New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-31

last night too. Keep pushin' and shown and
push dem clouds awayl It means something.
know it does She leaned out to look.
The man in the street walking slowly away,
whistling as he walked Keep pushin and
shown
"My!" sighed Mary ''Isn't it romantic? Just
like the lights Of London, or something!"
Excuse me-. said voice SO close in her ear
that she started violently, amt you goin' to
lose your comb?"
Mary gazcd with startled ewes at the face looking
out from the window next to her own under the
roof. The faint starlight shone on eyes Just now
alght with some sudden and determined purpose.
They cleaned from a young face with features
well cut, though there deep lines about the
Smooth-shaven lips and certain sharpness about
the shining ewes that were a little dsconcerting-
or they would have been so to a more experienced
observation than Marys.
Mary saw nothing but Young and, as he seemed
to her a handsome man who was looking straight
at her as if he wanted to know how long she had
been the window and what she found there to
interest her.
sOh. T" stammered the girl, 81 thanl, you'll
and She looked out of her window more that
night.
She lit her smoky lamp and began a letter
Tom; but the light bad, the pen scratched.
and somehow the strange whistled signals rang
in her ears 50 distinctly that she could not keep
her mind on the letter.
Push dem clouds away" crooned Mary
g Dear me- what it all mean! Tom will have
to wait tonight.
In the morning when she ran down to get the
rolls for her breakfast she thought the door Of
the room next to hers crcakcd she slipped past
it. as if some one was quietly watching her from
a crack in the hinge, and when she breWed her
solitary cup of tea that night She felt a strange
sense of companionship. as if some in
tercsted in her conngs and goings and her simple
daings generally.
When the hurrving street was quiet again She
took her station at the window.
u don't care" she SAID, if answering some
unseen protestor mysteries were made to be
solved.
The sun sank in a blaze that night and cast
red reflection across to the eastern heavens, where
the great black clouds rolling UP like some
somber pagcantry of majestic grief The rising
wind smciled Of the salt and it sang gaily about
the OF the garnet where the girl sat, and did
its prvng best to take liberties with her shining
hair, though she sat well within the window to-
night with the sense of being watched growing
her as the sullen day wancd into a Wild nightfall.
lust as the first flash Of lightning tore the black
clouds the whistle she listened for echoed from the
street.
Jennie. my own true loved one, wait till the
clouds roll by" it sang, and as before came the
answer from the window next Mary's: Keep
a pushin and a shown and push dem clouds
away!
Well, said Mary under her breath. ''if this
isn't"
a sudden binding flash shivered the sultry air.
and She gave smothercd Shrek
Don't be scared said voice from the next
window. It's a long ways off, and again Mary
withdrew from her window, and again she was too
distracted to write to Tom.
..Ths is real life" she said to herself as she
lnassagcd her smooth young face as Miss Bcaure-
gard !" had taught her to do. You could live al
your life in Oak Center and never hear Of such
i thing. 1t is regular romance What can It