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| suit was not incongruous, but renned
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 1t, 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 chilling 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.
1t 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
a baseball club, and sent down to
everlasting defeat the Linburg's, con-
sisting Of cashboys 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 might be
alone; that was all. Even had he not
been bound by his promise to Sidney,
flight would have been foolish. The
world was a. small place, and, one way
and another, he had known many
people. Wherever he went, there
would be the same chance. The meet
ing took place early in September,
and under better circumstances than
he could have hoped for.
Sidney had come home for her week
ly visit, and sent Katie to ask Doctor
Ed to come over after dinner. With
the sunset Anna seemed better. She
insisted on coming downstairs, and
even sat with them on the balcony un-
til the stars came out, talking of
Christine's trousseau, and, rather fret
fully, of what she would do without
the parlors.
'You shall have your own boudoir
upstairs" said Sidney valiantly. SKA
tie can carry your tray up there. We
are going to make the sewing room
into your private sitting room, and !
shall nail the machine top down."
This pleased her. When K. insisted |
on carrying her upstairs, she went in
a futter.
"He is so strong, Sidneyi" she said, |
when he had placed her on her bed. |
''How can a clerk, bending over led
ger, be so 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 a figure crossed
he street, it was not Ed at all but
he surgeon.
Sidney had been talking rather more
frankly than usual. Lately there had
,een reserve about her. K, listen
ng intently that night, read between
words a story of small prosecutions
nd jealousies. But the girl minimized
hem, after her way.
"It's always hard for probationers,"
he said. 81 often think Miss Harri-
on is trying my mettle."
Harrison
"Carlotta Harrison. And now that
Iiss Gregg has said she will accept
lie, it's really all over. The other
elpful. I hope I shall look well in
~ cap"
Carlotta Harrison was in Sidney's
ospital! A thousand contingencies I
ashed through his mind. Sidney might I
row to like her and bring her to the {
ouse. Sidney might insist on the
ling she always spoke of-that he c
sit the hospital; and he would meet Q
er, face to face. He could have de- Q
ended on a man to keep his secret. I
his girl with her somber eyes and 0
IT threat to pay him out for what I
I'd happened to her-she meant dam {
n of sort that no man could fight. $
"Soon," said Sidney, through the G
arm darkness, II shall have a cap, e
ID be always forgetting it and put Is
lg my hat on over 1.-THE new ones
ways do"
It was then that the door across the
rect closed. Sidney did not hear 6
but K. bent forward. There was
TT of his brain always automatically
watch.
Il shall get my operating-room
lining, too" she went on. "That is In
! real romance of the hospital. There Ia
s a lot of excitement today. DIR. ON
x Wilson did the Edwardes opera ar
a." -,
Che figure across the Street was N
lting a cigarette. Perhaps, after NJ,
Something tremendously difficult 80
lon't know what. It's going into ~
medical journals. A Doctor Ed Nv
rdes invented it, or whatever they {.
1t. 1t was the most thrilling thing, -.
y say" A.,
Ter voice died away as her eyes 80,
owed KS. Max, cigarette in hand, oa
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