The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-12
FINDING MISS FILSON.
By Nora Bayne.

(Copyrighted, 1907, by c. H. Sutcliffe.)
 Find Miss Filson." directed the "old Man." and Andy Brant, with q prompt and respectful Yes. sir. tucked the letter into his pocket and finished adding the column of figures upon which he had been working.
 Had Lowell and Lowell told him to go out and find the north pole, Andy would have replied in precisely the same tone and would have started on the trip in precisely the same spirit. Nominally the assistant bookkeeper, Andy Brant was the general utility man. It was he who had given first aid to the injured water pipe with a piece of rubber overshoe and some ad- hesive tape from his bicycle kit and who had treated the office cat when 1t had its.
 But the present quest was not so promising. A correspondent had asked that his daughter be located. We know that she was to have gone to the Y. w. c. A." wIote the west erner. NO doubt 1t will be easy to locate her."
 Andy grinned as he replaced the let ter in his pocket and started for the association office.
 The elderly woman in charge was willing to tell what little she knew, when Andy showed his letter as au- thority. Miss Filson had come to them three months before, but had soon moved to an address up town. She smiled approvingly upon Andy as he thanked her. She liked this clean skinned. honest-eyed young fellow. and she even unbent so far as to venture cess.
 Andy's answer was a grimace. Young women had a trick of losing them selves in New York. Miss Filson had left the association three months be- fore. It was not likely that she could endure life in one cheap boarding house for that length of time. Most places were endurable for less than a month
 His suspicious were verified when he reached the uptown address. Miss FiIson was dimly remembered by the rosy checked servant girl who an swered the door. She stayed only two weeks and had departed on an express wagon. explaining that she could not trust the driver with the trunk. It was this incident and the fact that she did not leave her new address that fixed her more clearly in the girls mind than most of those who came and went.
 Andy interviewed express wagon drivers in an increasing circle for the remainder of the morning. and wound up SO COhNShtChbly 4lCdi 1iAS oWA OOai VI ing place that he stopped in for lunch.
 Mrs. Lemons establishment was different from the average New York boarding house. Andy had lived there for year and still liked it. Now that golden haired Bess Saunders had taken up her residence there he was willing to remain indefinitely. Andy was not susceptible. but the first time Bess had come into the stuffy dining room he had fallen in love: so deeply in love that when she had lost her position as stenographer and could not pay her board bills. unknown to Bess, he had arranged with Mrs. Lennon that he would be responsible for the bills until Bess found a new place, when the landlady should reimburse him.
 Any luck?' he asked as he slipped into his seat opposite the girl. She shook her head.
 well. have some good news for you" he went on. Our typewriter is to be married week after next. She's going to quit the job. and the Old Man says you may have it."
 Let's celebrate" he suggested. I've got an order that I can't fill Let's go