Life — February 14, 1901 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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134 done with—with the ‘stuff’ he used to have lying around here?" The girl made a vague, spread- ing gesture with her hands. “Gone,” she answeres ing merrily. ‘ Burn —forever.” “ How do you know?" pursued Cupid, cruelly. “ Why, he told me !”" ejaculated the girl, with indignation “All right,’ hastily answered Cupid. “You and he have my best wishes, and I’m free to admit that the rooms look much better. It’s quite an improvement over a month ago. Only, don’t merely sit in this corner day and night and be pretty. The apartments must be kept in order, you know, and be attended to.”’ “Of course!’ agreed the girl. “I mean to go over them every evening, and sweep and dust and — 7 have them sweet and clean and fresh always.” When she had finished speaking Cupid had bowed himself out—and once outside, he chuckled. ‘The very next day he returned, and cautiously peeked in. Then he boldly crossed the threshold, for the girl's corner was vacant. “T knew it would be so — at times, he murmured. ‘ And now, let’s see."’ Unhesitatingly he made his way to where some draperies hung against the wall, and, parting them, felt behind them. “Ah,” he said. He drew askeleton key from his sash, applied it—and, lo, he had opened a secret door. He poked in his head, like a curious wren. “I thought so!”” he laughed. “Burned —destroyed—nonsense! J didn’t be- lieve it, if she did!” For here, in a hidden room, were the decanter, and the photographs, and the poker pictures, and old books, and Zola’s and Tolstoy's latest, anda favorite blend of Turkish, and Kittie Kissington, and a huge bunch of ball programmes, and a Pierrot costume of the French ball, and a fantastic rack of pipes, and—oh, ever so many things, with a rich odor of tobacco floating over like incense. “What a snug retreat!” observed laugh- —destroyed VACATION LESSONS. Pater : x00. uy WHAT Do You “THAT'S EASY, DAD, NDERSTAND BY THAT? IT MEANS CHASE YOURSELY.”” Cupid, surveying the interior. “ And I'm afraid—I'm afraid that he’s begin- ning to hang about in it, considerably. The shameless—tho pur pretender! , no doubt he meant well. She does not know about it now. I wonder how long before she'll sus- pect. He shut the door, locked it, and care- fully rearranged the hangings. PIILOSOPER TELLS US WE MUST DILIGENTLY PURSUE THR IDEAL WHICH PERSONIPIES “I do hope,” he said, as ho hastily retired, ‘that she won't be too disap- pointed. She thinks that she has seen the whole suite. But she was deter- mined to come, and she ought to have understood that it was a bachelor heart, and rather old to be remodeled. Mercy !"’ he added, ‘‘what a time she’s gone ! Can she have lost her way back—already?”” Edwin L. Sabin, Enthuslastic Chess Player (after the wreck): r8x't TMS GREAT! JUST THINK, WE MAY NOT BE DISTURBED POR WEEKS! comicbooks.com