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THE ELEVATOR BOY,
How He Was Deceived by Rival
Tenarts In the Skyscraper.
LOVE Of ORPHAN GIRLS DID IT
Pair of Bachelors In a Mixup Over
Poor Young Women For Adoption.
"Cage” Kid Gets the Goods —“Bache-
• * Icr's’’ Wives Get Them.
By M. QUAD.
' [Copyright, 1110. t.y Associated Literary
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WHEN Mr Washhurne. the
mowing machine man. came
to our sk.vscruper and P ok
looms on too eleventh Hour
1 thought ho was one t ie nicest <
geutleiuen 1 ever saw. id’ laid vr'.ato
• hair and whiskers, a Lx uigu expre.s
--t ion, and his voice was sett and gen
tle. 1 hadn’t made his acquaintance
yet when lie seat f r me to come to
his rooms, i was rc lived theie wiili
open arms.
■“Sammis,” said Mr. War.hburne as
v a paieruiU smile came to his.iaoe, “l.
am told tiiat you are a fatherless boy.’
"Yes, sir.”
“And that you are the sole support
of a widowed mother.”
"Yes. sir.”
“And that your father left a gigantic
mortgage on the hou r which you are
making heroic efforts to pay off.”
“That is the case, sir.”
"Sammis, my bedrt goes out to you.
I was in the same tix when 1 was your
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age. 1 must take you under my wing
and be a father to you. Yes, you may
call me papa.”.
“Thanks.”
“Hut not when any one is around.
Sammis. Call me papa when we are
alone. You see, J am an old bachelor,
and it might mix things up. I shall
call you son, and I shall be papa to
you, but on the quiet, Sammis. Quiet
is what does it. As to the mortgager
here is a dollar to help pay the inter
est mi it. and I shall take great pleas
ure in handing you others from time
to time.”
“T thank you, papa, and 1 will try to
be an ideal son to you.!'
“1 feel that ydu will. I feel it. We
will. K.\V i any a c<-nCd. ' ! cunt to
gether. Indeed/ this is cue < f them.
Sammis, I want to ask you about the
man next door down the hull. I > yon
know all about him?"
The Mart Next Hcorx
“Yes, sir. Ills' name is Green, and
he is in the hardwood business., lie
always trying to find out about other
tenants. If you had a young lady
typist in here he'd be rubbernecking
half the time.”
"Just the wry 1 had him sized up,
Samuils—just the way. if my door is
a bit epeu he always peeks in. I must
snub him good and hard. Such men
are dangerous He may come to you
and ask about me.”
“lie is sure to, papa, but be won’t
get much information.”
“Simply tell him. Sammis, that I am
an old bachelor and shall never mar
ry. Say to him if he hangs on that 1
haveJfcot a great deal of sentiment
about me and pity the poor and mi
fortunate. If Mr. Itockofeiler hadn't
given' a million dollars to find out all
about the hookworm 1 should. I think
this is all today, son, but drop in to
see me tomorrow at this time. 1 may
want to ask your advice. Here is an
other dollar oil that mortgage. I hope
to see it paid off yery soon.”
I had found a father, and I was
glad. I invested the $2 in cigarettes
and a Let on the ponies and went
homo happy. I was on time next day.
and papa received me with the same
glad baud and forked over another
dollar mortgage money. Then he soft
ly asked:
“Sammis, you must know many
young ladies about the building
young ladief who do typewriting?”.
“Thousands, papa.”
“And you may have one in your
mind’s eye who is an prphan and has
to face .the. cold and cruel world to
make a living?^
"I can pick up twenty.”
“Some girl. Sammis. who is discour
aged and heartbroken with btr strug
gles and the cruelty of mankind?"
“Just so, papa. The woods are full
of ’em. I had six fti the cage on the
last trip up.”
“Such a girl. Sammis. If adopted by
a good man, Would appreciate the po
sition. She might do a little work in
the office to help him out. but most of
her time would he passed In a little
vine clad home. There, with her pi
ano. her canary bird and her (lowers
and boofcs, she could sit and dream by
the hour.”
“How many dozeD shall 1 get you;
papa?” 1 asked.
Washburrie’s Love For Orphan Girl.
“Um, um. Sammis. you are a won
derful hid to catch on! Here is a dol
lar on that mortgage. That's what 1
wanted to ask your advice about—
adop h.g a young lady i t;!< \ou I
was sir ,!! : on sentiment. I fed that I
owe mil dud a duty. When I think
of a pool orphan‘girl of eighteen or
twenty lightii g the world it makes the
tears come. See. Sammis. these are
real (ears in my eyes
“Yes. sir; no Crop a water there.
Po you want to ask me if you should
adopt a young woman?”
-Well, that's about i;, Sammis. 1
have adopted you. but there Is room
in my heart- for another. There need
be no jealousy, you .know. Here is a
half dollar on (lie mortgage. If you
could find such a young lady and
bring her here for a wi!b me it
might result in her great happiness
It should be done quietly and unosten
tatiously, Sammis. Green will proba
bly butt in. but lie is to know nothing.
Go, Sammis. and may luck go with
you.”
Ecr two days 1 threw out quiet hints
around the' skyscraper, and then 1
could have headed a procession iff a
hundred geijtle lambs who wanted to
ho taken into the fold. They wanted
to be papa's darling along with me. 1
selected one from the bunch and sent
her up and scattered the rest. Half
an hour after I had done so along
came Green and said:
“Sammis, that old hollyhock next to
me has got a girl typist.”
“Well ?”
“Well, lie ought to be taken out and
given a coat of tar and feathers, lies
an old hyena!"
“Oh, 1 don't know.”
“But I do. I started to go into his
room just now to borrow a match, but
ho stuck in the door and t !d me to go
down on the street and'buy matches.
1 know there was a girl there, for 1
heard her giggle. The old crocodile!
I'll be even with him l'or snubbing
me!”
“I have found him a very nice old
bachelor.” I\.suid.
"Old bachelor! Why, you sawdust
headed "kid, he has probably been mar
ried two or three times. I'll bet he has
got a wife and six children soinewhere
4 Im‘ci vai'v mintilo ff
this very minute.
It was my duty to warn papa that
the enemy was on his trail, and 1 did
so. and lie fired up and said:
“The old mossback with one foot in
the grave said that, did he? Why,
Sammis.H will lay for him ad Em-.-k
hisQjloek off! Here I have as good as
adopted a broken hearted orphan girl
and am‘making her realize that life is
worth the living, am] that contempti
ble old hyena impugns my motives!"
“Yes, sir; he impugns, but 1 shoul'dn’t
pay any attention to him. lie seems
to be a bad man.”
Hyena and Reptib Come Together.
Papa promis-d not P> do anything,
but that very afternoon he and Green
met in the corridor, and there was a
fight. I was not there to see, but spec
tators told me it was a sad sight to
see my dear adopted father get it in
the neck and lose his gray lmir by
handfuls. Later ou I met Green, and
he was breathing hard gs lie said:
“Sammis, 1 have uncovered the sly
old reptile* and there's going to be fun
around *this building within two or
three days.”
I'trembled for papa—that is, I trem
bled for the mortgage money he was
shelling out. 1 warned him. and I
think he kept his door locked most of
the time, but Nemesis was after
scalps. One morning at 10 o’clock two
women and seven or eight kids struck
the vestibule and inquired for both
Wasbbarne and Green. It was another
cage that took them up. Green had
given papa away and somehow him
self at the same time. When the
bunch struck the eleventh tloor there
was something doing, autf it was two
hours'before the building settled down
to its routine again. Papa went, and
Green went, and the broken hearted
girls went, and now I’m again facing
that gigantic mortgage jyitli no one to
cheer. SAMMIS,
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