The daily Alaskan., 1914-11-27
By RBlNETTE LoYEwELL
by Frank A. Munsey Co.

Oul Ol tue WluuOW.
 Before her on the table lay small yellow envelope with the figure T, ( period and two zero marks inscribed in one corner This had been hurled there ten minutes before by the presi dent of the Acme Knife company ant was in final settlement of her account with his house.
 Sadie had lost her job.
 She paid S4 week to Mrs. Tierney for her board. and the Saturday be, fore, by special dispensation, she had been permitted to delay for seven days the remittance of this amount
 Hence there was now due Mrs. Tier, ney. payable on. demand. the sum Of Ss and the contents of the envelope, augmented by Al cents in her tarnish- ed mesh purse. would lack 59 cents of the board bill. ..........
 Agitated by tine thought of confront ing Mrs. Tlerney in explanation of her breach of promise. Sadie permitted a large and disfguring drop of ink to fall upon a ledger in which she was making few final entries prior to her leave taking.
 All the while the Acme Knife con- pany sat at it's desk with a frown on its face. The Acme Knife company was Mir. Arthur Lawton.
 He was q young man of mild man. Dcrs and had never before experienced the pain of firing d stenographer. As he heard Il Stifed little Sniff from the typewriter table where Sadie sat he grabbed his hat and left the office to seek diversion.
 His stcny "rapher usually received from Mir. Iawton's lips four or i've short letters each day. She knew her shorthand system as d Mohammedan knows the Koran. and she had never vet made il crook or hook that she could not decipher. The marks she made stood for the words Mir Lawton said, and she never got them wrong.
 It was only when she started to spell them that she encountered dtth- culty.
 Fortunately for his stenographer, the president was out soliciting orders most of the eight hours Sadie was on duty, and there wasn't much to do, so she had abundant opportunity TOT ,tt rnspDrpl
 Her Handy Dictionary and Ency- cIopcdia of Useful Information" was worn very thin and shabby. for Sadie faithfully found in its columns about ninety of every hundred words she wrote upon the machine. ..
 But today there was no dictionary in the office. With dark suspicion she recalled that Annie Flynn. who work pd in a real estate office down the hall, had looked enviOusly upon that trusty friend many time.
 The address of the letter she was to write was plainly printed on the letter. head Mir. Lawson had given her, so tbar much was smooth sailing. There seemed to be nothing she could do about the body of the letter except to spell the words as they sounded. This method was much quicker and simpler and required far less concentration than the process of dictionary research.
 Sadie was touch operator, and there were never any errors in her typewrit- ing. Once written she did not find 1t necessary to read it over.
 Her work ended. Sadie dreamed.
 MT. LawtOn uSually came in little harore closing time to read and sign his correspondence. however limited it might be. hut at ten minutes of on this eventfu dny he had not appeared. At two minutes of the hour the tele- phone rang sharply, and Sadie took down the receiver and recognized her employers voice.
 Miss Kiernan." he called, "l shall have tD ask you to sign that letter to Andrews X Andrews. can't get back and | want-it to go.
 She signed for the Acme Knife com, peny. hy is p.2SiiCut, hastily. troubled hy a sense of doubt about the spelling and she s;.Hi, down the flap with a feeling of ra.inf that NIr. Lawton would not see it and firm determination to get a dictionary from somewhere be- fore morning.
 The carbon she hurried to file, push ing it far down in the folder, so that no casual examination would reveal any defects to persons who were sure of their spelling.
 There it had remained until Friday when. quite without warning, NIT. Law ton had appeared with the pay envelope and the hidden carbon.
 There was q wild look in his eye. and his face was flushed.
 He laid the yellow sheet out before her:
 Andrews and Andrews,
 Attorneys at Law,
 Bushnell Building,
 Rochester NY. Attention. Mir. G. Andrews: .-.. Dear Sir-Replying to your favur of the 9th ult l beg to stait that have nothing ferthur to say in the mater of which you speke. It seems to me unnecessary to make a trip to Patterson on this account and l will send MT. Jastom Joslin on In few days to take up the mater with you in purson. Yours truly.