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Dave Lindley was in New York four
weeks before It dawned on him that
his capital was dwindling to a few dol
lars, and nobody seemed to appreciate
the value of tils presence there In a
business way.
He had been so accustomed to the
way people regarded him up home it
had been a distinct shock to be over
looked. In Saginaw his father was the
old lumber king, Jackson Lindley. His
boats were leaders In lake shipping,
hi* name a power In state politics and
he had just one son to slip into his
place.
The trouble was that son had inher
ited the temperament and looks of his
mother, Nanon Revrler, a French-Ca
nadlan girl from the straits, whose j
dark eyes and capricious ways had
drawn the silent Yankee lumberjack to
her, back in the early days In the
northern forests.
Lindley had come out of Ann Arbor
with a new viewpoint and the wander
lust. His love affair with Bab Welles
ley had been a natural result. She was
with a little musical comedy company
that happened to strike Saginaw on its
route up the lake, and to Lindley she
was the personification of the New
York world he longed to see and be a
part of. In his senior way he had
tried to meet her and make her four
day stay a whirlwind memory, but the
trouble was you couldn't find the mak
ings of a whirlwind In Saginaw. At
the end of the motor trips and little
suppers after the show Bab said
good-by.
> on re an awfully nice mu, mini.
If you ever lilt New York you’d get
along great, If you’d keep your head
and not be like they are down there.”
He had asked what she meant, and
she had only shrugged her shoulders.
Nothing, she had said, only nobody
cared about anybody else down there.
They weren’t neighborly; they just
didn’t care whether you lived or died,
even If you happened to be next door
to them.
“You’ll know what I mean if you
ever go there,” she added.
Now he knew. He had moved from
the McAlpIn into a little furnished
room on a side street. Not that he
had to. He could have wired home
for money, but he wanted to show the
old man he could stand on his own
and make good. There was nobody in
the rooming house who ever spoke to
him excepting the old Irish woman
who came to clean up his room.
But when he passed in and out he
often saw a girl at the telephone in
the lower hail. She attracted him
oddly, because she seemed like one of
the girls hack home.
Then one night he was wakened by
a smarting sensation in his throat,
and he opened his eyes to find himself
in a gray cloud.
From the basement windows the
smoke was pouring out thickly. A
man passed in the falling snow and he
hailed him. telling him to turn in the
alarm at the corner while he roused
the rest of the house, lie tried as he
made his way through the smoke-filled
halls to remember the people in the
rooms above, but on the third landing
Miss Donald met him, and she was
wrapped in a long gray cloak.
“I’ve called them all.” she told him
quietly. “It is just the furnace. There
isn’t any real danger of fire. Nora for
got to open the draughts before she
went to bed. and the house Is filled
with coal gas and smoke. It’s all right
now. She went down to fix It.
“When there's so much smoke there
isn’t much flame, Mr. Bindley,” she
.said seriously.
“How did you know my name? 1
didn’t think anybody in New York
knew their neighbor’s names even,” he
told he^
sne inugneu anu nesiuueu.
‘•you see, I know some one who
knows you. Bab Wellesley. She’s In
the same show I am this season up at
the Jardin des Fleurs, a roof show,
^ you know. I'm from the West, too,
Omaha, and we’re friends. She was
down here to see me and recognized
you as you came through the hall, but
you didn’t seem to remember her. But
I know all about you, and I’ve wanted
to talk to you so much and tell you
to go back home.”
“Go back?” he repeated. “Why?”
“Before you lose your ldg hope.
Bab wanted to be the new Marlowe,
and I thought I would be at the opera
in a year, and here we are up there at
the Jardin, and glad to get the en
gagement, too. She’s going home, too.
I would, too, If I had any to go to, but
my mother’s dead and my father’s
married again, so I’m not wanted."
At the end of three months old Jack
son Lindley landed in New York to
look up his “one and only,” as he told
Nora when she led him into the old
red brick house. And Nora broke the
news to him confidentially and jubi
lantly. *
. “Sure, he was the finest young man
t?ver lived here, and that free, too,
with his small change to a body who
needs it. And sbe was so pretty, sir,
you would have loved her yourself.
And it was just like Cinderella, for
one day they went away together and
came back in a big new limousine and
there she sat, dressed .like the best of
them, and her little new ring on her
hand, and the smile of her—’’
Nora’s hands lifted rapturously.
Bindley looked at the telegram he had
found forwarded to him. Nora had in
terpreted it for him.
“I've found the big hope. Expect us
home 15th. DAVE.”
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