Evening star., 1921-09-25

day afternoon on the o'clock train,
and shall stay a day or two. Please
go to the house and have the second
floor well aired. When l come should
like to meet this Molly of yours. 1
take it, Of course, that her family is a
good one.
Margaret had aready told me that
you had decided to disagree. At first
was furious but when I saw the
photograph you sent her. 1 began to
forgive you--
Nell read the letter three times and
then he slowly turned to one of the
remaining eleven photographs.
Young lady" said he. within the
last few days I've lost fiancee and
a perfectly good car. And now some
within the next few days, I'm going to
lose a legacy and perfectly good
auntw
The more Nell thought it over. the
less he liked it.
IF there's one thing that Aunt Ag-
self, "it's lies or deception in any way,
shape or form. And now if have to
tell her the truth about Molly. she'd
never believe me again as long as !
live. I've got to find that girl. and I've
got to find her very, very soon.
The address which Molly had writ
ten upon the card was one of those eX-
elusive boarding houses which have
the outward and inward appearance of
private dwellings. A colored girl IN
q white cap and apron answered Melfs
ring; ,,, .uos..., vess,hr. she
said, partly in answer to his question,
and partly in answer to the five-dol1ar
hill which he ostentatiously held be-
tween his fingers. Her paw hved
here for quite a spell-a fine old gem
man, All don't care what dey says:
En oh NEyo q M
ho-ding school, but fin'ly she came
home to her paw. Just what the
trouble is All don't know. but all at
once they left here very sudden and
didn't leave no address behind EN-.
There's been quite a few inqulrlng
detectives, think some of them
was.
Last Thursday, on nah afternoon
out, Ah was over on East 55th street
near Park avenue and An saw MISS
Molly walking along on the otheI
side of the street as though she lived
around there somewheres and was
doing the shopping"
was she alone?"
wen, sub, there was nobody walk
ing side by side. And maybe An
imagined it. but it seemed to me that
same police detectives who had been
around here time or two inquiring
for her paw"
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TT occurred to Nell later that never
before had he bought anything for
five dollars which had given him such
a rich range of emotions. but after
he had returned to his room and had
looked long and earnestly at the pic
ture on his dresser, one thought in
his mind gradually grew head and
shoulders above all the others-one
of those fine commanding thoughts
that have dominated the masculine
mind since first this ancient world
began to spin. What? That girl
do anything wrongT' he asked him
self She couldn't # .u. she triedm tse l.;,o,.
spoke when first they saw the siren
or Rhenish boatnen when they gazed
at the golden Lorelei.
When Nell went out the next morn
ing he told himself that he was
merely going for a stroll, but it
wasn't long before his feet had taken
him to the cornre of Park avenue and
55th street. Less than a block away
was his aunt's house, boarded up for
the summer.
Imagine her being as close as
this" he thought, and for moment
that feeling of awe which comes upon
us all at times when we marvel at
the fates. 'If 1 hadn't hit the lamp
post" he mused, II wouldn't have
seen her picture. And if I hadn't
seen her picture I might have lived
here all this winter and never have
known that she was even living
But she was living and, what was
more to the point, Nell had simply got
to find her. There was not the least
doubt about that Yet all that morn
ing and all that afternoon he strolled
and looked in vain; and although he
had hts lunch and dinner at the win
dow table Of an upstairs restaurant.
and kept his eyes on the street, he
might Just as well have watched the