The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05
| Turned My Back on Him.

with a heap of false hair--I suppose
Jack didn't see 1t was false-and fash
ing teeth. Poor boyl I felt so sorry
for him. She was not good woman
at least, If she were good she
wouldn't have worn false hair and
been so terribly overdressed.
After that l never went to Flavin's
again. began to think more of Jack
Was It my duty to try and save him
from that creature, at any personal
secrifice?
Before / had decided terrible
thing happened. The empty Office of
our floor was rented One day / saw
that the painter had put up new
name on the brass door. Whose do
you suppose it was? Jacks He had
rented that Office for his business
Of course, to annoy me.
And the next day ! saw him. l
had known that we would meet, and
/ planned to show him my complete
indifference to his prosecutions.
resolved to pass him without the faint
est sign of recognition, especially
after his brutal conduct in F1avin's.
We passed held my head high, but
Jack didn't notice me at all. He
passed me as If were stone. Pos
itively, the man seemed brute,
heartless, uncultured clod. What an
escape had had!
Three or four days passed. / no
longer even looked at Jack. He SEEM
ed to close his Office the same time
Mr.. Stevens did, but / always took
the other elevator think Sam, the
antipathy, for he always smiled so
sympathetically at me. and looked SO
sternly at Jack.
1t was, think, on the fifth evening
after Jack had rented the Office. that
a dreadful experience happened to me.
body had left the building-or nearly
everybody was happy that night,
because knew that Jack would have
gone home long ago. 1t must have
been eight o'clock when l finally laid
aside my work. put on my hat. and
went out.
pressed the elevator bell and Sam
came up. Just as saw his grinning
face behind the grille who should
come along the passage but Jack!
He had been working late, too.
hesitated to believe that he had been
waiting for me just to prosecute me.
He stepped toward the elevator, and
of course stepped aside. I'll take
the other" l said.
Sorry, miss, but the other eleva-
tors out of order" said Sam sympa-
thetically.
Well, there was no help for 1t.
entered this one and turned my back
on Jack, who got in and took the other
corner.
The elevator began to go very slowly
and jerkily, and all at once it stopped
between two floors. Sam looked at
me with a frightened face.
II guess we're stuck, miss" he
said
He tried and tried, but he could only
move the elevator few inches. At
last he said:
Il guess l could climb out to the
floor above and go down and fix 1t,
MISS" he said "The luhricating
mechanism must have cast shoe-I
mean valve"
It seemed to me that he was re-
peating those words by rote and didn't
know what they meant
Before l could utter a protest he
was scrambling to the floor above, at
the imminent risk of breaking his
neck, leaving me alone with Jack
turned my back on him again and hum
med, to show him l didn't care. But
1t was terrible situation. l thought
of the days when we had been en-
gagged, before / became disillusioned
about men, when Jack was all the
world to me; and before knew it
was crying.
Suddenly 1 felt Jacks arms about
me.
Forgive me, sweetheart" he was
saying. Il love you awfully, dear.
Won't you let me put the ring back