The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-27
CHAPTER w The Raid on tho Kitchen.

thing else. q am just as hungry as you are"
 "NO one has ever been as hungry as I am," he declared.
 Probably I an more hungry than you are" I insisted. T have more room to be hungry h."
 Tootles came rompiug in.
 Poor pup" commiserated Bopp. T suppose she is starved too"
 "No; that isn't the reason she's bark Ing. She has been fed"
 "Fed2 WhRtT
 "DOg biscuit"
 Where are theyT
 "In the kitchen" I replied ,unthink' Lngly. From the way she is behaving there must be some one outside"
 It was almost dark. went to the door and peered out. There Wss a man coming up the path.
 "Who Is itT' Bopp demanded
 q can't make out"
 Maybe it's a man of the supply boat"
 Impossible" explained '@Ths Eups ply boat isn't due until tomorrow, and even if she were here they couldn't land from her in this storm"
 The telephone repair man appeared
 q guess I got to stay here Rif night" he announced. "The storm ts es4ins 30 bad don't dare try to TOW back to town. don't care much for water un- less it's mixed with something else"
 Lucille came downstairs. I explain ed the situation to her. "of eourso you can stay all night but 1t win be impossible to give you anything to eat" she said.
 "Why notT he asked. T don't eS- pect to go to the trough with the fam fly. I'll feed with the help in the kitchen without e murmur. AS far as that goes, though, I'm a union man and as good as anybody"
 Certainly" agreed Lucille. "You aHO welcome to anything we have. but we have nothing. We are ad faSttng, We decided not to eat anything for a week.
 "Bugs," he decided briefly then, turning to Bopp and myself: Gents, put me right. Do or do I not coal at this station?"
 "The lady has told you correctly" I assured him. There IS no food in the house."
 And you're doing 1t, toOT He laughed sarcasttcally. ''When 1 como here the old lady was pulling BrOdte on the floor, and now the fat guy afn't eating anything. 4 bunch of dips al right"
 You had better go upstairs and change your clothes" said Lucille.
 "What will change 'em int0-S nickel plated wash boiler or a pair of diamond earrings?"
 q mean put on some dry things. Frank, you and he are about the same size. You'll lend him a suit of yours, won't you?'
 Sure ne WOuIu. lie naQ 10.
 When they were at the top Of tho stairs Bopp yelled down, Monty, Mrs Green wants you to come upp
 started, but Lucille stopped me.
 "Ask her what she wants"
 In minute Bopp had the answer.
 "She says she isn't going to sleep until she sees her beautiful friend Monty. If he doesn't come up she'll come down"
 Lucille, blushing, went up to explain to her mother that her request was impossible. From behind the closed ioor of Mrs. Greens room there issued sounds of an argument supplemented 5y weeping.
 Eventually Lucille came to the top of the stairs and called, "MontyW
 How different that name sounded when she used 1t! l bounded up the stairs. When say bounded" mean It. It was the first time that had lone anything like that fin years.
 Lucile stood leaning over the banis- ter, perpleyed and troubled, her face flushed and her hair becomingly dis arranged, as if she had been engaged in a physical contest of some sort stopped on the stairs below her.
 "The blessed damosel leaned out
 From the gold bar of heaven" quoted.
 Don't be silly" she said in tone of voice that told me she liked if, T have to ask you a dreadfuIly embar. rassing question:"
 "All right" commanded "shooE"
 "Would you mind very much kissins a lady who is not as young as she was once"
 Would I mind?" I said, taking Der hands. "I've been thinking of nothing else for two years"
 1T meant" disengaging her hands gently, would you mind kissing moth or good night? She is acting very pe- culiarly this evening, as you know, and she says she won't 80 to sleep until you kiss her"
 1 was touched at the old lady's fond ness for me. We went in. She was lying tucked up in bed, with night cap tied firmly under her chin.
 Lucille made me come to bed" MrA Green volunteered, her bright eyes