The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-26
A Stenogrof,her's
Romance
BY JANE PHELPS
GEORGE EAI4LoN,s PLEASURE
INTHIGUES NELLIE.

ss.N Chapter 62. ss-s5 -1
+ Miss Jones was att breakfast, and
Nellie felt more at home She had
spent the evening before getting set
tied. putting away her clothes, and
making the little room more home
the things she had kept because OF
their associa TONS The gay throw
they had used on the couch in the
apartment quite transformed the bed,
and the bright cushion made the
rocking chair attractive as well as
thing was in place. When Miss Jones
dropped in to see how she was sit
uated, before going to breakfast. she
exclaimed:
How pretty. One would think you
had been here months" ~ -,
t NeIiies daintiness, as evidenced by
her room, added to Miss Jones' fond
ness for the almost friendless girl
whose beauty had at first seemed to
the older, more experienced en1ploye.
a drawback.
when we sold the things kept a
few so I wouldn't feel so 'homesiok
away from Cora" Nellie explained.
pleased.
you were wiss. i have found that
ones surroundings. unconsciously per-
haps, affect us wonderfully"
Mr.. Horne. the newspaper reporter,
was not at breakfast. mis-. Roberts.
noticing Nellies glance at his vacant
place. told her: sa29 81
mfr. Horne is often out all night
getting news for his paper. We sell
dom see him at breakfast" ss.s
A feeling of disappointment swept
over Nellie. Aside from Mrs. Roberts,
he had been the only one at the table
who really interested her. But she
made no remark and. following Miss
Jones example, quickly ate her break
fast. They departed for the office to-
gether. go 49,
Nellie was thinking how nice 1t was
to be with Miss Jones' to go to the
office with her when she said:
cit is very nice to. have company
back and forth. my dear" ~.
ST was just thinking the same" Nell
| lie replied. I'm a lucky girl to get
la room where you are, even II it is
more than 1 thought ought to pay
"1t is better TO do without some
| things and have the right kind OF
an environment-even If it is only a
| boarding house. Mrs. Roberts seems
to have taken quite a notion to you,
| She is a darling old lady, has been
family. The others are all good re-
spectacle people. commonplace per-
| haps, but all right"
" Nellie was tempted to ask about Mr..
Horne. but something held her back.
He was the only young man there. it
might look silly if4she talked of him.
She was very anxious to stand In Well
| with Miss Jones' sEs, gsaF - 49,.
Ia During. the morning Mr. Fallon
said:
Miss Jones tells me you have taken
a room at Miss Doty's. am very glad.
Not only because Miss Jones is there,
| but I feel more comfortable to know
you are in such good place. 80
Nellie at once. forgot young Horne's
existence. Mr.. George cared to have
=, ~g-r-- To- Ky = t7r G
more comfortab BILE. How nice it was
of him to care; to think of her at all
aside from her work.
She lunched with Cora, and while
she told her of her new home, of the
people she stressed Mr.. F'ailori's pleas
ure more than anything directly con-
nected with her changed quarters or
the people she had met. These she
passed over lightly, mentioning Horne
as she had the others. Mrs. Roberts
was the only one she Iauded:
81 watched her, Cora. And you
should see how beautifully she eats,
how dainty she is, and how she uses
| her fork. / am going to do just as
she does. And she was SO nice to ne
Introduced me to the whole tabieful
of people and tried to make it easy
for me. was scared to deatH at
first"
>"I can't imagine you being fright
ended" Cora said, but from what You
tell me you are in the right place. I
am glad that Mrs. Roberts seems in
terested in YOU She did>Rot add
what was in. her mind that no one
could help it. that Neflie's beauty. her
bright .leveruess would win almost
anyone. -.
Yet after she had returned to hSr
little office and recalled the converse
tin she sighed at Nellie's pleasure over
what Mr., George Fallon had said-her
stressing of his remarks.
81 daren't say a word for fear of
making her conscious, but I'm afraid
she is learning to care for him." she
| said to herself anxiousiy. Cora's own
sad love affair. its sorrowful ending,
had made her very tender.
(Tomorrow--Youth calls to youth-)