The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-29
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Continued from Mondsy)
II know how you Feel. and ! don't
want you 20 take the responsibility
OF advising me" she said. quietly. II
guess my mind was made UP. any
how. But before did u Just
wanted TO b. sure that a decent
woman would think tho way do
about a."
And so. for a time. Title went out
OF the life OF the Street as she went
out OF Harrfet's handsome rooms.
quietly. unobtrusively. with calm
purpose In her eyes.
There were other changes In the
Street. The Lorenz house was being
painted for christlne's wedding
Johnny Rosenfeld. not perhaps 81
the street itself. but certainly per.
tanning 10 ~. was learning To drive
Palmer Howe's new car. In mingled
agonx and bliss. lilo walked along
the Street. not. right foot. lief; foot. -
but brake root. clutch foot and
took 10 calling OF the vintage Of
street cars. "Soand-so 1910" he
would say. with contempt In hIs
voice. lie spent more than he could
afford on large strea-ner. mean, TO
be fastened across the rear OF the
automobile. which said. Excuse our
dust" and was inoonsolable when
Palmer refused TO let him use IL.
X. had yielded to Annals insistencc.
and was boarding as well as rooming
- -.
rather snobbish TO its occasional
floating population. was accepting
and liking him. II found him tender.
infinitely human. And In return he
found this seemingly empty eddy
into which he had drifted was .eciu
ing with life. lie busted himself
with small things. and found his out
look gradually less tinged with de.
spair. when he found himself in.
clined 10 rail. he organized base.
ball club. and sent down to evcriast.
ing defeat the Linburgs. consisting
Of cashboys from Linden A. Hof.
burs's department store
The Rosenfelds adored him, with
the single exception OF the head of
the family. The elder Roscnfeld
having been sent up" II was X.
who discovered that by having him
consigned TO the workhouae his fam.
ily would receive from the county
some So cents day for his labor.
AS this was exactly 65 cents n day
more than he was worth 10 them
free. Mrs. Rosenfeld voiced the pious
hope that he be- kept there forever.
X. made no further attempt to
avoid Max Wilson. Some day they
would meet face to face. He hoped,
when II 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 n small place. and. one
way and another. he had known
many people. Wherever he went.
there would be the same chance.
And no did not deceive himself.
Other things being equal---the eddy
and all that II meant--he would not
willingly take himself out OF his
small share Of Sidney's life.
She was never to know what she
scourged his heart until IL no longer
shone In his eyes when he looked at
her. But he was very human--not
ut all meek. There were plenty Of
days when his philosophy lay in the
dust and savage dogs OF Jealousy
tore at II: more than one evening
when he threw himself face down.
ward on the bed and lay without
moving for hours. And Of these pc.
RODS OF despair he was always heart
ily ashamed the next day.
The meeting with Max Wilson took
place early In September, and under