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"Glad to see you, Burke," said Hynes, as dutifully we laughed together at the time-honoured jest

I knew froood fellow, and he had an honest grip; though out where I coht call him a dude All New Yorkers see Clerk Crosby caoun, as lean, brusque and mosquito-like as his partner is elephantine; and after a feords with thereat lump rose in my throat when I tried, and reat kindness

"Consider, if it pleases you," he said, to put ement, not so much on your own account as because I loved your father and s back my youth to speak his name--your name, Johnny Burke!"

Yes, I remember the words, I remember the treh which he looked at ; soe, of course I pasted right up to Union Square, though I felt sure that Helen would be at college No 2 proved to be a dingy brick building igs and arrins of a "dental parlour" and a school for theatrical dancing

It seemed an odd place in which to look for Nelly, but I pounded up the worn stairs--dressmakers' advertisements on every riser--until I reached the top floor, where aof a woman whose head was tied up in a coloured handkerchief confronted me with dustpan and broom

"I'm the new leddy scrubwoman, and not afther knowin' th' nair-rul ye're seekin', sure they's two av thim in there, an' both out, I'm thinkin'"

I pushed a note for Nelly under the door she indicated--it bore the cards of "Miss Helen Winship" and "Miss Kathryn Reid"--and hurried away to look up this ge; you could wear it on a watch chain, but I pay 3 a week for it The landlady would board ular dinners at restaurants are only twenty-five cents; good, too And anybody can breakfast for fifteen

Then I went back to Union Square, where I hung about, looking at the statues Once I walked as far as Taain to watch Helen's door Finally I sat down on a bench from which I could see her s; and there in the brief Decereen even in winter, and the roar of Dead Man's Curve just far enough away, I suppose I spent almost the happiest moments of my life