Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-18

more hotel, on Superior street and said ne
would have q room reserved for her there.
From the cab she looked up at Its tall. mar
row front OF yellow pressed brick. A flight
Of stone steps led from the sidewalk to the
entrance; and when she wrote her name on
the register the clerks manner At once
changed from the 'impersonal to q friendly
little glow.
40. yes; Miss Maiden" he said. we've
been expecting you. Mr.. Harwood had a
room reserved" Obviously Mr.. Harwopd's
name was open sesame to the best. This
was the first wave Of the wand.
Harwood had said this was a new hotel
OF the family" type; being new, It would
be clean. ShS surveyed. with little shivers
of delight, the pleasant bedroom with a
brpad front window in the fifth story; bright !
chantz, fresh. clean-and the wonderfully
ompact white bath. She was no longer a
coed, or a " girl" or merely Judge Liscemb'st
stenographer, living at home. She was q
regular person now, on her own. settled in
Chicago! So much the wand had waved to
her.
more. having taken the early train. She
went down to luncheon: thought the dining
room charming and the food excellent. Then
her heart beat high as she set forth on the
greater adventure--going downtown to the
office which was to be her foothold in this
big, smoky seethe Of q town. Efs
She had studied 1t all out on a map of the
city, and she proposed to walk; the names
Of the streets at which she turned were fixed
In her memory. Yet she experienced a dis
tinct elation when che found herself op the
big new bridge over the river ana saw Michi-
gan boulevard stretching in~terminably from
the other side. She hadn't been lost for a
minute! Then that was the Art Institute
over there; she got a little thrill out Of rec
ognising IT. She turned and Rad of the
streets from the signs on the lamp posts
Wabash, State, Dearborn. Clark.
This was La Salle-this canon with beet
ling sides! She was watching the street
numbers now-with a little hutter in her
heart AZ she saw the sign "Belknap Build
: ing " carved in the granite arch over q. broad
doorway. There she was, without having
gone a bit out OF her way! She was proud
Of herself. "A long, dazzlinsly white tile tun.
her--people streaming in ana streaming out;
a bank OF elevators on the right.
Stepping out of the elevator on the
eighteenth floor, she saw before her double
glass doors. each panel bearing the sign
Law Offices; Ellis. Martindale. Harwood
& Smith" With a vague surprise she looked
through the glass panels. and entered a very
large and very. busy room, with a dozen or
more desks in it and a clatter OF type.
\ q iSL N ally Ia" OIiNC SlS
had ever seen or thought Of; it appeared more
like a factory. A stout, dark young woman
at a desk near the door was looking at her
inquiringly, ID
Then a slim boy was leading her through a
big busy room and down a short inner hail.
past doors to private rooms. The boy halted
at the end Of the hall and with a motion OF"
his hand indicated the door she was to enter.
She stepped into a rich. snug cabinet. twelve
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before she had time to take it in Harwood
was entering from the opposite side. holding
out his hand. She squeezed his hand tight
as though she had been on the point, after
all. Of getting lost. He seemed nicer and
handsotner and pleasanter than ever.
He showed her his spacious office, back Of
the little cabinet which was to be her room.
1t took her breath-its size, the silk and sill.
yer; not at all like any law office which she
had ever imagined. She dubbed and twin
killed. over it, providing around it delightedly.
And the view from the broad windows took
her breath again. 4,
She and HARDWOOD stood beside one OF
them looking out at the great view-roofs.
roofs. roofs. of all sorts and at all heights.
under q haze of smoke which seemed an
enlanation of enormous energy, millions of
people. toiling. He pointed out various rec
equitable objects. She stared her eyes full.
Her eyes were full Of the view as she pres.
emily turned to the handsome man beside her.
OF course. he hadn't made that smoky i'm
lnensity beyond the window. But he was one
OF those who had made it and to whose will
it answered-one Of the masters Of these clpt.
tered. piled up Kingdoms Of the earth!
She was not likely to withhold admiration.
Her shining eyes, full of the great view, did
not withhold admiration now. With = sud.
den, heady leap Of the blood Harwood felt
that he could take her into his arms now
almost--aln1ost She was turning to look
again at the view. That surge in his veins
subsidized and left his neves in a turmoil as
though he had received an electric shock.
She laughed: "Youn have to keep the
shades down. If you don't I'll be spending
all my time. looking out Of the window. You
must tell me what I'm to do, you know" Sc
they were back on a business footing.
you'll find out as things come, up" he
said.
They walked to the cabinet, and az they
stood in the doorway Krom entered at the
opposite side from the inner hall Of the of.
fees. He was carelessly dressed. as Bess
remembered him at Slow River, and she
thought he was surprised at seeing her there
as She was at seeing him walk in as though
he were at home
Harwood said pleasantly, GOOD morning,
Krom. This is my new secretary, Miss NAL.
den." And to Elizabeth: Mr.. Krom."
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Elizabeth, always willing to be friendly.
Krom muttered something. evidently
meant to BE- polite, and stepped diagonally
across the cabinet, disappearing through the
door in its west wall. He was vaguely won
dering, as he went upstairs, why she. discon.
certed him; made him act like a fool. so
she was to be Harwood's secretary!
Elizabeth bad noticed hat her secretarial
cabinet had three doors-one to the inner
hall. an oDnOSito + one tn HarWYAN6sh NoASa
and one In the west yall. AZ Krom opened
the latter door she caught q glimpse. Of the
cell-like stairway, with Its bare cement Moor.
and looked inquiringly at Harwnod.
"Bluebeard's chamber" he told her: =. only
you may explore it any time you ike with.
out losing your head More soberiy he ex.
planned. " I've got q room UP on the root.
This man. Krom ,is using it no~w----sornetinss
Steinman. too" There wal . titillation III
his nerves from having her there on. his own
ground, close to him, 80 he went On. hisyoice
taking a confidential inflectfon.s q Thoae two