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

more hotel, on superior street. ana 81fQ ne
would have a room reserved for her there.
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 . friendly
little glow. t@
80. yes; Miss Malden!" he said. We've
been expecting you. Mr.. Harwood had a
room reserved Obviously Mr.. Harwopds
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, 1t would
be clean. She surveyed. with little shivers
Of delight, the pleasant bedroom with a
brpad front window in the fifth story; bright
chintz, fresh. clean-and the wonderfully
compact white bath. She was no longer a
coed, or a girl" or merely Judge Liscemb's
stenographer. living at home. She was q
regular person now, on her own. settled IN
Chicago! So much the wand had waved to
her. ~
1t was noon when she arrived at the Deer
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.
She had studied 1t all out on q 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 on the
big new bridge over the river and saw Michi-
gan boulevard stretching in~terrninably from
the other side. She hadn't been lost for
over there; she got a little thrill out Of rec
ognizing it. She turned and read of the
streets from the signs on the lamp posts
Wabash, State. Dearborn. Clark. -.
This was La salle-this cahon with beet
ling sides! She was watching the street
numbers now--with a little hutter in her
heart as 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, dafzlinsly white tile tun.
mel. flooded with electric light, lay before
her-people streaming in and 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
writer's. 1t was not like any law office she
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, ~.
Then a slim boy was leading her through a
big,\busy room and down a short inner hall.
past doors to private rooms. The boy halted
at the end Of the hall and with q motion or
i. his hand indicated the door she was to enter.
She stepped into a rich. snug cabinet. twelve
feet square, ceiied with polished wood; but
before she had time to take it in HARDWOOD
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
handso11er 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
kled over it, providing around it delightedly.
And the view from the broad windows took
her breath again. e.
She and Harwood 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
ema11ation 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.
enClE turned 10 the udIuSuIu6 IldH OG6lQS IEGt.
OF course. he hadn't made that smoky i'm.
mensity beyond the window. But he was one
OF those who had made it and to whose will
1t ankwered-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 q sud.
den, heady leap Of the blood Harwood felt
that he could take her into his arms now
almost--almost! 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: You'll nave to keep the
shades down. If you don't Ill be spending
all my time. looking out Of the window. You
must tell me what I'm to do, you know" So
they were back on q business footing.
You'll find out as things come up" he
said.
They walked to the cabinet, n al 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."
"But I met Mr.. Krom at Slow River" said
Elizabeth, always willing to be friendly.
Krem muttered something. evidently
meant to BE- polite, and stepped diagonally
across the cabinet, disappearing through the
door in it's west wall. He was vaguely won.
dering. as he went upstairs, why she. discon,
certed him; made him act like q fool. Sc
she was to be Harwood's secretary!
Elizabeth bad noticed that her secretaxial
cabinet had three doors-one to the inner
hall. an opposite one to Harwood's room
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