Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-14

Tngement OF spartan simplicity that commented
to her than to But when the old lady made
her mind up, it stayed UP like the Pasadesand sofa
it was!
~ subdued excitement, and with her glance on the
spare bedroom door whispered. Hes in there!" as
ROOM had produced Roomer! He had already
moved in, and had paid month in advance, and
could hear him rusng inside like paper parcel trying
unite itself. He was named J. W. Hoop and was an
agent for cheapiohn insurance company called the
Sunrise Life and Grace said he had to have orange
every morning With his breakfast he wouldn't stay.
But if he got his orange he would remain indefinitely
summer and winter
Mrs Meler had verified his references over the tele-
phone. and could not speak too highly of him. He
the best kind of boarer. she decared-a Steady. He
had been in his last quarters, and three
in those before, and had been given splendid reput.-
ton for quietness and only when the
two families in question had moved out of town. OF
course he ought not to expect orange at the money;
but still it not wise to make concession for
Steady 50 many you see were not Seadles at all but
aggravang pests who seemed to think that landlady
doormat. If we had searched all Manhattan,
Mrs. Meler certain could not have found
ideal boarder than ]. W. Hoop
In time got to know this paragon by sight, and
casonay said good morning or good evening to him
the stairs He was pale, depressed shabby looking
individual OF about forty, with low voice and ten
dency to hand you leaflets These printed with
staring headlines and calculated to lower your
spirits to zero. What Will Your Wife Do When You
Dieo"-"You Believe You Will Live Forever-That
Is What the Man Thought Yesterday Before Brick
Fell on His Head 1t IS Hard World for the PENN
less Widow Your Widow
The point of all his to ntrude the Sunrise Life
your attention and make you pause before it was too
late In this brisk and living world ]. w Hoop brooded
perpetuay over the tomb. with sepuchral finger in
dicating eternty-and small weekly payments.
1t made wish | could make provision for
Grace-not in the Sunrise Life. of course. which
pected to be pretty shay and likely to die be-
fore did; but in real company, buttressed with mill
lions that could be trusted to keep its pledges. Yet
what could do the salary got, with prices every
day mounting higher: 1t was hard enough as it was to
pay that monthly six dollars on my lot in Glorton
Manor-the only property possessed:
had bought this lot three years before and nothing
more showed the immensely of Greater New York than
its being included within the city limits. 1t clear
ing in almost prmeval woods, and had it belonged to the
Last of the Moicans it could not have been remoter
from civilization The real estate had told it
in the line of advancing values; but the advance
seemed somewhat tardy. Yet he had not been alto
gether wrong for had been offered eight hundred
dollars for it, which bad considering had
paid out about four hundred, with further liability of
two hundred more.
Grace and had dreams of building bungalow there
some day. with perhaps baby automobile to take
to and from my work-with visions of surrounding sky
scrapers in 1920 and more money than could count
The lot nearly threequarers of in extent,
and at Herald Square prices would be worthOn most
conservative vauation-between four and six million
dollars At least that how figured it out, and
determined not to do anything SO foolish to sell.
The biggest fortunes in New York made by those
who had stuck to their land like eeches, and
going to stick as tight as they did, or tighter
RUT this is carrying long way from J. w. Hoop.
- He lived with nearly two years quietly and
obtrusively as mouse; and though Grace and saw
nothing of him the old lady had taken him under her
wing, and devoted friendship had grown up between
the two. She everlasting y mending his socks or
sewing his buttons, turning his frayed, shiny,
old frocI with her iron. 1t seemed that he had
very hard time to "get along, and had moments of
depression when he talked of taking gas The Sun
rise Life was very niggardy in its commissions and had
recently started very highly complicated system
which the old lady made more complicated-of pairing