The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-03-30

sions, for its was OF so UNI
stable a character that the
initiated had lost all confidence in it
as a means Of transportation.
Katherine however, was not an in
habitant. IN her own home elevators
pursued the even tenor of their way
without vagaries of any sort; so, when
her call on the top floor was completed,
with every reason to except a swift
ond uneventfu journey she stepped
confidently into the elevator.
At the fourth floor it stopped to adj
NIT second passenger, man named
Westcott. Westcott differed from
Katherine in that he entered the cage
like apartment with a full knowledge
of its treacherous tendencies, but West
colt was that morning in frame of
mind to court disaster. He assured
himself as he stepped in that it was
a matter of complete indifference to
him whether the elevator shot sud
denly and crashed through the sky
light, or dropped without warning in
to the basement
The elevator, howevcr, did neither
OF these things Under the guidance
of a chubby, blue-eyed youth, it pur-
sued it's downward career until it
reached the space between the first
and second floors; there it stopped.
At the sight o. her fellow passenger
Katherine turned pink with embar-
rassment. The man had muttered
something under his breath and bowed
frigdly, for, before counting disaster,
he had courted Katherine-appare
it had amounted to the same thing.
They had parted forever only the even
ing before, and the ring she had worn
for three months was at that moment
in Westcotts vest pocket where he
had thrust it savagely at the end of
their quarrel.
why are we stopping here?' asked
Katherine, turning to the elevator boy
OF cherubic countenance.
Cause we can't so on" returned
The boy producing a bag OF nuts and
a comic paper and proceeding to make
himself comfortable. THE powers
off again"
HAS it ever-does it often go off
like this?"
oh yes, replied the boy. cheer
fully. There's nothing to be scared
Of Sometimes she runs all right for
as much as a week! then again. she
won't bulge for as much as six or
seven hours at stretch"
six or seven hours" sasped Kath-
crime
Yes replied the boy, settling him
self more comfortably on his stool.
"0nce it was longer, but gin'rally they
get her going and in an hour or two,
There's no danger at all, miss"
The hoy gently discouraged further
conversation by burying himself in
his paper katherine moved to the
end Of the long. leather-covered seat
WestcOtt, at the extreme other end
started gloomily at the wall,
katherine looked at her watch; 1t
was already past luncheon time. and
she had been too miserable to eat
much breakfast. Still-She Frightened
at the thought-she should not starve.
for she with her box of chocolates
she was taking home to her sisters
children.
She looked at her watch again. Only
four more minutes had passed. but
the pangs of hunger were becoming un-
endurable. The chubby boy munched
nuts with apparently no thought Of
his felow-sutrerers Katherine united
the pink string that bound the ehoco-
late boS, unfolded the paper, lifted the
lid and ate chocolate
When she had eaten three she
glanced at the wall. Tie walls in ele-
vator shafts are seldom interesting;
this one was tinted a bilious green
a color that Westcott abhorred
How he must hate me, thought
katherine eating another chocolate,
when he'd rather look at a wall than
at me. wonder what | ought TO do: