Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1920-05-14
DANIEL WADE
AS CUPID
By LATIMER }. WILSON


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TO- 1890 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicats)
The great interior court Of Electric
Square resounded with the unharmoni-
GUS music of typewriters. When their
"click-clicking" ceased to pour from
the hundreds of windows at noon and
at FIVE o'clock, the numerous elevators
filed to OVERLOOKING and crowds Of
girls and men swarmed ont of the
massive doors of the skyscraper.
Streams of humanity they flowed down
from the lofty heights to swell the al
ready flooded current of downtown
Broadway,
It was barely one hour before the
opening of the noontIde flood gate.
The anteroom office boy. that indiyid-
ual in uniform and buttons who de-
mands your name and your business,
had grown restless. During a lull In
business he poked his head into the
room of No. %, where Miss Maybelle
Kinney performed the duties of
stenographer. In years she was less
than TWENTY-FIVE. while the office boy.
heralded merely as Dan. though his
name was Daniel Howard Wade.
tipped the scale of years Mt fifteen.
"Z-z-z-s.tln no sipnif,cant,v sounded
in n kind of tongua whistle "Has
Names asl,ed Won to lunch with him
todayr
"Get ont Of here and mind vour own
business ~ commanded the 0,rl tbraot-
enIngIv
"Iu hot vou,ra goino to lunch with
him caat won,t vo,, Iooly eno uban
vou,re Mrs Names Youu cot along
without a Iooking gloss averv fine
Mapes takes off his lid. WHY. Mayl
You can curl your hair and naint vour
Inns in the reflection from his shiny ton
whenever his hats orr Ouch 4" no
screamed in a whisner when the bon.
die of her paper knife ranned his
knuckles. Stems were heard approach.
ing the door from the adioIn,n0 office
and the how quickly duclTed hack into
his own room.
The door opened and a tall. slende.
young man, somewhat older than May
belle, came in with a handful of let
ters He was not at all bad looking,
but the top of his head, the very top
was shockingly bare.
Here, Miss Maybelle, you can look
after some of these" Mr., Mapes
was about to say more when he sud
denly discovered that he had left some-
thing important In his office. Just as
the door closed behind him. Maybelle
was summoned to another office by
the little call button Indicator at her
desk. AS she started out of the door
Daniel poked his head into the room.
"Ta-tai You're going TO lunch with
Names. I'll .betp he whispered loudly.
The girl Redeemed and scowled Mt him.
When she came bacl, into her room.
about half an hour later. she brought
more letters and found upon her desk
the one Names had gone hack To bring.
There was also little note from him.
asking her 70 lunch TODAY He said
he would come nv for her at noon.
MovheIIe corId think ~ M nlous-
,hle excuse for NOT going m lunch
with her follow emnIovea of tho Office
star She had NOT Thought enough Of
him hersonalIv avon 70 disIike him nm.
III vounp Wade be0on IN tense her
Tben sho could GOO nothIno but Mr.
Names denIeted summit everv fine
.ba sot onnosIte him mr. the crowded
table of the restaurant His aerv
oozo NJ affec,,on wos fu,ila In tic
attempt TO melt the lev unconcern
of her manner.
He was hopelessly in love. though
she had not imagined II until Wade
polnted the direction of the wind.
Now Names attention irrItated her
and she wanted some polite excuse for
refusing him. She walked over and
looked ont at the maze of windows I'm
the wall onnosIte.
In her dust-dry garden Of business
routIne the girl lonped for n breath
of youth and companlonshIp, but
Mapes teli snort OF the marx Sne
decided that Whatever happened sne
wOuidht go announcer tiine WIN MN u
picture tneater or restaurahI
Absently her gaze fell upon WIN
dow directly opposite her own out
on the floor below. A young man
stood In plain view, looking straight
at her and smiling. In his eyes at
that moment she thought she read
the romance OF moonlight springtime'
youth ana auVenture, ihere was No
mistake. he was looking all OF thoso
things right at her'
His hair was reached back In the
most genteel style. His brows were