The Press., 1910-03-30

Ill one week he must begin work or forfeit his contract. If it was forfeit ed lie would lose not only the splendid profit he had expected, but thousands upon thousands that he had expended in preparation would be almost a total Ioss-a loss that would bankrupt him. There was but one thing to do-he must reconstruct his plans. There was no time to make new ones. The old ones must be set down from memory. He was no longer young. Indeed, he had reached an age where memory is grown defective. He hurried a mes sage to the telegraph office asking for m extension of time. No reply came till the next day, when he was wired thntIt would be Impossible to grant his application.
 When Elsie saw her father come in at the front door that evening she thought he was some broken down old mnn she had never seen before. Tax ing him in her arms, she supported him to the library, where he sank into chair, while she knelt beside him with her arms about his neck. She knew what had happened to his pa pers and inferred that his application for an extension had been refused.
 Father" she said, i've something to tell you Listen. I wrote Ned Ken nedy of this misfortune. This after noon received n reply which said:
 "T can reconstruct the formula"
 It seemed to Elsie that an electric shock had been infused into her fa- thor's frame With bound he sprang from his chair.
 Can he?' he exclaimed.
 There was no room for wounded pride, no words of regret at being obliged to humble himself by asking a favor of the man he had discharged from his service.
 "Where is he? Can you get him now?"
 Elsie sprang away to a telephone. in a few minutes was in communication with her lover, and in twenty minutes more he was with them,
 ''Elsie says began her father.
 T bRoW it." interrupted Elsie, rub bing her hands gleefully,
 "'I have a good deal of the work did" said Kennedy, "in my room, where worked nights, odds and ends of figuring These will assist my mem ory. and I am sure I can recall the whole formula
 MT. Winslow stood looking at the young man in dazed way for few moments, then caught him in his arms and hugged him. @s@.
 "You can, You can! I know you can! That memory of yours! It's won derful! When can you begin?"
 "PIl go to my room and begin at once."
 "No no; not there. Bring any figur- ing you may have here. Stay right here till the work is finished"
 Ned was followed to. the door by Elsie, where several minutes were lost in clinging embrace, prolonged in the knowledge that from that time forward they had the upper hand. Then the lover ran all the way to his room, snatched up roll of papers he had collected with this very purpose in view and ran all the way back. He found Elsie and her father about to sit down to dinner and joined them, Mir, Winslow was absorbed in the matter of the formula. He said nothing, ex eept to interrupt Ned and Elsie ocea- sionally, who kept up constant gah- ble, the old man asking if Ned thought lie could supply this detail and that detail, and Ned always assured him that he could, though with regard to some of them he was not altogether certain,
 Mo- In the library with plenty of station ary, MT. Winslow insisted on helping him, but Ned declared that he could get on better alone. So at o'clock Elsie insisted on her father going to bed to recuperate from the strain he had been under and carried him off upstairs. As soon as she had tucked him in bed she went down to her lover,
 There are youthful idiosyncrasies, enc of which was illustrated by the young couple. One would suppose that they would both appreciate the necessity of Ned at once getting at work of such vital importance to all concerned. What did they do? Sat in the same chair in each others arms till 2 o'clock in the morning. And what did they. say? Let those who have spent hours under the same cir cumstances tell-if they can remem- ber At a. m. Elsie went to bed, and Ned worked till breakfast was an- nounced
 : Nevertheless within two or three days the formula was reconstructed. ~y TNY E4s head of the Winslow company.