The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-05
TIE EVENING STORY
Dora's Ronlanee.

DOra's Romance.
Dora was a bindery. girl in a print
ing house in Plymouth court she
worked in the ninth story. At noon
she ate her lunch seated in one OF the
front windows. This was how she
came to notice that Sam was hand
some, for she had a daily view of MN
as he ate lunch out on the ire escape
over the way.
There came a wonderful day when
Sam and Dora got a Touchdown 70
each other through the kindness OF
Anne Soralfy, who had been intro
duced to Sam by her steady, Mike
Fogarty. From that time on Sam was
more than willing to stand on the cor
ner waiting for Dora to appear Each
morning he fingered talking to her I'M
til, if he had not been a sprinter, he
could not have reached his own work
room in time to punch the clock be
bfore 1880. And Dora gladly went up
to her work with the late corners, Al
though that load was sure to be the
largest and the jam in the elevator
was dreadful.
When she mentioned this to Sam he
volunteered to go UP with her and
on his devotion. Sam took them Jov-
tally as a tribute to his good luck IN
having the prettiest girl in Plymouth
court.
When the elevator was crowded the
elevator man would pretend it was a
lift in a big department store and
would call out the floors:
Second floor, children's toys kids
get off here. Third floor, millinery
imported from Halsted street; hatpins
to stick fresh guys. Fourth floor,
ladies' shoes; heels six inches high.
At the ninth as Dora and Sam got off,
the elevator mans call was invariably:
Three rooms furnished complete for
housekeeping, only $50 on easy pay
ments. Couples who would like to
marry stop and inspect our stock
Dora was so happy in those days
that she could not endure Anne
Soralfy's misery when Mike Fogarty
cruelty turned her down.. Some one
ought to set things right, Dora
thought. Who but herself should do
it. when she owed her acquaintance
with Sam to Anne Soralfy, poor dear?
So the girl, strong in her own hap
piness, waylaid Mike in Washington
park. got him behind a lilac bush,
with nobody near but an old man
asleep, and tried to reawaken q dead
love. She was in earnest argument
when that horrid Mike leaned over
and kissed her! She was too Disguised
to speak, so she just ran and boarded
the first cable car for downtown.
Next morning Sam was not on the
corner and Dora went to work with
out seeing him. For two hours she
worried. Then, while the forewoman
was down in the Office, Dora broke
rules and used the telephone. When
Sans voice responded she was sur
/ prised. She had thought him sick.
In dismay she listened to his first
words.
"say. Miss Dora, did you have a
good time spoOning FOgarty ~
/ ''Oh, Sam, it is not so. Who told
4 you such a lie ?''
he thought ought to know And it
won't better matters for you to call
my dad a liar. because he amt
How could I look at that red-head-
ed thing a-after your" sobbed the
Jaw. taffy is cheap. All know
| is my dad saw him kiss you in Wash
/ ington park, and the girl Mike Foo
garty kissed can't be nothing to me-"
Sam hung up the receiver.
After that everything went wrong
! Comments on Sans love had been
pleasant, but jeers over his desertion
were unbearable- She grew nervous
at her work and the forewoman
/ scoIded.
Dora's one soIace was the noon
hour when she could look across at
/ Sam and hope he would return her
glance. One windy day, as she sat in
the printing house window, her lunch
/ in lap and her eyes on Sam. she idly
! tore a bit of paper from the wrapping
of her lunch and unburdened her
heart upon it with a stumpy lead
asam. darling" she scrubbed, Il
| love you. I never loved anybody else
even for a second. That horrid
rhinoceros did kiss me. but it wasn't
/ because I wanted him to-
As she lifted the pencil to moisten it
lake wind came galloping along
/ Plymouth court snatched the paper
and whirled it away. Dora chrieked
and threw uD her hands.
Though, as has been said, Sam
never looked at Dora. all this had not
escaped his notice. In anxiety to see
/ the fate of the paper he rose and
leaned far out-so far that Dora
shivered.
BY a caprice of the wind the mes
sage was floating toward Sam. High
overhead it scared. too high to be
caught, it seemed, but Sam played
right field in his baseball team and he
gave his famous leap and had the bit
of paper in his hand.
Lunch forgotten, he leaned against
the railing of the fire escape to read
Dora's words. Soon he raised the
torn scrap to his lips, looked across
the court at Dora and threw kiss Of
reconciliation.-Chic News.