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Up to the time that they moved into the Arcadian Flats and began to take Orders from the Janitor, he never had seen little Sunshine except in her Evening Frock. He had a sort of sneaking Suspicion that she arose every Morning already attired in a Paris Gown and all the Diamonds. And she supposed that he went to the Office every Day in his regular John Drew effect with the Folding Hat.
Just to be alive and to wear beautiful clothes was sufficient enjoyment for her at present. So she sat down upon a stool and waited quietly until daylight. When the janitor unlocked the door in the morning the wax lady swept past him and walked with stiff but stately strides down the street.
"Please be calm," encouraged Kennedy. "Tell me everything anything." With an effort Anitra began again. "It was last night quite late at his office at the foot of Wall Street he was there alone," she strove to connect her broken thoughts. "Some one I think it must have been the janitor called me up at home and said that my brother was very ill. Eulalie was there with me. We hurried down to him.
The steam-heating plant did not work very well, and the new janitor, seeing fewer and fewer people come to the reading-room, spent less and less time in struggling with the boilers, or in keeping the long path up the hill shoveled clear of snow.
Afterward he had assisted the janitor of some great skyscraper somewhere Kansas City, I believe and, what was most pleasing to me, he in nowise emphasized these as youthful difficulties or made any comment as to their being "hard." Neither did he try to boastingly minimize them as nothing at all another wretched pose.
"My boy," began the manager, "can you keep a secret?" "Why yes, sir," responded Jack, wondering. "Very well. But I must explain first. I suppose you did not know it we kept it quiet but the real reason Hansen, the janitor, was discharged a month ago was that he was found taking money from the safe here, which he had in some way learned to open.
Help the Red Cross buy Doughnuts for the Salvation Army and keep an eye on Your Austrian Janitor.... Elephants, tom-cats, and chorus-girls; a hallelujah with a red putty nose, Seventy-six Thousand Press Agents Walking on their Hands, Jabberwocks, Horned Toads, and Prima Donnas ... here comes the Liberty Loan Drive ... A mighty nation had gone to war. Boom! Boom!
He asked Knowles presently what business he had gone into. "My old hobby in an humble way, the House of Refuge." They both laughed. "Yes, it is true. The janitor points me out to visitors as 'under-superintendent, a philanthropist in decayed circumstances. Perhaps it is my life-work," growing sad and earnest.
It being Saturday, the outer doors of the building were locked or supposedly so. Benny Thread, the janitor, was with the four committeemen in the basement for a little more than half an hour.
They was in the back room yonder, which she got in somehow. The man followed her in, sneaking and sneaking like an eel or a cop, and she fell right against "'Don't tell me where! I cried. 'I don't want to know where! And I was about to return upstairs when I heard a quick, sharp voice behind me and realised that Mr. L'Hommedieu had come in and was having some dispute with the janitor.
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