The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-11-28
A RECORD OF
THE PRESENT
BY MAUDE SWAIN EVANS.

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smile since I've been here" COM
mented Len Bishops, as he sat in
mis- friends Office after a six months
trip "on the road" "Why, even TO
hear you growl would have been a
pleasure And here you are, as sour
as some of the dope you deal out.
What's the matter? Has some good
paying patient gone and died, or
has Marion given you notice -
"I'm afraid you've hit it right
this timc," interrupted Al. | may
as well tell you-Marion has broken
her engagement with me and is to
marry another man in a MONTH"
"Alw exclaimed Len, you cant
mean it,"
cts So insisted AL. "Somc fool
reporter got my name mixed in with
some gamblers. I'm willing to bet
that il was that fellow Thompson,
the man she's going to marry, that
called her attention to the paper.
He must have told her lot of lies,
too, for she wrote that if | were
Just, / wouldn't blame her for re-
. fusng to marry a man who was in
the habit Of gambling his money
away on cards, love him as she
might! Why, I've never even played
a 'penny-limit' game"
Good gracious, Al, why don't
you explain to her,
There's no possible chance for
explanation replied al. "Shc has
refused, absolutely, to receive any
communication from me or TO see
me. ] went to Fordham as soon as
l could get a day, but there was
only a servant at the house. She
said that Marion had gone away and
would not be back for several
months.
I'D like to have a hand in it my
self" said Len. 'You can count on
me to help you through to the finish.
I've got a little run Of week to
make and then I'm to be in the city
for good. Dad says he can hire a
ten-dollar-a-week man who will beat
me on the road, but he admits that
Pm all right in the house. We have
a month before us, AL, and well To-
cate the missing girl unless she's
taken passage for another planet"
Gee, then I'll have to rely on
your descriptions of her, allowing of
course, for the state of your mind
when you wrote them. Let me
see"-and Len fixed his eyes on
some rows Of glass bottles at the top
of the room as he searched his MEM
DRY. "Her hair is a stray bit of sun
shine, her eyes are fathomless, and
she's a girl out of 10000"
AL could not help smiling at
Lens absurdity, nor could he help
being influenced by his happy tenn
permanent. Really, Lem he said,
you make me believe there is some
hope for me. It's a lucky thing that
you're always interested in any case
in which there's a girl"
My interest isn't as general as
you may think. Do you remember
my telling you about the girl with
the blue black eyes whom | met on
Pullman when l was going
North?"
81 ought to- replied Al. 81
heard about her every time | saw
you for a straight month. What's
she got to do with this matter;"
"She got off at Fordham," an
swered Len, significantly.
1T wasn't Marion?" asked Al,
quickly
"No, but it was her sister, I'm
willing to wager | was going to
keep that a secret until YOU intro
duced us. When you sent that pa
per with the pictures of the tvC
girls the time they took part in an
entertainment l recognized the sis
ter at once"
Just week later Len Bishop
burst into DR.. Phelps Office one
night with a radiant face, "Cheer
up, old chap, I've located the girl.
'Nosed' around Fordham till l
found out that Marion had relatives
living at Rockford. Took in Rock
ford on my way home, and sure
enough there was the girl stopping
with her Aunt and Uncle Talbot.
Got up bit of a Irritation with the
aunt Maybe I'll want her help
some time when | get better ac-
duainted with Miss Ethel"