South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-02-15

will you please get off the wire ~
The voice. the. young and feminine.
was not entirely pleasant
Il believe I took my receiver off
first came back good naturedly. IL
am trying to get the janitor. Are
YOU the janitor's wife ?''
How ridiculous! Where is the
elevator boy 10 answer the phone
l want the janitor?"
A laugh came back though the
telephone. Everybody wants the
ianitor The last 1 heard he had
gone out 10 try and buy some coal,
dare say you're in the same boat
that I am--frozen to death in your
apartment. You know it won't do
any good to kick, but, like me, moth
inc else VIII keep you warm"
There was no answer. F'reda Til
sons receiver slammed back on the
hook that held it. and if she had
been inclined TO talk to herself in
her little apartment she might have
muttered something about an i'm
pertinent creature who dared 10 talk
to a girl when he did not know her.
and that she hadn't the most re-
mote idea who il was. That would
have been a fib. however, for she
really did know that IL was the
young man who dwelt in bachelor
state in the somewhat more spacious
and luxurious apartment in front
Of her own, the greater luxury and
hisher rent OF his apartment being
cue TO the fact that while he man
aged 20 draw 10 himself a weekly
check for SIS for writing ''thrilers"
for a popular weekly, she pounded a
typewriter somewhere in the down
town" district TO the tune OF sixty
a month.
To her having an apartment OF
her own, with little place she could
call home. was a luxury that she had
earned by much economy in the way
of amusement and pretty clothes. To
him living there was put down to his
New England origin. for Victor
Paige was more of a miser than a
spendthrift. and ne had rather dine
alone on the simple fare that his
visiting colored housekeeper made
for him than to spend many ducats
in alluring restaurants. Now il hap
pened that the typewriter that F'reda
Tuson pounded was located ip the
Nery office whittier Victor Paise ac-
casionally strolled 20 deliver his
manuscripts. and muyhap chin with
the editor. Perhaps she felt a secret
grievance. because, though she had
noticed the coincidence that he fire.
quented her office and also abode
under the same roof, ne had sought
no excuse 20 speak 20 her as thec
passed in the halls going home or
venturing forth. 1t does seem
strange that Victor never SOUGHT tho
excuse. for Freda would have been
good Co. speak TO. And there was
nothing repelling i'm her round blue
eyes. HUt then, Victor came from
Scw England
As FTed9 performed the task o.
busting and Strengthening up her lit
tie apartm emit clad 20 the chin in q
sweater and wearing gloves on her
hands as she worked. she listened
intCntly Tor a ring at her doorbeu
that would mean that the letter she
was waiting for had come When
aH chance OF the delivery was over
she descended 70 the entrance 20
make sure that The boy IN attend
ance there had not failed to deliver
IL 20 her.
Strange that Victor Paise should
have gone forth az the same time.
he waited while she made her com
plant
I'm the first place" she said. lit
is perfectly ridiculous that ora the
one day IN me week when we have
-o Doe home. ard when il would real
lv seer- that apartments and houses
ought Go have eroU2h coal 90 make
th.m comfortable. We should De-
n ade to suffer in thus way. low i