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articles of clothing were scattered all over the living and dining room.

"I must apologize for the looks of the place", the woman said as they entered. "I don't have time to take care of it myself, and I haven't been able to find any satisfactory person that will stay here alone. I hate house work anyway." She showed Eddie over the apart- ment and from the condition it was in he could well be- lieve she did hate housework, or didn't care to spend much time in doing it.

It was not a very large apartment with a combination living and dining room, kitchen, two bedrooms and two baths. The living room opened to the roof where there was what appeared to be a roof garden, but it was so overgrown with weeds, and the flowers and vines had been neglected for so long that it was hard to tell what it was.

The woman said the extra room was used as the maid's room when she had one. She had been rather unfortunate in getting anyone to stay. She was not home very much and women didn't like to stay in the place alone. She couldn't understand why; she supposed the stairs and being so high up had something to do with it.

The apartment, seemed to Eddie, like a pleasant place. It was nicely furnished and had been decorated in excellent taste. Right now it was in a very upset con- dition, but a condition that could soon be remedied by a little work, and a strong application of "elbow grease".

The present occupant was a Miss Lily Sinclair. She was connected with one of the motion picture studios, and by the looks of the furnishings of the apartment and the clothes she was wearing, Eddie imagined she must have a very good position with a good salary.

She asked Eddie a few questions about himself, and the kind of work he had been doing, and why he had an- swered her add. Eddie told her he was a machinist by trade, but his job had petered out during the current recession. He had tried selling vacuum cleaners from door to door, but he hadn't been very successful. He hated a salesman's job anyway. He was taking a correspondence

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