have noted your kind-looking face, and the moment I found this
trouble upon me I instantly thought of you as the one man who
would be likely to help me out of my difficulty.

While he said this I had time to study his face, and also to
glance at the young woman, and I saw that he must, indeed, be in
great trouble. I also saw that the young woman was pretty and
modest and that she, also, was in great distress. I at once
agreed to help him, provided I should not be made to miss the
six-thirty train, for I saw I was already too late for the
six-two.

"Good!" he cried. "For several years Madge--who is this young
lady--and I have been in love, and we wish to be married this
evening, but her father and my father are waiting at the foot of
the elevator at this minute, and they have been waiting there all
day. There is no other way for us to leave the building, for the
foot of the stairs is also the foot of the elevator, and, in
fact, when I last peeped, Madge's father was sitting on the
bottom step. It is now exactly fifteen minutes of six, and at six
o'clock they mean to come up and tear Madge and me away, and have
us married."

"To--" I began.

"To each other," said the young man with emotion.

"But I thought that was what you wanted?" I exclaimed.

"Not at all! Not at all!" said the young man, and the young