Arizona republican., 1911-03-20
THE BEAT OF THE YEAR By Robert Livingston Bssehsr. (Copyright, 1909. by the Pearson Pub
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By Robert Livingston Bssehsr.
Copyright, 1909. by the Pearson Pub
Continued From Yesterday)

-l was over in Long Island City and
 discovered my lovable lady sitting
 right opposite me in a street car. At least she looked to me as if she were lovable and could be loving, and so, with the best intentions in the world, l followed her home. at a discreet dis tance, needless to say, and made a note of where she lived. Subsequently
 l learned. through discreet inquiries,
 that she was an orphan and that she worked in a shirt factory not far away, so what did do but start for Canada. switch off to Long Island City, doff my identity, take on the name and status of one Tom Greening. and go to work in the same factory at the princely honorarium of SIS every six days
 Laugh at me if you want to. I
 was hard hit in the neighborhood of the mitral valve from the first and after I had had myself introduced to her, l was harder hit than ever In fact. I was so hard hit l seemed to have had the whole cardiac region knocked out of me, valves and all. Being in love. Jack-real, honest In jun love, l mean-is a queer feeling, Have you ever experienced it? But there, I mustn't hecome idiotic.
 Where did live. you asG? In small hall-bedroom in a boarding house presided over by a widowed lady, who didn't exactly seem 10 grieve over the demise Of her worser half, who, believe, passed on in blaze oi what I gathered was alcohol; il cer- tainly wasn't glory. At any rate. lived cheaply. saved my money, worked hard, learned Y hat i; was to have hon est sweat on ny forehead and honest ,allouses on my hands. and above all. learned that the lady of the trolley car was as lovabie as they make them, cer- .ainly in this world Mars or Venus may produce a finer type, but I'll have o be shown.
 So that much tCGS settled. She wGS loyable. Now, was she loving or, rather, could sine be induced-no. 1 won't use tEat word, for reasons which will be obvious later-could she come naturally to love me? And right there my troubles began.
 "I had no suspicion of it at first and she allowed me to call on her at her home several times before learned that she was engaged to a fel- low-workman of mine in the factory. q young man of about my own age. John Joyce. by name. Hes not a bad fei low, either; at any rate, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, and l don't know that he has been any more jeal- ous of me than l would have been Of him if our positions had been reversed
 Well, what was l to do when I learned about Joyce? I suppose some strict constructionists, as John C. Cal houn would have said, will rule that I should have promptly raised my lance and my vizor and retired from the field. I actually thought of doing so myself for time-I assure you I did, old boy-but when it came time to do the retiring, l simply couldn't. Don't phihn Toplr Vnsf Inz.a.aff Ao girl. you krow.
 " Not that l did anything that was really dishonorable, trust and believe. did try to make my admiration a little less evident. but l continued to call on her and. to tell the truth, she didn't exactly beg me to stay away.
 " And it was about this time that Joyce began to get troublesome I learned afterward from her that he had conceived deep distrust of me, and, indeed, he had some grounds for suspicion. l was evidently a gentle man. That being so, what was I do- ing, working in a factory with my hands? l seemed to have plenty of afraid YVES careless once )r twice about concealing my true in- come; where did get it? And so on.
 So saw something had to be done and l did 1t with a promptitude rather foreign to my nature. quit the shop: then, in order to keep up the illusion with them both-especially for his sake, for l foresaw that he might take 10 trailing me some more-I went over 10 Manhattan and got work in a simi- ar factory on the upper East Side. I gave up my hall-bedroom, too. and took rather cheap apartment not far from my place of business. I furnished it we'll however, for I'd gotten rather fred, as you can guess, of furniture such as generally obtains in haIl-bed- -ooms
 We'll, things remained in Stdtu quo Or some time after left Long Island City. Then she broke of her engage nent with Joyce. Honest and true, lack. had nothing to do with it. 'f course, mean, directly.
 l said earlier in this long -winded 'pistle that l was no longer working n factories. I'm not. Three months Igo l was painfully +scalded in an ac- .ident in the East Side factory, and I vas laid up in Bellevue for two weeks of course. under my nom de Cupid if Greening. She came to see me here regularly, and I think the great st Joy I have known was to have her 1t by my bedside holding my hand. or viping my forehead with her hand !