The Irish standard., 1916-12-16

made price OF seventy-five dollars
for an evening gown, she went out
Immediately after and took drink
Of water. Her throat was parched.
She began to learn little quips of the
feminine mind. No woman over thirty
but was grateful for her pink-and-gray
room with it's soft lights. And Har-
riet herself conformed to the picture.
She took lesson from the New YoSk
modistes, and Wore trailing black
gowns. She strapped her thin figure
into the best corset she could get and
had her black hair marcelled and
dressed high. And, because she was
a lady by birth and instinct, the re-
suit was not incongruous, but refined
and rather impressive.
There were other changes in the
Street. The Lorenz house was being
painted for Christine's wedding. John
ny Rosenfeld, not perhaps of the
Street itself, but certainly pertaining
to it, was learning to drive Palmer
Howe's new car, in mingled agony and
bliss. He walked along the Street, not
fright foot, left foot" but ''brake foot,
clutch foot" and took to calling of
the vintage Of passing cars. "So-and.
So 1870" he would say, with contempt
in his voice.
K. had yielded to Annals insistence,
and was boarding as well as rooming
at the Page house. The Street, rather
snobbish to it's occasional floating pop.
ulation, was accepting and liking him.
It found him tender, infinitely human.
And in return he found that this
seemingly empty eddy into which he
had drifted was teeming with life. He
busted himself with small things, and
found his outlook gradually less
tinged with despair. When he found
himself inclined to rail, he organized
baseball club, and sent down to
everlasting defeat the Linburg's con-
sisting of cashhoys from Linden &
Hofburg's department store.
He made no further attempt to
avoid Max Wilson. Some day they
would meet face to face. He hoped,
when it happened. they two niisht be
alone; that was all. Even had he not
been bound by his promise to Sidney.
flight would have been foolish. The
world was Il small place, and one way
and another, he had known many
people. Wherever he went. there
would he the same chance. The meet
ing took place early in September
and under better circumstances than
he could have hcre;: for.
Sidney had come home for her week
ly visit. and sent Katie to ask Doctor
Ed to come over after dinner. With
ihe sunset Anna seemed better. S,.e
insisted on coming downstairs, and
even sat with them on the balcony u,r
til the stars came out, talking ut
Ehristinc's trousscau. and. rather fret.
fully, Of What she would Go without
the rarlcrs.
"You Shall have your own boudnir
upstairs" said Sidney vaIiantly. "i[a,
tie can carry your tray ur there. We
are going to ,nalle the sewing room
into your private sitting room. aid J
shall ilaii the machine top aow.l'
This pleased her. When X. insisted
on carrying her upstairs, she Wen: in
fiutter.
"l1e is so strong, Sidney" she said
when he had placed her On Ler bed.
"ltow can a clerk, bending over a led
ger, be 81 muscular? When I have
callers, will it be all right for Katie
to show them upstairs?''
She dropped asleep before the doc
tor came: and when, at something
after eight the door of the Wilson
house slammed and figure crossed
the street, it was not Ed at all but
the surgeon.
Sidney had been talking rather more
frankly than usual. Lately there had
been reserve about her. K. listen
ing intently that night, read between
words a story of small prosecutions
and jealousies. But the girl minimized
them, after her way.
ITS always hard for probationers."
she said. Il often think Miss Harri-
son is trying my mettle."
"Harrison!'
"Carlotta Harrison. And now that