The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-20

neatly fitted plain blue serge dress be- heath. She placed the chair precisely half way between the radiator and the window where the light would come over her left shoulder. There" she said. T like 1t just like that I shall knit and not disturb you at all. Please sit down. Mir. Carter. You can't imagine what pleasure 1t is to be warm."
 So-so you took my invitation seri. ously, did you? I'm glad" He laugh ed with embarrassment and the girl opened two blue eyes wide and round with studied naivety, behind which Carter knew lay much sarcasm. Why didn't you mean that you wanted me to come?" she asked. You first sug- gested the theater, but you see, I've been at the theater till I've seen every show in town and every movie in the neighborhood. And I simply must get these army sweaters dOne!' Carter noticed that she had taken a half fin- | ished khaki sweater from her bag. Even to his inexperienced eyes the Iu. warm and compact and he noted the gold ends of the knitting needles.
 I've called on all my friends. You see don't know many people in town, and I've shopped till I've bought a trunkful of things don't need I've spent hours in church and other hours In the museum and the public libra ries. So your invitation was very welcome. Perhaps If had always lived in the North I could stand the apartment But you see this Is my first winter North. l came with my aunt and now she has gone away for few weeks and I'm alone. One feels | the cold more when one is alone, I think" Then promising not to dis turb Mir. Carter any more she con. | tinued her knitting in silence. From time to time when Mir. Carter felt that her eyes were intent on her knitting he swung around in his swivel chair and caught timid glance at the girl. Sometimes he noticed the graceful an- kle, at other times the slender capable hands that were so neatly framed in the tight white lace cuffs of her dark sleeves. At other times he noticed the glint of auburn in her hair and then again the long curve of the dark lashes that shaded her blue eyes. He did not know that from beneath those long lashes the blue eyes were perfectly cap able of observing his stolen glances though the graceful fingers went on l uninterruptedly with the needles and wool.
 Couldn't you give me job?" Nancy Crosby put this question to Mir Carter one day after she had been making her visits to his office for the purpose of keeping warm during the course of an entire week. "I am getting tired of knitting. One can't do that all the time. I could do copying for you and sort over papers perhaps and stick up en- velopes and stamps and things" So Mir. Carter secured little ma hogany desk, had 1t placed beside his own and there established Nancy Cros- by as his volunteer assistant. They had finally agreed that the money that she earned as his assistant should be contributed to the Red Cross.
 It was in the afternoon of that day that Mir. Carter dropped in at the Marbridge Court and getting the emergency key to apartment Four D from the janitor there let himself Into the empty apartment and did little amateur tinkering on his own account. That morning through his incessant efforts goodly supply of coal had been deposited in the coal bins of the Marbridge Court.
 Nancy Crosby continued to work for him for week more. He asked her one day whether her apartment was still cold. "Yes," she said, 'it really Is dreadful. There isn't any steam in the living room radiator. though the bedroom radiators are all right. But you see can't stay there in the day time. Isn't it strange. for the other tenants are perfectly comfortable now"
 "Yes, 1t is funny" agreed Carter, and began to read lease on his desk
 At the end of that week Nancy's aunt was expected to return and Nancy had indicated that she would have to give up her job.
 ''I took 1t just to be spiteful. In fact. came down to bother you, just to make you furious. I thought you were holding off the steam so as to save money and I intended to find out and to make you so tired of seeing me around that you would get the coal at any cost. But really have had a