On Horatio Street

The writer recalls a flirtation in the Spring of 1927, when he was a reporter on the "World," & lived on Horatio St. He was 22 & it was his day off. At Sheridan Square he saw a pretty girl stepping onto a streetcar. He jumped on saying, "When I saw you going away, I ran after you." She seemed to understand & asked how long he had been in NY. He escorted her home & she agreed to meet him at Julius's, a speakeasy, at 6 o'clock. Thinking her question unusual, he went to the morgue at the "World," & found that she had eloped 5 years before with an older man. The marriage had been annulled. At Julius's they dined & spoke of serious things, but not her secret. Later, they went to Horatio St.

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