vowed eternal con-
stancy the evening before he went to
college, then forgot all about it!'
Not at all. Your father was rich
and p
my father failed 1 hoped that
your