The daily Alaskan., 1908-12-21

elded that she must have taken the upper ferry to Twenty-third street.
 A boat was about to start, and he rushed on board, the precipitation streaming from his face. He still car rled Frances vallse and his own heavy suit case. Frances could not leave any ferry house without the yalise, for 1t contained her money and her friends address. She could not apply to the old address to find out where her hostess had moved, because the house had been torn down. She must wait for him.
 He dashed through the exit and through the waiting room, searching both floors, but there was no trace of the girl. He was about to go to the 7reet and question the carriage agent when the doorman, who had watched his actions curiously, came up.
 Are you the chap that lost lady?" be demanded. If you are, told her to go back to the Jersey side and walt for you. She followed Il man she thought was you and got on the wrong boat"
 Chris pressed a coin into the mans hand and sprlnted down the slip Just as the boat was pulling out, He bare ly managed to leap aboard before the gates were closed, and he stood on the forward deck to cool of.
 When the boat should make the Jer- sey shore this worry would be at an end. So he regarded the panorama of river life complacently.
 He was the first passenger off the boat and out on to the concourse, but neither on the concourse nor In the waiting room could he find her. though he searched both. She must have boarded the Cortlandt street ferry, so for second time he made for the slip, catching the same boat that had car ried him across before, One of the deck hands regarded him curlously as he passed.
 "Aln't you the fellow what paid his fare to me to stay on the boat a couple of trips ago?' he demanded.
 Chris nodded, and the man grinned. q thought you was," he continued "There was a lady down here looking for you this last trip. 1 remembered you went right back, and sent her on to Twenty-third street. She didn't have the price of her fare" he added meaningly, and again the grateful Chris passed out q coin.
 Funny you didn't see her" unused the man as he slipped the money into hls pocket "She was on the boat when we landed. I told her to take look around and then make for the Twenty-third street slip.
 q was looking in the waiting room for her." explained Chris. q guess itn Do all right now"
 But things were far from all right When Chris leaped from the boat at the uptown landing, the doorman who had spoken to him before laughed loudly as he caught sight of the pant ing and persplring traveller.
 q told you to wait on the Jersey side" he cried. "The girl came back and I told her you were down there waiting. The man on one of the Cort- landt street boats sent her up here while was sending you back. told her to sit there in the shed this time for an hour and I'd find you some how. Better stay on thls boat. The fares 8 cents. You owe a ticket for her too. She didn't have any money"
 Chris passed over a dollar. "Keep the change; it's worth 1t" he said, and be went back on the boat.
 Fifteen minutes later the crowd surged off the boat in a rush for the trains, and Chris went with the tide of humanity until 1t separated toward the various gates.
 As he turned to search the seats a pair of soft arms went about his neck and he looked down into Frances crimson face,
 q didn't mean to do that" she cried, "but I was so afraid I'd lose you again if didn't grab right hold of you"
 q like It," declared Chris. q thought never should find you"
 "That's the way 1t seemed to me-" she confessed. 'T never was so glad to see any one in my life A fat woman came in between us, and when l look ed around to find you there were two men who looked so like you that l wasn't certain which was really you. They were both going toward the up town boat, and l followed them"
 Chris transferred the valise to the hand that carried his suit case, and with the other he grasped her arm.
 "Tm not going to lose you this tme," he announced. q don't want ever to lose you again, Fanny May I keep you-always?"
 What he saw fin her eyes caused him to lean over and kiss her.
 "Everybody kisses everybody else at the railroad station" he explained as