** Yes, I do, from the one time I saw him," said Miss
Gillespie, " He's clean cut and decent looking."

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Hagar RevOly 191

Herrick took Hagar to one of the big dance halls ia
Harlem that night. He told her he had been working
hard for over a week and wanted to " celebrate." FeeUng
that she had neglected him, Hagar readily fell in with his
wish. Not having seen him for a few weeks, she now
learned that he had been planning to leave her mother's
house for some time, and that only the day before, he had
taken a much larger room, with a bath attached, on One
Hundred and Sixteenth Street.
" I think it will make ih easier to see you, Hagar," he
told her. " Somehow I always felt that I must account
to your mother whenever I left you and went home."

As they went down the steps of the Elevated, Hagar
thought him better looking than formerly. He had on a
high folded collar, of which the points came close together
in front, and his hair was brushed back sleek. It changed
his appearance a good deal.
