T. Tembarom

les and Julius Steinberger privately sympathized with him as they dressed in company, but they heard him whistling in his own hall

ng people as it went, snatching their breath out of them, and leaving them gaspingly clutching at hats and bending their bodies before it. Street-ca

waiting ones desperately huddled together behind them. He braced

he said. "The 'L' will be just as jammed, but

source of exultant rejoicing. With the aid of great care and a straight, well-formed young body, he managed to make the best of them; but they were

live on ten per," he had said once to Little Ann. "A suit of clothes

.?" his neighbor at table asked

e ordered the limousine round, w

uch," said Mrs. Bowse, good-naturedly.

fast-food" with a cheerful appetite. "What you can't be

onary measure. The dark dining-room was warm, and th

u go out, and don't open it far," said Mrs. Bowse as

at. He buttoned it across his chest, and turned its collar up to

upright and saw Little Ann coming down the staircase holding in her hand a particular

ice, "you'd better wrap this comforter right round your neck, Mr. Tembarom. It's one of F

rception of the fact that he was being take

bout you. Little Ann, is that you never make a

care of Father not to se

le world-initials on a fellow's socks and mufflers

e a lot to do," was her sedate reception of the remark. "Y

t her round cheek, and watched one of the unexpected dimples reveal itself in a place where dimples are not usually anticipated. It was coming out because she was smiling a sm

't to go out till the blizzar

the kind that mean to do a thing when they've made up their

he hit he thinks it ought to be, he'll raise me ten. Thirty per. Vanastorbilts won't b

It wouldn't be enough to depend o

ded. "Now you can go. I've been looking in the telephone-book for confectio

caught hi

TWO of you made! One used up all there was

o keep the page," she said.

f softly motherly anxiety in the dropped note of her voice, and it was almost more than flesh and blood at twenty-five could stand. Tembarom made a hasty, involuntary move towa

r. Hutchinson I'm obliged to him, please. Get out of the way, Little A

He managed to wedge himself into a train there, and then at least he was on his way. He was thinking hard and fast, but through all his planning the warm hug of the tartan comforter round his neck kept Little Ann near him. He had been very thankful for the additional warmth as the whirling snow and wind had wrought their will with him wh

ake it, perhaps my luck will have started. When a man'

ly but few passers-by, and the shops were not important-looking; but they were open, and he could see that the insides of them looked comfortable in contrast with the blizzard-ruled street. He could not see both sides of the street as he walked up one side of the block without coming upon a confectioner's. He crossed at the corner and turned back on the other side. Presently he saw that a light van was standing before one place, backed up against the sidewalk to receive parcels, its shuddering horse holding its h

t, anyhow,"

ntly against a stout, excited, middle-aged little Jew who was bending over a box he was packing. Th

ried out. "Can't you lo

mental habit of vividly seeing the other man's point of view

he said. "Beg pardon. The wind's

Munsberg, was packing a smaller box behind the c

aid later. "Kind o' nice." She spoke

thing you wan

g about and at Munsberg, who had bent over his pac

sy getting things out on time. I'll just wait.. Gee! I

t irascibly, and broke forth in th

n, joost you let that same vind vat blew you in blow you

thing," answered Tembaro

eding?" jerke

a newspaper man." He felt a glow of pride as he said the words. He was a newspaper man even now

em. She also knew the value of advertisement. She c

t do harm if he waits-if he

one of the cards which had been Lit

ingly. He looked at T. Tembarom, and T. Tembarom looked back at h

r jerk toward a chair, "if you

m, and sat down. He had m

r doves adorning it outside and in. There was no mistaking the poetic significance of that cake. Outside the blizzard whirled clouds of snow-particles through the air, and the van horse kept his head down and his forelegs braced. His driver had long since tried to cover him with a blanket which the wind continually tore loose from its fastenings, and flapped about the creature

his casual way, and once or twice he saw that he could lift some-thing down or up for Mrs. Munsberg, who was a little woman. The natural casualness of his way of jumping up to do the things prevented any suspicion of officiousness, and also prevented his waiting figure from beginning to wear the air o

stored in the van, after strugglings with the opening a

me back into the store, knocking hi

Vouldn't have fell down on that order for tventy-vive dollars

Mrs. Munsberg said. "It looked as

heir cake-decorator. Munsberg spoke to Tembarom in the manner of a

big order,"

et outside all that good stuff. That wedding-cake took the tart away fr

o vorry along on vun million nor two. He owns de biggest brewery i

ot it to burn!

. He's built a fine house here, an' his girls is fine girls. De vun's goin' to be married to-night her name's Rachel, an' she's goin' to marry a nice feller, Louis Levy. Levy built the big entertainment-hall vh

ment had pla

w up-town society reporter for the Sunday Earth, and I came in here to see if you wouldn't help me to get

rt of grunt. He lo

d to nothin' but Fif

ain. Not only his good teeth grinned, but his

anything, but you may bet your life I'm going to get used to Harlem, if you people'

from Biker," said Mrs.

oder feller, half corned most de time, an' puttin' on Clarence airs.

iven up. It'll be my fault if that happens, not Harlem's. There's society enough

le. Munsberg was a good-natur

he should also have the business insight to realize that he might obtain valuable society items fr

lin' you about 'em. 'T ain't goin' to do no harm. Weddings an' things dey ought to be wrote up, anyhow, if d

rs. Munsberg, becoming agreeably excited. "And there's plent

four Schwartz girls would make grand pictures. They dress splendid, and

l tell me where Schwartz lives, and where the hall is, and the church, and just anything else I can use, I'll go out

s a suggestion of social importance in it. They knew a number of people who would be pleased with the prospect of being in the Sunday Earth. They were of a race w

whom she shrewdly guessed that she would be a

te nun's-veiling,' and he left out things. Never said nothing about Miss Lewishon's diamon

elf," said Tembarom, "but I shou

oor to go, Mrs. Muns

ck here and tell us what you done.

for the night. Even a cat who stole to him and rubbed herself against his leg miauwed in a sort of abortive whisper, opening her mouth wide, but emitting no sound. When he went cautiously up the stair

he dropped heavily into

oing." And almost before the last word had uttered i