The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-10-03
RisBroken Resolve


tastes usually gets a SIS salary.
As he went to his desk the Office
boy brought letter, Clancy noticed
II was in a feminine hand AS hp
opened ii and glanced at the sigma
ture his heart sank 1t was from
Kate Henderson. She was just stop.
ping over in New York that night
with her sister on her way TO a Maine
resort to spend the summer and
! couldn't he spare few minutes to
| run around to see her? She had 80
much to tell him
Ills first resolve was to stay as far
! away from Kate Henderson as posi-
/ bic and invent some lie to explain his
absence; but his better nature imme
| diately asserted itself and he rement
! bered that he was really under obliga.
| tons to her He called up the al
| dress she gave The lady who an.
! awered the phone said Miss IIender-
! son was out--would he leave q mes
! sage? No, she was quite sure Miss
| Henderson had no plans for going
out that night, Certainly she would
tell her that Mr., Clancy would call
for her that night at eight to take her
to the theater.
This done, Clancy forgot all about
II I'm cIouina ~ lime that nirbt whom
rho hoaa hoal,on,,cr ca,na ~ - III.
hie herr, ro, f, foo. ,,,,,a,t, ,.fth Como
yn,cbors rha ,,o,.hors .oro M
strafohtonnd M IN so,,o, a,c,o.,,
ann mon riar@,. l,,rrgo,I a,,.,,,. ~ ,l,oe,
hororn ho rot > h;,a ~ cat
I4o trarli.a n,.,a,,, as faa. =. ~
yuhnay voaId c,,r.,. M, ~, aastat..
r. III raa,n st,aa ar ~ hastaos.
elotbas oasb.d ht.,sotf NH, !. ,a,a,
annliod onnrt nta.tor an.3 ,afr,.,,,
~o.dor nafanol, solft ! abirt afi tha
way uB The back. getting iHto IL ana
then sworc horribly MS the shirt stuI
dipped from his bands and was lost
10 view He searched tho Goor for
il with d lighted match. which burnt
his fingers. remembering that he had
only two shirt studs In The world The
missing stud was nowhere 10 he found
and in a gust OF rage he ierked on q
coat ana dashed downstairs and M
to The corner to habefdashery where
he purchased three new studs. Back
up 70 nus rooms ne ran aware oi the
TACT lhat ne was que 70 eau lof hate
"itiih y ie" minutes lie Jefked on
ms remaining clothes ana aaffea OUT
asaih Tor the elevated euFslhe ms
luck as ne thoa4ht 81 ms lost dihflet
ana tHe general cussedless o. every
tHlhs.
As he left the train at Ninety-third
street aud sprlnted up to Ninety
fourth street TO the girls address 10
noted that he was only five minutes be-
hind time after all. Perhaps she
would forgive him for that
lie sat down in tho house after send.
ing mp his name and waited lie walt
Cd % minutes, which seemed 90, for
the lady to appear Was she late? she
asked when she came gushing into the
room Really, Oh, she had IN idea,
but Clancy already had her by the arm
and was whisking her down IN the d.
rection OF forty-second street There
he succeeded IN getting two seats at
two dollars each Tor one OF lhe pop
IIar plays,
They came out at tho close of the
show 10 6ua il raining CLANCY ASKED
the ejII where She would Ike to ga
Tor = bite ia eat-he had been every
whore and uerbans tbero was some
snecjal mace she would cntov visit,
ms Wen She didn't care about 20
ng to any of these nashy. eided
liares-would it do to 20 10 the Cafe
on Little Hungary she
lad alwavs heard they were so be-.
lemian. CLANCY siznifed that il suit
ID him and measuring The rain and
bp GIRLS 0imgv dress. he called
,ab
,.,....... ...t.,,., t,tu,e.Ir -, ehovjur
oirI mai he was me- "tieht wdd
3reides he had his annette With him
-5.yipp had po dinner he ordered
j,araliy and ne endowed cvoryth.n.
ne ordered So lid Miss Henderson.
trbo, had "a ereat iimo and then
,Ionc,. called foI tho CHECK and pulled
49,. ti.,.,t 1,b, cboc, Amounted 10