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?i it'' 5 II THE MORNING AST01UAN, A STOMA OHEGON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1908. JUST A POSTAL. ... ty LESTER ROSE... OwvNffAt. ifif, bv Utmer SprutfHa, Jimmy propped the card against the sogar bowl, and while be hnrledly ate his breakfast h's eyes seMom wan dered from the picture. Delia, the dia log room girl, regarded him scornfully. What TO the use of mooning over a plctura postal with uever a word to ten who It was from? It iu rather a pretty picture, a quiet little town nestling ou the bank of a broad stream, but tt might have been a love letter from the way Jim any tared at It. Twice Delia had to remind him that he must leave the house by three mluutea past 8 in order to catch the last car that would laud him at the office on time. Delta knew to a fraction of a second when each of Mrs. Beeman's twoscore boarders must leave. Drlggs Jestingly called her the "bumau alarm clock." Recalled to earth by the second sug gestion, Jimmy thrust the card into hi breast pocket and sprinted down the street to the corner. Once on the car be took out the card again and bad to walk back three blocks because he was carried past the office bulldlns till studying the picture. After all, it was a picture well worth the study, for Arlington was one or the prettiest towns in his native state. Postal cards with local views were something new for the little town. Jimmy could remember the stir which the first illustrated postal received by aa Arllngtonian had made. Sarah Coyne, to whom it was addressed, had let the postmistress keep it for a whole week that all might see the curi osity. It had attracted mora attention than the first Philippine stamp. Now. It was evident that some ama teur photographer had taken a picture f Arlington from the hUX Jimmy could almost locate the exact spot where he had often stood. It was over H WAS JIMltT WHO STEPPED FOB WARD. In tta tfuyn lot, where the boys used to coast in winter. ' It was too steep for the girls. One could easily run clear to the river on a good pointer. But there was no hint of snow in this picture. The trees that fringed the river bank were in full leaf, the lone willow that grew on the tiny is land was draped In green, and Jimmy could fairly smell the mint and the sweet fiag in the marsh where the creek through the Newmans' lot form ed a confluence with the river. Somehow It brought Arlington back with startling distinctness. He had supposed that he had forgotten the town in his two hurried years of city life, but with the picture before him It was as though he had just climbed the hill from the little red house that was hidden in the picture by the new brick Methodist church. They were Just finishing the steeple when he had come away. Now It proudly roared Its bead above all the other buildings. Jimmy turned the card over and re garded its face. The blurred post mark seemed like an old friend. He could look through the glass partition where the boxes were empty, down in the corner nearest the drug store, and see Emma Sherman industriously stamping the mall. He could hear the double thud as she struck first a letter and then the ink pad. He could hear the com ments of the men waiting for the mail to be sorted. lie could even see the recruiting poster with its gaudy pic tures of uniformed soldiers, a glory of blue and red and yellow, in the midst of the more somber bills announcing auction sales and the prim handwrit ing of the notice of the social of the Ladies' Aid society. But, most of all, the neat writing of the address held his thoughts. It need ed no signature to tell him the name of the sender. Only Bessie Brewster wrote like that. He recalled the long, ttapp; years when they two had plan ned to seek the city together. He was assured of a position through his nn le's influence, and Bessie would keep house for him and perhaps in time be able to write for the magazines. The Ar lington Tlnjes had used some of b.er stories and bad called etiTtortnl atten tion to them. It had all been a glorious dream, but Bessie's mother had died, and when they graduated from high school and he spoke of going to the city she bad gently said that her duty was to cam for ber bereaved father. He bad used the argument that her CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SITUATION WANTED. SITUATION WANTED BY A young lady of experience, a position great duty was toward herself, but iho j as stenographer ; has own machine. turust tne met rrom ner. anu iu.uie.A, thij o(j-lce end he bad flung away from her, do-1 daring that she did not love him, else she would see that he had greater rights than her father, for whom she had worked all the best years of her life. He had not written after that, not even to tell of his success. This was the first time ho had seen her hand writing since he had left Arllugtou. and his eyes grew soft as he studied the chlrography. Then his chief en tered the office, and Jimmy had to bend to his work. But thoughts of Arlington were strangely mixed with the details of ac counts, and when the noon hour came he sought an Interview with the head of his room. The latter was looking for an opening for a cousin and was glad enough to let Jimmy go without the usual two weeks' wait Three days later Jimmy was In Arlington. IIU first call was on the B re waters, but the tiny maid told him that Miss Bessie had gone to town for a shop ping tour and would not be back until evening. When the evening train rolled up to the little platform and Bessie descended from the car steps, her arms loaded with bundles, It was Jimmy who stepped forward to relieve her of her burden and who guided her through the little knot of station loungers. "You are back for a visit T asked Bessie wheu they bad cleared the crowd. Jimmy shook his head. "I came because of your postal," he explained. "It made me homesick, and 1 just had to come." Tm sorry" she began, but Jimmy topped her. "I'm not," he declared. "I'm glad. I never was so glad about anything be fore. It was like a message that I bad to answer." "But now it may make yoa only dissatisfied to go back," cried the girl. "That's just the beauty of it all." explained Jimmy. 'Tm not going back. I guess Arlington's a big enough place for me to stay in, espe-cially"- Tspecially?" she repeated as Jim my paused. "Look here," be said, speaking rap idly and with a voice that betrayed the Intensity of his feelings. "I know I don't deserve to be permitted to speak to yon after the way I acted about yonr staying here when I wanted you to marry me and go to town. I've for feited all right even to see you, but If you could only know the time I've put 2-S-Jt. 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Call at office of the Astoria Abstract Title & Trust Co, 186 Eleventh street, Astoria, Oregon. 1-24-lSt FOR SALE THE STOCK AND Fu tures of a general store located a few adlee from Astoria; very clean stock, tad will Invoice about 17000. Par ticulars at WESTERN REALTY 00. )NE HUNDRED-ROOM HOTEL FOR sale; doing a splendid business; good In since I got that card you'd be sorry -ortunitv for a first-class hotel ma. - t . T Ji 1 .1 Ill,, m V.. ... . ' ' . for me, even if I did act like a brute. You were right Bess, in staying with your father. I was all wrong. But I am sorry. Do you think that perhaps some time we might be friends good friends once more?" "We are friends now," said Bessie softly, "else you would not be walk ing with me." "I don't mean that," objected Jim my. 'It's not Just friendship I ask. It is something more. I want a chance to regain your love. Do you think that there would be a chance for me in timer Something in his toues told the girl of his sincerity and his loneliness. He bad hart her cruelly in those old days, but she had felt sure that be would come back to her. Her face grew softer as she laid a band upon his arm. "Why wait, Jim?" she asked. "You have learned your lesson." . The bundles fell to the hard packed snow as Jimmy rapturously caught her in his arms. As he recovered the bundles one crushed under bis grasp, and there was the tinkle of broken glass. Bess gave a cry of dismay. "You've broken the lamp I bought for the parlor," she reproached. Jimmy laughed happily. "I'll buy a dozen lamps for the parlor our par lor," he promised recklessly. Thackeray and the Scotch. A glimpse' of Thackeray Is given iu "Memoirs of a Londou Club," by Da vid ilasson. At all our meetings at the Garrlck and at Our club Thackeray always seemed to me, In spite of bis light hu mor and his habitual nickname of "Thack" among his friends, to be a man apart, a sad and highly sensitive man, a man with whom nobody could titUe a liberty. It was at one of the larger dinner.! of Our club it may have Leon a iiUakespeare birthday dinner about the year liUO-that I chanced to Kit n(!.;t to Thackeray, and in the intervals of the speeches we had a good deal of quiet talk. But in Our club gathering.-: there was often n lapse into what we 'a!'cd the "war of the nationalities," ',!ii'h consisted of good humored nm toil chaff and banter between the En ;;.;h members and the two or three Scottish and Irish members of tli" club. It may have been this that some how suggested the following bit of Thackeray's talk with me: "D'ye know," he said, "that, though I can describe an Irishman perfectly, I never could describe a Scotchman?" I reminded him of Mr. BInnle. 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