The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-11
Our Daily $bcrt Story

l gained by the intelligent analysis Of conditions and persistent work in over coming them. So he now devoted his old methods to the present crisis If she wants muscle and-and that
 sort of thing. byl gum I'll give it to her" r
 Whereupon he became a crank on athletics. He had reason for believing that Helen was very friendly toward him but her imagination had been fired by the more slowly physical qualities of other men.
 In fact the break had come one day at the lake when a boat had capsized short distance from shore and Hol- man had been compelled to remain | supinely on shore listenig to Helen's contemptuous remarks, while Putnam had sprung into the water, swan to the overturned boat and rescued the party Then and there she had ended all hopes Holman might have had. Holman's exercises became the joke of all his friends. It was such new and novel-and belated idea and he
 cut so strange figure that his asso- ciates were kept in a broad grin. His office became a perfect arsenal of paraphernalia and one stumbled over Indian clubs and dumb bells or got tangled up with punching bags and all
 sorts of mysterious ropes and pulleys
 
 to lock the door of his private office
 while at work and some of his most dignifed clients were shocked to ob- serve the dignif1ed and serious young
 lawyer. whose counsel they sought. | making frantic efforts to touch the floor while keeping the knees stiff or lying on his back on the floor and
 working his legs like a jackknife. He spent his spare time with physical culture experts and his evenings at gymnasiums and natatoriums. While 1t was funny at first he kept at 1t so persistently that his friends began to be worried and his opponents to tap | their heads significantly.
 But all this work and persistence counted and he found his muscles | hardening and his figure filling out and he became straight and ruddy. Finally came the time to test himself. | There was to be a boat race on the 1 river and the whole town became ex- cited over it. The winners medal was | to be pinned on his breast by Helen | Bradley. Odds were at once laid that Harold Putnam would win. He was l a good oarsman and had always come | off winner at the amateur contests | However. three other young men en- l tered and one of them was just from l college, where he had won athletic l | spirited. Holman entered the contest
 his friends began to fear that his head | was indeed affected.
 The day of the race came. There | was an immense crowd to see the fin
 ish. Holman won with perfect ease The thoroughness with which he did | everything had availed in this physi- | cal contest. Putnam made the fiercesi
 effort when he saw the victory slip
 ping from him, but all his skill and
 his splendid physique did not avail be-
 fore the steel muscles of the man who
 had tempered them by unyielding effort and persistence.
 Holman stood with flushed and
 triumphant face before Helen to re- l ceive his reward and as she looked in to the clear grey eyes she saw away
 down Tn the depths, the unconquerable | soul of the man-and her face flushed
 too.
 This was the begGning of the end tho end that each reader can supply ac- cording to his or her lights and desires