The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1906-11-24


health and ambition. he got city 10
on the strength of money he did no
have. and then got the money on the
strength of owning the lot. After this
he built a monument to his own sue
cess in the form OF an apartment
house in which he set up his own
home, and on the granite front OF
which he blazoned mis- triumph in
carved letters reading "Moriarty Nal
sonette."
BE- a mere chance, no one except
Florence, the elevator boy, was at
hand when Miss CoTdelia Byrne called
to inspect the fifth floor back, which
was advertised for rent. She took 1t
and her furniture came the next morn
ing, when Mr. Moriarty was again alb
sent.
Miss Byrne was about 20 years OF
age, slender, Of middle stature and
dressed habitually in black or dark
blue How anyone who looked at her
melting blue eyes. her sensitive pout,
Ing mouth, and her pale complexion,
enriched by her auburn hair could
have found reason to doubt her good.
ness, few men would be able to say.
Among her belongings was an up
right piano, and she and 1t combined
altered the temper OF the people in
the MOriarty Maisonctte with sud
dcnucss, and to a degree, which was
astonishing. This was because she
ana it either knew but one tune, or.
at any rate played but one. This
wa3 dainty, ripping lrifle by Pader-
cwSki. On the first afternoon and
evening Miss Byrnc played the Padcr-
ewski peasant dance over some dozen
times. Now when the exquisite roll.
ticking merry. mclOdic current flowed
through the wall TO the fifth floor
front, through the floor to the fourth
story suites and through the ceiling
TO the sixth stOry's tiny homes the
''star' tenant sat entranCcd, his silken.
robod better half leaned forward
plucking her youngest from the floor
to bid It listen to the pooty moo
aicks." Upstairs and downstairs the
delighted tenants blessed the day that
Moriarty's builders sCampcd their
work, leaving the house so like a col.
nndcr that Cordclla Ryrnc could play
them all into the seventh heaven OF
delight with Padcrcwskrs peasant
dauCe-so suited TO the Joyous TEN.
permanent OF the Irish audience and to
their pretty taste In music
Miss Byrnc was taken into the
warmcsl corners of the hearts in the
Maisuuette on that night She could
almost have demanded instant mem.
bership in the Bloomlugdalc Rowling
club, to which nearly all the tenants
belonged
That was, as we rccOllcCt Il, on a
Friday night. The following Wedncs.
day found everything unchanged eX.
cept the temper of Moriartys tenants
That night the PinoChlo club, com
posed OF six OF the male tenants OF
the Maisonette met in Mr. MahOncy's
apartments. Five Of the members
were on hand promptly and waited
for Mr., Mora,ty the sixth, to arrive.
Miss Cordclia Ryrnc. In the rear suite
on the same floor with the Mahoucys,
RECALLED the club members with that
choice moroccan OF paderewski's to
which We have referred, and with
which ali the men and women in the
Maisonctte had for some time been
familiar.
The plot was afoot The innocent
proprietor OF what he once boastcd as
being the happost bunch Of homes on
the island" was to be trapped when he
came for n nights enjoyment. by n
rehcllious band of tenants who had
sworn that either they, Miss Byrnc or
her piano must leave the house on the
first of the incoming month.
Meanwhile Miss Byrne finished the
one hundred and siNty.eighth rcndi
tion of the dainty peasant dance. and.
closing the piano, moved across the
neat and coy parlor. family perfumed
with a delicate odor of lilac, TO the lit
tle writing table and pcnned a note
~ her sister We may read over her
shoulders as she writes:
There is nothing to write, only |
know You are wondering II is win
all or lose all with me. | may 60 back
10 the counter OF a department store
but II won't be until have to.
i've taken the little money mother
lett me and furnished the apartment
and dressed myself with the uuictest
taste, SO as 10 look ladylkc on the
smallest outlay I've thrown myself
headlong into everything that's doing
in swell churra. and ! am SO quiet
and demurc that | don't think you'd
recognize your merry Tump Of sister
II YOU saw ne Ruttcr wouldn't melt
IN my mouth and never ult my ewes
above the sidewalk / should have
thought by this time SOME man would
break his neck, almost to get acQuaiu,
ell with me. just to see Il he cou.du.,
make me raise my eyes.
The trouble is that only see WON
on az the church and | made a bad
choice Of an apartment house because
thc men here are nearly all marrlrl
and are such oysters that noe one ha.
yet made my acquaintance The land
lord is single though. and rich
Not that I wan, 10 fool ANYBODY