The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-10-13

room in time to punch the clock be-
fore 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 joy
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 q big department store and
would call out the floors.
Second floor, chiIdren's toys; kids
get OF here Third floor, millinery
imported from Halstead street; hat
pins to stick fresh guys Fourth floor.
ladies' shoes; heels six inches high %
At the ninth, as Dora and sam got
of, the elevator mans call was invari-
ably Three rooms furnished com
plete for housekeeping. only $50, on
easy payments Couples who would
like to marry and inspect our stock -
Dora was 50 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
II, when she owned her acquaintance
with sam TO Anne SOralfys. poor
dear2
So the girl, strong in her own hap
piness, wayIaid Mike in Washington
park, got him behind a lilac bush,
with nobody near but an old man
asleep, and tried to reawaken a dead
love She was in earnest argument
when that hOrrid Mike leaned over
and kissed her! She was too disgust
ed to speak, so she just ran and
boarded the first cable car for down
town.
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
you such a He?"
My dad told me He saw you and
he thought ought to know And it
won't better matters for you to call
my dad liar, because he amt
How could look at that red
headed thing a-after yOu?" sobbed
the girl.
Jaw. tafy is cheap. All I know
is my dad saw him kiss you in Wash
ington park, and the girl Nike FO-
garty kissed can't be nothing TO me. %
Sang hung IN the receiver
After that everything went wrong
Comments on Sans love had been
pleasant, but jeers over his desertiOu
were unbearable- She grew nervous
at her work and the fOrewomau
scolded.
Dora's one solace was the noon
hour, when she could look across al
sam and hope ne would return heI
glance. One windy day, as she sat il
the printing house window, her lunch
in lap and her eyes on sam, she idl5
tore bot Of paper from the wrapping
Of her lunch and unburdened hel
heart upon it with a stumpy lead
pencil.
sam, darling" she scrubbed. 90
.s-iove you. 1 never loved anybody els,
eEen for a second That horriC
rhinOcerOs did kiss me. but it WASH
because I wanted him to-"
As she lifted the pencil q moisten i
a lake Fird came -galfOPjnE alons
Plymouth court, snatched the papel
and whirled il away. Dora shriekeC
and threw up her hands
Though. as has been said. San
never looked at Dora, al this had no
escaped his notice. In anxiety TO Sc
the fate OF the paper he rose ant
leaned far out-so far that Dor
sl1fvered-
BY a caprice OF the wind the mes
sage was floating toward sam Higl
overhead It scared too high to b
caught, IL seemed. but sam playel
right field in his baseball team an,
he gave his famous leap and had tn
bit OF paper in his hand
Lunch forgotten, he leaned agains
the railing OF the FIRE escape 70 reaa
DOra's words soon ne raised tn
torn scrap TO MS. lips. looked acros
the court at Dora and threw a kiss O
Feconciliation.-Chic News.