The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-06-26

rocked than laughed at up the com
munity sleeve 1t took a successful
operation or two TO overcome the
misadventure of the pulpit call. Then
came n rebound. Following this came
liberal innuendo and eXaggerations.
sltillfully managed by DR.. Johnson,
of DR.. Rowlandson's partiality for the
knife, his deficiency in fever treat
ment, and again in child ailments.
Then was the time Lena waXed warm
In her heart and openly fought his
battles among her friends, and called
him to his face "a fake"
In the meantime he and Lena were
forever at the game of mutual
elusiveness. Then were made some
interesting entries in the diary:
"Dec. 11.--He will succeed but he
shall never know how greatly de-
sire it,"
"Dec. 24.-Frank's Christmas re-
membrance was a photo of himself
signed "A Scientific Abstraction, or
us you will Now, that's vague"
"Jan. 1.-Resolved, That Frank
Rowlandson is the only man in the
world TO whom I desire to stand for
ever just heart high"
OF course this confession stood on n
page alone, carefully sealed to its Wis
avis, and plainly posted on its back:
"To never be opened"
In the beginning of his career he had
tried to tell her of his love, and she
tilted up her chin and measured his
full stature with withering scorn:
81 require more than six feet of clay,
sir. ! need an establishment and
husband with reputation"
Then for weeks she secretly agonized
over the possibility of her folly. She
was too brave to hamper him with mar
riage. Success first, then wife,"
wisely went down in the diary.
In these latter days her moods were
as many as the points of chestnut
burr. Philanthropy was one of them.
Hearing that a seamstress who had
worked in former years for her moth
er was in need and i'll in cheap lodging
house, she armed herself with huge
chunks of commisseration, some flow
ers and refreshments and sought to To-
cate the sufferer and minister to her
necessities. Climbing one long flight
of stairs, a second likewise ascended,
n third half done, when at the landing,
in the turn, she stops and stands aside
to allow a most astounding process
sion to descend. In the gloomy stair
way she thought at first she was en-
] q hn ttrrs rsot
freak of a two-headed man, with phe-
nomenal abdominal protrusions,
fianked by flying buttress. Closer
proximity revealed big man carrying
a sick woman cozily and tenderly in
his arms down the stairs. Franks fa-
miliar voice said: BEG pardon; sor-
ry to trespass on your right of way;
only a moment, however" Down the
stairs to waiting carriage he goes
She stands and stares! The roses are
crushed, the dainties fall from agitated
hands, and Lena Raymond's charity is
forestalled!
Memory of the day she saw him droI
on his own lawn and exclaim: "Pll be
durned," after her patronizing assur
, ance of superior in development, was
: so unexpectedly hurled at him, rushed
! over her as aggressively as Tigris in
undation. She sat down on the land
ing, full of pride in his achievements
and success, and shame at her own use
less career, as she echoed his youthful
expletive and laughed and cried by
, turns.
| During the weeks following she kept
/ him, figuratively, on the grapevine
| swing; now high with hope, now to the
! earth with thud of despair.
Then something happened. 1t wal
! trife apparently, but be that as i
may, it happened.
, Lena went to the hospital to see he
, would-be protege and found Frank eX
: amining her heart with a stehoscope
: Growing interested in the invention