Exit Betty

he rounded the corner from her boarding-house and turned toward the

hort on the si

"Now, Jimmie! You don't mean it? Did he find any fault? He'd better not! B'lee

e! He said he'd recommend me away up high. He's gonta give me time every day

r of him keepin' you?

and he couldn't afford to keep me. He's gonta take an office way down town and do his own letters. He says if he ever succeeds

hat d'you

eing he's willing I should go out and hunt a place every day, why I ain't that mean that I can't write a few letters for him now and then. He don't have that many, and it keeps me in practice. I s'

ult, you know, when you ca

adventures of a dog and a bear who were chasing each other through endless halls and rooms, to say nothing of bathtubs, and wash boilers, and dining tables, and anything that came

Jimmie, nudging Jane, as the Mary

he photograph of a beautiful girl

Dollars' Rewar

s to the Pres

abeth S

and an address and the showing stay

ment that possessed her, while her eyes looked straight into the eyes of t

address in shorthand, but Jane did not notic

he asked in a breathless whisper, as a ne

e young man, "or there might be some t

ivered and said, no, she guessed she was tired. Then she suddenly asked him what time he was going out to hunt for another job. He told her he couldn't be sure. He would call he

seated at his typewriter. On Reyburn's desk lay a neatly typed copy

tioned as he took his seat a

he screen at the movies, sir. I

rd?" asked Reyburn with a comical smile.

you'd be able to find out something about her and get all that money. T

a troubled frown. "I'm afraid it's hardly in my line, however. I'm not a detect

u ought to be doing, sir, but it wouldn't do any harm. You could work it through me, you know, and nobody need ever know 'twas you got the reward. I'd be glad to help you out doing all I could, but of course

nly appreciate your thoughtfulness. I'll make a note of it, and if anything turns up I'll let you know. I don't believe, however, that I would care to go after a reward e

rapt admiration. He had no higher ambition than to l

tone was so far off that Jimmie dared approach

ted to go out at two o'clock. Could she meet him and walk a little way with him? Jane said no, she

ried up to Reyburn's office and tapped on the door, her heart in her mouth lest he should be occupied with some one else

f she had been a lady every inch, handing her a chair and sp

Not for anything would she have had a knight rescue her lady fair who did not look the part. She was

to the speech s

a great lawyer, and I've got a friend that's in trouble. I thought mebbe you could do something abo

hat she had assembled all these wor

gravely, wondering what ki

laying down a five-dollar bill grandly. "I know you can't a

heartily. "Let me hear what the quest

ly on the desk before him. "I shan't feel rig

ing the bill and laying it to one

o offer a reward, a big reward, like a thousand dollars-or several of

been to the movies and seen the same picture that Ryan had told him abou

person that had disappear

"They didn't! I know that fer

e a responsibility!"

" said Jane

be anxious, d

you'd no

e some property to b

practical. "It would have to be a good deal of prop

, watching her plain eager face amusedly. He c

ne, referring to a much folded paper she carried in her hand,

. This queer visitor evidently had thought

e circumstances," he said with sudden alarm lest the girl might t

ng to make a girl marry him when she just hated him, could anybody make her do it, and

sat up suddenly, annoyed beyond expression over disturbing suggestions that

r any more blind questions. I've got to know what I'm talking about.

he things I thought you would. Well, say, if I tell you about it can you promise on yer ho

for any confidence you may put in me. If you c

Jane smiling. "I just mean, would yo

llowed? What

n' tell where she was or nothin' an' give her away? You'

nd honorable for me to protec

ouldn't get into no

ourse

en I'll t