Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-22
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q A SPIRITED ROMANCE - :
BY GRACE L. H. LUTZ, Autbor d The Best MAJ

to all those places you suggested at
noon today. but there wasn't a vacant
spot anywhere. There's some rooms
on Louden street, but there's all
sorts in the house. Mother wouldn't
like it.N It's dirty besides. / suppose
II We look long enough we could find
rooms; but we'd have to get along
with only two or three. for they come
awful high. We'd have to have three
anyway, you girls and mother in one,
ns boys in the other. and n for par,
Wouldn't that be fierce? I oughtta
get q better job. We can't live that
way" .
find something better" said Shirley
with q hopeful ring in her voice. i've
been thinking out a plan. / haven't
got 1t all just arranged in my mind
yet, but I'll tell you about it pretty
soon. You don't have school tomor-
row night, do you No. I thodsht
not. Well, maybe we can. talk 1t over
then. You and I will have to go out
together and look up q place per-
haps," and she smiled an encouraging
smile, and sent him OF to his school
happily.
She extracted a promise from Har.
ley that he would be in by nine
o'clock, discovered that he was only
going to a movie show around the
corner with one of the fellows who
was going to stand treat" on account
Of a wonderful ball game they had
won, found put where his lessons were
for the morrow, promised to help him
when he returned, and sent him away
with a feeling Of comfort and respon-
sibility to return early. She washed
the dishes and ironed the table cloth
so Carol could go to her Lessons. Then
she went up and put Doris to bed
with with a story about a little bird
that built a nest in q tall, beautiful
tree that grew beside the place where
the little girl lived: a little bird that
drank from a little running brook.
and took a bath on Its pebbly shore,
little girl gave it, and sat all day on
FIVE little blue eggs.
Harley came in at nve minutes aft
err nine, and did his lessons with her
help. george came home just as they
finished. He was whistling. though
he looked tired. He said 'the prof"
had been 1.-The limit all the evening.
Shirley fixed her mother comfortably
for the night, and went at last to her
own bed, more tired than she had
been for weeks, and yet more happy.
For through it all she had been sus-
stained by q hope; inspired by a cul-
tured, pleasant voice. and eyes that
wanted to help, and seemed to- under
stand.
AS she closed her eyes to sleep.
those kind eyes mingled with her
dreams. and seemed promise relief
from her great anxieties. "
It was with a feeling Of excitement
and anticipation thai she dressed the
next morning and hurried away.
Something was coming, she felt sure,
some help for their trying situation.
She had felt it when she knelt for her
usual prayer that morning. and it
throhbed in her excited heart as she
hurried through the streets to the Of
SO sure. for she knew how terrible
would be the disappointment If she
got her hopes too high.
There was plenty to be done at the
office, a great many letters to answer,
and a Telegram with directions from
Mr.. Barnard. But she worked with
more ease than for some time, and
was done by half-past eleven. When
| she took the letters out to Mr.. Clegg
would not be needed the rest of the
day, and might go at one il she
chose.
She ate her bit of lunch hurriedly,
and made herself as fresh and tidy as
was possible in the Office. Then she
took her way to the fourth floor of
the Ward Trust building. With
! throbbing heart and glowing cheeks
she entered the office Of Walter Ora
ham and asked for Mr.. Sidney Ora
ham.
The Office boy had evidently receiv-
ed in structions, for he bowed most
respectfully this time. and led her at
one to the inner Office.
This most interesting story
VIII bs continued In
Monday 1vsaings EsralA.