downtown. They were forced to fet two of the juggernauts that roared into the local station go by without even attempting to board them. Then, deciding that the situation would probably get worse before it got better, they rushed the doors of the third train as soon as they were slid open. Both Jane and Harold were hardened New York underground wayfarers and knew that clothes and limb must be risked if one desires to do any tube traveling during rush hours.
They succeeded in jamming their way through the tightly packed mob of passengers to a position where they could cling to adjacent straps. At the next stop a man vacated a seat near Jane. She started toward it but a burly laborer with a lunch box beat her to it and opened a morning paper in front of his face so that he could not see the hostile looks which both Jane and Harold cast his way. Two stations later when another sector of vacant yellow seat was opened up by the departure of a fat man, Harold fairly dived into it like a football tackler. Having won the precious space by these heroic tactics, he motioned Jane over and relinquished it to her.
"Great teamwork, buddy," said a young man standing in front of them who had witnessed the maneuver.
"You've got to work fast around here," smiled Speedy.
"You said it," agreed the other youth with an appreciative glance at pretty Jane.
Practically the whole car full had departed by the
