The Prescott daily news., 1911-04-08

got into his bathrobe. Then he start ed to unlock his trunk
 It was his trunk he knew, for there were the hotel stickers in their ia miliar places and there was the mar red corner, as we'll as his initials in white paint on the end. Yet his key would not unlock it.
 Presley did all the foolish things people do under such circumstances He inserted the key upside down and right side up and crosswise, he wrig gled and damned it and pounded the trunk and muttered incoherently un- der his breath.
 Finally after a half hours struggle he was forced to give it up and ring Tor the porter. It seemed that there was broken piece inside the lock- but finally the porter managed to open It.
 When the porter departed, clutching Prestley's quarter, Prestley between rage and hunger and weariness was sizzling like a bomb as he pulled out clean linen and laid it on the bed.
 Then he cast off his bathrobe and jumped into the tub. There seemed something wrong with his feet. and as Presley gazed down at them through the depths of the water he came to with a start-he had got into the tub with his shoes on.
 The temperature of the water went up ten degrees from the fervor of his remarks. The shoes naturally were soaking wet by the time he had res cued them
 Investigating his trunk little later Prestley dragged to light only pair Of pat ii leather pumps. He turned them over in his hands with the resig- nation one uses in situations of utter despair. Still, he had to put them on.
 After Prestley had dressed in his business suit, which looked baggy and dusty after his trip he saw to his hor. TOT that it was an impossibilty to combine 1t with the pumps The ef- rect was too comic. Since he had to wear the pumps he decided with a sight that he must dress up to them.
 So he took some time changing his shirt studs into another shirt and getting into his dress suit
 His hunger was increasing by leaps and bounds. Fully attired he took a look at himself and decided he was too glorious to burst in upon the crowd in the downstairs cafe. He would be obliged to seek the exclusive upstairs dining room. Living up to those pumps seemed to be a strenuous af- fair.
 Prestley got into the elevator at the sixth floor and at the next a young woman entered in evening garb. She, too, got off at the dining room floor. At this point Prestley thought hard.
 If two persons in evening dress en- tered the cafe simultaneously. the head waiter naturally would suppose they were together and would seat them accordingly, so he Jagged behind. ten yards or more
 The big room was only slightly fill. ed and at his entrance the head wait CT took him hospitably In charge. led him the length of the room and with a flourish seated him at a small table.
 Raising his eyes he saw that the worst had happened-the strange and good looking young woman in even. ing garb sat across from him at the same small table!
 Prestley is rather shy so in spite of his uncomfortabIeness he felt hope less. Maybe they had seated them so as to enable one waiter to serve both, and anyhow he was there and couldn't help it.
 He gave his order wildly.
 The waiter deposited before him a soup tureen and two plates.
 As Presley swallowed hard and gazed despairingly at his companion, he saw that she, too, was confused. Then a man stood beside him, like. wise in evening clothes gazing at Prestley with an expression of interro. gation that was positively rude in it's surprise. Without doubt he belonged to the young woman, and she belong ed to him, and there was Prestley in the mans seat with two soup plates before him
 Presley struggled to his feet. He made strange noises which he thought