"Many thanks for your pretty note. To-morrow evening at eleven be under the window at No. 98 Lemore street.
"Alameda."
"What do you think of that?" said Livingston Palmer triumphantly. "Do you notice that she signs herself Alameda?"
"Yes."
"That seems nice and friendly, doesn't it?"
"Yes, it seems so."
"She is evidently taken with me. Oh, Robert, I never was so happy."
Robert, of course, being a boy, could not enter fully into Palmer's feelings. However, he answered in a sympathetic tone which satisfied his fellow clerk.
"I never thought I should be so fortunate," he said. "Oh, Robert, you don't know how I feel towards that girl."