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After we had gotten a little better acquainted, we went but to a quiet night club and had supper and danced. I really enjoyed the evening and she acted like she did also. I kissed her good-night at the door and went home.

I managed to have one night a week off for the next sev- eral months and spent them with her. Walter had moved to an- other, more expensive apartment and she moved with him. I wanted her to get her own, but she told me that she felt too close to him to get another apartment.

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Walter bought out the people that he was working for and now had his own business and it was doing good. Mr. Warden was well pleased with the way Walter was handling his business. In time, I came to the point where I wanted to marry Lydia, but she would change the subject each time I mentioned it. I asked Mr. Warden if he had any objections to our being married. He said he had no objections to it, but he did not think that she was what I thought she was. He would go no further, no matter how I pressed him, so I finally gave up and thought that I might not really want to be married anyway.

I saw Walter several times in his office building and each time he would tell me that Lydia thought a lot of me and was not going out with anyone else. I gained hope from that, but to no avail.

I was returning from an errand for Mr. Warden one day when I saw an ambulance in front of the door of the big house. I rushed up to the attendant and was informed of Mr. Warden's death. He had suffered a fatal heart attack. I was stunned, for I had lost a good friend. The loss of a job never entered my mind, for I had saved my salary, which was quite large, since all my expenses were paid by Mr. Warden.

After the Funeral, I was summoned to the reading of Mr. Warden's will. He left a lot of money to numerous charities and still had enough to make all his heirs wealthy. I was not expecting to be named in the will, but I was disappointed to have been named to receive a little jewelry box that I'd seen on his dressing table a number of times. There was a