The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-13
RiSBroken Resolve

Henry Clancy began this Monday
morning with the resolution 20 save
money. This was his custom on Mon.
day morning. but he never really
meant TO until this particular morn
Ing. II is too bad a man with s75
tastes usually gets a s25 salary.
AS he went to his desk the ONCE
boy brought letter. Clancy noticed
II was in a feminine hand. AS he
opened II and glanced at the sigma.
ture his heart sank. II 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 10 spend the summer and
couldn't he spare a few minutes TO
run around TO see her? She had 80
much TO tell him.
His first resolve was TO stay as far
away from Kate Henderson as posi-.
BILE and invent some lie 10 explain his
absence; but his better nature imme.
diately asserted itself and he remem.
bered that he was really under obliga-
tons to her. He called up the ad.
dress she gave. The lady who an.
swered the phone said Miss Hender-
son was out-would he leave a 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 till closing up time that night, when
the head bookkeeper came In TO ask
his help for few moments with some
vouchers. The vouchers were not
Strengthened out TIL seven o'clock,
and then Clancy hurried away TO dress
before he got bite to eat.
He Travelled uptown as fast as the
subway would carry him, ran upstairs
to his room, slung off his business
clothes, gashed himself with a razor,
applied court plaster and talcum
powder profanely, split shirt all the
way up the back. getting into 1t, and
then swore horribly as the shirt stud
Tipped from his hands and was lost
to view. He searched the floor for
1t with lighted match, which burnt
his fingers, remembering that he had
only two shirt studs in the world. The
missing stud was nowhere to be found
and in gust of rage he jerked on a
coat and dashed downstairs and up
to the corner to haberdashery, where
he purchased three new studs. Back
up to his rooms he ran, aware of the
fact that he was due to call for Kate
within a few minutes He jerked on
his remaining clothes and darted out
again for the elevated, cursing his
luck as he thought of his lost dinner
and the general cussedness of every
thing.
: AS he left the train at Ninety-third
street and sprinted up to Ninety
fourth street to the girls address, he
noted tnat ne was only nVe minutes De
hind time after all. Perhaps she
would forgive him for that.
He sat down in the house after send
ing up his name and waited. He wait
ed 20 minutes, which seemed 60, for
the lady to appear. Was she late? she
asked when she came gushing into the
room. Really! oh, she had an idea,
but Clancy already had her by the arm
and was whisking her down in the di-
rection of Forty-second street, There
he succeeded in getting two seats at
two dollars each for one of the pop
ular plays.
They came out at the close OF the
show to find it raining. Clancy asked
the girl where she would like to go